CiderHider Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 I only break into a swear when there's no tinnies in the fridge Ahhh, screw auto spell check when i did do many beers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse With No Name Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 It was bloody hot out there today, give the lads a break!!! Lots of positives to take from the new lads..... Get a life and stop knocking the team... It's ******* pre season FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse With No Name Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 It was bloody hot out there today, give the lads a break!!! Lots of positives to take from the new lads..... Get a life and stop knocking the team... It's ******* pre season FFS Actually heard some booing in the Dolman in the first half when Davies put yet another simple pass into touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monk Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Cheers for the cup lads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff65 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 highlight being shown on sky sports news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith_Lemon Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Stupid that people are moaning already. Pre-season means nothing, I've never gone to a game and never will do. But today highlighted we still lack creativity for our strikers which affected us last season and I still believe this has not been addressed yet despite this being our Achilles heel. This is why I feel we will struggle again this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor10 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 As SoD said, lots more positives than negatives. You can't read anything into friendlies and I think anyone that went today expecting end to end fluent football with goals of plenty was a bit narrow minded. I thought the first half we played some good stuff but lacked creativity. Second half with the addition of a lot of the youngsters we had a bit more energy about is but were perhaps not as good in possession. It just had a real freshness about it for a change. When was the last time we had a bench pretty much full of kids? If you nclude Joe Bryan, then 7 of the starting 11 were not involved last season. Factor in possible new additions, with the return of Cunningham and Moloney etc, come the end of last season would we all not have taken a squad shaping up like it is at this point? I thought the new signings showed promise. JET looked as if he will be different class at league 1 level with a run of games. Bobby Reid and Ajala looked full of energy when they came on and were both impressive. Dobie looked ok as well, quick feet and shifts it well and to be honest did more in the time he was on then Killa did all of last season. Joe Bryan looks a lot better for going on loan and looks ready now. All in all the positives far out weigh any negatives. I think we are looking good at the moment. The whole process will take time and we must be patient, but I can't see how anyone can expect any more at present. Work in progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUTOR Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Poor game, but SOD is giving us what we want in terms of youth and fresh, young new faces. So there's no point complaining about what we all desperately wanted last year. I will give this team until Xmas before I judge them, you can't change the culture of a football club overnight. Flint and Wagstaff impressed me, JET is a very physical player but can play with the ball at his feet as well, in a weird way he is a bit like Stead. Williams and Wynter may not quite be regularly in the team yet, but are players that are packed with potential. Again I was impressed by Bryan, who I believe is perfectly capable at championship level. Reid looked bright and added more of a attacking element to the midfield when he came on. Kelly should be one of the first on the team sheet next season, more than capable of playing at L1 level and it will suit his game very nicely. Davies, if he stays, will be nearing if not at his full potential and we must utilise that this season. Fielding made one good save and caught or punched every cross that came his way, had a good solid game. Parish looked comfortable in goal as did Roos but I doubt he will make it. All in all I can see a lot of exciting potential in most players who played today, baring Baldock (who will find L1 too physical), Kilkenny (same old pointing and not doing an awful lot) and of course Fontaine (who looked uncomposed and struggled). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric04 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Stupid that people are moaning already. Pre-season means nothing, I've never gone to a game and never will do. But today highlighted we still lack creativity for our strikers which affected us last season and I still believe this has not been addressed yet despite this being our Achilles heel. This is why I feel we will struggle again this season. Still missing our midfield general. Someone to run the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUTOR Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Cheers for the cup lads Highlight of your season I'd imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monk Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Highlight of your season I'd imagine. To be fair that was the only silverware you could have actually won this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUTOR Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 To be fair that was the only silverware you could have actually won this year The trophy cabinet's been empty for **** knows how long, sticking the 'Blackthorn cup' in there would of embarrassed us further! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezgimed Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Stupid that people are moaning already. Pre-season means nothing, I've never gone to a game and never will do. But today highlighted we still lack creativity for our strikers which affected us last season and I still believe this has not been addressed yet despite this being our Achilles heel. This is why I feel we will struggle again this season. Great logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 The trophy cabinet's been empty for **** knows how long, sticking the 'Blackthorn cup' in there would of embarrassed us further! Do we actually have one? That buxom lass who was given the grand tour of the Gate wasn't shown it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BITW Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Our friendly results have been shite the last few years and each year people are shot down for moaning about them. Fact is the last few years we've been absolutely shite! I'm not going to get too worked up about losing these games, but surely people can't deny it's worrying we can only put 1 goal past Backwell and lose to Clevedon and lowly Rangers. Friendly or not I believe winning mentality is important and we're not showing any of that at present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC Jordan Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Our friendly results have been shite the last few years and each year people are shot down for moaning about them. Fact is the last few years we've been absolutely shite! I'm not going to get too worked up about losing these games, but surely people can't deny it's worrying we can only put 1 goal past Backwell and lose to Clevedon and lowly Rangers. Friendly or not I believe winning mentality is important and we're not showing any of that at present. Our friendly results were very good last year, didn't do much for us in the end though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BITW Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Our friendly results were very good last year, didn't do much for us in the end though. Ok but my point is in recent years we've lost numerous games to the likes of Clevedon, Torquay, Forest Green, St Johnstone.... Take your point though on reflection pre season was decent results wise last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westred1 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Fielding: not a lot to do. One good save, one good take and a decent punch. Williams: Good in the air, positional play slightly off Flint: Solid no nonsense stuff. Good in the air, poor on the deck - expected. Given motm. Fontaine: Looked calmer next to Flint, cleared the ball under the feet of Fielding when FF clearly called Wynter: very composed and broke up the play well. Very arsenal Bryan: busy and had Rangers players chopping at him all game. Kelly: my man of the match, worked his socks off JET: I'm excited by him. Not too much to rave about but a couple of runs were impressive, a glimpse of what he's capable of Wagstaff: similar to Bryan really, good debut Baldock: not in the game Davies: not in the game Roos: seemed shaky on the ball, couldn't do a lot about the goal Parish: dodgy first clearance, but one comfortable save Carey: poor mistake for their goal Brundle: drifted out of position a bit Wilson: didn't do a lot King: good going forward put in some crosses but no one in the box Ajala: very busy, loves a tackle, quite lightweight, looked knackered Dobie: fairly composed on the ball, made a few runs forward Reid: exciting prospect, very good on the ball Kilkenny: same old, couple of decent forward balls though Burns: showed his pace but no end product Taylor: held up the ball ok, poor first touch and spacial awareness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUTOR Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Not a chance was there only 2500 Rangers fans, 3500 at least, fantastic support. As for us, Ajala was the highlight added a spark to the team when he came on. Up until that point we were lacking a bit of width, and we were far too narrow without creating much. Emmanuel-Thomas, Flint and Wynter all did well too. I hope Cunningham's injury is that and no more. Still a lot to improve on but that's what pre-season is for. All in all I enjoyed being there, mainly due to the Rangers fans, the match was pretty naff (as would be expected at this stage of pre-season). Yes the Rangers fans put on a good show, but they are a right big bunch of horrible w@nkers. The firework they let of nearly gave me a seizure... I mean who does that? 10 German bombers song and other nationalistic rubbish they were singing were rather cringeworthy, but i'll give it to them that visually they looked pretty good. Much prefer them to Celtic fans coming down but I was quite ennoyed we didn't get the empty section of the EE, 4,000 was a silly amount to allocate them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshtonGreat Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 City's never a waste of money. But the pain is coming across. SOD got lots of thinking to do me thinks. Enjoy the rest of the weekend now. Most home games last season were a waste of money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebristolred Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 °F = (9/5 °C) +32 I make that about 158f as Bristol is about 26oc How did u get 330? edit: Bristol is a pretty swealtering 30oC... Jeez thts hot enough You can get temps of 135of in Middle East, and I did say 'practically' anyways Kelvin is the "proper" measurement, not Fahrenheit. I was just being an arse tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of xorbi Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Timing was wrong, next weekend and 10k of us would be here . Your city is great . Don't beat yourselves up , we are better than our league position. At least 10 of today's players have played international footy. Probably though our most talented 3 Sheils, Templeton and McKay were all missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brent Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Not the worst game in the world. We looked fairly solid and knocked the ball about reasonably well. I thought the changes disrupted the game tbh. Understandable. Burns fluffed the only decent opportunity we had. Fairly pleased with their efforts in the searing heat. Only an error you wouldn't expect from Carey enabled Rangers to score. I thought their number 6, Mohsni, was class. Had no idea he was at Rangers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie_adam_no1fan Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Not the worst game in the world. We looked fairly solid and knocked the ball about reasonably well. I thought the changes disrupted the game tbh. Understandable. Burns fluffed the only decent opportunity we had. Fairly pleased with their efforts in the searing heat. Only an error you wouldn't expect from Carey enabled Rangers to score. I thought their number 6, Mohsni, was class. Had no idea he was at Rangers. If Baldock had been bigger he would of got on the cross fire along the goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfcbs20 Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Not the worst game in the world. We looked fairly solid and knocked the ball about reasonably well. I thought the changes disrupted the game tbh. Understandable. Burns fluffed the only decent opportunity we had. Fairly pleased with their efforts in the searing heat. Only an error you wouldn't expect from Carey enabled Rangers to score. I thought their number 6, Mohsni, was class. Had no idea he was at Rangers. Agree with all that we were decent first half add Cunningham and moloney to that first half team were be ok this season. Their no 6 was awesome he had Baldock then Wes burns in his back pocket most of the game Taylor gave him the slip once in the second half but put the header over the bar. onwards and upwards bring on Bradford can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie pullar Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Mohsni has just arrived this pre-season , The Rangers had a lot of kids playing today as opposed to their best team , although some are injured . City really should do better against them . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corleone Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Mohsni has just arrived this pre-season , The Rangers had a lot of kids playing today as opposed to their best team , although some are injured . City really should do better against them . I'm sure the same could be said when u lost to Elgin whoever it was last season....only difference is this game meant **** all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Red Hat Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 I'm sure the same could be said when u lost to Elgin whoever it was last season....only difference is this game meant **** all. But what about the cup of blackthorn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corleone Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 But what about the cup of blackthorn? Shit u got me there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheech Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 Rangers fan here. Didnt see the game so cant comment on either performance but just signed up to say thank you for the nice comments and having us down there. All the best in your march back to the championship lads. ps. I know who i'll go in my next football manager journey now :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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