The Official Bristol City v Brighton & Hove Albion Match Day Thread

[WhistleHappy]

City could have done with a few rockets up their arses tonight..

[old_eastender]

GON balloons attempted pass over the bar, sums up how totally cr@p he has been tonight!

Edited November 5, 2016 by old_eastender

[Lord Northski]

Not one shot on target. 

[old_eastender]

FT, damp squib from us.

[Vincent Vega]

Shocker of a performance .  Shows how far away we are from a genuine challenge .

[Ivorguy]

Well that's 90 minutes of my life I won't get back

Poor Poor Poor - so typical of the team I have followed since the late 40s

Oh dear, dear. January can't come quickly enough

[bemmyredjeff]

PATHETIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wanderingred]

Very predictable performance and result. Think most of us saw this coming a mile off. Heads up lads, we're getting there slowly but surely.

[Dan Robin]

Quite satisfied with the performance, but disappointed for the result.

 

 

 

[Gakoe]

4 minutes ago, Portland Bill said:

Every Championship side will watch this and see that we are incapable of breaking down teams when the opposition defend narrow, Cardiff did the same against us. LJ needs to have a total rethink tactics wise.

As I jokingly quoted the Major earlier, in which he was correct, 

"Width and penetration"

[Bazooka Joe]

Ooooh! O'Neil shoots and.......

 

...it goes two miles over the bar.

Bar?

Ah yes, that reminds me, time to pop down the pub.

 

[old_eastender]

2 minutes ago, Dan Robin said:

Quite satisfied with the performance, but disappointed for the result.

 

 

 

Must have been watching a different game to me. We played well for first 15 mins, that was it.

[Major Isewater]

Hats off to Brighton , they were better than us .

We are still à work in progress and are better than Norwich.

Good night to all my fellow sufferers.

COYR 

[Kingswoodactor]

2 minutes ago, Dan Robin said:

Quite satisfied with the performance, but disappointed for the result.

 

 

 

Wow. We were f****** terrible. 

How you can be satisfied with that performance beggars belief. 

[iamalagerdrinker]

Certainly put a damper on my night out now anyway 

[WhistleHappy]

Ffs ..... that's all I need .... Jeff Barkers f'ing Rock 'n Roll Party on RBris... 

[And Its Smith]

5 minutes ago, Dan Robin said:

Quite satisfied with the performance, but disappointed for the result.

 

 

 

Haha wow.  Are you serious?

Happy with no shots on target?  

Happy with sideways, sideways, sideways, long ball tactics?

Happy with isolated Abraham?

Can't be bothered to continue

[hollydog]

Significant recruitment drive required in January methinks.

Bryan and Lttle completely out of their depth at this level, Smith and GON failed to implement anything positive. Patterson/O'Dowda lots to learn. Depressingly predictable Plan B is to launch hopeful long balls forward which were a doddle for the Brighton defence to deal with.

[hollydog]

6 minutes ago, Dan Robin said:

Quite satisfied with the performance, but disappointed for the result.

 

 

 

And the satisfying elements were what?

[joe jordans teeth]

13 minutes ago, WhistleHappy said:

Has John Atyeo gone home yet?  ...... he can't be happy with this lot tonight.

Think he made his point by trying to stop the sheet from coming off him

[red84]

Started ok I thought but as always in this league mistakes are punished. Poor touch from korey and some class from sidwell and we're on the back foot. Poor pass for their 2nd then after that we had too many players having off days and were relying on little to create something . 

[mattjtsmith]

Well that was poor. To be fair though, I feel we had a huge sag in the middle.of the park, many didnt have bad days. 

O Donnell - 3 - he had one job, stand in the goal, he didn't. 

Golbourne - 6 - Not bad, stopped the runs, tried to get forward. 

Flint + Mag - 8 - Solid. No major input on either of the goals, which will frustrate them

Little - 5 - I've said all season he looks lost at this level. I stand by it but he's not terrible by any means. 

Bryan - 5 - just didn't get in to it. Prefer him at LM to LB though. 

O Neil - 3 - Might be generous? Dreadful. 

Korey - 4 - barely noticeable. Ironic that my phone just changed Korey to 'sorry'

Tomlin - 8 - tried more than any other to push, largely.frustrated and outnumbered. 

Paterson - 6 - I nearly forgot him, which says a lot. But he always goes forward and I like that about him. 

Abraham - 7 - same as Tomlin but didn't get the ball as much, these long balls are no good for the lad. 

Subs; 

Wilbs - 8 - Hugely positive impact as always. Should of had a pen. 

Reid - 4 - just as awful as the man he replaced. 

O Dowda -5 - not on long, and not much impact. 

Edited November 5, 2016 by mattjtsmith

[TheCulturalBomb]

1 win in 6. Not even top half of the table form, needs sorting asap. Lee doesn't even know the right team.

[screech]

Much better second half, but not sure if we were ever really in control of the game at any point. Should have had a penalty though, the ref completely missed it. Idiot. Brighton look like they have it all.

[hollydog]

1 hour ago, cityexile said:

He has lost the ball for sure, but not exactly given them a tap in. Bordering on fluke really.

Not a fluke. They've done their homework and know how far ROD wanders from goal. 

[old_eastender]

4 minutes ago, mattjtsmith said:

Well that was poor. To be fair though, I feel we had a huge sag in the middle.of the park, many didnt have bad days. 

O Donnell - 3 - he had one job, stand in the goal, he didn't. 

Golbourne - 6 - Not bad, stopped the runs, tried to get forward. 

Flint + Mag - 8 - Solid. No major input on either of the goals, which will frustrate them

Little - 5 - I've said all season he looks lost at this level. I stand by it but he's not terrible by any means. 

Bryan - 5 - just didn't get in to it. Prefer him at LM to LB though. 

O Neil - 3 - Might be generous? Dreadful. 

Korey - 4 - barely noticeable. Ironic that my phone just changed Korey to 'sorry'

Tomlin - 8 - tried more than any other to push, largely.frustrated and outnumbered. 

Paterson - 6 - I nearly forgot him, which says a lot. But he always goes forward and I like that about him. 

Abraham - 7 - same as Tomlin but didn't get the ball as much, these long balls are no good for the lad. 

Subs; 

Wilbs - 8 - Hugely positive impact as always. Should of had a pen. 

Reid - 4 - just as awful as the man he replaced. 

O Dowda -5 - not on long, and not much impact. 

A little generous for Wilbs & Tomlin who I would have given 7s too, and a little harsh on Reid who at least tried to make things happen, but pretty much agree with the rest.

[Charliesboots]

Didn't expect a win tonight and obviously didn't get one but the performance was garbage. 

Says a lot when the best cross of the night comes from your striker. 

Brighton were fitter, faster and stronger, we were left with players blowing out of their ass and could have been totally humiliated if the numerous chances they had were converted. 

Magnusson was decent...that's my only positive thing I'll take from the game. 

Tomlin, love him to bits but he just goes missing for large parts of the game and with it goes any decent outlet we have. 

Oneill, dogshit of a game and if that's his worst performance of the season then so be it. 

Little, well god loves a trier and I applaud him for doing so but we really need a RB in January as Matthews appears to have 'Toure-itis'. 

 

[Portland Bill]

We could have had 100% possession in the second half, it would make no difference. Brighton were content to sit in, defend narrow and say to us can you break us down. I think we have all seen tonight that we haven't got the nous to hurt teams who are happy to defend a lead.

Away from home it's a bit different because home crowds won't allow their team to sit on a lead. November's away games will decide which way our season is going to go imo.

[EstoniaTallinnRed]

1 hour ago, Dan Robin said:

Too many negative comments, IMO.

Brighton were clinical, we didn't...but despite this, we played quite well.

 

1 shot on target is playing well!

[Cider_boy]

Trying to be positive, after last season we were looking to improve this season, not necessarily expecting promotion.

May be our expectations have got too high because of the start we had to the season.

If we were still targeting a mid table finish this year, with further strengthening next summer, things look like they are going pretty much to plan.

We don't want to emulate our rugby friends and go up and be so far off the pace (albeit we'd get fantastic parachute payments!)