Angry_Pirate

Always forget how dreadful it is to watch games at Bristol City on the TV. 🤢

Massive 2 hours ahead. A win, and we could once again focus on a promotion push end to the window, defeat (or more injuries) and my mindset may change on who/what types of deals we should be hoping/aiming for. Talking loan vs permanent incase anyone assumes I'm being brainwashed. No point loaning a single player or singing any McFadzean, Forshaw or Fleck types if were just going to sink to midtable. All funds (lol) should be on the Poku and Asgaard type players who can be assets for the future.

Which team wins? Injured/Ill XI Pears Carter Batth Wharton Brittain Pickering Travis Tronstad Rankin-Costello Sigurdsson Ohashi --------------- Saturday Likely XI Gueye Dolan Cantwell ACD Buckley Forshaw Beck Hyam Sanderson Hedges Toth

Here comes Adam Foreshit.

Stoke 2.0 Long balls, Long Throws and Corners... Big Frank Lampard. Coventry ShirtPull FC getting exactly what they want here...Their #29 has literally got away with 4 shirt pulls that half. Unreal shit ref, without any real disaster decisions. Not sure what subs I'd make, as I literally don't trust any of the 9 subs to make a positive difference. Maybe the CM can show some urgency and we go forwards more often??

Gueye loves a "Wednesday" night game!

Portsmouth fans are outstanding for what it's worth. Making more noise consistently than Burnley, Leeds and Sunderland did, and literally haven't stopped. Annoying chants, sure, but fair play to them. Also applauded the Wild Rover too. Good club.

JRC for Buckley too!

The very next game after a "Home Sellout" and this is looking like one of the more disastrous attendances of the past decade. Resemblance of a 1st Round League Cup tie vs a L2 team (with 12 mins till KO). YES, I know it's rearranged; a night game just after Xmas; expensive ticket prices; foggy/"cold"; road issues on the M65; and - of course - the Venkys... but damn.

I don't mean this disrespectfully or aggressively, but as a genuine question - as members of the Venky's family seem fully dug in to our club. Who would have to retire, step down - or die - from the family, for Venkys to realistically sell the club - who is the family member(s) that's clinging on and preventing a sale. I can't see them passing us down to their children to inherit many years from now. Like I said, not a "Let's Kill Venky's" post, more of a what would it actually take for them to sell us at a loss - as a Championship team.

McFadzean, Garrett, O'Riordan, Leonard, Gilsenan, Sigurdsson, Tyjon should all be moved on (majority loans) this month. I personally like and have hopes for Siggy, but it's not going to happen here. The current loans are Beck, Sanderson, Cozier-Duberry... meaning we have 2 more "squad" loans left - they need to be the ambition of a Brereton-Diaz or Luis Suarez (lol), and not 2 more teenage projects. Striker and Winger of QUALITY, and we could be cooking!

Weimann and Leonard just be playing "next goal wins" for the hattrick match ball... story of our season.

Nah, not for me. As a striker (not on Penalties) going down there is soft.

Doubtful. Hopefully he can be taught on loan L1 after this game.

Thought we'd signed NFL Hall of Famer Dion Sanders. He's probably fitter than half the squad and would be able to catch more crosses than Pears.

Not read back 51 pages, but my main thoughts. 1) Lost a 0-0 game 0-1, again. Feels like Burnley (at Ewood) is that exact game every time now. They manage to bundle a win out of the jaws of drawing. 2) The referee completely bottled a clear as they come 2nd yellow for Laurent, and in all truth the official bottled the entire 2nd half (including the time wasting)... though Rovers were never scoring, not even in 10 minutes of added time. 3) Shout out to the 10,000-12,000 or so additional Rovers supporters today, great atmosphere and support - what a difference it makes 🔵⚪️. Guess we'll see you all in 2 years time for the next Burnley match.

Which is why Rovers really shouldn't get Jake Garrett on the pitch tomorrow - or the FA Cup game - until it is decided what to do with him. Edit: Although he would be allowed to return to Bristol Rovers... for what that is worth.

That's fucking inexcusable from ACD. Pathetic.

Two "Premium" loans (almost certainly) guarantees you a ticket to the dance - top 6 - maybe more. January 2019: Aston Villa add Tyrone Mings and Kourtney Hause to a loan contingent of Tammy Abraham, Anwar El Ghazi, Axel Tuanzabe and Yannick Bolasie. Same season, Derby make the Playoff final with Mason Mount, Harry Wilson and Fikayo Tomori as key loans. The correct CF and LW (CB, RB or GK?) - whoever they are, could actually do it. Cozier-Duberry and Beck are a promising two, let's double it! Who those players are... I ain't the foggiest.

Gueye has turned into prime Paulo Wanchope!

That's as clear a pen as you'll see, and the ref (and his linesman) have absolutely had a shocker.

Another standard Tuesday away performance (and result) looking nailed on after 33 minutes.

Conditions are woeful for football, yet one team is at least trying, and are playing and spreading the ball wide with pace. Kasey Palmer running the show in 2024 was not on my season Bingo card. Living by a prayer that half, and trying to play like it's a glorious sunny August day. If there ever was a set of weather conditions for Makhtar Gueye.

Kwarme Poku, James Hill and Louie Barry. Yes to any, yes to all. A proper #9 is or course the priority, and another player to slot in front of McFadzean on the depth chart. I'm sure Southampton are already planning for life back in the Championship, seems nailed on that Brereton-Diaz will get a head start on them by a window, wonder if there would be any mutual interest? Pears, Brittain, Batth, Hyam, Beck, Travis, Tronstad, Poku, Cantwell, Brereton-Diaz *New* Squad: Toth, Hill, JRC, Pickering, Carter (start when fit), Baker, Dolan, Hedges, Ohashi, Barry, Weimann. That's playoff level. Absolutely none of it happening.

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