DutchRover

Ohashi's workrate is off the charts, always running and pressing even if he is getting nothing to work with. I genuinely forget Gudjohnson is playing most of the game which is not good.

He must be heading out the door in January, wouldn't be surprised if Ribeiro does too even though we only renewed him in the summer. Ismael doesn't seem to rate either of them, at least in the 3-4-1-2 and they will be on decent wages.

Birmingham for their 150th anniversary get the promise of a 62,000 seater stadium and owners who clearly plan to spend whatever it takes to become a Prem club... We...can't even release an anniversary kit and will quite probably get relegated. C'est la vie

Is our new arbitrary wage cap League 1 or League 2 level do we think? Might give an indicator where Suhail wants us to reach...

Seems a bizarre line-up with Pickering and Ribeiro both able to play LCB. Can't believe we would switch to a 4 man defence after doing so well with the 5, so Hedges/De Neve will presumably be a LCB, no sense in moving Alebiousu back, he's best attacking outlet at wing back.

I'd sign Gardner-Hickman, reality is Tronstad is leaving, Forshaw is ancient, and God knows what baradji is going to be. Tavares already ditched by Ismael, Garrett and Montgomery not ready. So he's potentially the only starter we might roll with next year.

Encouraging win to make it three in a row, some great performances by Ohashi, Miller, Alebiosu in particular. Bench weakness will hurt us through the season. Forshaw did very well once he came on, 30 minute cameos are fine, but god help us if he starts.

Unbelievable workrate, compliments Gudjonson as a duo, and well taken goal. His volleyed chance was great technique too.

Double disaster, and no Tronstad. Derby game we'll be playing the u18s at this rate...

I wonder if Morishita moves to Left Wing Back when Cantwell comes back? He played wing back most of his career and would be better than Hedges or De Neve I reckon. Injury to Wharton could be a disaster

First half was very good, second Bristol have upped their game and it has been more the game I expected. Really like the Ohashi-Gudjohnson partnership up top. I have always loved Ohashi but also always said he'd be better with a target man next to him.

Recall for O'Riordan would be Suhail's solution I'm sure

Isn't that his usual expression on the sideline, with the occasional clap

100%, we are getting relegated and we have to use that as impetus to rid ourselves of Venkys and the stooges, only then would there be any hope of rebuilding again.

Season panning out as expected, ex-players who would walk into the team: Brittain, Sanderson, Hyam, Trav, Dolan, Heck even JRC and Buckley would improve this current team, and they were Blackburn lads to boot

I mean almost anyone would do a better job than the current hierarchy... Ismael has no tactical or motivational talent at all as is becoming more and more apparent each week

Think it's about the strongest team we can play at the moment, sad to say. Maybe Henrikson for Gudjohnson but that's close.

"Strong" in the sense that we were ahead and creating chances, it's all relative when standards are so low

3 year contract, believes in the "project", and will say whatever Gestede and Suhail tell him, Ismael stays until they need a scapegoat, not results.

Another pitiful performance after a strong first-half by the sound of it. Nailed on relegation as I said a couple of weeks ago. Nothing will change until Venkys, Suhail, Gestede and Ismael are gone.

Ohashi having a really good game, streets ahead of Gudjohnson movement and effort wise. Good performance so far by whole team.

Weirdly, I am excited to see Ohashi play with another ST next to him. Having Gudjonson to occupy defenders and play off should really help given his movement. We will still get thumped though...

He was a LB or Wing-back in Belgium, I never quite got why they wanted him to be a winger

We seem to swap to it quite often in the 2nd half of games, but we have no CB depth for 2 CBs, let alone 3, which means we'd end up with Pickering/Ribeiro/Miller as CBs which I'm not convinced by.

Relegation looking more and more nailed on with each passing week. Ismael will keep plodding along because Suhail and Gestede demand mediocrity and cheapness. Venky's probably don't even know what is happening. Summer transfers turning out exactly as we all expected, cheaper and worse, even those who have talent like Morishita. Selling Hyam and Travis was footballing suicide no matter how mediocre some on here think they were. Miller is not a CB, maybe in a 3 but never in a 4. Only consistently impressive new guy has been Alebiosu (Morishita perhaps to a lesser extent). It's genuinely hard to believe that even a couple of years ago I felt so positive/hopeful about the direction of the club with JDT and Gregg at the helm, with Adam Wharton coming through and Arma/BBD/Szmodics up top to root for.