Bristol City Match Thread

[SheepRanger]

Just seen warbs post match interview. Saying that luke and San were tremendous. Field was okay at best tonight. Amos was terrible. Won the penalty without being in control of the ball but a pen all the same.

He just doesn't look like he's completely sure he knows what he's doing. Isn't quick. Not a great passer of the ball. Can't finish. Not a ball winner. Can't run with the ball. Lots of effort but just doesn't look convincing at all. Strange that the manager rates him so highly. He's a good lad and I'm glad he's back after a horrible time with injury but he's not a starter for me.

Trying to boost his confidence by praising him publically?

[Darkranger]

You can use the red button on mobile devices by the way in case you didn't know.

No I didn't know, thought it was only accessible on my sky box. Thanks for the heads up for Sunday's game.

[stanistheman]

Referee must have had a bet on Rangers. Made a nice change.

Yeah about time we got a favourable ref.
If Bournemouth can have Stroud can he ref a few more of our games this season.

[stanistheman]

Just seen warbs post match interview. Saying that luke and San were tremendous. Field was okay at best tonight. Amos was terrible. Won the penalty without being in control of the ball but a pen all the same.

He just doesn't look like he's completely sure he knows what he's doing. Isn't quick. Not a great passer of the ball. Can't finish. Not a ball winner. Can't run with the ball. Lots of effort but just doesn't look convincing at all. Strange that the manager rates him so highly. He's a good lad and I'm glad he's back after a horrible time with injury but he's not a starter for me.

I was agree and have never been impressed by Amos, unlike Warburton.

Dozzell is available to play at Birmingham and expect he will be ahead of Amos.

I thought Johansen had a much better game tonight.

a lot of the QPR players had poor first touches tonight and overall we were very lucky, but returned the compliment to the hosts after their smash and grab and interestingly both sets of goals were scored in stoppage time in each half (certainly the winners).

[Ronnie Rangers]

Trying to boost his confidence by praising him publically?

Never change a winning Team.

[KevC59]

Playing badly and coming away with 3 points away from home,. How is this a negative? Ok the performance wasn't stellar but results rule the game, vital 3 points, luckily won, but still points in the bag, should give the team a good boost ahead of Birmingham, a late goal shows they kept at it until the end.
we all want to see the team playing at their best and entertaining us, but I'd rather get the win in the bag any day of the week and keep pushing for at least a play off spot, 7th place would be a kick in the nuts!!

[Dono77]

Never change a winning Team.

He could be doing that. He's a fit lad but he never got himself into the game last night. He's definitely a favourite with the manager but we really need a couple more attacking players in this window. Not sure how willock is today after taking a heavy knock last night but if he and chair are unavailable for brum then we have a problem.

is gray injured or is it covid related?

[MINCER]

Watching MW interviewed after the game he talked mainly about how he was so restricted on selection of players who were fit enough to sit on the bench.

It would seem logical to most fans to draft in members of the U23s to cover injuries and those suffering from Covid.

My question is do some of the regulations surrounding Covid in sport prevent members of our U23s from entering the first team bubbles which are in place ?

[MINCER]

One thing that springs to mind about Amos is even before he got injured and again last night he was guilty of missing some gilt edged chances which says at least he’s getting in the right areas to score.

[Dono77]

Could be. But surely we have lads from the 23s training with the first team to make up the numbers? We have seen loads of pictures with the likes of owens and Duke regularly training with the first team but no sign of them lately. At least we can stick kelman on the bench for brum aswell as having dozzell back. Really hoping chair is fit otherwise I'd go with Thomas instead of amos but warbs won't do that. Can uncle do another 90 mins? Same for Charlie. We need gray fit for a start. He's completely different to what we have.

[Dono77]

One thing that springs to mid about Amos is even before he got injured and again last night he was guilty of missing some gilt edged chances which says at least he’s getting in the right areas to score.

Very true. Hopefully he takes one next time.

[Abseits]

It's gonna take several games for Field and Amos to get up to speed after their long injury lay-offs. Ideally, we'd have a deep 25-man squad with plenty of options so we could gently introduce them to the team via 45/60 minute run outs. However, we don't have that luxury so they're getting chucked in the deep end. Obviously missing 3 weeks of action with postponed fixtures didn't help them in terms of getting fully match ready either.
We'll just have to bear with the pair of them for a while.

[MINCER]

Could be. But surely we have lads from the 23s training with the first team to make up the numbers? We have seen loads of pictures with the likes of owens and Duke regularly training with the first team but no sign of them lately. At least we can stick kelman on the bench for brum aswell as having dozzell back. Really hoping chair is fit otherwise I'd go with Thomas instead of amos but warbs won't do that. Can uncle do another 90 mins? Same for Charlie. We need gray fit for a start. He's completely different to what we have.

in another interview with MW recently he described how some of the coaching staff have been put on rotation to limit their time with the players and for me John Eustace was not visible alongside MW against Bournemouth.

[stanistheman]

Playing badly and coming away with 3 points away from home,. How is this a negative? Ok the performance wasn't stellar but results rule the game, vital 3 points, luckily won, but still points in the bag, should give the team a good boost ahead of Birmingham, a late goal shows they kept at it until the end.
we all want to see the team playing at their best and entertaining us, but I'd rather get the win in the bag any day of the week and keep pushing for at least a play off spot, 7th place would be a kick in the nuts!!

Agree, as I wrote earlier, we did a smash and grab on them at their place as they did to us. 3 points won is the same whether a good or bad performance.

[stanistheman]

It's gonna take several games for Field and Amos to get up to speed after their long injury lay-offs. Ideally, we'd have a deep 25-man squad with plenty of options so we could gently introduce them to the team via 45/60 minute run outs. However, we don't have that luxury so they're getting chucked in the deep end. Obviously missing 3 weeks of action with postponed fixtures didn't help them in terms of getting fully match ready either.
We'll just have to bear with the pair of them for a while.

true, we will just have to muddle through this as best we can.

Hopefully, we are able to put Kelman on the bench (if he is fit and the terms of his loan to Gillingham, although cut short, allow him to play for us yet, was he on a season long loan or until mid January. I also agree, that if possible, promote one or two from the U23 if only to give them some matchday experience, including sitting in the dugout at a noisy hostile stadium.