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After we beat them at home I reckon most of us though they weren't that bad and would pull themselves out of the shit sooner rather than later.

But with agent Flint in full force they are going from bad to worse (chortle) and hopefully they are on their way down. If the Gas could also muck it up it would be even better.

 :bye:

Them relegating us at Ashton gate is one of those days you will never forget and you just hope that you get the chance to put it right. Sadly are game against them will come to early for them to be cut adrift but we can certainly make it enjoyable! If they fail to beat carisle at home this sat feb is a tough month for them.

I've always thought they would pull comfortably clear to lower mid table. They may do, but the longer it goes on the more it reminds me of us under Danny Wilson's second season.

Have they brought many in during 'the window'?

They got Tyrone Barnett and Karleigh Osbourne I know that much, think they might even have a few more.

I still think it's inevitable they'll stay up, I did think they'd finish top half even after the slow start but they'll probably end up staying up dramatically on the final day and then having a stormer next year.

I watch them quite a bit.

1. Flint is genuinely useless. He's not even much of threat at set pieces (except against us, obvs). He needs an experienced centre back to hold his hand.

2. Emmanuel-Thomas doesn't look bothered a large percentage of the time and when doesn't perform, they really struggle. He's on the periphery of getting major stick before he scores a 78th minute 25-yarder from nothing.

3. Their defence is incredibly careless.

4. Sam Baldock should be on about 20 goals by now with the amount of genuine goalscoring opportunities he gets.

5. Lightweight midfield. We dodged a bullet with Marlon Pack.

They have all the hallmarks of a team doomed but Lansdown will try and buy them out of the relegation places. That's fair enough but none of them have stopped the rot thus far.

Their not-so-bad goal difference should assist them.

Ultimately, Bristol City in Division 4 would be dreamy.

Yesterday they brought in Wade Elliott who at 35 seems past it for a midfielder.

I like seeing them struggle but think they will JUST stay in this division, I have a lot of mates who pre season told me about how they would storm the league.....they are very quiet now.

Interesting....for some reason, probably connected to pack mentality  :), certain players become flavour of the month with a section of fans, could be a good name, good haircut, or perhaps one memorable goal seen somewhere. This time last year PdC wanted Pack, Green and BWP....none of whom have done owt this season....BWP might have scored a few at the back end of last season.

I will love it, love it*.....if in May, this thread is still alive and we're :bye: to those shitheads, but sadly can't see it, they'll just about scrape enough points to stay up, as will Blades.

* with apologies to KK.

There is a massive amount of shit down the bottom of this league and City easily have quality to escape.

Whether they will escape is a different matter, if they don't string 2 or 3 wins together soon the confidence they need to survive might never arrive.

No...stay up 6th from bottom...

Reality is, that there isn't a huge amount of difference between teams down the bottom and teams around us....for example we've lost to Stevenage, Sheff U and Shrewsbury, all in the bottom 4.

We've lost the same amount of games as Shitty....it's about small margins, which is why the wins v Cov, Posh and Shrews have been so important, on the balance of play, all 3 could have ended in draws or worse, but we managed to find a way to win, riding a bit of luck.  I daresay Shitty fans could find a few games where perhaps they should have won, but only drew, becasue Flint scored a last minute OG or gave away an added on time pen.

Remember they are the players who got them in this mess in the first place. Many Swindon fans believed we'd negotiate our way out of relegation under Wilson because there were worse teams than us (we beat Charlton away and Phil Smith said somone like the Play-Offs still being the goal - Ha!). Luckily for Bristol City they don't have a team with a significant points deduction to finish below.

I heard someone refer to Adam El-Abd as their 'new Shaun Taylor' too. El-Abd was to blame for a goal less than 20 minutes in to his debut and that fan duly changed his tune.

What a bit of business Flint is proving to be.

Didn't they give him a four year deal?

Unbelievable.

There's a lot of pubs and clubs in Bristol...going to take him a while to get round to all of them.

They seem not to have had a new manager bump - they went a few games unbeaten, albeit too many draws, but now have reverted to their form under SoD.

They could be one of those teams 'too good to go down' which actually do.

Strange nothing has been said much about the Gas doing a Poxford and exiting the league altogether. A home defeat to Accy Stanley last night does not bode well.

Could be double delight!

Beautiful.

Might have to change their forum to OLTIB

Flint is getting a right old slagging on their forum.

Lots of comments about how we are pissing ourselves laughing they spent £300k on him.

Comparisons to that other CB that went in their direction - Matty Heywood

Hope they go down, but can't see it!

I thought it was 400k? Either way, I don't think anybody was grumbling at the fee - cracking piece of business.

Reminds me of us. Our team on paper was too good to go down and we always knew we'd be ok. I look at shitty and think how good their team is and that going down is not possible.

I'd love it if a club as unbelievably huge as shitty were to grace league 2 with their presence, bringing with them their masses of sophisticated fans who don't sound anything like thick farmers.

The picture comparison of Flint on their forum is an absolute cracker!!!

http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/160786-flint/

And what about that pic of their fans?

Jeez, what a bunch of ugly fuckwits.

And BTW for any cricket followers do you think 2 of them look like Dominic Cork standing next to Tim Bresnan?

With all their verbals I was going to have a small bet on City doing a straight through to Divvy 2 - wish I had courage of convictions, would have been worth a couple of quid!

Got to say they are not too far adrift as yet - shame.

I like this quote from there Forum "Flint's having a great season, bet not many central defenders in the league have four goals at this stage."

Reg, I know you're working hard on developing this reputation as the doomsayer of the forum but the idea that there's not much to chose between us and City because we've lost the same amount of games really doesn't add up.

There's a 17 point gap between the two sides for a bloody reason, and that reason is that we've won 3 times as many games as them. That doesn't happen because of a couple of lucky results.

17 points...seems a lot, but reality is that it's 3 wins either way....in other words take 3 wins off us add 3 wins on them and they're a point above, or alternatively had Ranger not scored the last minute winner v them at the CG, and they'd won 2 more and we'd lost 2 more we'd be 2 points better off.

But they haven't/didn't.

And Ranger did.

If Brentford had lost 3 more games and we won 3 more.    .  . .   

Lot of ifs and buts there Reg, you can do that to compare any 2 teams in the league. If we got the 3 points we deserved from humping Wolves etc etc

27/28 games is enough of a sample size to establish that 2 teams 17 points apart aren't too close in standard.

If we won every game we would be the best team evuhhh

Teams in the same league, are already sorted by standard....they're in the same league, because they are of a similar standard.

According to your proposition Stevenage, even further adrift than Bristol City, couldn't possibly have beaten us 2-0 a fortnight ago, because they aren't too close in standard

We all know that any team can beat any other in 1 game. After nearly 30 games the league table is now struggling to lie.

Your logic, Reginald, is simply baffling.

What you talking 'bout Willis?

Of course the table shows differences, but the point I'm making is that they're not that great...we've played Stevenage 3 times this season 1 win 1 draw 1 defeat.

OK sometimes you get a side, say like Hyde in the Conference, who've had financial problems lost all their players etc, so are clearly in the wrong Div and aren't competitive and get stuffed more or less weekly.

However most of the teams in Div 3, have comparable budgets, with the exception of Wolves and a few teams with a bit extra, so adopt a strategy of signing free transfers, loans with perhaps one or two bought for small fees.

They've just made a cracking signing in Simon Moore, one of the best in league last season but still dislike him immensely for his time wasting and overall twatish behaviour against us in the numerous games we had against brentford 

One season wonder :)

Frank Fielding was good signing for them... Derby County no.1 to Bristol City no.3 within about a year.

Ouch.

Looking at the state of Pourtsmouth and Bristol City I think the moral of the story is 'Don't sign David James'

That's a pity as the one they have had this year has been outstandingly awful from what I've caught on tv.

not me

They will beat Carlisle today. Licence to print money if you back that.

Nicely done BO.