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Sorry but for some reason I find this funny :D
There are 14 coaches of city fans going to Swansea this saturday,and No city fans will be allowed in the ground if they do not have a coach ticket proving that they travelled there that way because of all the trouble because of the derby bla bla bla.All city fans are encouraged to take the recovery position(head down by legs)when the coaches stop at traffic lights and other areas whilst travelling through swansea :D  :oops: sorry.

Can you imagine 14 bloody coaches of scummers travelling around!?
I expect more than a few donuts will be arrested :roll:

You couldnt wish it on a bigger set of wankers could you!?. :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

:soapy tit wank: I just think of the hill billies when I think of this!I imagine a combine harvester attached to each coach hehe.

Why dont they have to do that when they come to us, eh?

We should be ashamed.

14 coaches, I expect thats more coaches than we have taken to all our away games put together so far this season....

Ah, but each coach only has 10 seats - they are special coaches as your average city fan can't count above 10

6 of my cousins are on coach 4 8) haha.They are probably mini buses not coaches.

Your family support city???? Ralphy have a word

Yeah somebody have a word!, id dis-own them tbh. :D

Ralph has met my city supporting cousins!we all watched england in the pub once and he was shocked to see so many people in city shirts.I'm used to it,never a dull moment in my family 8) banter and more banter :mrgreen:

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  Was it worth all the hassle?! 7-1.Whenever I get abuse from city fans around here for supprting swindon I will say one simple thing 7-1 7-1 7-1 7-1 7-1 7-1 7-1 7-1  :D (even though We lost this result cheered me up)!hahar.

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My girlfriend is most unhappy.

She swears like a docker!

hey rich, long time no see.

at least you can be happy that we ain't worse than shitty :D

Hey Whits

I've been with the Girlfriend for 20 months and they've been on a steady decline ever since... I have been blamed! (and we're unbeaten against them too!)

One point and a better goal difference is a lot to me!

Still we suck just as much just not 7-1 at this moment... Bournemouth next week though!!!  :-))(

just noticed, heywood and smith both didn't play, bet they are glad they joined that lot.

Their defence stood out to me as poor before a ball was kicked... They rate Heywood although he was terrible in the City match I had to go to.

Smith has been a unused bench player since an inadequate performance early on.

Tinnion blames everything on others including their fans!

ha ha bloody ha.

And smith winged that he got no games at Swindon and was treated like shit. HAHAHA

OMG i have just seen the funniest thing ever on sky sports news..... they are seriously taking this piss on their.... watch the scores go along the bottom of the screen when it gets to swansea and bristol they put 7 in words as well as numbers.... its just so funny as its bristol seeing this come up ....  Swansea 7 (SEVEN) - 1 Bristol City  ..... little things please little minds, but its brizzle shitty so i find it funny  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Just found out that swansea had a goal dis allowed too :soapy tit wank:  :soapy tit wank: Oh dear and city are holding a press conference monday so It looks as though our lovely friend mr.tinnion will be getting the boot.bye bye tin head!

A ready made replacement for king...

Whats with all this Bristol City rubbish? They couldn't give a toss about us and vice versa.

Give them King he would be a great replacement to keep them down in the depths of League One. :)

A swap deal, everyone's a winner...

Except us....we would have tinpot as our manager :-))(

just for the record, i was joking....i'd rather have eddie little as our manager!

Wonder what Steve Claridge is doing now?

I'd rather have neil ruddock back as manager AND player rather than tinhead :x

kinky tom for manager at least the players would hear his instructionS!!!

Tinnion is a truly appalling manager and I'm amazed he's survived this long. With what he's had to work with he has been laughably bad, there minimum expectations were automatic promotion and Tinnion makes them look like relegation candidates.

I have no doubt if King was at Bristol City he would got them promoted so I fucking hope he doesn't go there.

Im glad i can have a laugh before going to bed. :)

Spuddy he very nearly got us promoted with about a 1/5 of the wage budget. Realisticaly getting them promoted would be a piece of piss in comparison.

However much you dislike King it is clear for anyone to see that Tinnion is a far far worse manager, if Tinnion was in charge of us we'd probably get about 5 points all season and concede about 200 goals.

ok, tinnion has shown the same disregard and naivety (sp?) for players best positions as king. just because he's at a flush club and not one struggling to pay the bills, doesnt mean he'd suddenly become a master manager, and walk the league. king is a tactical nightmare of a manager.

Really though no he isn't. King is far better tactically than Brian Tinnion, he wouldn't need to become a master manager to get bristol city promoted. It would take a master manager to get us promoted but seeing as he nearly managed that, with bristol city's budget and good coaches etc. to help it would be easy enough.

Whilst it's not hard to be better tactically than Tinnion, King is far from tactically astute. In fact, he hasn't got a clue.

There's not really any evidence that he's any worse than average for this division, Tinnion is probably the worst.

Playing 4-5-1 away from home when we have four strikers and a poor defence is a very bad tactical decision.

Also dropping a right-winger who was our best player in the previous game and replacing him with a central midfielder is equally as bad.

City think that if tinhead goes there is a posibility of them getting Martin Allen but I can't see that really.If Allen was to leave Brentford he would go to a higher club because he's a very good manager.
I saw some pictures of tinnion after the match yesterday and he looked well and truly gutted some city fans even said they thought he looked like he was crying!I can't help but feel a bit sorry for him though.He's city through and through and I think he and everybody else knows that the only way to move forward is for him to leave.So it must be a hard decision for him to make.

That is all opinion though. I think Shakes does tend to be better off the bench. You rated him the best player at Walsall but most people didn't. We played 4-4-2 yesterday with only one player slightly out of position for part of the game and he wasn't in a completely unfamilar role. How many other managers play players outside of their usual position, you'll struggle to find one that doesn't. Ferguson, Mourinho etc. all do it.

Everyone I've spoken to who went to the Walsall game said that Shakes was one of the best players on the park, if not our best. Furthermore, if you look at the formations/team selections people have made on these forums, the vast majority have picked Shakes - why? It's not because he's crap, is it?

Pook wasn't slightly out of position, he's a central midfielder not a right-winger. Does Ferguson play Keane on the wing? Did Wenger play Vieira on the wing? Does Mourinho play Lampard out wide? The answer is no.

Wingers need the ability to run with the ball at their feet, get past players, cross the ball and so on. Central midfielders generally don't need to do those so why should Pook be able to play on the wing?

Of course, injuries/suspensions often dictate players are forced to play out of position but Shakes was dropped for no reason whatsoever yesterday.

Dv85 gave shakes 6, the adver also didn't rate him that highly.
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Mourinho regularly plays players out of position when he doesn't really need to. Defenders up front you name it. Look at players like Gerrard central midfielder but often plays on the wing and occasionally at right back.

Joe Cole prefers to play in the centre and is right-footed but Mourinho often plays him as a left winger.

i didnt think shakes was that great at walsall

Only two people did ratings for Walsall and I was one of them, not exactly hugely representative of opinions.

I've never seen Gerrard play anywhere but central midfield. Cole may prefer to play in the centre but he can play on the left. Either way, Premiership players are more likely to be adaptable enough to play in other positions, a 19 year old in his first season of professional football probably isn't.

Why drop Shakes then?

I gave almost everyone a 6.

I wouldnt have dropped Shakes though, If I were going to drop a midfielder it would have been Whalley

Agree with that, Whalley has been piss poor this season.

I think piss poor is a bit harsh, although I have noted when Whalley plays well, we play well....or it could be the other way round....who knows

Gerrard used to play on the left for England until Scholes retired, he was playing on the wing in the Wales game at one point.

Ferguson has often played Rooney on the left on right of midfield in a 4-5-1.

Thing is unless you're a fan of a particular club or know their players well, you're not going to know which players are playing out of position.

I don't think premiership footballers are really any more adaptable. You get adaptable players at all levels.

Why did King drop Shakes then?

I like they way you're comparing our players with the likes of Cole, Gerrard and Rooney BWB :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

BUT

who is to say those havent been tried out in training? or in friendly/reserve matches.

Plus those players get told what they need to do, they probably get told in advance they are going to play there and thus can prepare properly.

Pook looked like a man who has never played right wing in his life or even thought about it. He was probably as shocked as we were

I dont think its harsh, anyone woud think Pook is the established Pro in midfield.

Perhaps because Shakes and Nicolau haven't played well together in training, perhaps because he didn't want to drop Whalley, Pook or Migs. Perhaps he felt Shakes pace means he's a great option to have on the bench.



Well they're just well known under well respected managers who often play players out of position. There's no point using an example of a player no-ones heard of.



And who is to say that Pook has not been tried there in training.

Because he was shit out on the left at Barnsley and shit out on the right against Southend, if it was tried in training chances are he would have been shite there as well....

In which case, why drop the player who has performed at first team level to replace him with a player who hasn't really made much of an impact yet?



That's probably precisely why Shakes was dropped, Whalley hasn't been particularly impressive yet this season so surely it would make sense to drop him and keep a natural right winger on the right and a natural left winger on the left?



Due to the overall lack of pace in our team he'd be better off starting. Shakes isn't that quick anyway.

Pook has been our best midfielder in the central role-but he's young so King thinks he can fuck him about.Drop Whalley you bumbling oaf!

Good post that as it makes perfect sense. :)

Shakes isn't that quick?! You're having a laugh right?

no, I'm serious - he's got a bit of pace but it's not as if he's super-quick.

there is one person that needs droping and thats cureton he has been shit since he came and has done nothing! :-))(

Yep Cureton has done fuck all apart from set up Fallon once, i feel sorry for those with his name on their shirts.

hahaha yer  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: