BTFG - Bristol City

[Gloucesterroyal]

Sorry, but Long fouled the defender in the build up. A bit of luck there but would have won anyway.

[From Despair To Where?]

That's odd , the majority of Brizzle fans reckon that Klose thought he wasn't going to get there, played for the foul and fcuked it up. They're blaming him for bottling a challenge. I'm not going to argue with them.

[Gloucesterroyal]

Tbh, I wasn't there. On Tv, it looks like an obvious foul. Looks like he played the man and then took possession of the ball.

[Nameless]

Tbh, I wasn't there. On Tv, it looks like an obvious foul. Looks like he played the man and then took possession of the ball.

Which isn’t a foul.
It’s a contact sport, you are allowed, within the laws, to play the man.

[Royal_jimmy]

Poor attendance today. Our home form has improved so why are the fans staying away?

Because it will take more than an improvement over the short term & no ein in 4 would have a decent number of floaters assuming that the plummet is on.

Plus a lot of people are watching their spending and if you haven't been going, it will be hard to rationalise the spend when day to day life is getting more expensive with each passing week.

I don't fully buy that. We're one of the cheapest sides in the league to follow and other clubs haven't seen low attendances like that. It's just our plastic fans not bothering.

So what we lost to West Brom? Ince has significantly improved our home form. We should be getting at least 4-5k more fans at home than we are. Today was a good chance to get one of if not our biggest attendances. Our attendance Vs Norwich was pathetic as well.

Keep doing as we are and the plastics and day trippers will return.

[Hound]

It wasn’t a foul. It was however pretty dreadful from the defender

[RG30]

Poor attendance today. Our home form has improved so why are the fans staying away?

We have a fickle fanbase.

[paultheroyal]

Sorry, but Long fouled the defender in the build up. A bit of luck there but would have won anyway.

Defender the wrong side, got out muscled, no foul.

[paultheroyal]

Poor attendance today. Our home form has improved so why are the fans staying away?

Because it will take more than an improvement over the short term & no ein in 4 would have a decent number of floaters assuming that the plummet is on.

Plus a lot of people are watching their spending and if you haven't been going, it will be hard to rationalise the spend when day to day life is getting more expensive with each passing week.

I don't fully buy that. We're one of the cheapest sides in the league to follow and other clubs haven't seen low attendances like that. It's just our plastic fans not bothering.

So what we lost to West Brom? Ince has significantly improved our home form. We should be getting at least 4-5k more fans at home than we are. Today was a good chance to get one of if not our biggest attendances. Our attendance Vs Norwich was pathetic as well.

Keep doing as we are and the plastics and day trippers will return.

One of your own calling your own fans plastic is a new low even for this board.

[Franchise FC]

Sorry, but Long fouled the defender in the build up. A bit of luck there but would have won anyway.

That was right in front of us and Long gave him a 5 yard head start over 20 yards and beat him to the ball. Klose tried to make out he’d been fouled, but wasn’t

[Notts Royal]

Poor attendance today. Our home form has improved so why are the fans staying away?

Because it will take more than an improvement over the short term & no ein in 4 would have a decent number of floaters assuming that the plummet is on.

Plus a lot of people are watching their spending and if you haven't been going, it will be hard to rationalise the spend when day to day life is getting more expensive with each passing week.

I don't fully buy that. We're one of the cheapest sides in the league to follow and other clubs haven't seen low attendances like that. It's just our plastic fans not bothering.

So what we lost to West Brom? Ince has significantly improved our home form. We should be getting at least 4-5k more fans at home than we are. Today was a good chance to get one of if not our biggest attendances. Our attendance Vs Norwich was pathetic as well.

Keep doing as we are and the plastics and day trippers will return.

I’ve raised this point a few times that cheap tickets has minimal impact for our fans…it’s one of the most affluent places to live. Might as well charge a bit more to increase income to help the balance sheet.

The regulars will pay whatever the cost & most are season ticket holders from what I can tell

[Royal_jimmy]

Because it will take more than an improvement over the short term & no ein in 4 would have a decent number of floaters assuming that the plummet is on.

Plus a lot of people are watching their spending and if you haven't been going, it will be hard to rationalise the spend when day to day life is getting more expensive with each passing week.

I don't fully buy that. We're one of the cheapest sides in the league to follow and other clubs haven't seen low attendances like that. It's just our plastic fans not bothering.

So what we lost to West Brom? Ince has significantly improved our home form. We should be getting at least 4-5k more fans at home than we are. Today was a good chance to get one of if not our biggest attendances. Our attendance Vs Norwich was pathetic as well.

Keep doing as we are and the plastics and day trippers will return.

One of your own calling your own fans plastic is a new low even for this board.

Excuse me? I go to every home match and most away ones so who the hell are you to call me that.

I'll see you at Blackburn away midweek... Yeah right

[tmesis]

Poor attendance today. Our home form has improved so why are the fans staying away?

I think we've lost a lot of long-term fans, people who've had season tickets for years etc, and those people are very hard to win back.

We've been so poor at home for so long that fans probably found they didn't miss football during the covid break, and haven't bothered coming back, because they've just become disillusioned with the club. Their enthusiam for watching Reading has gone, and we've got to win over a new generation now.

[paultheroyal]

I don't fully buy that. We're one of the cheapest sides in the league to follow and other clubs haven't seen low attendances like that. It's just our plastic fans not bothering.

So what we lost to West Brom? Ince has significantly improved our home form. We should be getting at least 4-5k more fans at home than we are. Today was a good chance to get one of if not our biggest attendances. Our attendance Vs Norwich was pathetic as well.

Keep doing as we are and the plastics and day trippers will return.

One of your own calling your own fans plastic is a new low even for this board.

Excuse me? I go to every home match and most away ones so who the hell are you to call me that.

I'll see you at Blackburn away midweek... Yeah right

What on Earth are you babbling on about. I am referring to the fact you call our own fans who have their own reasons not to attend “plastic”. You ok?

[Orion1871]

Poor attendance today. Our home form has improved so why are the fans staying away?

Was speaking to someone in the week who hasn't gone since covid. Got out of the habit and the "tippy tappy style of play" over recent years also ruined the enthusiasm.

[Millsy]

Going to be quite boring as most people are 7, with a few exceptions.

Lumley 7 Not much to do, but some good catches and punches and as usual great timewasting. Thankfully I think he has the sort of cheeky cocky attitude that means he doesn't lose his head over previous errors, just carries on. Certainly won a lot of the fans over. Really hope he continues to do well.
Mbengue 7 very good today esp first half
Holmes 7 clean sheet, did good
TMac 7 – clean sheet, did good
Hoillet 7 very good performance today, he was everywhere doing everything. I feel confident when he has the ball
Rahman – 5 several dodgy moments, like last game. NGW has to start if fit
Loum 7 scored so less than 7 is harsh, but some ball lost as usual, btu also some good wins.
Hendrick – 8 never really understood the point of Hendrick, seems to do nothing usually, sideways passes, not much else. But today he was just amazing, fantastic tackles, runs forward. A different player. Best game in a Reading shirt.
Ince – 7 usual great Ince
Joao – 7. Should have scored but a different player almost with his non-stop running and pressing defenders early on at least
Meite – 7 good threat up front as usual

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Subs
Abbey – 6 didn’t see that much of him if I’m honest, but did get engaged with good defensive work with his head
Carroll – 7 came on. Scored, what more can you say.
Long – 9 he was just brilliant today. Old chap now but still running his butt off chasing everything down creating chances, he made the second. Hendrick did good but Long for me was the star of the show even though he came on late.

Paul Ince – 7 welcome back to fitness Incey. Hard to do much with the 3rd leakiest defence in the league before kick-off, in addition to insane defensive injuries. But we looked solid and overall by far the better team who deserved to win. Subs clearly worked and Abbey got a run out too. Appreciated.

[leon]

Poor attendance today. Our home form has improved so why are the fans staying away?

Probably because of miserable fcukers like you.

[blythspartan]

Poor attendance today. Our home form has improved so why are the fans staying away?

Probably because of miserable fcukers like you.

I got my first season ticket for 6 years this season and for a few years I was cherry picking home and away games. Apart from the glory years when we were challenging at the right end of the Championship and our 3 seasons in the Premiership we have never been that well supported tbh. However, there have always been the odd high profile games that have attracted much bigger support than normal.

I remember watching us play New Zealand in a friendly at Elm Park which attracted around 7.5k fans. I recall the guy on the tannoy basically asking for the same support at a league game. Unless we have a few seasons of challenging at the right end of the Championship I can’t see the supporters returning in big numbers.

I just wish that we had invested in that second season in the Premiership as the club could have gone from strength to strength. The town is huge so we should be able to fill a 30k plus stadium but unlike places like Portsmouth and Newcastle a large number of people living in the area support other clubs.

[Snowflake Royal]

Because it will take more than an improvement over the short term & no ein in 4 would have a decent number of floaters assuming that the plummet is on.

Plus a lot of people are watching their spending and if you haven't been going, it will be hard to rationalise the spend when day to day life is getting more expensive with each passing week.

I don't fully buy that. We're one of the cheapest sides in the league to follow and other clubs haven't seen low attendances like that. It's just our plastic fans not bothering.

So what we lost to West Brom? Ince has significantly improved our home form. We should be getting at least 4-5k more fans at home than we are. Today was a good chance to get one of if not our biggest attendances. Our attendance Vs Norwich was pathetic as well.

Keep doing as we are and the plastics and day trippers will return.

I’ve raised this point a few times that cheap tickets has minimal impact for our fans…it’s one of the most affluent places to live. Might as well charge a bit more to increase income to help the balance sheet.

The regulars will pay whatever the cost & most are season ticket holders from what I can tell

The football and results have been dreadful for a decade. Its going to take more than three months of decent results to reverse that.

Especially as a lot of attendance comes from STs, and no one is going to buy on partway through a season.

We've had a good season before and then gone shit again. People are going to need to see a sustained improvement before we attract new fans in numbers and bring back old fans who got disillusioned. And starting well and slip sliding slowly down to mid-table isn’t that exciting.

[URZZZZ]

Going to be quite boring as most people are 7, with a few exceptions.

Lumley 7 Not much to do, but some good catches and punches and as usual great timewasting. Thankfully I think he has the sort of cheeky cocky attitude that means he doesn't lose his head over previous errors, just carries on. Certainly won a lot of the fans over. Really hope he continues to do well.
Mbengue 7 very good today esp first half
Holmes 7 clean sheet, did good
TMac 7 – clean sheet, did good
Hoillet 7 very good performance today, he was everywhere doing everything. I feel confident when he has the ball
Rahman – 5 several dodgy moments, like last game. NGW has to start if fit
Loum 7 scored so less than 7 is harsh, but some ball lost as usual, btu also some good wins.
Hendrick – 8 never really understood the point of Hendrick, seems to do nothing usually, sideways passes, not much else. But today he was just amazing, fantastic tackles, runs forward. A different player. Best game in a Reading shirt.
Ince – 7 usual great Ince
Joao – 7. Should have scored but a different player almost with his non-stop running and pressing defenders early on at least
Meite – 7 good threat up front as usual

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Subs
Abbey – 6 didn’t see that much of him if I’m honest, but did get engaged with good defensive work with his head
Carroll – 7 came on. Scored, what more can you say.
Long – 9 he was just brilliant today. Old chap now but still running his butt off chasing everything down creating chances, he made the second. Hendrick did good but Long for me was the star of the show even though he came on late.

Paul Ince – 7 welcome back to fitness Incey. Hard to do much with the 3rd leakiest defence in the league before kick-off, in addition to insane defensive injuries. But we looked solid and overall by far the better team who deserved to win. Subs clearly worked and Abbey got a run out too. Appreciated.

Think that’s slightly harsh on Rahman, didn’t see much wrong with his performance. Strangely enough, thought he was one of our better players in the first half in an overall quiet half and one of the quieter players in the second half in an overall busier half. Don’t particularly like how NGW has been bombed out mind after one error last week

Would probably stick your back three up by one each, Rahman up by two and go with the rest, good team performance