Bristol City vs Sheffield United

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Championship Week 19 - Tuesday 1st November 2022 - 20:00 - Ashton Gate
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Original content from robbiez666 below:

As there's no match thread yet (I assume Dempsey & Makepeace are busy childing) putting this here.

Going to be a tough game. I fancied City at the start of the season but they've been inconsistent. They certainly have the attacking players to hurt us.

If everyone was fit enough to play, I'd go:

----------------------Wes

Baldock - Basham - Egan - Robinson - Osborn

--------Doyle----Norwood-----Fleck

-------------Sharp--- Ndiaye

Anel suspended and giving McBurnie a rest.

I reckon we're going to get a few surprises though listening to the press conference.

Sachdev and Arblaster not travelled with the U-21s so likely in the squad.

I reckon McAtee or Khadra will start. I have a feeling Ndiaye might not.

I reckon a draw might be the likely outcome.

 

[bakeblade]

Khadra’s been awful so far, who was shouting “Reda keep hold of the fucking ball”

Me

 

[Jan Age]

One of the worst halves of football I’ve seen from us in a long time. Not one positive to take from any part of that performance.

The only positive is from the score that it is still 0-0.

 

[jono_t2000]

Stevens on for Ozzy HAS to happen.

Was looking for Arblaster to replace Fleck but sadly didn't make the bench.

Not sure who can replace Jimmy but he's been hiding and needs to pull a finger out

 

[Blacksea]

Pub teams have looked better.

 

[CornwallBlade]

Sharp off fir McBurnie, get Illy up the pitch. Fuck knows what we do about Osborne- they will attack that flank relentlessly. I’m afraid that Fleck is also too easily bypassed hence the pressure there

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

That was like Bristol playing a Non league team in the Cup.

Flecks 'runs' in treacle, Osborn looks like a fan who's won a competition, basham is so so error prone this year. Khadra like a shorter slower Oliver Burke

As we've seen previously unless N'diaye plays well, we are awful

 

[1973Blade]

A chance for Mcatee to show us what he's got in the second half

 

[HarryHaslam]

Cracking player that Scott, can’t say I’d heard of him before but commenters bigging him up so must have been catching the eye for some time.

 

[Gimli]

Somet needs to change at half time - don’t know what but we’re getting overrun here

 

[Nah den]

People talk about the size of our squad etc, but what nights like tonight demonstrate is the backup players aren't good enough. Osborn, Basham, Fleck, Khadra, Sharp not good enough. Simply cannot afford to carry that many players. They've either been out and out liabilities, complete passengers, or both.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Kevin blackwellbottom

FACTS

 

[BettingBlade]

I’ve seen this away performance many many many times under this manager. Absolutely pants.

 

[Flatcap]

Better be a response in the second half. Abysmal and we are lucky to go in without having conceded. I hate playing against Weimann as well.

 

[bakeblade]

Back 3 are so uncomfortable on the ball, just impossible to start play from the back so it's getting lumped up to sharp

Their front 3 are working really hard and making it difficult

 

[robbiez666]

Bit of a mess. We're so short in certain areas.

It might help if someone at the club stops Fleck drinking so much. He may as well not be there. Jogging around, closing no one down. nothing.

Baldock has been out of position so many times I lost count. Also failing to track markers. I could play through him and Basham.

Khadra was poor with the ball. Used it well once, but the rest of the time lost it. Unlucky he wasn't fed through by Ndiaye after running half the pitch and looked a bit off after that, so might be an injury but in truth we were starting to get overrun.

We need to get some kind of control. All the forward have been poor so far.

 

[ATL Recs]

Yeah that's about 4 times from Bash.

And Egan

 

[Toronto Blade fan]

Hard to watch ....

When did we forget how to pass a ball. No midfield presence. Fleck should be no where near the first team....even with all the injuries.

 

[Bobby b]

I think sometimes you have to credit the opposition, I think Bristol have played very well, without working foderingham, I think this seems like a game for mcburnie, he can hold it up and also with the amount of crosses and corners they're getting he will do what he does defensively

 

[Jan Age]

Somet needs to change at half time - don’t know what but we’re getting overrun here

There’s too much wrong all over the pitch to fix it.

Best we can hope for is 0-0 or a scrappy 1-0.

I can’t see the performance improving dramatically there are too many points to address.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Can’t deny that was a horrible shitty error-prone disjointed performance. Made Brizzle look good somehow.

 

[JayGreen17]

The only time we strung some good passes together is when we went passing backwards. Fleck Norwood and Khedra might as well be at home. Defence looks dodgy. Bash is trying but not looking composed. It has to be the worst performance since we got relegated. No cohesion coordination or pattern to what we are doing.

many of the games after the international break have felt like pre season friendlies from our part, not knowing your best team, lots of mistakes, getting players upto speed…..

 

[bakeblade]

Bit of a mess. We're so short in certain areas.

It might help if someone at the club stops Fleck drinking so much. He may as well not be there. Jogging around, closing no one down. nothing.

Baldock has been out of position so many times I lost count. Also failing to track markers. I could play through him and Basham.

Khadra was poor with the ball. Used it well once, but the rest of the time lost it. Unlucky he wasn't fed through by Ndiaye after running half the pitch and looked a bit off after that, so might be an injury but in truth we were starting to get overrun.

We need to get some kind of control. All the forward have been poor so far.

We improved slightly after the change, but then poor again.
Oli mc on after 60
That Scott is some player

 

[ATL Recs]

Why not make the sub at HT? So we still have 3 chances to make subs?

He’s still got another 4 chances

 

[Working Class Hero]

Fleck looks as though he's actively hiding at times. I'm sure he's not, but it's either that or he's forgotten how to find space and get involved.

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

It's impressive just how bad we are

 

[Blade58]

Two warning shots right on half time that could’ve been goals. Time to now wake up and fkin get at em

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

Osborne, Fleck, Sharp off.

Stevens, Clarke and McBurnie on

 

[Bergen Blade]

So disappointing Ndiaye didn't put Khadra through here:

 

[Nedski]

Fleck looks as though he's actively hiding at times. I'm sure he's not, but it's either that or he's forgotten how to find space and get involved.

He looks reluctant to play and pissed off to have been chosen again. What does he have to do to be dropped?

 

[JayGreen17]

Devoid of absolutely ANYTHING…..had to laugh before the West Brom game, the pundits saying that the performances haven’t matched the results according to the manager, is Hecky fucking blind…

that’s was shite… too much messing around with the team, even with the injuries keep to the winning team as much as possible.