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Discussion in 'Bristol City' started by wizered, Dec 1, 2022.

  1. AshtonRed

    AshtonRed Well-Known Member

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    Without adding PL quality players we’d be on a hiding to nothing most weeks. We’d still be back where we started as our players would have to be paid PL wages, and would then have played in the PL for a season, our best players would still want to play at the highest level possible and for the highest wages possible, so likely would leave to go to PL clubs as soon as we were relegated back to the championship.

    Didn’t Cardiff pretty much do that last time, now look where they are.
     
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    Yep, most of the them now admit the high of promotion was swiftly removed with dread at getting bumped week in and week our, and replaced with gloom.
     
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    wizered Ol' Mucker Staff Member

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    NP is doing a good job getting the average wage down by 2 grand a week per player.
    Also the squad is far smaller than back then under the largesse of Ashton which makes Pearson's efforts all the more praiseworthy.
     
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    giving the " playing for real time" a thought . if there is someone "upstairs" with a stop watch clicking the stop and starts a normal game of few stoppages and say 4 goals with 40 throw ins and 15 freekicks 10 goal kicks was around 45+3 90+3 now that could be 45+10 / 90 +15? ..
     
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    well done England Lionesses not pretty but effective .......
     
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    Reading on OTIB, that Conway is out for 12 weeks with a torn hamstring
     
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    When did that happen, any idea, he played Saturday and there was no sign of it.
     
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    Training it says.
     
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    Scott & now Conway injured, our injuries don’t ever seem to improve. Is it left field to think Bell can play through the middle rather than left side, Mehmeti on the left?.
     
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    Hard to believe, as all I read on here is how those days of injuries are gone under the new regime…. It was all down to poor training previously, apparently?
     
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    WE SEEM TO GET A LOT of injuries whilst not actually playing a game ... training! is something wrong ... not warming up going to hard trying new moves???
     
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