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Even that's not as bad as selecting the 2 OAPs up front.

Thanks, Gary.

At some point this season we're going to have to be braver in selection and approach. We need wins FFS.

I don't think we'll see Mukasa and James starting together under this manager. Like when Cooper never started Abdul and Stephy together.

Truly horrific selection. All Bristol City need to do is press up into our half and we'll be stuck. We don't have the players to play out of a press and we have zero pace in behind. This is going to go badly wrong and is the opposite of being brave. Gutted as I was initially positive about Rowett. He's now reverted to what people feared he would do.

Wow, that is truly appalling.

My impression was that he was utterly terrible yesterday so just checked his stats, which confirmed it - 47% pass accuracy and lost possession 26 times out of 56 touches.

In terms of the difference between pre-season expectations and output on the pitch, it’s Stephy by a country mile. Not having KDH running about 15k per game alongside him, giving him constant support and options, has exposed his limitations and revealed him to be a very one dimensional player.

Only 5 years? More like 25!

Fatawu, Reid and Stephy were all pitiful as an attacking threat.

Rowett must be braver in team selection and approach in this one.

I think people are saying it's a good point as before the game our rivals, in fact everyone, thought we'd lose. But the performance on the ball second half was criminally bad, I agree.

Even when we get a good away point at a team in the race for autos it somehow feels totally flat because we've now gone an unimaginable 30 games without a clean sheet and are still in the relegation zone. Plus our quality on the ball in the second half was National League level. Not at all confident we'll win either of the 2 home games coming up. The confidence and quality just isn't there.

Don't do it to yourself. Best to expect that we'll be 1 down within 10-15 minutes.

I'm already losing faith in him after last Saturday and given today's team selection. He's not going to save us from oblivion. Tbh, not sure if anyone could manage that.

Being optimistic, I'm thinking we'll be 2-0 down after 60 minutes, at which point Rowett will bring on Ayew for Reid as part of the club's never ending drive to troll the fans to the maximum level.

There's no way anyone in the club even considered the possibility of getting relegated to L1 when those contracts were agreed. Top is probably still thinking we can sneak into the play offs this season.

Given how bad Stephy is, I'd think about a Boro style 4222 formation, with Skipp and Winks behind Mukasa and James and then Fatawu playing a more central role up top with Daka, along the lines of how Boro play Morgan Whitaker. The problem is that we don't have full backs with the energy and pace to provide attacking threat out wide, so it probably wouldn't work either!

Looks like he's writing this off and saving the better players for the 2 home games next week.

Have no idea how they're so high in the table from what I've seen of them. They're nailed on for a 2-0 win at the KP in a couple of weeks of course.

We are now effectively bottom then. Shocking.

When you asked this before our visit to Ashton Gate in December, I said: "Hi, mate. This is how things are from our perspective. Essentially, we've been garbage all season apart from the odd wonder goal, the occasional 30 minutes of good play and Jordan James. Our fanbase detest most of our players and many of those players hardly give a sh1t, despite being paid obscene wages that they don't deserve. Oh, and despite raising about £400m in transfer sales over the past 7 or 8 years, we're in such massive trouble with PSR that we're going to get a points deduction and can't afford to sign any players. But other than that, it's all going swimmingly." Things have since got even worse.

You do realise that we've kept 1 clean sheet away from home in the league since beating Preston to secure the Championship title in April 2024? And that was against a poor Charlton team, mainly on the back of a great performance by Jakub, whose form has more recently fallen off cliff, like the rest of the team's. It's a near certainty that we'll need to score 2, or most likely 3 or 4, to win and that is hugely unlikely against the team with the best home defensive record in the Championship this season.

Have you dispensed with a keeper or are we fielding 12 men? Hopefully, the latter so we can at least keep the score down a bit.

Think Rowett will go for a 541 packed with defensive minded players and then we'll concede in the first 2 minutes.