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Of course we wouldn't really have given a jot if we'd have come second, but we won the league and so obviously we do I've no doubt Brighton's promotion is a bigger event and overall achievement. We're just enjoying our special day! Gutted for Brighton tbh.

I don't actually understand where Parksey's post came from. Was it about "Brighton really being the new Southampton" (blatant joke about Southampton being slight bottlers) or did you just misread DML's post about Brighton's achievement being bigger? Just seems like a dig out of nowhere.

Anyway, a couple of pictures from Saturday. The first one my dad took of Mini E and myself. The second is just a really cool one I found.

Read an interesting point of view regarding something that happened at the weekend.

So Bristol City had essentially nothing to play for, and were losing 1-0 at home to Birmingham, who needed the win to stay up at the expense of Blackburn. City's goalkeeper goes up for a corner at the end of the game, and the person was arguing that this is really bad sportsmanship, as literally the only reason to send him up would be to try to relegate Birmingham, and not to gain City anything other than a fairly meaningless point.

Thoughts?

My thoughts are I wish he'd scored as I wanted Birmingham to go down (like most others in here)

You don't play in a match to lose it - I don't find it poor sportsmanship for a team to do everything they can to get out of a losing position regardless of the situation of the other team.

It's bad sportsmanship to simply let that team win, or to knowingly weaken your team beyond the point of being able to reasonably challenge for a match - as per Huddersfield last week - because then it artificially elevates the position of the team who wins the match, at the expense of the teams around them.

My two cents.

It's still a competitive game that people want to win.

Everyone gave Huddersfield gooseberry fool for making 10 changes when they knew they couldn't go up automatically, should teams really not try to win or at least draw once their league position is settled?

Yeah I agree, his issue is that you wouldn't normally send your goalkeeper up unless it was a cup tie or you had the league title/relegation/playoffs or whatever hinging on the result.

Dangerblade wrote:City's goalkeeper goes up for a corner at the end of the game, and the person was arguing that this is really bad sportsmanship, as literally the only reason to send him up would be to try to relegate Birmingham, and not to gain City anything other than a fairly meaningless point.

Thoughts?

Birmingham are irrelevent in this. It's Bristol City not wanting to lose a match.

Pretty gutted about yesterday but I can console myself with the fact that we'll be playing too flight football next season, which is a pretty glorious feeling. I think it's more the manner of how it happened which annoyed me. A goal up, a man up, and still conceded a hash of a goal like that.

It would have been nice for the season to have been about us winning the title after last year's heartbreak but that's football. I'll settle for being the 'other' team to win automatic promotion.

Dangerblade wrote:Yeah I agree, his issue is that you wouldn't normally send your goalkeeper up unless it was a cup tie or you had the league title/relegation/playoffs or whatever hinging on the result.

Lee Johnson was too scared of Glowy's reaction and so was desperate to send Brum down.

Considering the ref blew up a minute early and didn't book the Birmingham keeper for time wasting until stoppage time, even though he had been doing it for the majority of the second half, I don't think anyone could complain about the Bristol City keeper going up for a corner.

Welcome back Parksey. The football thread hardly knew ye.

Dangerblade wrote:Yeah I agree, his issue is that you wouldn't normally send your goalkeeper up unless it was a cup tie or you had the league title/relegation/playoffs or whatever hinging on the result.

Frank Fielding was a Blackburn player prior to moving to BCFC, for what it's worth. He's from Blackburn, and apparently still cares about the club.

Moggy wrote:

Dangerblade wrote:Yeah I agree, his issue is that you wouldn't normally send your goalkeeper up unless it was a cup tie or you had the league title/relegation/playoffs or whatever hinging on the result.

Lee Johnson was too scared of Glowy's reaction and so was desperate to send Brum down.

Normally you wouldn't send a keeper up as goal difference could be important, a 2-0 loss could be significantly worse than a 1-0. At that point in the season Bristol City knew they were safe and goal difference was irrelevant, so why not try to salvage a draw? They had more reason to try than to not try.

Good luck to Forest Green today, let's get another westcountry side into the Football League.

Congrats to Forest Green!

Oh Blackpool... Helluva game but the number of empty seats...

Edit: Ahh it's a boycott that most fans have kept to. Fair enough.

Luton are dirty.

KPMG and Deloitte have been called in to sort us out, rumour is that a takeover is imminent as Venkys just got raided by Indian tax officers. Allegedly a Chinese consortium or Red Bull(we could be RB BRFC, or even just Rovers Blackburn ). I think it's much more likely that we're being prepared for administration and a final asset strip before being wound up.

Red Bull Rovers!

Just think how amazing you will be along the wings.

FAWAZ IS GONE!!!!!!!!!