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this is exactly what I saw. Thanks for posting, I thought I had gone mad what with all the "Bristol were much better and Saints were ****" ******** I'm reading on here. Some fans appear to expect us to dominate every home game from start to finish with opponents just rolling over for us because they lie somewhere lowly in the table.

I thought Bristol were one of the quietest set of fans this season, especially considering how many they brought. We matched them for work rate. The game was evenly matched full stop. Why when we lose is work rate questioned? Ever thought that perhaps it wasn't our night? Plenty of other games have gone our way and we have played worse. What was wrong with our passing? I thought we passed it well. We just didn't cross it well enough. Holmes went to right back.

I would like to have seen him save Lambert's volley. Bloody brilliant save that.

very decent game, especially in the first half, but perhaps not enough clear openings for us that our play deserved. For those that went to Bristol, they would have seen a huge improvement performance wise, we got hold of Adomah much better (Morgan especially) and we pressed them much higher up the pitch, where at Ashton Gate we just watched them run rings round us. I thought we deserved much better. Bristol had three great chances,but that was it, we dominated but just couldn't quite carve them open. I actually thought we played better than against Palace, the difference was that we couldn't find a head from the countless crosses we put. For me the only negative, result aside, was Lallana, who just looks miles from his sharpest best and should have been subbed ages before. The difference between this and several earlier wins was that bit of magic finishing. If Fox (Volley first half), or Lambert (volley second half) or Guly (volley second half) had gone in I would imagine everyone would have been more than satisfied with the display. Davis 7 two tremendous saves, one in either half, great sweeping and decent distribution. He spilled two shots that both ended up in the back of the net. I thought he should have done better with both (he made an amazing second save for the goal I must add) and in the end that was the difference between the sides. Tricky conditions, perhaps they swerved, but in the end he will be disappointed. Richardson 7 another very solid display, we just needed another of his super crosses to find a man Martin 7 very nervy start. He lost Maynard a few times during the game, although recovering well, but then again Maynard's movement was very good. Improved as the game went on. Jos 8 solid display again, very composed on the ball Fox 7 got forward a lot on the first half and actually passed it short a lot to Lallana - which he hasn't done all season. Should have dine better with the volley chance in the first half. Thought he could have got tighter to the wide man early on, but wasn't exposed by Adomah who played down the middle this time rather than out wide. Morgan 8 quieter on the ball, but his work marshalling Adomah off it was outstanding. If you haven't noticed it, the guy is quick. Shame he was booked and then made a few too many fouls as he had to be subbed. Cork had faded badly so it would have been good to take him off instead Cork 6 brilliant battling first half, but disappeared completely in the second de Ridder 9 brilliant display, ran their fullback ragged, just couldn't find a man in the second half. Lallana 4 looks unfit to me, wanted too much time and often got caught because of it, we carried him in the second half. Holmes should have come on after 60 minutes and I can't stand Holmes. Boy do we need him to get fit as without him we just lack that touch of class to unlock sides. Lambert 8 his first touch gets better every time I see him. Got hammered by their CBs so many times, but still came away with the ball time after time. Need him to get on the end of one of those crosses, but he was in the box a lot so I guess it was just one of those nights Guly 7 some terrible first touches, some subsequent great recovery tackles, some poor passes, some great hold up play. If you don't like him you'll find enough examples of why tonight, but the same applies to those that do like him. Overall I thought he did quite well. Perhaps should have scored near the end? Connelly, not on long but one lovely bit of link up play, but on a separate occasion he played one of the worst passes all night when he could have sent Steve free Holmes great first touch and another wonderful first time pass/touch that set Steve free. Hammond no time to make an impression

likewise, from the little I've seen he has a touch of class to his game.

Jamaal Lascelles from Forest would be a sound investment. Forest need to sell players this window and he is the next big thing. How about Ishmail Miller he was outstanding against us at SMS.

Owner Nigel Doughty resigned as Chairman and with it went the seemingly never ending supply of cash. They will have to sell players before anyone comes in. Unlike the skates they do have a few assets though such as Gunter, Chambers, Miller, Morgan, McGugan and Jamaal Lascelles.

I wonder if £1.2m has been set aside in readiness for the CVA in April? If it has perhaps this might be used to pay wages in the short term, with the CVA worried abut `later'.

pointless, but I just love watching skills like these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NscDh332iWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLOEF_-pp9U

Bellamey-esque

the Dutch keeper might be one of those two.

blimey, if this goes through next week then Dalek will be pleased.

fair point. They are very different type of players anyway. I have to say I thought Lucas looked pretty average at their place, but one game is never enough to judge a player. With all three we would be buying a lot of potential as they are still young.

Rhodes currently scores at a rate of 1 in 2, Lucas and Jay score one in 4.

we never really got to the bottom of the Sharp transfer collapse, but on face value it looked like he wanted more wages than we were willing to offer. His wife's pregnancy has subsequently been used as a reason for not wanting to move, but I don't think that had anything to do with it. Why chat at all of you didn't want to move. The Maynard deal never seemed to get off the ground as it appeared Bristol City wanted a sum far exceeding what we feel is right for a soon to be out of contract player. It therefore wouldn't surprise me if we spent the last 5 months scouting elsewhere. Quite happy, as I'm not a huge admirer of either. There could well be better players from abroad more reasonably priced and demanding lower wages.

seeing as we brought in de Ridder from a Dutch club and there have been links with a Dutch keeper in the press recently, how about a Dutch striker like say...Bas Dost?

hate these stories based on stats, they just tempt fate

Morgan not signed a contract as far as I recall.

with Pardew's talk of the need for a CB this puts any links to Fonte to bed.

has anyone got one of the travel vouchers? What do they give you? Are they worthwhile at the £4.50 they cost if you book using the online system which charges a rediculous £3 booking fee.

we could perhaps loan Beckford. No one is going to buy him and pay those wages, so Leicester are effectively stuck with him and I'm sure they'd be happy to lose his wages (or a large part of them) for a while - although maybe not to a promotion rival.

could be worse, one of the 5 live listeners emailed in that his mum had bought him a Derby shirt. He was a Forest fan. Her excuse was that the shops were really busy and she had got confused.

the whole day at Plymouth will live with me for the rest of my life and low and behold it has just got better and better since then.

January transfers of the three promoted clubs. Luke Moore commanded the highest fee of £850,000 QPR Petter Vaagen Moen Dan ****tu Pascal Chimbonda Norwich Leon Barnett Aaron Wilbraham Marc Tierney Swansea Luke Moore Ryan Harley Leon Britton and just for good measure... Cardiff Jon Parkin Dekel Keinan

Konchesky must be the most over paid paid player in the history of the game. He wouldn't get in my 5 a side team.