Bristol City (h) pre-match thread

[mosssideblue]

Echoing what was said earlier, the ticket sales for this are a joke. I think personally they should have priced it the same as Burnley at £10. But its a semi-final of the cup. How can people not want to turn up and watch what is being produced for us. It is the stuff of dreams and i for one feel like its the least i can do, is turn up and applaud what they are doing.

Perhaps fans have other commitments or priorities.

 

[mekonmcfc]

Perhaps fans have other commitments or priorities.

Maybe all 20k of them have, but i bet they'll be after a wembley ticket if we get there

 

[Silvas' left eyebrow]

Now that we are within touching distance of Pep's first trophy at City, I would play the strongest team with the exception of Bravo as he has won us two penalty shootouts. Try and get the tie won in the first leg and then we can rest the big guns in the second leg.

Bravo
Walker Stones Otamendi Delph
Fernandinho
Sterling KDB Silva Sané
Aguero

Honestly just play best side . Drop Bravo he is inferior to Edderson in every department. If you want to give him games he can have last 10 in league.
Don't get this resting goalies thing. They should and can be one ever present on sheet.

 

[Silvas' left eyebrow]

Perhaps fans have other commitments or priorities.

Like getting home before 2 am on a work night . So they have money to pay bills. Not have to endure the blue car park hell......read more trams thread.
I will watch it on tv and be in bed 10 mins later. Yes we are going to Wembley. Already booked trains etc.

 

[Silvas' left eyebrow]

Maybe all 20k of them have, but i bet they'll be after a wembley ticket if we get there

There will be enough for anyone who wants to go.

 

[mekonmcfc]

There will be enough for anyone who wants to go.

That's not really the point, just wish more would go tomorrow, but what can we do

 

[TonyM]

Should this game be a higher priority that Liverpool. Losing to Liverpool isn't the end of the world. It's not like they are a direct competitor.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Minus the risk of injuries, a weak team is a false economy.

A close to full strength side has the opportunity to kill the tie tomorrow. A weakened team will still likely win but will more likely have to work harder across both legs.

Go big-ish, get it won comfortably and give key players a rest in the 2nd leg.

Spot on

 

[GX Blue]

We will get a lot of online and press abuse for our poor attendance from other teams fans about this fixture.
It is a semi-final and with it being the only game on Sky and the Bristol City story continuing, a fair few will tune in to this game and they will see a lot of empty seats.
It will just add to our reputation which I thought we had started to shrug off as we do sell out most home games.

It doesn't bother me though what other fans say/think.

We will always have something 'negative' said against us by opposing fans so if empty seats is what we get abuse for well then it’s a lot better than having a rubbish team on the pitch.
Shame though, for a semi-final our fans aren’t really interested in making the effort. We all know if it was against Utd or Liverpool it would be a full house.

 

[SiMCFC]

Go as strong as possible, I personally couldn't care less about Liverpool, a good win tommorow will give us enough of a buzz to go there and perform anyway, second leg hopefully a dead rubber then and we can rest.

Wish I could go tommorow but it's a 2 hour round trip for me now (before the traffic makes it even worse) when you have to be up for work at 4am it's a bit shit, i've knocked all midweek games on the head because of it, if I knew I could get from where I park to the motorway in 10 mins like I used to it would be great but i'm normally parked on Ashton Old Road for an hour after the match