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SwanLane

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I don’t think Sky were indulging them. They were thinking about money. Increasing ad revenue etc. Trying out a new format for other potential matches with celebrity owners. For me, it was unwatchable but I’d be interested to see the viewing figures for it compared with the regular coverage.
 
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Warwickhunt

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SwanLane said:
I don’t think Sky were indulging them. They were thinking about money. Increasing ad revenue etc. Trying out a new format for other potential matches with celebrity owners. For me, it was unwatchable but I’d be interested to see the viewing figures for it compared with the regular coverage.
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I lasted 20 seconds before switching over
 
baldy

baldy

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SwanLane said:
I don’t think Sky were indulging them. They were thinking about money. Increasing ad revenue etc. Trying out a new format for other potential matches with celebrity owners. For me, it was unwatchable but I’d be interested to see the viewing figures for it compared with the regular coverage.
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I hope to god they don't go down that 'celebrity commentary' route - it'd be horrific to hear
 
covcity4life

covcity4life

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I just fast forwarded through it now. I'm not that bothered. Can see why sky did it and tbh Ryan Reynolds has always been very likeable. I mean he's fucking van wilder for crying out loud.

Had it been tom Brady i might have thought different
 
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jto123

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covcity4life said:
I just fast forwarded through it now. I'm not that bothered. Can see why sky did it and tbh Ryan Reynolds has always been very likeable. I mean he's fucking van wilder for crying out loud.

Had it been tom Brady i might have thought different
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Thing once you allow this, where is it going to stop? No other team has had this.
 
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CovRes

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covcity4life said:
I just fast forwarded thought it now. I'm not that bothered. Can see why sky did it and tbh Ryan Reynolds has always been very likeable. I mean he's fucking van wilder for crying out loud.

Had it been tom Brady i might have thought different
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Brady would have made constant and irrelevant references to himself, the NFL and the super bowl.

The other Tom would have been mentioning synergies, shareholder value, the sports quarter, etc.
 
Brighton Sky Blue

Brighton Sky Blue

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Think a good 20 years ago now Sky experimented with getting two fans to do commentary on the games which you could watch instead of the main comms. That I’d be interested in perhaps, but wanking off Ryan Reynolds and Wrexham is all this was about.
 
SBAndy

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Grendel said:
Apollo global are worth £800 billion and will fund ambition in the premiership
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Not saying they wouldn’t do it, but they’d legit have to buy 22 players if they got promoted. Pretty much Moore, O’Brien and possibly Hyam that could hold their own in the PL.
 
Ricketts

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Shannerz said:
""Following a week of frustration regarding officiating, I am incensed by the timing, process and outcome regarding this incident," said Ipswich chairman Mark Ashton."
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What he meant to say was “Following a season of being given every decision suddenly we’re treated like Coventry”
 
Ipad Boro

Ipad Boro

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robbiethemole said:
Lots on your board convincing themselves you're still the best team in the League!! Reality is a real bitch.
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Don't know who these lads are, but suspect they're of the empty vessels shout the loudest clueless minority. We may play the best football to.watch, but we're not the best team in the league. The table tells it's own story and any of our fans with sense know we're not catching you from here.
Given that we're still the best placed side to do so right now, that's practically saying you'll be up top when the season ends.



In truth, I'm bricking it today.

There's the old Hoodoo of course, but hard stats bear it out as well that have nothing to do with any hocus pocus, and everything to do with preparation time. It also correlates with our other "off the boil" period too.

For the majority of games recently we've had less time to prepare than most of our opponents which will certainly be a big factor in the whole oft-quoted mantra of "credit to X, they had a game plan and they executed it well" after disappointing results. Of course the fact that they had longer to perfect it whilst we were still concentrating on another game previously and running our ar$es off during that will have been a big help to them?

Here's a list of our recent fixtures with each sides days of preparation after them and the team highlighted in bold who had longer to prepare. I've started at the start of what most will agree has been our stuttering period, after our 6 game winning run (when coincidentally we usually had about even time to prepare as our opponents);

COVENTRY 9 vs Middlesbrough 7 (2 days)
Middlesbrough 5 v OXFORD 11 (6 days!)
Middlesbrough 3 v Leicester 3 (None)
Birmingham 5 v MIDDLESBROUGH 6 (1 day)
QPR 8 v Middlesbrough 6 (2 days)
Middlesbrough 3 v CHARLTON 4 (1 day)
Middlesbrough 3 v BRISTOL CITY 4 (1 day)

Overall, from the 7 games, we've had longer to prepare in ONE game, against Brum which perhaps not coincidentally was when Hellberg had time to come up with a slightly different system, drill and implement it into the players and take Birmingham by surprise.

In ONE game (Leicester) both sides had equalise time to prepare.

In the other FIVE games, our opponents always had longer to prepare and with the exception of QPR, ALL were games in which the adage of "credit to X, they had worked out a gameplan and stuck to it well" can be trotted out, which is also expected of Bristol City today. Almost always it was practicing the low block in relation to our own players, the only exception being Cov, who have the players to do otherwise, unlike the majority of other opponents.

With arguably our 2 crappest most unexpected results (I don't count Cov in this as they're a huge force at home, so the result was much less unexpected than Charlton say) they had another third of the time and over twice as long to prepare respectively, which coincides with the biggest ratios of the lot, unfortunately echoed with Bristol City today, so we'll have to be at our very best.

From these 7 games, as a cumulative total, our opponents have had 11 more days to prepare for our games than we have?
Blame Sky!!

Also for this reason, a win today would be huge. There's finally defeating the Hoodoo of course, but also doing so against these statistical odds. Beat this shithousing lot and we'll truly believe again that we can get out of this league, rather than us havign a third of a chance, along with Millwall and Ipswich (not favourable odds)

Thankfully after today at least, this $hitty trend is reset, with us finally having the same amount of days to prepare against ALL our remaining opponents, with the one exception of Ipswich, who due to fixture pile up have 4 days from their last fixture, compared to our 7. Which in theory gives us a clean slate for the last 8 games, even an advantage over the Tractors, which we'll gladly take, given their deeper squad.

Sorry about the wall of text, but meh, you're used to it by now🤣
 
Ipad Boro

Ipad Boro

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Sky Blue Harry H said:
They are awful. I sent my down in the dumps Leicester supporting mate (apologies to fellow City fans) that they would comfortably beat Bristol City, whose defence is injury ravaged, and they look totally deflated at the moment. You'll beat them by a minimum of 2 goals.
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Told you. Despite this... Screenshot_20260314_145454_Samsung Internet.jpg
Last shot of 6 minutes added on, despite there being hardly any stoppage, bang, 1-1 and thereby bringing to an end the stat that we win every game we score first in. And will probably result in us being out of the top 2 for only the 3rd game week this season.

Hoodoo fulfilled.

At least that's the last of those 4 shitty games out of the way. The remaining 8 we actually have a chance of winning, wish we could play Millwall and Ipswich next to restore confidence.👍
 
Ccfcisparks

Ccfcisparks

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Ipad Boro said:
Told you. Despite this...View attachment 49925
Last shot of 6 minutes added on, despite there being hardly any stoppage, bang, 1-1 and thereby bringing to an end the stat that we win every game we score first in. And will probably result in us being out of the top 2 for only the 3rd game week this season.

Hoodoo fulfilled.

At least that's the last of those 4 shitty games out of the way. The remaining 8 we actually have a chance of winning, wish we could play Millwall and Ipswich next to restore confidence.👍
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I think you are looking similar to how Sunderland did and tumbling into the playoffs. Hopefully you have the same outcome as them!
 
Ipad Boro

Ipad Boro

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Ccfcisparks said:
I think you are looking similar to how Sunderland did and tumbling into the playoffs. Hopefully you have the same outcome as them!
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Hopefully, but another Hoodoo is Wembley?🤣
We haven't won there in 5 visits, lost every time. We had a feeling we were going to win the league cup in 2004 precisely because Wembley was getting renovated, so the final was moved to the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff?
As soon as that was announced we kind of knew it would be our year!🤣

Therefore still hoping to do it through the autos as we have more chance of doing it there than at that cursed ground.
If someone offered me the option of EITHER we miss out on autos, but are fast forwarded to the one off playoff final and we have to win that against the weakest of the sides in the mix OR play the season out but if we don't get autos, we don't get let in the playoffs and our position given to the side in 7th.... I'd take the second option every time!🤣

And there's no more Hoodoos left in the regular season so bring it on as we get a fair crack of the whip🤣
 
DT-R

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Ipad Boro said:
Hopefully, but another Hoodoo is Wembley?
We haven't won there in 5 visits, lost every time. We had a feeling we were going to win the league cup in 2004 precisely because Wembley was getting renovated, so the final was moved to the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff?
As soon as that was announced we kind of knew it would be our year!

Therefore still hoping to do it through the autos as we have more chance of doing it there than at that cursed ground.
If someone offered me the option of EITHER we miss out on autos, but are fast forwarded to the one off playoff final and we have to win that against the weakest of the sides in the mix OR play the season out but if we don't get autos, we don't get let in the playoffs and our position given to the side in 7th.... I'd take the second option every time!

And there's no more Hoodoos left in the regular season so bring it on as we get a fair crack of the whip
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Boro fans seem to think they have a lot of "hoodoos". Maybe, hear me out here, have you thought that maybe youre just not that good?

Only joking. Though at this rate, I can really see you bottling this season.

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Danceswithhorses

Danceswithhorses

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SkyBlue_Bear83 said:
1 match or 3 match ban?
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Not dangerous...pulled down Wallace going through on goal, so presumably 1 match ?
Awful control by Hughes to lose the ball, then tugged Wallace back, as he ran passed him.
He isn't looking a £5m player, let alone more than £10m.
WBA by far the better team and should be more than 1-0 up...even before the red card.
 
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