Leeds v Bristol City

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

How did Leicester’s squad look this season by comparison to last? Did they keep their best players? I know they lost their manager.

---

Dewsbury-Hall went to Chelsea.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

Leeds’ 0-0 draw with Burnley was a poor game, but I’ve watched them on plenty of other occasions this season and they’ve always been entertaining.

I’ve seen Bristol City on four or five occasions and they’ve looked garbage every time. But in fairness, so has most of the division.

---

Bristol City are considerably better than us though, with faster, stronger players able to counter attack quickly. But one of the possible unintended consequences of the increasing gap between the PL and the Championship is that Championship clubs with 'ambition' seem to be building squads for the play offs, not promotion, the reasoning being I presume that the cost of putting together squads to compete with the likes of Burnley, Sheff. Utd and Leeds would be prohibitive and also high risk. Hence a pack of 6 or 7 clubs going into the final game[s] still with a chance of a play off place.

Interestingly, 2 clubs have a league record fractionally above 'par' ie, have won 1 game more than they have lost.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish

Bristol City are considerably better than us though, with faster, stronger players able to counter attack quickly. But one of the possible unintended consequences of the increasing gap between the PL and the Championship is that Championship clubs with 'ambition' seem to be building squads for the play offs, not promotion, the reasoning being I presume that the cost of putting together squads to compete with the likes of Burnley, Sheff. Utd and Leeds would be prohibitive and also high risk. Hence a pack of 6 or 7 clubs going into the final game[s] still with a chance of a play off place.

Interestingly, 2 clubs have a league record fractionally above 'par' ie, have won 1 game more than they have lost.

---

We were as good as the wurzels in our two games against them and I'd say two draws was a fair outcome. However, when you dig a bit deeper, the difference between the two squads becomes clear. Bristol haven't been blowing sides away this season (they beat Plymouth 4-0 and Portsmouth 3-0), but when it comes to finding rhe second goal that secures a win in .tight matches, they blow us out of the water. They're used to winning tight games, while there's no one worse in the division than us at doing that.

You talk about strength, I'd say physically they have a bit more of it than us, but there's not much in it - mentally rhough, they've got us beaten, but then everyone in the Championship has. We were weak mentally back on the first day of the season in August and we've got worse since then.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

We were as good as the wurzels in our two games against them and I'd say two draws was a fair outcome. However, when you dig a bit deeper, the difference between the two squads becomes clear. Bristol haven't been blowing sides away this season (they beat Plymouth 4-0 and Portsmouth 3-0), but when it comes to finding rhe second goal that secures a win in .tight matches, they blow us out of the water. They're used to winning tight games, while there's no one worse in the division than us at doing that.

You talk about strength, I'd say physically they have a bit more of it than us, but there's not much in it - mentally rhough, they've got us beaten, but then everyone in the Championship has. We were weak mentally back on the first day of the season in August and we've got worse since then.

---

Well we beat Plymouth 5 0 so take that wurzels!

Wasn't one of the Bristol games an early Riza special where we played well, should have been a few goals ahead and then he made a bunch of defensive subs and we were lucky to hold on? Or have I totally imagined that up...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LA Bluebird

Wasn't one of the Bristol games an early Riza special where we played well, should have been a few goals ahead and then he made a bunch of defensive subs and we were lucky to hold on? Or have I totally imagined that up...

---

one of his first games.
nondescript first half, then the game started opening up and Colwill was running the show.
we scored and then it went a bit end to end and a few of our players were looking a bit leggy- so I can understand making the subs and trying to be a bit more robust, but it completely backfired and handed all momentum to Bristol