Bristol City: Derek McInnes hails 'total determination' in draw against West Ham

“SURELY- Once City secure their championship future,the fact it was secured without Maynard's input,should be welcomed.Because if he had not been off loaded for 1.65 million in January,City would now be looking at receiving zilch for his departure.Also he has not exactly set West Ham alight since his arrival, and may well be looking for another club in the near future.”

“by gdknac
by RedNemesis1

City fans would have welcomed him back had he simply been honest.

The whole Maynard fiasco was bungled by an incompetent board that the owner had pained into a corner.It's daft to say that Maynard wouldn't be sold to an NPC club-Really, so had Leicester offered £20m would that rule have applied?

It wasn't his departure it was the manner of it, his lack of gratitude to a club that nursed him back to health from a daft injury that he allowed to worsen and his comments about City Fans (Unsubstantiated allegations)

None of the yes men would have had the guts to answer back to SL.

As soon as Maynard didn't sign the contract he should have been transfer listed and the final Leicester bid of £6.5m should have been accepted rather than selling at a £5m loss six months later.

This is exactly what Peterborough have done with Mackhal Smith & now , Boyd.Pure common sense.

What if he didn't agree?

Sweeten the deal by paying him £500k on top of what Leicester offered him-Simple.”

“Quite agreed with RedNemesis1
That had to be the most hostile reception I have ever heard for a former player.
I cant condone the verbal attack on his son (being Bristolian) family should be left out of it, but his comments towards the Bristol public natuarlly would stir up such a response.
Shame really- City are normally quite generous to ex players. Matt Hill most of all, and Chris Iwelumo gets a good reception and he was only on loan-
Ian Holloway despite his gas connections now gets a welcome-Maynard,I think, will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.”

“Really very well said OB. Nicky was a good player for us but not a great player .....perhaps warming the bench for West Ham will allow him to come to terms with some humility. His comments regarding guaranteed Premiership also seem a little unsafe now.I can't remember a striker leaving us or the gas for that matter in such bad taste.”

“It was a big game with big expectations and none less than Nicky Maynard's return to Ashton Gate. The player who was given a massive chance to prove himself as a quality striker following his broken leg whilst playing for Crewe. He was greeted with a true Bristolian welcome following his comments about his time in the west country. He even convinced the Westham Captain to change ends following the toss with profound knowledge that the Atayeo would be less effective in the second half! Big Sam must be feeling that his controversial January signing is not the player he thought he was investing into ! Maynard eventually went down with cramp or food poisoning or even ecoli what ever his injury was it took a second substitution board to convince Maynard his time was up. Perhaps the encouragement from the massive Bristol crowd reminded Maynard that at least his son was a true bristolian and not born under the Bow Bells. When will agents convince themselves that promising players under their care need more time learning their trade before exposing themselves as also rans in big game scenario. Such a shame because it would be nice to say that Nicky Maynard once played for Bristol City Just like we say about Andy Cole.....”

“PILEDRIVER-Reports- Andrew Naish claims it was the worst incident since Heysel and Hillsborough i do not know who Andrew Naish is but he knows very little about incidents at football matches.This is far from the worst incident to happen in the Dolman stand,Portsmouth first match of 1992 season, pitched battle between large numbers of City and Portsmouth fans,which i found myself in the middle off whilst protecting my young lad,threw several punches myself ,Sheffield Utd same scenario,Millwall seats tore up and thrown between the two sets of fans/thugs my uncle was injured in that incident.So this chap is talking out of his backside.

Back to the football ,just one more win and we will have survived,something before easter i thought was beyond them,but having been at Birmingham and witnessed that first half football performance,because it was damn good,i had every confidence they would get a result against West Ham,so no slip up's and a job well done.”

“"Earlier, Andrew Naish told the jury it was the worst incident he had seen since the Heysel Stadium or Hillsborough football crowd tragedies."

This is probably the worst piece of ill informed exaggeration I've ever read in my entire life.One fan who had illegally & knowingly infiltrated a stand in which he had no business to be and was assaulted.Assaulted, not greivously, no broken bones, not murdered, stabbed-So it was a minor assault that would probably go unmentioned in Plymouth or Bristol Town Centre....very possibly unprosecuted.

"It was the only way I could get a ticket"

Oh, so you knew full well that you were out of order when you and members of your family purchase tickets under false pretences.You should be fined and banned

Compared, moronicaly to the deaths of Italian Fans in a crumbling, incompetentently selected Belgian Stadium-What utter drivel and, once again, The EP does not allow comment-Why-Appalling censorship!!

I don't condone what happened but we all to take responsibility for our own behaviour and if a game is all ticket and if you can't get one, you can't go!

And after a shaky, unconvincing start-well done to Del and the boys, onlu just but I'd have settled with being five points ahead with two left to play two games ago.”

“Well done Derek and squad.

Don't spoil it all this Saturday though as we want to celebrate on Saturday.

COYRs”

“You could certainly feel the fear for the first 28 minutes, from the team and the crowd, but after Skuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuussse's goal that changed!”