Bristol City boss Derek McInnes won't rush to make loan signings

“Oh dear,

First, I wont mention how poor Fontaine was again as its now clear for everyone to see. Sadly ,it seems I was right from the start but I wont gloat about that fact as my team is suffering.

Secondly, RoyalJoe (Alf,Bob whoever you are this week), get a grip keyboard warrior and take yourself off down the M4 to watch Reading matches as you seem to allifiate yourself with them. Clown.

Thirdly,Pilkington, resorting to cheap smutty remarks and talk of computer games adds nothing to your usual empty posts. Just for future reference, Its always easy to comment, like you always do, with the benefit of hindsight as any imbcecile can do that but you are never able to provide any foresight into our games or tactics or indeed the future of the club. I provide much more support to this club than you ever will as you never attend matches.

Fourthly, Oldbristolian, "free scoring top half team". Well not anymore and that was my point. Just for clarity, my grievance (if you like) is that I have never rated Fonts that highly and I dont feel he is the man to lead the team and im being proven right at the moment. Whilst i accept, we havent found the right defender (for whatever reason as you point out) this problem isnt a new one. Caulker papered ver the cracks for a season as did McManus and Bikey last season but im a firm believer in having a solid defence and, if we are to be a free flowing attacking side then the midfield and striker force must have the trust in their defensive counterparts in order to have the confidence to push forward more and more. A solid defence and great attack compliment each other and, we have one so its very frustrasting that we are not doing, perhaps what we could, to get this sorted as i feel we are in a position now to have a very good season.

Finally, hello R/p, hope all is well? Of course, you have always know what im like (and i tend to "drop things in" for reactions) but im even worse on this board as there are a few annoying characters on here who just want to argue and bicker wth me and are not able to engage in intelligent football discussion (most of which is the same person under a different user name). Obviously, not all though as a number provide interesting dicussions (such as Piledriver, RFM, RedNem, Andyandy etc) for which i dont always agree, but respect nonetheless. We have started well this season but i dont want to see that good work undone by the obvious flaws in our side not being addressed time and time again. As we have tried most things maybe we should use Mark Wilson (or Carey) and Nyatanga in the middle. Whilst Wilson isnt that tall i think he could do a leaders job in the absence of anyone else and lets face it, Fonts is so poor in the air that it wont make a big difference.”

“torriebris

...Mmmm! Interesting point of view! And so well expressed!”

“BinRelegated as Pilkington rightly says we are doing well in a difficult league. Remember the teams being relegated have experienced players on contracts together with the advantage of parachute payments and in certain cases wealthy owners who are prepared to gamble on their return to the premiership just like Westham did. Steve Lansdown is a wealthy man and he may well be prepared to gamble on our future but he hasn't seen any return from his investment to date has he ! Goals don't just get teams out of this league they also keep us in it ! We needed a positive start this season scoring goals and teams who score goals attract quality players. We were fortunate to have the services of Steven Caulker and Danny Rose quality attacking defenders who now are furthering their careers in the top flight but that has failed to lure other promising defenders to come to Bristol for whatever reason. However out of favour goal scoring premiership players are prepared to drop a league gain confidence in the free scoring championship. It is frustrating seeing schoolboy errors when defending but I for one refuse to belittle our leader and our playing staff in order to satisfy frustration. Lets get behind the positives and if you still feel frustration be positive about what we got, a free scoring top half team who find it difficult when dealing with basic defending skills which i'm sure wont last forever.”

“You bunch of small mind ****in loosers, support the team or **** off.

You bore the **** out of me.

Get on side and stop *****in!”

“It is funny you should say you have "absolutely no interest" in the goings on at Huish Park because on 21st September you told me:
"At least GJ si (SIC) doing well for a west country side.... !"

Proof that you are, once again, fibbing.

As for McInnes being "your man", I think his wife would beg to differ, and so would Derek !

I am sure you find it simple to just go out and buy new players on your computer game Chris, but in the reality of professional football, it is a lot more complex than you can imagine.
It costs money, and we are talking real money here Chris, not the made up figures you read on your computer game.

How about you get stop moaning for once and lend your support to the manager and the group of players he has chosen to represent our football club.
He is a paid professional and much better equipped than the likes of you to judge how to drive this club forward, whilst not jeopardising its long-term future.”

“I've had many a run-in with BinR on a previous forum and yes his sometimes sanctimonious comments get on everyone's nerves.
However his comments this morning taking OldBristolian to task, particularly
'To be a succesful team you have to have a solid defence. The first rule of footbal is that if you dont concede then you cant lose. The second is to score goals! You talk of confidence but if we continue to lose matches by giving away cheap and easy goals then that confidence will soon drain away' is absolutely spot on.
In fact OldBristolian's comment 'Teams should be concentrating on their defence when they play us because we now look like we will score ' beggars belief.
Frankly you should give BinR red arrows for what he comments not how he comes across.”

“Glenn------Of late you have been brilliant and stopped the bullying of young Bin Red Rated
but the time has come to give him a good slapping. This should keep him off these pages for while and allow the good comments of Pilkington and others to get through.”

“Our start to the season (9 games & 11 points) has been average.It's much better than the disastorous starts we made in the two previous seasons and we are in 14th position having picked up one point from the last nine at home so confidence amongst the players and fans isn't that high.

If survival is our goal as opposed to what, IMHO, it should be, a minimum fall back position, then we're on track.Whilst survival is vital, it shouldn't be an objective in itself.

If we go on the same way over the next 37 games, we'll finish on 56 points which is survival, no more.

No one is panicing, however we've needed a commanding centre back for a year and missed out on around 4/5 players which is disappointing whilst not being the end of the World.

As I said previously, the left back situation isn't something anyone can control and just rotten bad luck.

Hopefully, injuries permitting, we'll have at least the RCB in after the International break.”

“Says Pilkington, the man who never attends matches and just usually voices against the management and the board. Glad to see you like my man McInnes though, very funny!

I don't think anyone is panicing but it's clear, to those who attend matches, that all we need is may be one player to make our defence a substantially better one. Of course, with a better defence we can push on with what is now a decent strike force and midfield. This should not be a hard thing to achieve given, as RFM rightly states, it's not a new problem.

If my crime is wanting better for my team then I'm guilty of that Raymond dear Chap as I don't want us to remain a backwater under achieving club for time immemorial and neither does McInnes or Landowne. I want progress and I believe that we should not waste such an opportunity so why don't you get on board with us forward thinking types for a change?

Andyandy, spot on with that comment but it generally takes a few of them on here a year or so to catch on to whats really happening at the club.

I have no interest in Yeovil, but most of us City fans are largely laughing at our nearest and dearest rivals demise and, if you were a true fan of the City, may be you would be too.

Mind the Gap!”

“Well said OldBristolian - we have made a decent start to the new campaign, and fans have never had it so good in terms of entertaining matches, of which we have won a few and lost a few.

This is now a time for cool-heads and patience.
In my opinion, when the going gets tough, we have the best supporters in the country, save for the odd moaning Minnie.
The majority of fans will unite behind this manager and his team.

It is no wonder things are a little jittery back there.
Rarely have we been able to name a settled back-four for any length of time this season.
Add to that the rank bad luck of severe injuries at left-back, and constant criticism of one-or-two individuals by our moaning Minnie !

We should not sacrifice our current attacking intent.
That will only serve to heap yet more pressure on the defence.

Overall we are doing well in a very difficult league – remember we are ahead of some fancied clubs like Forest, Bolton, Birmingham, Charlton and Ipswich.

It could be worse – imagine being a Yeovil fan at the moment.
Six defeats on the spin....”