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Actress Anita Page was a Hollywood superstar at the end of the 1920's. She would receive 10,000 peices of fan mail every week including 100 letters a week from an Italian fan by the name of Benito Mussolini.
Ashby is 23 but he has only played 24 league games, and a handful of cup games, in the past four and a half years. Managers and coaches are forever telling us that players need games as we have seen with a couple of summer signings.
Everyone gave the ball away today not just Ashby, Varane did many times. He made a couple of good tackles today, tries to get us forward and gives it his all.
I am not saying he is a good player, I respect the views of those watching the games live, but the criticism on here is a bit OTT. Marti plays him when there are other options available.
Very interesting point about moving the wall forward if the ball is moved back. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a rule for that.
Moving the ball back today gave City an advantage, the rule is ten yards for the wall from the ball then we should have moved. Hopefully we can ask a Ref one day. Clive, I believe David Coote has some free time.
I can't explain 19 touches in 95 minutes, one of those strange anomalies I suppose plus the fact we were on the back foot most of the time. Does the 19 touches include blocks? I would be surprised if it did.
So despite the heavy criticism of the performance, the merciless criticism of the likes of Ashby and Andersen the boys earned a point.
Bristol City are no Oxford United. They have, by our standards, assembled an expensive squad and have an excellent home record. We restricted them to a goal from a free kick, scored ourselves on the break and at the end looked as likely to score a winner as they did.
Overall of course we didn't play well, sat too deep, but every player was guilty of giving the ball away, not just Ashby, but despite obvious tiredness we hung on in there for the point. You never know, if we could take a decent corner we might even have got the win.
Well done lads and well done Paul Smythe for the tidy finish. I will be honest, I was fully expecting the ball to roll a foot wide of the post!
Half time and 0-0, excellent. For all their possession City have only created a couple of decent chances. A few boos from the City fans as the half time whistle blew.
Marti will make changes, Morgan will be on soon I would imagine. Continue to restrict their chances and hopefully catch them on the break or with a rare set piece.
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