The Championship's top comedy club start yet another campaign of a prospective return to the Premier League (that will no doubt fall apart in the new year) in the first of their approximately 1,000,000 games on TV this season.
Marcelo Bielsa's Whites hilariously imploded at home in the Championship play-off semi-final to Derby County and have unsurprisingly been installed as favourites for the title, with the arrivals of Jack Harrison, Jack Clarke and Helder Costa on loan offset by the sales of Pontus Jansson and Bailey Peacock-Farrell. Lee Johnson's Robins almost made it to the play-offs but came up short; with £33m in the bank from the sales of Lloyd Kelly and Adam Webster to PL sides and crucially none of their attacking stars sold, it could be a prosperous season for the West Country's #1 club.
Kick-off at 4:30pm UK time with coverage on Sky Sports Football from 4:00pm. Line-ups to follow shortly.
what the fuck is wrong with Bielsa would it kill him to smile
Logan Bennett
autism
Hudson Harris
Johnson is a literal midget wtf
Henry Ward
I think Costa will be the rotation option for Pablo this year, rather than them playing together regularly. It's obvious he was knackered after the Millwall game, and we clearly miss his quality when he plays shite
Sebastian Scott
is Bamford good enough to make in the PL with a team like Newcastle or Crystal Palace?
Jace Brooks
No. He can be a good Championship player at times, but only when he's playing with confidence
Jayden Martin
Kalas’s career has been so damn strange... chelsea completely throws players careers off the track when they send them into the loan army.. it’s like the purgatory of soccer/football careers
Matthew Parker
so kind of similar to Gayle? a good championship striker who just can’t cut it in the prem?
Chase Morales
Nah. Gayle is in the "too good for Championship, too bad for PL" category, whereas Bamford is slightly more mercurial. Less consistent, less physical, less clinical, form heavily dictated by confidence, etc.. Gayle underperforms in the PL, while Bamford is liable to just go missing for months at a time