It may not have seemed obvious at the time but Tuesday’s open training session was a whole new experience for Kal Naismith. He’s encountered Bristol City fans before at Bournemouth and Hull City, he’s of course taken to the field at Ashton Gate previously with Luton Town and Wigan Athletic, but until then he’d never actually stepped foot in the home dressing room.
The early start to the Championship campaign due to the World Cup in Qatar and Elton John’s two concerts in BS3 in June meant that the Robins summer schedule had to be conducted away from their home stadium, in Bad Radkersburg, at the High Performance Centre, Plymouth Argyle's Home Park and Bournemouth's Vitality Stadium.
Naismith signed on May 27 but his promotional work was undertaken - infamously so - on the Ashton Gate roof and at Failand and, 10 weeks on, he finally got to have a taste of a room that will become hugely important over the next nine months and beyond.
