Daniel Wales with the latest West Country sport headlines, including Bristol City’s frustrating draw with ten-man Hull City.
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00:00Bristol City were held to a frustrating draw by Hull City at Ashton Gate, despite the Tigers having Jao Pedro sent off early on.
00:08Pedro had himself opened the scoring for the Tigers, before being dismissed just a minute later.
00:14Anis Mometi levelled things up from the spot after the break, but the Robins were unable to find a winner.
00:20Despite this, Bristol City are still within a victory of West Bromwich Albion, who sit within the play-off places.
00:27Assistant Head Coach Chris Hogg, who was deputising for Liam Manning for media duties, gave his thoughts on a match that the Robins will have to move on from quickly in their quest to break into the play-off places.
00:40A game where obviously people are looking at the context of it in terms of the amount of time that Hull had ten men, but it's difficult.
00:47I thought they defended the box pretty well, but for us it was just lacking that little bit of belief in key moments and frustrating not to take some of the chances.
00:56Bristol Rovers meanwhile claimed an important three points over play-off chasing Huddersfield Town on Saturday, with Royal Suturew scoring the only goal of the match.
01:07The win ended a run of four games without a victory for the Gas, with Suturew scoring his second in just three games to see the side move six points clear of Burton Albion,
01:18who sit inside the drop zone, with Inigo Calderon's side also having a game in hand over their relegation rivals.
01:25Calderon was certainly pleased after full-time, and praised the efforts of his players to defeat a side who at one stage this season went 16 games unbeaten, although more recently have seen their form stutter.
01:38Massive win. Massive win. I think you could feel that. The noise, the atmosphere was great. I think everybody knew it was important to get the three points today.
01:48And especially probably the way we did it. Probably not the best football we have played, but in terms of passion it was crazy today.
01:57The way the team performed, especially when we have the problem with the injury of Promise, you have two options. You think how lucky we are, or you have to do even more. I think the team did that.