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  1. I think, in part, the answer to the OTIB vitriol lies in something LJ had no control over...the way in which he was defended for so long by many on here as though he was some sort of messiah. They went on defending him long after his flaws had been exposed and loved doing it as it wound others up...myself included on occasion! I notice that a few of the same folk passionately supported the almost indefensible appointment of Dean Holden, and having been let down then decided that Pearson was the wrong choice. There's a contrarian tendency who greatly enjoyed LJ's tenure. Personally I liked him as a player, made the most of the talent he had. As a manager I found him irritating and pretentious. The opposite of the man we've just appointed.
    7 points
  2. Blasphemy!Shun the non believer.Burn him with fire!I believe Fordy'that you are a resident of that strange faraway land called "the Midlands "?Don't worry sir,I am sure there is no shortage of Magners "served" over ice available there for you and your kind.
    5 points
  3. Shepherd Neame - now you're talking. Lucky enough to go round the brewery a while ago and then on to Whitstable for fantastic seafood. Particularly liked their Spitfire related advertising. All banned by the Advertising Standards folk for some odd reason, but still produced as souvenirs by the brewery. Those of a nervous (or German) disposition look away now:
    5 points
  4. I think those weak 70s beers were the reason I could drink 10 pints in those days and never get a hangover. I was literally pissing it out faster than the alcohol could enter my bloodstream!
    5 points
  5. I once had several pints in about 2014. Had a week off work convinced I had a brain tumour. That night I ordered a dominos pizza. Found the receipt in my pocket. Went next door and ordered Indian. Never went back for the Dominos. Went home with the Indian and kept telling the wife it was Chinese. She tell the story that I kept pushing the spoon I was using into various parts of my face because I was missing my mouth. Scary thing is, that very evening we helped some girls in Worcester change the wheel on their car because they had a flat. I dread to think...
    4 points
  6. Never been a fan of cider with bubbles. Cheddar Valley, in its original recipe, that would do nicely. In moderation though. I wouldn't want to be like local legend Ten Pint Ted who shat himself in the pub after a hard night on the "Red".
    4 points
  7. I still remember the pre match Brown Splits and Lights Splits in the Happy Landings!
    4 points
  8. Don’t forget Youngers Tartan... a truly hideous Scottish ‘beer’. I suspect they may still have a few barrels (slightly out of date) of the stuff behind the bar at the Theatre of Tents?
    4 points
  9. Here we go....Turning Off The Gas........Enjoy ?
    4 points
  10. I don't know who LJ thinks his "target audience" is but it certainly wasn't the average BCFC fan and isn't the average Sunderland fan. Therein lies the problem, you have a manager who is trying to give a coaching and/or psychology masterclass every interview when the majority of fans just want to hear the truth about the game in plain language. When you look at the backgrounds of many footballers themselves I could imagine that the language he uses, if replicated with them, would grate with quite a few after a while particularly when the guy delivering it does not have a track record of actually winning anything.
    3 points
  11. The thing I've always found weird about LJ discussions - both in terms of him as a player and as a manager - is that he was basically just about okay in both roles. As a player he is never going to make my list of top twenty players I've seen in a City shirt but he's a world away from the worst twenty too. He played his part in our play-off push and was decent if not spectacular throughout his time at the club. As a manager, he had some very good and very bad moments but essentially managed the club steadily for four years, never took us into a relegation or a promotion battle at the absolute end of the season, and did a competent job without setting the heart racing. You'd obviously put his Dad, Joe Jordan and Steve Cotterill above him on your list of City managers but you'd also put Benny Lennhartsson, Tony Pulis and Brian Tinnion well below him. So what I find weird is how the Hell does someone who was basically competent but not spectacular whip up such strong feelings and cause so much controversy?
    3 points
  12. I wish you hadn't started this... I had nightmares last night of Courage Tavern, Ben Truman, Watneys Red Barrel, John Smiths and several other foul brews that were passed off as beer....
    3 points
  13. I remember the Double Diamond advert in the 70's. I seem to recall it showed the letter E filling up with the amber nectar. I mentioned this observation to Dad who said that when I reach adulthood I could go in a pub and order a pint of E. I did just that on my first visit to the Ship and Castle in Congresbury and they just stared at me. I was most put out. A big dream had been shattered. To this day the taste remains alusive.
    3 points
  14. Back on topic ....... Rovers are shite ! ?
    2 points
  15. What sort of dog- four legs and a fur coat, or 2 legs and a fur coat?
    2 points
  16. It was indeed... Proper "old school" real ale watering hole... Served a nice pint of 6X.
    2 points
  17. I couldn't abide the little ****** as either.
    2 points
  18. I really don't like that, its ok to go on other forums to have a reasoned debate or offer thoughts (personally I don't) but to go on and embarrass us as a fan base really annoys me
    2 points
  19. Blige, there's one for the kids!! I mean the post not casting aspersions on him for liking children.
    2 points
  20. Not quite, we sold 15,000 STs in a 27,000 seat stadium, over half the overall capacity. The Gas can only dream of ever filling their tiny stadium let alone have 15,000 fans willing to pay for an ST.
    2 points
  21. Beer at home means Davenports...
    1 point
  22. Cheddar Valley. Jesus Christ. That’s the worst thing in the world.
    1 point
  23. Thanks. Now you’ve answered that, I remember and can also answer my own question - the pub by the side of the M32 was The Old Fox.
    1 point
  24. I'm sure there was (in the dim and distant past) a YouTube video of the event - but I can't seem to find it. It was, as you can imagine - a lot of people who didn't care what they were drinking, as long as they were drinking something.
    1 point
  25. I totally agree but would add part of that is human nature. Some of the vitriol LJ had as a player and manager was nothing to do with his ability, and still hasn't been forgotten with some fans. Naturally that puts some people on the defensive, not to say being balanced wouldn't be a better alternative, but you end up defending some out-there accusations instead of mounting your own criticisms in some cases.
    1 point
  26. Just Backdated: THE NORTH OF ENGLAND BEER DRINKING CONTEST, 1968
    1 point
  27. Embarrassing when commentators are saying he measures the grass before games .Don’t no how that helps the team . Does he say it’s a quarter of an inch long so you need to pass the 0.3% harder. Getting hammered by Leeds and they say LJ says a new player needs 30 training sessions before they can play his way that day they could’ve had 300 sessions and wouldn’t beat Leeds just nonsense
    1 point
  28. Top post - agree with everything you said. I can only assume that people get wound up with the way he talks - the bullshit bingo etc.
    1 point
  29. I think it's because he talked as if he was in our Top 3 managers of all time, and there was a disconnect between that talk & the reality on the pitch.
    1 point
  30. I’m still the same, would rather drink a pint of lager or even a soft drink than any of the fizzy beers, especially those that are ‘smooth’ - save that for Guinness
    1 point
  31. At least Trophy had a nice jaunty, singalong advert. Yeah, they were dark days indeed. I remember when Courage brought out Directors it was a breath of fresh air in their pubs, which seemed to be 3/4 of all houses in Somerset. My preferred drinking establishments - Tor Leisure Club and Mr B's in Glastonbury - only had Toby Bitter, which was basically brown water. This is why as a young man I used to drink only lager. In 1982, I moved to Kent and discovered the joys of Shepherds Neame and Fremlins. Never went back to the fizzy stuff.
    1 point
  32. Was that ‘the pint that thinks it’s a quart’…… Actually, that’s wrong, I think it’s just come to me, Whitbread Trophy, I’m sure that was ‘the pint that thinks it’s a quart’ More fizzy muck…… Never could understand how that keg pasteurised muck got such a foothold into pubs, I have been a CAMRA member since the 70’s - when the Bristol branch met in the Stonehouse (miss that place) and always had a guest barrel at the meetings, that we had to finish before we could leave…. ?
    1 point
  33. Picked up a decent looking linebacker. Jamin Davis.
    1 point
  34. Bob Arum has been at the bong imo
    1 point
  35. Is matey nicking a Raleigh Chopper with only one wheel? is there no depths the G@s will stoop to!
    1 point
  36. You can probably buy mead by the goblet full at the ToT.
    1 point
  37. Gettleman finally trades back! Good deal for Giants. Think they pick Smith if he were there, hard to turn down Slater but have to like the trade.
    1 point
  38. Not a fan of any bitter from the 70s. It's no wonder football fans used to beat shit out of each other in those days. Rage over the crap beer on offer. I gather they've brought back Watney's Party Sevens now with a completely different brew. Might be safe to try...
    1 point
  39. Very good ! I loved the quote on Points West before the MK game. "I was walking (strutting) through town and everyone was wishing me well"etc. In reality they were actually saying "You're playing a blinder ,Joey"......." Hope you stay for ever".............." You're the best manager Rovers have had this season !"
    1 point
  40. Not sure we have thanked Mark Little for his good work. Well done Mark ?
    1 point
  41. Trophies..................plural ??
    1 point
  42. A few well known City tried to “reignite the gas” at Twerton on the way back from West Brom away back in the 80s. The bugger refused to burn. What an eventful away day that was.
    1 point
  43. A couple of pedantic points around this 1) should read "cannot wait to have our fan back in the ground" 2) Reignite should read "Relegate" 3) The film does not seem to capture the amount of canvas, plastic patio furniture or garden shed construction disabled areas available to patrons Call me Mr Picky, but honesty is the best policy!
    1 point
  44. People were warned about the potential side effects of Johnson & Johnson. IMO the Oxford (Mr Ashton) was even more detrimental. Anyway, they're all gone now, so let's celebrate and drink up thee pfizer.
    1 point
  45. Yes, what they might call "half" (63 seasons) of 92 glorious campaigns. The other "half" (19 seasons) in the Second tier. And about a quarter in the 4th, for the Blue six fifths of Bristol.
    1 point
  46. We should NEVER have appointed him more like.
    1 point
  47. We are reaping what he sowed though. A leaderless bunch of soft footballers.
    1 point
  48. I don’t even know where to start with this one. He’s taken an average crowd from 70 years ago, an average crowd from 46 years ago, thrown in the usual reference to us and calculated a 20k average! All without acknowledging they are starting in the basement division again next season with very little chance of championship football for many years. I’m not even sure they have 20 thousand fans in Bristol any more, their support base has dwindled to a few mouthy deluded idiots spouting bollocks on social media and radio phone ins. I’ll leave this here
    1 point
  49. This is bollocks, the cheque book was open to Cotts but he tried to spend it all on one player, twice, and not even in the most important position at the time. When that failed he decided to throw his toys out of the pram and leave spaces on the bench rather even give some of the kids a bit of experience. I don't know why we have to keep going over this, we had one wonderful season which we are all grateful for, but he was the one that tried to initiate a power grab on the back of it and failed. If we were getting any decent results in this league, he might have succeeded.
    1 point
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