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Spoke to a few Plymouth fans in the pub on Monday before the game and they were all very keen to get Nige onboard.

I’m home from an away day earlier than I am for a home game and with Torquay almost in the same league as Bristol Manor Farm we need all we can get. And we’ve done the double on them and I had a gorgeous pasty!

A lovely day out in Devon. Great to see us beat a poor team, Plymouth didn’t look anywhere near the goal threat they looked at Ashton Gate. Even though they lost that 4-1 they came very close a number of times that night. Today they never looked like scoring. Hope they stay up though.

Once again a lesson for all those quick to write off that what you see when a player has a bad game isn’t necessarily what you’ll get going forward. These players train full time and there’s every chance they’ll improve. I guess we should say the same about the Manning too, I’m sure during those dreadful games he wasn’t thinking this is fine, surely he was looking for ways to Improve and this weekend we have. I’m not saying he the messiah all of a sudden but we’re stuck with him at least until at least Christmas I’d guess, so here’s hoping.

The shortest I’ve had to travel for a City game since I lived in Bristol 21 years ago. When the fixtures came out I was hoping we’d still have a chance of getting in the playoffs when we visited Plymouth. Looking forward to it anyway. A draw, probably 1-1.

Yes that’s where we’ll be heading

Crikey, I’d forgotten about that place. A search shows it closed 18 years ago and is now student accommodation.

Certainly the fans I know that are around my age don’t have a problem with us at all but it wouldn’t surprise me if the younger fans from both sides had a little scuffle in the park at some point.

Yes he’s been a right pain in the arse at times over the years but sadly there’s plenty of competition right now for being the worse.

His appointment to our games always seems to get it’s own thread but I don’t think he’s been the worse ref in recent years, not even close.

Not a season he’ll look back with much fondness, it could have been different. Two attempts he’d expect to normally take, one late in extra time to beat Forest setting up a home tie v Man Utd next and one which would have surely seen us go on to beat Ipswich which would have had Manning and Tinnion purring about it until Christmas.

Crikey! 39 years?

Good Friday 2022 Stoke 0 City 1 Good Friday 2023 Stoke 1 City 2 Good Friday 2024 Vale 2 Gas 0 If only every day could be Good Friday in Stoke on Trent.

I’ll volunteer to balance the train up by sitting on the right, I’m lucky enough to see the views all the time. And as tempting as frigates and diesel depots sound, on this occasion I’m more interested in pubs for away fans or fans nor wearing colours? I haven’t watched City there for over two decades and always remember getting a drink was problematic.

Never heard of it! I’ll take a look. Is it very time consuming?

Fair enough, it just seemed an odd sentence for a city fans first post - we are looking for two spares for Plymouth Argyle vs Bristol on Monday, please give me a shout if you have any. Anyway, good luck with your search

Are you a City fan?

Our last game against one of the top 4 who have all been very consistent so far. strangely we haven’t lost by more than a goal in any of the 7 games so far. Can we keep up that record today? Not that I’m hoping for a boring 0-1 defeat.

I hope the clubs ticketing system can cope with 12000 of us all renewing on the last hour of the last day. I might give myself an extra hour………..if I do renew.

I’d absolutely love it if the got Nige on. That’d be so interesting.

TBF at least they all remembered our part in his career. A lot of people think he was at Newcastle then Man United before finishing his career with a few others. It was a hell of a deal for us to actually sign him on after loaning him, he looked so good from his debut onwards, nowadays Arsenal may have just extended the loan for a year and waited to see how he progressed.

Maybe Jon has earmarked Zak to take over from Manning if things don’t improve, player manager, save some money, his own label to pay his wages…………

And we get a mention. While discussing Harry Kane and his not exactly quick rise to fame, Wrighty likened him to Andy Cole saying nobody was sure he’d make a prolific top striker at Aresnal. Then he came to us and something clicked. Wrighty, Roy Keane and maybe one other all called us Bristol, not sure if they just couldn’t remember which Bristol team or just thought Bristol was enough, I don’t know.

I look at GJ’s tenure almost as an outsider as I wasn’t a season ticket holder and didn’t even live in the country for any of it. One thing that stuck in my mind was the motivational quotes he put around the changing room, which he then got made up from hand written bits of paper to proper printed cards. He was so proud of them but you couldn’t help think that kind of thing had a shelf life and once you’d read them 50 times then what? But that playoff season was great and I loved my trips back to watch City that season, even Wembley was hugely memorable and I’m glad we got there despite the result. Edit. Oh and as it’s a Lee Trundle thread, I loved watching him play, in fact I remember coming back for one game, may have been Sheffield United away, and spent 15 minutes before the game watching him warm up with a ball at his feet. Comfortably the best part of the afternoon for me.

This has already been posted on here, last Tuesday think.