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42 minutes ago, Gimme Shelton said:

Days/evenings like these are rare for most supporters unless you live in Manchester or Liverpool. My son's first season ticket season was 97/98,I warned him 'its not usually like this,you know' !

Yeah maybe it’s the same for most fans but it does feel we have fewer big occasion matches than others.

If you’re forever in mid table that’ll be the way I suppose. Look at Rotherham, they get regular promotion seasons but of course have to put up with relegation seasons to get that.

But you only have to look at the fact 50 teams have played premier league football and we, with our nice ground and over 20,000 ave attendance aren’t one of them. 

It’s memories like this that make you realise just how few great moments we have as City fans.

That was a truly great evening, beating our local rivals after what had gone on earlier in the season, a comprehensive win and a general feeling that there would be no stopping us winning the league.

It just feels like days/evenings like that are very few and far between for us. 

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

48 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Cheeky, you.

I was about to like that post until I read the last five words! 

Back to L1 for the janners please!

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.

21 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

The Britannia`s still there - it`s a Wetherspoons now.

Yes that’s where we’ll be heading

1 hour ago, TV Tom said:

See you in the penny-come-quick 

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

1 hour ago, redkev said:

Do they still dislike us down there Ralph when I use to go down there as a young un it was always pretty lively , quite a lot of animosity towards us bit like Swindon do 

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. 

1 hour ago, Mike Stone said:

He maybe averaging himself out a bit with us now Ralph but dear god hes had a few shockers down here.

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.

3 hours ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Cheers, mate. Where were you with all this 39 years ago (yesterday)? What would you advise if they slow the thing up to a crawl on its approach into the station and then they don’t want to let us get off and get to the game, and put a chopper up overhead?

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?

Just now, Chas said:

Yes season ticket holder 

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

56 minutes ago, Chas said:

Hi all,

We are looking for two spares for Plymouth Argyle vs Bristol on Monday, please give me a shout if you have any,

thanks

Chas

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.

34 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Bristol is sufficient.

 

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.