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Once upon a time in my day it was all about going to a game and gazing in awe as your local chairman, ie for us the late and loved Harry Dolman, swept into the car park in his RR, cigar alight and breezed into the directors entrance, getting your Bovril in the East End and watching Big John's Brylcreem slip another past the opposing keeper. Now you have to have a degree in Accountancy to compete on a fans forum. Happy Days now long gone .
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1 minute ago, Galley is our king said:
They perceived he was "challenging and confrontational" for one reason and one reason only.....
They didn't like the fact that....
HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS ******* TALKING ABOUT!!
and they didn't.....
In one
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6 minutes ago, mozo said:
Bristol City are on the verge of winning 3 in 4 games and yet this is OTIB
LOVE IT!
Handed down from father to son !!!!!!
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7 hours ago, Midlands Robin said:
Familiar with that area although not the RAF Base as I worked for a bit at RM Turnchapel on the landing craft which were just around the corner. That base closed in 2014.
I was there 70-71 and posted to Cyprus from there. Bit of a difference !
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2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:
Nice to see they've included the hill of Calvary, complete with the ball that Jesus was famously nailed to.
I used to play football on the Downs, looks like one of the pitches
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4 hours ago, Midlands Robin said:
Good to know my 22 years service in the Royal Navy wasn't a total waste then.
MR I remember Plymouth well as I served in the Royal Air Force and was based at RAF Mountbatten (sadly now a housing estate)
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29 minutes ago, downendcity said:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
that floats on high o'er vale and hills
when all at once I saw a crowd,
a host of golden daffodils
beside the lake beneath the trees
when an angry man came running towards me
shouting " oi you, get out of my bloody garden!"
Fantastic Downend
As good as.
The painters work was all in vain
The sh1thouse poet strikes again
and
There I sat broken hearted
Paid a Penny and only farted
DeadPoets Society
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5 hours ago, downendcity said:
Oh, the grand old Duke of Guernsey,
he had 20,000 men ( and women)
he marched them up near the top of the league
and marched them down again,
and when they were up, they weren't quite up
and when they were down, they weren't quite down
and when they were only halfway up they were neither up or down and that's were they stayed.
Class downend, wasted as a supporter, poet laureate at least
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8 hours ago, Clutton Caveman said:
The only things that will prompt a change are
Very low gates for remaining games with those that do attend showing their dissatisfaction.
A close brush with relegation
Very low season ticket sales
Players asking to leave.
Our board are very happy to survive in the Championship and try to get as close to break even as possible.
Nothing good can happen until SL understands that nobody wants to buy his Bristol Sport business and he breaks it up into saleable entities.
Last time I looked on Vinted, it had 7 likes. Separate them man and they might just sell !!!!
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2 hours ago, phantom said:
Better air down here
Better class of Rain here Phantom !!
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10 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said:
This is what we’re reduced to now. We’ve lost our fourth game in a row to a club who’ve just spent four years in League One, but it’s OK because “we gave it a go”. So what if it felt different. It felt different against Southampton and we’ve lost every game since then. I have zero faith in Manning now, and even less faith in the people that put him there.
Meanwhile Ipswich join the long list of clubs that emerge from the depths of lower league football and pass us on the way up.
Sick of this club.
Cant help but agree CR, after supporting them for so long, sick to death of being overtaken by likes of Bournemouth and many more, we now face yet another period of possibly entering a relegation battle, will NEVER see Prem football in my lifetime at AG I'm afraid.Lansdown Snr and Jnr have betrayed genuine City supporters.
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7 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:
Yes... who moved to Westbury where he paid for a new pavilion.
He's a cricket fan, who got dragged into football by his boy.
Cricket's his game because the rules are the rules, much like accounting, and teams stick by them by and large.
Unlike football. Where on, and off, the pitch everyone's trying to bend the rules to their advantage.
Which he can't stand.
We're both ancient enough to remember 1982. If someone had said to us then we'd one day have a billionaire owner we'd have been overjoyed.
Turns out though, it's the only billionaire owner in existence who wants to "play by the rules" because "rules are rules and fair's fair". Meanwhile tinpot Bournemouth go "fock FFP" and shoot straight past us, to name but one of no doubt many who are happy to find a way - any way - to get promoted.
In the meantime, we're supposed to be grateful if he buildt a nice grandstand and possibly some basketball court next door.
Jesus christ almighty.
There are people here who've seen us beat the champions of europe home and away in the league - long before the Lansdowns or Tinnion were around - but we're supposed to suck up this mediocrity year after year and be grateful.
Again - Jesus christ almighty.
Anyway, onwards and sideways, here's to next week! Beat bloody Cardiff and we'll all be chipper for 5 minutes.
MM. Fantastic Post. Sums it all up and after 65+ years why I dont go to the Gate anymore. CTID but not under these prunes.
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1 minute ago, pongo88 said:
It’s great to see these old pictures but it looks a dump. Even worse on a cold winter’s day in the pouring rain when City are 2-0 down
yep in those days could never understand why me and my mate didnt go in the enclosure ( Happy Days though)
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spawny b*******s if west ham win tonight
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was in crackers corner for our famous victory over Pompey and hello the promised land that night
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16 hours ago, BS3rich said:
Likewise, pure greed! It’s pretty much doubled in the last 3 years.
They learn it from the Clubs
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29 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:
Nice thought, but I can't see SL or JL subsiding anyones cider.
Especially as they have their own interests in the current outlets at AG and also the future outlets in the sporting quarter.
Admission only for over 65's wearing a red/white bobble hat and carrying a rattle
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28 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:
Was discussing this on a nice Boxing Day walk around the docks. Must’ve been a good 20 or so years since it was boarded up before eventually being demolished.
At the time I’m sure it was meant to have had flats built there but the site is still empty, boarded up and a bit of a sorry sight (along with the former public toilets next to it) There was talk of some kind of restrictive covenant on it barring any further development on the site but that just seems a bit weird.
Not getting much luck googling it but anyone have any idea why it’s just empty land that’s just a bit of an eyesore nowadays?
Although an Ashton Boy Cuz I have never been in Wedlocks, how sad is that. Perhaps our Chairman might buy the land and build a BCFC pub. Cider £1 pint.
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Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all fellow Reds wherever they be scattered over the world. Soon it will be 2024 and I look back myself to my 1st Game at AG in 1958 and think ' where's that gone !!' Could 2024 be our year, I doubt it but I still believe.
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Very sad to hear of your loss at such a young age. My prayers go to Chris,his family friends and you Phantom especially at this time of year. A man who would risk his life to save others. RIP Chris.
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21 hours ago, Keepers Ball said:
Blokes a Legend. Don't care what some pillocks think on here
Totally agree, would have upset MR L more than any other we have had. He does not take prisoners but I have had a few conversations personally with him, he would have loved to manage us but we prefer to stay Championship/League 1 !!!!
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1 minute ago, The Bard said:
Hargreaves is, by a number of accounts I've heard, an absolute bell end.
But a RICH Bell-End !!
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20 hours ago, DaveInSA said:
Nobody is allowed to hold Steve and Jon to account. Not through a proper structure of Board and Sub-committees to oversee the work of the CEO. It's laughable.
BCFC is being run like a small family business selling pizzas out of a converted Sprinter at festivals. It really is that bad.and the pizzas taste sh*te
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22 hours ago, Bernard Lerring said:
Ridiculous. And yet thoroughly, depressingly predictable.
The Lansdowns track record favouring familiarity over capability is astounding when you stop to think about it.
I'm still frequently baffled thinking how was SL so successful in business with that kind of decision making
Bernard, often quoted on posts here and is well known ' he supplied the bedroom to start HL, Hargreaves was the Power House, Lansdown did the bean counting '
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Posted · Edited by oldstandrobin
Spot on. Many a year when we were in the old third division or later, League One, we dreamed of this. But a lot of us older fans have come to realise that the dream of competing at the top table was given us once and like Halley's Comet only re-appears after many many years !