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10 hours ago, cityal said:

I am unsure. Is 6526 "nearly a full house?"

Depends which non league ground you’re talking about?

10 years this year.

13 hours ago, GrahamC said:

6526, **** me.

Not so much a crowd, more an audience.

Yet they all still think they ‘nearly’ sell out every game
End of season dead rubber is the excuse today. Add it to the lengthy list of Gas excuses along with Champions League on the box, a bit of rain and Halloween.

”if they play on the streets we’d watch them from the pavement…as long as it’s not an end of season game with nothing riding on it….you ******* SHITHEAD”

2 hours ago, spudski said:

I used to think the same, until I moved and worked abroad. 

It wasn't until I moved away, that I became more proud of my roots, heritage, traditions and nostalgia.

I missed them.

On moving back to blighty, it's kept with me. 

Drink up thy Zider will always resonate with me as our clubs ' unofficial' anthem.

Imo...it should be blasted it more and fans encouraged to sing it.

After all the likes of ' you'll never walk alone' and ' Delilah ' aren't modern by any standards. 60s. 

And yet those Clubs youngsters sing them with pride along with everyone else. 

We're a bit useless at tradition as a club imo. 

Chop and change our kit all the time, badge changes, no anthem, nothing is ' ours'. Even the Gas beat us on that front. 

Ask anyone in football where drink up is sang, and we will be top of the list. 

Let's own it more. 

I’ve always thought we’re lucky to have a song like Drink up thy Zider associated with our club. It’s a proper anthem with a huge connection to OUR part of the World.

Not many other clubs have that…including the Gas. 
 

The only consolation about not relegating Birmingham in 2017 was that Villa fans would’ve hated it.  Still remember them celebrating the week before when they lost to Blackburn because it kept Brum in the shit….but…it kept US in the shit as well with Brighton to face that evening.

Some Villa fans suggested that their players weren’t exactly busting a gut in their game.

8 minutes ago, bcfcredandwhite said:

I seem to remember in that game, some of our own young lady fans (I’m led to believe they frequented the Whitening Yard) taking off their tops and waving their ‘assets’ about just as one of our players (Newman?) was about to take a penalty. Whoever it was ended up missing. Probably distracted - as I was. 
Talk about own goals….. terrible timing…!!

That was Mansfield in 1987.

They’ve MORE than paid us back for that day.

12 minutes ago, Homer Simpson said:

People take the Mick out of our coach 1, imagine what their's must be like.

9 minutes ago, Red Billy said:

Sometimes you think you are safe and that the results needed to create the swing won’t happen.  Some times you think fifty points will see you over the line.  Some times you laugh so hard you have tears that roll down your cheek. 

10 years this year 

6 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

Yes I wasn’t criticising your post just looking at it from a different view which may have been quite surprising to some. I do make it the 25th of February with a 1-0 win over Hull though.

I think it’s the first time in my 48 years of supporting City that we’ve had such a long period of mid table finishes. There was a time when I craved it, especially in the Championship, now I’m getting a little bit bored of it but be careful what you wish for I suppose.

Definitely Huddersfield for 45 points, Hull got us to 44 although without looking we could’ve been ok with goal difference (although losing literally every game for the rest of that season would’ve dented that ). In fairness end of February is pretty accurate so your more or less spot on. At the end of this season we’ll know the result that made us truly safe. I believe it will be the Swansea match.

Every season I just hope we can get to 35 points+ by Christmas, you can relax a bit, enjoy your turkey and hope that the rest of the season will produce a bit of excitement at the right end of the table. Doesn’t happen too often for us in the Championship unfortunately mate.

15 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

Last season we actually had enough points, 45, by the end of February, game 34 I think, but still people were worrying right into April.

it’s not just points ahead of the team 3rd from bottom to look at but also how many teams lie between you and them, they’re not all going to win every game while we lose every game.

I’ve not been concerned at all this season, even at the end of the bad run we always had quite a few teams below us. 

Well, 7th March….0-0 away to Huddersfield.

But that wasn’t ‘mathematically’ safe at that time, in hindsight we now know that it was but that’s not what we’re talking about. I don’t think people were too worried last season as our performances and results improved consistently from Jan onwards. Something that can’t be said this season.

It wasn’t until our 2-0 defeat at Watford that other results meant that we couldn’t possibly go down no matter how the rest of the season panned out.

With enough games left in the season, teams below you is irrelevant as is bookies odds. I personally only felt really concerned when the results started coming in later in the afternoon after our defeat to Cardiff. Even then I knew we had plenty of time to sort it out even if performances weren’t promising.

Either way Im happy we’ve avoided the embarrassment of relegation this season and I hope LM can prove me wrong next season.

Just saying…

We achieved mathematical safety last season on April 15th, game 42 of the season.

Tomorrow is game 42 of this season.

5 hours ago, phantom said:

Thank you, you have confirmed that nobody actually said anything about guaranteeing top 6 etc, just that we want to get promoted this year

Perhaps people can stop using that line now as it is proven to be incorrect?

Ok, so if people stop saying “top 6” and change it to “top end of the Championship” (which was a term used for where they expected us to be with our squad), would that be acceptable?

19 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Yep- it’s total nonsense to claim there were “loads” against him.

A few (fair play to them) stopped going & were vocal, but most were fully behind him, saw him as a “name” & part of their latest (failed) attempt to get back to the Championship.

They would boast about how many Twitter followers he had FFS 

Absolutely lapped up his ‘hard man’ image…they spoke and acted like him on social media and then would appear so bemused as to why they were being ridiculed by fans of clubs up and down the country for being throughly unlikable nob heads.

All they got out of the whole thing was a 7-0 win against a team of school kids already relegated from the League and a lower mid table L1 finish below Exeter and Cheltenham the following season. 

15 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

What’s weird to me is Gaschat is now full of people now slagging Barton off.

The vast majority loved the thug when he was there, absolute revisionism from start to finish.

One or two have been against him from the beginning.

What you notice a lot of, if you’ve ever taken a gander on there, is that whenever anything is brought up about his latest pathetically embarrassing attempts to get attention, his idiotic fans still try to defend ‘daddy’ by suggesting people “move on” as they can’t bear to see him ridiculed.

As a fanbase so many of them really showed their true colours when he was there. That stain will be hard to remove for them.

9 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

When he went there was nothing like the outrage amongst City fans when Nige went.

Depends what you were looking at.

There was plenty of outrage on Facebook and still is since results under Taylor have dipped.

2 hours ago, MarcusX said:

Theoretical danger maybe, we were never going to lose every remaining game - even Rotherham haven't done that.

Only 3 teams were less than 4 points off us, "most" were 6 points or more away. Many have played each other.

 

Of course, and I certainly didn’t think we’d lose every game but when you consider just how poor we were against teams below and around us, and the reality that most teams above us ‘should’ be much harder to beat, I’m pleasantly surprised we are where we are now. 

I think normally most people wouldn’t have been too worried after the Cardiff match IF we weren’t so woeful in the previous games. We were in relegation form, fortunately we’ve snapped out of it and we’re all reasonably happy as a result.

Ignoring the improvement in performance at Ipswich that seems to happen often for us in front of Sky cameras (although still left with 0 points), the performances against Cardiff, QPR, Weds and even Swansea were not encouraging. As you say, it’s understandable that fans were getting a bit worried.
 

56 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

People were panicking when we were 150/1 to go down. Wonder how many wasted their money.   

Within a week our odds had dropped to 40/1.

Had we lost at home against Swansea we would’ve seen those odds slashed again. 
Odds can change drastically very quickly so being 150/1 with 10 games to go means very little.

15 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Anyone got  a link? Google hasn't helped me.

In fairness to Ben White, as I haven't seen it, I can't comment on that particular incident. But play acting in general is a blight on our game and will only get worse until retrospective action is taken. Fabio Silva spent more time performing gymnastics yesterday - and it won him a penalty- rather than trying to score and pretty much every game will have some player trying to con a ref. It's embarrassing and boring.

Let’s put it this way, it wasn’t exactly David Penney vs Junior Bent.

5 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

Realistically we were never in danger of relegation, though I could understand why some people were concerned about where we might pick up points - it's just there's too many teams below us to make up the difference anyway.

I would say that being only 6 points above the drop zone with 11 games to play on the back of 3 abysmal performances (with Ipswich, WBA and Leicester on the horizon) we were absolutely in danger of being sucked in.

The number of teams below you doesn't make much of a difference with that many games to play as most of the teams below were only 3 or 4 points worse off. Hull fans will know all about this.

Credit to Manning and the team that we’ve got to this point with a month left but it’s felt like a slog. 

29 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Thanks yes we are. Makes it a fraction less likely that it's all tied up by Thursday then, although I guess we just have to match or better Brum's result.

Huddersfield and Birmingham still have to play each other.

Basically to be mathematically safe tomorrow we need to win. A draw would be pretty much guaranteed safety as long as Weds lose at home to Norwich as Huddersfield and Birmingham would have to draw their game and win all their remaining games whilst turning around a huge goal difference.

In reality we’re already safe. Without Reading’s points deduction last season QPR would’ve gone down on 49 points and I can’t see that total being needed this season. 
 

2 hours ago, Barrs Court Red said:

“There’s City fans waiting outside Geoff”.  Did they make it up on the spot?

 

they support Rovers 

Answered your own question there.

Of course they made it up on the spot, just like everything else…”it’s what they do”.

Deluded bullshitting weirdos.

They were all going off in their shit stained pants a few weeks ago on Slagchat at the thought of us getting relegated this season and now they’re turning on their wonderfully named manager. Thought they were definitely ‘coming for us’ this year?

Idiots.

Ficklest fanbase in football? 
 

Not. Even. Close.

Another away sell out today, a team not too far from us took 400 to the same ground this time last year because “there’s nothing to play for”…

3 hours ago, WessexPest said:

That “BlueButterfly” w*nkstain responsible for that screed of utter delusion made an unwelcome visit to this forum a few seasons ago. He was dribbling similar shyte that was completely detached from reality and was suitably derided, causing him to follow his moth brethren to the Eastville flame home.

Wrong guy mate.

He/she was actually questioning the original statement suggesting they are bigger than “a few” Championship clubs so it’s not ‘BlueButterfly’ who is the deluded one.