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  1. 1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

    Paraphrasing , but.

    We set the structure , then we send them out and tell them to be brave and front foot.

    If you are so concentrated on structure, how can you be brave and front foot because then you aren't playing to the structure . 

    Being brave to me implies playing off the cuff, being individual . Which again isn't playing to a structure. 
    That recent structure has had us sitting in , playing some of the most boring football I've seen. Players playing within themselves looking worried to take chances. 
    I don't see him taking the shackles off tomorrow. Best we can hope for is a bore draw. 

    Precisely. It is difficult to imagine a less 'brave' brand of football than what we've been treated to recently. 

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  2. I've just rediscovered my sprightly young 'theme tune' during a YouTube jaunt, which reminded me of when I first got the the internet, well over 25 years ago. 

    The first web search I ever made (on Netscape Navigator IIRC) was 'Bristol City'. I discovered some weird and wonderful places, like CybeReds, the Bristol City Net Centre, and a very primitive version OTIB. My second search was The Clash, where I found some equally oddball sites, including one called Clash City Rockers. 

    What all these static, read-only Web 1.0 pages had in common were rudimentary message boards where visitors could comment and discuss their subject, but you couldn't sign up and register a user name. But people did come up with clever pseudonyms, which they would type in afresh, each time they posted a message.

    And so my first internet nickname was born from my first two searches on the 'information superhighway'. Of course, we've all moved on now. 

     

     

  3. I only just spotted this, but it's streaming live on youtube this evening from 7. Tickets £16.50. One of my favourite ever radio shows, from the halcyon days before Radio 1 was shut down ;)

    They said it would never happen. Some said it should never happen… Yet here we are.

    24th March 2004 saw the world heritage radio site of the Mark and Lard show come to an end with a resounding ‘STOP…’!

    Now, a full 20 years later, we can finally say an equally resounding ‘…CARRY ON’!

    Like the day Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon (if you were born then – if not, skip this bit), or when Alan Bradley got run over by a Blackpool tram on Coronation Street (ditto), everybody can remember where they were on that fateful day in Radio 1 history. Listening to the radio. Obviously.

    Now, following high level negotiations after a chance meeting between Fat Harry White and Scoff Cruddle at a Bedford Rascal Enthusiasts rally, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley have been coaxed back into the world of light entertainment.

    You are invited to join them for ‘Carry On: An Evening with Mark and Lard‘. This will be the first time the same-sex Krankies of the airwaves will reveal what went on behind the scenes of what Dave Bowie (of the Dave Bowie Band) called: THE show’!

    The ordeal will begin at 1900 hours, assuming everyone gets their act together. Long time close showbiz friend of the pair, though she tends to play this down these days, Katie Puckrik will host an hour-long conversation with the former wireless heart-throbs, which will be followed by a short intermission. After re-centring themselves over a crystal, Mark and Lard will then submit to a no-holds barred probing, taking questions from both the theatre and interweb audiences. See you all soon! 

    www.markandlard.com 

     

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  4. 21 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

    I’ve been a season ticket holder for 24 years. Supported the club since age of 5 . First season was 76/77 (glory hunter) 

    I’ve done the blindly following no matter what , especially under the LJ years. It’s an age thing definitely as my favourite era was under TC . However im bored with it all under the lansdowns now . I’ve missed more games this season than ever before & look for reasons not to go now . 
    So , my question is .
    Are you going today because it’s what you do. 

    same as me , bored with it 

    still as enthusiastic as ever .

    Theres no right or wrong , it’s how you feel . I’ll go to the Leicester game because a few of us are out 🍻🍻 after the game . Apart from that I’m done this season . 
     

    I really do hope we win today to take pressure off 

    Wow, my City history is identical to yours mate; started going in 76/77, season ticket since about 2000, and yes, I too have missed more games this season than for a very long time. 

    It's not just City though, football is nothing like the game I loved as a youngster, on or off the pitch. Many would argue it's much better in all ways now than in the 70s, and they're probably right too. It just doesn't excite me like it did then.

    That said, I am going today, and my biggest hope is that I won't be coming away with that crushing disappointment that the last few games have brought ☹️

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  5. 21 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

    Was chatting to a poster at the weekend, my City “career” started with a 1-0 win over Liverpool, followed by a 5-0 win over Coventry.  Boy, they sucked me in good and proper!  Bastards! 🤣🤣🤣

    Ha! I remember those games well. If anyone had told me that was as good as it would ever get, I might have saved a lifetime of misery and got into croquet or curling or lacrosse or something. 

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  6. 4 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

    This seems as good a thread as any to put this. 
    We took a little walk up Clevedon Pier today and went around the museum. in one area they have a list of people with links to the area and I noticed this.

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    It occurred to me that someone on here may even have memories of "young Johnny Ritchie"? 

    It seems he wasn't there long, it's not even mentioned on Wikipedia, but I did find this. 

    https://www.punk77.co.uk/punkhistory/sid_i_knew.htm

    Great story! I'd read before that Sid lived down that way for a while (I thought Weston) with his mum when he was a kid. They also had a stint on Ibiza. 

    I seem to recall hearing about one of his mates (could have been Jah Wobble or one of the Johns) saying Sid came back to school in London with a west country accent. Can you imagine?! "Ere Nancy, where's me smack babs?" 😂

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  7. I absolutely love this and look forward to seeing the team running out on Saturday dressed as my boyhood heroes.

    Agree about the Toffs shirts, I've got one of these, I've owned it for maybe about 10 years and it is absolutely great quality - perfect cut, 100% cotton, v-neck version. 

    Can't remember how much I paid, probably about 30-odd quid. But it will never date, and you can still get them from Toffs at £47. 

    This is the 75/76 slight update with the v-neck (which I personally prefer) which was when I went to my first City game. It doesn't commemorate the Leeds game, but still a fantastic throwback if you were a kid back in the 70s.

    1549.webp

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  8. 11 minutes ago, TV Tom said:

    Is that right? Didn’t know that 

    Yep, they averaged slightly more in the first season, then we came back and smashed it the year after, culminating in promotion. 40 years on, they've never got close since. 

    The city is ours. 

  9. On 05/02/2024 at 15:30, 1960maaan said:

    It's a real stretch to get one over us. 

    TBF, they can't rely on highest attendance, highest average attendance or any other sensible stat .
    So go for the highest, lowest attendance FFS

    Girl Horror GIF by Psyklon

    Remember, even when City were at an absolute all-time low, those two seasons in the fourth division, while Rovers were in the league above, we still averaged higher gates than they did across the two seasons. 

    Let that sink in for a moment. 

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  10. On 01/02/2024 at 13:18, Ronnie Sinclair said:

    One for the local punk scene - Shane Baldwin, of The Vice Squad Last Rockers 

     

    7 hours ago, weepywall said:

    City fan aswell I believe.

    Really sad to hear of Shane's passing, and at such a young age. Yeah I used to see him and Dave Bateman (who also died way too young) down the football in the early Vice Squad days. And a bit later drinking with Dave in the Ship and Castle pre-match, though I don't think Shane was going to games any longer. 

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  11. 38 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

    Living local to the Mem, I can assure you that 'most Gas live local' isn't true.

    You see more kids wearing City shirts walking around Gloucester Road than you do kids in Fewer shirts. Same goes for the pubs. Granted, outside of a match-day none of the pubs in the area are overly 'football', mostly they're generic 'student friendly' places which may show Premier League games, but given they've played at Eastville, Bath and now the Mem, they're far more spread than they'd want to admit.

    Locally, more people who like sport live give the impression that they'd rather see the Bears than the Fewers. 

    Yep, I live around there too. Among my near neighbours, the only people who I know to have any interest in local football are another City season ticket holder (as am I), a lifelong Rovers fan who rarely attends games, and an exiled Crystal Palace fan from South London, who goes to watch the Rovers occasionally just to see a game. 

    BS7 is (thankfully) not a gas heartland, if such a place even exists any more. 

     

  12. 14 hours ago, Club and Country said:

    Queen square can hold 15k!?! 
    sounds excessive for the size of the area?

    Not at all, there was a comfortable 20k crowd in the square for the Massive Attack show in 2003.  And in gas-maths that's nearly forty thousand! 

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  13. 5 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

    A thought to be lost TV appearance by Sweet from their "bubble gum" period. "Fringetastic" :)

     

     

    Wow, great find! And three years later they were doing this. What an awesome rock band and what an incredible drummer Mick Tucker was. The Sweet were so underrated. 

     

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  14. Just Another Rainbow, the brilliant new single by Liam Gallagher and John Squire is out today. 

    Sounds like the Stone Roses and Oasis, as it turns out! Also a little Quadrophenia-era Who and Revolver-era Beatles, a killer groove and a sublime guitar solo from Squire. 

    I've listened three times I absolutely ******* love it.

     

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  15. 41 minutes ago, Offside said:

    A true City legend. There can’t be many players who’ve played in both the top and bottom division with the same club. I only caught the latter part of his career, but he was still one of my favourite players. 

    I wasn’t at the 2-1 win at Eastville in 1983 (I remember very clearly listening to the radio commentary with my dad and dancing around the living room when Hirst scored the winner), but I love the footage of that game and the way he celebrated his goal. 

    Happy birthday, Tom. 
     

     

    Great point, and not only that, you could argue he played at the top of Division 1 (after two games in August 76), and the bottom of Division 4 (little over 6 years later). I doubt any other player for any club has done this!

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  16. Yeah that sounds right, I remember listening to this game on the radio, many years before Radio Bristol did live commentaries, so Radio 2 it must have been. 

    For some reason I recall throughout the game you could clearly hear the dulcet tones of our own Tony Harling, who must have been sitting near the commentary box. "BER-RISTOL!!" 

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