Miah Dennehy

1 hour ago, cityexile said:

Thinking in hindsight it but might have been better to just let the buggers go to the super league and have been done with it.

I wanted them to go at the time. **** the lot of them.

3 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

 

Until Football League clubs start standing up for themselves, they will continue to be ignored by the powers that be. I'd love to see them stick together and refuse to enter the FA Cup next season.

7 hours ago, Robbored said:

The competition has to have the same regulations in every round. It wouldn’t be acceptable to introduce ‘no replays’ in round 3 when the big boys join in.

They don't have VAR in every round.

The number of tents.

On 13/04/2024 at 18:50, Sixtyseconds said:

Alright.

Movement of Jah peepaw .. 

I cannot hear the word 'Exodus' without singing the same in my head

36 minutes ago, RedEd73 said:

Posted here as it's relevant to the Gas rather than in the Barton thread. 

He's so endearing! 

I'm confused by Barton's answer. He has 8 witnesses to an incident he says was fabricated?

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.

2 hours ago, Steve Watts said:

Because Roy's (now) high profile and tanked in Bristol....

I was stupidly missing the joke about Barton.

On 25/03/2024 at 00:32, fgrsimon said:

I remember the windy one, 1-0 to Rovers I think? Goalkicks were ending up heading backwards towards the keeper. There was a shunt on the M32 right behind the away terrace which must have been so embarrassing for the drivers being how they were jeered by a couple of thousand City fans.

In my memory, that was the last Derby game at Eastville but I must be wrong if it is the one featured above.

 

I remember that one. Our goal came at the Tote End, a cross from a free kick held up in the wind and ****** up City's offside trap, leaving 3 Rovers onside around the 6 yard box

3 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

Funnily enough there was some bearded chap who did have it in his manifesto not that long ago, but all the sort of "proper blokes" who define themselves as patriots didn’t vote for him. 

Ha ha yes, I had forgotten that.

1 hour ago, Red Cloud said:

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then

Yes, but I hope not fall out. I think what people on my side of the fence need to recognise is that a substantial amount of people in this country do have- albeit I believe unfounded- fears that they are being demonised within their own country. Politicians need to recognise that WITHOUT just shit stirring and telling some blatant porky pies.

Hopefully there is a leader out there who can unite an increasingly divided society. Sadly , I don't see one at the moment.

29 minutes ago, nebristolred said:

To be fair I would disagree slightly and say that I can see why people think we could and should do more for St George's Day. In the home nations it's only England and Wales that don't get a bank holiday for their national days (I think), and it would be nice to be able to do something for it.

Yes, I'm all up or an extra bank holiday  It won't be long before a political party sees that as a vote winner and puts it in their manifesto. However, then we would see one of the real problems with the way society is going. Companies would be allowed to not officially recognise it and it would be of no benefit to their staff whatsover, a common practice in nursing care which my wife works in .

11 hours ago, Three Lions said:

That literally was not a flag for Scooter he helped raise the money for it with the old SC twenty odd years ago!!! 

But he wasn't mocking that was he? Certainly not how I read it.

10 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

Yes, I do !  (and less of the old )

I'm happy to say it was before my football watching time

I'm a mere spring chicken still- by a gnats whisker- in my 50s.

9 hours ago, Red Cloud said:

fair enough but for those of us who do, there's no way any other country would be expected to just accept this!

I'm very proud to be English and see this as yet another attempt to wipe out everything English

Like I said, can you imagine what would happen if the Palestinian Flag had its colours changed? or the Saltire going pink or the Welsh Flag ditching the Dragon

They changed the colour on the Saltire on a kit a while back, no one said a dicky bird. Do you honestly think this an 'attempt to wipe out everything English' . Does that not sound a wee bit OTT when you read it back to yourself? I don't see anything wrong with having pride about where you come from, but to hinge all that on a flag? I really, really don't get it.

Speaking specifically about Englishness, every year- I've seen once already this year- social media will carry a lot of posts about St Georges day, how everyone else celebrates theirs, but we aren't 'allowed' to, like and share etc etc.it absolutely baffles me, who is stopping anyone celebrating it, and do the Scottish and Welsh really celebrate theirs that much? I,ve been in Scotland on numerous St Andrews days and apart from a view 'St Andrews day special offers' things in shops, absolutely nothing else is going on.

I think many patriotic Englishmen have been well and truly conned and whipped into a frenzy by horribly skewed media.

6 minutes ago, Three Lions said:

Read it again and that St George flag and St Georges are part of our footballing culture and traditions something you our culture warrior mate to laugh at and look down but important to many.

He's literally just explained that he wasn't mocking the flag for Scooter.

33 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

That sounds nuts. Was there an area where you were expected to go in the ground as an away fan or did you just go anywhere?

I can remember going to a Brentford v Exeter game in the 70’s where fans just swapped ends at half time and even that dog without a few scuffles .

I would imagine fans went anywhere then. Next month sees the 50th anniversary of my first game and there was no segregation at that game.

41 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Does no one remember the 2-1 FA cup replay win at Eastville in 68 ? Galley and Crowe, THAT was a great night, completely took over the Tote. All ticket game, they sold any tickets to anyone, no segregation in them days !

I suspect some really old ******* remember it

31 minutes ago, Red Cloud said:

If the Palestinian Flag suffered the same treatment, would that still be "trivial"?

Like I said, I could not give a flying **** about any flag.

On 22/03/2024 at 08:31, Hayfield8 said:

Why do people play dumb when it comes to England and why this can be seen as disrespectful to the country the kit is suppose to represent?

If this were another country, I can't help but think those not understanding the issue would suddenly understand the concept of a national flag being a symbol of a nation, one that has specific colours that are key identifiers of that nation's flag.

This is also coming at a time where there is clearly an orchestrated push to erode English identity and pride, and from a company that is very deep into the identity politics culture war does make this seem more than a playful redesign.

Symbolism and its importance is a well known concept to the left, the pride flag, Palestinian flag, raised fist of power etc. so how come when it's with England they act dumb? 

To who though? I'm a bit of an old school lefty and could not give a flying **** about it.  The thing is, the voices heard on social media, from left and right, are people being vocal, because that's what social media is. I suspect that there are vast numbers of us- left and right- don't really get all that upset over such trivialities as a design on a football shirt.

1 hour ago, Redtrojan said:

Yes it was a dump,but I have mainly good memories of it compared to the crap that was going to Bath to watch the derby games ,when Nigel Martin usually ensured we had nothing to celebrate.

At Eastville I can so easily remember that 1-4 victory ,the infamous 1-0 down 2-1 up cup game(possibly my favourite ever),and the many and varied shenanigans associated with derby day and the precarious walk back to near Stapleton road station where my dad usually parked the car.
I liked going to Eastville and although we haven’t played them much since they left ,the mem i associate with watching Bristol(rugby),is nowhere near the same.

Glad I saw those times ,happy days.

That 4-1 was my first ever derby- we went 1 up as well I think? I still shudder about that and the - in my eyes- 1 nil up 2-1 down.

The OP being a bit sniffy about the attendance, may do well to check other crowds of the time. Yes, City have always had the bigger crowds, but just under 10k in 1986 would have been a good attendance by most clubs standards.

I'm normally pretty good on knowing players from the 70s and early 80s, but I just stumbled upon your lot playing Forest on the Big Match revisited and you had an Alan Nicholls playing for you. I have no recollection of him whatsoever and Google only showed one article which appeared to be hidden behind a paywall.

So, Alan Nicholls, who he?

Good for Wrexham. I work there a bit and there is a real buzz about the whole town now with a community fully engaged with their local football team, what's not to like?

The owners clearly have a real connection to the club and town and after the owners they have had in the past , the fans deserve a bit of good fortune.

Good owners are few and far between, I still don't get the hostility towards your own. Under him you know get what, 22/23k per game? Literally trebling our attendances  and a stadium that several Premier league sides would be envious of. 

1 hour ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Thanks for correcting us Miah. I don't know anything about him but hope that if he was a long standing employee that he has been treated with suitable respect by the club.

 I don't know the answer to your second sentence, but I would hope that was true. He is far too decent a man to air any dirty laundry in public.