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First time I saw City play Rotherham was in 1952/3 in an FA Cup match. Both sides had to change colours due to red clash. City lost the toss for white and ended up wearing the Gas blue and white quarters. We lost, 1-3 Rotherham being a Second Division team while we were Third (South). We got our revenge in 1957 when we beat them 4-1 in the Third Round.

But you are one of the City fans with a quirk for anything numerical!

That is ok if one has or uses X which I don't. Was it on club website in another method?

What do you mean by "the old days"? If you mean LJ time here then yes. Apart from that shambles, I don't remember any time from 1950 onwards that we spent lot's of money on transfer fees and didn't play them. Some like Hugh McImoyle who were not very good here but we sold him on and got John Galley as his replacement. He did quite well here!

Agree with you and I confirm that modern football at the top levels, has become rather boring. So you consider that rugby is more of a spectacle. Well I have an ST for Bears and they generally try to play a running, passing game. Others like Quins are similar but the two most successful sides of the last decade, Saracens and Exeter have achieved titles and cups with a dull kicking and scrummaging version of rugby.

Bayer Leverkusen, the Leicester City or Blackburn Rovers of Germany Bundesliga. A small club getting a League title against all the giants and possibly unlikely to ever get so close again?

Firstly, I believe that if there is any doubt about the decision, by linesman or VAR, the decision should favour the attacking side. It is, after all, a game that is played to score more goals than the opponents. Secondly, I would only make a decision, draw the line, with only one part of the body is taken into consideration. The feet! VAR seems to me a very negative thing for attacking football and an encouragement for sides to be more negative in approach. Another suggestion would be that offside, which was introduced in the very early days of football, should be dispensed with now. Defenders would then not be able to move forward to deliberately play an opponent offside. And the entertainment value of a match may be increased with more goals.

Unable to watch or listen to radio but very pleased with a point at Carrow Road which is not one of our best hunting grounds.

The defeat by Notts County was 100% because the team hadn't been sober all week after the Pompey match!

I blame my Welsh Dad. When I was six, he took me to Eastville, we went home at half time after sliding down the Muller Road end mud bank, Bristol Rugby, City, Cardiff City and Wales v Scotland Rugby. Then in summer, cricket at Nevil Road and Weston SM for Somerset v Glamorgan. I soon realised that with all three sports, I'd never be alone anywhere in our country and later the same anywhere on this planet. The match might be crap but always someone to talk to.

Well, I have succumbed to renewal for City and Bears but I'm still unsure about City being able to do well and manage to get into the top six after 46 games. However, as I'm coming up to 81st birthday, still fit and able enough to get to the matches. I have done so because this life isn't a rehearsal, I am keeping all my interests going as long as I can. So it's dog walking twice a day, model railway construction any spare time, City and Bears for entertainment(?) keeping the garden alive and still doing all the cooking as wife is useless at that. But I still want to see running, flowing rugby and a football team that will provide entertaining matches, win, lose or draw. PS. Can we please arrange for Rebecca Welsh to referee all of our matches, the best and impartial, referee I have seen in many years.

Clearly a QPR supporter so probably prefers dilapidated, out of date grounds rather than modern stadia with good views of all the playing area and plenty of legroom in the seats.

Birmingham Super Mare!

I would do likewise. Often dreamt of winning a £million on the lottery and thinking I would give half of it to City to get some players to take us back where we should belong.

I assume he couldn't have anything to do with the Bears as he funds them down the A4.

Couldn't agree more. The quality has varied from the dream results coming true in the First Division to a team of mid teenage boys at the bottom of Division Four. In 1982, I did something that Lansdown never has or never will do. I spent the £90 of cash in my savings bank account on shares to keep City in business. And so did around 2,000 others. I have little respect now for SL as over 25 years he has spent peanuts on City, City Women and Bristol Rugby. When he completely clears his bank account as I did, I'll grant him some respect. He is taking the piss out of us supporters. Not funding the playing staff to give us a better chance of top quality football. And employing a head coach who is trying to do the impossible; to play the same style and quality as the Man City's, Real Madrid's with Second and Third Division quality playing staff. They're doing their very best but the style of play that Manning is trying to produce is way beyond our players ability. So send Manning back to Man City where he can coach their thirteen year olds!

So being top over the last five means that one should expect a performance with more confidence against a struggling side like Huddersfield. So how did we manage to give us supporters, one of the most awful displays that I've seen in a long time? Backwards and sideways all the time. Boring and not the least bit entertaining.

Is Manning coaching the under 21's now?

Well if he was, perhaps he realises that a significant number of us are sick fed up with the backwards and sideways game plan that is so boring. And if that is the only method that Manning can coach into the squad, we all might as well go up the Downs on a Saturday afternoon for our weekly fix!

Complete agreement.

Agreed, very good.

I have supported City since 1950 and to the best of my memory, I have only left early in all of that time. It was against Sunderland about forty years ago, losing 0-6 in a League Cup game. I'd been working that day from 9 am on the West Country and lived in Shrewsbury, so I left five minutes early to get going before most of the traffic. As I've said elsewhere that performance today was abysmal. I don't blame the players but Manning's totally negative tactics are awful. I'm pleased we drew but I couldn't face any more and am coming to the conclusion that if he stays here, it won't get any better.

This is nothing to do with the players. It's the tactics that they are told to play. The "BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS" style of play is pathetic. I don't like to see us lose but I want City to at least have a go at the other side. When our goalkeeper gets more passes than our attackers, it means that our tactics are negative and will never be the way to make progress and win matches. And don't forget that we were not playing against a Real Madrid, Man City or Liverpool. This was one of the teams that are destined for relegation. So this match has confirmed that while Manning is still here, BCFC can stick their season ticket where a monkey stores his nuts. After early sixty years of season ticket, I've had enough.

I understand what you are showing but to get our most expensive signings from all time must take account of financial inflation since. Best examples I can think of without doing all the maths to prove it would be:- Paul Cheesley at £30,000 John Galley, can't remember what his fee was but if around £20,000 what a reward we got. And Tommy Burden, signed from Leeds when he was their captain, for £3,500. We got about nine seasons for a class midfielder. In short it is not what you pay but what you get for the cost.

I'm pleased that Argyle stuck it up Leicester.