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74 years support and I feel exactly the same. I know it's often said that no renewal of ST but that is how I feel and I never thought I would ever say that. Manning is not a football team manager!

He's a coach and not a manager!

Disgusting. Longevity of support for the football club and elderly age are not reasons to avoid a ban on attending pro football matches.

As one who started following City when the normal game tactics were so similar by almost all clubs, I absolutely agree with what you want from a game. Excitement near the goals so that even a nil nil draw is an interesting and uplifting match. After all the objectives of the game is to let off steam at the end of a working week. Not a chess match that requires the brains of a genius with moves taking place at one per day!

I saw Inter Milan in a European match at Aston Villa a year or two after they had won in the 1990 World Cup win and Brehme Matthaus and Klinsmann played. Well worth the entry money.

@spudski I guess that they are on an ego trip. Since I was a young boy, I've enjoyed "talking" with other fans of all ages in newsagents waiting for the Green In to arrive and on the train to and from Ashton Gate with eight or nine adult neighbours. But we just gave opinions on things that had happened during matches and what we'd do in the future games. It was just banter and not taken too seriously. I know I spend too much time on here but I have so many other things to fill my day like dog walking, cooking our meals, learning another language, gardening, diy'ing and building an N gauge model railway. I'm sat here now waiting for daylight and the first dog walk on the beach. Have a happy day everyone.

Physically or Mentally knackered?

That performance following Tuesday tells me that Manning may be a good coach but he is NOT A MANAGER.

Sykes didn't appear to be match fit by a long way. Not one attempt to beat the full back. I'm not blaming him. Either poor instructions from LM or nowhere near ready to return. The youngster signed from Belgium - Yeboah would have seemed like an international. All round, a dreadful City performance from Head Coach to the ball boys.

My father saw City in around 1910/12. Lived in The Rhondda but had an uncle living on Coronation Road and so his Dad would bring him over to Howells on the paddle steamers. If City were at home, all the males went to watch; the females stayed where they should be, in the kitchen! Only joking about the last comment, I think it's brilliant that so many females come to watch us.

@italian dave 1960? You've lost me. I know we got relegated and Del Shannon had a massive hit with Runaway after BBC Hit or Miss programme voted it a total failure. I left school and got my first job at £3, 3 shillngs and 8 pence but what else happened?

I do wonder if some people are so fixed in their ideas and way of life, imposing them on others, that it works against the benefits. In a free country, it should be left to every individual to have their own beliefs, diets, religion and every other facet of their life.

I haven't read 99 % of posts but my answer to the question is that we want to finish the highest possible. That could and should give our squad the confidence to continue the form from early August!

It's the simple fouls of shirt pulling and innocuous ankle taps when a team is breaking out of their own defensive area and can threaten a speedy break on opposing goal. None of them are dangerous like causing injury, neither are they last man/red cards. Simply to allow them to organise their defence. In other words CHEATING.

That "advantage" was less than 10/15 seconds so should have given the free kick to City. Even though we won, all these incorrect decisions do matter. They alter the flow of the game, upset the players concentration and generally give the points to the best cheating team.

We won promotion from Fourth Division.

I was there and here is my story. I worked at Colodense in West St, Bemmy. A near neighbour of mine also worked there and he was also a City fan. His job was technical service to our customers and so he organised a visit to a customer inw Lincoln on the morning of the replay. So at 6am, we set off to Lincoln. My wife and Dad, him and his wife. Went to customer and did the business bit, leaving Lincoln at 10.30. At 1.20 pm we got to Elland Road and bought 5 tickets in yhe stand opposite to stand where players came on to pitch. My wife had never been to a live game and when Gillies scored, she asked me what had happened? The next 20 minutes were the longest in my life. We found out later that when we bought five seats together, all turnstiles to terraces had been closed as full, fifteen minutes before we bought them. One eighteen hour day by the time we got home, delighted but knackered.

But our problem is that we don't win too many consecutively. If we could go W W D W D D W for example we'd have 15 points out of 7 games which would push us into top six. So if we could cure our inconsistent points gathering and even won at home all the time, we would see a big difference.

Another one of our "Family" leaves his family forever. As it happens to all of us, for their sake, I hope it's gone but never forgotten. RIP City fan.

Don't be silly! LM last night set us up in the same way as NP was developing without all the sideways at the back when we got the ball. LM may get the glory but hasn't he realised that he must use the players in a way that they are used to. Defend sensibly and hit the other defence early before they have chance to get their defence en masse to keep us out.

Is the young Yeboah a very similar player who is about three years behind that aforementioned?

The amount of possession really is the most useless data in any team sport. It's like leading on a grand Prix for 99% of the time and being overtaken with half a lap to go. Southampton were a typical lower Premier league side, full of good technical players, keeping possession without making any real inroads into the opponents defence. We've seen this so many times this season that it's completely boring to watch. Have City reverted to the game plan that was being built by NP and which LM has possibly realised is the way to win games? Stop going sideways and backwards all the time to keep possession and hitting to other side with real pace - not only on both touchlines but also through the middle. Attacking the opponents straight through what has been forbidden territory for too long. I walked out of Ashton Gate last evening buzzing with excitement just like I did when I was a six year old after my first City match. I wanted to go in Ashton Park and kick a tennis ball like I did then! This old man hasn't grown up. COYREDS!!!!

Super captain and leader.

What was final u21 score?

Under 21 final score ?