Aberdeen Pete's Dad

Gerry Sweeney , Tom Ritchie

1958 Accrington Stanley FA Cup

Blue and white quarters ! 

Wonder where they got them from

Shirts for the Blackpool game were borrowed from Cardiff

Blackpool 1959 FA Cup

19th, 17 th, 14 th in successive seasons. It is progress. Slow progress, but progress none the less. Would we like it quicker ? Of course. What concerns me is that when managerial changes have been made in the past we usually get worse. Ward to Lennardson. Wilson to Tinnion. G Johnson to Coppell to Millen to McInnes to O’Driscoll. L Johnson to Holden. It is not a good record. We should not be changing the manager at this point because we are progressing, albeit slowly. 

Sheffield Wed

Derby

Coventry

Burnley 

City

Portsmouth

Watford

Blackpool

Reading

Burnley have played a great number of seasons in the top division. You could argue Portsmouth are bigger than City but they have not done much since 1949. I know they won the cup but they have played a lot of season in league 1 and 2. 

Watford are basically a third tier club and will probably return there again soon

1 hour ago, cidered abroad said:

That's a pretty decent list but as you're still a youngster, here are a few more to add.

Atyeo, Jimmy Rogers, Tommy Burden, Mike Thresher, Jack Connor, Brian Clark, Jantzen Derrick, Trevor Tainton.

1 hour ago, cidered abroad said:

That's a pretty decent list but as you're still a youngster, here are a few more to add.

Atyeo, Jimmy Rogers, Tommy Burden, Mike Thresher, Jack Connor, Brian Clark, Jantzen Derrick, Trevor Tainton.

I rated Bert Tindall

5 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Some don't judge us against the gas, Swindon and Plymouth. 

Some just wonder why a club from the 8th biggest city in the country, with so many obvious advantages over about 75% of other professional clubs, continues to be such an under achieving mess - year after year after year.

And one of the reasons is people just being happy that we're doing better than the gas, Swindon and Plymouth.

That sort of mediocre mindset is one of a multitude of problems Pearson has to contend with here. It may even be the thing that defeats him - that not enough people want it, really want it down to their bones. Perhaps Bristol City - from the owners at the top, through the people who work for the club on and off the pitch, to the people who support it from the stands - doesn't want success so badly it hurts? Perhaps we're all happy to just be doing ok, so long as it's better than the gas and Swindon and Plymouth? Perhaps it's something in the water or it's the Bristol DNA - success is nice but we can take it or leave at the end of the day?

What else can explain over 100 years of mediocrity, given all that we'vegot going for us? 

Imo Pearson isn't just trying to fix a leaky back 4, wobbly keepers, a non existent midfield, players eyeing more money and new contracts elsewhere, players offered less money to stay, an FFP blackhole - a death star sucking us back into League 1. That's not all he's got on his plate. That's not all he's trying to fix.

Whether he realises it or not, he's also trying to fix Bristol and Bristolians. It's a question of attitude, mentality. And it might be the one thing that beats him, like it's beaten so many before.

Pray God, it doesn't. 

I agree with what you say. Managers, players, owners, directors and coaches all come and go. The only consistent is the fans. Many want to see a winning team above all and so are happier in League 1. They certainly would not like in the Premiership ! Many have an inbuilt pessimism, negativity and anxiety. I remember someone saying years ago that if we ever won the Premier League ( old First Division) we would have fans whose reaction would be that we will never win the European Cup !

  Every manager that we have ever had has had a core element who want him out - Dicks out, Johnson x 2 out, Holden out, Houghton out, SOD out, Pauli’s out, Mullen out now Pearson out . We have heard it so many times.

 Experts on here  have definitively asserted at one time or another that Ayling, Freeman, Reid, Bryan, Kelly and Brownhill are not good enough for us but have gone on to the Premier League. Wright and Diediou not good enough for us but good enough for the World Cup. Magnússon . These same experts are not even prepared to consider the possibility that they might be part of the problem.

England have a very good team, probably the best ever and certainly the best since 1970. They could easily have won this year, and I am speaking as a Scotsman. Most of them will be in their prime in 4 years and there will be very few changes by then. It is not stretching a point to suggest that Alex Scott will be playing in Jordan Henderson ‘ s position . Harry Kane may have gone over by then, and his most effective replacement will be Abraham of Roma. Harry Maguire is obviously vulnerable , but the defence will be improved by the introduction of Webster of Brighton. 

1 hour ago, maxjak said:

Look at Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford............and get depressed....Ha!!    

For every Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford there is a Sheffield Wednesday, Bolton and Ipswich. That’s the way it is. We are pretty well in our usual place. Would like it to be better, but it could be worse.

It is , of course, shameful that no other city of comparable size in Europe has had it’s team playing less seasons, indeed no where near less seasons, in the top division of it’s country.

16 hours ago, Ivorguy said:

Seems only yesterday saw City play Brighton on their temporary home on a parks pitch.

why oh why can Brighton secure their place in top division and we continue to struggle

Are we doomed to always be the largest city never to have enjoyed the glamour of the 
PremierLeague, let alone establish ourselves there.

Look at Brighton, City fans, and weep.

Look at Sheffield Wednesday, Bolton and Ipswich and smile

Our home shirt in the future should be the opposite of this year’s away shirt - red with a white stripe. Apart from looking good, it sets us apart. Over the years there are many teams with red shirts that are little different from ours- Liverpool, Man U Notts Forest Aberdeen etc , ( Arsenal are a bit different with the white sleeves) but the white stripe will set us apart. Everyone will know that it is a Bristol City shirt, 

25.10.58 Sunderland.Won 4-1. Derek Virgin scored twice. I believe he is still alive. Would love to meet him.

1 hour ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Was in a pub quiz before, which non leauge grounds in london hosted the the 48 olympics.

One of them was walthamstow avenue, of green pond lane.

Dulwich Hamlet

Thanks

How to contact them ?

Flew from Australia for that game. My Dad picked me up from Heathrow and took me straight to Somerton Park

Gordon Hopkinson Phil Coggins Derek Virgin ? All still going

Went up on Saturday. Saw Sheff Wed v Wycombe. Hunt (and Bannon) were the best players on the pitch, but there is a significant difference in performance levels between championship and league 1

Came up yesterday. Went to see Sheff Wed v Wycombe. Their best players are Jack Hunt (!) and Bannon. There is a big difference between Championship and League 1

Effort WAS there but Sheff United are better. Of course, our midfield is weak 

David Moyes was sold by us during the 1987/8 season. At the end of the season we were in the playoff final at Walsall, and he was in the stand cheering on his ex team mates. That impressed me.

They ago won the Bundesliga in 1965

Bobby Kellard

Best midfield player in 62 years of watching City !