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  1. 13 minutes ago, Kingswood Robin said:

    Yesterday was the best I've seen him play for us since signing. He also operates in an area where our play looks least defined. We don't have that purpose/telepathy in the final third. That needs to evolve when Scott and others leave and new players come in, hopefully Cornick will play a part in that.  

    Yeah I thought he looked decent enough yesterday, I struggle to think of anything he did wrong.

    weimann was out for a while and is struggling for form yet gets a completely free pass. He was woeful yesterday and if Cornick put in that performance would have been given absolute pelters

    Cornick has barely played this season and is slowly finding his feet, and I think just needs a goal to get a bit of a spring in his step. For me he offered more than both weimann and wells yesterday in just 30 minutes.

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  2. On 14/06/2022 at 22:56, Rossi the Robin said:

    People say it’s an easy run but they must have beaten the better teams somewhere down the line - I don’t get why people say that, it’s all about form 

    Simply look at the fixtures. Every game in those tournaments we should have won. the World Cup completely opened up for us with the luck of the draw. And we nearly blew it against Columbia goi g to penalties.

    I don’t think we’ll have anywhere near that luck again and expect us to crash out early doors

  3. 8 minutes ago, Cowshed said:

    So you would put BCFC in blue quarters?

    If you answer no you are placing a value on identity.

    No, I just think quarters looks rubbish. Probably looks even worse in red whenever I’ve seen it aswell.

     

  4. 4 minutes ago, Cowshed said:

    Bristol City have an identity. If individuals were asked, say fans of other clubs what characterizes BCFC in regards to it kit its red shirt, white shorts .. The identity there changes when the shirt is red shirt white arms. Joe public any football fan will feel that identity is associated to other clubs, and in particular the big proper one in North London.

    You stated each to their own. Identity is very important to many fans, we identify as football fans, the club kit, traditions and culture are part of identity.

    This Arsenal identity identifies the small-time nature of BCFC. The club kit, traditions and culture are of no interest to the likes of those behind that design. The kit is for marketing gimmicks, make sure its red and that is it.

    Ooooh identity identity. Our kit must give us an identity 

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  5. 6 minutes ago, formerly known as ivan said:

    I have missed something? One of the stand out performers at the start of season. Appreciate he got injured but at the saying goes, if you are fit enough to be on the bench then you are fit enough to start. So why isn’t he?

    I’ve never heard that saying before

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  6. 2 hours ago, MattWSM said:

    Yes its a nice place to live, granted WsM High St is struggling just like every High St in the country but shops is not really my thing, like I said before good food, good beer, walks, cycle ways fresh air, beautiful scenery with woods, beach, parks there is plenty, good rail and road connections, all on a level, so it is hard to beat. Sad to see opinions like this as not true at all but if the comments are based on shops and that's your thing then agree it needs a boost but so do most towns and cities.  Would be surprised we have shoppers on here...

    anyway each to its own, I'm now on the seafront  after a walk and about to go for a breakfast, so it puzzles me how many can knock that life.

    Wsm is far more then the Street with the amusements and the brummie in the summertime.. haha

    If there’s a nice part of w-s-m I’m yet to find it. 
     

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  7. 15 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

    Tomorrow at 1230 at Ashton Gate is the first of two consecutive games against Fulham, something I don’t like as I fear grudges from the first game may seek to be settled just a week later!

    Here’s todays programme: https://robinstv.bcfc.co.uk/digital-matchday-programme/

    The match will be unavailable on Robins TV.

    Fulham haven’t played since 20th December when they lost 1-0 at Craven Cottage to Sheffield United, they drew the four previous games so their last win was November 20th.

    NP has hinted at some changes in personnel for us although he doesn’t want to ‘lower the intensity’ we may see KP involved along with others.

    Sadly, we have experienced more lows than highs in the FA Cup.

    The highest of highs was in 1909 when we won through to our only FA Cup Final, though of course we were somewhat fortunate that a last-gasp spot-kick saved us from defeat in the semi-final versus Derby County in a game played at Stamford Bridge . In the final, at the Crystal Palace (now the National Sports Centre), we lost to Manchester United 1–0.

    In living memory the highs include a famous victory at Elland Road in 1974, a game I attended as a naive 17 year old year old. When Donnie Gillies scored I went completely crazy - then realised that nobody within 50 yards of me was celebrating! http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/matches/19740219.htm and https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-flashback-invincible-leeds-3845168 For younger viewers at this time Leeds United were considered to be invincible and violence at grounds was far more commonplace and often more serious.

    Donnie was one of numerous Scottish players in our team in the 70s and 80s along with players such as Gow, Sweeney, Richie, Fitzpatrick, Cormack and Shaw. Last I heard Gillies was still living locally at Temple Cloud.

    Another memorable FA Cup game came twenty years later with a win against Liverpool at Anfield, Brian Tinnion scoring the only goal of the game in the 66th minute. https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2017/01/on-this-day-liverpool-0-bristol-city-1-the-end-of-souness/ (the goal is at 14.05 but it is well worth watching the full clip.)

    Club legend Tinnion is in an exclusive club of just five players to have featured more than 500 times for City. The Geordie came through the ranks of Newcastle United, where he played alongside Paul Gascoigne.

    Signed in 1993 from Bradford City, Tinnion spent 12 seasons as a player at Ashton Gate, before taking over from Danny Wilson at the helm in 2004.

    Tinnion scored his first goal for the club against Bristol Rovers, a penalty in front of the open end.
    As a player, Tinnion's left foot was magical, like a wand. He helped the team to promotion in 1997/98 under John Ward, and lifted the 2003 LDV Vans Trophy in Cardiff.

    Initially he was the club's player-manager, ironically in his testimonial year, but soon hung up his boots to concentrate full time in the role. Inconsistency in 2005/06 saw Tinnion, in the wake of a 7-1 loss at Swansea City, agree to step aside.

    He dusted off his boots to play for the likes of Aldershot and Weston-super-Mare, before moving out to Spain to run coaching courses and embark on scouting missions.

    Then in 2013 Tinnion returned to Ashton Gate to head up youth recruitment in the Academy. He was the club's Loans Manager until his new title of Player Pathway Manager in January 2021. He also works as an ambassador for City.

    Last season we were beaten 1-0 in the fifth round by Sheffield United having won against Pompey and Millwall.

    As for our visitors when in the Second Division Fulham finally made it through to the FA Cup Final in 1975. Every one of the five ties that were won on the way to Wembley were away from the Cottage, and no club, before or since, has played as many matches to get there. It took seven games to dispose of Hull City and Nottingham Forest, before a victory over First Division table-toppers Everton in the Fifth Round. For many, the Final itself was anti-climatic, West Ham United winning 2-0 to take the trophy against a Fulham side that included former Hammers captain Bobby Moore in their starting XI.

    Third Division Fulham set an FA Cup record in 1995/96 when they thrashed Second Division Swansea City 7-0 in a First-Round tie at the Cottage  and the scoreline remains the largest-winning margin in the competition by a club over opponents from a higher division.

    It wasn’t until the 2001/02 season that Fulham, now back in the top flight, made a mark on the FA Cup again when they reached the last four after disposing of Wycombe Wanderers, York City, Walsall and West Bromwich Albion. They met bitter rivals Chelsea at Villa Park in the Semi-Final but a John Terry effort was enough to win the game for the Blues.

    FA Cup facts

    • Spurs are the only non-league team to have won the FA Cup. They won it in 1901, and then 60 years later they became the first team to win the league and cup double.
    • The highest score line in the final is 6-0, when Derby County were beaten by Bury in 1903.
    • The longest FA Cup tie lasted five games. This incredibly long game was finally ended when Bury beat Stoke in the 4th replay in 1954.
    • Leicester City have reached the final four times. Of those four times, none of them resulted in victory.
    • The fastest goal scored in the FA Cup final was 42 seconds. This amazing goal was scored by Roberto Di Matteo, who played for Chelsea, and later managed them to a Champions League title.
    • The first player to be sent off in the FA Cup final was Kevin Moran of Manchester United in 1985 in the match against Everton.
    • Arsenal have lost 6-0 three times in the FA Cup. The first was against Sunderland in 1883, the second against Derby in 1889, and the third against West Ham in 1946.
    • West Brom were the first team to win the FA Cup with a completely English-born team in 1888.
    • Blackburn had an amazing run of 24 consecutive games in which they were undefeated during the FA Cup between the years 1884 and 1886.
    • Ashley Cole holds seven winner’s medals. No one else has previously won so many before.
    • In 1990 the three semi-final matches had a total of 16 goals. The goals were scored by 16 different players, which is really quite bizarre.
    • In 1946 and 1947 the ball actually burst in both finals, something which has not occurred since. This is likely due to the poor materials used to make the balls in post-wartime Britain and the lack of back-up balls we have today.

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    Your facts are a year out of date

  8. 6 hours ago, Gazred said:

    It's an interesting point in his career really.

    In his prime, still under a good contract at midpoint, played well for us in his time here, put in some good performances at international level. He's sort of ripe for a move to a bigger club or for a better deal yet he doesn't ever seem to have been seriously linked with anyone that i can recall.

    He clearly sounds settled and he's no doubt on a fat wage so not in a rush to give that up. Perhaps he has just found a level, a club and a homelife that suits and genuinely doesn't have a desire to seek something else at this point. As he says, he's had a pretty nomadic lifestyle for most of his career.

    Would he extend in the summer if offered? Could meet those demands even if reduced terms?

    I expect he’s never been heavily linked with another club because he is not as good as people here seem to think he is, he’s on silly wages, and we completely had out pants pulled down with each of the players we signed from Chelsea that summer.

    Don’t get me wrong, he is fine at this level, but has a mistake in him and some of his great last ditch defending comes from being out of position or mistiming an areal challenge. 
     

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  9. 1 hour ago, RalphMilnesLeftFoot said:

    Smashing post. 

    Werder Bremen are one of those teams who've always been there or there abouts. With them getting relegated it would be the equivalent of Arsenal or Chelsea I suppose getting relegated. 

    Pizarro, Klose and Ozil amongst over the last decade or so, to relegation. Yikes! 

    Wonder if they sink and rebuild like Leeds or stay down for 1 and comeback with aplomb...

     

    Chelsea have not always been there or thereabouts. and I believe have been outside the top flight in my lifetime. It would probably be more like Everton being relegated 

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  10. 4 minutes ago, Super said:

    Why do people think we just have to turn up to beat teams? Barnsley are desperate for points never going to be an easy game. 

    I don’t think that’s the case. But to have a chance of making the playoffs we’re going to have to pick up a couple of wins away from home, and Barnsley offered the best chance of that today. 

    I don’t think we looked like getting all three points today at any point, we just couldn’t deal with their simple tactic of lumping it up to their big man.

    but a bit of perspective is needed. We lots of  peoples favourites to go down this season, so wherever we finish this year it has been a great season I’m my book.

    on any normal day any point away from home is a decent point in the championship. But we needed to win that today

    ho hum 

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  11. Not gonna get anything out of today. 

    Boro at home will be  a big test to see what Johnson learned from last seasons bad run. An average team on an indifferent run, should be there for the taking. 

    I wanted Johnson gone last season but a quarter final place in the league cup and a mid table finish would leave me satisfied this season, but out last 2 performances and lack of chances created do worry me that we’ve been found out now and Johnson has no idea how to make the changes needed to get us going again.

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