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2 hours ago, Iron Acton Red said:

Blackburn we’re shocking mind you

1 hour ago, southside said:

We made them look shocking 

It’s a bit of both, at a guess

7 hours ago, Olé said:

There are videos every week of all kinds of exuberance in away concourses which let's be honest is absolutely fair game if you treat your customers to concrete and breeze blocks. 

The lack of soft furnishings in modern football concourses is a disgrace, some plump cushions would've helped no end yesterday. Dale Vince won't have this problem with his new ground made from wood, straw and lime render (plus hemp drapery)

Can't quite believe that is Lez, off here, on there. He's actually real. Still getting used to @Davefevs actually being real. Amazing. We likely to see "Alan" Robbored on there - don't tell me he's actually a real bloke, too?

52 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

 

7 points in 3 is great but our results in general have not been and we still don't know what the "true" Bristol City is. We've now got five games where Manning has a chance to demonstrate he can get us performing consistently well and pick up points against struggling sides. It sounds a harsh assessment but, looking at what the fixtures are, 7 points or less from those 5 would maintain my sense of underachievement, 8 - 10 points would feel like "par" and only 11 or more points from the last five would make me start to feel like I could approach next season with optimism. 

Yeah we do, it's stuck somewhere between about 14th in the Championship/second tier, and just a little bit higher than where the Blue Few currently fester in L1. Letting in a little too many, not scoring quite enough. In front of about 12,000 people.

So we're doing alright, as things stand. Manning in (until ....)

1 hour ago, Markthehorn said:

Well we definitely went back into normal mode today .

Very passive and slow against a negative PNE side .

They have the same effect on us, Preston ...

45 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

"A Difficult Place To Come".

Where isn't? I hate that bloody statement, means bugger all if you say it about absolutely everywhere.

"They're a good side," says 98% of managers and coaches after almost every game, either to explain a disappointing draw or loss, or to buff a win. In the 70s, managers (although not Alan Dicks) were big gob gobshites rubbishing anyone and everyone, like they were Muhammed Ali. 

7 minutes ago, RedJim said:

We are a boring team with a boring manager. Normally I'd take a draw at Sunderland but these just got beaten 5-1 at home by Blackburn. This regime (from the top) is killing my enthusiasm for the club. 

They're not the club though, are they mate? They're just ships that pass in the night, so to speak. It's, er, us, we're the club. Can you get enthusiastic about us?

34 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Plenty of comments over the years on here of no away point is a bad point. 

Had Arsenal drawn at Anfield in May 1989 it is my firm opinion they would not have concurred with you there, Dave

29 minutes ago, lenred said:

Results wise you take an away draw every day of the week, however dire it may be! 

Yeah, the further away an away game is, the more you take an away draw. Every day of the week, including Saturdays.

12 hours ago, hollydog said:

I assume you meant my reference to the away support ? My point is that Argyle took many more than City would take. We travel badly north of Birmingham. I’ve been to Rotherham six times and we never turn up. Even in 1990 when we pretty well secured promotion (super Bob) we only took around 300!

 

 

 

They still seem to have enthusiasm, our charming/naive West Country cousins; whilst we last had any of that about 1977 (three successive relegations take their toll; we truly do not believe).

There's been the occasional flowering, outbreak, of colour and enthusiasm amongst our support over the last 40 years but it's only ever very short-lived.

We are jaded, and numb; the miracle is that people still come to AG in the numbers they do 

13 minutes ago, Son of Fred said:

I think Nige has a place near Bigbury??....

Would imagine he's enjoying life too much now to be working again!

Bigbury Nige, as he's known down them parts ... 

Just now, zombie said:

Nope, Mr Pop has replied to you and pointed how that they’ve been receiving Prem cash or PP for the last 20+ years, so comparing WBA and ourselves is like comparing apple as and oranges. Comparing ourselves with Preston, Millwall is more realistic than the Baggies.

As the OP I wasn’t making a point, I was asking do we deserve to be higher or does our position fairly reflect other metrics.

Not sure I can agree with your story/recall of us having top 6 gates either.

If we want promotion from this division then I would think rather a greater percentage of our support than ever before now understand that that is only likely and can only be hoped for with a change in ownership (whilst acknowledging that such a change does not guarantee anything of the sort). We are, currently, stuck between a rock and a hard place, treading water. It would seem.

Hardly surprising that people are agitating for something more, something new or fresh, in the circumstances  (whilst being ever so careful what we wish for).

There's three slots for going up, not even the mighty ("we are not worthy") Leeds United can fill all of those; and four play-off spaces, to give you a shot. 

We're not a Leeds? We're not even a bloody Luton, for crying out loud. 

We've had our nice little trip down there now, quite happy for them to tootle off back down to L1 and resume playing the Few et al, whilst we crack on with yer Leeds's, yer Leicesters'ss, and yer Sunderlands (ie the big boy's) 

15 hours ago, Curr Avon said:

One of the best keepers in the Championship.

So will be sold before he gets to 200 150 appearances? 

3 hours ago, NewquayRed said:

One less position to worry about next season, 

... unless someone fancies buying him, of course ....

Merry Christmas, great; Happy Easter, fine; what about Ascencion Day?

20 hours ago, glynriley said:

Terry Hall / The Specials

It was great stuff around 79 - 81 but you could see why Tez wanted to move on and do something else/less lively, he was never going to be doing Skinhead Moonstomp for 30 - 40 years and into his middle age. He spent quite a bit of last night's show sitting down a la Val Doonican. 

13 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

Cross country trains take approx two hours to get to Plymouth from BTM and depart at 45 minutes past the hour

GWR trains take approx 2 hours and 35 minutes.

We have not had a 3pm kick against Plymouth since 2008,that's SIXTEEN years ago

So advise sitting on the left hand side of the train,where the views are stunning in direction of travel on the way to Plymouth

Wellington monument,Dawlish Warren aerial and for the train buffs on the approach to Plymouth Laira diesel depot.

Then when you arrive at Plymouth station,Home park floodlights can be seen on your right hand side and up the hill

If your gonna arrive early(like me) I am gonna have a trip round bay to see where the Royal navy ships are based

and to mention the class 23 Frigate HMS Bristol is also there

Group save is available on GWR trains BUT not on Cross country trains,split ticketing is available  on GWR and Cross country trains

If your joining at Bristol Parkway and any cross country train is cancelled,get yourself down to Filton Abbey Wood and connect into a GWR Plymouth/Penzance train

Please stock up on your liquid requirements,packets of crisps and chocolate bars in advance it will be cheaper and the trains will be that busy the food/drinks trolley will struggle to get to your seat/s.

If you want to listen to Radio Devon's commentary of the game it will be on 95:7 and DAB

We have beaten two teams home and away so far this season Middlesbrough and Swansea.

We still have the chance of beating another three teams at both home and away this season,Sunderland and Rotherham and Plymouth on Monday.

The return cross country train is at 17:27pm,I have not seen anything about a return football special after the game.

If your gonna use the Cross country service suggest reserving a seat on the 17:27pm service AND

tweet Cross country asking if they might put on a ten coach set for the 17:27 service.

Lets hope for a very good day in Devonshire.

 

Cheers, mate. Where were you with all this 39 years ago (yesterday)? What would you advise if they slow the thing up to a crawl on its approach into the station and then they don’t want to let us get off and get to the game, and put a chopper up overhead?

59 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:

He’s named after the wrong room in the house. Andrew Toilet is more apt. 

"You will always find him in the toilet at parties .... do,do,do,do do"

19 minutes ago, redkev said:

Couple of things ,

looks like some big teams coming up from league 1 next year 

Pompey ( that will be lively ) Derby & Bolton  . 
another point firstly why is Max Bird coming to us surely Derby are a bigger club , also is he injured already I have looked at the team sheets for the last month or so and he not in line ups or on bench 

Don't fret, mate, they was equally as "big" when they went down. Sheffield Wednesday are bleedin' massive, whether they're going up or down.

Next season is not so much about how "big" the other teams are - although, having said that, I'd like Rotherham in this division every time we're in it - it’s about us and what we do with what we've got. Look what we've done today.

One of the three coming up will likely struggle in the bottom 4 or 5. The bigger they are, the bigger the muddle they can get themselves in.

Wedged between Wycombe and Exeter in the bottom half of the L1 table: a sh1t sandwich, if ever there was .... 

1 minute ago, The Gasbuster said:

Vale 2-0 Vile

Vale 2 No Avail 0

1 hour ago, Slack said:

Didn't rate mehmeti atall today, yes he does the hard stuff easy but can he please just do the simple stuff 

Roberts played excellent I thought 

We got ten lads to do the simple stuff, do we need eleven?

Liam Manning is clearly a coach for a higher standard (see West 'am, Forest, Southampton) than Bristol City and middle of the Championship and the worthy squad of players we have at our disposal, it's just a question of: can Bristol City reach the level Manning is at, and destined to be.