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As contemporary football managers/head coaches go, Nige is a bit leftfield, quirky; he's not your average football obsessive (he doesn't watch every match on tv). As football clubs go, we are a bit, what shall we say, quirky? We're a bit soft/daft, a bit odd. Soft/daft but with 27,000 seats and 20,000 crowds. Steve Lansdown is also not your typical club owner (not trigger-happy). These things take time, and Steve gives you time. Unless you're .... but let's not get into all that now. Nige is also a bit of an adventurer, a wanderer and a rambler (a Rambling Man), and managing Bristol City, or attempting to knock Bristol City into a serious promotion contender from this level of English football, is like going somewhere only two blokes have ever been before, and not for quite some time. Wild dogs are guaranteed along the way. Get Burnley/Watford/Leicester/Forest promoted to the top division, and it's all been done before, probably only two years ago. Not exactly "meh," but you'll just be one in a long line of many, and there won't be a statue. Get Bristol City promoted to the top division, that is a bit different. Who's done that before? Who outside of Bristol, under 50 years of age, can name them? Alan who? At this point, Nige is John Cabot: John Cabot with his boat booked, the backing of a local merchant, and just his crew to finalise.

Do you have snow chains and a shovel in the boot?

Is there a roof over the away end yet?

"Nige Fever, Nige Fever, We know how to do it. Gimme that Nige Fever, Nige Fever ......"

Are you suggesting Elton John's "(No)Passengers" as a song we won't ever sing?

And Theresa May at her Tory conference

Recreate the conditions of Manchester City's FA Cup defeats to Halifax at the Shay in January 1980 (the day we were whipping Derby 6:2) by instructing the Bristol rugby lot to train on it Sunday and Monday and then having a sprinkler "problem" similar to the floodlights v Liverpool '94 only "we can't seem to bloody turn 'em off, Pep" rather than switching them on being the problem.

Al, do yerself a favour, pop on the Rovers thread every now and then, call Joey Barton a ****, get yerself some likes and laughs, then give the old Avon(t)-garde stuff another run out, see how it goes down then

I'm finking: wass t.f. you on about, Al?

I liked David Coleman for England v Scotland; Barry Davies for Liverpool v Borussia Monchengladbach; and Motty for Hereford v Newcastle. Oh, and Tony Gubba for City 3 Chelsea 1.

There ain't no Sanity Clause??

Very sad

I've always had a lot of time for Billy Idol's 'Hot in the City' ".... 'cos when, er, a 'long-legged lovely' walks by You can, ahem, see the look in her eye Then you know that it's Scott in the City, Scott in the City tonight" I tried to get this going at Yeovil away, 2015, "Cotts and the City," and no-one was having it. Not even @GrahamC

Facial?

Yeah, there was a bloke on here, he said: "I will boo" if summat or other happened and I think he did "boo"

Proper manager. Well, womanager

More rabbit than Sainsbury’s?

What is?

Which one?

Oh, I see: it's ok to tell people to wear track suit bottoms, but not to tell them not to wear them?

"Look - Championship toilets"

I can't see what sort of trousers Neil's wearing there, or if he’s in fact wearing any at all. Not that I'd dream of telling Neil what trousers he can wear. Perish the thought. Can only see one hand, too.......

I wish now we had gone 365 days without a penalty in 1987, would've saved a lot of pain and raised hopes leading to crushing disappointment.

I think the club announced when we played Man Utd that we could've sold "twice the number" of tickets sold for that game. That might just have been a standard thing to say in the circumstances or a way of saying demand outstripped supply a bit, but this part of the country is definitely an "up for the cup" type football area, interested in the occasional big/knockout game rather than being yer week in, week out sorts. We did actually sell 42,000 tickets for a game v Walsall about 8 years ago, let us not forget.

His father isn't potty trained yet (etc, and so on)