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  1. This will be the Roundheads argument, and it's difficult to argue with. Mind, I think I'm right in saying that it took them spending a record amount of money on a player to achieve this. And who remembers that player? They also finished above us in 89/90, it's worth saying (from a Cavalier point of view).
  2. It’s Roundheads and Cavaliers, mate. People with their heads in the clouds (Cavaliers), and people with their numbers. Some people - Round heads - are obsessed with stats, and facts, and figures, and heat maps, and financial fair bloody play, and formations and tactics, and the plain blinking truth of things, while some of us go, or went, to football to be excited and thrilled and to escape dull, mundane reality for a while, perchance to dream. In football, it helps to be a dreamer. Being a Bristol City fan, a lively imagination to disappear off into is essential. For about ten minutes, Jacki was our Best, Law and Charlton rolled in to one. True, that ten minutes wasn't at Trumpton in 1992. That's where us dreamers were able to survive by escaping into delusion, while the Round heads were shouting: "Dziekanowski you **** it's 0:4, run around you Polish .....
  3. Notts Co are "more historic" than Man City, I'd liked to have seen him somewhere like that too.
  4. Were you at Whitefield school with any of the Knibbs?
  5. I think you said: the grass isn't always greener, Dave. And I recall you went on to add: least of all Watford.
  6. He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink, then he picks the team ..... allegedly
  7. Would you say football, or football clubs, is/are good at communicating reality though? Up until very recently?
  8. Very sad news. Fair play to you for ploughing through three of her tomes, I am a mere philistine in this I am afraid and only know her via the visual arts and the fine BBC dramatisation of Wolf Hall with Mark Rylance, which I found absolutely captivating and have watched a few times, and consequently often think about buying the trilogy (then get put off by the sheer number of pages. And all the hours on Otib trying to read this would deny me). I might go and see it at the theatre, mind, that's a bit more Cotterill than watching it on the telly, isn't it?
  9. Apparently, today, 19th September, is: "International Talk Like A Pirate Day." No, really. It's a thing. What do pirates talk like, OTIB?
  10. My advice @yardy would be not to try and do it in a day, maybe stay overnight or better still, make a weekend of it.
  11. Bit harsh, mate. Who of us can say we haven't been to one of them sexist race orgies from time to time?
  12. That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last. That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last. That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last.
  13. They were so looking forward to doing this at Anfield .....
  14. Stop all the clocks, call off the matches, give Scott and Weimann a much needed rest; play Preston and Norwich when Kalas and Klose are fit.
  15. I don't think I can manage ten days of mourning, although Preston home, Norwich and Burnley away ..... ?
  16. Doubt we'll get "3 singing," not at AG, although if we can just beat bloody Preston ....
  17. Bradford managed promotion from L2 and a League Cup run with one more game than our cup run in 2012/13. And four FA Cup games, three more than us in 17/18. They did ok for "steam." Footballers get "tired" or run out of "steam" for all sorts of reasons, not all of them because of playing lots of games. How many times have we heard footballers saying they'd prefer to play than train? We just do not know for certain why we fell away that season. I don't think Diedhiou can have been "tired," he didn't play any games from Palace in October until his return to fitness. Kent and Diony cannot have been tired from that schedule either. Diony didn't run out of steam, he never had any in the first place. The following season, we got into April, and with the play-off "finishing line" in sight and Derby lagging behind us, we "ran out of steam" again. This time, with no "ridiculous amount of games" to point to.
  18. Thing with Kasey Palmer is, we don't miss him, not one tiny bit. We could be struggling this season, and still we would not miss him at all. I would imagine it is the same for the other clubs he has played for. It will be no great surprise if it's the same once he has left Coventry.
  19. One of the difficulties, in assessing the job Nige was doing, was in having a clear, unequivocal understanding of the size of the pickle we were in following covid and the era of Johnson and Ashton, how our hands were tied. But in football, no-one from a club comes out and says: "I have made a right mess of this, to be fair, and was completely taken in by the incompetent and vain Ashton who I have now fired because he was shite and making a right bloody Horlicks of this club. Nige is now buggered financially this season, and next, so if he signs some old shite and we are unwatchable and turgid for another 12 - 18 months, it's my fault and all pelters must be sent my way not Nige's." Football clubs don’t do this, they do: "we go again" and "today's attendance was 21,866." And other cheery, nothing-to-see-here nobody-goes-home-empty-handed infantile nonsense. If owners do not offer the plain truth and explain and official sites and outlets are not forthcoming, people are left to piece the reality together themselves, and some are a better at that than others.
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