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9 minutes ago, Leaning To One Side said:

Norman Hunter

Norman wasn't hard, he was dirty. 

Gary Stanley

7 hours ago, AshtonRobin21 said:

Adam El-Abd 

That wasn't Adam, though. It was his brother. Cotts "homework" lacked a little vigour with that transfer

Aiden MccaCaffery, Mark Hughes - from back in the days when our recruitment was: "who're Rovers looking to shift?"

1 hour ago, SecretSam said:

The Walshy shuffle...Biff creaming them in from 30 yards...memories.

Massive racism, awful facilities, appalling pitches, ever-present threat of violence...not-so-great-memories.

The "threat of violence" was not as prevalent as that through the 80s, not at AG, because we spent all but one of the ten seasons dawdling in the two lowest divisions, where the visitors to AG were often York, Darlington, Southend, Bury, Walsall, Lincoln, Gillingham etc who "travelled light" and didn't do much in the way of that sort of thing, whereas in the top two divisions things are more lively and frequent in that department. 

Visits from Millwall, Pompey, Villa, Sheffield Weds and Utd, West Ham being notable exceptions. Most of the 80s was York, Southend, Bury and Gillingham, in front of 5,700 people, waiting for us to get our act together, which took until the end of the decade.

Some of the away games were pretty bad, though, certainly. 

1 hour ago, SecretSam said:

The Walshy shuffle...Biff creaming them in from 30 yards...memories.

Massive racism, awful facilities, appalling pitches, ever-present threat of violence...not-so-great-memories.

£2.75p to get in.

41 minutes ago, harrys said:

Yeh, but you forgot Kendo Nagasaki, apart from all these losers everyone else loved it

Foul! magazine - the first football fan-zine - didn't like it, they thought football was going to the dogs, on and off the pitch. They weren't far wrong.

1 hour ago, harrys said:

Oh dear, there are some odd posters on here.

 

"Likely to be true" this one, @bcfcredandwhite, mate

12 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Two can play at that game!

"Lately you've been actin' mighty strange,

To me it seems your attitude has changed .... "

Bobby Brown, good song

44 minutes ago, harrys said:

Exactly, tell me of anyone that didn’t enjoy the Norman Hunter/Francis Lee or Keegan/Bremner bust ups?

Mary Whitehouse, she didn't. The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, the Right Reverend Robert Runcie, he didn't enjoy it. Cliff Richard, another one. Two of 'Pans People' said they did not enjoy it. Percy Thrower, he didn't enjoy it. The 'Blue Peter' BBC team didn't like it, and recorded a short film to tell the children of this country that this was no way to behave, and Little Billy Bremner is sorry and would not ever do it again. Every rugger bugger in the country at that time scoffed at it. And Jimmy Hill, he didn't enjoy it. Oh, and one of 'Smash & Grab,' can't remember which one, he didn't enjoy it. 

23 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

What do you think? Outside the ground it feels like Bristol City, inside the ground nah feels odd. The atmosphere, the shapes, the structures, the brightness of the lights, not an enjoyable place to be in the main imo

Outside the ground, it might be Derby or Swansea, or someone playing in white with black shorts. 

29 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

 

Like I've already said,  you'd be well off learning how to distinguish between the "likely to be true" and "likely to be bollocks" stuff you find on the internet (funny how you didn't respond to that).

If you don't, modern life's going to get a bit much for you. 

This comment ^ ^ from Merrick is likely from the "likely to be bollocks" side of the Internet @bcfcredandwhite, mate, trust me, I would know (my comment is from the "likely to be true" bit).

Anyway, @bcfcredandwhite, you carry on, fella. A very entertaining thread on a pretty dull forum currently. 

Bristolians are descended from simple, steady, West country folk who worked the land, laying hedges and milking the cows twice a day, who then upped-sticks and moved to Bedminster to find more regler work. And watch the City.

That's who we are! When Steve's trying to make some critical football decision, his DNA gets in the way, telling him he needs to bring the cows in this af'r'nun. If he hadn't hooked up with that no-nonsense northerner he'd be nothing. 

It's why we never took to going to away games - because we had to get the cows in, sun up and sun down. Alright for yer northerners in their mills and factories and their union negotiated Saturdays off. Can't do it with cows and udders full to bursting. Our genetics tells us: don't go and watch the City away, there's (other) things need doing first.

Just as Brian Wilson wasn't made for them times in the 60s, so are we not made for this game of industrial Britain, and fancy-Dan London with all its crooked money.

1 hour ago, Bouncearoundtheground said:

It’s related to poor football decisions but also economical, geographical and political in my opinion. The passiveness has only increased with the new stadium and the modernisation. Football in Bristol is a nice day out. In the north rarely do they care for award winning concourses and posh pasties but that their football team performs well. That attitude has just never been as prevalent in the affluent south and it reflects in its football teams. Bristol is the finest example.

The crowds are down because the catering around the concourse is not what it was three years ago?

1 hour ago, WessexPest said:

I’ve always been cynical of any club owner who sticks his own name on a stand. Deadly Doug springs to mind.

Lansdown has made so many errors in his time but everyone else ends up carrying the can for them. Time to go, Steve.

Yeah, Steve. And take yer stand with you. 

On 09/04/2022 at 17:47, Tafkarmlf said:

Respect where you are, disagree, unless he's actually picking and training the first XI

In that case would be in total agreement. 

Micro: Nige

Macro: Steve

Aggro: us.

18 hours ago, Galley is our king said:

Quite simple really,

If people are honest avoiding relegation was the major (if only) goal for this season - Done 

 

True. But you could also achieve this goal - avoiding relegation - by getting 60 points and finishing 12th. Or 70 points, and just missing out on the play-offs. Or even by getting promotion  (this is a bloody great way of avoiding relegation).

We didn’t have to be almost exactly as shite as last season to avoid relegation. More than one way to skin a cat, as the lad at West 'am'll tell you....

38 minutes ago, Gert Mare said:

They would be damned if they spoke and damned if they didn’t. 

 

They could try the medium of dance and movement, then, instead? Or sculpture? To say what needs to be said without saying it, or not saying it.

14 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

So many fans misunderstand their roles 

So many of your posts are: "I understand football. Other people do not." Don't know if you have noticed this? 

31 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

I have the feeling not only that she could have persuaded me otherwise but also that I wouldn’t have wasted so much of my life on this..

In hindsight I’m not sure I understand that decision myself, let alone whatever Ms. Binoche thinks.

Forget points deductions, this is the real potential tragedy right here.

You wouldn’t let it lie re the cats & dogs thing, would you? 

Non. Je ne forget rien 

39 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

 

If Juliette Binoche had hung around St. George in the late 1970s I’m sure we would be together now..

 

You would still have gone to Halifax midweek in 82/3, and I don’t think she would've stood for/comprendez-vous'd that. And she's more chien than chat so no chance ....

21 minutes ago, bcfcredandwhite said:

I can’t see LJ coming back to BS3. 

Look again. Keep looking

1 hour ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

But he’s not the head of the metropolitan police, which is a huge organisation, he’s the manager of a football club, and when it comes to events on the field, his job is to prepare and persuade 18 footballers to give 100%.  And patently that hasn’t been happening.  I’m sorry, but in any other walk of life, the manager would take responsibility for under-performance by their staff, but all Pearson does is blame his players and make strange comments about their ‘personality’.  I don’t buy that.  If he can’t get the players to do what he wants them to do then he has failed as a manager.

He’s had over a year now, and far from seeing any improvement, yesterday we witnessed an abject, humiliating performance against a ten-man bottom side.  And what does Pearson do?  Blames the players of course.  Has he ever taken any responsibility?  And don’t give me that stuff about football being worse under O’Driscoll and McInnes: this, for me, is the worst season I can remember - and I’ve been supporting City a long time, just a series of unrelentingly depressing matches.  No wonder people are not renewing season tickets.  This season has been close to torture at times.

I would have been very happy for Pearson to have been successful, but this is a results game and the one thing he has demonstrated is an inability to motivate his players to produce results.  I can see no reason to believe that next season will be any better if he stays.

I think Nige has "failed" to inspire or cajole any more than the very bare minimum out of what is not a strong squad. In a very difficult situation, in a more difficult challenge than that faced by LJ here, he has struggled to "manage," but he has avoided the ultimate "failure" of relegation but not by much, and quite possibly due to the points reductions elsewhere.

Next season looks like another grim struggle but who knows.

3 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

Largish Nige needs to be given this next transfer window to try to form the team he wants. Realistically if we are still not showing signs of progress by Christmas then everyone needs to accept that a new man should be brought in.  

If we're accepting that by Christmas, we'll be L1 again by the Christmas after next

3 hours ago, GTFABM said:

I agree that some of the comparisons are with managers who were in a different league but it still doesn’t look good. The old trusty ‘he has a poor squad’ only stacks up when you play a team with a better one…. Peterborough do not have a better squad than us, so that excuse is taken away. We were still pathetic so it’s not all down to the squad. What a day to put in a performance like that when season ticket sales just up for renewal. 

It doesn't look good, no, but we are 17 points above Posh, and they're going down, and we're staying up. So, over the course of a season rather than 90 minutes, Nige has delivered! as far as us and Posh are concerned.