GrahamC

Sorry, thought you meant away.

Didn’t follow him to Fleetwood, Darren Way joined LJ as assistant. Bloke needs to work but having played for us, been a coach for several years & lived this way for a long time I reckon it will seem odd at first.

Yep, huge Burnley fan- was definitely at AG last season. The other one he claims Blair suggested was a Rangers Celtic game played in Belfast with each team wearing the other ones kit. Mental (he says he told Blair that, too).

Nope. Lost 2-1 in 1990, we didn’t play there again until 1993, when we won 1-0. Hadn’t won there 2-0 since until last season.

There’s a lot of this in the comments section about Jamie Mac joining them. Possibly fuelled by the idiot who reports on them claiming “something special” is happening. Drawing at home to Cheltenham, then well beaten at Blackpool, that really is special. Seem not to have noticed either that we are currently just outside the playoff places so at the very worst we are going to be a Championship club again in 24/25. Strange definition therefore of becoming Bristol’s premier club. Stupid lot, aren’t they?

Think tonight effectively counts as the Saturday programme brought forward a day because of how Xmas & New Year’s Day fall.

Pretty sure Alistair Campbell has told this story before, think it was a part of trying to get the Good Friday Agreement through. In Campbell’s version he tells him very quickly that it is a ridiculous idea, but who knows if that is true? Brown & John Major are clearly the only PMs since Harold Wilson who were also real football fans, Brown wrote a brilliant article on Raith Rovers (he’s a shareholder, was a programme seller as a kid) recently & although much more of a cricket fan, Major is a Chelsea supporter of longstanding who doesn’t feel the need to keep mentioning it.

Suppose it depends on whether it was your team (like in the case of Gary Mabbutt) who had a fractured eye socket as a result of a deliberate Fashanu elbow or a broken leg as a result of a Vinnie Jones “tackle”. Ended at least two players careers with their version of football, Gary Stevens of Spurs (an actual footballer) was one. They were thugs & played a style of football that resulted in 4000 people watching home games in the Prem. Vile side, Francis then followed their template at Twerton.

You’re right, in my mind they beat us in BS3 but maybe it was a late equaliser for them? Explains how we knew Man U were up next.

Remember it well, I was only 12 (!) then & went with my old man. Definitely saw Oxford, Pompey & Rovers away with him that season, too. Think I possibly might have done Luton as well. Just great times watching a wonderful team.

Club has just confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) that Banks is no longer involved with the company.

It was 30 years ago now, I’m over it.

Also remember seeing Michael Grade in the pub (not sure now if it was the Wedlock’s or the Nova Scotia?) before the Charlton FA Cup tie the year we knocked Liverpool out (so in ‘94) they beat us at AG & I’m pretty sure then drew Man U away. Good chance we were there together?

Based in Bermuda…

Bloke is total scum of the highest order. As Carole Cadwalladr proved, dodgy as **** as well; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61782578

I was there too, remember it well, one of very few games to go ahead that day & my brother got a bit of a smacking afterwards. He was about 14 then, we have often reminisced that he’s a big lad now (decent rugby player in his day), virtually no chance they would have tried it on a few years later..

Cheers, must admit I was surprised when Coops moved him on to Yeovil (non league then) because I felt he still had plenty to offer. In my mind he left after the promotion season (Trevor Morgan at Chester, etc, etc) but as you rightly point out, in an era before transfer windows, players moved on at virtually any time. He’s probably my all time favourite player, no one (not even the bloke this thread started about) has ever made more of the talent they had, he simply never gave up. Love him.

Hardly call Scott Murray a sicknote either, Noggers. Think McCrorie has just been unlucky with one injury but fast losing patience with Naismith.

Yep, one in the third & then one in the fourth at Darlington (I was there!) when he came back briefly & played for free under Terry Cooper.

Ask the Council Reg, turn up in a blue & white quartered shirt & they’ll let you build anything on it, don’t even need planning permission. South Bristol, where’s that? Seems a very good place to put a small development so no idea why it has been allowed to become an eyesore.

Tom left for Sunderland in our second division relegation season & returned when we were relegated to the fourth. John Shaw & Chris Garland are the two who played for us in all 4 divisions.

No, Tom had gone to Sunderland by the time we were a third tier club. Chris Garland did so, but not aware of anyone else. We only had 2 seasons in the bottom division so very few who played then would have done so in our 4 years at the top.

For completeness (& because I’m on holiday from work watching South Africa thrash India in the cricket), I just looked this up. Tom scored 37 league goals for us in the second tier & then after promotion 40 top flight goals, before coming back in ‘82 under TC & scoring 24 more in the fourth tier. 101 league goals for us, at his peak against teams like Liverpool, Man City, Everton & Aston Villa, just like his great friend Gerry Gow, a City legend.

Agree but also see JL’s increasing recent involvement as a sign we have moved away from the idea of selling to simply a change of guard in the politburo.

True but if you ever read a match day thread back (& I wouldn’t suggest doing so for a minute) it was ever thus. Tanner is rubbish, Williams needs to be moved on, Bell/Conway need a loan in League One, Cornick, etc, etc. Absolutely no perspective, no taking the opposition into account, no bigger picture. I read on here yesterday it would be “typical City” to lose tomorrow, just madness. Birmingham aren’t great but they aren’t Forest Green, either. Nor are we Leicester, whoever is in charge. We could have an off day, they could have a good one, it wouldn’t change much at all in the overall picture.