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  1. 3 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

    Bingo fans in for a treat here. Bad news is that Liam doesn’t see one season ending and another one starting but wants to just see the progress continue.

    He also believes he’s his own biggest critic. A certain seagull from Weston objects.

    A few interesting questions. Really didn’t answer the question about planned subs  or otherwise.

     

    He looks like someone happy to receive a birthday present and not admitting it was his birthday last month

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  2. 21 minutes ago, Robbored said:

    I would definitely dispute it.

    Of all the players I spoke with during GJs reign not one had anything positive to say about him. Much of that was down to nepotism and LJ starting ahead of far better players and GJ running the club like a family corner shop.

    Had he beaten Hull, he could have ran it like a supermarket

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  3. 3 hours ago, tin said:

    I remember hearing the hat story around the time it happened and that summed up my opinion of GJ’s management style. It worked in the lower leagues, but he couldn’t manage the better players’ egos. His boy is cut from the same cloth. Both awful man managers. 

    Despite turning down an approach from Derby County in the summer of 2005, Johnson became Bristol City's target when their manager Brian Tinnion resigned that September. Yeovil agreed compensation terms and he became City's manager on 26 September 2005. Despite their lowly position of 22nd in the table, City's fortunes turned around under Johnson and a great run of form in the second half of the season saw them in play-off contention, eventually finishing ninth after a run of 55 points from 36 games.

    Johnson won the League One Manager of the Month award for April 2006. After a 2006–07 season (including an 18 match unbeaten run), Johnson won the award again in March 2007 after successfully guiding his side to 16 points from seven games the previous month. This had set Bristol City in a good spot to contend for automatic promotion, which they sealed on 5 May 2007 with a 3–1 home win over Rotherham on the last day of the season.

    On 6 September 2007, Gary Johnson and assistant Keith Millen both signed 2+12-year contract extensions keeping them at the club until 2010.

    In the 2007–08 season, he kept Bristol City in the top six of the Championship for almost the entire season and in the top two for a long time; the team were the surprise package of the season. Bristol City eventually lost the play-off final to Hull City at Wembley and were not promoted to the Premiership. Johnson made his players stay on the pitch after the match and watch the Hull City players celebrate as a motivational experience for the next campaign.

    In the summer before the 2008–09 season, he broke the club record for a transfer fee in signing 21-year-old Nicky Maynard from Crewe Alexandra for £2.25 million.

    Bristol City's once-famous chant of 'Johnson says bounce around the ground' was inspired by Gary Johnson who was quoted to saying in an interview before a league game that he wanted the fans bouncing around.

    In September 2008, Johnson signed a new five-year contract with Bristol City, to keep him at the club until 2013.[3] The club ended the season with another top ten finish and on 18 March 2010, with the club comfortably in mid table, the club issued a statement that Johnson had "left his post as manager of Bristol City by mutual consent"

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  4. 59 minutes ago, Topper 123 said:

    As a season ticket holder I think season ticket holders probably spend as much as anyone else , I attend the supporters club before every home game and you have a job to get a seat 2 hrs before Ko and I know most people that go in there and nearly all are season ticket holders 

    Do you play bowls by any chance?

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  5. 27 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

    I`m in that queue somewhere too. Best of it was, when we got to the scene of what we imagined must be a multi vehicle accident it turned out there were two cars on the hard shoulder who had obviously just had a shunt.

    I’ll never forget seeing a City coach that had stopped on the M4 hard shoulder to allow half the passengers to offload some of their bladder contents, whilst many cars slowly passed blowing their horns 😂

     

     

     

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  6. 2 hours ago, Robbored said:

    I prefer the the Robin - it’s far more unique to us than the old crest which was very similar to others clubs.

    These days many clubs have easily identifiable badges. Wolves is the obvious one as is the Foxes. In the PL Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs along with every club are easily recognised simply by their badge.

    Your knowledge knows no bounds

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  7. 1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

    Enjoyable day, strange too . I knew we would win , not even a second thought, we just would.  It was more a celebration of the season.

    What really made the day . We caught the train and into Harrow ( I think) found a pub and settled in . Then a coach of lads I used to go to football with, 30 odd years before , turned up . Got a photo similar to one outside the Ship and Castle with 5 of us both . 

    Then the train was delayed, because some ******** got stuck in the toilet , it took 3 1/2 hours to get back.

    Good day though.

    Never in doubt

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  8. 46 minutes ago, cheese said:

    The last time I was there some very friendly ladies - although they did make the women in Chasers look like MIss World contestants.  A few beers soon recitified the situation though

    Why did they need to get drunk?

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