Blagdon red

37 minutes ago, Leabrook said:

The Bundesliga’s Leicester moment. Nice to see. 

Only in as much as they are not Bayern Munich.

There is little love for them in Germany, as they are one of the few clubs to which the 50 +1 rule does not apply. They are 100% owned by the Bayer pharmaceuticals giant, so are hardly an impoverished underdog.

As the question didn't specify "UK club", I give you my German club, Union Berlin!

No owner other than the 60k plus members all paying our monthly sub. Playing top flight Bundesliga for the last 5 years, last 3 in Europe too (Champions League this season).

It can be done without billionaire owners.

10 hours ago, Henry said:

There’s no chance the Trust would publish the results of the champagne moment if it was controversial.

IIRC Mark Ashton leaving won it before but the award was quietly forgotten about.

The results of the awards were published in full that year, as they always are: https://www.bristolcitysupporters.org/end-of-season-awards/

1 hour ago, Frenchay Red said:

Link didn't work

Yer tiz again: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/1_Awards2324

5 hours ago, Lewisdabaron said:

But are they ok with the numbers 88 on the back instead?

I very much doubt it. 8th letter of the alphabet x2, and all that.

The SC&T's 'Fans for the Future' tickets have unexpectedly become available for tomorrow.

It's three adults and five U19s in the Lansdown Upper.

If you want to take a group of kids to the game, just get in touch and the tickets are yours. First come, first served.

BTW, the Huddersfield game on 13 April is also available.

Details and contact e-mail address here: https://www.bristolcitysupporters.org/kids-be-our-guests-take-5/

50 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

deffo a new ground now . 

Yep, that game was at Bootham Crescent, squeezed in between red brick terraced housing. The new ground is a small identikit job on the Monks Cross retail park.

11 hours ago, Lewisdabaron said:

How much was it to put safe standing railings in the south stand corner? Ive heard the figure of around £40k. 

No idea. But that figure sounds plausible.

3 hours ago, Red Skin said:

Sorry if this has been covered already, but what does the safe standing look like these days? 

I'd be happy to stand for the game itself, but being a bit of an old git these days I appreciate a sit down at half time.   Would each standing area have a seat that could be used when needed or are these fixed either up or down like the rail seat design?  

At present, there has to be a flip-down seat. In future, who knows. That may change.

Personally, I think it should, because it is a safety hazard to have wobbly seats accessible to fans in areas being operated as standing, since fans then can - and will - stand on them and could thus fall off and get injured.

In conventional standing areas (terraces) structures on which fans can stand are banned. So, logic says that this rule may follow in due course for 'safe standing' areas too, with a requirement for the seats to be secured upright when the area is being used for standing. As, indeed, is already the way things are done all over Europe and, for instance, at Celtic.

18 hours ago, Phileas Fogg said:

To add to this, when the time comes, i hope the SC&T can find a way to include younger fans.

As voting in general elections shows, older voters (which translated to a football context most likely means people who prefer to sit) are disproportionately represented thus skewing results. This doesn’t necessarily represent the true clientele on a match day.

A valid point. Reaching the younger demographic is a challenge that we've faced with other surveys. 

3 hours ago, Wedontplayinblue said:

Blagdon, out of interest what type of topics were already discussed? 

What are you or the supporters trust classing as a desire for change and what might they entail? 

For something to be done and dusted in 18 months seems slightly ambitious?

 

As I said, it's very early days, so my discussion was very non-specific, In any case, the whole point of consultation is to find out the views of as many fans as possible, not just of those with a particular interest in this topic.

18 months is ample time to do that and to put in place the necessary arrangements should it transpire that a large percentage of our fellow fans would support changes being made on this front.

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

The point I was making, is that he wasn’t proactive at the Fans Forum, and your post confirms that it took you to contact him afterwards.  Not the other way around.

For me the FF was an easy opportunity for him to get on the “front foot” and he didn’t!

I’m pleased that you took the bill by the horns though, so thank you.

Point taken. Yes, it was probably an opportunity missed. He did though respond to my mail, which wasn't a given.

16 minutes ago, sglosbcfc said:

I didn't start watching City until the early 80s, but if we really did take 18,000 to Coventry that is amazing. How did they all get there? There must not have been a train or coach left in the South west, ha.

I was abroad at the time, so missed the game. That font of all knowledge (ahem!) Wikipedia claims that the away following was approximately 10k. The attendance is quoted as having been 36,892, so 10k sounds more realistic than 50% of the crowd.

The reality is that there is probably no accurate record, as we paid cash at the turnstiles in those days.

Today will have undoubtedly been the highest in the fully ticketed / all-seater era.

Is the Coventry figure documented or just folklore?

I did wonder if that game might be the record.

Sorry if this has already been established and I missed it, but was today the biggest away following in the club's history for any game other than a final?

Yes, Germany is a big country. See mileages between host cities here:

https://www.euro2024ingermany.com/travel/car-and-coach

Even by train, John, it takes some getting about!!

10 for me.

4 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Applied for five

Got one, 1c v some shite team in the second round. I'll be very happy if England are drawn in Group C

In Munich?

https://www.euro2024ingermany.com/groups/group-c

26 minutes ago, One Team said:

Thanks. Can they be published here?

Here you go: http://www.bristolcitysupporters.org/category/minutes/

And those from 2007-2018: https://www.bristolcitysupporters.org/meet/

30 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

Now we’re in the age of digital tickets I wonder how easy it’ll be to swap tickets with other fans.

There’s bound to be fans with tickets in the wrong locations, it’d make sense to have a swapping webpage. 

UEFA have already said that there will be an official resale platform, so there should be no issues with 'offloading' spares (at face value). Similarly, tickets that you may want may also become available through that platform. Whether it will offer the ability to link buyers and sellers remains to be seen.

3 minutes ago, KendrickDNB said:

There’s no choice to choose top seeds it’s completely random still

Presumably, as Germany are A1, the top seeds in each of the other groups will be B1, C1 and so on.

If you believe that England (or whichever nation you support) will be a top seed, you could thus apply only for the group games featuring those teams and not, for instance, for games like A2 vs A3 or E3 vs E4.

14 minutes ago, Never to the dark side said:

Blagdon red:

On Saturday the 15 June there are three games,surely they would not play them simultaneously?

They would be spread over three different kick off times

Yes, as on other days with 3 games. My guess: 3pm, 6pm and 9pm.

My point was that the final group-stage games in each group will be played simultaneously (to avoid any match-fixing). So, there will be no need for a fourth kick-off time.

6 minutes ago, Never to the dark side said:

Just had a look at the World cup in Germany in 2006

No game kicked off before 3pm,considering that was a world wide audience

Considering that this tournament is for a mainly European audience,don't think they would schedule games before 3pm

So it could look something like 3pm 5pm 7pm and 9pm

although there are only 3 games per day up till the last two days of the group stages when there will four games each day

Those final group-stage games will surely be played simultaneously on the respective days. So, I'd suggest that there will be no need for 4 KO times. It may therefore end up as 3pm, 6pm and 9pm (it's already confirmed that the opening game will be a 9pm kick-off / 8pm UK time).

Yep, all just a blind ballot at the moment. But you have to be in it to win it:

https://www.euro2024ingermany.com/tickets