The Official Bristol City v Rotherham United Match Day Thread

[havanatopia]

Good afternoon one and all.

Bristol City travelled to the East Riding of Yorkshire on Saturday and, well lets be frank here, were well and truly spanked. Visiting this evening, from the West Riding of Yorkshire, are a somewhat more feasible challenge. Or is that complacent talk? Probably. 

For a visit down memory lane you may wish to recollect the reverse fixture thread:-

So, there remains little more to be said of Rotherham save delving into the annals of their history books and, quite honestly, its late here, way past my bedtime and so I wanted to delve, infinitely more easily, into the past of certain relevant names.

The name Colin is the diminutive of Nicholas. It is of Gaelic origin as is the name Neil. The family name of Warnock is from North of the border with most families from the central lowlands. The surname ******, however, has quite an interesting history and even has its own coat of arms as can be seen below on this rather unattractive and boring white mug:-

I think it might be appropriate that we present this Mug to the Rotherham manager should they win this evening. Lord forbid that should happen. 

In researching for where the ******'s came from I found 14 families from the 1891 census with 64% coming from London, 29% from Yorkshire and 7% from Gloucestershire. I had no idea there were ******'s so far south as that but there you are. I suppose the Rotherham manager would have been amongst the 29% from Yorkshire. Interestingly there were no ******'s from Scotland but quite a lot in the United States where, one would imagine, a lot of fat ******'s live and mostly in the states of New York and Wisconsin.

Notable ******'s are Jerry, a Belgian Guitarist, Thomas, an Austrian composer and Werner ****** an Austrian Curler. Colin is certainly in esteemed company. ****** was also the maiden name of Peggy Bundy the fictional character in the film 'Married with Children'.

After all said and done the bar steward will probably have the last laugh this evening as I am sure he has vengeance in his veins from that Crystal Palace match at Ashton Gate and the infamous goal after the 'foul'.

I apologise if some might feel that this evening's thread deals with pathetic, morose and boring trivia. I try to make this as interesting as possible and sometimes, just sometimes, there is not much to talk about a place when it has already been said. But I finish off with this interesting factoid about Rotherham which will hopefully appeal more to the purist..

Rotherham United named their new 12,500 all seater home the New York Stadium because it is located in an area of Rotherham known as New York. It is so known because prior to the construction of stadium stood a foundry that supplied fire hydrants to New York. The man who helped to install those very hydrants? One Colin ******. Unbelievable. As you were.

Afraid it might go belly up this evening folks. I have a cruel feeling we might succumb to numb crunching tackling, long ball, swash, bang wallop one nothing to them. 

Good night all and bravo to all going tonight.. i see its a clear blue sky in Bristol... or was an hour or so ago.

UTC 

name source: ancestry.com 

 

 

Edited April 5, 2016 by havanatopia

[Guest]

Werner ****** is possibly the best name ever.

In my head I just have Jonathan Ross trying to pronounce the name and it seeming like 'Learner ******'

[42nite]

Swasdi, from my 25th floor balcony here in 'hot' Bangkok.

City to give Colin a warm reception and stuff his ladyboys 3-0.

[old_eastender]

City 1 - 3 Warnock's rejuvenated Rotherham, leaving us hoping MK Dons, Charlton & Fulham slip up.

[Garland-sweden]

We will win this. 2-0. Always Believe. COYR!!!

[reddogkev]

10 minutes ago, Garland-sweden said:

We will win this. 2-0. Always Believe. COYR!!!

I believe you are right, City to win 2-0. 

COME ON YOU REDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Offside]

I think it'll be a close game. Maybe a first draw under LJ?

[Tre Bong]

Anyone know what time abus stops at primark?

[cityexile]

Not seen it mentioned elsewhere, but notice Derbyshire has had his red card over turned, and is therefore able to play for them. 

[EstoniaTallinnRed]

Will be listening tonight as usual, all being well.  I am hoping for a good win, but somehow, I think it will be a hard fought draw.  Still fear the worse and hope for the best!  COYRs!!!!!!

[cityexile]

Smith back, good to see. Going to have to fight for the right to play this evening.

[Ivorguy]

I guess this is what Lee regards as his strongest team

[downendcity]

I'm giving us the best chance of a good result tonight by not  reading this thread again until after the game has finished 

COYR

[Palmers Green Red]

I'm a pessimist usually but at the Gate early and with a Thatch in hand I am unusually positive, so I'm going for a 3-1 home win.

COYR

[Guest]

With Smith back confidence has gone up twofold. 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

I guess this is what Lee regards as his strongest team

I would agree with him. I would go as far to say a very respectable championship side if all are fit. 

[TheCulturalBomb]

I consider our 3-0 loss at Rotherham the worst of the season, we should have gone there and given them a game instead we were outplayed, out-everything. Tonight a win would make up for that but it's not a given.

[Port Said Red]

15 minutes ago, Tomarse said:

What's happened to Ayling mind?! 

Must be carrying a knock or have an illness? I would have thought he was more versatile as a bench option than Little.

[nickolas]

3 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Must be carrying a knock or have an illness? I would have thought he was more versatile as a bench option than Little.

Cheltenham races naughtiness catching up with him perhaps??

[City fan 1982]

What were the odds on that ? 

[Luxo Jr.]

Bit of a pisser for him.

[sprogg]

bbc sport says smiths out little in????

[EstoniaTallinnRed]

LJ on RB says Smith will start

[Reigate Red]

4 minutes ago, sprogg said:

bbc sport says smiths out little in????

It's contradictory - the write up says he's out but the team line up shows he's in.

I think the write up was done earlier today and Smith is a late inclusion.

[Turbored]

Anyone know how you get player to work on iPhone ? 

[RumRed]

3 minutes ago, Turbored said:

Anyone know how you get player to work on iPhone ? 

There's an app and it works better than laptop, think it's just league player you search for, looks like a big blue and red arrow

Edited April 5, 2016 by RumRed

[Turbored]

3 minutes ago, RumRed said:

There's an app and it works better than laptop, think it's just league player you search for, looks like a big blue and red arrow

@RumRed Cheers installing now.

[Cotham Brow Red]

Fulham 1up

[cityexile]

Early goal for Fulham at Preston.

[RumRed]

2 minutes ago, Turbored said:

@RumRed Cheers installing now.

Cool, let's hope we get the result! COYR