Popular Post havanatopia Posted January 1, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 A very happy new year to everyone. Why does the hammer never complain of the noise? I think we will need to be amidst 5,000 noisy Bristol City fans when our team rifles in a late winner before the thundering noise that erupted from the Atyeo Stand on Saturday afternoon can be expunged from the collective mind. That moment was a hammer blow and remains suspended in time. It was horrible. It could have been avoided but we move on. But we also learn and we can do that with reflection too. For millions of years the earth lived in virtual silence and then there was man and then noise. The modern age knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.” Or there is the cheese grating, nail removal, agony of thunder from the away end. And no time for quiet reflection here although I hope the management and players have done so to banish the negative and go again today against another Chinese owned West Midlands club. Winning in Aston and we will quietly, not, but swiftly move on. I hope we silence the Holte End. We are, by and large, Bristol City fans because of our birth place or our 'birth right'; usually bequeathed upon us by our Father. Or perhaps, for a few both near and far, we drift toward the Robins because we stumble across a match in the past or present and see how much heart, toil and not a little passion emanates from the average Bristol City team. Our foreign friends who follow the club from Sweden or Holland or even Romania or Moldova can choose any English club they want but they follow Bristol City. That is marvellous. The collective respect of a club that, at least in my life time, no matter how bad it can sometimes become, tries often beyond the call of duty to perform. We attract and soak up new fans, passing the baton from father to son and from obscure events in time. Like the filipino TV that crashed in the bar while showing a Premier League game but flickered back to life with a streamed Bristol City match and a converted fan at the end of it. Are any of these reasons to support a club any more understandable than Prince William's who says he started supporting Aston Villa because 'he wanted to be different from his friends' . Perhaps we have fans like that and we would welcome them of course but it does seem rather odd for a future monarch to hold such a reason and then to pick a team from Birmingham. Oh well. Lee Johnson says that Aston Villa, today, is a rapid opportunity to extinguish the pain of Saturday when I applauded all of the City players who, after the ridiculously crowded December schedule, were spent and many sank to their knees on the pitch. A collective spirit and disappointment not often seen amongst players these days. This brotherhood can carry us to the Premier League. Thank you to everyone in this photo and to all the other players and back room staff, board and owner for making our season, so far, a very memorable one. Long may it continue. To all those travelling to Birmingham today; you lucky so and so's! And do not leave without 3 points. My thanks to Wallace Stegner in his Angle of Repose. 17 4 Quote Link to comment
Super Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Huge game today we really need to come back with something. Coyr. Quote Link to comment
BobBobSuperBob Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 COYR DIG DEEP 1 Quote Link to comment
Warwickshire Red Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 We really could do with the 3 points to regain the momemtum and put Saturday well and truly behind us though a draw wouldn't be a bad result. Apparently Villa not playing too well recently despite winning at Boro, so if we have the energy, I'll go for 2-1 to City. Quote Link to comment
CyderInACan Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Just waiting for someone to quote the entire initial post. COYR. 1 Quote Link to comment
pillred Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 9 minutes ago, CyderInACan said: Just waiting for someone to quote the entire initial post. COYR. quick question, how do you not quote the entire post but add your own bit to it. 1 Quote Link to comment
BigTone Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 (edited) 56 minutes ago, havanatopia said: A very happy new year to everyone. Why does the hammer never complain of the noise? I think we will need to be amidst 5,000 noisy Bristol City fans when our team rifles in a late winner before the thundering noise that erupted from the Atyeo Stand on Saturday afternoon can be expunged from the collective mind. That moment was a hammer blow and remains suspended in time. It was horrible. It could have been avoided but we move on. But we also learn and we can do that with reflection too. For millions of years the earth lived in virtual silence and then there was man and then noise. The modern age knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.” Or there is the cheese grating, nail removal, agony of thunder from the away end. And no time for quiet reflection here although I hope the management and players have done so to banish the negative and go again today against another Chinese owned West Midlands club. Winning in Aston and we will quietly, not, but swiftly move on. I hope we silence the Holte End. We are, by and large, Bristol City fans because of our birth place or our 'birth right'; usually bequeathed upon us by our Father. Or perhaps, for a few both near and far, we drift toward the Robins because we stumble across a match in the past or present and see how much heart, toil and not a little passion emanates from the average Bristol City team. Our foreign friends who follow the club from Sweden or Holland or even Romania or Moldova can choose any English club they want but they follow Bristol City. That is marvellous. The collective respect of a club that, at least in my life time, no matter how bad it can sometimes become, tries often beyond the call of duty to perform. We attract and soak up new fans, passing the baton from father to son and from obscure events in time. Like the filipino TV that crashed in the bar while showing a Premier League game but flickered back to life with a streamed Bristol City match and a converted fan at the end of it. Are any of these reasons to support a club any more understandable than Prince William's who says he started supporting Aston Villa because 'he wanted to be different from his friends' . Perhaps we have fans like that and we would welcome them of course but it does seem rather odd for a future monarch to hold such a reason and then to pick a team from Birmingham. Oh well. Lee Johnson says that Aston Villa, today, is a rapid opportunity to extinguish the pain of Saturday when I applauded all of the City players who, after the ridiculously crowded December schedule, were spent and many sank to their knees on the pitch. A collective spirit and disappointment not often seen amongst players these days. This brotherhood can carry us to the Premier League. Thank you to everyone in this photo and to all the other players and back room staff, board and owner for making our season, so far, a very memorable one. Long may it continue. To all those travelling to Birmingham today; you lucky so and so's! And do not leave without 3 points. My thanks to Wallace Stegner in his Angle of Repose. Condensed Version Aston Villa: MC Hammer likes noise City to win 2-1 Edited January 1, 2018 by BigTone 1 Quote Link to comment
CyderInACan Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 7 minutes ago, pillred said: how do you not quote the entire post but add your own bit to it like this Quote it then click in the quoted text and add, delete what you want. As above. 1 Quote Link to comment
Bristol Rob Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 5 minutes ago, CyderInACan said: Quote it then click in the quoted text and add, delete what you want. Regards, Reg. Age six and three quarters. 2 Quote Link to comment
downendcity Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 53 minutes ago, Super said: Huge game today we really need to come back with something. Coyr. FREEWAY?! Is this an NFL match day thread? Happy New year Havana and thanks for starting each match day in your unique way. Quote Link to comment
downendcity Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 1 hour ago, havanatopia said: A very happy new year to everyone. Why does the hammer never complain of the noise? I think we will need to be amidst 5,000 noisy Bristol City fans when our team rifles in a late winner before the thundering noise that erupted from the Atyeo Stand on Saturday afternoon can be expunged from the collective mind. That moment was a hammer blow and remains suspended in time. It was horrible. It could have been avoided but we move on. But we also learn and we can do that with reflection too. For millions of years the earth lived in virtual silence and then there was man and then noise. The modern age knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.” Or there is the cheese grating, nail removal, agony of thunder from the away end. And no time for quiet reflection here although I hope the management and players have done so to banish the negative and go again today against another Chinese owned West Midlands club. Winning in Aston and we will quietly, not, but swiftly move on. I hope we silence the Holte End. We are, by and large, Bristol City fans because of our birth place or our 'birth right'; usually bequeathed upon us by our Father. Or perhaps, for a few both near and far, we drift toward the Robins because we stumble across a match in the past or present and see how much heart, toil and not a little passion emanates from the average Bristol City team. Our foreign friends who follow the club from Sweden or Holland or even Romania or Moldova can choose any English club they want but they follow Bristol City. That is marvellous. The collective respect of a club that, at least in my life time, no matter how bad it can sometimes become, tries often beyond the call of duty to perform. We attract and soak up new fans, passing the baton from father to son and from obscure events in time. Like the filipino TV that crashed in the bar while showing a Premier League game but flickered back to life with a streamed Bristol City match and a converted fan at the end of it. Are any of these reasons to support a club any more understandable than Prince William's who says he started supporting Aston Villa because 'he wanted to be different from his friends' . Perhaps we have fans like that and we would welcome them of course but it does seem rather odd for a future monarch to hold such a reason and then to pick a team from Birmingham. Oh well. Lee Johnson says that Aston Villa, today, is a rapid opportunity to extinguish the pain of Saturday when I applauded all of the City players who, after the ridiculously crowded December schedule, were spent and many sank to their knees on the pitch. A collective spirit and disappointment not often seen amongst players these days. This brotherhood can carry us to the Premier League. Thank you to everyone in this photo and to all the other players and back room staff, board and owner for making our season, so far, a very memorable one. Long may it continue. To all those travelling to Birmingham today; you lucky so and so's! And do not leave without 3 points. My thanks to Wallace Stegner in his Angle of Repose. FREEWAY?! Is this an NFL match day thread ? Happy New year Havanaand thanks for starting each matchday thread in your unique way. 1 Quote Link to comment
RidgeRed Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Is Albert playing for us today? An OG maybe or incredible open goal miss from a metre out? You love us & you know you want to, Alb. Am I tempting fate here? Quote Link to comment
Major Isewater Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 1 hour ago, havanatopia said: A very happy new year to everyone. Why does the hammer never complain of the noise? I think we will need to be amidst 5,000 noisy Bristol City fans when our team rifles in a late winner before the thundering noise that erupted from the Atyeo Stand on Saturday afternoon can be expunged from the collective mind. That moment was a hammer blow and remains suspended in time. It was horrible. It could have been avoided but we move on. But we also learn and we can do that with reflection too. For millions of years the earth lived in virtual silence and then there was man and then noise. The modern age knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.” Or there is the cheese grating, nail removal, agony of thunder from the away end. And no time for quiet reflection here although I hope the management and players have done so to banish the negative and go again today against another Chinese owned West Midlands club. Winning in Aston and we will quietly, not, but swiftly move on. I hope we silence the Holte End. We are, by and large, Bristol City fans because of our birth place or our 'birth right'; usually bequeathed upon us by our Father. Or perhaps, for a few both near and far, we drift toward the Robins because we stumble across a match in the past or present and see how much heart, toil and not a little passion emanates from the average Bristol City team. Our foreign friends who follow the club from Sweden or Holland or even Romania or Moldova can choose any English club they want but they follow Bristol City. That is marvellous. The collective respect of a club that, at least in my life time, no matter how bad it can sometimes become, tries often beyond the call of duty to perform. We attract and soak up new fans, passing the baton from father to son and from obscure events in time. Like the filipino TV that crashed in the bar while showing a Premier League game but flickered back to life with a streamed Bristol City match and a converted fan at the end of it. Are any of these reasons to support a club any more understandable than Prince William's who says he started supporting Aston Villa because 'he wanted to be different from his friends' . Perhaps we have fans like that and we would welcome them of course but it does seem rather odd for a future monarch to hold such a reason and then to pick a team from Birmingham. Oh well. Lee Johnson says that Aston Villa, today, is a rapid opportunity to extinguish the pain of Saturday when I applauded all of the City players who, after the ridiculously crowded December schedule, were spent and many sank to their knees on the pitch. A collective spirit and disappointment not often seen amongst players these days. This brotherhood can carry us to the Premier League. Thank you to everyone in this photo and to all the other players and back room staff, board and owner for making our season, so far, a very memorable one. Long may it continue. To all those travelling to Birmingham today; you lucky so and so's! And do not leave without 3 points. My thanks to Wallace Stegner in his Angle of Repose. 55 minutes ago, pillred said: quick question, how do you not quote the entire post but add your own bit to it. I don't know. 2 Quote Link to comment
Dan Robin Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Tough test today. COYR! Quote Link to comment
ZiderEyed Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 1 hour ago, havanatopia said: Thank you to everyone in this photo and to all the other players and back room staff, board and owner for making our season, so far, a very memorable one. Long may it continue. Our lord and saviour Arnold Delicious Garita has come to save us, to deliver us from this hell. Quote Link to comment
havanatopia Posted January 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 37 minutes ago, downendcity said: FREEWAY?! Is this an NFL match day thread ? Happy New year Havanaand thanks for starting each matchday thread in your unique way. Where did I write that? I guess you found it in there somewhere but with the US style context? Narghhhhh. Quote Link to comment
cityexile Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 (edited) I look at their team player for player and think they really should be higher than they are. A bit unlucky to get these two games now on the bounce rather than a month of more away, but equally they are down Kodjia, and Terry is think. Tough one. Draw would be decent, thought we were unlucky not to nick it at home against them. Edited January 1, 2018 by cityexile Quote Link to comment
BobBobSuperBob Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 2 minutes ago, Tomarse said: He went off injured against Brentford. Did he play on Sat? Yes Tom Quote Link to comment
MrBibs Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 8 minutes ago, Tomarse said: He went off injured against Brentford. Did he play on Sat? Think he put the cross in for the winning goal Quote Link to comment
kiwicolin Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Who's our back up keeper for todays game ? Quote Link to comment
exAtyeoMax Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Looking forward to the match. First time to Villa Park, going by train on my own (hope WMP will be gentle with me). COYRs Quote Link to comment
iamalagerdrinker Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Can Gustav play today? Quote Link to comment
ZiderEyed Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 3 minutes ago, kiwicolin said: Who's our back up keeper for todays game ? Good point that. Assume it'll be Max O'Leary. Quote Link to comment
wayne allisons tongues Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 Why are we playing today? Wolves play Tuesday so why can’t we, are Villa being awkward and want to play Bank Holiday for the crowd. Quote Link to comment
Charlie BCFC Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 2 hours ago, havanatopia said: A very happy new year to everyone. Why does the hammer never complain of the noise? I think we will need to be amidst 5,000 noisy Bristol City fans when our team rifles in a late winner before the thundering noise that erupted from the Atyeo Stand on Saturday afternoon can be expunged from the collective mind. That moment was a hammer blow and remains suspended in time. It was horrible. It could have been avoided but we move on. But we also learn and we can do that with reflection too. For millions of years the earth lived in virtual silence and then there was man and then noise. The modern age knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.” Or there is the cheese grating, nail removal, agony of thunder from the away end. And no time for quiet reflection here although I hope the management and players have done so to banish the negative and go again today against another Chinese owned West Midlands club. Winning in Aston and we will quietly, not, but swiftly move on. I hope we silence the Holte End. We are, by and large, Bristol City fans because of our birth place or our 'birth right'; usually bequeathed upon us by our Father. Or perhaps, for a few both near and far, we drift toward the Robins because we stumble across a match in the past or present and see how much heart, toil and not a little passion emanates from the average Bristol City team. Our foreign friends who follow the club from Sweden or Holland or even Romania or Moldova can choose any English club they want but they follow Bristol City. That is marvellous. The collective respect of a club that, at least in my life time, no matter how bad it can sometimes become, tries often beyond the call of duty to perform. We attract and soak up new fans, passing the baton from father to son and from obscure events in time. Like the filipino TV that crashed in the bar while showing a Premier League game but flickered back to life with a streamed Bristol City match and a converted fan at the end of it. Are any of these reasons to support a club any more understandable than Prince William's who says he started supporting Aston Villa because 'he wanted to be different from his friends' . Perhaps we have fans like that and we would welcome them of course but it does seem rather odd for a future monarch to hold such a reason and then to pick a team from Birmingham. Oh well. Lee Johnson says that Aston Villa, today, is a rapid opportunity to extinguish the pain of Saturday when I applauded all of the City players who, after the ridiculously crowded December schedule, were spent and many sank to their knees on the pitch. A collective spirit and disappointment not often seen amongst players these days. This brotherhood can carry us to the Premier League. Thank you to everyone in this photo and to all the other players and back room staff, board and owner for making our season, so far, a very memorable one. Long may it continue. To all those travelling to Birmingham today; you lucky so and so's! And do not leave without 3 points. My thanks to Wallace Stegner in his Angle of Repose. @CyderInACan your welcome 1 Quote Link to comment
Lanterne Rouge Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 36 minutes ago, RidgeRed said: Is Albert playing for us today? An OG maybe or incredible open goal miss from a metre out? You love us & you know you want to, Alb. Am I tempting fate here? He can`t keep doing it though, someone`s bound to notice soon. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
wendyredredrobin Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 No need to get too excited, it's only Villa in another top of the table clash. We could be playing Portsmouth on a peat bog in front of 7,000 1 2 Quote Link to comment
ZiderEyed Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 1 minute ago, wendyredredrobin said: No need to get too excited, it's only Villa in another top of the table clash. We could be playing Portsmouth on a peat bog in front of 7,000 Christ how ******* bleak must it be to be one of the blue few. Quote Link to comment
Sleepy1968 Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 3 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said: No need to get too excited, it's only Villa in another top of the table clash. We could be playing Portsmouth on a peat bog in front of 7,000 I didn't realise the Gas had relaid their pitch over Christmas. Well done groundsman. Quote Link to comment
BRISTOL86 Posted January 1, 2018 Report Share Posted January 1, 2018 COYR. 3 points today and none for Cardiff and Derby and all the disappointment of 48 hours ago will vanish! 2 Quote Link to comment
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