Miah Dennehy Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I'm often away with work and watch a fair few non league games. I was at Oxford City v Torquay last night and really enjoyed it, away support out numbered the home support, drinking on the terraces and a really nice friendly atmosphere. Obviously Rovers had their spell in non league, and I went to a lot of away games, which by and large (Braintree an obvious exception) were of a similar atmosphere to the one I enjoyed last night, I'm glad we aren't down there any more, but I really did- for the most part- enjoy it. Banter aside, a fair few on this forum have ridiculed the standard of football that Rovers play at and said they couldn't watch it, but is there anyone on here who chose City over Rovers because of the 'quality' of football on offer? I knew a pretty die hard red a few years back, who was home and away with City and when I asked him about the - ahem- glory years of 1982 I was really surprised when he told me he didn't watch them then as he wouldn't watch 4th division football. So come on then, which of you ******* are glory seekers who chose City because of the level of football they played at when you could have followed us with our superior support and free half time porn? (I haven't been able to find a game to watch tonight so my posts have been fuelled by a £3.69 bottle of Lidl wine and the fact that tmy hotel is on a Basingstoke trading estate with **** all else to do!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 Lots on here started supporting when City were rock bottom, in the basement div, below the roverzzz with not a particularly bright outlook....so you can shove your glory hunting guff....and you should appreciate the fact that you can start (multiple) threads on here when City fans are banned from your forum for daring to have some banter.....utterly pathetic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFC II Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 Started supporting city because my family would take me, by the time I was old enough to choose who to support, I was hooked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexukhc Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 6 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said: I'm often away with work and watch a fair few non league games. I was at Oxford City v Torquay last night and really enjoyed it, away support out numbered the home support, drinking on the terraces and a really nice friendly atmosphere. Obviously Rovers had their spell in non league, and I went to a lot of away games, which by and large (Braintree an obvious exception) were of a similar atmosphere to the one I enjoyed last night, I'm glad we aren't down there any more, but I really did- for the most part- enjoy it. Banter aside, a fair few on this forum have ridiculed the standard of football that Rovers play at and said they couldn't watch it, but is there anyone on here who chose City over Rovers because of the 'quality' of football on offer? I knew a pretty die hard red a few years back, who was home and away with City and when I asked him about the - ahem- glory years of 1982 I was really surprised when he told me he didn't watch them then as he wouldn't watch 4th division football. So come on then, which of you ******* are glory seekers who chose City because of the level of football they played at when you could have followed us with our superior support and free half time porn? (I haven't been able to find a game to watch tonight so my posts have been fuelled by a £3.69 bottle of Lidl wine and the fact that tmy hotel is on a Basingstoke trading estate with **** all else to do!) Oh mate, where ya staying? I live in Basingstoke :laugh: im a huge City fan, but tbh I don’t go up a lot, not local anymore, use to go with mate and his dad, then I found music and by then none of my mates ever supported City, since then worked in retail, now a bookies, so getting off Saturdays is hard, don’t drive and train fares cost a bomb. I now have a little boy, so I have a 3 year plan, once he hits 4/5 I will get us season tickets and drag the poor bugger along with me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I chose City cos I hated the Rovers experience. Shit football, shit stadium, shit players. Compared to that, Tinnion spraying it around was a joy to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted August 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 7 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Lots on here started supporting when City were rock bottom, in the basement div, below the roverzzz with not a particularly bright outlook....so you can shove your glory hunting guff....and you should appreciate the fact that you can start (multiple) threads on here when City fans are banned from your forum for daring to have some banter.....utterly pathetic... Tough day at work? 3 minutes ago, alexukhc said: Oh mate, where ya staying? I live in Basingstoke im a huge City fan, but tbh I don’t go up a lot, not local anymore, use to go with mate and his dad, then I found music and by then none of my mates ever supported City, since then worked in retail, now a bookies, so getting off Saturdays is hard, don’t drive and train fares cost a bomb. I now have a little boy, so I have a 3 year plan, once he hits 4/5 I will get us season tickets and drag the poor bugger along with me Are you originally from Bristol though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexukhc Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 3 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said: Are you originally from Bristol though? Born in Southmead, raised in Wells till I was 16 moved to Frome and 4years ago moved here to Basingstoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted August 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, alexukhc said: Born in Southmead, raised in Wells till I was 16 moved to Frome and 4years ago moved here to Basingstoke Well without wishing to belittle your chosen living destination too much- it's a bit borin innit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexukhc Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 1 minute ago, Miah Dennehy said: Well without wishing to belittle your chosen living destination too much- it's a bit borin innit! It’s different, lack of hills and good cider does my head in, but the misses and the boy ain’t going anywhere, so I guess I’m stuck for now I could go on but it’s a football forum :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted August 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 1 minute ago, alexukhc said: It’s different, lack of hills and good cider does my head in, but the misses and the boy ain’t going anywhere, so I guess I’m stuck for now I could go on but it’s a football forum Fair enough ! At least if I ever fancy indoor sky diving I will know where to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I got no say in matters. I got taken down to the gate by my Dad when I was too young to know that I was in for a lifetime of excruciating pain, anxiety, bitterness and resentment. Mind you, that set me up nicely for life on OTIB so every cloud and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Exile Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 Goodness it was grim in the early 80s. I was in Oxford in 1981 - City and Rovers played Oxford United in successive weekends as I recall. I went to both, the latter with a regular poster on that Rovers forum that's not Gaschat. It was a grim time! City were truly awful. But a few years later did I care that the standard of football in the 1-0 down, 2-1 up cup match was poor?...not a bit, I travelled overnight on a ferry from Ireland to watch that game. The standard of football didn't some into it really. Delighted as I am that City have enjoyed a better decade or two the reasonable bit of me has some sympathy for my Rovers supporting friends...your guys were much better at points in the past! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 32 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said: I (I haven't been able to find a game to watch tonight so my posts have been fuelled by a £3.69 bottle of Lidl wine and the fact that tmy hotel is on a Basingstoke trading estate with **** all else to do!) There's a brilliant "all you can eat " Chinese not far from you (back of the Anvil..try it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laner Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I was born in the front bedroom of a house less than 0.5 mile from the ground almost 50 years ago. I could hear the cheering. Dad took me and my brother down when we were youngsters. Was never going to be any other team for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I don't think the level of football a club plays at is of that much concern, we were after all in League One not that long ago. I think it's more to do other factors. Like not being a complete spanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 My family were all Rovers supporters, but I changed to City due to a chance conversion at primary school before I’d watched a live match. It was the best conversation I’ve ever had because, if I hadn’t had it, I would be a Rovers supporter now. Dire as that prospect is I can’t imagine changing allegiance once you become a real supporter. I can’t stand “supporters” who “support” teams like Man U or Chelsea but have never bought a ticket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC RISK77 Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 41 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said: I'm often away with work and watch a fair few non league games. I was at Oxford City v Torquay last night and really enjoyed it, away support out numbered the home support, drinking on the terraces and a really nice friendly atmosphere. Obviously Rovers had their spell in non league, and I went to a lot of away games, which by and large (Braintree an obvious exception) were of a similar atmosphere to the one I enjoyed last night, I'm glad we aren't down there any more, but I really did- for the most part- enjoy it. Banter aside, a fair few on this forum have ridiculed the standard of football that Rovers play at and said they couldn't watch it, but is there anyone on here who chose City over Rovers because of the 'quality' of football on offer? I knew a pretty die hard red a few years back, who was home and away with City and when I asked him about the - ahem- glory years of 1982 I was really surprised when he told me he didn't watch them then as he wouldn't watch 4th division football. So come on then, which of you ******* are glory seekers who chose City because of the level of football they played at when you could have followed us with our superior support and free half time porn? (I haven't been able to find a game to watch tonight so my posts have been fuelled by a £3.69 bottle of Lidl wine and the fact that tmy hotel is on a Basingstoke trading estate with **** all else to do!) For me I was brought up in north Bristol in downend so primarily rovers area back in the 80’s...but my dad was always south Bristol till he moved...lydstep terrace. When I first started getting into footy mid 80’s I loved Man U because Bryan robson played for them...flirted with Chelsea and Aston Villa until my dad took me to Wembley on my 9th birthday on 23rd may 1986...hooked ever since. remember fondly having my Walkman with fm radio from that moment on and listening to radio Bristol and running downstairs to tell my dad when city scored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV Tom Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 43 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said: I'm often away with work and watch a fair few non league games. I was at Oxford City v Torquay last night and really enjoyed it, away support out numbered the home support, drinking on the terraces and a really nice friendly atmosphere. Obviously Rovers had their spell in non league, and I went to a lot of away games, which by and large (Braintree an obvious exception) were of a similar atmosphere to the one I enjoyed last night, I'm glad we aren't down there any more, but I really did- for the most part- enjoy it. Banter aside, a fair few on this forum have ridiculed the standard of football that Rovers play at and said they couldn't watch it, but is there anyone on here who chose City over Rovers because of the 'quality' of football on offer? I knew a pretty die hard red a few years back, who was home and away with City and when I asked him about the - ahem- glory years of 1982 I was really surprised when he told me he didn't watch them then as he wouldn't watch 4th division football. So come on then, which of you ******* are glory seekers who chose City because of the level of football they played at when you could have followed us with our superior support and free half time porn? (I haven't been able to find a game to watch tonight so my posts have been fuelled by a £3.69 bottle of Lidl wine and the fact that tmy hotel is on a Basingstoke trading estate with **** all else to do!) I’m a Knowle Wester so had no choice, we didn’t allow gas in KW, some of my best away days were in the 4th division, strange, but I loved it, great memories of Sealand Road, Plainmoor, Northampton’s old cricket ground etc, even now i’d rather watch a conference game on TV than a premiership game, it drives my kids nuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54-46 Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 32 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said: Fair enough ! At least if I ever fancy indoor sky diving I will know where to come Stayed on that site loads of times. Went to watch the indoor skydivers a few times and it looks really difficult. I think last time I was there we went bowling and then for a bit of bingo. Not sure what else is around to do tbh! In answer to your initial question, City are the nearest club to where I grew up - isn’t that how you’re meant to choose your team (family influence aside maybe?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfcredandwhite Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 Started following City in the 1970s but didn’t go to any games until 1980s because my parents were not into football in the slightest so there was no encouragement. We didn’t have a TV in our household either until 1983 (no we are not Amish!!) so I had to rely on watching random football at mates houses. If I based my allegiance around quality than I would have joined the ‘plastics’ years ago and probably followed Man Ure. I cant help what I am - City is in my blood. Unlike some though, I don’t hate Rovers - I honestly don’t really care about them really - if anything I feel slightly sorry for them, but if forced into a corner I would say that it’s an embarrassment and shame on Bristol that neither of its 2 teams has ventured higher than the Championship since we did in the 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said: I'm often away with work and watch a fair few non league games. I was at Oxford City v Torquay last night and really enjoyed it, away support out numbered the home support, drinking on the terraces and a really nice friendly atmosphere. Obviously Rovers had their spell in non league, and I went to a lot of away games, which by and large (Braintree an obvious exception) were of a similar atmosphere to the one I enjoyed last night, I'm glad we aren't down there any more, but I really did- for the most part- enjoy it. Banter aside, a fair few on this forum have ridiculed the standard of football that Rovers play at and said they couldn't watch it, but is there anyone on here who chose City over Rovers because of the 'quality' of football on offer? I knew a pretty die hard red a few years back, who was home and away with City and when I asked him about the - ahem- glory years of 1982 I was really surprised when he told me he didn't watch them then as he wouldn't watch 4th division football. So come on then, which of you ******* are glory seekers who chose City because of the level of football they played at when you could have followed us with our superior support and free half time porn? (I haven't been able to find a game to watch tonight so my posts have been fuelled by a £3.69 bottle of Lidl wine and the fact that tmy hotel is on a Basingstoke trading estate with **** all else to do!) The only superior support you have, is your Truss, for the giant sized load of bollocks you come out with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted August 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 40 minutes ago, slartibartfast said: There's a brilliant "all you can eat " Chinese not far from you (back of the Anvil..try it . Already ate in the - not very good- Beefeater! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted August 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 29 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said: For me I was brought up in north Bristol in downend so primarily rovers area back in the 80’s...but my dad was always south Bristol till he moved...lydstep terrace. When I first started getting into footy mid 80’s I loved Man U because Bryan robson played for them...flirted with Chelsea and Aston Villa until my dad took me to Wembley on my 9th birthday on 23rd may 1986...hooked ever since. remember fondly having my Walkman with fm radio from that moment on and listening to radio Bristol and running downstairs to tell my dad when city scored. Was that the Bolton game? I went on the 24th May the following year against Mansfield. Long story . but me and a City mate had agreed if either club got to Wembley we would go and support the others team. I went to the match but I just couldn't cheer on City, I had a great day out and all that, but when Mansfield got the winning penalty it was really hard not to cheer out loud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV Tom Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 1 minute ago, Miah Dennehy said: Was that the Bolton game? I went on the 24th May the following year against Mansfield. Long story . but me and a City mate had agreed if either club got to Wembley we would go and support the others team. I went to the match but I just couldn't cheer on City, I had a great day out and all that, but when Mansfield got the winning penalty it was really hard not to cheer out loud! Was that you giving the Mansfield fans stick for being scabs after breaking the miners strike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I’ve seen some dreadful football over the many years I’ve been attending AG but only once have ever thought about not renewing . It was after watching the attractive football played by Danny Wilson I was subjected to the most dreary and pedestrian football I’d ever witnessed and after two season of shite I was sorely tempted not to return to AG but I couldn’t do it............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I grew up in a City supporting family who all came from Ashton/Bedminster/Southville. The "quality of football" arguments I think only apply to those from non-footballing families, exiled neutrals and people from areas without clearly defined "tribal" loyalties. They will be drawn to whoever is attracting the best quality of opponent. It is a fact that we increased our fanbase considerably in the wider West Country area during the old First division years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted August 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 6 minutes ago, harrys said: Was that you giving the Mansfield fans stick for being scabs after breaking the miners strike? Not me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV Tom Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 I’ve often wondered how fans from the other side of town become affiliated to City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV Tom Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 4 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said: Not me It looked like you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miser Posted August 15, 2018 Report Share Posted August 15, 2018 Born in South Bristol- taken to the Gate by my dad. So thankful that he was a wise man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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