The Humble Realist Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Hi all, Football is such a game of fine margins...I'm sure as fans we have all thought what if a few times. Here's a few scenarios to consider that I think in the last 20 years would be interesting 1. We beat Brighton in the play off final and cardiff and Danny wilson leads the club into the championship. Tinnion doesnt get the managers job... 2. We inexplicably bottle the promotion winning game v rotherham under GJ and end up crashing out of the play offs ...there is no run to Wembley a year later in the championship play offs and instead face another season (at least ) in league one 3. The one that hurts most...we beat hull at wembley and head into the premiership.... 4. Under newly appointed sean o Driscoll we scrape enough points to end to the season surviving on goal difference...we now face another season in the championship 5. Lee Johnson is sacked in his first full season after the famous losing run...with the club struggling at the bottom of the league lansdown must now appoint a manager to keep us in the Divison 6 . We win the carabo cup after defeating man city on penalties in the semi final and then winning at Wembley! We still tail off in the league but start the next season in the europa league Pick a moment (or one of your own ) and answer this What happend next? Where would we be now? I will pick the hull game... We would have had a fun season in premiership but would have been relegated. We would pull off a couple of famous victories . Right now....we would be pretty much where we are currently ! But we might have got promoted and relegated again in the same time period. Crucially we would never have fallen into league one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 8 minutes ago, The Humble Realist said: Hi all, Football is such a game of fine margins...I'm sure as fans we have all thought what if a few times. Here's a few scenarios to consider that I think in the last 20 years would be interesting 1. We beat Brighton in the play off final and cardiff and Danny wilson leads the club into the championship. Tinnion doesnt get the managers job... 2. We inexplicably bottle the promotion winning game v rotherham under GJ and end up crashing out of the play offs ...there is no run to Wembley a year later in the championship play offs and instead face another season (at least ) in league one 3. The one that hurts most...we beat hull at wembley and head into the premiership.... 4. Under newly appointed sean o Driscoll we scrape enough points to end to the season surviving on goal difference...we now face another season in the championship 5. Lee Johnson is sacked in his first full season after the famous losing run...with the club struggling at the bottom of the league lansdown must now appoint a manager to keep us in the Divison 6 . We win the carabo cup after defeating man city on penalties in the semi final and then winning at Wembley! We still tail off in the league but start the next season in the europa league Pick a moment (or one of your own ) and answer this What happend next? Where would we be now? I will pick the hull game... We would have had a fun season in premiership but would have been relegated. We would pull off a couple of famous victories . Right now....we would be pretty much where we are currently ! But we might have got promoted and relegated again in the same time period. Crucially we would never have fallen into league one! Following his “coming together” with Shilton, Cheesley's injury proved nothing more than a strain. He went on to be top scorer in the first division that season and gained his first England cap...................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Just now, downendcity said: Following his “coming together” with Shilton, Cheesley's injury proved nothing more than a strain. He went on to be top scorer in the first division that season and gained his first England cap...................................... However in the sliding doors version of the above....Les Bardsley, the club physio, is widely criticised on OTIB who blame our training regime involving circus seals. Others blame the groundsman for the camber of the pitch resulting in an awkward landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Sandy Turnbull gets found guilty of match fixing 6 years early. Bristol City win the FA Cup and the prestige allows them to build a dynasty.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 22 minutes ago, The Humble Realist said: 3. The one that hurts most...we beat hull at wembley and head into the premiership.... Whenever I see this I think "where are Hull now". Answer is a division below is, enjoying the salubrious away facilities of places like the Mem. I tend to stop worrying too much about the sliding doors moments then. Although one I would posit: what if the 1909 FA Cup had been our first FA Cup win rather than Manchester United's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said: Although one I would posit: what if the 1909 FA Cup had been our first FA Cup win rather than Manchester United's? If only somebody had already mentioned that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Just now, BS2 Red said: If only somebody had already mentioned that.... Humble apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 1 minute ago, ExiledAjax said: Humble apologies. Haha, I'm only messing around. I'm not sure winning the FA Cup would have made much difference. We'd have different shaped corner flags and some bragging rights, but there's plenty of clubs that won the FA Cup in the early days and went on to do nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Just now, BS2 Red said: Haha, I'm only messing around. I'm not sure winning the FA Cup would have made much difference. We'd have different shaped corner flags and some bragging rights, but there's plenty of clubs that won the FA Cup in the early days and went on to do nothing. Of course of course. I mean Huddersfield won the first division in triplicate...Ipswich won it as well. I know that Utd's modern power is attributable to far more important things than an fa cup win 111 years ago. But, at least, we'd be able to say out club had won the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Ones that have crossed my mind: Steve Cotterill stays at City, despite being unable to strengthen, and a poor start, that famous team spirit sees us scramble enough points to survive. In the following summer Cotterill at last gets to play the transfer market. He also keeps the spine together of Ayling, Bryan, Smith, Freeman and the newly emerging Bobby Reid.... And another obvious one... City are beating 10 man Wolves, the fans are chanting "we're coming for you...!" From a late corner, Flint heads in the second goal of the game to clinch victory and continue City's great run of form. The league cup still ends in narrow defeat, but the league game with Aston Villa has a very different dynamic. City, with their tails up, rescue a point in a high scoring game at Villa Park and are 2nd in the league with 51 points and 19 games remaining in which to amass the 24 points required to finish in the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 12 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said: Of course of course. I mean Huddersfield won the first division in triplicate...Ipswich won it as well. I know that Utd's modern power is attributable to far more important things than an fa cup win 111 years ago. But, at least, we'd be able to say out club had won the thing. Yeah, being former FA Cup winners would be amazing. Just being able to say that would put us on a par with the likes of Old Carthusians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, mozo said: Ones that have crossed my mind: Steve Cotterill stays at City, despite being unable to strengthen, and a poor start, that famous team spirit sees us scramble enough points to survive. In the following summer Cotterill at last gets to play the transfer market. He also keeps the spine together of Ayling, Bryan, Smith, Freeman and the newly emerging Bobby Reid.... And another obvious one... City are beating 10 man Wolves, the fans are chanting "we're coming for you...!" From a late corner, Flint heads in the second goal of the game to clinch victory and continue City's great run of form. The league cup still ends in narrow defeat, but the league game with Aston Villa has a very different dynamic. City, with their tails up, rescue a point in a high scoring game at Villa Park and are 2nd in the league with 51 points and 19 games remaining in which to amass the 24 points required to finish in the playoffs............. . . ........which we conspire to lose anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, BS2 Red said: Yeah, being former FA Cup winners would be amazing. Just being able to say that would put us on a par with the likes of Old Carthusians. I actually know a number of old Carthusians from uni. Yes it would be nice to have an FA Cup like they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 And Alan Walsh’s 90th minute shot against Nottingham Forest goes in off the post and we reach a Wembley Final as a third division team... For what it’s worth, I think that beating Hull City would have been disastrous for the club. If our attempts to strengthen the team the following season in the Championship are anything to go by, what we might have done in the Premiership doesn’t bear thinking about. I suspect not only the lowest points total in Prem history, but a rapid descent to the fourth tier, a la Blackpool and Portsmouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 After promotion to Division 1, instead of giving existing players ten year contracts the board give Alan Dicks some big transfer funds to strengthen the team. This leads to a prolonged stay in the top flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Perhaps Bradley Orr doesn't get that injury against Hull in the playoff final...? Or Danny Wilson plays Lita v Brighton? How about if Pulis had have stayed on??! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 I remember a throw in that didn't go our way, in some game a couple of years back. I wasn't too perplexed by it at the time, but now I'm adamant that if that had gone our way then we'd be playing in the champions league tonight, rather than a championship game..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted October 28, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Lee Miller at Swindon . . . . I still swear time stood still that evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curr Avon Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 In 1897 Bristol South End reject the chance to become Bristol City, and are forever known as the Mad Cows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Balls Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 30 minutes ago, pongo88 said: After promotion to Division 1, instead of giving existing players ten year contracts the board give Alan Dicks some big transfer funds to strengthen the team. This leads to a prolonged stay in the top flight. He did buy established players who helped keep us up: Norman Hunter, Peter Cormack and Chris Garland come to mind, followed by Joe Royle the following season. These were top players at the time and 3 were recent international players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2015 Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Frank Fielding doesn't come rushing out of his goal and gets sent off vs Wolves in 17/18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 It’s 1961 and a young Downendcity is taken to Eastville by Grandad MullerRoad and stood at the front railings just to the right of the main stand. What if the young Downend had been hypnotised by the blue and white quarters - what might have been? Sent a shiver down my spine just typing this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 The Ashton Gate 8 refuse to tear up their contracts......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abraham Romanovich Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Bas Savage keeps his feet against Yeovil and scores a wonder goal after nonchalantly walking it around the on rushing keeper then on the line goes on all 4s and heads it home, picked up on world wide TV and Italian giants Inter Milan decide to take a punt . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 1 hour ago, BS2 Red said: Haha, I'm only messing around. I'm not sure winning the FA Cup would have made much difference. We'd have different shaped corner flags and some bragging rights, but there's plenty of clubs that won the FA Cup in the early days and went on to do nothing. On the flip side, a huge amount of the money for building Old Trafford was from their FA Cup win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Looking wider. Sky TV starts 25 years earlier in 1974. Man U had just been relegated after four poor seasons and were replaced in Div 1 by Carlisle. Sky would throw money at Carlisle and history would have been so different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, 22A said: Looking wider. Sky TV starts 25 years earlier in 1974. Man U had just been relegated after four poor seasons and were replaced in Div 1 by Carlisle. Sky would throw money at Carlisle and history would have been so different. Posted along these lines before, but had technology/history been about 40 years earlier, but football results unchanged, Huddersfield would be revered as Leeds are (by some). Back to back League wins, FA Cup wins under Chapman, but now with the extra coverage and TV highlights meaning they will get the fans across the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redcard Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 Going 1-0 up against 10 men Wolves, so we drop Flint back to his normal CH position and hold on to the victory, continuing our top form playing super pressing tactics!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 If Gary Collier had signed a new contract rather than leaving for peanuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numero Uno Posted October 28, 2020 Report Share Posted October 28, 2020 The ref gives a pen for that “trip” on Bas Savage and after a public enquiry we get demoted to the Conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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