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1 minute ago, George Rs said:

Love so see nige confident in our ability to try challenge for top 6 next year and from what it sounds like the players want to as well. 
 

Even if we got it in and didn’t win it or missed it by a few points that progression is brilliant with the situation he was initially handed.

Pop back on here after we've been beaten 3-0 at home by Rotherham on the opening day!

In all seriousness though, I feel the club is very United now, with a good squad that will get better and a very good manager. I fully expect us to be in and around 6th spot next season.

On 10/05/2023 at 11:01, ralphindevon said:

Ok so has anyone got Trevor Tainton from 1979?

No but I have the entire St Mirren team 3 x over

1 hour ago, chucky said:

If that was outside them Mem, it would be absolutely ruined, what with 40,0000 gas heads locked outside. 

It could be outside the Mem, it does have fans pictured sitting on deck chairs and hedges!

20 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

False. Exaggeration for effect?

In the last 30 years Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund and probably others have also won it..

Just checked, others indeed have- Stuttgart perhaps not that surprisingly and Kaiserslauten probably more surprisingly. Some of them more than once the other 5.

whoosh - I didn't really think that Bayern had won 29 of the 30!!!

51 minutes ago, maxjak said:

Well ...what a turn up?  Celtic have won their 10th title in the last 11 years.   Scottish Football is just so competitive.  Yawn.

Unlike German football where Bayern have only won 29 of the last 30 titles 

11 hours ago, robinforlife2 said:

In my 40 years on this earth, the Johnson's have given me probably 3 of the 4 best football matches I seen in Bristol City.

1 - Lee Johnson's team beating Man Utd will be hard to topple, especially with my Brother and Dad in attendance and the last game my Dad has seen City play due to ill health.

2 - The injury time winner at Crystal Palace by Noble in the 1st leg of the playoffs, I remember hugging and kissing people I had never met or seen before, and celebrating all the way back to the train station

3 - That strike by Trundle in the 2nd leg against Palace, I try to forget the next goal due to the personal heartache and effects on friends and family caused, but that night at the time was epic.

4 - The comeback against Hartlepool and Christian Roberts blasting in the winner in front of us.

Sadly in the Cotterill promotion season, I didn't see as many games as I would have liked, so I missed the nights at Bradford etc, but for me in watching live games, 3 of the 4 best times I've had supporting City, have come with a Johnson as our manager and for that I'll never feel bad or negatively about their time at our club.

Some of these videos bring back memories of when life was a lot happier for me. Not gonna lie, watching some of them bring a tear to my eyes. 

Gary Johnson gave me my Bristol City back. We'd had some tough, lean years and Johnson literally put the bounce back into the ground. He also made City feel 'big time' again. People were talking about us, crowds were growing and I remember the away support being particularly large and noisy at that time.

7 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

I think plastics is just something you have to accept if you get sustained top-flight success.

I love how you get West Country Liverpool fans (who tend to be aged in their 50s and 40s), West Country Man U fans (40s and late 30s) and you are starting to see some West Country schoolkids identifying as Man City fans. Hell, there are even some 60-year-old West Country "Leeds fans" and I know one old-bloke in his 70s who has rarely travelled further north than Radstock, but who supports WBA, the big team when he first got into football in the mid-1950s. 

Spot on, just in my extended family I have an Uncle in his 60s who supports City and has Leeds as his second team, a brother in law in his 40s who supports Liverpool and has the Gas as his second team and 2 brothers (40s and 30s) who support City but have Man Utd as their second team.

Nobody has mentioned the brilliant idea of giving a City shirt away with junior season tickets. I have three kids and watching them train and play in what was regarded traditional Gas territory, I'm always pleasantly surprised by the number of City shirts I see.  The free shirts have made a great difference and you see far more City shirts than you do Rovers, Man Utd, Liverpool, Barca, PSG etc.

31 minutes ago, Nathandao said:

Wycombe fans seem happy to get rid of them. Saying the quality is poor. Doesn’t bode well for us…

But Wycombe got two promotions with O'Neills, so that must mean we will get to the Premier League and as we can't have another promotion it must mean Champions League football 

20 hours ago, DaveF said:

Hes a Gashead now. Aren't you @WolfOfWestStreet?

Can't blame him after seeing the new stand they are constructing....Champions League ready 

5 hours ago, BCFCGav said:

It honestly never even occurred to me that people on here have watched Atyeo play live. Amazing really. What was he like to watch? I assume he had God status with supporters.

He was better than Cornick.

12 hours ago, Davefevs said:

That is the big unknown for me in terms of his ability / potential…from the games I saw him play.

At u21 level he was never tested:

• aerially - it’s rare to get a young target man type or physical opponent, so inevitably he wins everything in the air.  Although slightly different, Louis Britton, all arms and elbows, showed a number of u21/23 CBs  what a young CB might expect when entering 1st team football when you might have to play against someone like John Akinde (Colchester) or Andy Cook (Bradford).  Can be an eye-opener when you step up to first team and suddenly getting a 6-foot plus bruiser running at you from side-on for headers.  So I don’t know if he has that…yet.
• in-behind - City being one of the better u21 sides, tend not to get get dominated, so I’ve not really seen him be tested by short, sharp movement in behind from an opponent dominating possession.  So I don’t know if he has that either…yet.

What I have seen is someone pretty comfy on the ball who has dominated his smaller opponent.  U21s v Peterborough u21s he was really classy.

I really hope I am wrong, but from what I saw when he played against Lincoln and then what the Walsall fans seem to be saying, it looks like a step down to the National League is on the cards.

2 hours ago, JBFC II said:

Without wanting to be too much of a pedant, we've not taken 1500 our last two trips, 1200 and 800 in fact.

That being said, less than 500 for one of their closest away games is pitiful. Laughable numbers

Can't argue with you, as I've not been to every game at Home Park v City since 1984, but I've been to quite a few and those games we've always had upwards of 1500.

In all seriousness though, those deluded t*ats really believe they have a bigger away support than us. I've been to Plymouth many times over the years, midweek, weekend, City flying high, City struggling etc and we've never had less than 1500 down there. 480 is absolute dogsh*t.

9 minutes ago, petehinton said:

 

'Come in a taxi, you must have come in a taxi'

2 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

I see we got green club of the year too. 

I thought Plymouth would have won that.

3 hours ago, maxjak said:

Why would anybody want to go to Spurs?   Ha!

I could get a game for Spurs and I'm 50.

5 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

Diana Ross USA 94?

We went with two big uns up top at that time.

The club should really push this game hard in the next week, surely a large Ashton Gate crowd would ensure we get it over the line. Super League here we come!

What will the crowd be next weekend? Must be 5000 + surely. I will be going

The Reds are going up! 

33 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Interesting the regular mention of Galliers in these types of thread.  I wasn’t a regular attendee in his era, but the games I did see, I never saw what many of you did.  I knew his reputation from Wimbledon, just never saw it play out on the park.  Didn’t think he was very good either.

I watched Galliers regularly and I can confirm that he was a very good player (for third tier) and he was a hard man. He was small in stature but flew into tackles. He could also play a bit. You must bear in mind we are talking third tier and not top tier like Gerry Gow was able to do.

2 hours ago, archie andrews said:

Couldnt get near dave smith v gillingham though.... 

He got close to Gerry Francis when he played for the Gas, he nearly cut him in two 

28 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Mick Harford, any one said Mick Harford yet? Mick Harford, for me. 

Among old pros who played in the 80s and 90s, Mick Harford and Duncan Ferguson are always talked about as the hardest/guys nobody messed with.

The likes of Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu admitted that Harford was by far the hardest of the Wimbledon 'Crazy gang' and Ferguson's stories are legendary. Ferguson started young as well, as a 17 year old at Dundee United he was confronted in a pub by two Dundee fans. He proceeded to knock both of them out, before finishing his pint and moving on. A guy you'd be very careful not to spill the pint of if you were in his local boozer!

I should also add Andy Llewellyn. Not really a hard man as such, but he's kicked more wingers into row Z of the old Grandstand than any other full back I can remember.