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  2. The Official Bristol City v Rotherham United Match Day Thread

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    1 minute ago, redordead1 said:

    Like us, he has also seen them play in nearly 30 competitive games this season.

    Vyner (as promising as he may be), must be pulling up f'ing oak trees in training to be considered ahead of our Icelandic international, who has done absolutely everything you could ask of him in his first season.

    COD - Again, may show glimpses of promise. However, no-one can argue he has had a fraction of the positive impact on our games as BR this season. He was shocking and an absolute bystander on Tuesday. Unarguable.

    Patterson - I like and he should have more of a role from the bench imo. However, ahead of GON so far this season? We should have let GON move on in the window as its a waste of everyone's time when a player of his pedigree isn't making the bench.

     

    Do not disagree with your opinion however, he can still only pick 18 for the Match day squad so has to rotate. 

    What if we win well today would that change your thinking.

    At the end of the day Johnson gets paid to make these decisions and until after the game and result we have to trust him.

     

  22. The Official Bristol City v Middlesbrough Match Day Thread

    in The Havanatopia Match Day Archive

    Posted · Edited by rockinrobin

    6 minutes ago, havanatopia said:

    Coming up to 3pm here in Manila Rock.. and thanks, it was an easy write up today because I was largely doing so with the power of the mixed emotions of post SC adrenalin.

    Soz my bad knowledge of your time scale, enjoy your day and lets hope we get the right result and dedicate our first double of the season to our Steve Cotts.

  23. The Official Bristol City v Middlesbrough Match Day Thread

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    20 minutes ago, havanatopia said:

    Good morning everyone. The 16th of January will, I venture, be remembered as the day Bristol City Football Club looked forward to the new era in this most venerable of sporting feasts that we, in these British isles, introduced to the world. In the dark, wet and cold afternoons of early new year winter, before the crocus push through the lawns of England, we have our very own chance of a new beginning.

    Behind us on these forum pages, laid bare for all to read for eternity, we have poured emotional copy of the Stephen Cotterill era. Good, bad and downright ugly. Praise for the manager, praise for the board in fairly equal measure with often venomous castigation of both. Such is the emotion that is team football. 

    Steve Cotterill 'flees' and the board head for the 'bunker'.....

    On this day in 1979 and faced with an army mutiny and violent demonstrations against his rule, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the leader of Iran since 1941, was forced to flee the country. Fourteen days later, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the Islamic revolution, returned after 15 years of exile and took control of Iran.

    Also on this day in 1945 Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker, where he remained for 105 days until he commits suicide.

    One thing is for sure, nobody will be seeking to emulate another 'on this day' coincidence of prohibition; On Janunary 16th, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,” was ratified and becomes the law of the land.

    Playful analogies aside we must hope and assume that the board of this club made the right decision at the only time they could; and that is the only thought we must take into our hearts, forgetting about everything else lest it fester and cause derision and argument and that, especially at this moment in our history, may very well assist in our downfall. No matter that some will argue, and until the cats return home, that our board are a 'pitiful bunch of cowards'. Such language may get a load off one's chest but it serves no purpose other than to cause a potential rift between fan and club and that does nobody any favours. We can all of us only have the faith that, as always, the board and the owner have the best interests of this club at heart and with the investment being made nobody can doubt that.

    It all rather reminds me though of the day when all of the indigenous peoples of the Americas came together in one enormous rally in Mexico to counter the conqueror view of the celebration of Columbus the discoverer. From the tip of Tierra del Fuego to the peak of Labrador the hundreds of cultures of pre-columbus America marched, often on foot, to challenge the celebrated view of history. It was the build up of pressure from a blow hole. The forgotten and trodden on people wanted their voice heard. 

    And if I may quote some words from the late great Alistair Cooke I think it rather resonates with the supporter and the owner scenario on the world of all football clubs the length and breadth of this green land albeit in a completely different context..

    Columbus was an obsessive egomaniac, a passionate christian, who combined in curiosity, romantic stubbornness and sense of mission something of Galileo, Don Quixote and John the Baptiste. He and his men were ruthless colonizers and actual destroyers of native societies and religions. The Spanish had to deal with considerable ire and the weight of this shameful story. But, we ought to remind ourselves that while they combined great physical courage, endurance and intense religious zeal with devastating cruelty, they behaved no worse than any other European would have done who got their first. They were men of their own time and place. This is a truth always difficult for us to remember when we compare such with our own sainted selves, so enlightened, so compassionate, so... well, in a word, decent.

    How fitting that on this very day our great football club, because they are great to us, should lock horns and battle with the best team, currently, in this division. And how unlikely a team they might be to present us with the opportunity of not only securing our first 'six pointer' of the season but also removing ourselves from the relegation zone and demonstrating to potential suitors that we are worth joining, saving and raising our fortunes for in the weeks, months and indeed years ahead. Today is pivotal and the only thought is of a positive outcome whatever that means to each and everyone of us; even if we should lose, but we throw the kitchen sink at them, it might and perhaps should be considered positive. We need a positive response even if the players were united behind Steve Cotterill and he would have told them that in his, no doubt, emotional farewell to them. He would expect nothing less than concentration and professionalism from them. So let it be.

    For an alternate match day thread, devoid of analogies, ramblings, and perhaps unconnected nonsense, may i direct you all to the opposite fixture back in August.. 

     

    And my apologies for indeed talking about non-football matters but on this day perhaps I may be forgiven for doing so. I will end by saying this...thank you Steve Cotterill, what a brilliant manager and privilege it has been to watch your team especially last season when storming to the League 1 title. Travelling to watch 5 matches from South East Asia, and my brother from the Caribbean, was worth every single centavo. 

    Good day all and I hope all of us can rally behind the team and enjoy the game today.

    UTC.

     

    Your up late Mate can't sleep with all the excitement ???

    Thank you Havanatopia for your commitment to the cause on these match day threads excellent as usual.  :clap::chant6ez::clap:

     

     

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