ralphindevon

I hope the clubs ticketing system can cope with 12000 of us all renewing on the last hour of the last day.

I might give myself an extra hour………..if I do renew. 

I’d absolutely love it if the got Nige on. That’d be so interesting.

34 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Bristol is sufficient.

 

TBF at least they all remembered our part in his career.

A lot of people think he was at Newcastle then Man United before finishing his career with a few others.

It was a hell of a deal for us to actually sign him on after loaning him, he looked so good from his debut onwards, nowadays Arsenal may have just extended the loan for a year and waited to see how he progressed. 

Maybe Jon has earmarked Zak to take over from Manning if things don’t improve, player manager, save some money, his own label to pay his wages…………

And we get a mention. While discussing Harry Kane and his not exactly quick rise to fame, Wrighty likened him to Andy Cole saying nobody was sure he’d make a prolific top striker at Aresnal. Then he came to us and something clicked.

Wrighty, Roy Keane and maybe one other all called us Bristol, not sure if they just couldn’t remember which Bristol team or just thought Bristol was enough, I don’t know. 

I look at GJ’s tenure almost as an outsider as I wasn’t a season ticket holder and didn’t even live in the country for any of it.

One thing that stuck in my mind was the motivational quotes he put around the changing room, which he then got made up from hand written bits of paper to proper printed cards. He was so proud of them but you couldn’t help think that kind of thing had a shelf life and once you’d read them 50 times then what?

But that playoff season was great and I loved my trips back to watch City that season, even Wembley was hugely memorable and I’m glad we got there despite the result. 
 

Edit. Oh and as it’s a Lee Trundle thread, I loved watching him play, in fact I remember coming back for one game, may have been Sheffield United away, and spent 15 minutes before the game watching him warm up with a ball at his feet. Comfortably the best part of the afternoon for me. 

This has already been posted on here, last Tuesday think.

As I said on the other thread, our ave attendance now would put us in the top 10 in the country and Torquay have an average almost double now in the 6th tier than they did back then in the 4th.

Amazing that a few years after Hillsborough, football went from being looked down on and the fans treated like scum to being THE place to be seen.

Thatcher hated football fans but I almost preferred that to seeing the likes of Cameron, Osborne, Sunak all trying to get on the bandwagon pretending they’re loyal supporters of teams they know nothing about. 

10 minutes ago, handsofclay said:

In the top flight days I watched mainly from the East End, occasionally from the Enclosure and several times in the Open End. The away fans mainly congregated in The Open End and there wasn't any restriction on me going in there with my mates all decked in City scarves. 

Also, there were several times away fans got together in the East End to attack it before being escorted to the Open End.

I think when there were big away turnouts the police formed a line down the Open End to form a barrier to keep fans of both clubs apart if it got a bit feisty. Iirc there was also fencing to separate rival fans if needed in the Open End. Although that might've come slightly later.

Yes I was around for those days, though I can never remember there not being segregation in the open end, always a double fence with police occasionally stood between the supporters. I never went before top flight days though.

6 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Does no one remember the 2-1 FA cup replay win at Eastville in 68 ? Galley and Crowe, THAT was a great night, completely took over the Tote. All ticket game, they sold any tickets to anyone, no segregation in them days !

That sounds nuts. Was there an area where you were expected to go in the ground as an away fan or did you just go anywhere?

I can remember going to a Brentford v Exeter game in the 70’s where fans just swapped ends at half time and even that dog without a few scuffles .

3 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Just a friendly little dig 

The 4-1 was my first League derby , I did go to the Glos Cup game at Eastville we won on Pens . Possibly 72/72 .  

Interesting about the attendances , yes they were poor across the board. We averaged 6k+ , your lot 4k+ and , one for @ralphindevon , Wolves Just over 4k. Plymouth were doing well with around 8k all in the same Division. Wolves were relegated that year , and beat us 2-1 up there.  

12, 300  ish I think

Yes I think Wolves were doing a Bristol City and falling from top to bottom. Of course it was just after Heysel and being a football fan in this country wasn’t easy, we were treated like animals everywhere we went.

How very different things are now, some much better some not so much.

A Quick Look in my old box of programmes and this one was near the top.

TC’s notes tell us we were confident of beating Hereford to secure a place at Wembley, It was touch and go but we did it. Never doubt the great TC

9 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

That 4-1 was my first ever derby- we went 1 up as well I think? I still shudder about that and the - in my eyes- 1 nil up 2-1 down.

The OP being a bit sniffy about the attendance, may do well to check other crowds of the time. Yes, City have always had the bigger crowds, but just under 10k in 1986 would have been a good attendance by most clubs standards.

 

True about the crowds, I saw something on facebook recently from around that time that gave all the matches and attendances on a certain Saturday. I’d forgotten just how dreadful attendances were. I think we lost at Wolves in front of about 3,800. Our current average would see us in the top 10 in the country back then.

Ive such vague memories of this game. I was definitely there as I’ve been to every derby game, bar a couple of the Paint trophy ones, since I started going to games in 76/77. I remember travelling up from Minehead and going in the Rovers end but not much else.

Ive much better memories of Eastville from the FA cup game and the game where the wind was blowing the greyhound track in our faces all day.

1 hour ago, Fordy62 said:

I may be in a minority here but I absolutely love the IPL. It’s everything that every 20 over cricket tournament should be. 

When I retire in 11 years and 8 months, I’ll be booking my plane ticket to go and watch. I imagine it’s incredible. 

Go Rajasthan!

I enjoy T20 and have tried the IPL but it’s definitely not for me.

The games go on way too long, even Jos Buttler agrees with that and trying to follow the whole series you lose the will to live it drags on so long. I know a number of overseas players find it difficult to stay for such a long time and we’ve had many leave early for personal reasons. 

I know ours isn’t perfect and could do with a bit of tweaking but overall I much prefer it to the IPL. Don’t get me started on their incredibly annoying Indian fans who think the whole of cricket revolves around them and the IPL. 

16 hours ago, spudski said:

Maybe...seems he's a bit marmite with viewers. 

Comes across like a character from the sit coms he writes. Over the top. 

Each to their own though. I'll still watch

Yes he does come across as a character from Everybody Loves Raymond, I can tolerate him but I loved ELR and love his food series but can totally understand people finding him irritating.

Bourdain is/was just brilliant though. Greatly missed.

4 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

Surely there is someone better than Chilwell.  An awful half by him

 

Cam Pring?

21 hours ago, Reigate Red said:

I'm in the same situation being in Surrey. I've also noticed that getting away tickets has become more difficult in the last few years and have to reluctantly accept that if we did ever get to the PL I don't think I'd be in with a shout of getting away tickets. I fully accept that ST holders have priority but what irks me is that anyone can buy a membership to enable them to get priority just for a specific "glamour" game, potentially not having been to a City game before and therefore having equal priority to someone like me (55 years man and boy!!).  City even plug buying memberships prior to a big game for that reason.

Yeah if we get to the promised land the away allocations are often worse than in the championship.

There are thousands of season ticket holders of PL clubs that can’t get an away ticket season after season.

9 hours ago, finbarr_in_z said:

There could be an entire documentary about this chap. How many games does he get to?

(BTW I'm in Derbyshire - practically round the corner from AG).

He gets to quite a lot of games actually, working for an airline helps though. 

Even for the pure cricket enthusiast like myself, test cricket can have it's boring, forgettable matches.

The 2005 Ashes didn't seem to have a boring session never mind day or test. International sport at it's very best, it had everything.

The 2019 WC final was as exciting as it gets but a few fortunate, lucky moments had us feeling a bit for the plucky losers. I'm a far bigger cricket fan than rugby but the 2003 win seemed incredibly important for England to get over the line, not just for rugby but all of British sport.

Growing up we'd get excited if Jeremy Bates or any Brit reached the second week of Wimbledon. Then Tim Henman came along and gave us hope but ultimately disappointment.

So the Andy Murray victory was an extremely special sporting moment.

So my personal favourite top 3 would be-

The Ashes.

Andy Murray

Rugby world cup 

Maybe Downsy is a robot and there’s a computer under his ever present hat.

It’s been like it for years, I did mention it to someone, Beanhead I think, who said all EFL clubs would have the same, new format soon, so nobody was doing any updating atm. Or something like that. Guess it never happened! 

Anyway, once Robbored says he doesn’t bother with it anymore it’ll just close down. 

11 hours ago, RedM said:

Isn't it them who do free away travel too, or they did until recently? Great value being a Stoke fan if you disregard the football

Still do.

They’ve had a miserable time since relegation from the PL but as they did enjoy 10 years up there, an FA cup final and Europe, I won’t be feeling sorry for them any time soon.

There’s a surprising amount of season card holders live outside Bristol, many of those live a good deal further away than I do.

A friend I’ve been going to games with for over 40 years lives in Manchester and the chap in the seat next to me lives in Serbia. Lots, like the OP live in London and the list goes on.

It’s a good effort by all but I don’t think any of us deserve anything extra, a free mental health check up maybe?

20 minutes ago, RedM said:

I'm up there for a long weekend. How does it affect trains when we are up there. I was hoping to go to Edinburgh on Friday or Sunday, not sure which operator that is? Also is the Metro likely to be affected? Anyone have any knowledge or info please?

There are a few operators use the Newcastle to Edinburgh route, all of them are effected by this but my guess is there’ll definitely be trains, some may not run meaning others may be busy though.

I don’t think the metro will be affected. 

Actually, good as he was I’d sub Webster as my England pick and make room for Andy Cole, maybe move Magnússon to defence and Cole for Agostino or Weimann.

Oh and Jan Moller for Basso