Red-Robbo

I've never liked Chelsea either. En masse their fans are unbearable big-time Charlies with a high quotient of Cockney Wankaaah types. Everything about the club from its position in London, to its various horrible owners, to the colour it plays in, to the various West Country saddos who "support" it, gets my goat. That said, I've known some decent genuine Chelsea fans. Like any horrible club, the G*s for example, they can have the odd nice albeit misguided fan support them.

Didn't really look like that to me, AIS. The admittedly brief clip posted on here shows one City fan (the guy with the top knot) giving the fella a pasting and the other fans pulling him and removing him from his seat - presumably as a precursor to stewards removing the man from the area he was illegally in. It's clear from the Brum fan's hands he'd also been swinging punches.

I said during the game that both his player selection and formation didn't work. Sam Bell has performed adequately in other games out of position, but here he was targeted and it has to be said fell to pieces. It wasn't just that we had no screen down our right flank. His forward forays suffered as he lost confidence and couldn't do the basic things. Falling over on the ball while in a promising position just about summed his afternoon up. They say "don't destroy the confidence of a young player" but I think leaving him on like that for a whole half probably destroyed it more. He should never have to be put in that position again. A loan to a team that will play him in his preferred role would be best for the lad. As you say, the Wells sub was baffling. From the first minute we had a failing midfield with only Alex Scott providing forward momentum. It was custom made for Massengo and Han was even warmed up and ready to come on at one point, but it appears NP changed his mind. I honestly don't know what was going through his head as he watched the game.

It's an atrocity that tastes like slightly chilled, flat brown water with some sort of flavourless whipped cream on top. A pub needs at least one proper real ale.

With a failure making crucial decisions.

I think there's only one conclusion to be made from a paragraph like this: "But Dean was working in difficult circumstances, not only on that but it was really tough for him with the whole structure that was set up inside the club at the time. It was a really difficult place to work, I found it a difficult place to work because of the structure that was in place."

Not with my plantar fascitis, son.

I think the fact he earned £13,000 a day with England (and more afterwards) helped his cause.

It's back in place after a wash and refurb.

My gran's too. Another fact: I still have a four-pack of Babycham in the utility room cupboard that someone brought to a party at the cottage a decade ago and needless to say, no one touched. I bring it out every year, but still no takers...

Agreed. At 58, I think my days of marching around with an SLR are long over. But who knows how we'd react if we had to defend our homes, our families, our way of life? I'd hope I could be as brave.

They need to work on their beer choice. If they think I'm drinking "smooth-flow" John Smith's, they've got another thing coming!

Thought this was going to be another thread about Mark Ashton...

TBH all Thatchers stuff is too sweet and fizzy for me. Stones Dry ?

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Just say no to non-apple flavoured ciders.

They beat the third-from-bottom team 1-0 at home. Their opponents had a man sent off as well. Not exactly one to remember forever.

That's quite a statement. However, I imagine the people being offended by the fact that our club recognises that it has Welsh fans, are middle-aged men in the main. AFAICS they tend to be much bigger snowflakes than the young.

Aye. Same here. We all know Pearson's track record, but that has been achieved in different circumstances with different staff and a different budget. So, in a characteristic Nigel phrase, 'it is what it is'. After becoming rather complacent about City winning more than they lose, it's tough to take two seasons where we're miles off the pace of the top clubs. But you'd be holding up Lord Nelson's telescope if you couldn't see signs of green shoots at the club, in particular the development of young talent here.

Bristolian-Welsh rivalry and banter is something that goes back decades, probably centuries. But that said, it's worth some fans respecting that City have some very committed Welsh fans. I know one and he's 100% Ciderhead as well as being proud of Cardiff, the city he grew up. He shares our opinion of the football club based there.

No survey is completely accurate, but you can see from this forum alone that most fans are happy with giving Pearson more time to develop the team further. The same arguments of sample size could be made over the number of active Otib contributors, but the fact is, we as a group do represent a wide cross-section of fans: people who were going to City games in 1956 and people who started supporting in the 2000s; people with strong and differing opinions on previous managers; strong views about certain players; all sorts of different jobs, family circumstances, lifestyles, political and other beliefs. The only thing that binds Otibbers together is we're passionate enough about Bristol City to spend time on a forum discussing the club.

A very, very decent result back then.

I got it on the day it was out and can attest to its continuation of fabulous lyricism and offbeat subject matter. It's perhaps a little more professional and less endearingly ramshackle than early 'Biscuit', but who can but love couplets like "See you later undertaker/In a while necrophile"*. * From "I'm Getting Buried In The Morning", a song about a bloke's last day on death row.