Red-Robbo

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.

Maybe he'd been watching the Rugby earlier? Two points!

Quite agree. You can't expect the FA to get anything right, they are, and have been for years, almost as useless as the international bodies that govern our sport. However in an ideal world the "fit and proper person" test should continuously apply, not just at the moment that person seeks to take over a league club. Owners who are close to Putin and profiting from that relationship, should be ordered to disinvest in British football. That means Abramovitch selling their clubs, not trying to pretend proxies are running them.

Half Man Half Biscuit!

Think that's the one I recall. League Cup? Can't remember a draw in 2004, but when I lived in London I'd often not be able to attend cup games.

Broad Somerset Liverpool fans out in Street tonight. Each one togged up in full manual manipulator outfits. Jordan Tansley.

Ditto. I have a vague memory of them beating us in a cup game at the Gate early 2000s, but I don't think I've seen us play them in the league.

Thought this was going to be a thread about @Rudolf Hucker...

This'll upset the w-ers more:

Concede 17 goals in 4 games and that's your lot in the Prem. It's the loss to Everton that probably started the Leeds board thinking about his exit.

Ultimately, we can point to defenders having off days, but the ball didn't travel into the Forest half enough and when it got there, it didn't stick. When your penalty box is constantly being attacked, mistakes and mix-ups will happen.

Why not boil your piss in his work mug. That'll teach him.

It's all my fault, boys. Every time I follow a game entirely via Otib's matchday thread, we are dogshit. I'll go for a long walk next away day. (There's no f-in way I'm going to travel to Blackburn)

In a word, no.

As soon as we leave Bristol, we look like a L1 club. ?

They aren't in that great form. Won two of their last 5. Unfortunately, our form on the road has just evaporated.

I've got rid of my beard, so am acceptable with the Shoreditch trendies. Maybe I should swap my JRJ avatar for this beardless one:

Can't take a city seriously where men say "aye up, me duck". Woss reckon, me babbers?

That would be my guess, assume all are available and there aren't some late fitness worries. It'll be tough, but Forest certainly showed some weakness when we played them here - and they are a bit patchy at present. So always believe.

I remember his silly gloves. Worn on perfectly warm days.

It wasn't that Kent couldn't play, it was that he didn't want to. He just didn't want to be here. I guess it's the flipside of the loan successes of Tammy Abraham and Steven Caulker here, that you might get a Ryan Kent or Danny Rose who think they are already too important to be at "little" Bristol City. It's one factor in why Pearson doesn't like loans in, I suppose.

David Beckham is an example of someone whose left foot might as well have been amputated,

This is a rather sad update. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/captain-tom-foundation-charity-b2022359.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=S

There's a sense of purpose about the team. Even when they lose, they are still going for it. It lifts everyone on the pitch's performance, not least Weimann. Just compare it to the morale of the 20/21 team Pearson inherited. The sense of purpose of many of those players was to get away from Bristol. It had just come apart at the seams.