Red DNA

On 06/10/2021 at 20:21, Club and Country said:

Apologies if already mentioned, but the Cornubia is a great boozer

sadly not been for a few years so hope all is still well there

It is indeed still there - and flourishing. Lots of extra outside seating (Covid +) and planting around to green it up in what is a concrete jungle. 
Many a Friday night back in the 90’s myself and two cycling friends were the only ones in there, like to think we got it through its darkest days . 

25 minutes ago, cityexile said:

Pie another day 

Pie mounds aren’t forever - not with him around 

22 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

I don't know about Gloucester Road, but I remember having a burger from Schwartz Bros. in Bath a few years ago: it sticks in my mind because I was surprised at the Germanic name of the restaurant - I assume they must be connected as it would surely be a huge coincidence if not. 

A propos coincidences; I also had the blue cheese version, with loads of red onion.

I also remember it being expensive - almost £10 for a (very nice, to be fair) burger and chips.

The two places in Bath are still there , the blue cheese burger is to die for, especially after a few pints at the weird Star Inn almost opposite before the long cycle ride back along the B2B track to home. 
 

15 minutes ago, Super said:

Sorry if i'm being dumb but what is the 002?!

002 is a reference to Concorde

If you want to try a real quirky pub - unfortunately it’s not in Bristol - try The Rose and Crown (known as Eli’s) at Huish Episcopi, near Langport. 
There is no bar in this pub!

Really strange when I first went in there, someone just wandered up and asked what we’d like to drink, then returned with the drinks and asked for money. 
This pub, which has been in the same family for over 100 years, is apparently what all pubs used to be like back in the day, and particularly before WW1? 
Bars in pubs were only put in to stop drinkers helping themselves to free drinks, somehow this one survived and may be is now unique in that sense. 
Well worth a visit for good beer and ciders. 
 

18 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Bit on the pricey side though, isn't it?

Last time, I went in there I took a couple of mates, one of whom was Scottish. He looked at the blackboard with the prices on, said: "**** thon!" and immediately did a u-turn out of the place! 

Used to be a regular stop for me back in the days it was called Dr Thirsty's Surgery. 

Yes it is pricey - and it’s 2/3 of a pint as well!
They do usually have a good selection of beers but I just don’t know how they can justify the price of a pint on a 2/3rds drink. 

Best of luck to them if they can get punters to pay those prices but I’ll give it a miss and choose one of the multitude of other pubs in town to drink in. 

17 hours ago, Red DNA said:

Despite living a few streets away from the Venture Inn in Knowle West I rarely frequented there, safer in the Fellowship on Axbridge Rd (top of Redcatch)

 

I don’t think there’s a pub anywhere in Knowle West now? The Venture, Fighting Cocks, Inns Court, Friendship Inn all gone, only a community association bar or two available to drink in now?
 

Too late to edit-

My mistake - I meant the Friendship not the Fellowship (that’s over by the Swamp , I would have needed to be p ****d before I start to ever drink over there

On 02/10/2021 at 13:17, GasDestroyer said:

Used to go in Man In Space for a beer with an old mate, but the one that used to amaze me was The Venture in Knowle West. Ran a few football specials back in the 80s from there and what went on during the trip to and from away games is not for publishing on ere. Pub now gone.

Outside of Bristol, The Blue Flame is still an old skool pub worth a visit if you are ever around Chelvey, near Nailsea. Great in the summer on a weekend.

Despite living a few streets away from the Venture Inn in Knowle West I rarely frequented there, safer in the Fellowship on Axbridge Rd (top of Redcatch), then to the ultra cool House That Jack Built in St John’s Lane which was my second home for years..  

The Blue Flame at Chelvey Batch is a one off…..dropped in there on the annual June cycle ride from Bristol - they seemed amazed at their good fortune to have all these thirsty cyclists turning up on their doorstep, couldn’t sell the beer / cheese & onion rolls fast enough . 
 

I don’t think there’s a pub anywhere in Knowle West now? The Venture, Fighting Cocks, Inns Court, Friendship Inn all gone, only a community association bar or two available to drink in now?
Blame it all on cheap drink from supermarkets I guess but so much social interaction (skittles / darts / football /crib) has been lost it’s no wonder young lads have lost their connection and respect to older generations. 

We were so lucky to have so many great options to socialise in we could have a girlfriend in every pub ..

2 minutes ago, King Fox said:

Give him time. He will build a squad, an environment and and backroom to be proud of. There'll be bumps in the road and a few poor performances but stick with it. 

Yours is the result I look for first when our matches finish and it gives me a massive sense of joy when you win.

All the best.

If you like us that much the least you could do is change your name to Red Fox

Having it once would be bad enough, to get another dose is terrible luck. 
Best wishes for a rapid recovery. 

5 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

A wise decision, an absolutely awful beer.

Sam Smith, however, was a lovely pint, and, back in the day, I enjoyed many of them in St. Nicholas market.

Do you know whether it is still sold (on draught) in Bristol, as I have never been able to find it on my trips back home?

Perhaps the pubs that used to sell it have been banished due to swearing . 

I’ve not seen Sam Smiths in a very long time around here, I think I last saw it in London a short while ago and it was quite a surprise to see it!

First time I think I had it was in a pub we used to frequent on the way to home matches. I think it was called The Ship (I’ll check on that lost pubs website) and was on York Road somewhere. 

32 minutes ago, Nuno Gomes said:

Noticed this on the official site - Assistant Manager Fleming is currently taking charge of City’s preparations ahead of Millwall, while Manager Nigel Pearson is feeling unwell.

Hope he’s not too bad.

‘Not too bad’ ? Not at all - Fleming is quite good I think

Since about 1990, myself and two friends have done detailed ‘research’ in Bristol (and surrounding areas) pubs - cycling to pubs usually on a Friday evening.
It was selfless in the respect we wanted to find nice pubs with real ale - to take our wives to should we ever ask them to join us..

We have a list (nothing much more than that) of about 450 pubs and bars we’ve been into plus probably a list of about 100 we immediately walked back out off upon seeing the likes of keg John Smiths etc etc. 
 

Many a night we would visit 3 or 4 pubs testing the beer, eventually learning the lesson to go to the pubs closest to home later on .

The Bristol to Bath cycle track was very useful as it kept us out of any traffic and therefore safe. 
 

Regards the best pub? It’s very subjective regards what condition the beer was like that night, if the landlord changes so does the pub etc etc. 
 

Some pubs - mostly the ones mentioned in previous posts above have always been very good and I hope to continue to support them all as I wobble around on my bike at 66 years of age . 

Bents will be crazy for that shirt when he sees it!

Seventh tier Radcliffe FC have had their initiative to use ‘super heroes’ on their shirts and get kids on board buying replica shirts thus producing an income stream, but now banned by the FA. 

The reason? It’s blatant advertising , so how does that compare to all the betting advertising currently aimed at the younger generation?

Dreadful over reaction from the FA to squash a bit of money making from a lower team. 
 

Sounds the guy behind it has done a ‘dark side’ goalie shirt which has been selling well.
 

(apologies but the only link I’ve got is behind Sunday Times paywall )

Not able to go today but hearing all the comments on the effort made today might just make a few realise just had bad it had become when accepting the ‘effort’ from the last couple of seasons?

Its what we had got used to and we almost sleep walked into relegation

2 hours ago, maxjak said:

Well what a surprise?  i was Tempted in, to read a piece by Hollowhead on today's Bristol Post website with regard to the new initiative to re introduce standing at soccer grounds, I should have known better?  Given the opportunity to make some serious points and insight into the issue....Hollowhead, given so many choices as examples, decides to regurgitate May 1990 at a Bath building site.?    Quite probably my worst ever experience at an away match, and i have been to a lot, standing on a ramshackle terrace on crutches, due to a broken leg suffered playing football a few weeks before, it started badly, and then got worse.   It was just the most horrendous capitulation to a pumped up Gas side, who just blew us away with route one football that we just couldn't cope with.  i spent a depressing 90 minutes teetering on my wooden props, trying to stay upright,   hating every minute, and wishing i'd   stayed home.  I have just rewatched the video through gritted teeth, made even worse by Malone's wittering monstrosity of a commentary, and it is still the horrible mess I have tried to forget.  .

So thanks a lot Hollowhead for stirring up a memory i have tried to suppress, you just couldn't help yourself could you FFS?   Apparently you got a great Buzz from the game?, well you know where you can stick that Buzz don't you?          Anyway time is a great healer, and as we gradually move onwards and upwards under Uncle Nige, I take great solace in seeing our sad neighbours slow decline towards Non-league    football as some kind of reward for my worst ever 90 minutes   at an away game.   Any other away game horror stories out there?               

If it upsets you that much why even bother to read the drivel he comes out with? 
As long as people read that sort of rubbish the EP will still invite him to give us the ‘wisdom of his knowledge’

Don't but the newspaper, done look at the website and ignore his opinions anywhere else you see it, move on. 

1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

Quite agree.

I quite like my match day routine which does involve a pre match pint, but to watch the game with a pint in my hand, knowing that if we score, there will be idiots who decide they need to lob beer in the air... less so.

Odd how beer throwers don't feel the need to throw a cup of bovril when we score.

They’re probably the same people who complain the price of a pint has gone up by 20p !

Merchants Arms in Hotwells is another classic real boozer. Great beers, cheese and onion rolls, pork pies, pasties and locals actually talking to each other. 

It won’t be long before one of them gets a poke in the eye, and it won’t be Nige….

Gregor is in way beyond his depth with someone as slick and professional as NP, time for him to find another niche for his reporting skills other than BCFC?

4 minutes ago, Mihai said:

I won't watch games anymore cause I have my evening ruined. I will start to watch if I see wins in a row on the website live 

Not sure how to tell you this - and your enjoyment of your evening, the result will be the same if you watch it or not. 
 

Making comments like that is almost at the low level of an opportunist ‘plastic fan’. It’s about supporting your club through thick and thin - so man up!

1 hour ago, CosmosUK said:

Glad somebody else has highlighted this, 113 total senior career appearences? One of the strangest professional careers I have ever seen. Personally thought he came across as a bluffer on Robins TV too.

113 is a massive number…

Jose Mourinho only played 94 professional games as a player, obviously he couldn’t cut it for Robins TV, but overall the lack of games didn’t do him much harm?

2 hours ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Im not sure on this, but i thought that if any club was going to be punished, it occured in the league they are currently in. In Derby's case they are in league One now, so if there is a points deduction they would start the season on -ve points. Probably wrong though !

What do you mean, probably? Definitely wrong, that’s what this entire thread is about !

1 hour ago, Maesknoll Red said:

It was part of The Bunch of Grapes - used to be a folk club at one time and latterly punk bands.  It’s was where the Spectrum building is now, I know which one I prefer…….

Thanks. 
Now you’ve answered that, I remember and can also answer my own question - the pub by the side of the M32 was The Old Fox. 

4 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Never could understand how that keg pasteurised muck got such a foothold into pubs, I have been a CAMRA member since the 70’s - when the Bristol branch met in the Stonehouse (miss that place) and always had a guest barrel at the meetings, that we had to finish before we could leave….

Was that the place by the side of the M32 near Easton? It was one of the first real ale pubs in Bristol I think and bit of a Mecca for us despite being in the ‘wrong’ side of town.