City Rocker

So, in summary, is this what happens to a football club when you appoint a top class manager and coaching staff, and give them time to build their squad and instill the right culture? Wow, who knew?

Morecambe fans singing "Just like Morcambe your city is red!" and "You're just a shit Bristol City". Also "You only sing when you're drawing" and "Shall we sing a song for you?" as well as their classic "Bring me sunshine".

Thank you Nathan for being such a wholehearted, full-blooded character in the heart of our defence for so long. I wish you only the best and hope we get to see you at a game to bid you farewell.

Well if we get to buy Antoine back a couple of years later for the same price we sold him for, having won promotion to the top flight, that would be the perfect Chris Garland story all over again!

The Shed Man stand?

Which puts you strangely at odds with your compatriots. You SURE you're a blue?!

There's a good one in West Street. The 'Three Lions' I think it's called.

When it was our player down injured, the East End used to sing "Give him some cider!" Which to be fair, in the 1970s probably was one of the approved remedies for an impact injury.

Where do you stand on "hoofwanking bungle ***"?

Agree with this one. I was quite relieved when Kevin Pietersen was sold to Coventry.

Pretty sure I shared this on here years ago, but worth repeating. I used to run into Luke Ayling quite often during his time at City, he lived in Harbourside and I worked nearby, we often shared the same eateries and coffee shops in the area and occasionally had a little chat. Shortly after Lee Johnson took over, Luke had been dropped from the the first team starting lineup and I bumped into him in Friska. Naturally I asked why he wasn't starting and he told me "the Gaffer doesn't seem to like me". A few weeks later he joined Leeds.

True that. 3-0 is a dangerous scoreline, remember!

I recall when TwentyTwenty cricket was first introduced, well, Twenty years ago it must be now. Wow, what a revolution that was! Despite the ridicule of the stuffy old upper class MCC types, I was so excited that for the first time ever, our pro cricket heros were now playing the same game that we all played down the park when we were kids. Sadly though I'm really not getting the 100 at all. Maybe I'm secretly one of those posh upper class MCC types after all! ?

WHO??!!

And one of the best goals you'll see anywhere, at any level!

One of the best saves you'll see anywhere, at any level ?

That was the only reason I gave it a like, TBH

Although like thousands of others I've been on the pitch now and then, (Chester in 1984 being one of my favourite moments) and miss old school football days, I still think this is (regrettably) the right thing in the current climate. Players, staff and officials are being put at increasing risk, even if it is only a tiny proportion of fans who go on with bad intentions. Do we just carry on until inevitably something really horrific happens?

Awfully sad news ?. Rest easy Stoney.

'tis true. I discussed football rivalries and loyalties with Geoff B years ago, and he admitted that he actually used to watch City at the Gate for a while in the mid 80s, but turned away from them because of what he perceived as a hooligan problem at the time. So he ended up going down the Rovers. I reminded him that the only reason Rovers didn't have a similar hooligan problem at that particular time was that they had such tiny crowds back then. I hardly needed to point out their record of ill-behaviour over several decades since, so we drew a line and got back to talking music, which to be honest is generally a happier place to go!

Let's not forget the celebrated former Tory MP, novelist, philanderer, liar, convicted criminal and Bristol Rovers fan, Jeffrey Archer.

I'm shocked and saddened to hear Happy Mondays bass player Paul Ryder has passed away ?

I'm nonplussed.

New Balti King, via Just Eat. I've had their lamb tikka balti probably far more times than is strictly healthy, but it makes me happy.

Pyro and smoke bombs are neither legal nor considered acceptable at concerts any more than than they are at football, except by the selfish few, of course. Liam Gallagher, after this horrific incident at one of his shows: "it’s not cool people need to chill the **** out with the flares" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50490458