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On 25/03/2022 at 17:04, Calculus said:

it was a a time when all the players and supporters seemed together. Great days.

Well, nearly all of us...

Of course this is not nowhere near the worst City team in 40 years, are you mad? It's not even within a million miles of the worst team in that period, remember we had YTS kids on £25 per week in 1982 FFS!

9 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

A tricky Wordle today.

Wordle 258 5/6

8 hours ago, Taz said:

I had the last 3 letters from turn 3, and couldn't see anything with my remaining letters.

So obvious when the correct answer comes up though!!

Still have a few tries on Quordle left, although I'm not holding out much hope of getting the final 2 words...

There's always one smug git though, isn't there?

Wordle 258 3/6

14 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

No this was a league game on a Saturday but I’m glad you mention the league cup.

It was a rare evening game for me, as I lived 60 miles away and Gerry Sweeney scored an absolute peach and hardly anyone remembers it compared to Mann’s goal.

It was at the other end and Sweeney had been getting loads of stick from a section of the crowd near me, that certainly shut them up. I’m presuming it was also Shilton but can’t remember for sure.

We drew 1-1 and lost the replay if I remember correctly. I’d love to see it again. 

I do remember Gerry Sweeney getting a certain amount of stick, light-hearted I thought, owing to his reliance on punting it hard and long in the vague direction of Tom Richie.

One wag would shout out when Gerry got hold of the ball down in front of us in the Enclosure: "Oi Gerry! Try the long hopeful ball, you know the one!". At which moment, Gerry would obligingly swing his boot through the ball and welt it up there...."THAT'S THE ONE!!"

1 minute ago, weepywall said:

Don't know about the small stand but they certainly took the small following.

It's what they do.

6 minutes ago, Alan Dicks said:

Nothing like our old floodlights

Indeed, more like the old lights at Eastville if anything.

16 hours ago, Alan Dicks' Barmy Army said:

Completely unrelated to us

They are here, hundreds of flights safely flew today 

At last somebody sensible in this thread 

Nothing to do with distance, the problem is with St James' Park

Please tell me you were not actually being serious about this? 

The main celebration is tonight, tomorrow they just get presented to the crowd 

Why would there be? 

The storm has long passed, there are no problems at the ground, there is no problem with the weather tomorrow. 

I never cease to be amazed how our support get into such a frenzy about the weather impacting a game!! 

Whenever we have heavy rain or snow there's always a thread panicking about conditions, is it really that hard to realise what is actually happening out there? 

#goosebumps

Huge thanks to ciderspace99. So happy to see the Embrace track, Gravity, has rightfully been reattached to this brilliant video. I watched this over and over again back in the day.

On 01/04/2021 at 13:49, Red-Robbo said:

With accents, I think you vary it subconsciously depending on who you spend the most time with.  Now the pair make decent bunce, probably have more refined holiday destinations and spend time with journalists and record company staff,  I'd be surprised if they were as broad off-stage as when performing.

I can empathise. I left the West Country when I was 18 and my natural Somerset accent just faded over time and was very indistinct by the time I was reading news bulletins on Radio 4 - although I did have one arsewipe of a listener write in to complain about my "yokel pronunciation"   .  I've lived back down here for a decade now and my childhood accent has never entirely returned although my kids say I have a "pub voice" I use when chatting to guys I know who've never left Somerset. This is entirely subconscious. I've never deliberately tried to change my speaking voice. 

Totally mate, it doesn't take long to lose the West Country LaLaLa twang when you live and work with 'foreigners'.

My missus grew up in the North East of England and went to Oxford Uni, but now considers herself Bristolian and has been a season ticket holder at City for over 20 years. But the first time I took her to a City game in the 90s, we went in the Wedlocks for a pre-match pint and I bumped into an old mate from school and I started talking, to her ears, a foreign language. 

Also I was for a few years signed to a London-based record label where you just wouldn't and couldn't speak with a West country accent. Yet they still regarded us as thick yokels   I humbly and genuinely apologise to my Bristolian brothers and sisters for betraying you.

10 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Saw that Stevenage took 30 fans to Barrow last Saturday, at that level pretty much every hardcore fan must know each other.

Remember in the 82/3 season going to Halifax in midweek & the sole CATS coach wasn’t anywhere near full, so very similar.

Likewise I remember taking the CATS coach to Cambridge, probably about 81/82, when there were less than 50 of us there. We had a little pitch invasion to celebrate our consolation goal and I recall asking the very friendly old bill in our end if they would mind if we ran over and took the home end. They said "nah, go for it lads!". Our coach also got attacked by a mob of Cardiff at the services on the M4 on the way home.

Happy days!

22 minutes ago, sh1t_ref_again said:

Anyone else robins tv froze 

Yes I  was able to watch all of the first half and five minutes of the second half, then it's decided user  is 'unauthorised' and I  can't get back in. Even after restarting and, er, 'relocating'.

2 hours ago, LewisP said:

Article in the Daily Star today listing Rovers as Random minnows 

Very harsh calling Charlton Athletic 'random minnows'. All the other clubs named in the article are much of a muchness though, to be fair.

3 hours ago, spudski said:

According to the website it's on and others, the image is from the 80s.

Yes, but it patently isn't. For the numerous reasons mentioned above, the photograph was taken in 1970.

7 minutes ago, handsofclay said:

 

I would say early to mid 80s as others have said as when the Dolman was built and into the First Division days the seats in the Dolman were brown, wooden seats. This photo clearly shows the red, plastic seats that replaced them as an upgrade a decade to 15 years later. Dolman was built in 1970 so I'd guess about 1984-86ish perhaps even slightly later 

2 minutes ago, handsofclay said:

Having said the above it could simply be that the light is making the brown wooden seats look reddish or a reddish brown so it could be 1970 if that's the case

Yep, it's definitely 1970 and those are the old wooden seats just going in. Remember they also started re-cladding the East End roof with red panels around the end of the 70s, so it's earlier than that.

2 hours ago, TomF said:

Could be wrong but is it when the dolman is being built.  Blocks A/B are having seats still put in and you can see a digger and walll missing at the front 

Yes the Dolman is clearly nearing completion, which dates it to about 1970. Advertising hoardings were added to the front of the Dolman stand brick wall after that.

IIRC the block of red seats in the middle was installed in the mid/late 70s following promotion (though they couldn't afford to finish the job, in more ways than one). 

44 minutes ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Covid 

42 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

 Confirmed?

4 minutes ago, RedM said:

Everyone at the services saying so

That's where I normally get my medical diagnosies confirmed. Sounds pretty much definite then!

9 hours ago, Markman said:

Individually - the win at Mansfield was pretty special

9 hours ago, The turtle said:

If I remember it was a pretty decent following that day too. That or the people who were there has grown in my head over time. 

Isn't it like that thing where famously, if everyone who claims they were at the Sex Pistols gig at the 100 Club in 1976 was really there, they would fill the away end at Mansfield? Or vice versa?

8 minutes ago, Bas's perfect hattrick said:

Looks like we're playing 2-3-5. Nostalgic

Takes me back to school days. We lost 13-9 most weeks.

1 minute ago, And Its Smith said:

Don’t tell @Son of Fred but it’s as predicted

          Vyner. Kalas. Pring

dasilva. King. Massengo. COD

                   Scott

         Weimann.  Semenyo 

No keeper then. Disappointing!

3 hours ago, ralphindevon said:

But when Prince throws his guitar in the air at the end, where does it go?

I know! Pretty certain George caught it.

5 hours ago, Curr Avon said:

God?

3 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

No he signed later on from Leeds Utd.

Part exchange for Carl Shutt wasn't it?

On 11/01/2022 at 16:59, TomF said:

 

 

Also been 21 years since we lost George.

 

My favourite ever piece of live music footage. Prince's solo is just insane. Apparently it was unrehearsed and the rest of them had no idea what he was going to do. Dhani Harrison was loving it! Priceless.

2 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

I can see myself in this photo, I have a copy in my photo album.
The OB wanted to arrest our entire coach as we arrived, there was an 'incident' in the Pub we stopped at. I managed to convince him it was our only way back and that he should let us in the game. Some got the train back, but we risked it and went back to the coach. With the carnage inside the ground, they had forgotten about us so we were fine. I do remember getting threatened with arrest for swearing, which would have been gutting seeing what was going on all around. 

I'm the one in the Nike jacket 

I was stood at the top of the terrace behind you, watching it all going off. The image that has stayed in my memory ever since is pretty vivid... a massive chunk of concrete slung over from our terrace and landed on the head of a copper. Just broke over his head. So shocking. I hope he was OK. 

Good times though  

4 hours ago, ralphindevon said:

I never tire of reading about games like Reading away, it feels like being part of history, all be it a tainted one.

I actually lived in a hamlet on Exmoor that didn’t even have a pub. Now here I was involved in an event so big and mental it made the back page headlines of the nationals  and we’re still talking about it 38 years later.

I can’t be the only one who would find this kind of thing completely unacceptable now and be ashamed to be associated with it……….but at the time it was one hell of a buzz and weirdly helped you deal with unsavoury incidents as life went on.

After all, if you were at Reading, Millwall, Corinthien Casuals, Swindon etc a flare up in a pub, club or whatever would feel like a quiet night compared. 

 

I know what you mean Ralph. I have literally never had a fight with anyone in my life, but I was always there or thereabouts, in the thick of it at Reading, Dulwich Hamlet, Millwall, Hereford, Cardiff, Aldershot, Torquay, Rovers, Swindon, Walsall, and right there in the Enclosure when West Ham came and had a go. 

Over the years a few of my mates got involved and at times a couple of them got arrested. But not me, I'm a lover, not a fighter...