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1 minute ago, 22A said:

Makes Friday's game at 4th placed Sheff U even more important.

I bet there will be no Scots playing either.

Very significant win and a superb performance. Somewhat bizarre City can be that good and the complete opposite v Preston. No complaints though!

Cracker and cracking move

I prefer a striker alongside Reid. I hope we do not find a change to that is essential instead of by preference.

What better reward for winning a match; win and we go 3rd.

10 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Yes Tranny are National League but you said “....in English football..” - Birkenhead is definitely in England!!

I did. Duhhhh. I meant league. Oh its all wrong from all angles!!!

36 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

All in with Burton upon Trent or Mansfield, both absolute hovels.

Nonsense. Burton is Beer central.

8 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Alex Neil at PNE? Mickey Mellon at Tranmere? Darren Ferguson at Donny Rovers? Graham Alexander at Scunny? Stuart McCall at Bradford? Steve Evans at Mansfield? Robbie Neilson at MK Dons? Mark McGhee at Barnet? 

Hehehehehehheeeeee..... You know what... As soon as I hit send i realised i was well wrong.. I had quoted a friend of mine and just took his word as gospel.. What a bell end.. I will flick his ear for my embarassment. Thanks for putting me bang to rights.

P.s. Tranny are Conference!

18 hours ago, Red Right Hand said:

A very cautious man is James Brent. He didn`t make his money by taking stupid risks. I did wonder if he was in it for the long run at first as he seemed to have been browbeaten a bit into saving them when no-one else would and he`s not really a football fan but fair play to him, he`s delivering what he said he would. It`s just a pity the team are letting him down at the moment.

Derek Adams still there? Before Moyes arrived back in management I think the only Scot Gaffer in English football.

I just want to return to the remark by the club Chairman when asked why the deal broke down with UWE. Did he or did he not effectively say that their failure to get on a plane to Amman scuppered the deal?

It was certainly a welcome relief after travelling across the Pennines on the A69 and through the Lake District from blighted Blyth where the action isn't. From the boarding house to the bed sits full of accidents and fleas, thats Blyth.

6 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

I see your Blackburn and raise you a Stoke-on-Trent

Although a lot smaller i shall propose Blyth or perhaps Merthyr Tydfil. Both may have had a Grand Designs make over since i last went about a decade or so ago mind.

5 hours ago, El Hombrecito said:

I hope it goes better for you than getting up for the cricket has gone for me this morning!

The Rugby League was a good performance by England even though a rather predictable outcome. So predictable in fact that even a couple of Australian acquaintances wanted England to win. 

Cricket Australia meanwhile plug away with a resilient recovery after the loss of Smith.

All quiet on here today; people all having a lie in?

Middlesbrough was a very unimportant place, then came iron ore discovered in the Eston and Cleveland Hills. A port was built on the River Tees to transport the material around the country to build ships. And so It boomed for about a century and then it died. Middlesbrough is a very unimportant place. That last sentence is not true. 

Middlesborough cannot lay claim to being a tourist bastion but it did turn iron ore into steel although that industry has long gone as has refining oil sometime around 1990 and some years after the then ICI sold to Petroplus a Dutch group which, like ICI, is also now defunct. Teeside though does still lay claim to having the largest chemical plant in Europe, apparently, but likely the claim should more accurately say the largest agglomeration of multiple chemical plants that were spawned when ICI was broken up. Most of this employment lies in the massive works at Billingham and Wilton north and south, respectively, of the town of Middlesbrough. Ammonia, which was the first major chemical to be developed on Teeside, was planned to be used for making bombs for the Great War although the plant was not finished until after hostilities had ended. The manufacturing process for making ammonia had been pinched from Germany, well partly; BASF were the the first to make ammonia in 1913. Plants in Sheffield, France and the USA were also copied and that knowledge enabled Teeside chemical production to be pioneering. 

It all happened in Billingham and Grange Farm to be precise. Doris McKorkindale, her 9 siblings and 14 children were given an offer to vacate their small pig farm to make way for a behemoth of an ammonia plant. The 'Government Nitrogen Factory' was born operational from late 1918 and taken over by the private company Brunner Mond in 1920 merging with other companies in 1926 to form Imperial Chemical Industries or ICI. Production of ammonia centred around its use in fertilisers but this returned to munitions with the onset of WW2. The technologically advanced Wilton plant came later, officially opening in 1949. It was a showpiece of Industrial Britain and ICI was on top of the world. Middlesbrough, so named in the 7th century by monks who stopped here in the middle of their journey from Whitby Abbey to Durham. So, essentially, the place, even then, was considered worthy only of a piss break and a brew much like when one stops at Membury en route from Bristol to London. 

It was at least a brave new world when chemicals came to town and Teeside sat mighty and proud as the corner of Britain for making dirty and smelly ones; we owe them a debt of gratitude though for helping to see off the huns with ammonia for incendiaries. Aldous Huxley certainly thought so and after visiting the works at Grange Farm in Billingham he was inspired to write his book 'A Brave New World' in 1931. Perhaps this piece of music resonates the appropriate tone to a better time for Middlesbrough as experienced in those rather depressing days of 1984. Alan Parsons naming this album after the plant.

As for what Middlesbrough, the town, stands for? RGs Erimus ("We shall be" in Latin) was chosen as Middlesbrough's motto in 1830. It recalls Fuimus ("We have been") the motto of the Norman/Scottish Bruce family, who were lords of Cleveland in the Middle Ages. The town's coat of arms is an azure lion, from the arms of the Bruce family, a star, from the arms of Captain James Cook, and two ships, representing shipbuilding and maritime trade. We shall be or we have been? You decide.

As for the visiting Middlesbrough Football Club today; They represent the town quite probably more than most football clubs represent theirs. Why? Because when you go to Middlesbrough it feels like a disjointed amalgam of built up areas with no real heart; possibly because the current town hall is the second in the town's history located significantly further south than the first breaking the heart of a place if ever there was a cause. The football club provides the glue like no other place because it really needs it.

I do love that second song from Alan Parsons. Eye in the Sky.. what a classic song that was. Just let the album play out in the build up to today's match.

Come on City lets jump back into 4th place today please and see off the proud Teesiders .

16 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

I think he’s more likely to take them down, than someone else who might rejuvenate them. 

Having a disgruntled, frustrated manager, with no money to spend, with infighting & bitching well underway. 

It’s beautiful to watch! 

The first part of your second sentence/paragraph looks about right but are we party to knowing about the second part or are you just guessing?

16 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

Aside from all the dog botherer stuff, he's done some good work to get them to where they are atm.

I'd like to see him at another, better club with a proper ground and facilities, and a fanbase with 10 fingers each.

Do Argyle have any money? He would do well there if they did. 

Feel sorry for the guy; sounds like he has been let down badly. If he goes anytime soon they will get relegated in short fashion. 

The whole club feels like a shakespearean tragedy unravelling before us. 

Not much on that web site.. Says at the end of that design section that submitting planning permission is imminent. But there are no drawings or renderings being shown so its just all text.. I smell gas.

1 hour ago, glynriley said:

Alan Dicks

I prefer to use Sean Dyche as an example. But there are many. 

11 hours ago, miloemily said:

I love reading the bull that gets written on here sometimes. Great result lads well done to the lads who travelled and lj and the lads. Coyr 

In all Carey fairness i think my 2 word comment was rather restrained. 

1 hour ago, Numero Uno said:

The music minded gasheads have formed a band but can't think of a name. Any ideas please?

"Minimal Planning"

Talking ahead of todays game:-

"I think there could be three results." 

Now I begin to understand why Slutsky will soon be the ex-Hull manager.  

Football club owners do make some rather stupid and rather expensive decisions, especially foreign owners. This one certainly ranks up there with the Chicken Lickers.

Players and management flying back then; thought they bussed it up. Well deserved regardless.

Oh.. COD's injury.. maybe that is why. Get him back to Brizzle and on the doctors table. 

6 minutes ago, Malbec said:

Did the same with mine and missed all City's goals.

That is quite a turnaround, to say the least. Fair play to the boys and the coaches.

Hull manager sacked tonight? After all, "Bristol City are nothing special".

One way ticket to Gorki.

7 minutes ago, daored said:

Every game I go to , always do 3-2 both ways. £65 in the pocket a few beers for the train home 

I don't think we can underestimate how crucially important those 3 points were for us today and tribute must go to you and the rest of the City fans at the game; what a fabulous noise you made so take a huge bow mate because you WERE instrumental in getting City back in to the game and once that first goal went in it was virtually all one way traffic.

Come the end of the season we may look back at this result and say this was the day that not only did we sack the Ruskie but it was when we stayed comfortably in the play off zone instead of looking over our shoulder.

For me quite probably the most satisfying result of this campaign so far.