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Just now, Red7 said:

They've punched buses before 

They have certainly been known to headbutt a minibus!

https://www.facebook.com/EFLBantz/videos/bristol-rovers-lad-head-butted-a-mini-bus-full-of-oldham-fans/2200794286809729/

2 hours ago, Slack said:

Credit to who thought up the chant of ...

 

"That's how your cat felt"

What was the context and lyrics?

37 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Big John would've gone down though, wouldn't he? When the keeper took a swipe?

Actually, I was going to ask.

I saw TC stumble, but was there actually contact or did he just lose his footing?

Who was the commentator? .

From GasChat.

It’s been an entire football match of the lead commentator gushing over his s**thead childhood memories. How on earth is this allowed.

57 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Don’t recall that?

We beat them 4-0 during the beast from the east in 2018. Memorable to me for 3 reasons:

1) Tango man still had his shirt off in the away end despite the freezing temperatures.

2) The sudden appearance after 20 mins in the far end of the upper Lansdown of what looked like 50 or so Willem II ultras who spent the first half exchanging pleasantries with the Weds fans but were presumably prevented from going back in the 2nd half. 
 

3) and the fact we didn’t blow a 3-0 half time lead like we had 5 weeks earlier.

 

Was it perhaps against Southend then, with Freddy Eastwood?

I just remember sitting in The Williams Stand, freezing cold, snowing and City conceding a late goal to go 4 or 5 down - I can't even remember if we actually scored or not.

My friend wanted to go, neither of us were particularly enjoying it but we stuck it out bravely for the last 5 minutes or so.

53 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

 

It’s been bugging me. I know Alf Garnett was a West Ham fan but does anyone know who Warren Mitchell supported?

I thought it was Arsenal, although that might have been Eric Morecambe, or even Ernie Wise.

And before anybody mentions it, Eric Morecambe supported and was Vice President of Luton.

Eric often told the story how once, when Luton were 2-0 down at half time, supporters chanted, “What do you think of it so far?” to which he replied, “Rubbish”. 

18 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:

If that was the worst language you picked up from it you did well. 

Memory fades, but I don’t recall any really bad language.

There was obviously a lot of racism and sexism, I really don’t think of the series as being riddled with swearing.

4 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

I was in the Open End home section, never been so cold in my life. Mates left at half time and I didn’t blame them. 2nd half was like an endurance test and the game finished 1-1.

I am pretty sure there was an even more recent game against Wednesday, Saturday afternoon in the snow, when we lost 4 or 5-1?

4 hours ago, Mike Stone said:

Fair play for sticking it out. I was at the back of Williams B block cuddling some random stranger to keep warm

So it was you.

And I never did get to thank you.

I see I am not the only one with a childish sense of humour.

6 hours ago, City oz said:

Great post JB, do you remember Alf Garnett / Warren Mitchell who was a great actor, and I will always remember him as one of the great Hammers supporters. You got to admit 'IM FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES" is a classic. Let's hope the Hammers fans tonight will be kept quiet.

Alf Garnett was certainly a West Ham fan, but, in real life, Warren Mitchell was actually a Tottenham Hotspurs fan.

5 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

Thanks City oz, yep remember Alf Garnet from my youth, Till Death us Apart was quite a radical bit of TV back in the day. 

I used to love that programme, and remember nearly being punished in my Junior School as a result.

Mind you, it probably wasn't the best idea to call my miserable English teacher a silly moo.

1 hour ago, Mike Stone said:

Sheffield Wednesday was still the best all those years ago. Apparently they were bringing their usual big following which became impossible due to heavy snow. Those that made it to a absolute freezing old Park end section were told at half time that the M5 and M1 motorways were now shut.

On top of that one of our lot in the Park end home section only had a football shirt on.

 

´One Bed and Breakfast, there’s only one Bed and Breakfast’.

And wasn’t there also some announcement that the train from TM was going to leave earlier than scheduled?

To be fair to their fans, though, and I have always liked them, most stayed until the final whistle.

56 minutes ago, INCRED said:

Their player and they can dictate the terms of any deal. 
 

I would like to think we would be able to a deal in the summer if he dies well but I dare say it depends a lot on Burnley’s league status 

That is probably when we would be negotiating to sign him on a permanent deal.

30 minutes ago, Harry said:

See, I also don’t understand the ‘loan with a view to buy’. 
Manning has already managed this player for a year. The most successful year both of them have had in football. 
We don’t need to ‘try before you buy’. 
Manning knows what he can bring and knows he can work with him. 

If Manning wants him then just buy him. What’s the point of a ‘try before you buy’. 

Of course Manning has already managed him, but that was not in The Championship, a huge step up from League One, as you well know.

Whilst, presumably/hopefully, Manning will be confident he can carry on as before, albeit at a higher level, this has yet to be proven (it was certainly not demonstrated at Burnley - injuries noted - nor strikingly at Hull), so a loan with a (reasonable) option to buy would seem the ideal solution (for us).

22 minutes ago, Mr Hankey said:

But to have the £3mil option after the loan, then surely we would be paying at least a million (you would assume) for the 6 months loan that we have him, then if we don’t exercise the option at least Burnley would look at it as having gained a million as they certainly won’t be letting him come on loan for nothing, so that would total (completely assuming here btw) a transfer fee of £4mil all in…..which in my opinion is far too much money for a player whose best season has not even been at this level.

Seems mental to me, either buy him now or wait until the summer, a loan is pointless. If we were top 4 of the league then i could understand, but not in our currebt position

I agree a full loan would be pointless (and expensive), were we to agree a loan on terms similar to TG-H, where the amount of his loan fee is deducted from any final transfer fee, then why not?

Provided the transfer fee is not £5M!

5 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Even if Twine is that good, he alone isn’t enough.

And, surely, that is the crux of the problem.

Firstly, at £5M he would be far too expensive, and even if he was ‘only’ £4M, what would it solve?

I don’t believe one additional player is going to guide us to the playoffs, so why not wait until the summer or, if need be, take him on a ‘loan to buy, but, even then, surely not at more than £3M at most.

29 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

Who would you say had it mentally as a city player ? Recent times I’d say David noble but lacked the fitness . Trundle . Cormack  my dad loved him . He used to say when we got home (me about 7 or 8 ) all those idiots moaning about Pete but we ain’t intelligent to see his passing mate . 

I know a lot on here like to refer to Gerry Gow as a 'Hard Man', but he was also a very good player technically.

Just after he broke in to Alan Dicks' First Eleven, having starred in the youth team alongside several of his teammates, he was often criticised for just 'passing the ball in to empty space'.

I well remember my late father saying something very similar to yours. 

5 hours ago, GrahamC said:

I know this thread is to laugh at them, but if I was a top six side in their division, Pompey (faltering badly), Derby, Oxford, I’d be straight on to Chris Martin’s agent with more money than those jokers can offer & a bonus if he gets a team promoted.

5 in his last 4 games, 9 in 12 starts & 5 sub appearances, still got it at League One level.

And, of course, he has now caught up with the pre-season training he missed whilst he was out of contract.

27 minutes ago, phantom said:

Perhaps I just have a warped sense of humour, but I couldn’t help noticing the name of Bolton’s stadium.

How awful when a spectator collapsed and themself in a possibly life threatening situation.

Toughsheet Stadium.

How unfortunate.

3 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

The short answer to both is clearly no. We’re swimming in the same pond as a lot of people who want to play the same way. It’s in vogue - and if you look at a lot of recent managerial appointments they follow that blueprint. Some we can outspend (Millwall). Some we can’t (Southampton).
 

So the options are pretty simple, on the assumption we’re sticking with Liam and he’s sticking with his style (both safe assumptions) - it’s either spend an absolute bucketload or rely on his coaching skills to bring players through over the medium term. And again I’ll then flag he hasn’t a history of bringing players through in his head coach jobs to date (noted that he hasn’t been I jobs long enough to majorly influence)

I can’t see either of those happening tbh for reasons I’ve stated on other threads.

So basically, in your opinion, we are currently in the SH1T.

I must say, when NP was dismissed (and replaced by LM) I felt any chance of a playoff position this season went with him.

My only hope for this season now rests with a victory on Tuesday and, hopefully, a relatively successful FA Cup run.

14 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

They have some quite technical and or clever midfielders too, while Weimann is past his best not least due to injury in 2020, players like Swift, Yokuslu could probably pick some of his runs quite well.

Similarly to Twine, Swift is one I would have liked here a few years ago, when he was with Reading.

9 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Pre injury for 12 to 18 months.

Does anybody really know what the cause of his injury was and how it really happened?

I mean, did it really occur on a dry ski slope?

1 hour ago, Lew-T said:

Apart from that result though, doesn’t look great.

51 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Anyone reading this see similarities?

A very balanced and well written post.

5 minutes ago, Simon bristol said:

Muller was ridiculous, incredible goal scorer,, reminds me of greaves as an out and out goal scorer?!

Closely followed by Allan (Sniffer) Clarke?

Or even David (Bloody) Kelly .

17 minutes ago, Simon bristol said:

Rip to a legend, fantastic player, the german equivalent of charlton for england,, their all time greatest player.

Memories play funny tricks, of course, but I also remember fondly such German greats as Uwe Seeler and, our destroyer in 1970, Gerd Müller, der Bomber.

Whilst I saw him play (in his usual elegant manner) several times on TV, I never saw him play in the flesh, as it were.

I did once meet him, however, back in 1980 or 1981, when a Bayern Munich team including the two Rumenigge brothers were competing in an indoor 5 a side competition in Munich during the German winter break.

Dressed very casually but smartly, he was a spectator very much at ease meandering through the crowd and stopping frequently for autographs and photographs and happy to stop for a brief chat with his adoring fans, always with a smile on his face.