Merrick's Marvels

1 hour ago, CyderInACan said:

Yeah I agree - BUT they won the league knowing they'd have to win 2 more games to be crowned as champions. So nothing has changed. AND this was in the rules when the league restarted. PLUS I have never forgiven them for that win down here 2 years ago. 

Maybe I don't agree after all . . . 

Agree entirely with all that. Just can't stand any sport where the best team over the course of a season - and Exeter have been - need to subject themselves to an additional knock out series in which they might not be "champions" after all. Seems to be against natural justice, that's all.

Believe me, I've no great love for them - I was there the night they beat us to win the play offs even though we'd won the league by 4 points and, if memory serves (but might not), we'd beaten them home and away in doing so. Not the best night out, that one. 

I respect what they've achieved since then, certainly, although the way they play bores the arse off me. 

50 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:

I don't really agree with it, but it would give us a shot at the double! 

Exeter best team. Just give it to them. It's like asking Liverpool to go through a play off system last season to be confirmed as Champs. Ridiculous. And all just for bloody TV.  

5 minutes ago, sludge said:

That’ll cheer up the blue few

They'll  probably write a letter of complaint to someone about it.

T W @ S.  

1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

 

 

LEGEND. End of.

And the skill he displayed in scoring that try (eventually disallowed) was unreal too.

Magnificent, especially the second half performance.

Our greatest away performance in Europe and I didn't think I'd see anything to top Biarritz in 2000 when we won with the last play of the game, going the length of the field to score. 

And for all the attention the star signings get, there would have been 5 Bristolians and one from Yeovil out there tonight if it wasn't for injury.

It's been a long road since winning the Cup in 83 but we're back where we belong, mixing it with the best and - just as importantly - doing it in style.

 It's been emotional, as someone once said, and god willing this is just the start. 

2 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Know a few people that watched the match in pubs and they all stayed open until the end of the game. It overran by less than 10 mins so good to see common sense prevailing. 

Not the one I was in

Please make one that just says:

Trust Works Both Ways

1 hour ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

Apparently, the first four words you see here reveal your subconscious mind. According to someone on twitter.

 

 

 

 

Love. Power. Money. Wade.

So much for that theory, then.

Although Elliott was quite good at Fleetwood that day, wasn't he?

28 minutes ago, Rich said:

It's within one mile of the center of Bristol, which has the best transport links in the area at present. It's within the city where people who support that shower already travel to and from, currently using the existing roads and transport. There'll probably be very little parking, with a travel plan to provide park and ride and use of existing transport systems. Sounds like I'm bigging it up but I'm not, I'm just stating the obvious. Close to the Bath and Wells roads, the spine road, Temple Meads, Old Market and the routes from Bristol East and North. 1 Mile from the M32.

At the moment their "crowd" manage to park within a 10 minute walk of the Memorial Ground. Not sure that would be possible IF this thing happens. Hopefully not, anything to piss them off.

There used to be a small train station close to the Fruit Market which would have been handy. It closed in the 50s - integrated public transport, who needs it eh?!!   

17 hours ago, Rich said:

Didn't they already do that? Long way to go on that.

I'm sure Marvin has been bending a few rules to allow a developer to buy council owned land, with the promise of PP thrown in.

Interesting to see what developments these new owners have in mind. If anything, it's a great site for a new ground, very little housing around, at the moment and good transport links. That whole area is due for an improvement. Which raises the question, why put future developments in jeopardy by involving BRFC in it?

 

You say "good transport links"? Not so sure about that. 

It might be near a train station but it's more likely most of what counts for their support will want to drive and the roads in St Phillips ain't great. In fact, it'll be gridlock central I'd have thought, especially when you factor in all the thousands upon thousands who'll be locked out every week.

Agree with your comments re the mayor though. When not in Malaysia, he's spent all his time doing **** all for Bristol as a whole but plenty for the minority interests close to his heart - the gAssholes counting for both on that score.

It would be interesting to hear Rees explain why he considers that part of the city completely unsuitable for a 12,000 capacity concert venue but perfectly fine for a 20,000 (guess) football stadium.

2 hours ago, CyderInACan said:

It’s surely only a matter of time until some clubs cease to exist. I don’t think it’ll be confined to the lower leagues either. 

No doubt North Street will look different when we reach the other side of this. The Football League too, you would think. OTIB!

3 hours ago, mozo said:

What do the players put first? If they had to take a pay cut to extend the postponement of the season, would they do so? If the postponement of the season is extended, will the millionaire players help the club stay financially fit and will they helps the furloughed staff?

The Health .v. Economics question that Pickle Rick highlighted, and I responded to, will be decided by the powers-that-be: Premier League, EFL, FA, Government.  

It's not the players' decision whether to resume or abandon this season.

4 hours ago, Pickle Rick said:

Money talks.

The Health/Economic scales have swayed.

Indeed.

As with everything, it boils down to which side you stand on:

Money first, whatever the human cost or Humanity first, whatever the monetary cost.

Is it worth people dying, so that football clubs businesses survive.

On 24/04/2020 at 09:03, Moments of Pleasure said:

Love the newspaper clipping - where did you find that?

Came across this a while ago, from late 80s I'd guess - not sure why we never used it:

10 hours ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

The Leeds and Liverpool cup ties in '74 were all-ticket, and both had 37,000 crowds. I don’t know if the Liverpool game in the league in May '77 was all ticket - I'm thinking it wasn't - but the official attendance for that was 38 000 plus. More than should've been allowed in, maybe. Maybe, it was a bit of a melee that evening.

In his programme notes for the first home game the following season, in August '77, Alan Dicks informed us that the club had had to spend £100k on ground improvements over the summer to comply with the recent Safety of Sports Ground Act. He said that this had cut the ground capacity to 30,000. A big cut from 37 (or was it 38) thousand. 

However, a quick glance at the programme for Man United at the end of the 77/78 season, shows that we attracted two crowds during that season of more than 31,000! (v Forest and Liverpool).

Did we let more in than we were supposed to? Could we add up properly? Did Dicksy get his sums wrong? Did we - the club - know what was going on? Did we - the crowd - know what was going on?

 

Twas ever thus eh!!!

By chance t'other day I came cross this comment in David Woods' "The Modern Era - A Complete Record" about the Stoke / Cheesley's knee game in '76. The attendance was eventually recorded as 25,316 but the author's 2 line summation of the game begins: "A phantom turnstile perhaps as an attendance of 32,537 is originally announced?"  

13 hours ago, Delta said:

BCFC are traditionally south Birmingham, AVFC are traditionally north Birmingham - Both traditionally working class.

Yeah, that Prince William is sooooooooo working class, isn't he?  

2 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

Methinks the industrial sized equipment produced to dismantle the terrace  wasn't routinely smuggled in case we shipped two early....

Them kiddies weren't messing......

Couldn't see the JCB diggers from my seat - was in with the home fans

1 hour ago, Lew-T said:

Any reason why this one in particular was a bad one? Reading are not exactly known for much bother.

Big promotion game at the end of the season, both teams in the top 4 (both eventually promoted).

Not sure why it went off so spectacularly, even considering what an important game it was. Perhaps because we were 2 down quite early and it felt like a hammer blow to our promotion hopes. In the event, we went undefeated for the rest of the season, winning 4 of the last 6 games and were promoted with York, Doncaster and Reading.   

For the record, we lost the Reading game 2-0 to goals from Lawrie Sanchez and a Dean Horrix mishit fluke (yes that Dean Horrix) 

Yep one of the livelier days out that one. 

25 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I received this link via an email subscription. If anyone is interested I can share the email contents which have a summary of this.

Yes please.

13 minutes ago, Mr Roper said:

The sags have hardly played anyone any good so far and the two games against teams higher in League One they lost them both .Beating Wimbledon was a good result 

10 man opposition - yet again. 

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

The best finger wagging ever......’ave some of that Prince....

 

Agreed (apart from the fact It's not Frankie Prince)

1 hour ago, Crackers Corner said:

“Happy days”

What a classless wtat that bloke was is.

32 minutes ago, myol'man said:

the last time they even played Sunderland in the League was at Trumpton in 1993, so now lets play guess the crowd.

Without looking it up, how many loyal and few, including the hordes of travelling Mackems made it along to Bath, it what was their final season at 'Championship' level (League Division 1 back then)

MTG 

3,200?

18 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

I think December 10th 1983 helped Bristol City immensely....we’d gone through the hell of 1982 - we had a mix and match side which included a Bristol University student....it was a very uncertain time....then the FA Cup second round draw gave us an away tie at Eastville against a Rovers team that was lording it above us in the divisions....and we beat them 1-2 that day ....with the student mis-hitting the winner to send us into absolute delirium on the away terrace...Terry Cooper was at the helm and he even came on and played that day...but that day was a serious springboard, we believed totally in our club again, we’d just gubbed the gas in their own backyard and we loved it! We were on the way back after the 1982 stuff...so I think that derby in the 1980s really helped us, because we got promoted at the end of that season....and we haven’t looked back since...

A champion post.