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  1. Scott Twine…how long?

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    3 hours ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

    Haven’t seen anywhere how long he is out for? Or just not risked today? 

    Who gives a shite?!  No disrespect intended.

    1. Anyone reckon the latest lansdown puppet coach can get Twine to make the difference even if he was fit??? No, me neither.

    And 2. I'll wager a pound to a penny we won't splash the cash to sign him anyway.

    So he's irrelevant. Good player we had the chance to sign years ago and now won't.

    Burnley are relegated. So they'll want the sort of money that shows the Lansdowns for what they are - the sort of naive Forest Gumps that can be fooled into paying 8 million quid for a centre half who almost single handedly kept us in this division (love you Tomas!) but who won't pay 4 million quid for the sort of attacker who might just get us promoted.

    Idiots.

    Just retire to Westbury cricket club and take your useless boy with you Lansdown, ffs.

    Edit, I guess that's Guernsey cricket club three days. Or golf club.

    Whatever.

    We see you for what you are - well meaning... but clueless. Just like everyone else who's ever held the reins at BCFC.

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  2. Improving players

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    6 hours ago, Dredd said:

    Who is Manning actually getting the best out of since he's come in?

     

    More than the last bloke was?

    Nobody.

    And for context, a change was made because we want to be promoted this season 😶

    So individually, tactically, whicheverwally - it's a shitshow.

    Jon Lansdown & Brian Tinnion? Stan Laurell & Oliver Hardy more like.

     

  4. Dear Nigel..

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    12 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

    you have a dm/ pm 👍

    👍 Yes. Top man.

    After most defeats, but especially one as dispiriting as this, I retreat to a bottle of red and some tunes on the hi-fi. So I'll reply to your kind message tomorrow when I'm a little less "emotional", if that's ok!

    Thanks again though. Up the City!

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  5. Dear Nigel..

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    4 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

    It’s nit so much about even moving onwards and upwards MM 

    Its the massive ********* mess he steered us out of , with if you remember hardly a moan but more wry smiles and a grin with the odd growl

    We were a sinking ship with a big hole in the side sliding towards L1 and where many appointments would have seen us

    Wpuld he have got us into the top 6 or promoted in the foreseeable , debatable and I’m certainly not sure , though the t wouldn’t have shocked me either

     

    But , the lack of appreciation from some , of his part in stopping the ship OUR CLUB sinking and making it at least seaworthy again is simply staggering 

    Yep agree with all of that fella.

    We'd run through brick walls for Pearson - as would his players.

    Replace the word Pearson with the word Jordan or Cotterill and you end up with the same result - an army on the march. Not often that happens in BS3 and we always fock it up.

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  7. Dear Nigel..

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    1 hour ago, Sheltons Army said:

    Whether or not you, or anyone thinks  think it was time for a change

    IMO Your (And anyone else’s) complete lack of even a hint appreciation or recognition of the job he did do here is simply astounding , depressing and embarrassing 

    It literally puts you Below the level of the hierarchy as they at least have direct personal views , ambitions or personal glory for their decisions

    You always come across as very defensive about anything at the club but the fact you go a few steps further even than them and make significant claims and character assassination is IMO incredible from a supporter 

    Being blunt fans like you deserved an alternative appointment to NP , most of whom would see you defending a 2-1 loss at Fleetwood today.

    I think Port just wants to move on, mate - what's happened has happened so let's just try to be positive about the future.

    A trifle difficult after the last 2 results imo, that's for sure.

    Especially if, like you and I, and UNLIKE the Lansdowns or Tinnion, you have enough history to understand that a manager like Nigel Pearson is EXACTLY what Bristol City needs to move upwards and onwards from this level.

    It is absolutely the tragedy of Bristol City (tragedy too strong a word but anyway) that serial incompetence off the pitch contrives to let down talented teams and long suffering supporters.

    Rinse and fucjing repeat.

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  14. The elephant in the room

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    On 21/02/2024 at 06:55, Silvio Dante said:

    On this point (as it’s one of mine!) I think you have to in large part take the cup as an exception as motivations, team selections etc are so varied. Did George Elekobi outfox Kieran McKenna etc? In Forests prior round Blackpool took them to a replay and extra time. The motivation factor here is huge and cup performances are often outliers - to give a great example our Liverpool games were in 1994 where Osman outfoxed Souness for three games but was dogshit elsewhere!

    That isn’t to downplay we did excellently on those games against West Ham and Forest - it’s to say that you’d generally look at the league to remove external factor bias when considering performance trends

    Massively agree with this.

    The Cup games were great fun - and we've had precious little of that for years - but I never let Cup form muddy the waters. And take this season's Cup games away and what positives are we left with when trying to weigh up Liam Manning? Very little.

    In 1974 our cup win at Leeds was so astonishing it had media outlets shouting "Hold the front page!". We were rubbish in the league, Dolman wanting Dicks sacked.

    And I always think of 88-89 when we reached the League Cup semifinal - an exhilarating cup run full of amazing, memorable games (remember them?). Yet we were rubbish in the league. Of course, we got our recruitment spot on the following summer and were promoted the following season.

    I wonder what the odds are on history repeating? I'm a betting man but won't be taking those odds, whatever they are.

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  19. Play Offs…

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    1 hour ago, Numero Uno said:

    I wouldn't back us to go up to Sheffield Wednesday next week and get a draw let alone get to the play offs. Nine points in our last nine games after 14 in the first nine he was in charge of..........with more players available and a transfer window. Any repetition of that absolute dross today and I for one will be starting to ask some questions. The honeymoon period is over for me.......he's got plenty of time "on the grass" in the next few weeks and it's about time he delivers obvious improvement against the type of teams who struggle against everyone else but find it so simple to rock up at the Gate and leave with an easy three points.

    1-0 down at half time and we didn't even lay a glove on them second half. No personality, no guile, no ability, no heart, no fight, no leadership, **** all of what you want to see in that situation......except the Goalkeeper. It was rotten to the core. No excuses for that whatsoever. I'm not having that if Pep was managing us.

    I don't disagree at all.

    But he needs better players for his style to succeed at this level.  Certainly in attacking areas, if not all over quite frankly. Imo. Which means the summer.

    My worry is that our current recruitment policy - mostly low cost young players - won't provide him with the quality his possession style requires. We certainly need a damn sight more than a no.9 and a no.10 in the summer.

  23. South Stand

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    10 minutes ago, The Fat Controller said:

    We've had one Saturday 3pm kick-off at home in 2024. 

    In December, we also had only one Saturday 3pm kick off. 

    At a time where only ~6% of people work 9-5 hours combined with the number of games that do not kick off on a traditional match day at a traditional time, I think you will continue to see empty seats on a game by game basis. 

    Just you wait until we get promoted mate.

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  24. 1974 Heritage Kit

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    11 minutes ago, Supersonic Robin said:

    Appreciate where you're both coming from. You'd be right to assume I wasn't born in 1974, though I am aware of Leeds' status at the time.

    However, Leeds' former glory doesn't change my stance on this one, and FWIW I hold very similar views on our celebrations for wins over Liverpool in 1994, Man U in 2017, etc.

    "We beat team X in the FA Cup 5th round 50 years ago!" is the sort of boast you'd expect from a League 2 side. I appreciate we don't have much to celebrate, but I'd rather we just acknowledged that we hadn't achieved anything yet and got on with trying to do so.

    It's bad enough when we're talking about beating Liverpool, but Leeds!? This is a club who currently play in the same division as us and have done for most of the last 2 decades. It's the equivalent of Rotherham producing a shirt to commemorate their 1-0 win over Bristol City in 1968. Can you imagine how strange that would sound to us?
    2 weeks ago, we were all disgruntled after failing to compete with Leeds in a 1-0 loss. The overwhelming feeling was that it's unacceptable for a team in our division to cruise past us so comfortably, and that we ought to look competitive at home against any side in the same league as us. Now we're producing a kit to celebrate scraping past said opponents in a cup game 50 years ago. It's rather ironic.

    Though we might talk of being a Premier League club in infrastructure and potential, this kind of thing suggests to me that we're a League 1 club in mindset. It's a mindset that I think we need to get away from if we ever hope to truly realise our potential.

     

    I agree the victories over Liverpool and Man Utd shouldn't be commemorated. For loads of reasons. Certainly nowhere near the giant killing that Leeds was.

    The rest of your post just proves you don't get it, though. Which is fine. No worries.

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  25. 1974 Heritage Kit

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    1 hour ago, Supersonic Robin said:

    Call me a a grumpy b*stard, but this is so f****** tinpot

     

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    Not when it's set in context, ie if you explain Britain in the 1970s, how football was regarded then, how good Leeds were, what sort of news made it on to the front pages of the newspapers (what newspapers are) etc etc

    Football was strictly for the back pages. It was played almost exclusively on Saturdays at 3pm. Footballers were not celebrities. In other words, the good old days. Leeds hadn't lost a single game all season and were one of the best sides in Europe. The FA Cup was a proper competition.

    There was massive political, economic and social unrest at that time - yet serious people, running serious media organisations decided news of Bristol City's victory trumped all that - and lo, there was Donnie, on the front page.

    That's how big a news story it was.

    Inevitably, all that gets lost over the passage of time.

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