TV Tom

My god, there’s some touchy sods on here, what’s this forum coming to?

4 hours ago, REDOXO said:

For the first time ever will I not be going to a City game while being in the area!

As some know I am not always able to take up my seat due to a massive logistical disadvantage compared to most. But continue to keep a seat for myself and my nephew and watch every game home and away via BCTV ESPN et al 

Tomorrow I have given both of my seats to my cousin (yes they are City supporters) as I simply can’t watch what is passing as football at AG at the moment and simply need a week off!

Tomorrow myself and another regular poster will be going to FGR. The plan being to get there in time to watch the city game (yes I’m still a glutton for punishment despite my protestations) 

Hopefully staying away is the catalyst for a run of results and I can start to see my way clear to renew (I got an email about that today)

Ill update regarding the Vegan pies, how the gaps in the ground look on tv and SCs (blessings be upon him) chances of keeping them up!

COYRs! 

I wouldn’t want you in the trenches

A bit player at Liverpool but yet another “ordinary” player that Clough made look world class at Forest

7 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

It should be, but it won't be.  I'm afraid we will be stuck with the cockwomble for the duration.

Sell all our best players, replace them with dross then sack an experienced manager who had the support of the fans and replace him with someone clearly way out of his depth.  Well that's a £1,000 worth of season tickets that won't be renewing here - and how many others are feeling the same.

The club is going backwards and I can't see any signs of this changing for the foreseeable.

Who are the ‘dross’ players that Pearson signed that you are referring to?

Stories like this are truly awful, dread to think how the family are coping

1 hour ago, Redandproud said:

 

What part of the ground do you want

There were only Lansdown tickets left, he’s playing golf now instead!!!!

1 hour ago, phantom said:

I've still two available in W13, £30 for both tickets 

Don't really want to sell separately 

That's the Lansdown adult price 

Cheers phantom, not needed now

My son looked at buying a ticket today, decided not to bother at £45 a pop

41 minutes ago, nebristolred said:

That's daft though, it's not what any of us would actually say in that situation though is it? We're talking with hindsight, and based on the perceived aims of the club at the start of the year.

At the end of the day everyone here is on about relative success (which is what success is to most people 90% of the time). You're just sticking to your guns that success is absolute which is fine, if that's really how you want to see it.

To most of us, if you are predicted 22nd and finish 4th, and you end up better off talent-wise and financially, with a better platform for the next year, that's a success. Progression can be success. It doesn't mean you're any less ambitious.

I wouldn’t waste your time with this guy if I were you

9 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

I think you’re probably thinking Scunthorpe in one of Trundles early games. IIRC he scored two at the Atyeo end that day

Yes, GrahamC came back with the same stat, always thought it was Blackburn, two cracking goals 

1 minute ago, GrahamC said:

He never scored against Blackburn, reckon you’re thinking of the game I quoted.

You’re probably right, first half goals kicking towards the Atyeo

3 hours ago, GrahamC said:

My recollection is having managed to get promotion with a strike force of free transfers (Jevons & Showunmi) we were shocked at the wage demand disparity with L1.

We went for 2 strikers (it might well have been Leon Best & Luke Varney, but not 100%, it was a long time ago now) & other clubs blew us out of the water & so very late in the summer we signed Trundle who was already 30 (31 that October) & had never played at that level.

He wasn’t quite good enough in truth & clearly his attitude wasn’t the best, but rather than a vanity signing I think we simply underestimated the gap.

Sensational season though, his contribution to it was minor but I’ll never forget the Palace goal.

Two crackers at home to Blackburn as well, I loved watching him play but there again I loved watching Tomlin play

23 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

He got the sack because he turned us into to a team that was going down. Losing 6 nil to Cardiff should have been the end of him here. 

Losing a play off final isn't a success. Getting us into the Championship was granted. 

 

Not quite my point, I don’t dispute that his time was up though after that Cardiff debacle

Can’t remember the last time I failed to complete wordle but unfortunately I don’t do it every day so don’t have a running total, my mrs is far more sophisticated and does “birdle” which I”m useless at

It’s crazy that there could be many that want tickets yet there are going to be thousands of empty seats

Struggle to see how anyone can say he wasn’t a success, but like 99% of managers he ended up getting the sack

7 hours ago, redkev said:

Who us or England

Well obviously every manager we’ve had since Cotterill has been hopeless 

32 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Strong argument that the best players in La Liga and Bundesliga are both English. Not sure we've ever been able to say that before.

Plus a plethora of English talent in the Premier League.

Us and France will have the two best squads in the tournament this summer. 

But unfortunately we have a hopeless manager in charge

Are these any good John ?
 

22 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I'm not going to bother wasting my time explaining it to you Tom if you don't already understand it. 

Ok

17 minutes ago, Harry said:

Credit must be given to Sean O’Driscoll and Amy Kington for getting the Cat 2 status in the first place. That was the foundation of what we see now. 
Amy led the whole project for the initial Cat 2 application and audit. SOD (although much maligned) helped massively with this too with significant input. 
Amy’s comments in the video below tell you exactly how we got to where we are today. The work put into this 11-12 years ago is what we are seeing the fruition of now. 
Yes, Tinnion then later became responsible for the pathway between 18’s and 21’s to the first team, but the foundation was very much credited to Amy and her team (with the help of SOD too)  

apologies for Jonboy on the vid too!! 

 

 

Personally I think O’Driscoll should take a lot of credit, if anyone inherited a shambles of a team it was him, he laid the foundations for our double season with some excellent signings

28 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Ironically this is much lower than it would have been had Pearson remained in situ. 

 

Of the 38 Championship games Bristol City have played this season, almost 30% of the minutes have been played by homegrown players.

How do you come to that conclusion?

1 hour ago, Oh Louie louie said:

5th September 1998 a bad day at the office, city were away to Swindon and England were playing at 6pm sounds a dream day. We had had a request from our friends grandad, could we go to a pub he used on the way to Avebury to pick up some of his fave crisps, they had a picture of the uffington white horse on these crisps as far as I can remember, I digress, anyway we were 3 0 down early, in one of the most frustrating CIty performance's ever, we hit the woodwork four times and got it back to 3 2. Absolutely shocking. The day got worse when we pulled in the pub, they had a big sign, no football coaches, the bouncer refused us entry full stop, we explained the crisps situation and he told us to leave in a pretty unfriendly way, then we lost 2 1 to Sweden, not a day il forget tbh

Weren’t England playing when Swindon won the league against us in November 2015 ?

13 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

They're definitely still big success stories that we can claim, I'd just say the academy assisted their development rather than "produced" them as such. 

Exactly this, whether these players joined the club as 6 year olds or 16 years old makes no difference, they all signed their first professional contracts with us and all had their first taste of league football with us so all came through the ranks with us in one way or another which is something the club should be proud of, not sure why some people are trying to pick holes in what is a positive article

I like Rowett, he's never let a club down and been harshly treated more than once 

20 minutes ago, spudski said:

Hopefully with a bit of traction it could happen. Would definitely have a lump in my throat singing it, thinking of dad and our times together at the ground. 

Same here, if my dad was alive he’d be a centurion, he always used to walk around the house singing it