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32 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Only caught the end of a very sunburnt looking Steve.

Said his final legacy is what he's doing in Botswana. Not sure what he means by that other than owning three reserves and making loads of money from tourism? Guess he employs lots of locals.

Said something about Bristol Sport being his other legacy and that in both that and Botwana he employs a load of people to get on and run them.

Usual sort of self-important guff you'd expect from a billionaire basically. 

I managed to avoid listening to more twaddle thankfully!

10 hours ago, BanburyRed said:

Birmingham away at St Andrews especially.....

Brum was definitely the biggest turnout away I saw. Thing about City is that there were groups from all over this area - Taunton, Bath, Portishead, Barton Hill, Knowle West, etc to name a few who when all together could cause mayhem. I know most of the “happy clappers” on here will disagree but away with Bristol City was great fun in the 80s and 90s.

@redkev I was at Swindon away when the terracing got ripped up. 4th Div days if I remember right? Nasty atmosphere that day. Just knew it was going to be lively.

Just would not get away with it nowadays.

19 hours ago, Wedontplayinblue said:

Absolutely amazes me that people do not cover their faces, if you are into doing things like this.

CCTV all over the place, every copper wearing body cams etc, hardly going to get away with it. 

Engageing a brain cell in the valleys is a problem sometimes.

21 hours ago, redkev said:

Remember the Swindon game really well , I was on the little hill in the park outside the open end where the away fans come out , i remember about 50 Swindon making a bolt for it got about as far as the rising sun then thought fxxk this and headed straight back towards the ground , made I laugh they got a kicking both ways . Not that I’m condoning it

City had a proper mob back in those days. Way above Swindon’s league. 

4 minutes ago, patchway ciderred said:

Like 1960maaan I thought they performed during the penalty shoot out with Mansfield. 

They certainly had their tits out during the penalties!

A few more pics of the day and our dodgy van. God knows how it got there and back!! Some of my best memories following City was in the 80s and early 90s. The club was down and nearly out. TC walked in to the club and turned it around. Some great memories following City. Away games at Hereford, Aldershot, Chester just to name three that stick in the memory. Other games such as Newport away when we did not know if the club would survive. Epic days. The club and fans were so close knit in those days.

7 hours ago, redkev said:

Great day , I arranged 2 coaches from our local pub and sorted all the tickets for every one , got on the coach and handed all the tickets out only to find I never had one for myself , obviously sorted it but can’t remember how , but do remember the 2 ladies from Bristol with there Bristols

Was that the famous strippers?

10 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

For me I don't care about the other stuff, Liverpool , Leeds or what ever . TC came in at our lowest and dragged us up , he organised the Club , he did everything from driving around the Country scouting to moving players possessions. He sold tickets , he put his own money in the Club and he even had the awareness to bring Jordan in with thoughts of him taking over. 
He has been the biggest, most influential figure in the Club's history . Yes Lansdown put money in, Dolman built the Club up and invested time, money and energy, but Terry Cooper did everything, literally everything to build the Club from rock bottom, and that there is nothing to acknowledge how big a part he played in our history is nothing short of travesty . 

One of the reasons why I don’t bother anymore.

A disgrace that TC is not recognised at AG. **** the Lansdownes.

Yellow Bristol City ski hats

1 hour ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

The message is consistent. 

They all consistently tell us how incompetent and clueless they are. 

The club is a laughing stock of the Championship. We need new owners badly.

2 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

When they marched about 3000 England fans back to the centre after the game was quite interesting 

Went away with England a lot in the 80s and 90s. Great days but with an element of danger. Enjoyed the experience and met some good friends. Some crazy people also but wouldn’t have missed it. Struggle to get too excited this day in age.

2 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

The campsite in question got surrounded by hundreds of Swedish police who made every one stand in front of a camera and have there picture taken holding there passport in front of them . Traveled with some preston fans who where well game 

thinking about so we’re 90% of the fans that went back then 

different era and different times 

We were in the public park in Stockholm camping.

Remember gangs of scousers out in Stockholm robbing everything worth robbing. We lost to Sweden and outside afterwards Englands mob caused havoc with the OB. England had one hell of a mob in Sweden. As you say, nearly all the best firms in England were there - including Bristol City.

Italia 90 was pretty mad, plenty of threads on here in the past. A few more pics to share of a few of us and that flag. Good days. Although Italy was a sketchy place during the World Cup. England had a bad reputation back in the 80s/90s. Good days though.

Mate of mine. Very knowledgable City fan and knows his football better than most.

He used to post on here a lot. I was in Italia 90 with him. The flag was homemade and lets just say was from a Bath “branch” of BCFC who were all in Italy. Italia 90 had a lot of City there. Proper naughty at times but football was in those days. Sardinia, Bologna, Naples was all good fun though. The guy spent ages creating that flag. The flag depicted the British Bulldog if memory serves me right. He still has the flag I believe? 

1 hour ago, Northern Red said:

Weird mindset where people actively want the summer disrupted just to make the board look silly.

What Board?

3 hours ago, The Journalist said:

If Norwich came calling (massive if) there’s no way he stays here.

His track record shows he’s a career coach and ultimately they’re a way bigger club with way bigger potential. No brainer.

He aint staying here, why would he? Nothing to aim for except mid table mediocrity under the Lansdown’s mess.

5 hours ago, Harry said:

Ha ha. Yep, it was indeed me. 
All of his interviews just consist of generic gibberish. 
The words make no sense. 
 

But yes, in this case he’s dug himself a massive hole! Basically everyone in football has an ego and as a club we don’t want to deal with ego’s! Wow. 
 

I also think it’s hilarious how he says that we get the same message but from 4 different people. That’s funny, I’m sure all 4 of them said something different when Pearson left - they all had a different take on what they thought of our chances of promotion/playoffs. 

It’s admitted by himself in this interview - our model is completely different to any other club. Speaking of ego’s eh! How egotistical is it for us as a club, with absolutely zero relative success in 100 years, think we can do things differently and succeed.

And this is why I don’t go down AG currently. The football club is an absolute basket case run by JL and his father who quite frankly have not got a scooby doo how to run it. With no CEO, no CE, no chairman (well JL ha ha), insult of a Board. What a mess!!!

10 hours ago, formerly known as ivan said:

A few observations…

Firstly, I’m glad those who gained entry illegally and dangerously never got to witness England win.

Secondly, I hope fifa never award England a final again. The few have spoiled it for the rest.

Thirdly, some people are just scum!

Unfortunately you are correct.

1 hour ago, ExiledAjax said:

Publicly.

I have a suspicion that privately we have hard targets, but they aren't made public... except when Tinnion gets on the mic and gives us an inkling.

Players have hard targets for fitness, for actions on pitch, for distance run etc. They are tracked during training, matches, and I believe have to log food and exercise at home as well. Not to mention the benchmarking they do at the start and end of each season.

I can't quite bring myself to believe that an organisation - even one run like BCFC is - can have such measurement and metrics in one area, and not in another.

Part of the reason I mention 72 points as a sensible target for a team like is is because it roughly marries with what Tinnion said on SOTC a while back. Asked "where do we need to be" he said "about 10 points better off". At the time, with the points we were on and games played, it meant he wanted us to be on about 1.54ppg, which over 46 games gives a 71 point total.

This as well supports his statement of "progress", because we've finished closer to that low 70s target.

Just a theory, could be wrong and it could all be vague behind the scenes as well as publicly, but I suspect not.

 

Uhhh interesting - Not too long ago certain “players” would “pile” in to B+M on Winterstoke road for there “lunch” pre training. Suppose it could have been breakfast FFS. I saw them there on several occasions. Admittedly this was back in Johnson days before Nige P put a stop to it. Quite frankly the club is a basket case IMO.

15 hours ago, Gert Mare said:

A complete lack of moral integrity, and some fans seem to think that’s ok and it’s gone now, so let’s all renew our season tickets.

Not happening. They’re shithouses and need to go.

What amazes me is how fans are happy to put up with this sh*t every season, totally bemused. How the Lansdowns and this ridiculous “Board” have got away with so many bad decisions for so long is just dumbfounding for most. Unbelievable.

8 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

I believe we were "back" the previous December, with the win at Eastville. York I enjoyed that season, only the 1,000 at that one but a great day out.

Think York away was on a choo, choo special if memory is still intact?

Brilliant day out. City were back! There are some great pics on here or FB of us all invading the pitch, someone might post them if they still have them? Great memories of the 80s following this club. Probably best days for me after the 1st Div obviously.

The football club is a basket case. It ain’t just Tinnion who is just another Lansdown ridiculous appointment. It is the Chief Exec, Chairman and Board also. The sooner Lansdown goes, the better. What a rediculous Twitter post.

3 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

Bolton away was another good day 

I remember that they had to keep opening pens as more and more fans pilled into the ground and then someone letting off a fire extinguisher into the home end if memory serves me 

a great season with many many highlights 

Brings back memories. Bolton away was good day out although not for the faint hearted. Divvy (RIP) organised a meet at M5 Michaelwood Services at 9.30am Northbound. Taunton, Barton Hill, Whitchurch, Knowle West, Hartcliffe, Bemmi, all there.

Loads of vans, mini buses etc. 200+ of us in Bolton at 12.30pm. At a pub called the Walkabout or something - with a central bar in the middle of the pub 15 minute walk from the ground, (you could walk all the way round the bar in a full circle, big pub).

Good old sing song and then Bolton turn up outside - Ding Dong for 5 minutes, felt longer, no OB, sketchy. Escort to the ground. Little Ronnie (RIP) had a police horse stand on his foot outside the ground if memory serves me right. You could not write the script!
Always remember Burnden Park, hell of an atmosphere/deafening. Loads of City went back to Blackpool for the evening, where it got pretty nasty with one guy I know put in hospital.
Football was different in those days. What a season that was.

22 hours ago, phantom said:

I am led to believe they are all OK

Sports is about 10 seconds behind, but movies and TV shows are HD

It's all free to download so I would advise giving it a try to see how download speeds are for you etc

A decent broadband speed is key apparently. But works really well apparently. As Tesco say “ Why Pay More”?