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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”?

Good day out prematch, hated Rovers ever since. Plotted up early doors. City all over Bath that day. A part of me misses the Bristol derbies.

5 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Not really.

It is undeniable that Ashton’s time with us saw uncontrolled, unsustainable spending & we didn’t go anywhere.

He has now had undeniable huge success at another Championship club, so not difficult to draw the conclusion as to what our problem is.

The problem is clearly in the corner of the Lansdowns. How much longer can this rediculous ownership continue. We ain’t going nowhere anywhere soon under these bafoons.

If Ipswich make it, then we’ll done to them. Great achievement.

Having worked at a senior management level with large companies in my career, I believe I have a pretty good idea how businesses should and should not operate at most levels - both accountability, corporate, commercial and Board level.
Looking in from the outside, it is plainly obvious to me how the current structure is hopelessly inadequate for what is needed. We have no chance under the Lansdowns unless a fluke like Luton happens.
We need change at the very top. Anyone who thinks different are in cloud cuckoo land.

5 hours ago, robinforlife2 said:

I have a strong feeling that next season will finally be our year. The way we have finished the season, shows that pressing the trigger on Manning early, would have been wrong. We are bouncing and hopefully we will carry this into next season, especially as we have 2 exciting players to come in and I've no doubt we will sign 2/3 more in the summer. I've got a really good feeling about next season. Finally things are slotting in to place. 

We will sign 2/3 and then sell 2/3 and around we go again. No progressive plan/structure in place and no ambition. Fact.

What Ipswich are doing, just underlines how bad Bristol City FC has been run under the Bristol Sport template. Well done Ipswich if they get there.

Anyone paying for Sky nowadays are nuts.
You do need a decent WiFi connection for the streaming service to work though and it is probably a good idea to purchase a decent VPN such as Nord. And away you go.

39 minutes ago, TV Tom said:

In the Black Horse at 10:00

Millwall geezer got run over by the BH that day. Probably the craziest day at football I ever witnessed, including all the England away games I went to. Everyone knew Millwall were coming down in numbers. Bristol City were a rated firm in those days which is why Millwall, Pompey etc came to Bristol.
All seems surreal compared to AG nowadays, but that’s progress I suppose.

19 hours ago, Harry said:

That 3-3 in 1992 was an interesting game - both on and off the pitch!  
 

 

I’m on that video (:laugh:). Got a 12 month banning order.
But Pompey were in our stand. End of!! Good days back then watching City.

Great football club Pompey. Close knit, tight fan base. Bit like how City used to be. Well done Portsmouth .

22 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Absolutely is. I have a suspicion that Steve's presence at a few recent games isn't just about him wanting to see how Manning is getting on.

We might hear something this summer?