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Just now, formerly known as ivan said:

Lots of people questioned Scott’s move to Bournemouth. Assumed he’d be back in the championship after one season in the premier. Some even believing we were a bigger club than them.

Here they are doing something we are unlikely to ever achieve. Showa what we know!

We are a bigger club than them, far bigger. That wasn’t ever going to stop him moving though as it’s largely irrelevant.

I find it absolutely baffling that someone who has only scored 5 goals from open play in the league this season (level with Rob Dickie), is seemingly unwilling to sign a new deal. Even more so when he’s come through the academy and has closer ties with the club than most.

Unless we are offering very poor wages and we have effectively made the choice for him to leave, I’m not sure what step up he thinks he’ll be getting. If the offer is fair and he doesn’t want to be here then get rid. Perhaps the West Ham goals have gone to his head.

4 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

Surely, considering there's no new season tickets being sold in the South Stand, even if only one person renewed, it would technically be sold out...

Yep very poor from the club to try and spin that to try and generate further sales. 

1 hour ago, Cole Not Gas said:

What is it with managers' soundbites? We had loads under both Johnsons, Pearson must have said he was frustrated in 50 post-match interviews and Liam is forever talking about 'In Terms of' and 'the process' - enough to do one's head in listening to these guys.

Today on TalkSport, Mark Robins was also banging on about 'the process' ahead of Cov's game with Man Utd. I'm sure Cov fans love Robins for what he has done at one of the worst-run clubs in our league and I would have liked him to have been appointed when Deano had to go. Good luck to them this weekend but enough of 'the process'. It is football management.

It’s football coaching in Manning’s case though, hence the job title.

Lower tier at Loftus Road is great.

23 hours ago, Club Bruges fan said:

Dear Bristol City Fans,

We are 4 Belgians (in our late thirties) visiting your lovely city the last weekend of april.

As we are massive football fans, we bought tickets for the Rotherham United Game (Dolman Stand seats). 

As our passion for beer even exceeds our passion for football, we're looking for a Bristol City legend(s) to show us the Bristol City FC pub life before, during and (god willing) after the game.

Beers, snacks and tales of heroic football games are on us + an invite to do the same in Bruges for the next Club Bruges game.

Please let us know by replying on this post, or contacting me on whatsapp +32498760835.

Thanks for considering our request.

Bart, Bruno, Thomas & Frederic

 

Depends what you’re after, but if you want a proper Bristol pub experience then pretty much any of these on East or West Street:

Little Grosvenor, Barley Mow, White Hart, Jolly Colliers, London Inn, Three Lions.

The Masonic also on North Street.

A pint in most of those will also cost about £3.50, sometimes less.

Otherwise I’d echo others who have recommended The Mardyke, The Bear and The Merchants Arms which are all great pubs.

 

Elland Road, Portman Road, Carrow Road and The Hawthorns are probably my favourite ones from the current Championship.

St Mary’s, The King Power, The Ricoh, The Riverside, The Liberty and The New York are all equally crap generic soulless bowls, though at least some of them are fairly centrally located.

1 hour ago, MattWSM said:

I see there are 400 left, I thought the allocation was 1600 so 1200 is pretty good

They go on the website in batches so it won’t be anywhere near that figure.

6 hours ago, Southend Blue said:

Think fans of teams in mid-league (I'm not single out any one club name, but in general as a rule) think being at the top of the league, a handful of games to go, and on the verge of promotion to a higher (all right in true terms, the Premier) league is all fun, excitement and a life of leisure.

In fact it's sheer bloody nerves and anxiety for the most part, particularly when you've been part of something that been outside of the aforementioned promotion objective for the best part of 22 years and for the majority of it (we have been so out of touch) looked such an unreachable target, it's almost the club you follow has entered an alternate reality.  

Fans in ‘mid-league’ know all about promotion races in this division as most of us have been there before. We were top of the Championship going into April in 2008 with 5 games to go. Only picked up another 4 points, including losing a crunch clash away to Stoke and missed out. It’s not a foreign concept to us.

8 hours ago, WessexPest said:

Excellent away following given the vast distances involved, absolutely.

Home Park was ghostly from the home areas on Easter Monday, though. We outsang them easily all afternoon.

Funny you say that as I thought they were louder and much more behind their team than we are at home, despite their horrendous form.
 

We also barely made a peep until we scored. After the goal we were good, but certainly didn’t outsing them easily all afternoon.

2 hours ago, supercidered said:

I was happy that the Stewards seem to be ok with us standing all game and in most of the walk ways and on the steps but they seem to not care for the most part about safety issues. Our Stewards would have had a meltdown. 

Away fans are treated exactly the same at Ashton Gate (as it should be). Same at most grounds around the country really, only ever really remember militant stewarding at West Ham and Watford in recent years. Most clubs just decide it isn’t worth the hassle I think, but it’s the opposite with home fans.

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

0-0 at h-t today, or 0-0 at h-t v Swansea.  Today, every day of the week.

Pretty much impossible to have a worse first half than Swansea, but I thought we were poor first 45 today as well and it bared a lot of resemblance. Slowly grew into the half as it went on but we were really quite fortunate to go in 0-0, Plymouth very wasteful. Looking at the stats we mustered up just the 1 shot in that first half.

Second half we have pretty much battered them before and after the red card, and should’ve won more comfortably in the end. Only criticism was taking off Mehmeti whilst he causing all sorts of problems to replace him with Cornick, their right back must’ve been relieved.

4 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

I’ll assume someone forgot what account they were logged into. It happens. 

Sadly not, intentional but replaced by the following:

The club’s professionalism shines through again. For anyone not clued up with internet ‘slang’ that means ‘**** my life’.
 

Pathetic.

As memorable as that season was I’ll be delighted if we never have to play another LDV Vans/Johnstones Paint/Papa Johns/Checkatrade trophy game again in our history. 

7 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

If someone has had a ST for 30 years they've probably been to a few away games too. 

At the moment the current system is such that someone can buy a ST for the first time this summer, go to a few away games and then they get priority over those that have been going for 30 plus years or whatever. 

Something about that doesn't sit right with me. 

I completely disagree. If someone makes the effort to attend multiple away games in the current season vs someone who has only bothered to cherry pick in the last 30 years (probably Liverpool, Man City, West Ham), then they should absolutely get priority. It’s their fault for never making the effort to attend more away games.

Your proposal also massively favours older supporters, how can an 18 year old have built up 30 years of loyalty? 

5 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Just on a technical point.

My understanding is that S82 is a small section of the Singing Section.

All S82 are there days located in the Singing Section- they do displays etc, but not all Singing Section are members of, affiliated to S82.

I would imagine many people refer to the whole area as that because “Singing Section” is beyond cringeworthy, and everyone knows what they mean anyway. I just use Standing Section personally.

4 hours ago, JerrySLO said:

No there won't be any seat moves into the South Stand.

Crazy to have lumped the “singing section” in with the rest of the South Stand on this decision. Swansea game aside, those blocks are full every week and the club are well aware that demand far exceeds capacity.

No upside to having general sale tickets available there, and it will only cause further issues with people buying tickets to sit in their correct seat unaware it is unreserved. Blocks S25-S27 should absolutely be made available to move into during the seat move period for any fans that don’t renew.

11 minutes ago, Red_30 said:

How about now? 

700

4 hours ago, Davefevs said:

No

Odd to bother mentioning it in this thread then.

Lower sides in the division are completely comfortable sitting in and defending against our slow, “progressive” football. Compile that with defensive errors every game at the other end and it’s a recipe for disaster.

10 hours ago, Tokyo Red said:

Can't be bothered to argue with you tbh. You're clearly right. How dare the club try to ensure tickets don't get lost in the Xmas post. Well done.

Makes you wonder why I can log on now to buy tickets for Birmingham away on the 29th December, and the only option is £1.50 postage?

I notice that postage for this fixture has doubled from the usual £1.50 to £3.00, meaning the excellent £10 price set by West Ham will potentially cost £14.25 once the additional “booking fee” con is added in. The club just can’t help themselves can they.
 

Usually I opt to have away tickets posted but have gone for collection this time.

1 minute ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Hell had we gone big in January 2008, that was as good a time as any- we had momentum, oh we at times rode our luck especially away from home, but we were surely too timid in the January window.

And this was repeated exactly 10 years later in 2017/18. 3rd in the league going into January, and we plump for Lois Diony, Ryan Kent and Liam Walsh. Cheers for that Steve.

Compare that to Cardiff, who in the same window brought in Marko Grujic on loan from Liverpool (now a starter for Porto and previously Hertha Berlin), and splashed out £5m on Gary Madine (a poor signing from Warnock, but the money was there regardless).  They finished 2nd on 90 points, we finished 11th on 67.

Just now, Red Army 75 said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/lansdowns-put-faith-concept-bristol-8888252
 

JP with another good article. 

To me this read more as a rambling piece intent on massaging the Lansdowns’ egos at every given opportunity. It gives them far more credit with regards to some master plan being in place than we know to actually be true.

They didn’t like Pearson as a person and are simply reverting back to the “Lee Johnson plan” which ultimately left the club in such a mess last time, with Tinnion now seemingly taking up the role of Mark Ashton.