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Gabbidon has had an awful few days as a pundit, on Sunday he gave the Man of the Match award to Mullin of Wrexham saying that he had capped it all by scoring the winning goal. Of course there were still about three minutes of added time to play. 

8 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

And that is probably why no Cornick announcement…Edwards not wanting to give Luton’s opponents a sniff of the team,

That's bang out of order on Edwards' part. Judging by earlier comments on here it might've been the only half decent odour the Cardiff lads would've sampled since their arrival in Luton. 

Just now, Rocky said:

luton getting a replacement?

If he's any good then we can take him on in August. 

6 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Oh great shout! That was Cotterill’s first game in charge.

Correct 

Just remembered another one Tamworth 1 Bristol City 2 in the second round (I think) of the FA Cup in 2013. Live on nationwide ITV. JET scored the winner.

The league match v WBA in 2010 was the season where the BBC bought rights to show EFL matches and experimented with Championship matches live on Sunday afternoons. I recall West Ham being on a lot.  But they didn't get good enough viewing figures to persist. 

1 hour ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Question for the stattos. When was the last time we played live on a terrestrial TV channel?

I’m 39 and the only time I can remember was a random league game away at Swindon around 2000, on HTV? But I think it was only on in our local region.

So when was the last time we played on national terrestrial television?!

Good chance it’ll happen if we get a plum draw.

I believe we have been live on NATIONAL terrestrial TV just four times to date. The 1989 League Cup semi final second leg v Nottingham Forest on ITV, a league match in 2010 (I think) on BBC 1 when we beat WBA 2-1 and the FA Cup games in 2013 away at Tamworth (2-1 win) on ITV and in 2015 v West Ham also on BBC 1. 

Other games on ITV were just shown on HTV and whatever region the opponents hailed from but not nationally 

16 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Ah right. I went down the boozer last night. I've abandoned any hope of there being much coverage of City games on mainstream telly. 

Quite agree. I didn't bother to watch MotD as I knew what would happen. It's annoying in that they'll even show extended highlights of the game they broadcast live, in it's entirety, just a few hours earlier, plus reshow the goals and highlights from games they have shown about three times already (at the end of Final Score, on the News and then at halftime during the Spurs v PNE game) yet to see the first televised highlights (usually just the goals) from a game that hasn't been seen at all one has to sit through everything one has already seen umpteen times before it is plonked on as an afterthought at the very end. 

2 minutes ago, lenred said:

Was HTV wasn’t it.  Pretty sure I watched it and we didn’t have Sky! Edit:   Not that it matters - just asking for my own sanity

No definitely Sky Sports 

4 minutes ago, Gillies Downs Leeds said:

Luton may need another striker now. Cameron Jerome had his contract terminated due to personal reasons. Just saw that he has now signed for Bolton.

Hopefully they'll put a late bid in for Semenyo

I think their jealousy goes back to 1989 when City lost very narrowly in the league cup semi final 2-1 over 210 minutes to Nottingham Forest while Luton lost limply 3-1 to the same opponents over just 90 minutes (so would've been 7-2 over 210 minutes) in the final. And, to rub it in even more, Luton's solitary goal was scored by ex City striker Mick Harford. 

I would like to wish Bents all the best. A great player and class act. He wasn't given the club captaincy as a keeper for nothing.

My only concern is that we could well play Wolves next season in the league or in the cup and it will no doubt be when we are finally awarded that long awaited penalty....and Bents will bloody save it!

2 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

There we go. I really sympathise with the majority of Russian people. Very few of them want this and we all know who the real evil is when it comes to Russia. 

Didn't mean to make the thread over-political, given we now know his clear stance let's keep this on the football to save the mods having to jettison pages to the politics forum!

Yes a lot of Russians are against the war in Ukraine and increasing numbers of them are seeing their sons come home in body bags.

For that reason I am not against Russian footballers. However, if Putin even signed for us I would definitely boo. 

1 minute ago, Sir Geoff said:

The club and all other private companies that let these bandits control their car parks and fine their customers are handsomely remunerated for their compliance. Had a similar incident at a pub car park. My daughter drove in without realising parked up for an hour to meet a friend. A week later we get the dreaded PCN. I went to the pub in question spoke to the manager said we forgot to enter vehicle details blah blah. He took the PCN from me and said he had a pile to cancel later and would add it to those. I asked him if it affected custom having an over zealous parking system and he said what the pub was being paid by the Parking company far outweighed any loss of custom.

Where my partner lives near Pontypridd we went into her local, The Upper Boat Inn, for a meal and drink. Couple of weeks later got a fine for £80. Didn't keep receipts etc so didn't challenge it. When we went there again we went through another entrance and there was a machine to input car reg number. Unfortunately, the other entrance doesn't have this. I wonder if those businesses in cahoots with the parking companies deliberately do this so the parking companies actually make money from those legitimately using the business they are innocently visiting and gracing with their custom. It's all wrong. 

The parking fine has now been cancelled.

Many thanks for your tips especially Dollymarie as it was through our SLO, Jerry, that it got cancelled. Also, obviously, thanks to Jerry too.

I know now I will no longer be paying that fine that it will impact on our compliance with ffp regs but so be it.

Sykes hat-trick three goals in succession 

13 minutes ago, Red hot poker said:

Hi Hands , I did exactly what you did, & copped parking fine £100 reduced to £60 if paid early. I contacted Bcfc & was told to email parking@Ashton gate with images of receipts was then informed by parking Ashton gate that the fine was cancelled. Good luck fellow red

Thanks Red hot poker, another avenue to go down. 

It was only because my partner bought goods online from the club as Christmas presents and a jacket was faulty (zip didn't work and one of the two side pockets was sealed up) that we had to go to the shop to get a replacement and then bought other goods in store in the sale that we were there. 

Thanks Dollymarie I will send him an email shortly 

Thanks everyone

Yes I gather now that there's a machine in the club shop but we simply didn't see it and after making our purchases (which also involved returning something bought online that was faulty) nobody asked if we had inputted our reg number. Plus my partner was moving around on a crutch that was alien to her at the time so we were concentrating more on that. It's annoying as well because we then decided to have a brunch in the cafe. Had we not done that we would've been within the thirty minutes. Plus the cafe gave me the wrong order (scrambled egg on toast when I ordered a veggie chilli jacket potato) so had to wait longer for my correct order to be cooked. 

Thanks Loco, I checked on that after and it also went on to say that if items are purchased from the club shop or cafe that charges then don't apply as the registration number can then be logged into the system. Nobody told us of this when we were customers of the club shop or the cafe and as my partner was just getting out and about again on crutches after a partial knee replacement we needed to park fairly close and I wasn't as observant of signs etc as concentrating on getting her crutches out of the car and helping her into the shop. 

Thanks Dollymarie. What is Jerry's email address?

Thanks James yes she has proof of the purchases 

I would be grateful if anyone can provide advice on this matter. 

On December 29th, my partner and I parked at Ashton Gate and bought items at the club shop and then had something to eat and drink in the cafe next door to the shop. In all over £100 was spent on Bristol City premises but today we have received a parking charge of £80 (£45 if it's paid early) for being there for nearly sixty minutes. This seems grossly unfair especially as we were dealing with the staff in the shop and at no time did anyone inform us that we needed to input a registration number (if that is the case). 

Another positive is Welsh football fans at last didn't vandalise the toilets. At least no reports of it yet.

I don't think things are quite as dire as everyone seems to be making out as the addition of seven or eight new players in the transfer window will simply address these concerns