Rudolf Hucker

24 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

Whispers hit my ears of a managerial departure.

 

Butt, butt, butt …

16 minutes ago, MrBibs said:

although Rovers have much better away support. 

Sarcasm, right?

3,321 Brewers 919 Fewers

The M5/M42/M6 must have been gridlocked yesterday. 

3 minutes ago, GeoTheCiderHead said:

I see the greatest, loyalest and truest supporters in the world haven’t sold out for Burton Albion away on Saturday yet. What’s the allocation for Burton? 1,200 or so ffs? They’re obviously all locked out already. 
 

In fairness, there is a red weather warning in Scotland and people have been warned to stay at home and not venture out. 

4 minutes ago, Dolman Block B said:

You get a bottle of Heineken on arrival

Everything else sounds great. 

2 hours ago, Red Shadow said:

Reckon it happened just inside the right hand side of the six yard box as you looked from the EE. Hell of a noise with 50/50 tackle and burst ball.

Exactly as I remember it!

I have a hazy recollection (maybe complete bollocks, mind you) of Peter being involved in an incident in the goalmouth at the East End whereby he and an opposing defender simultaneously kicked/blocked the ball and it burst! Never seen it happen before or since. Of course, it may never have happened and I’ve just dreamt it. Anyone?

1 hour ago, Galley is our king said:

RIP Gordon, can still see him falling backwards at Tottenham and giving away a penalty, was very young but didn't think it was then or now....

Dad drove us up with an uncle of mine and all the way up they talked about "G" strength for Spurs (Greaves and Gilzean). I got fed up with this and said "so have we!!..... Gordon Parr and Gordon Low!"

Always makes me laugh looking back...

My dad took me, aged 11, to that match on a coach which got stuck in traffic on the North Circular and arrived just before ht. After the match, he bought me a sandwich in a cafe outside of the ground and, for some reason, from a street seller, a bloody huge team photo of Leeds which adorned my bedroom wall for years, even though I never liked Leeds (still don’t!). Strange the things you remember! I’ve still got the match programme. 

1 minute ago, Ciderhead433 said:

 

R.I.P. part of the team my first season supporting City 

Mine too. A classy defender who seemed quite unflappable to my c.7 year old eyes. 
 

Rest peacefully, Gordon. 

On 15/10/2023 at 08:59, italian dave said:

Last I heard QPR still hadn’t decided whether we’d get both tiers or just the top one. That will affect our following.

The game there I remember from the ‘70s was an evening game in foul weather when Tom Ritchie scored the only goal. We played a long, hopeful, hopeless ball hoofed up and heading straight for their keeper to collect, but first bounce it landed in a big puddle and stopped dead. And just right for Tom to run onto! 

I remember being at Loftus Road in 1980 or 1981.  They’d had a plastic, Omniturf pitch installed and the ball bounced like one of those superball toys on concrete.  We were stuffed by three or four goals but it could have been ten because we just couldn’t come to terms with it. A horrible match. 

33 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

Wael literally hasn’t got the bollocks to fire him…..and Joey knows it.

Weal literally hasn’t got bollocks? 

 9,439 (7964 U’s, 1,475 FU’s)

20 minutes ago, DaveF said:

Honestly why do you bother watching? You're relentlessly negative, maybe if you did something else with your Saturday afternoons you might enjoy it more.

So might we. 

10 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Kevin Griffin, he lived in Lime Rd Bedminster about 10 doors up from my family. Nice guy, went on to Bath City and had a reasonable career when he found out that my dad and I used to go to Bath when the City were away he used to get us comp tickets. 

Thanks. Was he a striker?

3 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

That's prime PSR time period and yet I watched this and thought, "who the **** is Joe Durrell?" I literally have no memory of a player with that name, I thought I could name our whole 11/12 for that period, was he pre Whitehead?

I can just about recall Durrell but who was our sub ‘Griffen’?

19 minutes ago, 22A said:

I'm in my late sixties. The best birthday present I have ever received was on 20th birthday, 28 December 74. 1-0 down at HT became a 4-1 victory. 

 

A great day! (BTW, WTF was their mascot meant to be?) We had such a good team at that time. Our back four was very solid - such a shame when Collier left. Cheesley was a truly exceptional striker whom I firmly believe would have gone on to play internationally had he not suffered such a career ending injury. Ritchie was a perfect foil for him. Fear was frustrating but a real favourite of mine.

17 minutes ago, 22A said:

 

Sometime in between those two matches, one of the stands seems to have, ahem, disappeared. Gone up in smoke. Ironic that after all of the intervening years, only now are they building a replacement. 
 

I was at both matches but, given all of the shit that we’d had to live through, the Cup win was such a great moment in time. TC will always be a legend to those who lived through those times.

2 hours ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Definitely makes you more of an entitled moaner as a fan believe me.

Oh, we most certainly believe you. You truly are a 'kin moaner.

1 hour ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

 

7,364

 

378 Valiants. 6,986 home supporters once again proving that they really do need a bigger ground. 

7,364. 
 

They really are coming for us. We should all be worried. 

Just now, old_eastender said:

be tempted to pull Weimann off

May slow him down

14 minutes ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

I believe he used to be the Jordanian Jigsaw Champion so this makes sense ...

 

 

 

 

Presumably that’s a bike shed on the rhs?

I was in the East End, right behind the goal, halfway back and had the perfect view! An unusual mixture of cheers and laughter greeted his goal. 50 years ago ffs!

18 hours ago, petehinton said:

So, what was the problem with his thumb?

Just out of interest, I thought I’d see whether it’s available tomorrow or on Tuesday but it looks as though the fixture list has been factored in because it’s normally available time slots are ‘greyed out’ ie the feature is unavailable on match days. 

4 minutes ago, Gert Mare said:

Then at 11pm they realised that the deal wasn’t happening and describe the celebration as turning into what they describe as ‘more like a funeral’

For accuracy, it was at 4 seconds past 11pm …