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Well, I have succumbed to renewal for City and Bears but I'm still unsure about City being able to do well and manage to get into the top six after 46 games.
However, as I'm coming up to 81st birthday, still fit and able enough to get to the matches. I have done so because this life isn't a rehearsal, I am keeping all my interests going as long as I can.
So it's dog walking twice a day, model railway construction any spare time, City and Bears for entertainment(?) keeping the garden alive and still doing all the cooking as wife is useless at that. But I still want to see running, flowing rugby and a football team that will provide entertaining matches, win, lose or draw.
PS. Can we please arrange for Rebecca Welsh to referee all of our matches, the best and impartial, referee I have seen in many years.
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52 minutes ago, Nuno Gomes said:
Loftus Road!!!! Who makes this up? Marginally better that Kenilworth Road and full of prawn sandwich eaters.
https://www.888sport.com/blog/football/championship/ranking-best-stadiums-in-the-championship
Clearly a QPR supporter so probably prefers dilapidated, out of date grounds rather than modern stadia with good views of all the playing area and plenty of legroom in the seats.
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8 hours ago, pillred said:
Ooh! Let me see, The Land of Donkey Rides, fish and chips, and lots of people from the Midlands on holiday?
Birmingham Super Mare!
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2 hours ago, Numero Uno said:
It's an uncomfortable truth that what he will have ended up losing annually, once he sells the club, as a percentage of his overall wealth will very likely be similar in many cases to the percentage of their wealth that most fans put into the club in the form of season tickets, merchandising and the like every season. Some of our fans on minimum wage will be putting in (not investing) a far greater percentage of their "wealth".
I don't know about tax breaks but I do know that owning a football club as a billionaire will lead you to meet people and open doors to pursue other interests in your life that are not necessarily quantifiable in simple money terms. I also know that Steve's money will be working very well for him so if he pumps £15m of his own dosh into the club this year he will almost certainly be spending money that is effectively "Investment gain".
It's not about being ungrateful, it's just recognising that a local billionaire has CHOSEN to do something with his money that HE WANTED TO DO, WASN'T FORCED TO DO and ultimately will cost him around the same, in proportion terms, as any hobby that people on this board pursue. The main difference is that in the pursuit of my hobby I'm not able to turn round and say "it's mine"................
As I've said before, if I had Steve's investment nous and was a billionaire, I would 100% be happy to buy the thing off him and waste a couple of hundred million doing something I would love doing.......I don't though. I'm sure quite a few on here would do the same.
I would do likewise. Often dreamt of winning a £million on the lottery and thinking I would give half of it to City to get some players to take us back where we should belong.
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2 hours ago, Robbored said:
I heard that a certain Mr Dyson is interested in either buying or heavily investing in Bristol City.
Probably just wild speculation and rumour tho……..
I assume he couldn't have anything to do with the Bears as he funds them down the A4.
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1 hour ago, Sir Geoff said:
54 years for me and I can honestly say this is the dullest football I have ever witnessed in all that time.
Couldn't agree more. The quality has varied from the dream results coming true in the First Division to a team of mid teenage boys at the bottom of Division Four. In 1982, I did something that Lansdown never has or never will do. I spent the £90 of cash in my savings bank account on shares to keep City in business. And so did around 2,000 others.
I have little respect now for SL as over 25 years he has spent peanuts on City, City Women and Bristol Rugby. When he completely clears his bank account as I did, I'll grant him some respect. He is taking the piss out of us supporters. Not funding the playing staff to give us a better chance of top quality football.
And employing a head coach who is trying to do the impossible; to play the same style and quality as the Man City's, Real Madrid's with Second and Third Division quality playing staff. They're doing their very best but the style of play that Manning is trying to produce is way beyond our players ability. So send Manning back to Man City where he can coach their thirteen year olds!
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19 hours ago, pillred said:
Despite all the moaning about Manning I just had a quick look at the last 5 results for every team in the Championship and guess what we are top with 11 points, now tell me honestly if that was our previous manager's record over the last 5 games this forum would be dreaming of better times ahead, it's a results business and you can't say manning at last is not getting them.
So being top over the last five means that one should expect a performance with more confidence against a struggling side like Huddersfield.
So how did we manage to give us supporters, one of the most awful displays that I've seen in a long time?
Backwards and sideways all the time. Boring and not the least bit entertaining.
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Is Manning coaching the under 21's now?
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1 hour ago, View from the Dolman said:
SL was at the game on Saturday.
Well if he was, perhaps he realises that a significant number of us are sick fed up with the backwards and sideways game plan that is so boring. And if that is the only method that Manning can coach into the squad, we all might as well go up the Downs on a Saturday afternoon for our weekly fix!
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7 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:
As I said on another thread, it’d be madness if he was and would have serious vibes of Kasey Palmer. We’ve seen what he can do and he’s gone from peripheral in prior games to today being uninterested in putting any work in.
Palmer was signed despite a poor loan spell at great expense because LJ overestimated both Kaseys importance and Lees own ability to get stuff out of him. If you’re charitable, it could be argued that he had the Afobe linkup in mind but that was more happy accident.
It seems to me (and I don’t think LM is LJ as some do), in this case for Lee read Liam and for Kasey read Scott
To reiterate the point, we’re looking at a player who had a fantastic season at a lower level 2 years ago and has not proven himself at this level, in addition to having two injury spells. We’ve seen him for us and not one person thinks he’s a must buy. Even at £2m, with the takeover of Burnley wages, it’s not a cheap deal and I’m not convinced he’s worth that.
Not a deal we should do and would smack of a vanity project based on the evidence to date.
Complete agreement.
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1 hour ago, Totterdown's Finest said:1 hour ago, BS3_RED said:
No, not the team. The ref. I thought she pretty much got every call correct.
She was certainly one of the best we have had this season.
Agreed, very good.
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37 minutes ago, pikeysrobins said:
So….why the MASS exodus of fans (a) when Huddersfield scored (b) on 85 mins?? I hate it when fans leave early at the best of times but that was embarrassing today. We have been on a good run of late and I know things are petering out to another season of mid-tableness but hey…fair enough if we’re losing 3-0 or similar! I’d like to know how many City fans saw Nahki’s penalty scored as we fought regardless of performance to get on level terms.
I have supported City since 1950 and to the best of my memory, I have only left early in all of that time. It was against Sunderland about forty years ago, losing 0-6 in a League Cup game. I'd been working that day from 9 am on the West Country and lived in Shrewsbury, so I left five minutes early to get going before most of the traffic.
As I've said elsewhere that performance today was abysmal. I don't blame the players but Manning's totally negative tactics are awful. I'm pleased we drew but I couldn't face any more and am coming to the conclusion that if he stays here, it won't get any better.
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This is nothing to do with the players.
It's the tactics that they are told to play. The "BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS" style of play is pathetic.
I don't like to see us lose but I want City to at least have a go at the other side. When our goalkeeper gets more passes than our attackers, it means that our tactics are negative and will never be the way to make progress and win matches. And don't forget that we were not playing against a Real Madrid, Man City or Liverpool. This was one of the teams that are destined for relegation.
So this match has confirmed that while Manning is still here, BCFC can stick their season ticket where a monkey stores his nuts. After early sixty years of season ticket, I've had enough.
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1 hour ago, HengroveReds said:
Wonder if any of these will be broke in the summer. Will never know the true figures, fees from transfermrkt
GK - Dan Bentley - approx 1.8mil
RB - Ross McCorie - 2.5mil
CB - Kalas - 7 mil
CB - Nathan Baker 3.8 mil
LB - Jay Dasilva - 2.1 mil
CM - Adam Nagy - 1.8 mil
CM - Han Noah - 4 mil
AM - Tomlin - 3.5mil
AM - Kasey Palmer - 4 mil
ST - Nakhi Wells - 4 mil
ST - Diedhiou - 5 mil
I understand what you are showing but to get our most expensive signings from all time must take account of financial inflation since.
Best examples I can think of without doing all the maths to prove it would be:-
Paul Cheesley at £30,000
John Galley, can't remember what his fee was but if around £20,000 what a reward we got.
And Tommy Burden, signed from Leeds when he was their captain, for £3,500. We got about nine seasons for a class midfielder.
In short it is not what you pay but what you get for the cost.
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I'm pleased that Argyle stuck it up Leicester.
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2 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:
In my opinion I think radio coverage will suffer,would you really want to listen to a match when you could watch it legally?
Who remembers when you could purchase LP's of cup finals on vinyl in the 1970's and 1980's
Then when the video recorder arrived,no one bought the records any more
Season ticket sales could also suffer,sadly.
I listened to football on radio when a little boy and I know it may sound weird to many of you younger ones, but, so long as the commentator is good, it's good to listen. And also if the co commentator is someone like Gary Owers, one gets a rounded view of the game.
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I've read a lot of this thread and for someone who has never even thought of having Sky, I can't understand what this means. Perhaps someone can put me right.
No radio commentary on Radio Bristol for home and away?
No TV on Robins TV for some away matches?
An unspecified number of home matches will not be 15.00 Saturday kick off?
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23 hours ago, Superjack said:
Careful.
If the authorities start on that basis, you know who's going to go...
Bradford City?
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There are too many championship clubs with initials BCFC. One of them should be demoted this season and never allowed to return!
My first away match as a seven year old, for City in an FA Cup game at St Andrews. We lost and I've never forgiven them as they are a total jinx to us. Why we let them off the hook in 2017, I'll never know. So please to the football gods, at least give me one season without them beating us.
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What are the odds on the first match of next season will be away at BRFC (Lancashire)? When they get their revenge!
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7 hours ago, Puckle_red said:
Tonight showed what a strange game football is.
I don't think we created anything of note, every goal was gifted by an awful Blackburn defence. We took the chances we were given.
We've had a flukey win v Leicester, a smash and grab at Plymouth and a poor performance at Sunderland which went unpunished.
Fingers crossed he has worked out we can be an effective Championship side when we setup like we were under his predecessor.
Oh my dear! We are undefeated for four games and also haven't conceded a goal. Football among several other team sports is so exasperating because the "better" team doesn't always win. With eleven a side on the pitch, all players able to make very minor mistakes, it is not as predictable as games like tennis or golf where the best usually win.
I'm not yet convinced about Manning. Will he be the first one since Alan Dicks to get us to the top tier? Well a lot of us were not madly in love with AD for several years after he arrived as a complete novice manager. As we're only about six months into Mannings tenancy, it's difficult to form a solid opinion.
So ,while I don't expect miracles as there are 23 other managers/head coaches to beat us up, I'll give my support yet again next season.
PS. I remember one of AD's early matches when he subbed one favourite for a less thought of player. The crowd screamed abuse at him and five minutes later the sub scored the winning goal. Football is so unpredictable!
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4 hours ago, AppyDAZE said:
Fatty Wedlock.
I'll second that and add John Atyeo. My Dad saw Wedlock play on a few occasions and couldn't praise him enough. And he also, with me, saw the beginning and end, with hundreds of matches in between, of the great man's career.
If it is limited to current players, it has to be Alex Scott. Or what about the one that was never given a chance here yet will be facing us tomorrow evening? Szmodic.
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7 hours ago, Abraham Romanovich said:
I was there arrived at 12.00 to get into the ground when the gates opened at 1.30 ,front row of the Paxton Road end.
For those interested Spurs team that day.
Pat Jennings
Defender Mike England
Defender Joe Kinnear
Defender Cyril Knowles
Defender/Midfielder Dave Mackay
Midfielder Alan Mullery
Midfielder Terry Venables
Midfielder/Forward Cliff Jones
Forward Alan Gilzean
Forward Jimmy Greaves
Winger Jimmy Robertson
@Abraham Romanovich thanks for that info. How are you doing? No see you for some time. You know that was my second visit to WHL as you'll remember I saw your first European Cup first home game when you hammered Gornic (Polish team) 8-1.
I never told you about the second time I saw a live Spurs game. The freezing winter of 1963 at Highbury. Can't remember much about the match played on an ice rink. Young kids at the front of the terracing throwing snowballs at the coppers. No arrests as there would be now, the plod just threw them back at the boys. Every hit either way got a big cheer from the crowd.
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Joe was the Spurs right back in their FA Cup game against City at White Hart Lane. In 1967.
The game for which we had five special trains direct to the station just down the road from the ground.
The game when we messed up a twice taken penalty, the ref was going to send Spurs defender Dave Mackay until City's Quigley pleaded with the ref not to do it.
And guess who scored the two Spurs goals? Answers on a postcard please.
A great day out with a wrong ending but well worth it with 54,000 in the ground, one of the biggest gates to see a City match.
RIP Joe.
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I blame my Welsh Dad. When I was six, he took me to Eastville, we went home at half time after sliding down the Muller Road end mud bank, Bristol Rugby, City, Cardiff City and Wales v Scotland Rugby. Then in summer, cricket at Nevil Road and Weston SM for Somerset v Glamorgan.
I soon realised that with all three sports, I'd never be alone anywhere in our country and later the same anywhere on this planet. The match might be crap but always someone to talk to.