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Very good post and I agree all of it.

Let's stop arguing or trying to score points off of each other. We're all City fans, supporters and go to as many matches as we can, financially, working hours, family matters etc. All previous managers or head coaches are now history and whatever we thought of them, they are now irrelevant. So now we have a head coach, Manning. He has had no experience of being in charge of a Championship club and his time with lower league sides as head coach is almost non existent. As we now appear to be safe from the big drop, I want to see how the team performs. I'm not concerned about each match result but about how we cope with all facets of a match. In his first three months, we had too many games in which we went sideways and backwards without any real clue of attacking. If that continues more than any other style, it will finish many of us from going to matches through sheer boredom. If we lose trying to play our share of attacks then so be it. We'll never win every game but so long as we give it a go, then I will be at matches to support the team.

I saw Hewlett's father make his debut against Wolves at Molineux. But as that seems about a lifetime away, it makes me feel older than I am. I hope the son will make the grade.

I have some good memories from the previous Youth Cup games a long time ago and appreciate the players who made it to our first team. Unable to watch or even listen to commentary but from the comments from almost everyone in this thread, the under 18's squad and coaches have done a very good job with a group of boys who hopefully, will make it to City's first team. So thank you under 18's for making it so far in the Youth Cup and best wishes for the rest of your careers.

It was three matches in four days at Easter. The same opponents, home and away on Good Friday and Easter Monday. And a match on the Saturday in between. In 1957/8 I saw all three. West Ham at Ashton Gate on Friday, Leicester City away on Saturday and W Ham at Upton Park on Monday. Two draws and one defeat.

I'm not going to comment on yesterday's match until after the game at Home Park. Apart from an agreement with your mention of the referee. He appeared to me, almost as soon as the game started, as very quick to penalise us when there was any contact at all but unable to see any of the same from Leicester. In days gone past cash managed to get stuck to a ref's hand as an encouragement to help one side. Not heard of it mentioned for a long time but I sometimes wonder over the last four or five years if it still exists. Where there's cash, there is always an opportunity for fiddling so why not referees?

Another member of the Tinnion, Lansdown family?

Gow's first game was at Charlton last match of 1969-70 season. I guess that there weren't many City fans at the Valley that day. Similar ending to this season. 5 defeats and three draws and we finished 14th in Second Division. Not much has changed!

What quality? Very poor is my opinion.

I gave up around half way through. So boring, he sits there smirking and spouting absolute drivel that an outsider wouldn't believe that we have hardly won a league match for three months! I'll be there tomorrow, haven't renewed yet and expect a thoroughly poor walloping from Leicester.

I saw Larry play for Rovers, I think against City in the FA cup mentioned in a very recent thread. He came from the Manor Farm area near Horfield common. I met his brother several times when I lived in Shrewsbury. He had a pub just a minutes walk from the Gay Meadow and as I went to Shrews games when they didn't clash with City's, I'd go in his pub for an after match refresher. He was pure Gas so lots of banter. After City's last minute win in the Joe Jordan promotion year, he was at the front door holding a full pint when I arrived and he held it out for me to take and then threw the beer at me. We both nearly wet ourselves laughing and it was one of the evenings when I got a cab home instead of walking. Boy was he proud of his younger brother, Larry. RIP Larry even if you are Gas.

@Davefevs So if ticket staff are employed by BS, isn't it reasonable to assume that the pitch ground staff, refreshments etc. are the same. I cannot see the sense in pitch staff being employed separately by City, Bears and City Women. Anyway, not worth us fighting each other as more important subjects are relevant.

Thanks @ExiledAjax My understanding of the money going from City, Bears etc is that before Bristol Sport was created, the non football employees of Bristol City FC, ground staff, refreshments, ticket sales etc. were workers for the Club and paid by them. But that since B Sport they are employed by BS. Thus City, Bears, City Women, pay a share of their wages. EFL would not consider our accounts valid if we didn't pay any of the non football wages.

I don't agree that he should be given the chance to turn it around because he doesn't appear to have the ability to so do.

I completely agree with you.

Yes of course I do. I took a friend's 8 year old son, it was his first game and he was buzzing at the end. Sadly, a year later, he drowned in the Avon near Keynsham.

If you were born in 1941 you are 83 in June. Stretching that info just like you do with other facts!

We have been in three semi-finals of the FA Youth Cup. But as football didn't exist before the Premier League was invented by the rich and greedy, our achievements are easily forgotten.

I really doubt that will happen. Apart from 8 years when I lived in Portugal (but had one for the season after Wembley defeat) I have had a season ticket since 1966/7 season. But I don't think that will register with the club who don't appear to care about us at all. We come for some entertainment, to meet fellow City fans and support the team whether in Top or Bottom league. Since last October, I have not been entertained in any way and the backwards/sideways tactics just send most of us to sleep. I feel so sad but it's going to take something extraordinary from the club to persuade me to renew. I'd get more entertainment watching little children playing football on the Burnham beach.

I was also at the Chelsea match at Ashton Gate and still have the programme. We got Terry Bush, Jantzen Derrick, Brian Clark and Lou Peters as regular first teams and also Adrian Williams who played only one or two for the first team. I also was at the Ipswich home game. Would dearly like to be at Man City. Is it a one or two legs semi final?

I see Ipswich and Norwich as very similar clubs to Bristol City. None of us are in heavy industrial areas like a Blackburn, Sunderland, Sheffield Wed / Utd. But as far as football is concerned that is where the similarities end. For the last sixty/seventy years, and that while the persons have changed, we have bumbled along in second and third tiers, four years excepted in Div One and two in Div Four. While in that time Ipswich and Norwich have won trophies and played in European Cups, Ipswich even winning First Division. Managers at both clubs who were allowed funds to manage success. Ipswich even helped in the careers of two England managers. They don't spend massive money on transfer fees but always seem to have better quality than City. So how did it take so long for Lansdown to get us out of Div3 until he got GJ. Because he hasn't got the football brain to pick decent managers. And when by accident he does get a Cottrell and a Pearson, he can't bully them into his non football brain. That's why we are more likely to end up in League One/Two than Premier.

Yes.

I suppose the worst time was at Newport when we thought it was the last ever match for City. That lasted a few days, I bought £90 of shares, and the draw against Fulham with the nursery boys put us back on line. Even being 92nd in Div Four the next season cannot match what I am seeing with this person who couldn't coach rats to steal from a bird table.

If that is their thinking, I got a text as I usually renew before lunch on first day. I think they could be waiting a long time for me to renew. I never conceived that I'd do this. Wait and see what happens.

Very good statement. I go back to 1950 and there's only two that I can think of that were worse for confidence and team spirit. Peter Doherty in 1958 and Pulis. Even SO'D and McInnes had some good spells and tried to play football.