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He is a professional commentator so will be as neutral as he can be! The only TV commentator to just refer to us throughout the match as CITY and highly likely to scream very loudly if we score and even louder should we win. Just like Gary Owers on Radio Bristle. Enjoy the match Jonathan.

Gary Owners hit the nail perfectly on the head yesterday after the match. Preston manager made three changes at half time that completely changed the match. They went to a three attackers and started to control the match. Manning waited until 75 minutes to make any alterations. By then we're one goal down and PNE in charge. Managing a football team is totally different to coaching. The coach helps players technical ability. The manager is the one who controls the tactics and personnel!

I believe that many City fans/ST holders forget that there are plenty of us, City fans, who support the Bears and vice versa. I have ST's for both and my near neighbours at Bears games are interested in how City are doing especially when we are both playing at the same time. I don't know how many City are ST holders for Bears and vice versa but from figures about five years ago, I suspect at least 1,000 and maybe more. Bristolians who enjoy supporting both.

If the price is £4m, I agree that we should not spend that. However, I consider that we should recruit two or three now as the sixth spot in the final table appears to be wide open for one of about six or seven clubs. So well worth getting the additional squad members in now and giving it a good go for sixth. Even if we miss it by a couple of points, it will have brought real confidence and consistency to the squad.

@Blagdon red I was there. At least 15,000 ! I also wonder how many were at WBA the previous season. At least 10,000 is my guess.

Do we cash in? NO.

My guess would be that he has only now fully recovered his full match fitness after two/three years of injuries.

This goal highlights the fact that we are usually trying to attack via the wings without a big striker. We are not using the pace of our main striker. A subtle change in tactics in future?

Well I started this thread because of a chance hearing of the Brighton goal scorer in a recent match with the name of Hinshelwood. And now to see this photo of City players who I watched and admired has brought tears to my eyes. I watched them playing for City but also knew them on trains home after away matches and when some of them were playing cricket at our local playing fields in the summer. All of them were willing to give us some time with conversation and jokes. They belonged to us and we belonged to them and Bristol City. I never dreamt then as a teenager that I would still remember them as if it was yesterday. How anyone who has supported a team can change to another one is beyond belief. City forever.

Wow! When I mentioned Mr Osborne with reference to the Blackpool cup match, I never expected to get this amount of memories. I really enjoyed Lower School but in Upper School I struggled and when I was kept back a year(doing second year twice) as with a birthday of 31 July, I was youngest in the class. Add to that I had a rotten time as a teenager, taking plenty of days off "ill". Passed 5 O levels but if I had not been so unhappy, perhaps I'd have gone to uni like so many of colleagues who all appeared not to have any teenage unhappiness. Now kids get help but then we were just ignored as lazy. I know I broke my Mum and Dad's hearts as Mum did evening cleaning, Dad working overtime to pay for my fees. It took an unmarried mother who I fell for seven years after leaving school to make me realise how fortunate I was compared with her. All through that part of my life, I found most happiness at Ashton Gate and following the team away as often as I could. When I can't go to AG then screw the lid down.

Away matches are a dog's life!

Bear in mind that the FA Cup rule then was in the instance of a colour clash, both teams should chang colours. Many teams wearing blue or red, had white shirts as their second colours. Nothing like today where most clubs will have three kits and some even four. So the club usually tossed up for white alternative and City lost out in three FA Cup games. Against Blackpool, City wore a Cardiff City kit both at home and the replay. As for the Rovers blue and white quarters, the first time was against Rotherham 3rd round FA cup. 3 Jan 1954. The same happened for the only time that we have ever played Accrington Stanley and the Rovers supplied us a kit for away and home replay. A few jokes from fans about the Rovers kits but nothing angry. The both Change rule must have been changed soon after Blackpool because the next season we played Charlton at Ashton Gate and we wore red and they changed to white.

Simply the difference is that Lansdown is an accountant without one ounce of football knowledge and also he hasn't employed football people to run the club. Eg. his son! And when he has employed football people, they don't last long enough to change and improve the FOOTBALL CLUB before he gets rid of them.

I'm guessing that Steve Bull of Wolves did so. @City Rocker

I had a pair of Co-op boots in the mid 1950's with Stan Matthews signature on them and they were mid grey. I believe that Matthews boots were sponsored by Co-op, the first such player in UK, and as part of the deal, he visited the major Co-op shops in cities/towns on the Saturday morning where Blackpool were playing a First Division away game. Dad took me three times to Cardiff City in the hope that I'd get an autograph but each time he was injured so didn't travel. Cardiff fans said it was because he didn't want another kicking from the Welsh captain, Alf Sherwood, who played left back!

Number one striker/goal scorer is obviously Big John. But for me there is another one who could be number two. Jimmy Rogers, promotion 1955 with 102 goals, a superb good amount for one who played mostly on the wing except for two seasons at number 9. Two consecutive seasons of 25 per season. Tom Ritchie who was also not considered as the major striker a superb 132, 40 of which were scored in Division One Both of these were highly responsible for significant promotions so I won't add any others.

That is the only time in my life of supporting City, when I could not stop laughing when we had conceded. And I still laugh every time it's heard again.

I can see Tommy wanting to leave this summer if the new head coach, what's his name? continues to play him on his own without any decent passes to use and expecting him to score from the pathetic service he's receiving.

Considering the league that we are in, the playing staff and recent performances, I consider this match is one of the worst that I've seen in decades. Tiredness due to a high number of games in a very short time? Nonsense because all clubs have the same number of matches. Long distance travelling? Nowhere near the trips to the north. Utterly terrible performance. Absolutely pathetic attacking. Defensive clangers yet again. To sum it up, the negative performance of one player who shall be unnamed, highlights how weak we are at playing passes forward through the central territory. Add to this match, the pathetic Bears performance last Friday, and the inept one today, what a waste of time following City and Bears.

The only regular football commentary that I can remember in the 1950's was on The Light Programme, precursor to Radio 2. It was the second half of a Football League match; totally random choice of game and from any of the four leagues, Div 1, Div 2, Div 3 North and Div 3 South. The match chosen by BBC was not publicised before the programme, as far as I know.

Three years before my first match at Ashton Gate. That was before the stand was built, became Williams stand after 1982.

We got three regular in the first team from that youth team. Taints, Chrissy and Danny Bartley who made his first team debut when the new floodlights replaced Harry's original ones against Wolves Christmas 1965. He also took the corner in Atyeo's last match that, allegedly, brushed Big John's eyebrow for his second goal of the game. The biggest disappointment to the club and himself I guess was John Giles who many City fans who followed this youth team, thought was a certainty to become a first team regular. It just proves.es how hard it is to makthee it to League status. I met Bob Boyd in 2015 when I moved to live in Burnham on Sea and had a good chat about those days and the events of 1982.

End block of Dolman at Covered End. Those were the days.

Mr Osborne the Form and German Teacher, who was a Lancastrian and a thoroughly decent person unlike some of the bullies that posed as teachers.

Thanks @Frenchay Red I was there for that match. Biggest crowd at Ashton Gate in my lifetime of 42,594. I went to BGS and we had lessons on Saturday mornings. Our Form Master gave three of us an early end to school because we had tickets. And one more for Red Alligator. Wally Hinshelwood played 149 games for City so a significant part of our history.