Tinmans Love Child

1 hour ago, AppyDAZE said:

I'm with Nige generally, but was tonight's ref really that bad? I didn't think so. If one of your players decides to risk a red card by making a mad challenge, you can't stand there and say yeah but their bloke retaliated. I agree in general, but the wrong game to bring this up, for me. I didn't think tonight's ref was poor. All about opinions, I guess.

Up until the penalty claim I hadn’t noticed the ref really which is a good thing, but he had a mental 5 minutes where every decision went to Luton and we didn’t get much after that really.  I thought at the time Sykes challenge was risky so no complaints, but the pushing afterwards should have been a red also.

45 minutes ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

I thought the gate looked poor tonite.but I was impressed at the support. Loud and proud 

Yeh I’ve not seen the Dolman that empty for a while

For me you simply can’t drop the front 2 after they both not only scored, but looked dangerous and can only build their relationship through game time, plus dropping him after scoring would tell him it doesn’t matter in the future if he plays well as he will get dropped which is hardly good man management.  Martin coming on to see the game out works better from a game management perspective.

What happened to the Prem JB that’s why you don’t say stuff like that after a couple of wins early season cause you look stupid, keep it level

Great performance tonight, can’t really fault any player, no weak links for me, well done all!

Luton we’re very poor though, never really looked like scoring all night, I would be worried if I was a Luton fan!

8 years ago today, 1st home game of the season

22 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Absolutely.  Like ‘soccer’ for one!

Actually soccer is not an Americanism, we called it that before Football! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-we-start-calling-football-soccer-180951751/

34 minutes ago, Jerseybean said:

Oops 

“I am your father”

”Actually, it’s the other Luke Darth”

”Ooops sorry my bad, blame the Luton match day thread on OTIB!”

Just now, LondonBristolian said:

Wow.

“It will be nice to see Kal for a moment, I’ll speak to him after I’m sure, but I’m not interested in reacquainting myself with anyone. I want to win the game, so if I never speak to Kal Naismith again but win the game, I’ll take that and that’s nothing on Kal, I really like Kal, and he did excellent for this football club.”

That's some serious venom. 

47 minutes ago, TDarwall said:

Dave Smith is one of the few times I've really admired an opposition player, we've signed him & he turned out ad good as I'd hopes.  A pretty basic player, but quick as a whippet & foot like a traction engine. 

He was also involved in 1 of my fave all time goals at the Gate, home to Blackburn, 1st game of the season after promotion, a fantastic left foot cross headed home with aplomb by Nicky Morgan.

 

 

That Blackburn game was great, really sunny, we played great, 4-2 was it?  Lots of goals anyway!

1 hour ago, bexhill reds said:

Dave Smith, there was a player from my youth, he made a career out of knock it past, run then cross. Loved watching him play

I’m sure he was the quickest player I’d ever seen!  Loved him!

It’s my first game of the season tonight, looking forward to a good performance hopefully!  I think if we score first we will be fine as they don’t score, but if we do lose then Nige is going to really struggle to explain away 3 league defeats out of 4, with 2 home defeats but hopefully it won’t come to that!

12 minutes ago, Hxj said:

It's not the presence in the stands, but the string pulling behind the scenes which is the problem.  He left Man Utd in a mess and then critiques every move of every successor from the Directors' Box.

Sir Alex didn’t leave them in a mess, he won the league, chose Moyes to succeed him, had a proper handover and had a plan in place to take them forward.  The problem came when they sacked Moyes and then ripped up the plan and started chucking money about like confetti on managers and players with no idea what the plan was.  They lost all culture and identity within a couple of years, and it will take many many more to turn it around.  

2 hours ago, Southport Red said:

Ironic that ‘monosyllabic’ has so many syllables. 

A bit like the work phonetic starting with a ph!

35 minutes ago, The dastardly red said:

Bit moody as got work at 5. Sorry but I have to update you on phrases I hate.

By a country mile

Billy big bollox

He's not the messiah he's a very naughty boy

Bazoongers 

Absolute basket case of a club

Florist/Man Ure/Bournemuff/Pressed Ham etc.

 

I'll probably remember more as the day goes on so will keep you posted. Thanks for listening.

 

The nicknames like Florist etc are so lame, yeh we get it, Florist sounds like Forest, cant OTIB introduce an autocorrect function to remove these?

FFS has to be the most annoying post ever.  Why sign into OTIB and then onto the match day thread to just post FFS, what a waste of time and energy!

Not so relevant now but ‘Little Lee’ used to do my head in, such a deliberately derogatory and patronising phrase to use.

To add a positive spin, I do enjoy when the puns take hold for a few pages, unlike the Monty Python quotes which we all know and have heard a billion times, just in OTIB, but still get trotted out to prove we all know the script of Life of Bryan!  

8 hours ago, TomF said:

For every glory hunting kid at school in the nineties, this is for you

Man Utd fans of that Ilk have had their fun, back to reality now!  They will go as long as Liverpool did before they are anywhere near challenging again, it shows how well some of the previous sacked managers like OGS and Jose actually did with what is a disjointed, entitled, not as good as they think they are squad!

Just now, Southport Red said:

Bloke next to me is asleep

Lucky git

1 minute ago, Sheltons Army said:

You can sense and read those almost hoping we do concede so they can rant.....

 

unbelievable

You don’t think 3 straight losses (IF that happens) including to 2 of the 3 promoted teams would be just cause for a rant?

41 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

Glad you mentioned the OTIB subscription, I’ve paid up for years and encouraged others to do so………..then looked and saw mine had expired!

I thought we used to have a reminder to renew, if I did get one I missed it somehow.

Anyway, sorted now.

Same here, would be good to get a notification if possible, have now renewed 

1 hour ago, Meh said:

Why are they always essays no sane person would read - what a load of shit.

I scroll down to condensed version and start there

I think I’m going to opt to ignore you via the options, maybe everyone else should do the same

3 hours ago, Chris Martin CM9 said:

Hi all

Has anyone got a city 125th anniversary shirt that they are looking to sell?

If so, I would be interested in buying one at the right price

Been looking for one for a while now yet can't find one anywhere.

Thanks

If you need something to clean your car with I think a shammy will be much cheaper 

For my, the best managers in my 30 odd years of support are Danny Wilson for the style of football, GJ for being the closest in 40 years to get us to the Prem (and that night in the playoffs v Palace), and SC for winning the double, and I don’t care if the stats do or don’t back that up or what league they won games in either!  

I find the ‘they’ve spent all that money and are only 1 division ahead of us’ chat ridiculous, how many divisions do they want us to be ahead when there are only 4!

4 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

I must admit, I’ve not thought through the finer details yet  As it’s hypothetical anyway, I’d probs say anyone from the counties of Bristol, South Glos, North Somerset and maybe Banes “if I wanted to share the love” is allowed, but outside of that, not interested mate!

I would allow siblings of long term season ticket holders who may live outside of the defined boundaries, but that would require a vote

 

Obviously any links to Rovers that are not declared when signing and later uncovered would lead to an immediate ban

5 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

What would constitute the Bristol area or qualify a player? To play for Bilbao you need to be born a basque, but not necessarily in Spain. French basques count and Fernando Amorebieta was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Do we claim anywhere in the West Country (whatever that is defined as) or anyone born to a Bristolian. 

I must admit, I’ve not thought through the finer details yet  As it’s hypothetical anyway, I’d probs say anyone from the counties of Bristol, South Glos, North Somerset and maybe Banes “if I wanted to share the love” is allowed, but outside of that, not interested mate!

I would allow siblings of long term season ticket holders who may live outside of the defined boundaries, but that would require a vote