Jack Dawe

Between the ears

Beryl - putting on trains, keeping us all in line, making the cheese and onion rolls - those were the days. If you are now aged 45 to 60 odd. If I owned Bristol City now, I would be putting on trains to selected away games (I can't think why SL doesn't do/feel the same ) I'd even make the cheese and onion rolls (although I might soften the onion a little first).

The tickets for their game will be half the price we pay to go there, probably less than half. They have very little to crow about generally, let them crow about irrelevant stuff like this if they want

Rovers have lost one in their last 10 games v Wolves, winning three times at Molineux in their last 5 visits. Lots of good memories for them up there, and no doubt plenty of their older fans will go. Amazingly, the two of them have only played each other 14 times (couldn't believe this. Can this be right?), including one Watney Cup game, of course. So, good memories, good omens, and novelty - they last met in 1993, almost of a quarter of a century ago - a new ground for their younger ones to tick off, and for the ones locked out in the 80s and early 90s. In contrast, we are sick of the sight of them (Wolves. Well, both). We have met 65 times, and have been there nine times since Rovers last went to Molineux, losing eight and drawing one. I think we last won there in 1931. There has also been a lot of trouble between their mob and ours, which puts a fair few "normal" fans off, once you've ticked Molineux off. I doubt there has been similar levels of trouble between Rovers and Wolves; unlikely the g4s sh1t squad have been there and "had a go." Or ever will do. Hope they are careful up there though, remembering that 40 year old Watford fan kicked to **** a couple of years back. Nasty place. Plus, they are going for a one-off cup game, and as you say, we sold out West Brom and could've taken more than we did. It's not a like-for-like comparison. Interestingly, Cardiff took 1500 to Molineux last weekend, and some of ours on here were upset that we only managed 1900 at Brum. I wonder when we will next visit a ground we haven't been to for 24 years, for a one-off cup game, a ground that Rovers have visited nine times in those 24 years, winning none. I reckon we would take a bigger following too. Woopee.

Pleased with a point. Gutted it wasnt 3. Fans were class. We (do) go on (a bit)

The "game management" was in the first half energy and hussling, which helped us get 2 ahead. I think, in the circumstances, that is pretty good going for LJ, and to his credit. We need to see more of it, though, against the lesser sides, and then good things might happen more often

He isn't the go-to guy for the hi-nrg game, no. Probably not the "team I can trust" either. But LJ did buy him; we could ask him why

I should get behind the sofa, mate

That's football. It's a madhouse

We need to be 4:0 up, minimum, by h-t

Think we're "lost in translation"!

"You don't know what you're doing"?

He mentioned two criteria for selection this weekend: a team with energy, and a team "I can trust." So the latter covers Wilbs selection. Not sure how O'Neil gets in though.....

The only hope we have is Newcastle's complacency

No, you also dipped into your imagination with some other stuff - apparently, you missed out on a "generation" while in Bath. You were in Bath 10 years I think, while a "generation" is generally agreed to be 25 years. In those 10 years, you were promoted - generally an opportunity to gain or regain fans - and then relegated - generally a good way of losing support. So you "missed out" on a fairly neutral experience there, I'd say. Unless we buy into the Rovers fantasy of loyal support (which if true back then, would have coped easily with going from East Bristol to Eastville, to going from East Bristol to west Bath. A difference of how many miles?) Rovers had lost "generations" of support long before leaving Eastville, as your final attendance there suggests (about as many of you then as there were Eastenders in the East End for the East End's last game in 2014). In some ways, leaving Eastville - a ground too big for you - and moving to an equally sh1t mess of a place, but a more fitting capacity for you back then, Trumpton, was a good thing, for your club. After all, you owned neither of them. In my view, City are better supported because of two poor football clubs (or sh1t clubs, let's be plain), Rovers are clearly, evidently poorer than City. Or more sh1t. The facts, the stats and the old league tables show us who is more sh1t, not my imagination. And the irony of you lot referring to us as "the sh1t"! It is irony, right - or have I imagined that?

So, to sum up, City are better supported than Rovers because it's easier to get a bus to Ashton? From places like Fishponds?

He's better than Jacki. For us, at least. Can't see LT scoring 4 in a game in Europe, or playing in a WC. It might take a thousand off the crowd Saturday, Tommo not playing. People want to get themselves down AG and see Lee Tomlin and this team. This is good stuff

I "banged on" a bit too much

Like I said, they're just full of sh1t and easily dismissed. Mike Ashley anyone?

Their one and only beef with SL is that he pumps millions into us, not them. That's it. This bitterness is compounded by the fact they have never had anyone willing or able to back them to the same degree (when they so desperately need it). Until now, of course. What they could do, with someone like SL... But to throw mud at SL simply because he is red, not blue would leave them wide open to ridicule, too easily dismissed, so they pretend to be outraged by his non-dom status. Of course, if they were geniunely affronted by football club owners not doing their bit for their country or for being questionable characters, they would be "banging on" about the owner of Sports Direct, or the one running Villa into the ground until recently, or the ones borrowing hundreds of millions to buy Man Utd and lumbering the club with the debt, or the goon at Cardiff/Fulham/Forest (take your pick), not the one employing local people at the going rate along Anchor Road and ploughing millions into the local economy in south Bristol (and rescuing long established local sporting clubs, rather than taking advantage of them at their most vulnerable). But they don't give a f*** about any of that. What pisses them off is that he is spending millions on us, not on them. It's hypocrisy laced with decades of bitter, bitter envy. A toxic combination.

That's just wrong, on so many levels. The score was 3:1 yesterday, and Luton are flying in L2, second in the table.

Ok, ok. That's just me, then, not "us." I am arrogant and disrespectful, when we are in L1 playing tinpot sh1te like Crawley and Fleetwood

All the "arrogant" Villa fans and their "disrespectful" comments - that's just us, when we're relegated to L1 and playing Crawley, Fleetwood etc. It's how you cope with shame, humiliation and disgrace

Tough, tough game today. We need our best performance so far this season and/or some outrageous luck (or just a ref that gives a penalty when one of ours is clearly fouled in the box. Too much to ask?) Oh, and we need to stop Ross bloody McCormack somehow

He was. Now he's in Norwich.