mattjb

On 23/11/2022 at 07:37, Port Said Red said:

My 5 year old grand daughter has apparently started talking about football, her mum (my daughter) used to be a season ticket holder before she met her husband who has no interest in football. We are going to start her off slowly with a trip to Portishead Town this Saturday followed by a Vixens game if she likes it.

That’s a good age to start taking them to games. My girl was 5 when I took her to her first city game, she was hooked straight away , loves the whole day out , bus ride into town, walk round the harbour side and then the pub ( ok she moans a bit about about the 2hrs in the pub!).  5 is probably a good age to start her playing as well if she’s interested, my girl started at 10 last year and moans that I should have got her into it earlier!    Hope she enjoyed it today .

He should just get himself a T shirt made with  ‘I am a bellend’ printed on it in large letters and save his breath.

1 hour ago, Swede said:

That cryotherapy doubles up as Santa's Grotto in December. Looks like his first job is to clear up the mess by the door.

Wonder if their new signing went arse over tit falling over that health and safety disaster of a down pipe extension?!

1 minute ago, Bazooka Joe said:

"Badges? . . . . . . We don't need no stinkin' badges!

One for the older readers!

1 hour ago, BigTone said:

Both really

Hello Wayne !

My daughter and me don’t have a season ticket and go when we can and make a day of it . Bus into town then walk round the harbour or a boat across, a drink in the cottage, maybe the park for a while and meet friends for a few more drinks before the game. Covid stopped me Saturday so the Mrs took our girl and her mate and they enjoyed it despite the result! 
as my City supporting mate says, “ don’t let the football ruin a good day out “!

54 minutes ago, Jeez said:

They definitely have some size labelling errors on batches of the Robins shirts - we got a Y2XL clearly not right size, took it into the shop they got another Y2XL out & it was right size - held up against each there was a very clear size difference.

So it's ok you probably haven't pie'd out, it's just miss-printing by Hummel  

Yep , my daughter has got the home shirt  and when we bought the third shirt we had to buy a different size to get the same fit . Agree some are labelled wrongly.

Is Banksy a city fan ? Or have I got that wrong?

I didn’t see one header (intentional) in my girls u10s in a whole season!

1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said:

Take it from me Matt, as a 'Woody of some vintage, we were a rarity back in the day when Kingswood was most definitely gas. Apart from the Cobbler, pretty much every pub was blue and white. We were a united but heavily outnumbered group back in the day. Still loud as **** mind!

That said, we've even taken over their Kingswood heartland nowadays!

I’m 51 and the street I grew up in had more city than gas, but maybe that was an exception.I think a lot of kids like me who’s families didn’t have a connection with either team naturally gravitated to City being as they were in the old first division back then.I reckon when I was in secondary school my year was about 50/50 city/gas. As you say in the ‘wood’ we are definitely taking over these days and hopefully that will continue!

2 hours ago, TheReds said:

My mate who is a season ticket holder has said the same thing for the last few years, said it is crazy how there isn't hardly any kids. How are they going to get anyone from this generation apart from the ones who aren't dragged down by their parents? Older ones will be passing and not getting replaced. Kids today don't want a day at a dump like the tented village anymore.

We live in kingswood,I’ve always done since birth! It was never as big a rovers area as was made out to be even years ago when I was a kid.My daughter has sports week this week where they can wear in any sporty clothes and from what she’s saying there are a good few more city shirts than gas.She’s been flying the flag with the home and third kit.A few kids say they are gas but have never been to a game and we are taking one to the Sunderland game, maybe she can be turned?! 

Grandads- neither were interested in football 

Dad- City, wasn’t interested in football until I started liking city aged 6. He’s lost interest and hasn’t been for 10 years plus though I hope to get him to a game with me and my daughter for old times sake! He still looks out for the results though.

mum- not interested in football 

local - Wick fc, I played there for 16 years and try to watch a few games each season.

Me - City, watched a lot from age of 6 , then in the old 1st div,until early 20s then only very occasionally. Since being a dad I’ve gone more often in recent years.

young un- City, took her to her first game aged 5 , 10 now. she loves it and nags for a season ticket but too many other interests etc means it’s not really viable for us at the moment.Try to go to at least half a dozen games a season.

11 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Yep, I particularly liked another Beadle goal at Ashton Gate - you know, the one he scored against roverzzz when we demolished you live on TV in December 2000 ... what a special night that was, especially as Bignot gave it loads when he put you ahead in the first few seconds ... 

I think that was game that was on the last Friday of work before Xmas , surprised it was scheduled for that day given many would be out on alldayers after finishing work early! 
I watched it in the rotunda in kingswood with some mates , about 3 or four of us city fans and a couple of gas. The rest in there were about 60 gas. We were a bit naive really thinking everything would be fine! After one of the goals and of course not being able to keep quiet, someone hit my mate (who happened to be one of the gas heads ) over the head with a pool cue. I didn’t think we were going to get put of there alive but were rescued by the bouncers. 
to add insult to injury the lady who put my gas mates stitches in happened to be Brian Tinnions cousin.

On 13/02/2022 at 10:43, BRIAN WILSON said:

Talking of Girls & BRFC - Just look at this gorgeous specimen 

 

It took me a while but I’ve now worked out the famous bit, she’s married to Kermit the frog. 

11 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Took wifey to physio this morning, after a full knee replacement and stopped of at Boswell's in Kingswood for a coffee and a bacon roll. It was pretty busy so I found her a table and queued up. While I was in the queue, my Mrs offered to share her table with a fella and his grand daughter. No problem thought I until i sat down face to face with Mr Ian Holloway!  

He was very nice to be fair. 

A couple of years ago I was working on a house refurb at Lacock and someone told me the chap who came to mow the lawn every Thursday was an ex city player. Anyway Thursday came and looking out of the window I thought I don’t recognise him as a city player. A bit later he came in and said I hear you’re a city fan, it turned out to be Andy Tillson! 
Had a bit of a laugh with him about him still being the gas’s most expensive signing.He wore Southampton training tops most weeks and threatened to wear a gas shirt one week but I did warn him there might be an “accident” with a tin of paint! We worked there for a few months and he was always interested to chat about city,rovers and local football. One of the nicest blokes I’ve met.

7 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

I like the poster who preferred Lyde Green for the stadium because it was quite close to Parkway!  Only a 1hr 31 stomp according to Google Maps! 

Just a small point , but how would they own a ground in lyde green?

6 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

Used to go to Ritzy’s (as it was then) in Baldwin Street mid 90’s, Thursday night was 80’s night, 80p to get in, 80’s music and drinks were 80p!  Can’t go wrong

And 50p a pint fridays at spirals in yate !

Brilliant, there’s nothing like taking your young un to a game for the first time.It’s quite emotional,I took my girl to her first game aged around 5 and it took me back to my first game with my old man in 77 aged 6. 
I’ve tried to get the miserable old bugger out for a game with us but he won’t have any of it!

glad you had a great day, experiencing the highs and lows but ending on a high !

1 minute ago, GreedyHarry said:

How have I never heard this before? Absolutely brilliant.

Same here, love it!

8 minutes ago, harvey54 said:

6 to 1 for brickwork though 

Unless building houses in Bradley Stoke then more like 10 to 1

1 hour ago, CiderJar said:

I think he is using the power of the tickle.

That or he’s going to finger someone to death 

2 hours ago, BanburyRed said:

This one...?

Did they say to the kid on the right “ we haven’t got enough weapons,just hold your hands out and we’ll photoshop one in later”!

I’ve been to very few away games but the one nil win at anfield was the most memorable, brilliant night. Two derby games at eastville stick in my memory,the first me and my old man were in the away end and we all got pelted with stones,one hitting me in the head.Can’t remember it doing much damage!  The next time we played at eastville the old man decided it would be safer to stand with a young un quietly in the tote end instead!  I remember thinking this doesn’t seem like a great plan. Before the game started a big crowd of city fans surged in chanting and obviously a big  scrap went on which we just about managed to keep out of the way  of. Anyone know which year this would have been? 

I see over on their forum there is another thread where someone is surprised at the amount of young kids wearing city shirts in kingswood.I’ve lived in the wood all my life and as a kid in the 70s more of the kids in my street supported city than the gas.I guess if your family had no ties to either club back then,you were probably more likely to end up supporting city as we were in the top flight back then.That was more or less my own situation, though my old man had been to a few gas games as a casual watcher.luckily he saw the error of his ways! By the time I was in secondary school I’d say it was probably 50/50 city/rovers in my year so my question is how far do you have to go back to when kingswood really was a staunch gas area?

1 hour ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

It’s like we’ve found a magic well of hilarity that never dries up. Just constant buckets of funny shit coming up one after the other for our entertainment. Today their bizarre manager has given us this gift 

Brilliant stuff 

Thank you God.

 

I was thinking the same earlier today,it’s amazing how constant the stream of entertainment is that flows from them. Just when you think there can’t possibly be more they churn out another beauty every time.