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1 hour ago, Oh Louie louie said:

No fresh milk, wouldn't have happened under dunford ..

To paraphrase Ms Kelis: his milk floats brought all the milk, and many a Fewer, to the Mem (la la la la warm it up)

1 hour ago, Swede said:

In all honesty I think its good we have a former players association, its about time. I do wonder though whether in 30 years time we'll be flying in Ivan Testimitanu, Famara Dhiedhiou or Hörður Magnússon from Moldova, Iceland or Timbuctu for an impromptu cheer around the pitch. How on earth will they find or even locate them?

Due to rising sea levels, mate, we'll all be living cheek by jowl by then, it'll just be a case of making an announcement "would Ivan Testimitanu, Famara Dhiedhiou or Hordour Magnússon please report to the VIP entrance so's we can bring you out at half-time" over the Dolman tannoy ....   

9 minutes ago, East Londoner said:

I found this from an Ipswich podcast online. Talks about his career (mostly about Ipswich for obvious reasons) but also covers that movie and his time with us (safe to say he didn’t think much of Denis Smith) i didn’t realise he stayed in the area for around 30 years 

 

Imagine his children were starting or in school about the time he was here so stayed put for that?

3 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

For the benefit of @Bristol Oil Services

They are the top home scorers in the division to date.

Score a lot, concede a lot. Home Park is a bit of a fortress.

Not just us they're outscoring its pretty much everyone.

Yes, every week they appear to be having a lively game at Home Park, and few problems finding the back of the net, or creating opportunities. Maybe it'll be different next season. You just wonder how we find creating opportunities and putting them away so difficult given we have been at this level for years.

On 21/01/2024 at 09:12, Sir Geoff said:

15 goals scored. 7 of those in 2 games.

 

It's not many goals, is it. Not a lot of "action," not in the opposition's penalty area. I notice that Plymouth, newly promoted Plymouth, have scored twice as many as us at home. You might expect Leicester or Leeds to score that many more than us, but Plymouth? Perhaps Preston and Millwall get all the way down to Devon and the sea air goes to their heads and they "bomb" forward with gaya abandon, like they never do here. I don't know.

But dear me - to borrow from another thread - how bleedin hard is it (for us) to score goals?

And it's not just Manning, it has been four or five seasons of largely dour football served up at Ashton Gate. It's a wonder the attendances continue to be around 20,000. In previous times, crowds would've dropped off significantly given such poor standard of attacking football. 

9 minutes ago, italian dave said:

It was like Andi………..I’ll stop now!

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/13052720/newport-county-1-0-wrexham-league-two-highlights

Wrexham look shit Dave, what's all the bleedin fuss with them?

5 minutes ago, italian dave said:

It was like Andi………..I’ll stop now!

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/13052720/newport-county-1-0-wrexham-league-two-highlights

What was it Groucho said about going on like this all night, but ..... summat to do with his suspenders

3 minutes ago, ZiderMeUp said:

Sort of thing if rovers were doing it we would take the piss.   

Let's get on and do it ourselves 

Russ had gorgeous hair, and still cuts a distinguished dash. Mrs Osman was a lovely thing too (when I last saw her), her hair was pretty impressive too

1 minute ago, italian dave said:

It was like Seb Palmer-Houlden’s for Newport today….

Love to know what that was like ....

42 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

He’s certainly doing exactly what you want a first-time loanee to do.  Header was like Andi Weimann’s at Sheffield Utd.

What was Andi Weimann's header at Sheffield Utd like, Dave?

He needs to go out on loan this lad ..... to someone in L1 next season

7 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Didn’t realise Richard O’Donnell was at Blackpool these days, in goal for them today. 
 

Firework watching, back pedal stumbling City goalkeeping legend. 

Oh well, all's well that Sidswell

20 hours ago, joe jordans teeth said:

I bet Dale Vince is right behind this while his club languishes at the bottom of the league,people moan about our owner but Jesus we don’t know how lucky we are 

We mightn't always show it but we do know how lucky we are, as the Rovers Blue Few thread will testify ....

9 minutes ago, Harry R said:

OK, fair enough, I don't think your critique is bizarre in itself. What I think is bizarre is how prominent the negative takes have become in the discussion of the Twine signing.

 

When Nige was moved along, the club came out and told us whoppers. Which has resulted in some/many doubting just about everything they do/say. You reap what you sow, at the end of the day ....

Moving Bristol City fans around Ashton Gate in the hope of transforming the atmosphere, is akin to moving the deck chairs around the Titanic in the hope of making it to New York. 

Wherever we are in the ground v Watford we just will not be as excited as we were against West Ham. If City fans were to be in the Atyeo tomorrow the atmosphere will not be as good as Tuesday, even if we win 2:0 or 3:0.

It's what's happening on the pitch that either revs people up or sends them to the concourse/their phones. Tuesday's agricultural, up and at -em, old-school, get in to 'um **** 'em up style football alongside the slaying of a PL club, plus being under the lights, is (part of) what makes an atmosphere. Watford at home, with (probably), lots of technical possession football amongst the cbs and midfield  around the middle of the pitch, does not an atmosphere make. Not even with us in the Atyeo. 

1 hour ago, spudski said:

 

This is what's wrong with this world...a few words of criticism and people melt

 

You sure, spud? Thought you said, last week, it was .... I forget now. Summat or other. Surely, what's wrong with this world, is people being so sure what's wrong with this world (ie other people), or something like that? Plus social media.

5 hours ago, frenchred said:

Never ever came across such a smug no it all as winter

It'll be spring soon, mate

"Let's have a look at what you could've won" :

7 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Winning this evening would have been worth a fortune to the club.

Telly cash, prize money, gate receipts in the next round.

Must be close to 500k lost.

That's almost a double-Tilson.

4 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

I haven’t changed my mind, have others? 

I will let you know, about 6/7 o clock Saturday .....

Many older fans that recall the us beating Chelsea in this competition will have had their fill, by, now, after so many years, of this type of "ruffling a young boy's hair" coverage from one of the nationals. How we long to be the big gun getting turnt over by a tinpot and then going back to the big boy football at the top of the game .....

Go: after Saturday; Stay: after last night; Watford? Let's see

25 minutes ago, fisherrich said:

I’ve been critical of the running of the football club on here recently by the Lansdowns, but WELL DONE Bristol City last night. Proud of the team. Great performance on national TV.  
Manning got the tactics spot on last night.

Those "tactics" being:

Bowen, Antonio and others injured

Joe Williams two-footing their "tempermentally" suspect forward and getting the desired reaction

A poor back pass

A visiting squad missing out on a few days in the warm sun away from Blighty in January and not really being "up for it"

A referee seeing enough things how we wanted to see things

Danny Ings

Etc, and so on.

16 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

Couple of old pictures that popped up on the net 

walked up that slope many times 

 

16 hours ago, BigTone said:

me too

And me. Walked back down it as well fair few times ....

23 minutes ago, spudski said:

I thought the most interesting thing he said, which strongly suggested he'd been informed by someone above ( imo Tins) is that any Coach coming here, will be told to play a certain way, dictated to by those in charge, in a way that had been ingrained in the Academy. 

Words to that affect. 

No-one's ever thought of or tried that before, and now JP's let the country know our unique philosophy. Doh