Bristol Oil Services

26 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

I doubt you will John!

He's put me off, I don't fancy going all that if it's going to be cold (brrrr-rrr)

51 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Netherlands churning out the results with German style efficiency

.... and some Dutch style pass n movery

35 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

It was the Preston home game, which we won 2-1.

Gawd bless 'er Madge

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Because they chose to re-arrange their game for when the Queen passed away for today.

Many sides (us included) have already played it.

How did we get on?

19 hours ago, Norn Iron said:

 

I started going to all away matches from 1982. Beryl was on Coach 2 from 1983.

 

 

 

"The City Away Travel Service Coach Number One 1980 - 1983 Stand" and in the concourse I'd have an old 1980s Peter Carol coach (maybe the one trashed by Millwall at Earls Court in 1984; 

 

UNLESS MILLWALL TRASHED 2 coaches on different occasions, I was on that coach as well. 5 windows were knocked out and the driver insisted on driving back along the M4 at 40mph to avoid air pressure blowing out the other windows. Our incident happened in Brent Cross. The coach was brand new and was all white without any livery. It was owned by a chap in Nailsea. It wasn't a Peter Carol coach that day. I obtained his home address and posted a letter through his door.

 

Pretty sure Beryl was on 2 from '84?

1 hour ago, And Its Smith said:

Great player. Hugely underrated by fans but not managers. Went onto better things after leaving us which shows how good he was 

.... possibly. Might also show something about Cov and how strapped they were and their recruitment at the top and what "ponds" they were fishing in, and it might also show that it was Bobby Gould that signed him.

If I was a billionaire, with billions of quids, giving that Rishi Sunak and his tax gathering chancellor the slip on a little island somewhere between here and all them continentals, what I would do is pay homage not to our greatest goalscorers, not to meself, but to the true heroes of Bristol City FC:

The people that were going on home and away in 1979/80. And then kept going, home and away, in:

1980/81.

And 1981/82.

And 1982/83.

And then the first bleedin game in 83/4 too.

In other words, the good people of Coach Number One, Beryl Fudge's Red n White Army of weirdoes, oddballs and City fanatics.

They're the ones who should be immortalised, they're the ones who should be carved in stone.

What I would do if I was a billionaire, with billions of quids, and no tax to pay, and I bought the City off Stevie Lansdown, I would build another stand, just a bit bigger than even Stevie Lansdown's stand, that he called after himself, but I wouldn't call it the "Bristol Oil Services Stand," no, I would call it:

"The City Away Travel Service Coach Number One 1980 - 1983 Stand" and in the concourse I'd have an old 1980s Peter Carol coach (maybe the one trashed by Millwall at Earls Court in 1984; there'd be room, cos my stand'd be bigger than even Stevie L's stand which is bInger than Harry's) and the names of all that lot that kept going through that pile of shite/three relegations writ large for all to see. And maybe nip up Frankley Services and pinch the sign and stick that up somewhere (maybe with a mock up of that @GrahamC sat on the remains of the coach reading a copy of the pink Birmingham Sports August perusing all the results with us rock bottom of the pile, whilst berating Lester Shapter for denying us a penaly (plus ca change, and all that) and shredding David Williams' stylish Gas sat 5th in Div 3, whilst the music to "Sports Report" 5 o' clock scores blares and James Alexander Gordon down-tones, over and over, "Bristol City nil").

That's what I'd do.

44 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Same.

I was there, I saw 44/46 league games that season.

Now everyone claims we were on our way back that season but being bottom of the entire football league at Xmas & getting hammered by the likes of Hartlepool & celebrating a midweek draw at Halifax (fewest number of City fans I can ever recall, maybe 30?) was absolutely no fun at all.

44/46? In 82/3? Not bad, I must say.

So, you managed to miss Northampton away (1:7), what was the other one? 

47 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

I know what you mean, but considering everything, I look back at following City all around the lower Leagues as some of my favourite times watching football. 

 

Because, perhaps:

1. There were only two seasons of Div 4, and

2. One of those two seasons ended in promotion, and possibly also

3. You was young back then.

If I may be so bald ....

Rochdale, straight up the M5/6, on a weekend? Luxury. This was a Saturday, so one for the fair-weather/glory hunters, of 1982. Halifax away, midweek, now those were the diehards (you 'ad to get on Coach One half an hour before it arrived at AG to get to 'alifax midweek in 1982 ....)

But, you know, we were happy in those days, though we were shite (probably because we were 40 years younger than we are now)

On 26/11/2022 at 23:25, And Its Smith said:

My brain

Massengo - obvious, hasn’t signed contract 

Scott - obvious, has basically said it

Martin - old and poor we won’t offer him a contract 

Kalas/Wells - both on huge money and will go and earn good money elsewhere 

Bentley - we have two other keepers 

We need to get the wage bill down so I think it’s pretty obvious they all go. Unsure of likes of Dasilva as hard to say 

Should've listened to Neil Kinnock in 1987, he warned us not to be old, or shit. And poor. Or something.

10 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Rene Artois depending on when perhaps another good one.

Good shout!

Vicente del Bosque - it’s Peter Sellers, isn't it?

17 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

That looked over the line before he cut it back to me.

You put it miles over though, so doesn't matter

Just now, BigTone said:

And hopefully wake me up

Before you go go?

Just now, And Its Smith said:

I’ve got German family @MarcusX, just FYI as you are confused!

Many of us will have

We'd've been better off in 2016/17 with GO'N as Head Coach, and LJ getting his boots on and being the experienced/past-it midfielder

18 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Leicester?

 

Too far north, then east a bit.

Southampton? 

34 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

I don’t think anyone would argue that we could have spent our money more wisely, but barbed comments from a supporter of a club that has been non league very recently (despite their odious manager’s repeated recent claim that they are a “big city” club) & who haven’t even been in the second tier of English football for 30 years now is a bit like the dumbest kid in the class criticising someone with one A level for being thick.

I think the short answer, to the brazen Fewer's question: where has all the money spent got us in terms of league position? might be: higher/better than you lot have ever finished. Pal.

Something like that

On 21/11/2022 at 23:02, GrahamC said:

A playoff final (4th) & we’re currently on our longest consecutive run of Championship football since the 70s.

That win over Man U wasn’t too bad, either.

Pretty sure one year all 3 sides from League One who got promoted went straight back down, it’s a brutal league.

If you do ever manage to get back (1992/3 the last time, wasn’t it?) you’ll find that out soon enough, particularly if you’re still playing in a ground that doesn’t even hold 10,000.

That 4th place in 2008 put us 24/92 in English football that season. And we've finished higher in the "92" or the pyramid in our history than that, more than ten times.

Their highest ever finish in the 92/pyramid was in 1956 and 1959 when they managed 6th in the old Second Division, but that was when there were 22 in the top division meaning the Few's highest 92/pyramid finish is 28/92. Same as we managed under LJ in 2019.

3 minutes ago, Super said:

Undeserved.

Football dun't work like that, mate

18 minutes ago, Bazooka Joe said:

Regarding the terrifying sanction for wearing Rainbow armbands, I have been told that someone has posted on social media

"Imagine if Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King had been threatened with a yellow card"

 

Social media for you, mate. The plight of their people was Mandela and MLK's reason for getting up in the morning, their primary focus. It's not the primary focus of Harry Kane, he's a footballer, that's what gets him up in the morning. He's doing his, or a, bit, but he's a footballer, first and foremost. Just like you're a hod carrier, and I'm a milkman, and that's what pays the bills. And gets us up in the morning. 

25 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:

Dolman will still empty on 85 mins irrespective 

Beating the crowd/traffic beats, er, well beats anything football can give us/the good people of the Dolman.

16 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

They dominated tactically and technically. Lot more ball, lot more shots- pressure was building etc although we contributed to this by taking a step back after scoring early.

Had shades of the Croatia semi final in that respect- they (Italy) also went 4-3-3 not a back 3.

Granted what you say has a lot of historical resonance but they (Italy) largely a possession and pressing side in that Euros.

I just think that, yes, we have improved "technically and tactically," but that we're still missing some thing, not quite sure what, it might be one truly great player (a Maradona '86, or a Zidane '98 say) or a canniness or whatever it is the Italians have, along with technique and tactics. 

29 minutes ago, chinapig said:

On the other hand I would argue that the technical and tactical ability of young English players has improved considerably since the introduced of the academy system.

Very true. But we were undone in last year's final by the crafty Italians and those canny old three bastards at the back, we got no-one like them three.