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Whatever it was, looking at those pictures, what Preston would give to have a crowd like that v Bristol City

Oh, stop it

I shall arrive by helicopter, just to be sure not to miss a thing

Good night to swap yer keeper, against a team with 6 goals scored in 13 games. Canny Nige/proper manager

That's more than 2/3rds full, Harry (I'm a 2/3rds full kinda guy {this morning})

We're their "bogey" side now, you say?

Archbishop Desmond Tu-One.

Yeah, we're finding these "winnable" games difficult at the moment. Preston's in the "drawable" game I would wager, if they have an off night. Steve knows what he's doing, canny lad.

This is what we find so bleedin' difficult though, being smart. We are forever being out-smarted not by parachute minted clubs but by the likes of blinking Preston and Millwall. And now Luton. Even in L1 we far too often fail to be very smart. When Gary Collier left in '79 we needed to be smart, smarter than ever but sadly smart we were not. As a club we are historically and perennially not very football bright with just a very few exceptions (and even then it soon goes tits up and we languish in the lower leagues for far too long).

The best time to get Chris Wilder, was when he went to Sheffield United. Probably. Bit like, the best time to get Steve Coppell was ... not when we got him. Thinking about it, the best time to get Nige was .... when we had a few quid to spend. Our timing - this club's - timing, is like Phil Tuffnell's with a cricket bat, or Pete Best's on his drums.

For right full back?

Jack Nicholson said that? Wow. When was this?

Because we never got promoted (after getting so close), maybe (shrugs shoulders, raises eyes up to heavens)?

.... Yes, come on, do tell, spit it out, man, one trick Pony's ...... what?

Just done that, don't think he heard me though ...

The Tinnion 2:1 I remember well, the 0:4 I have very diligently moved to less accessible parts of my mind.

Streaky Nige.

Can't remember now. Merrick wouldn't have been there for the 0:4, not after that 0:3! Looking back at the stats/numbers (!) just now, the 0:4 was in the season they were relegated, something lost to me now through the mists of time. Funny old game

This will be the Roundheads argument, and it's difficult to argue with. Mind, I think I'm right in saying that it took them spending a record amount of money on a player to achieve this. And who remembers that player? They also finished above us in 89/90, it's worth saying (from a Cavalier point of view).

It’s Roundheads and Cavaliers, mate. People with their heads in the clouds (Cavaliers), and people with their numbers. Some people - Round heads - are obsessed with stats, and facts, and figures, and heat maps, and financial fair bloody play, and formations and tactics, and the plain blinking truth of things, while some of us go, or went, to football to be excited and thrilled and to escape dull, mundane reality for a while, perchance to dream. In football, it helps to be a dreamer. Being a Bristol City fan, a lively imagination to disappear off into is essential. For about ten minutes, Jacki was our Best, Law and Charlton rolled in to one. True, that ten minutes wasn't at Trumpton in 1992. That's where us dreamers were able to survive by escaping into delusion, while the Round heads were shouting: "Dziekanowski you **** it's 0:4, run around you Polish .....

Notts Co are "more historic" than Man City, I'd liked to have seen him somewhere like that too.

Were you at Whitefield school with any of the Knibbs?

Well, fancy that. @GrahamC, any thoughts?

I think you said: the grass isn't always greener, Dave. And I recall you went on to add: least of all Watford.

He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink, then he picks the team ..... allegedly