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2 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Against our “bogey side” (who have now beaten us once in the last 8 meetings).

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

24 minutes ago, Negan said:

Ah 7 minutes…. Desmond incoming I’m afraid lads. 

Archbishop Desmond Tu-One. 

1 hour ago, archie andrews said:

I wouldnt have thought it was winnable anyway the state we're in.... 

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. 

8 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

Considering his regular employments and pay offs , I’d love to know what his average annual income would be over the last 10-15 years , probably more than Klopp or Pep

Clever strategy really

Steve knows what he's doing, canny lad.

10 hours ago, The Bard said:

Massengo, Martin, Vyner Wells, Kalas, Dasilva, Bentley, Klose. 8 squad members.  Probably getting approximately £100k a week between them.  Plus their fees aren't far off the same again.

That will release something in the region of £180k a week next season.  5 solid Championship players plus 3 League 1 players would be possible and we'd save a load of money.  We just have to be smart.  We'd also be able to offer Semenyo a deal. If he doesn't take it then sell.   

My concern is that we don't fall off a cliff as it is a tough Championship this season.  Likes of Kalas and Klose need to be back playing.

 

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.

45 minutes ago, Taunton_BCFC said:

Go get him SL

For right full back?

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

   as opposed to free scoring, title winning Plymouth, but as Jack Nicholson memorably said, some people “can’t handle the truth” 

Jack Nicholson said that? Wow. When was this?

15 minutes ago, Robbored said:

SL has never revealed why he sacked Wilson given how close City had got to promotion……..…….. I guess we’ll never know.

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

12 minutes ago, Robbored said:

 

None of the others did it for me. All one trick Pony’s

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

7 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Shout out  to Vyner , had a good half. 

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

5 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Yes, the 0-4 (which I think was also live on HTV) was a few days before Merrick & I wisely departed for Italy to see the Cremonese game, a very good time to be out of the UK.

It was when Malcolm Allison was briefly in charge & his arrival sparked an upturn that they thought would keep them up.

The return game, a 2-1 win with Tinnion’s first ever goal for us, effectively relegated them.

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

5 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

If 3 games is a "long losing run" then we might as well pack in.

Streaky Nige.

On 30/09/2022 at 16:10, GrahamC said:

Were we stood together then?

Your memory is far better than mine if so, I thought I was with @77 punk but could have been both of you & @Merrick's Marvels too, of course.

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

1 hour ago, AshtonGreat said:

To think we had Jackie and Andy Cole, and Rovers still finished above us!

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).

2 hours ago, forbespm said:

Never really understood the adulation for jacki.

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 .....

On 29/09/2022 at 13:07, BCFCGav said:

I've always really liked watching Haaland play and would watch Dortmund periodically for that reason, so I'm over the moon he's in the Prem now (albeit I'd have preferred him at a slightly more historic club). I've known for a while his goalscoring exploits are pretty special, but reading this really puts into perspective what he's doing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62825097

I wonder if we're seeing the formative years of a player who in 15 years time we'll be calling the greatest goalscorer ever. With his pace, power, finishing and game intelligence already this good at 22, maybe even the greatest player ever...

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

1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

He was a teacher at Whitefield when I was there, he taught Economics and PE, teachers like him were one of the many recent I disliked school so much.

We had two PE teachers, Alan Evans, who was a great bloke who showed that it didn't matter how good you were at sport, but if you took part and gave it your best shot, it could be fun and have a very positive impact on your life, Alred was only interested in the very best players and gave no time to those who weren't in the 'elite'.

He also prevented a mate of mine, who was a very talented footballer having contact with Manchester City, back then you needed parents and school's permission to take part in any trials and as my mate had no interest in rugby and refused to take part in after school training n it, he denied him the permission. Horrible ***.

That said, he's probably the kind of horrible git who is good at what he does .

Were you at Whitefield  school with any of the Knibbs?

1 hour ago, Sheltons Army said:

* Interesting insight into Nathan Jones and his managerial credentials , and who it would appear had a lot of good to say about City as a Club , when Naismith told him he was not staying at Luton and was sleeping on offers from a few Clubs

Well, fancy that. @GrahamC, any thoughts?

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

Since the end of last season (30th June) / beginning of this (1st July onwards):

1. Morison gone
2. Edwards gone (what did I say about the grass isn't always greener, least of all at Watford)
3. Corberan resigned /
4. Schofield sacked
5. Neil resigned
6. Bowyer sacked
7. Warne resigned
8. O’Neil sacked /
9. Holden (Caretaker) left

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

14 hours ago, phantom said:

I'm sure this will be of interest to some on here, this links to a signed copy 

Published on 14th October 2022 – AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

I Get Knocked Down is the revealing autobiography of one of the most respected men in English football.

After he was released by Sunderland as a boy, Danny Wilson began his career playing non-league football for his hometown club Wigan Athletic, before working his way through the divisions to the Premier League, winning major honours along the way.

A popular character wherever he went, Danny’s journey is littered with hilarious stories of some of the game’s biggest names, including Brian Clough, Ron Atkinson, Viv Anderson, Chris Woods, Jimmy Case, Mick Harford, and Steve Foster. After a successful playing career with Bury, Chesterfield, Nottingham Forest, Scunthorpe, Brighton, Luton, and Sheffield Wednesday, Danny joined Barnsley as player- coach before eventually managing the club, taking them to the Premier League for the first time in their history.

During a twenty-five-year managerial career, Danny’s teams have won trophies, promotions, and celebrated last-gasp relegation escapes. Danny managed over a thousand games for Barnsley, Sheffield Wednesday, Bristol City, MK Dons, Hartlepool United, Swindon Town, Sheffield United, and Chesterfield.

Danny speaks candidly about his time in management, including: working with Paolo Di Canio; being attacked in the media by four MPs; managing MK Dons during their inaugural season; helping to turn a young Harry Maguire from a midfielder to a defender; and his controversial decision to manage both Sheffield clubs – Wednesday and United.

I Get Knocked Down is a truly fascinating insight into the life of a true football man

https://www.morganlawrence.co.uk/product/i-get-knocked-down-danny-wilson/

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

4 hours ago, Northern Red said:

Interesting stuff, and yes, a lot of similarities with us.

Reading the replies to the tweet also shows similarities in that some of their fans really don't get it - "why not gamble and go for it?" etc

41 minutes ago, Son of Fred said:

Thick as mince.....

Would you say football, or football clubs, is/are good at communicating reality though? Up until very recently?

2 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Dame Hilary Mantel author. 70.

Wolf Hall is probably her best known work, although I have read 3 of her books and they are all excellent.

 

Very sad news. Fair play to you for ploughing through three of her tomes, I am a mere philistine in this I am afraid and only know her via the visual arts and the fine BBC dramatisation of Wolf Hall with Mark Rylance, which I found absolutely captivating and have watched a few times, and consequently often think about buying the trilogy (then get put off by the sheer number of pages. And all the hours on Otib trying to read this would deny me).

I might go and see it at the theatre, mind, that's a bit more Cotterill than watching it on the telly, isn't it?

Apparently, today, 19th September, is: "International Talk Like A Pirate Day." No, really. It's a thing.

What do pirates talk like, OTIB? 

1 hour ago, yardy said:

 

Never been to a game abroad before so any help to make the experience more enjoyable/easier would be great, thanks in advance.

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

 

You’ll enjoy the visit, it’s a very decent day out.

My advice @yardy would be not to try and do it in a day, maybe stay overnight or better still, make a weekend of it. 

8 minutes ago, Chairman Mao said:

Pearson was sacked after his son was implicated in a racist sex orgy while on a pre season tour in Thailand. Pearson cited 'differences of opinion' at the time. Given the fact he had kept the club up this was clearly a serious rift.

As far as I am aware the then owners of Leicester, despite trying to sell the club, are the current owners. 

I appreciate 7 years is a long time but the rift appears sizable making a return to the club very unlikely imo.

Bit harsh, mate. Who of us can say we haven't been to one of them sexist race orgies from time to time?