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They don't make 'em like that, anymore .... (the polyester, mid 1980s shirts, not the Ginger Glaswegians)

Did you see us v Man Utd in 74/5?

Ok, try again: lots of posters insist that we have "always" been a selling club, whereas this is not quite the case. 99% of the time we might've been, but not always. Yes, the game has moved on but that is separate to whether we have "always" been a selling club. I'm not trying to suggest we hang on to our brightest young players in 2022, only that the idea that we have "always" been a selling club is not entirely true.

You read this on here, over and over. Merrick and Ritchie, Arsenal, Alan Dicks 1976 anyone?

Hörður Magnússon's Ross County.

All you need to do on your forum is ask: "But where will the goals come from?" and lo, the goals will come.

You try telling the young people OTIB all that today, er, this evening, sir, and they won't believe you (is it really true? )

How many "assists" for Galley, though Graham (don't pretend you don't know)?

Mark Little. Allegedly.

Norman wasn't hard, he was dirty.

Gary Stanley

That wasn't Adam, though. It was his brother. Cotts "homework" lacked a little vigour with that transfer

Aiden MccaCaffery, Mark Hughes - from back in the days when our recruitment was: "who're Rovers looking to shift?"

The "threat of violence" was not as prevalent as that through the 80s, not at AG, because we spent all but one of the ten seasons dawdling in the two lowest divisions, where the visitors to AG were often York, Darlington, Southend, Bury, Walsall, Lincoln, Gillingham etc who "travelled light" and didn't do much in the way of that sort of thing, whereas in the top two divisions things are more lively and frequent in that department. Visits from Millwall, Pompey, Villa, Sheffield Weds and Utd, West Ham being notable exceptions. Most of the 80s was York, Southend, Bury and Gillingham, in front of 5,700 people, waiting for us to get our act together, which took until the end of the decade. Some of the away games were pretty bad, though, certainly.

£2.75p to get in.

Foul! magazine - the first football fan-zine - didn't like it, they thought football was going to the dogs, on and off the pitch. They weren't far wrong.

"Likely to be true" this one, @bcfcredandwhite, mate

"Lately you've been actin' mighty strange, To me it seems your attitude has changed .... " Bobby Brown, good song

Mary Whitehouse, she didn't. The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, the Right Reverend Robert Runcie, he didn't enjoy it. Cliff Richard, another one. Two of 'Pans People' said they did not enjoy it. Percy Thrower, he didn't enjoy it. The 'Blue Peter' BBC team didn't like it, and recorded a short film to tell the children of this country that this was no way to behave, and Little Billy Bremner is sorry and would not ever do it again. Every rugger bugger in the country at that time scoffed at it. And Jimmy Hill, he didn't enjoy it. Oh, and one of 'Smash & Grab,' can't remember which one, he didn't enjoy it.

Outside the ground, it might be Derby or Swansea, or someone playing in white with black shorts.

This comment ^ ^ from Merrick is likely from the "likely to be bollocks" side of the Internet @bcfcredandwhite, mate, trust me, I would know (my comment is from the "likely to be true" bit). Anyway, @bcfcredandwhite, you carry on, fella. A very entertaining thread on a pretty dull forum currently.

Bristolians are descended from simple, steady, West country folk who worked the land, laying hedges and milking the cows twice a day, who then upped-sticks and moved to Bedminster to find more regler work. And watch the City. That's who we are! When Steve's trying to make some critical football decision, his DNA gets in the way, telling him he needs to bring the cows in this af'r'nun. If he hadn't hooked up with that no-nonsense northerner he'd be nothing. It's why we never took to going to away games - because we had to get the cows in, sun up and sun down. Alright for yer northerners in their mills and factories and their union negotiated Saturdays off. Can't do it with cows and udders full to bursting. Our genetics tells us: don't go and watch the City away, there's (other) things need doing first. Just as Brian Wilson wasn't made for them times in the 60s, so are we not made for this game of industrial Britain, and fancy-Dan London with all its crooked money.

The crowds are down because the catering around the concourse is not what it was three years ago?

Yeah, Steve. And take yer stand with you.

Micro: Nige Macro: Steve Aggro: us.