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13 minutes ago, burhou said:

Yes.Stood on the side stand for that one.Also remember one of the home games.Was in the open end with the Utd fans when they were attacking the police.Another home game which I think Utd fans were banned from the mate who got the tickets for some reason got duplicates.We were trying to sell them outside the ground when all four of us were bundled into a Black Maria and taken to a local police station.I was put in a cell with a very drunk almost comatose Utd fan who every few minutes was pissing on the floor.The had taken my boots of and I was gradually getting backed up in the corner of the cell.The police eventually took pity on me and gave me a dry cell.Fun times in the 70’s.

People write books about this sort of thing, you know

6 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Thing is though, this was 46 years ago now & we took a single calculated gamble that we would get promoted to the top flight, which worked.

Had we stayed down, we had a chance the season before to go up & blew it at Easter, then we would have sold them both that summer.

I’m not sure a single example from a time that is now a very long time ago when football was entirely different financially really tells us too much.

No, nor do I. But it does tell us we haven’t "always" been a selling club.

8 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

Came up on Facebook 

had to list this one 

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

4 hours ago, burhou said:

Used to support City and Man Utd  back in the 70's (now City and Taunton Town) and worked on the railway so used to get virtually free travel. Would get the train to Manchester and catch the football specials even if the were playing in the Midlands. Went to Stoke and got off the train and for some reason the police wouldn't let us out of the station. All of a sudden there was a terrific roar and a train full of Liverpool fans on their way to Birmingham pulled in to station and for probably only 2 or 3 minutes which seemed longer there was absolute mayhem with everything to hand thrown at the train and from it.When it pulled away most of the windows on one side of train were smashed. Also remember Pompey away in the cup in the 70's.Chased out of the ground, punched and kicked on the way back to the station and then pelted with stones queuing up to get in.Although I love coming up to City with my daughter I will never forget standing on the Stretford End with 50,000 in Old Trafford.

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?

5 minutes ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

Wtf are HMRC

Hörður Magnússon's  Ross County.

11 hours ago, Derby_Ram said:

Better team won on the day fair and square and a match slightly better than your normal end of season fare even if the whole game and atmosphere felt decidedly flat. 

To cover a conversation in the build up to the match from a different thread, the options you have in attack this season are significantly stronger than we've got and I think that was borne out yesterday.

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

41 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

1963 FA CUP away to Sunderland, top of Division 2 with us in mid Div 3.

Left Parson At late Friday evening, picked up through Bristol. Freezing cold weather and no heating on train, just loads of condensation.

Locomotive broke down at 2am behind a behind the goal stand at Birmingham City. About an hour an a half to get anothr loco.

Arrived in Sunderland around 10.30 Saturday morning. A real dump of a place. Game in doubt because pitch frozen solid but it went ahead. Peter Hooper scored our goal in a 6-1 walloping.

Train journey home as bad as the one going there. Back home about 4 am.

Don't anyone ever tell me I don't support my team.

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

3 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Very few City players have got 20 league goals in a season at Tier 2 level. 

3 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Abraham & Maynard are the only 2 since John Galley!

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

Mark Little. Allegedly.

9 minutes ago, Leaning To One Side said:

Norman Hunter

Norman wasn't hard, he was dirty. 

Gary Stanley

7 hours ago, AshtonRobin21 said:

Adam El-Abd 

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?"

1 hour ago, SecretSam said:

The Walshy shuffle...Biff creaming them in from 30 yards...memories.

Massive racism, awful facilities, appalling pitches, ever-present threat of violence...not-so-great-memories.

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. 

1 hour ago, SecretSam said:

The Walshy shuffle...Biff creaming them in from 30 yards...memories.

Massive racism, awful facilities, appalling pitches, ever-present threat of violence...not-so-great-memories.

£2.75p to get in.

41 minutes ago, harrys said:

Yeh, but you forgot Kendo Nagasaki, apart from all these losers everyone else loved it

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.

1 hour ago, harrys said:

Oh dear, there are some odd posters on here.

 

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

12 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Two can play at that game!

"Lately you've been actin' mighty strange,

To me it seems your attitude has changed .... "

Bobby Brown, good song

44 minutes ago, harrys said:

Exactly, tell me of anyone that didn’t enjoy the Norman Hunter/Francis Lee or Keegan/Bremner bust ups?

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. 

23 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

What do you think? Outside the ground it feels like Bristol City, inside the ground nah feels odd. The atmosphere, the shapes, the structures, the brightness of the lights, not an enjoyable place to be in the main imo

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

29 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

 

Like I've already said,  you'd be well off learning how to distinguish between the "likely to be true" and "likely to be bollocks" stuff you find on the internet (funny how you didn't respond to that).

If you don't, modern life's going to get a bit much for you. 

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.

1 hour ago, Bouncearoundtheground said:

It’s related to poor football decisions but also economical, geographical and political in my opinion. The passiveness has only increased with the new stadium and the modernisation. Football in Bristol is a nice day out. In the north rarely do they care for award winning concourses and posh pasties but that their football team performs well. That attitude has just never been as prevalent in the affluent south and it reflects in its football teams. Bristol is the finest example.

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