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1 minute ago, JBFC II said:

But it came as a part of the package. 

Personally I'd rather play in red than in the championship than have some crackpot owner come in, change our kit colour and get us promoted for a couple of seasons. Then again, maybe it would be more exciting than whatever was going on this afternoon!

Let's be honest, Steve is a nice chap but dull. And Bristol City are quite nice, and quite dull. We need livening up

12 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

Interesting to think, would people be happy with promotion if it meant wearing a blue kit and changing our badge colour and identity?

Not sure I would to be honest

That isn't why they were promoted though, I sense it is important to say here.

21 minutes ago, stortfordred said:

Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2004–2005	Ipswich Town	0	(0)
2005	Bishop's Stortford
2005	Long Melford
2005	Leiston
2005	Woodbridge Town
2005–2006	Selfoss
2006–2008	Leiston	63	(5)
2008	Woodbridge Town
2008	Wroxham
2008–2009	Melton St Audrey
2010	Ipswich Wanderers

Show us your medals, your cones and then transition the fuuk out of my club

Difficult place to go, Long Melford. Tbf. 

Now streaming on Robins TV: "Never The Twine," a behind-the-scenes football club sh*tcom starring Liam Manning as Donald Sinden and Brian Tinnion as Windsor Davies. 

Just now, Son of Fred said:

The bad new is he's doing the driving

....whilst browsing/posting

12 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Haha no mate. Just bored in an airport! 

Spotted many?

Win or lose, on the boos. I will boo

"I've been to Tannadice but I've ..... never been to Me (m)"

59 minutes ago, ashton_fan said:

I have to say when he played for us looked very ordinary, I don't think anyone was too upset when we let him go. Hindsight's a wonderful thing!

Of course. That's why football clubs employ, and pay handsomely, professionals for their foresight. Get the best in the business at your club making these decisions and good times will follow 

This is what generates "atmosphere," this sort of football  (with something immediately at stake, helps too). The tedious "possession" shite can get tae **** give us chaos like this, fer fs

Look, everyone, forget all the above, just answer this: Nige was 59, slightly jaded, seriously ill, on crutches, disliked by 'is boss, he had K C Palmer (45) on 25,000 a week, Danny Simpson at rb, Kinger as stopper, and and he only worked half a day a week; what is the boy Manning's problem?

There's this great big enormous thing across that big wet, wavy blue/grey thing called the sea, it's called Europe. They play football there, all over the bleedin place, like us. And beyond that, there's this thing called The Rest of the World, where they also play football. And people there coach the football. 

We could try one of them, one day. 

2 hours ago, Kingswood Robin said:

I feel much the same, can barely be bothered to contribute any more. Unless fundamental change happens at the club (cosy amateurs moved out and professionals moved in) all this talk seems a bit like re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. 

2 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Exactly that.

I wouldn't say exactly I would say "a bit like" in that, whilst the "deckchairs" are forever being re-arranged, we're not as things stand about to plummet into the icy depths of L1 albeit neither are we going to make it to New York any time. Instead, whilst the deckchairs are moved hither and tither, we have dropped anchor and are going nowhere, and soon will watch as the "Good Ship" Wrexham and "HMS" Portsmouth - currently not in sight to the rear (although, what's that: is it HMS Pompey? It could well be) - both sail past us - anchored; marooned - and get to New York.

I suppose we should be grateful - it’s a lovely, revamped "ship" - and forever careful what we wish for - we could, like, go too fast and hit the "iceberg" of a ffp points reduction or a dodgy foreign owner - but it gets a bit dull just .... stuck here, in the middle of the ocean .... when we could be in New York where the streets are paved with parachute payments ....

Etc, etc, and so on ....

44 minutes ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

I suppose you may wish to see it as apathy. You clearly are on a points mission from your original post. With my views I'm easy game for a few 'likes' etc 

I said some time ago on numerous posts/threads that after Jet left- I'd no longer get 'attached' to a footballer at BCFC. The same goes for managers- after Cotts.

It seems you have a problem if someone doesnt get posessed with incadescent rage if e lose or euphoria if we in. Maybe you don't go to matches or aren't a Bristolian?

Im Southmead born,  Knowle bread and have lived in Bristol pretty much all of my life. I've supported BCFC post Dicks so never witnessed top flight. I started back in Div 4 Terry Cooper when Marina Dolman took me to my first ever game at BS3 so at least half of my support is lower league. I don't have great expectations of Premiership football although I believed it for one season under Gary and one under Lee. Since then anyone expecting promotion with what we have is dreaming.

I'm relatively ok about where we are as a club and really hope and dream of better but not as a matter of entitlement.

If I order a burger and expect a fillet then I'm the delusional one not the person serving me.

Knowle bread? I'll have some of what you're having .....

1 hour ago, cidered abroad said:

ST holder. Do I go to the match, leaving home just after breakfast? Watching a dull game that will probably end in humiliating defeat?

Or stay here, start the evenings bolognese, and get on with plenty of other things like gardening, laying paving slabs in back garden, track-laying on my latest model railway?

What should I do? Advice please.

Get a slow cooker, sir. First thing in the morning, brown some chicken breasts, sweat some onions, add some other stuff like carrots, celery and so on, a slosh of red wine, a bit of stock, a bit that, transfer to said cooker, set on "low" and set off for the match. Return to tender coq au van, pour a large slosh in a glass of van der rouge and tune into otib, delicious. Mmmmm

10 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Yes. Top man.

After most defeats, but especially one as dispiriting as this, I retreat to a bottle of red and some tunes on the hi-fi. So I'll reply to your kind message tomorrow when I'm a little less "emotional", if that's ok!

Thanks again though. Up the City!

Time for another gong bath up Glos Road for you Merrick, by looks of it. The drugs don't work, just say no to that, and yes to another sound bath, next Saturday 12.30. Followed by some (buddhist) chanting - not ranting (on here).

Peace, and Loving Kindness. Up the City 

The "top end" thing and all the rhubarb spoken by the club after the sacking applied to Nige, it doesn't  (yet) apply to Liam Manning.

30 minutes ago, Fernando said:

 

Never a red that. Had a GK and defender covering. One of the worst reds I've seen given. 

Red was possibly harsh but a yellow never sufficient (he's not trying to get the ball and missing by a whisker). At yours, a yellow; down here, a red.

47 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

I remember turning up at Charlton without a ticket hoping to get one on the day. I remember I was skint and got a cheap bus up from Bristol earlier in the day and hoped I could get a ticket at face value as I didn’t have a penny more.

Waiting near the main entrance I recognised one of our directors, can’t remember his name but he wore quite big glasses. Anyway I asked him if he had any spare tickets and he produced one from his pocket and gave it to me for nothing.

 

I have no doubt Steve Lansdown would do the same today, although there would, of course, be a booking fee to pay ....

Just now, Merrick's Marvels said:

Tell them the story about Geoff Twentyman Snr!

I cannae remember it now! Can you still remember it?

11 hours ago, Norn Iron said:

Why were there 2 different shirts being worn that day?

Maybe Alan Dicks in his pre- match team talk said to the players individually,"V or round neck sir?"

In this picture of Gerry Gow celebrating the goal, is he saluting our large contingent of work dodging travelling supporters - in which case, we appear to have "taken" the Leeds home end - or is he accepting the warm applause of the sporting Yorkshire public?

27 minutes ago, Natchfever said:

Lively day

Bill Withers wrote a great song about it

1 hour ago, spudski said:

I'm guessing said tongue in cheek...for those who don't know...

It was a time of industrial action by miners, which affected coal supplies to the power stations and, along with other contributing factors, put electricity in short supply.

Government regulations, aimed at restricting its use, demanded that all but ‘essential’ industries switched to a three-day week, while homes were regularly hit by power cuts.

Hence the 2pm kick-off time for a midweek football fixture, which normally would have been played under floodlights, and what was termed an ‘emergency issue’ of the match programme. It was priced at 7 pence and contained just 12 pages.

The warm weather kit was v neck. The long sleeved cold weather kit was round necked. 

Different times back then, kits were often mismatched, old ones used, and often all slightly different. 

Even the England national kit of the 70s by admiral was all over the shop. There's a documentary by Admiral that's worth watching, discusses how ' back street' kit manufacturing was back then. 

Miners not working, you say spud? In the 1970s? You don't say. A three day week too much like hard work for them? Work-shy country. If we hadn't been so bloody good at exploiting other peoples and their resources before all this 'ealth n safety and human rights came in, we'd be ...... 

47,000 people at a match on a midweek afternoon (when work was Mon to Fri 9 - 5 more than it is today), no wonder there was rubbish piling up on the streets, corpses left unburied, inflation of 14%, rampant unions and the worst productivity in western Europe. 

Everyone of you that went to that game instead of going to work are responsible for THATCHERISM. 

Great photos, Curr, by the way ....

10 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Yeh I found this which says roughly 6% of PL direct free kicks go in https://sqaf.club/free-kick-goal-stats/. Not sure if it's only counting those that might reasonably go in. Guess it shows you that Ward-prowse is genuinely good at them if he's going at more than double that rate.

It's similar to corners - which people get excited about - but actually only result in a goal something like 3% of the time.

If our players are below average at these skills then it's no surprise we don't get many.

.... "people get excited about" ?  Ok, interesting. What instead might they save their "excitement" for?