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11 hours ago, BigTone said:

Stud ?  I'm available 

I think the need was for longer not shorter Tone

Rest easy Colin. A great figurehead of our club . Thank you for everything you did. RIP

17 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

I remember it was like the Wild West as we left the ground 

Certainly was Sticks, back and for for ages, me and mates were up shit creek when the bulk of our lot went up the embankment to board the waiting special back to Bristol , heads down and mingle

How very sad, probably the most iconic of all. His commentaries were sublime. Knocks spots off commentators these days. 
 RIP Mr Motson Sir

9 hours ago, Betty Swallocks said:

Will be the largest following we’ve had over there since we used to have the whole of the Grange End at Ninian. 

Oct 1989 , won 3-0. Loads of City there , Lashed down . Coins a plenty coming over back wall.  City broke out after match, carnage on Sloper road . 

2 minutes ago, Simple Red said:

Luton were the right club, twice! Stoke and Southampton are/were not. He will end up at another Luton and be successful. Warnock picked his clubs and was a hero to their fans. He was, after all, outspoken. I’m not trying to argue with you, but I think he will end up being a similar Manager/ character.

Luton were/are his level, Stoke and Southampton, a level far too far. Blows too much smoke up his own Hershey highway. Valley version of Hollowhead. Be pricing up chicken hutches around Rhondda soon

7 hours ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

The bright lights and fleshpots of Lydney.

World capital of crabs when I was growing up in late 80’s

1 minute ago, Sandhurst Red said:

I thought that Children were not allowed in there?

It looks mega from our upper Lansdown family tickets, devoid of almost any atmosphere whatsoever  

No idea tbh. Here is a photo of Cardiff away end 

Just now, Vespa Red said:

I just bought a safe standing ticket....

You on the train from Caldicot ??

8 minutes ago, Sandhurst Red said:

I was so much in a hurry to get 3 tickets, I didn't even see there was an option between seats and safe standing.

Assume it will be ok for my 8 year old son to see from?

It’s just seat with a rail  in front to lean on ,hold onto. We have the same in section 82 corner 

Got to be the most expensive tickets ever?  Wow . Cardiff away with train included will be cheaper than this for me and young un. Got a choice to make as cannot do both at this price 

will end up being a happy clappers paradise 

2 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

The back row or couple of back rows seem to get away with standing, although that varies.

They gave up on asking the guys up there, as rightly pointed out to stewards on many  occasions ,  S82 stood before rail seating, away fans stand, all in the same stadium. Standing in the back row/2 rows doesn’t obscure any views. I sit up there . When it’s a big game people stand on the walkway at back . 

1 hour ago, CyderInACan said:

So it's nothing to do with supporting the team, then. It's just a chance to be closer to the away fans and call them w*nkers. Mint. 

Is that what I said. Err no. Don’t try and patronise me. It’s all about creating an atmosphere by being closer to away fans and singing back and for , where does calling them ******* come into my comments, please enlighten me??? I just think it’s going to cause problems on Saturday.  

1 hour ago, Super said:

You simply can't stand in a seated area and block the views of people who have bought tickets already and want to sit.

Super, I know you cannot do that, they are not going to congregate in E34 to sit down and sing are they . I believe the aim is to replicate what happened on Sunday and that was stood for 90 minutes having banter with away fans . 

7 minutes ago, Super said:

Surely the people already there can't choose who else are in there? As long as they are sat down and don't block view of others what harm are they doing?

I don’t think the aim of the move is to sit down and not block the view of others, it’s going to be to replicate what happened against Swansea, stand and create an atmosphere whilst stood up, but on Saturday there will be SC holders sat in their seats who may well be totally against the idea. I think it’s a great idea but it will cause problems if not done properly via the club . 

E34 is the block where the club sells cheap tickets to encourage day trippers to become new fans. Birmingham will be lively on Saturday so now this is being put out there expect the club to be all over it on the day. Also there will be a number of regular SC holders back in their seats on Saturday in there so taking over it might not go down to well.

1 minute ago, Harry said:

It looked like those who were in the lower tier first half got moved for the 2nd half. Was that right? There were definitely a number of fans in the lower tier at the start and then none later - I assume the stewards had moved them due to the Swansea fans taking over the netted area 

Yes could be that but deffo fans from elsewhere in Dolman/ South stand made their way there, good to see.

26 minutes ago, LondonRobin said:

schooooooooool in the morning, made me laugh in their welsh accent. Fans were quiet first half in Dolman block by Swansea fans understandbly so given how shite we were and came out for the 2nd all buzzing and chanting away even before the goal, fair play to them 

There were a lot more in Dolman E34 second half , probably double those there in  1st half. It was good to see and raised the atmosphere another notch. 

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

There were more full-blooded 50:50s in this game than I’ve seen for ages.  Proper tackles, hard and fair.  Nice to see.

(lots of stupid tippy-tally fall over nothing tackles too)

I commented to my nephew after one late in game that it was good to see so many hard Sunday league tackles going in, fair but hard, like it should be

7 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Having done mine 25 years ago (right knee), things have moved on.  For me they took part of my patella tendon and replaced by ruptured ACL with that.  They also use hamstrings, and more recently other people’s tendons (transplants in effect).

Some of the issues come from the original rupture and how much damage done to meniscus.  I had two-thirds of mine taken out as it was damaged during the side hyper-extension I suffered.  So part of my knee became bone-on-bone, and that wear and tear caused issues, predominantly fluid.  It also meant I over compensated on my left knee and had two cartilage ops within 12 months of each other and am now about 10 years after being told I need a mini knee replacement on my left knee.  I was 41 at the time and John Webb said “do you reckon you could live with it for 20 years, or else we will have to do it twice”.  As I do little active stuff these days, I put it off, but the odd walk around a golf course brings fluid to both knees.

I hope Ayman has done just the ACL and he can come back, but he has a long road ahead of him.  Really feel for him.

Re Cheese, I believe he did his cartilage, but had actually broken his knee-cap too, and it wasn’t diagnosed.  Pounding the Dolman steps just made it worse.

Jeez Dave, just drifted off whilst reading that and lashed me pint over keks and sofa

21 hours ago, northsomersetred said:

Didn't someone get killed in Wales by a flare a few years ago?

Edit

Sad story

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-24931000

Remember watching the game live on Tv. As the studio guests were about to sum up game you could see the flare launched from one stand straight into the other. Distress flare so would have hit like a mini missile without the explosion . 

10 hours ago, Davefevs said:

That’s brings painful memories from school.

Wasn't the story that Bristol City Council ordered 1000 rolls, not realising it was 1000 pallets!!!  Hence why all Bristol Schools had it for years.  Probably an urban myth, but is quite funny.

Was Izal the tracing paper like big roll?? If so I have bad memories of that from my days in primary school in late 70’s

18 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

I’m not sure we do now, certainly didn’t at Cardiff last year or Swansea last time I was there.

I know we have many times in the distant past but hopefully not so much nowadays 

I went to Swansea last year and we went out at final whistle,the reason being was that it was absolutely chucking it down. Although it was still kickin off on dual carriageway 

Coming in from South Wales tonight across the top through Abbots Leigh. Is the cricket club open for  parking? 
 

3 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

Cardiff fans were pretty good until we scored and then our second completely shut them up and there literally wasn't a peep from them after that. 

 

We were in Dolman E34 and I thought they were awful, never heard a peep all game from them 

He gets stamped on by arriving player, but a massive over reaction. Wobble off pal. Time to give up footy and fade into the background and enjoy life