WessexPest

8 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

Ah, Music Time with the delectable Helen Spiers also remember Words and pictures with the late Henry Woolfe . I didn't watch it at school, far too old, I was on long term nights !

Mate, seven year old me had the serious horn for Louise Taylor-Hall from “Watch” - she vanished without a trace after she quit the show.

I would take in Open University while waiting for Godzilla cartoon on a Saturday morning too; talk about opaque subject matter. I revisited recently via YouTube. I consider myself reasonably intelligent but “Physics: Beyond Experience” sailed so far over my head I thought my name was BELSHAW.

Back to the latest Gash PR disaster - my cousin captains the England visually impaired cricket team and also plays for Somerset. She was highly amused / bemused by their clanger and is glad not to be “normal” (how boring must that be, she said…)

2 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

The Boy From Space was terrifying.

 

Oh boy, takes me back. Poorly on the settee with a bottle of Lucozade watching Look and Read, Words and Pictures, Watch, ZigZag, Maths File, Music Time, Search Out Science, Geography File, then a break for lunch with Mr. Benn, Cockleshell Bay (had to change channel for that one), then early afternoon you had a few more progs before Beat the Teacher, Grange Hill et Al came on.

I learned more watching those when I had chicken pox and mumps than I did at school.

On 06/05/2024 at 05:58, Bazooka Joe said:

That’s bad and embarrassing.

As a minority group themselves you’d expect them to know better.

 

Tell me that isn’t real. Surely, even they cannot be that tone deaf.

3/5/2014 - the controversial day the Rent Boys ditched their traditional quarters and played in fifths the following season.

2 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

I strolled around Morrisons not really thinking that it was even a remote possibility that Rovers could **** it up so badly.

I checked BBC football in the car park for Citys score then thought I might as well look at L2. That was about 16:40.

The following 15 minutes seemed like 15 hours 

Absolutely hilarious!

 

Yes, I just KNEW they were going equalise and get out of it, just like they did in the Rammell season, whenever that was.

I couldn’t believe it that they had been relegated to the conference. And even though they made an immediate return and then the bastards got back to back promotions, it was really only the start of the fun.

The crowd trouble after the game. Being the shit losers they are trying to appeal relegation, bleating on about Wycombe screwing them over, losing to Altrincham and rioting at Braintree, FA Trophy humiliation at home to Bath - and all while we were having our best season in living memory.

Oh how I cherish that glorious day a decade ago. Was at my son’s morning football match and was going doolally on the touchline when the news filtered through from the Pisspoorial that they’d snatched relegation from the jaws of safety.

Another parent thought I was celebrating my son scoring a goal…

23 hours ago, myol'man said:

This thread will now quietly slip down the pages until the next farce emerges.

With 18 players to replace what's the chances of the blue few signing another over the hill ex City has-been?

Not yet it won’t, have you forgotten what Friday is?

I was so incensed by JL’s “fans think this is football manager” jibe that I dug my old Amstrad out of the loft and fined Steve Lynex and Ashley Grimes two weeks’ wages.

Yeah, that “Fans playing football manager” comment really stuck in my craw too.

Most of us recognise, and are realistic about, the financial constraints the club operate under, but we do have some resources and continually poor-mouthing the manager when he asks for transfer funds yet expecting us to challenge with a young side that is obviously lacking in key areas is unreasonable on JL’s part.

Perhaps we DO tend to default to critical whenever he opens his mouth, but it’s hard not to be when not only do you have cause to doubt a lot of the decisions he’s made but that he comes across as a supercilious prat into the bargain.

The usual claptrap from Junior, would be my précis. 
 

Obfuscation, answers with so many caveats they become meaningless and contradictions. How many times did he say “Getting your messaging out there”?

The man inspires zero confidence or trust.

A fitting end to the season for the Scum.

Taylor in!

Just read the story on the BBC website. What a grubby, classless outfit the Blueturds are and have been since at least Sam Hammam.

Their lawyer sounds like he was rejected from Trump’s legal team for being too shady.

“We’d still be in the Premier League if it wasn’t for that crash!”

I hope Nantes absolutely skewer those horrible f*ckers in the courts.

11 minutes ago, Gillies Downs Leeds said:

 

I remember Bristol Rovers fans going to their final game of 2014 dressed as a team who had secured EFL survival. And the Mansfield Fans in the away end dressed as Teds.

2 hours ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

Gateshead disqualified from the National League playoffs due to not meeting criteria - Solihull given a bye rather than Aldershot taking their place

The EFL has spent the entire week bleating about the Prem doing them dirty re cup replays but Gateshead get the royal shaft. What an utter shower of hypocrites.

FORMER BRISTOL CITY PLAYER PROMOTION NEWS:-

Marlon Pack, League One Champion with Portsmouth

Aden Flint, League Two promotion with Mansfield Town

Chris Martin, League O-oh, never mind, my mistake, sorry.

How fitting that today is National Librarian Day…

Was almost ashamed to celebrate Wells’ spot-kick, we were that awful. The sick thing about it is you could pretty much predict that non-performance after Wednesday night because that’s how we bloody well roll.

Also - Louis Carey made how many appearances for this club? On RobinsTV today he referred to us as “Bristol” on multiple occasions.

“Nearly full houses every week”

17 minutes ago, Alan Dicks said:

Big shout out to Plymouth, proper club with great fans.

Hope we’re playing them twice next season.

Excellent away following given the vast distances involved, absolutely.

Home Park was ghostly from the home areas on Easter Monday, though. We outsang them easily all afternoon.

Appears so. Eerily reminiscent of our inexplicable capitulation in 2003 (and 2008, come to think of it).

Huddersfield will give us a game, I reckon, but the team feels like it’s getting a bit of momentum. 

2-0 City.

“Why am I wearing these, I’m in goal against Bristol Rovers Saturday!”

5 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

Spotted on FB

Goodnight, T-Orville and Dean, sorry Irene.

What a sad little man. The Gash get on nodding terms with the onion bag - and then he wakes up with sticky sheets.