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51 minutes ago, 22A said:

For those unable to attend; http://www.fawanews.com/Bristol City vs Huddersfield.html

Thanks for that. Much appreciated. 

17 minutes ago, Ashtongreight said:

Anyone know anything about Backwell

It's the other side of the railway line from Nailsea

2 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

I may be wrong, but doesn’t Huddersfield also have the largest number of public toilets in the UK?

 

Yes, because it's a shithole 

2 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

pardon?

Half past 4

35 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

That's the most "uncondensed"** , condensed version ever 

 

 

** it's a real word , honest.

I try my best

Condensed Version

Huddersfield:

 

They are fighting for Championship survival.

This match is designated ‘Community Day’ to celebrate the work of the Robins Foundation: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/robins-foundation/

City supporters will be able to take part in an interactive penalty shootout game by PIING.

Fans attending can take part in the PIING Pen-Kick, the interactive penalty shootout game via their smartphones, without the need of an app. To join, you will need to scan the QR code that will be on the in-bowl screen. Once scanned, you will be taken to the PIING Pen-Kick webpage and should follow the instructions to set up and take part.

You could own a signed match-worn City shirt. The auction will go live at kick-off (3pm) Saturday, April 13th and end on Saturday, April 27th (3pm). The shirts will come with all the mud, sweat and any other elements that you would expect from a shirt sourced straight from the pitch. Each shirt is personally signed by the players. All proceeds raised from this shirt auction will go towards supporting the life-changing community work carried out by the club’s official charity – Bristol City Robins Foundation.

Placing a bid is easy. As soon as the first whistle is blown get involved in the auction and bag yourself a piece of Bristol City history.

We won 2-0 the last time they were at Ashton Gate, https://youtu.be/Gk1AapSZSnY

At their place, in atrocious conditions, back in December it finished 1-1 highlights: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/highlights/extended-highlights-huddersfield-town-1-1-bristol-city/

Their forum makes for  grim reading: https://downatthemac.proboards.com/thread/119751/bristol-city-htafc here’s an example: ‘Our only hope is that Bristol City are on the beach.

Problem is that Town are so accommodating that even if they are on beach, we'd be rubbing sun cream on their backs and bringing them pina coladas.  Then, in the evening, we'd happily let them ahead of us in the queue and give them have first dibs at the all inclusive buffet; leaving us with all the unlabelled shit which no-one wanted and looked like a dog had sicked up.’

In early June Neil Warnock agreed to stay on as manager for the season despite the fact that he will turn 75 halfway through the campaign. However, they appointed former Sheffield Wednesday boss Darren Moore as their new manager in September. The 49-year-old replaced Neil Warnock after the veteran departed. In late January they sacked DM after just three wins in 23 matches in all competitions.

In February they appointed former Schalke and FC Zurich boss Andre Breitenreiter as their new head coach. The 50-year-old German has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract.

How well do you know Colin? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61073905

They signed former Blackpool goalkeeper Chris Maxwell on a two-year deal.

In mid August they signed Mainz forward Delano Burgzorg on a season-long loan deal. The 24-year-old has had spells in his native Netherlands with Heracles Almelo and De Graafschap and a loan spell in Italy with Spezia.

In January they signed midfielder Alex Matos from Chelsea until the end of the season. The 19-year-old moved to Chelsea in the summer from Norwich City and has made two senior appearances. They also signed forward Bojan Radulovic from Finnish champions HJK Helsinki on a three-and-a-half-year deal, for an undisclosed fee. The 24-year-old scored 19 goals in 29 league and cup games last season, and scored a further six in their European outings between the domestic seasons.

They also signed Groningen defender Radinio Balker for an undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The 25-year-old played in the Dutch top flight last season.

On Tuesday they were away to PNE although they were leading it finished in a 4-1 defeat, thanks  to a late Milutin Osmajic hat-trick. They are 21st in the table on 43 points and are also 21st in the form table based on their last six results, while we are second based on the last six results! 

https://thefishy.co.uk/formtable.php?table=2

Head-to-head record

Won: 25

Lost: 28

Drawn:13

Match preview: https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/bristol-city/preview/preview-bristol-city-vs-huddersfield-prediction-team-news-lineups_541046.html

LM pre-match: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/liams-notes-huddersfield-town-h/

In January Ollie Turton was ruled out for "a number of months" after undergoing knee surgery. The 31-year-old had returned to training after suffering a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament against Wigan in February 2023.

Referee is Rebecca Welch, who was the first female ref to take charge of a Premier League game in December 2023. She became a football referee in 2010, but continued to work in her NHS post until 2019, before turning her attention to officiating on a full-time basis.

In 2021 she became the first woman to be appointed to referee an EFL match, when she took charge of the League Two fixture between Harrogate Town and Port Vale.

During her career, she has also officiated at games in the Women's Super League, and was referee at the 2017 and 2020 Women's FA Cup Finals. In December 2020 she was added to UEFA's elite women's list, joining other female football officials to referee at international games, including the Women's World Cup in 2023.

Among those who have played for both teams:

Marcus Stewart

Nahki Wells

Andy May

Phil Jevons

Andy King

Junior Bent

Kasey Palmer

Robbie Turner

Famous fans:

Sir Patrick Stewart - Stewart was born in nearby Mirfield and is one of the most notorious and famous Town fans around. Stewart has been the president of the Terriers’ academy since 2010 and when they were promoted to the Premier League in 2017, he was seen celebrating at Wembley Stadium after the win over Reading in the play-off final.

Jodie Whittaker - Best known for being the 13th incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Whittaker is another famous face from the world of television and acting to come from the outskirts of Huddersfield.

Ryan Sidebottom - Huddersfield has produced an England international cricketer in the form of Sidebottom. The left-arm bowler played for his national side between 2001 and 2010, playing in 22 test matches, with him also playing for his county Yorkshire.

Bobby Madley - Born in Wakefield, referee Madley was officiating local sides in the area at the start of his career before rising through the ranks.

Fun facts

Huddersfield has been a settlement for over 4,000 years and can be found in the 'Domesday Book' of 1086 under the name of “Oderesfelt and Odresfeld.”

Huddersfield is the birthplace of rugby league with the local team, Huddersfield Giants, playing in the Super League. It also has two Rugby Union clubs Huddersfield R.U.F.C. and Huddersfield YM RUFC. When it comes to the round ball Huddersfield Town were the first English team to win the league three times in a row.

Staff at KD Decoratives, famed for making Christmas decorations, were once commissioned to make Britain’s largest nodding dog which stood 11 feet tall.

According to Kirklees Council, there are over 3,000 listed buildings in Huddersfield, the third highest number in the country, and over 200 of them are in the town centre. The railway station is one of the more beautiful specimens dotted around, and there has been an inn on the site of the George hotel for hundreds of years.

Top punk band the Sex Pistols played their last two British shows at Ivanhoe’s nightclub in Huddersfield, on Christmas Day 1977. This included a matinee for the children of striking firefighters. They then embarked on the fateful tour of the US that led to the bands break-up. The facade of Ivanhoe's, the former Grand Picture Theatre, is still standing at the very end of Manchester Road behind Lidl.

3 hours ago, Mattredrobin said:

Hey everyone just thought I would check in with people how is everyone doing ? Helps that things are a little bit more positive with city at the moment eh ?.

And a bit of sunshine helps

2 hours ago, wendyredredrobin said:

Odds on a Sammy Szmodics hat-trick tonight?  I hope not as the chances of us scoring four are minuscule.

20 past 4

4 hours ago, ZumerZetSmithy said:

My Grandson arrived yesterday so hopefully another City Supporter  

What has he done to upset you at such an early age ?

 

Anyway, congrats Pops

18 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

Sad, but I must admit I thought (assumed) he had died years ago.

He was a great player for Tottenham, but I feel he let himself down a bit with his escapades at Newcastle.

 

18 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

Sad, but I must admit I thought (assumed) he had died years ago.

He was a great player for Tottenham, but I feel he let himself down a bit with his escapades at Newcastle.

Maybe his illness was starting to kick in at this time. Who knows ?

Always liked him TBH.

Great player. Sad loss.

19 hours ago, HengroveReds said:

Vitally important transfer window for the Manning / Tinnion era, but realistically who can we expect to leave / come in?

My Thoughts:

Outs: 

Matty James (pure fact at 32 will we offer him 2 year deal, which he could get at a lower champ / promotion chasing league 1                                       Bajic - Wants to play, fair enough let go     Andy King - City through and through but limited playing time, maybe coaching staff but seems to of gone quiet on that front since Pearson left. 
Mebude - No words other than Dire.          Harry Cornick - Try’s his best but not cut it unfortunately                                                 Ayman Benouros - LOAN (big injury needs a league 1 loan to prove his worth, huge talent though).                     Nakhi Wells - cash in if any takers, especially if Tinnion states 2 strikers coming in plus Conway and Palmer Houlden 

INCOMINGS - 

Twine if 2.5/3 mil max or new Number 10 

2 strikers 

Max Bird

Josh Stokes 

Joe Williams new contract 

anyone else?

Please please pretty please can we list Mehmeti as an "out" also.

On 05/04/2024 at 14:43, SecretSam said:

Always liked him as a player, although he was a bit Marmite for many. Glad he's doing well, always was a class act IMHO

Think he was under rated when with us TBH

10 hours ago, hollydog said:

 I’ve been to Rotherham six times and we never turn up. 

 

 

 

You'd expect the team bus to have a sat nav surely

On 03/04/2024 at 20:30, ATRUEREDBLUE said:

Congratulations to the guys at Forever Bristol City - what a great podcast with input from supporters who know the game and Bristol City in particular. As things have evolved this season and the FBC cast have been chewing over the issues I have become increasingly depressed. We all know that we are in a mid-table mediocre tumble dryer of a position - and it seems to me that the strategy of the club has very little chance of breaking this cycle and if anything this could be as good as it gets.  The thing that concerns me is that the FBC team appear to have become more accepting (in a slightly brow beaten kind of way) of the clubs position on this and it has been interesting to see Ian in particular who over a period of time seems to have moved closer to the clubs stance - perhaps this reflects his increasingly closer position to people who are close to the club if indeed that is the case - is Ian a poacher turned gamekeeper? I am sure Ian would say he is just being realistic. The reality is that we will need to be very lucky and have all the stars aligned in our favour to get promoted if we continue with the stated approach of relying on the academy to develop players who we can sell to help us balance the books leaving little left to buy the quality of players we need. This policy involves us not being able to consolidate and build team performances in an upward trajectory because our use of such players in their prime will only be for one or two seasons at best before we sell and we still can’t buy the players we really need-  the policy either requires us to hit the jackpot with these special players (if indeed we develop players of the quality of Scott or Semenyo which is less likely than likely) so that they are in the club for long enough to give the team a chance to move upwards (which again is less likely than likely) or the manager we have chosen needs to turn out to be something special and starts to show that he can make a silk purse out of a sows ear (a slightly unfair analogy but I wanted to make the point). Unless I am missing the point this strategy is very limited and risk averse. To get promoted this way looks unlikely unless we get a dose of good luck with the two issues referred to above. The reality is that the club must accept that it needs to take more risk to give us a better chance of going up. If a billionaire can’t take a risk then who can? We all know that we need two or possibly 3 quality players to move our squad from its current level to the next level and give us a better chance - this means an investment of circa 15 million but as Ian says, this ain’t gonna happen! If that’s the case, I think City fans need to adjust their ambitions and hope of going up and for the likes of Ian DP and myself we may not see premier league football in our lifetime. The problem I have with all of this is two fold (1) it seems to me that this strategy is less likely to achieve SL’s stated objective of selling the club - if we don’t go up how is the clubs value/potential going to change from what it appears to be now in the eyes of prospective investors (there have been no takers as things stand) - it is important to acknowledge that SL has done a great job in building the off pitch infrastructure but he still owns the value in this so in many respects and on the contrary his spending is not all lost - if he wants to sell out in the best way possible he needs to do more and review his approach to risk and I am not talking about excessive or catastrophic risk. 
(2) As an outsider (and I stand to be corrected) my view is that SL has been successful in financial services, made a lot of money and spent a proportion of that money in developing the infrastructure at Bristol City but he has underperformed as a wealthy owner on the pitch. My sense is that he has been a little naive and slightly parochial in his approach to the football performance side of the business. I felt from the beginning that Mark Ashtons midland sales patter was hollow and I think SL gave him trust too early. I don’t feel that SL has recruited premier league standard people to deliver for him on the football side and this in my view is continuing. SL has done great things for the club and this must be recognised but it would be a shame for his legacy not to go that extra step.

Conclusion - I  would like to see SL acknowledge this and take steps to bring in top tier football executives - he could do this (buy the best) give them responsibility for developing a new 3year football strategy with incentives to get results (they may or may not decide that LM is the man for the head coach job) and with responsibility to inform SL what he should realistically do to improve the squad to make City a promotion chasing club but working within sensible financial parameters (15 or so million not 50 million). SL could then say that he did everything he could to achieve what we all want. If it worked we would all be happy, the ownership succession plan would be more straightforward SL would get a return and his legacy would be protected in perpetuity. If it didn’t work at least SL could say he did everything. If he does not address his appetite for risk and continues with the current plan I sense that we will maintain our position or even go backwards and this would tarnish SLs legacy which would be unfair - he does deserve a statue.  So, let’s  stop trying to get to the top tier with 2nd tier people and a risk averse strategy - let’s start talking about taking a carefully planned risk to move forward - let’s show some guts and ambition and please FBC keep challenging the club and don’t give up!

 

Condensed Version

 If a billionaire can’t take a risk then who can?

1 hour ago, Hartleysbeard said:

Optimistic we can get three points from this one. Provided we start better than we did at Plymouth! 

And score more than Sunderland

15 hours ago, Robbored said:

Definitely not at the same time! One of his girlfriends ditched him and within a couple of days my girlfriend dumped me. 
Then I start seeing his previous girlfriend and he started seeing the one who ditched me! Things like that happened fairly regularly when you’re a teenager.

I'm impressed that you can remember back 75 years Val 

51 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I got Hoggy!

 

You can get cream for it in the Chemist

Maybe just me but I don't think anybody is deserving of an accolade TBH.

Well at least a wins a win

1 minute ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

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Best keep an i on him

1 minute ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLL NAHKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKI!

I'm guessing we scored 

Condensed Version

Plymuff:

Plymouth Gin is arguably some of the finest in the country

Not new music I know but after he died I bought (yet another) Steve Harley CD. This one is live at the Camden Palace and is brilliant.

37 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

So….moved house in Nov and with no outdoor cooking space the beast and the Kettle over wintered in the garage. 
 

This lady’s and gentlemen turned out to be a mistake.  A thick carpet of mold awaited me as I opened them.  This was the worst I’ve ever seen it, so bad not even burning it off worked first time round - so I’m having to season the smoker for a 2nd time today, and hopefully now they’re back outdoors this won’t happen again. 
 

I have plans for this year, and those plans are sausage.  I’ve got all the bits to make my own hot links now, they’ll go nicely with smoked brisket.  
 

Fish might be a struggle this year.  I used to go in the fantastic fishmongers in Kingswood, but that’s now an hours trip each way , and I don’t think there’s one near by.  While Sardines are still king of the grill (especially as a starter) that place also sold Swordfish steaks which are perfect for grilling. 

OMG, I love Swordfish.  I'm hungry now.