GrahamC

Good for them. As there are 22 league games a season I believe, surely there is sufficient space in the calendar for them to play 11 games at Ashton Gate?

Yep & guess who booked a holiday for that week (Scotland) recently? Nailed on we will start at home with the following weekend being the balloon fiesta, (not the 28th) so if crowds are back (which seems highly likely) I’ll miss it!

Good start so far, lost at home to Wigan (can’t recall the last time they beat anyone else), win over Shrewsbury & defeat at Burton who unlike them are pulling away from danger since appointing Hasselbaink. Think there are probably 6 clubs for 4 spots & the blue few are definitely one of them. Perhaps they appointed Barton because he has previous experience of going down?

Part of this is either naivety or honesty on our part, depending on your point of view. Preston blatantly go looking for penalties as part of their game plan, of the 3 they have had awarded against us up there in the last 2 seasons both Sinclair & Johnson dived without contact to win them, we just don’t do that. We also don’t harangue referees the way say, Ayew does..

Standard for the “family club” Andy Spring, David Pipe. The bloke he has brought in today as a coach (Mangan) has also served a five month ban for betting on matches he played in, pretty sure no one has ever done that with the blue few before, eh? Barton still has his court case outstanding from the time he “pushed” (according to the BBC) the former Barnsley manager, Stendel. Must have been some “push”, seeing as Barton legged it from the ground immediately after the game & a Barnsley player said their manager was bleeding from a head wound..

Anglo Scottish qualifier, the one where Chris Garland got down on his hands & knees & headed the sixth goal over the line from a foot..

It appears to be a bloke wearing a papier-mâché dog head. Fairly standard for the gas..

Me too, my first one at their place, which was nearer to home than Ashton Gate..

I used to work with Mrs Lines, she is a very nice person. Anyone who knows me well enough to know just how much I despise that club will understand that is about as generous as I can be about them, Christmas spirit or not.

Absolutely. The club has had to survive with pretty much no income since March, these prices are not unreasonable & in light of a maximum 2,000 capacity make a lot of sense. ST holders like me are still being refunded every game, which must be costing the club a fortune.

Ha ha! My old man, 80 in February & a City fan all his life, has lived in Kingswood since the 80s.. He did grow up in BS3, though ?

Personally I am more than happy that large parts of Kingswood/Patchway are classified as outside of the city. As for Filton Avenue, that is the far North, all a bit too Gloucestershire/Gas for my liking.. No surprise it is in tier 3 then, (unhygienic lot).

This seems to have completely passed me by, but just noticed they were in the first round of the FA Youth Cup in midweek (the competition that we won at Nottingham Forest in), the result was; Bristol Rovers 2 Camberley Town 3. ******* tinpot.

Pretty sure he was subsequently interviewed by The Bountyhunter @Merrick's Marvels @Moments of Pleasure and after a spell in non league football he then worked as a travel agent, I think? Definitely never played league football for anyone else, though may have had a loan spell somewhere (Crewe?) whilst still with us?

Spot on. Evil day all round, ref was as biased as I have ever seen, Nottinghamshire police in the miners strike era were total bastards and we were cheated. As others have said we had a massive away following, in those days Notts County were top flight & we were in Division 4, bit of a reversal of fortune these days.

OP, never apologise. A great day, made all the sweeter by us being the clear underdogs. Everyone remembers Martyn Hirst’s goal but Tom Ritchie’s was absolutely brilliant.

100%. That was after years of being kicked off the pitch by them, enduring “will you ever beat the gas” & putting up with their third world facilities. **** them, they tried to steal Ashton Gate from us in ‘82, & they were the only sporting organisation in the area that wouldn’t support the city having a venue if we got the World Cup. Not only do I never want them to play us again, I hope they fold. Parasites.

Injury time penalty, still he has got as many points in 1 game as Tisdale has in 3, & he’s just played a top ten side, Roverzz got theirs off of the bottom side’s U23 team..

No penalty, no points. They are shit.

Good point!

Last time we played them they kicked Scott Murray out of the game in the first leg of the JPT, he didn’t play again for us that season. I can live without ever playing them again, myself.

Totally. But without Kalas, Baker & Mawson, Holden doesn’t trust a Vyner/Moore 2 man central defensive pairing, which in the case of the latter, is probably just as well. The other problem is so far this season, for all the moaning by some on here, Wells is the only one of the 4 who looks like a consistent scorer, so he has to start & not out wide, either..

There is none, none at all.

Was always going to be the case we would be in Tier 3, our infection rate might be dropping but is still horrendous. By the way, 696 people died of Coronavirus yesterday in Britain, this whole “save Xmas” stuff is nauseating.

Tonight’s result is about as bad as it gets. Wigan have no owner, no manager, have lost every player from last season (their top scorer Joe Garner walked out on them today to join a club in India) & are basically putting out their Under 23 side plus 3 players they have on loan. They are bottom & haven’t won since October 3rd, so Radio Bristol describe it as a “much improved performance”, FFS..