GrahamC

The logic of this appears to be we’ve beaten the best sides in League One recently, when did you last beat the best sides in the Championship? You don’t have to be a genius to see the flaw do you, ask Sheffield Wednesday 96 points in that league or Plymouth (101) about the step up, it’s effing brutal. I do know about Ipswich but they are a massive outlier, most seasons 2 go back down to League One or are in real danger of doing so. It would be like us comparing ourselves to Crystal Palace, deluded.

Only big win was very very early under Pearson in the pandemic era, 3-0 & Semenyo scored by charging down the keeper. No one was actually there to see it, sadly. People go on about Preston but Birmingham are our real bogey team, won at AG loads & we don’t win up there much either. On Robins TV they said we have won 4 of our last 25 against them.

Agree. Problem is the 4 replacements to get us up are Ramsdale, Trippier, McGinn & Heung-Min Son.

One of the poorer sides we have faced. Terrible pitch & awful home support, shame it was the third game in a short spell I’d have fancied our chances in a regular Tuesday, Saturday run. On that evidence their season is going to be all about survival. Where’s Tom Brady now, eh? USA! USA! Rubbish.

McCrorie on Robins TV said he was signed to play as a right back & that’s his best position. Said he “could” play centre back, but clearly sees himself as a defender & predominantly a RB.

Far be it from me to agree with him, but no one wins every week.

Poor game, we never got going but another point on the board. Our record there is pretty awful & couldn’t really understand the “4 on the trot coming up” nonsense. Dragged us down to their level.

Sorry, thought you meant away.

Didn’t follow him to Fleetwood, Darren Way joined LJ as assistant. Bloke needs to work but having played for us, been a coach for several years & lived this way for a long time I reckon it will seem odd at first.

Yep, huge Burnley fan- was definitely at AG last season. The other one he claims Blair suggested was a Rangers Celtic game played in Belfast with each team wearing the other ones kit. Mental (he says he told Blair that, too).

Nope. Lost 2-1 in 1990, we didn’t play there again until 1993, when we won 1-0. Hadn’t won there 2-0 since until last season.

There’s a lot of this in the comments section about Jamie Mac joining them. Possibly fuelled by the idiot who reports on them claiming “something special” is happening. Drawing at home to Cheltenham, then well beaten at Blackpool, that really is special. Seem not to have noticed either that we are currently just outside the playoff places so at the very worst we are going to be a Championship club again in 24/25. Strange definition therefore of becoming Bristol’s premier club. Stupid lot, aren’t they?

Think tonight effectively counts as the Saturday programme brought forward a day because of how Xmas & New Year’s Day fall.

Pretty sure Alistair Campbell has told this story before, think it was a part of trying to get the Good Friday Agreement through. In Campbell’s version he tells him very quickly that it is a ridiculous idea, but who knows if that is true? Brown & John Major are clearly the only PMs since Harold Wilson who were also real football fans, Brown wrote a brilliant article on Raith Rovers (he’s a shareholder, was a programme seller as a kid) recently & although much more of a cricket fan, Major is a Chelsea supporter of longstanding who doesn’t feel the need to keep mentioning it.

Suppose it depends on whether it was your team (like in the case of Gary Mabbutt) who had a fractured eye socket as a result of a deliberate Fashanu elbow or a broken leg as a result of a Vinnie Jones “tackle”. Ended at least two players careers with their version of football, Gary Stevens of Spurs (an actual footballer) was one. They were thugs & played a style of football that resulted in 4000 people watching home games in the Prem. Vile side, Francis then followed their template at Twerton.

You’re right, in my mind they beat us in BS3 but maybe it was a late equaliser for them? Explains how we knew Man U were up next.

Remember it well, I was only 12 (!) then & went with my old man. Definitely saw Oxford, Pompey & Rovers away with him that season, too. Think I possibly might have done Luton as well. Just great times watching a wonderful team.

Club has just confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) that Banks is no longer involved with the company.

It was 30 years ago now, I’m over it.

Also remember seeing Michael Grade in the pub (not sure now if it was the Wedlock’s or the Nova Scotia?) before the Charlton FA Cup tie the year we knocked Liverpool out (so in ‘94) they beat us at AG & I’m pretty sure then drew Man U away. Good chance we were there together?

Based in Bermuda…

Bloke is total scum of the highest order. As Carole Cadwalladr proved, dodgy as **** as well; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61782578

I was there too, remember it well, one of very few games to go ahead that day & my brother got a bit of a smacking afterwards. He was about 14 then, we have often reminisced that he’s a big lad now (decent rugby player in his day), virtually no chance they would have tried it on a few years later..

Cheers, must admit I was surprised when Coops moved him on to Yeovil (non league then) because I felt he still had plenty to offer. In my mind he left after the promotion season (Trevor Morgan at Chester, etc, etc) but as you rightly point out, in an era before transfer windows, players moved on at virtually any time. He’s probably my all time favourite player, no one (not even the bloke this thread started about) has ever made more of the talent they had, he simply never gave up. Love him.

Hardly call Scott Murray a sicknote either, Noggers. Think McCrorie has just been unlucky with one injury but fast losing patience with Naismith.