GrahamC

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.

Yep, one in the third & then one in the fourth at Darlington (I was there!) when he came back briefly & played for free under Terry Cooper.

Ask the Council Reg, turn up in a blue & white quartered shirt & they’ll let you build anything on it, don’t even need planning permission. South Bristol, where’s that? Seems a very good place to put a small development so no idea why it has been allowed to become an eyesore.

Tom left for Sunderland in our second division relegation season & returned when we were relegated to the fourth. John Shaw & Chris Garland are the two who played for us in all 4 divisions.

No, Tom had gone to Sunderland by the time we were a third tier club. Chris Garland did so, but not aware of anyone else. We only had 2 seasons in the bottom division so very few who played then would have done so in our 4 years at the top.

For completeness (& because I’m on holiday from work watching South Africa thrash India in the cricket), I just looked this up. Tom scored 37 league goals for us in the second tier & then after promotion 40 top flight goals, before coming back in ‘82 under TC & scoring 24 more in the fourth tier. 101 league goals for us, at his peak against teams like Liverpool, Man City, Everton & Aston Villa, just like his great friend Gerry Gow, a City legend.

Agree but also see JL’s increasing recent involvement as a sign we have moved away from the idea of selling to simply a change of guard in the politburo.

True but if you ever read a match day thread back (& I wouldn’t suggest doing so for a minute) it was ever thus. Tanner is rubbish, Williams needs to be moved on, Bell/Conway need a loan in League One, Cornick, etc, etc. Absolutely no perspective, no taking the opposition into account, no bigger picture. I read on here yesterday it would be “typical City” to lose tomorrow, just madness. Birmingham aren’t great but they aren’t Forest Green, either. Nor are we Leicester, whoever is in charge. We could have an off day, they could have a good one, it wouldn’t change much at all in the overall picture.

To be fair to Tom Ritchie, he had 4 seasons at the top level scoring around 40 there, so undoubtedly would have otherwise & is the best striker of my 50 years (missed Galley by a year).

I found it interesting that our last win at Watford was back in 2010 & he featured for the opposition.. Like Wells the sort of player who gives us credibility at this standard, often see supporters of other clubs on social media saying that Weimann always plays well against us, Wells always seems to score against us. Both been top professionals.

Possibly so & if you think of the likes of Scott Murray, Bob Taylor & Shaun Goater (all greats to me) a good percentage or in Goater’s case, all, of their games & goals were split between second & third tier. Obvious but scoring goals at the higher standard is much tougher to achieve, several of our highest scorers post Millennium (Peacock, all but 2 for Thorpe) have entirely scored theirs at the third tier.

51 in all competitions, 46 in the league, 3 FA Cup & 2 League Cup. For anyone who wonders how I know all this, it is on soccerbase.com

It would but also worth pointing out those 11 have all come in his last 45 games. A “Weimann” season would certainly help but his rate is much nearer to a goal every 4 games now.

Cheers, think Andi was a 10 a season bloke up until THAT year, so might have just about got there if he hadn’t had the injury ruined one under Holden. Sykes has definitely accelerated his scoring rate since playing further forward, none in his first 20 odd games for us, so I live in hope.

Total embarrassment. He should study the form of the current top six instead of these sort of wet dreams. What exactly the “something” that’s happening is, is definitely up for interpretation. It was a good win but they aren’t seriously in contention.

@ExiledAjax Spot on but your figures are in all competitions, for league goals Wells is on 31, so no way can I see him scoring 19 more for us. Sykes would need 5 or 6 more seasons at his current rate (not completely impossible) & as you say Conway will probably move on before he does, Bell is actually more likely because I think we are his ceiling, but he has only scored 7 of his goals in the league so still a very long way to go. The Diedhiou, Wayne Allison type is by far the most likely but as Andi has proved nowhere near as easy as some might think.

We won two in a row in August. There’s no point in revisiting what Pearson would or would not be doing now, he’s gone but this isn’t true.

Wayne Allison 48, Famara Diedhiou 46 & Nicky Maynard 45 the 3 nearest.