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22 hours ago, Keep Right On said:

Brum fan here. Just wanted to say fair play for the applause in the 35th minute for Mark Gaines, the B'ham fan who passed away following a stroke at our last home game. Much appreciated by us all. Well done Bristol City.

And fair play to you for your vocal support. It went a bit quiet in the last half hour though - you must have been on tenterhooks (putting it politely).

On 5/7/2017 at 14:37, Dorset_Cider said:

Immaterial ........ you do not have to go to matches to support a club.

I agree but that completely misses my point, with respect.

I'm just objecting to people who assess our performances (and sometimes attempt to analyse them) based purely on radio commentaries or second hand opinions from other posters.

I have a lot of time for expat fans and others who use OTIB to follow the team, but not when they occasionally try to lecture me about games I've seen and they patently haven't.

28 minutes ago, RumRed said:

Sounded rubbish, if they can't lift themselves for the biggest crowd in 30 years at home in the last game of the season.

"Sounded"? So are you another constant critic who doesn't actually go to matches?

It wasn't great but it was close. They nicked one of their chances and we didn't.

I've arrived at Luckwell Rd. Where's all the traffic?

Well personally I feel quite sorry for Blackburn (i.e. The fans) and would prefer to see the rather arrogant "we were European champions, you know " Forest lot go down.

1 hour ago, cynic said:

He's an armchair critic mate - like a few more on here.

Not only that, but he's lived abroad for years, hasn't watched a game in the flesh for years and provides his analysis courtesy of listening to radio commentaries.

I have great respect for expats who use OTIB to follow their club, but not when they presume to explain what is going on to those of us who are actually in the ground!

Just now, Rossi the Robin said:

Definitely tactical flaws at the moment, no width 

How many times have I said that...

It's not tactical, it's nerves and individual poor performances all round.

And it's Taunton 2 Yate Primrose Perils 0.

Stayed local today, where it's currently Taunton 1 Somebody Else 0.

It's about time the players, not just the manager, took the blame for the very poor display. It wasn't about tactics it was about atrocious control, inaccurate short passes etc. Some of our most reliable players were dreadful today.

And the crowd sang "you don't know what you're doing" as he made the substitutions that won the game, taking off the underperformers. Ironic.

30 minutes ago, southvillekiddy said:

Havanatopia my dear chap, Festive Greetings to you. Splendid potted history/cultural profile/demographic lash-up etc.etc. Personally I hate it when I'm the OP and some pedantic ninny misses the main thrust of my post and goes off down the windmills of their mind being a clever dick but that's just what I'm going to do when someone else has exposed their flank and offer you 2 brotherly words at this Yuletide Festival of Football - Hamilton Academical.

SK

COYR

Isn't it Inverness Caledonian Thistle? 26 letters to HA's 18?

14 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

He wasn't. He wasn't even a baldy either.

His followers were called Redshirts. Sound like a good bunch of lads. 

Exactly. He was a popular hero who helped unify Italy. One of the most widely admired characters in European history.

And Forest's kit was designed based on his followers' red shirts. He was very popular amongst the English working class. 

And Warnock losing at home to Wigan. Bliss.

2 minutes ago, Fiale said:

This game could go either way.... come on Tomlin / Tammy - 

They obviously heard ......

What on earth is happening to Huddersfield at Fulham? 5-0 down now.

1 hour ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Some people are never satisfied!

Yeah. I love my new seat in the Lansdown stand, but not my grumbling octogenarian neighbour. Can I get the club to exchange him for someone else?

12 minutes ago, Cotham Brow Red said:

Plays the game does Colin. From gushing love and affection to bitter and hatred in a heartbeat. He's more Donald Trump than Donald trump is.

I like the Trump comparison. Very apt.

19 minutes ago, Robert the bruce said:

Are you a professional gynecologist??..

No he's a lexicographer

50 minutes ago, Chairman Mao said:

Only had three hours sleep but heading back to the cradle of civilisation on the train to cheer on the boys. COYRs!

You're on a train from China to Iraq? You may miss the match.

50 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

Didn`t the Swedish Vikings sail right into Russia, along the rivers?

I think at one point, the Russians invited a Viking to rule them.

Yes indeed, it's another Wessex v Danelaw fixture today.

Our Swedish fans presumably joined us as they're anti Dane.

8 hours ago, havanatopia said:

Good day everyone,

For those who recall the murmurings of Welshness that I briefly explored around the old settlement of Loidis, previously considered the capital of Elmet or, in Welsh, Elfed , might be pleased I have decided to re-visit this, shall we say, odd curiosity of our history. For everyone else, my apologies for the waffle that is about to begin.

According to a genetic study published in Nature (19 Mar 2015) the local population of West Yorkshire is genetically distinct from the rest of the population of Yorkshire, and indeed the rest of England, suggesting that families in West Yorkshire who have been in the area for many generations are descendants of the original Elmetsæte or Forest of Elmet as history has oft referred to.

But before we all go ooooh look the people from Leeds are all taffies we need to go back to 410 AD to understand really what happened. Only then can we eat a subtantial amount of home made pie and go... ooooh look, we are all taffies.. what a shocking revelation. Allow me to explain, not to pontificate as that would be very Roman and, in 410 AD they were no more in these Islands. So they left, leaving Britain as a self governing bunch of rag bag kingdoms of which the lands loosely agglomerated as 'Welsh' was by far the largest. Take a look at this map:-

Pretty unequivocal. One of the reasons the Romans scarpered was because of the barbaric Angles and Saxons who later became the English whom, descending from lands they had conquered in Northumberland and southern Scotland, attacked the Welsh at the Battle of Chester in 616. King Ethelfrith being the Anglian victor over the Welsh speaking Selyf ap Cynan or King of Powys. The Britons were therefore defeated by the Anglo Saxon descendants from Germanic, Danish and Dutch lands. Interesting to remind ourselves that the hitherto kingdoms that today make up Scotland and Wales were British and yet, especially in the case of the Scots, they tend to shout the loudest about not being Brits. Is that the proverbial irony? 

The Battle of Chester cut the final link that the Welsh kingdom had with the north or 'Old Lands' that extended into Southern Scotland and otherwise called Hen Ogled. In the southern part of these lands that included Rheged, Strathclyde, Elmet and Gododdin Brythonic or Briton was spoken as well as Old Welsh. The lands of Hen Ogled, Wales and Cornwall were the dominant lands that made up the Kingdom of Britain. Northern Scotland was for the Picts and only the western fringes of Scotland were Gaelic in origin. To the curious eye that explains why the Southern Scots tend to be a lot more vociferous about independence; its an Irish conspiracy I tell you with the British wanting to get their own back on the English.. what an inglorious bunch of barstards we are.

Which brings me to Massimo Cellino and nothing to do with his 44th manager in 24 years although as an aside; Gary Monk's ancestors came to these shores after the Norman conquests and the Battle of Hastings of 1066. He is a relative newcomer. Cellino, on the other hand, goes back a lot further than that. Beyond even the Angles and the Saxons. A Roman conqueror no less. However, I shall refrain from exploring that here, just now, and wait for another day until I dig more earth into the subject and ensure my current smattering of knowledge is converted into relative facts. For now we simply know the modern day football club owner as "direttore mangiatore" or the gaffer eater. 

Three wins on the bounce for Leeds so can they make it 4? or have they met their Waterloo? Interestingly the Kingdom of Sardinia, from where Cellino hails, is an island that frequently went to war as a British ally against the Kingdom of Naples and Napoleonic Italy in the early 1800's. So perhaps we should consider his more modern ancestry more than his ancient and a be a little kinder on the day, assuming he fancies coming all the way from Sardinia or Leeds to Bristol to watch a game of football.

There were three 'Coalition Wars' where Sardinia sided with the UK and we won 2 of them.. so I am going for superstition and a City win tonight by 2 goals to 1 and somehow there will be an Italian connection to one of our goals. I am still trying to figure that out.

Are we going to see our highest crowd of the season? it is important we keep above the 20k average. Enjoy the match today or rather this evening and roar us on up the table and send Cellino, Monk and co back to whence they came with their tails between their legs.

UTC.

 

My take on this history lesson is that it's a bit weird to hark back to 500 AD (or CE).

its obviously more relevant to look at the 9th century after the Vikings invaded. That was when the North South divide started in England in my view. I think the difference in accents etc all dates back to the Wessex / Danelaw split.

So I regard all these games as Wessex v Danelaw. Dragging the Welsh into it! I hope you're feeling a bit sheepish.

Come on Brighton, come on Wolves.

22 hours ago, Malago said:

Since this thread has adopted an Americanism all by itself, I thought I get off my chest two other Americanisms I can't stand.

1.  Do the math:. It's not even do the maths, it's do the arithmetic 

2.  Back in the day: A lazy man's/women's "back in the days of yore", which is more lyrical.

Now can somebody please change the title to the Bristol Rovers Dustbin Thread.

And "snuck". Yuck.

Yet we ARE currently looking up at Barnsley! Fair play to them.