18 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

2nd highest stadium attendance, just behind the Bears.

 

No doubt there will be some reason why it can't happen, but I hope we top that next week.

Who took the last one, Alan Walsh?

That was magic. Loved it today, best I've felt at the end of a game for a long time.

This team has some real fight in them. Keep on doing that and we won't go far wrong.  

1 hour ago, !james said:

Thank goodness 'humour' has moved on from the 1970s! Sounds atrocious. 

It will flop and then Cleese will go on GB news and blame it on the guardian-reading, tofu-eating, wokerati 

There were some bad ones, but there were plenty of gems from the past too. Lately it seems to be endless panel shows with the same old faces, or observational comedy that has lots of observations, but often forgets to be funny. I'm not seeing the quality of the writing anymore.

Human frailty in common life situations has often been at the heart of some the best comedy moments. Concerns about how much you can push that frailty these days, along with cost cutting on things like sitcoms means comedy for me has lost it's edge a bit. 

Laughing at other peoples expense can still be funny, as long as it's all done in the best possible taste !

How many more anagrams can be made out of Fawlty Towers?

If it's to work it has to maintain that cutting humour. I'm not sure John Cleese has the energy or voice for that any more, maybe another character can provide it and John will play more of a disapproving elderly relative.

Have many shows have successfully come back, Auf Wiedersehen Pet springs to mind. It must be nearly 50 years since Fawlty Towers finished. Will it be so different that they may as well call it something else? Then again if the writing is strong it could be good regardless.

My only memory of Wigan is getting stuck in a traffic jam there after being diverted off the M6. 

While stationary I saw a yoof kicking a dog. Nothing else to report. 

wouldn't fancy getting up on the roof now

10 minutes ago, BCFC Rich said:

Hate to break it to you, but you don't get any of the minutes of your life back. 

What !

1 minute ago, Antman said:

like that Chelsea tie back in the day...:)

oh yes

Scuff up the pitch, Rugby lines everywhere and let it rain

1 minute ago, BigTone said:

The Memphis Belle ?

Was just thinking that !

A lot of our January signings have been more Shat-urday Night at the Movies though. Let's hope for different this time. 

On 13/07/2022 at 21:45, Davefevs said:

Well this one has piqued my interest.

No idea on the twitter account…looks to be consolidating other stories…apart from this one, which I haven’t seen anywhere else.

Would like it to be true.  Mobile, physical striker, who runs the channels.

Under contract by Luton (on their retained list), so I’m sure Luton would expect a fee.  At 27, a 3 Yr  deal might appeal, and I’m sure Naismith will sell the club to him.

Looking forward to seeing if this develops any further.

Lansdown will be choking on his cornflakes when he reads about that. 

In recent times Weimann, Brownhill, Reid and Joe Bryan stand out I think. 

Wasn't here for long but Wade Elliott worked hard as did his namesake Marvin at his peak.

Going back further Shelton, Owers and Scott were pretty industrious. 

Can you be issued with a brown card for being ............

He got caught dropping an e and got suspended.

2 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

5 penalties,better than winning the cup

5 Pens at the Swans

1 minute ago, 22A said:

Why do all radio commentators say things like "City are playing to left to right" when you can't see the pitch.

I'd prefer to hear "defending the Holt End" or "attacking the Gallowgate End". I'd be able to visualise the game then.

"For those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green"

I don't know the bloke. Can't say I'll miss him, can't say I even noticed him, but that may be a good sign.

Well paid, 18 months in the job and moves on. Feels like every CEO I've ever worked for.

Next!

I don't effing believe it.

Couldn't go to games in August and this is only the second home one I've missed since, the other Preston home.

44 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

FFS. Better head down the ground now then...

You've just described how I feel before every home game !

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

I’m going to expand this and say that - although I agree with Bob Taylor as a player - the biggest “departure” for me was Big Joe on his first stint. Firstly, if he hangs around, Taylor probably doesn’t go shortly after.

Secondly, and more importantly, since I’ve been watching city it’s the only time a manager we had has been poached by another club. And we were on the up. We had a fantastic promotion side, augmented by signings such as Aizlewood in the summer, and were punching at the top end of the championship. Joe had turned down Villa who were an established top flight side and went to Hearts - bloody Hearts! as he saw it his route to the Scotland job.

If Joe hadn’t been poached, we’d have gone on and IMO gone up eventually. I think he regretted it and we certainly did.

Players leaving can upset you. Jordan leaving is the only example I can think of where an individual leaving fundamentally affected the direction of the club. So it has to be that.

Or Marvin Harriott. But probably Joe.

Agreed. Jordan leaving was a disaster that set us back decades, I'm not sure we've recovered (on the pitch) even now !

Selling Keith Curle to the mighty Reading peed me off a bit.

The regret list of players bought is a lot longer than the regret list of players sold ! 

I often find myself looking towards the heavens when watching City, wondering what my dad would have made of things. Our last match together was in the double winning season at home to MK Dons. A howler of a back pass from Wade Elliott pegged us back to 2-2. Minutes later he put everything right by scoring the winner. Eleven points clear at the top of the table, we came out of the ground together as pleased as punch. We got to the end of Ashton Road and he started feeling unwell. In less than an hour he was gone. 32 years of watching City together, over in an instant. In his 50 odd years of watching them he never saw them win a title and he missed out on it all that season. Going to the game on my own and putting his scarf on his empty seat on the day we won the title was hard. At the final whistle I didn't know whether to cheer or cry. 

My son is old enough to come with me to games now and that's my biggest regret, that we didn't all get to go to a game together and he never saw my children grow up. I just hope I can be there with my son when we win promotion to the Premier league. I don't care how it goes while we're in there, I just want us to be there together the day we make it.

On 01/01/2023 at 16:02, Rudolf Hucker said:

Having been born in and lived the first 35 years of my life in St George, I completely agree. BS5 was red - the blue area was from the Kingswood end of the Kingsway through to Warmley and Cadbury Heath. 

Funny you should say that. As someone from BS15 since the mid 1970s I always thought the opposite, that the Rovers support was more towards the Bristol end of Kingswood. I grew up in the Warmley area and you had Rovers areas around on the old estates (Soundwell, Banjo Island, Mangotsfield etc) but since the late 70s early 80s many new houses went gone up in Kingswood, Warmley, Longwell Green, Emersons Green, Bridgeyate and so on and people parachuted in from all over the place and brought their allegiances with them. My family moved into one of those brand new estates in the 70s and it was split red and blue right down the middle. I found much the same at school, kids football, workplaces and pubs in the area.

I still live in BS15 and my road has about 25 houses. Four known Rovers households of which one lot attend matches, and seven City households of which four regularly got to games. That's the thing that's always stood out for me, those claiming to be City actually went to some of the games, while many of the Rovers lot hardly ever or indeed never went to watch them.    

What a good home win would do for us now. It would make two good away points seem fantastic.

Winning some games in front of your own fans is a must. Got to go all out to beat Birmingham.

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Dutch not female!

and a right pane in the arse so I've heard