Kingswood Robin

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Couldn't agree more. First time I've been to the ground for a while and I really enjoyed the music. Was all a bit boring and the same every week.

More importantly, can anyone see an image of Brian May in the lotus position on the pitch?

Brainless.

That's the bit that concerns me still a little. When Big Ben strikes on 1st January we seem to fall apart and are capable of going 9/10 games and barely picking up a point. If we can reach the dizzy heights of 4 wins across the first 2 months of the year I'll feel a bit more comfortable !

I'm not sure who would audit us either, but I think there is a case for some kind of non-executive director to say "stop, what are you doing?". I also think the accountability point is a good one, the best run organisations live by it.

That certainly caught my eye. Look at the weekly wage from 2017 to 2021 and think of the quality of football on show in that period, unbelievable is the right word. The cost per shot on target chart must look horrific.

True enough, but I'd like to hear what the plan is to get out of this mess. I think most of us, regardless of wealth would look at this and say "this has to stop, we need to do something different". I know some of this is due to factors beyond anyones control, but he must be fuming about this. Be honest with supporters and say what's changing and why. A bit of honesty goes a long way.

I know some people think there's a magic money tree (wish I could find one) and that we should spend, spend, spend. The biggest complaint I've seen for many years now is not that we aren't spending, it's that we're not spending wisely. As long as there's room for improvement, I think it's a fair point.

Looks like something that emerged from "the Grotto"

Nothing wrong with looking for value for money. Maybe people at the club got a bit distracted and stopped doing it.

Thanks for this, I've never seen it before and happy birthday. I can just about remember the south stand, but don't remember ever seeing Eastville as full as that. Almost respectable!

Always remember that Bath game. My dad won £1000 on the City Society draw at halftime. Everyone had a four digit number and it was limited to 2000 members I think. Each week they'd call out the numbers one at a time. You were lucky to be still in the draw after one number and usually knocked out by the second. It got pretty interesting after getting three matching numbers. I'll never forget my dads face when they called out the fourth number and he'd won. He'd just been made redundant too. We picked up the big cheque on the pitch at halftime in the replay. He's passed on now, but football can create these sorts of memories that stay with you forever.

Sorry, my mistake.

1987 is about right. We played in the "Today League" as you can just make out on the boards by the touchline.

I was sat in the back row of D Block, right in the middle. Is number 11 Jordan? Who was it against? It seemed like everybody play in yellow against us back then! Mansfield?

Defensively I think we're taking this social distancing a bit too far.

My French exchange partner at the time gave me the French version of this by a band called "Toss". That's certainly what happened to it.

Why bother with defenders if that's the best they can do?

Time will tell which one of us is right, but I'm pretty sure it's me !

They get relegated to the third tier, get promoted again, give us a wave as the go sailing past us on their way back to the PL ! Agree on a Southampton level, or what Coventry maintained for many years.

"Limited" is quite appropriate for a good part of that family tree at the moment.

That may be the case. As he is so remote these days, I would like to hear his thoughts, his reactions to unscripted questions and get a feel for his general tone/demeanour.

It is good to see this. I can well understand given how in your face Bristol Sport is, that people think Bristol Sport is where the Pula bubble is. Also the name Bristol Sport does imply more than just basketball ownership.

I started watching in 1983, so I think the answer is Tom Ritchie (Ritchie, John Shaw and Terry Cooper were the oldies back then). That got me thinking about any player I saw play against us that might have had an earlier debut for City and came up with Ray Cashley. There may have been other ex city players we played against in the early 80s that debuted for City before Ray Cashley, not sure. The absolute earliest league debut for someone that also played for City I imagine is Terry Cooper in the early 60s. I think Tommy Hutchinson played against us in the 80s and he must go back fair time.