Kingswood Robin

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.

Quite agree, the ones facing inwards should be turned off. The older ones faced the pitch which perfectly adequate and acceptable. Looking directly over a moving advert while you're trying to view the pitch isn't acceptable. Quite agree, the ones facing inwards should be turned off. The older ones faced the pitch which perfectly adequate and acceptable. Looking directly over a moving advert while you're trying to view the pitch isn't acceptable.

They used to have FINDUS written in the seats, just to rub it in a bit.

The players have to look away as Nige makes a complete mess of the Argentine tango.

True, but he is the owner and we should keep working on it ! People at the club will shortly be working very hard to get more money out of us. A two way thing.

Indeed. I have 2 sons at home at the moment suffering from the effects of long COVID. They seem to be having relapses about once every 4 weeks. Let's hope everyone is 100% very soon.

Is this proxy often physically further away than the person they are representing? If the family really is thinking more about it's next adventure and their heart isn't in the football any more, they need to move on. It's making for terrible viewing. Not unlike watching the last few months of a striker that knows full well they won't be here next season. The way things have been allowed to drift is starting to make SL look a bit like Young (old) Mr Grace !

Quite. I can just see myself charging my 75 year old mum and 11 year old son £3.33 each per game!