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Not sure if this has been on here, but it's funny anyway. An up and down season described by a fan who sees only black and white. Be great if he followed a lower League team. WARNING : Bad language alert for you sensitive types.

Oh, it was worth it and we knocked you down from £10,000,000 , so there's that.

Geert Meijer ( Geerty from Amsterdam ) , that Birmingham 2-1 win and a goal on debut. I thought we had a Superstar on our hands. Hard to believe he only played 15 games for us. In those days we didn't get any info from the Club, and I didn't realise what a mess the finances were in. I assumed we would be in (the old) Div 1 for years. Specilaly as the year before relegation we finished around 13th, I honestly thought the next year we had a chance of Europe. For context for the younger ones , 6 teams qualified for Europe then, 7 if one on the top 6 won the FA Cup. So we were about 8 points off our last but one year there.

Thanks for your concern over how I spend my time. It was clearly a jokey post, plus it's not me going back to a post from October to get annoyed. I would add I've probably posted much worse.

My Football hating Wife has informed me that her sister has got us tickets ? Needless to say she is really looking forward to it. ? Looking forward to seeing the Gate full TBH.

Are you inferring that our Mayor, who was I flown to Malaysia , put up at a Hotel all inclusive, by the Company that own the Hanger where the Arena will be, may not be totally independent ???? I'm shocked. BTW what happened to the land by Temple Meades that cost us about £15m ?

Chocolate Girl - Deacon Blue

Insult to Clowns

As a City comparrison I'd say Carl Shutt . But he has some growing and learning to do, but great promise. Saw that this morning, must admit I was a little worried. They had a bench full of first teamers to change it up, we had 6th Formers. Couldn't have been much better, other than to win it in normal time. Most annoying thing was not being able to watch, sounded like OTC made an impression.

Max had it covered

If our lot actually decided to like Nige , that could work here. We've got super Nigel Pearson, He knows exactly what we need, Vyner at the back, Nahki in attack, He's gonna take us to the Premier League. Doesn't matter if you believe it or not, we've been singing "we're by far the greatest team" for years and no one believes that.

He proved my doubts wrong a long time ago. I think he is a confidence player and no surprise to me that given a run in the same position and with the same teams mates he has shone. Still has a mistake in him as does everyone of them, but I think he can become even better as experience helps his confidence. Just a brilliantly disguised back pass

Really pleased for the lad, so important to get that first goal and have some positive influence on a game. Over the years we've had a few with massive promise that have stalled after a few games, and I had started to worry about Bell. Because we weren't in a position just to give him starts, it was really difficult to make an impact. Obviously that is mainly for us, the support as Nige would see him every day, but he could easily disappear. Of course , as his old man knows the score, that could help. I've seen a bit of him for the U23s, he definitely has an eye for goal, but has had little opportunity to show it so far in the first team. Getting games is important, but many of the minutes he has had would have been out of his natural position. There would have been question marks over his strength and pace stepping up to first team striker, and that's why I loved the goal last night. Watched it a few times and his movement to step across the CB not only showed pace, but awareness to take the CB out of the equation , then a decent finish. But it's not only that, he managed an assist for Sykes with a nicely weighted pass . Maybe not the most difficult pass, but easy to overhit in the moment. Add he nearly got on the end of Semenyo's cross shot and , from the Radio, sounded like he was involved in a few decent moments I hope he can kick on the way that Conway has. Conway really stood out for me in the U23s, he lead the line with great movement, touch/technique and calm finishes. Bell is very different , a lot more of his game goes unnoticed, but he gets in good positions and scores. I hope he really shines , he seems to fit the style of forward we play with now. Pace, movement and hard work. Keep on keeping on Sam

having to "watch" on the Radio is crap. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_bristol

I guess it comes down to how strict they are and what they are strict about. Stoppages in play , throw ins or like Goalkicks ,where the keeper wanders from side to side, decide he doesn't want to go short and waves the defenders away and bang a minute or two have gone. Injuries are supposed to be stopped for anyway aren't they, though Refs seem very free and easy with the time keeping. They have to do something.

As I said, in my lifetime. Looking at the years you mention, they did have higher gates 58, 57, 55, 54, 53, 49 , so much closer. Here you go.... https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/englandcontent.htm

If they stop the clock properly, they surely have to go down the 60 minutes ball in play route . That would equate to slightly more football actually played, without the game leaking into Sunday Mornings.

I would have left to catch the night Bus home by then

Not even enough to buy himself a new watch ? Great effort TBF.

This is from a website I know nothing about, but covers all teams and has no bias, no reason not to believe their figures. Though why last year isn't included I don't know. I've taken a random-ish start point . So in my lifetime, they have averaged higher attendances than us 5 times ... 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965 and 1983 For context 1960 we were relegated and '61 they were in a higher division. 62 they were relegated. In 1983 we were division4. They finished 7th & 5th the 2 years we spent in the basement (it may not be their basement as they call the National League League 5 now they've been there) but only bettered our Average one of those years by under 1,500. As an aside in my 62 years I think they have been in a higher division than us in 4 years. I hope this helps Ashton Hero

Exactly

This is the best way to sum it up IMO. This guy has edited Rashford out of the Pic, now you can see that he has to be interfering with play. Offside is a joke now.

Both decent shouts IMO.

Perhaps he was one of those streakers we used to get occasionally ?