BS4 on Tour...

On 23/11/2023 at 20:56, 1960maaan said:

Went for out 4-1 hammering in the Cup, even had to wear blue shirts , 1982 ish. 

Hi mate, I remember us having to wear blue shirts away at Northampton in the Scott McGarvey days - but did we really wear blue against Orient? Can’t recall that?! 

Ninian Park - my last five visits there saw us win five times ... brill days out - but walking out after the games was an adventure, the police seemingly had no interest in protecting away fans from the inevitable onslaught ... Ninian Park, a proper away day ...

On 16/11/2023 at 21:36, SecretSam said:

I just don't see it. If he were at Stoke City, rather rhan Man City, would people be raving? I haven't seen anything to justify a call up.

What a clown! Proving, once again, you know nothing about football ...

On 06/11/2023 at 08:06, SecretSam said:

It's interesting that you dropped in "woke" unnecessarily there, says a lot about you. None of it good.

It’s interesting how the word ‘woke’ in a forum post triggered you right there ... perhaps that says a lot about you ... and is any of it good?!

On 02/11/2023 at 20:02, !james said:

I'd rather have a manager/head coach like him or Luke Williams anyday than Frank ******* Lampard. 

Why is that? ‘His’ record is totally uninspiring - so why are you so opposed to Lampard?

2 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Yep - go with the young progressive, inexperienced manager, the one who knows all the trendy modern ‘go ahead’ football terms like ‘introverted full backs’ and ‘false number 9’ - he or she will be the one to bring us success??!! Or we could just go with a proven, experienced, knowledgeable, gnarly, successful guy and say ‘bollox to the woke brigade nonsense’ - a proper football man who will get us to the place we want to go - Neil Warnock ...

@Philly The Kid - wow, an early “laugh” emoji response to the post - you obviously don’t want success either - like most of the ‘lets just consolidate in the championship and shut up’ brigade ...

Yep - go with the young progressive, inexperienced manager, the one who knows all the trendy modern ‘go ahead’ football terms like ‘introverted full backs’ and ‘false number 9’ - he or she will be the one to bring us success??!! Or we could just go with a proven, experienced, knowledgeable, gnarly, successful guy and say ‘bollox to the woke brigade nonsense’ - a proper football man who will get us to the place we want to go - Neil Warnock ...

35 minutes ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

I've DM'd him. I think he's fine and isn't on some weird fantasy- so many people have fragility but that does not mean they have mental health issues omo.  John Eustace was already appointed according to others.... we had 17 pages discussing it.

In the meantime- I'm ready for some serious chat  (nothing good on TV)

1)I think LJ was an ok Manager

2)Mark Ashton is a shrewd operator and is why Ipswich are getting to the Premiership

3)Steve Lansdown is the best owner in BCFC history.

Bring it on girls.

Wow, so having diagnosed someone’s mental health online (with your extensive experience) you then talk about Ipswich getting to a division that doesn’t exist - every proper football fan knows the name of the top tier in this country - but you don’t ...

10 minutes ago, Bris Red said:

Would never in a million years happen.

I haven’t given up! Neil could be 92 and I’d still call for his appointment ... - all joking aside, our club has always seemed strangely scared of actually ‘making it’ - since Steve Coppell we’ve appointed a string of managers that no-one has really heard of, or thought of as being managerial material - hence the predictable lack of progress - we’ve had a born winner staring us in the face on a few occasions but we’ve been scared to appoint him.

Warnock, no one in the game has more promotions on their CV than him - and he’s often mentioned us as a club he’d be interested in managing - and, having spent a couple of hours in his company in a pub in Cornwall, I can only say, what a guy, what a genuine bloke - he cannot believe how all the prats (there’s plenty on here) fall for his pantomime villain routine which is well-practiced and obviously designed to mislead the media and deflect any attention away from his players - wherever he has been. How people still fall for that is just amazing.

Still, you’re probably right, we’ve had the chance to appoint the guy, who holds the record for the most promotions ever, on several occasions - but, being Bristol City, we preferred to go with the likes of (in no particular order) Keith Millen, Lee Johnson, Dean Holden, Derek McInnes, Sean O’Driscoll, John Pemberton ... 

Cotts was the exception and he gave us an incredible season that I won’t ever forget - but that was still only in division 3 ... we’ve now binned the guy who laid the foundations for Leicester City’s epic Premier League Champions season - he signed Riyad Mahrez for £450k and he spent a whole Sunday afternoon at Jamie Vardy’s house persuading him to sign for Leicester instead of Blackburn - shades of Brian Clough - Nigel Pearson - a great manager - I’ll miss him ...

On 29/10/2023 at 15:42, kevinmabbuttshair said:

Then your complicit and the cycle continues.

I think you may have confused yourself - above is your reply to someone who said they won’t be going to the next match ... 

On 29/10/2023 at 15:38, kevinmabbuttshair said:

The only protest this owner will take any notice of is a boycott.Stay away. If you really feel that strongly then walk. If you keep going then you're supporting this decision. 

... then your reply to another poster, above, totally contradicts that - saying people should stay away ... otherwise they support the sacking of NP ...

Neil Warnock please - unrivalled record of getting teams promoted - he’d get us charging to the premier league very quickly, then we could pay him the bonus he deserves to retire in Cornwall and appoint a manager who could cope with the premier league ... 

2 hours ago, Super said:

Why are we playing friendly games at Wembley?

... because it’s the home of football, an iconic, historic arena - both England and opposition players dream of playing there so why deny them that honour? Thought you may post a miserable post though, aren’t you the archetypal armchair fan who posts relentlessly on match day threads but never attends games? Apologies if that is incorrect but your posting output during games is prolific ... 

7 minutes ago, transfer reader said:

BOS's response was to a post saying that it looks like Bournemouth may get relegated this season.

Ah, ok, I didn’t realise that. Therefore I apologise to @Bristol Oil Services - I got it wrong, sorry all

12 hours ago, pl00peh91 said:

I think he probably assumes they are going down this year 

Fair enough, you could be right, but I reckon @Bristol Oil Services wrongly assumed AFC Bournemouth is plying its trade in the Championship this season. I also reckon the Cherries will be fine though because Sheffield Utd, Hatters and Burnley may well all perform worse than Bournemouth this season - but I bet they are regretting getting rid of our old stalwart Gary O’Neill as gaffer though ... even if they will probably stay up simply because other sides aren’t as good as them ...

8 hours ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Also, chasing promotion there or meandering about midtable here.

How exactly are AFC Bournemouth ‘chasing promotion’??  Aren’t they in the premier league? Where do they go when ‘chasing promotion’ from the premier league?

This was on Talksport earlier today - Simon Jordan talking about that Freddie Sears ‘ghost goal’ against us - at least he admitted he’s basically grown up since his reaction to that incident when he demanded a replay.

I like Simon Jordan, he’s a fine pundit and making his recent personal health struggle public to try and alert and help others was admirable.

... but I did smile at his reaction to Jim White suggesting our Mr Lansdown is more wealthy than SJ in this vid:

25 minutes ago, KeepUpLino said:

Love Pearson but you can’t deny If a LJ side turned in a performance like this the bed sheets would have been out again.

Aside from the fact you look a bit silly now, why the obsession with Lee Johnson? He’s not even our previous manager!!! Anyone could say City fans would react badly to that performance if it had been under Lumsden, Jordan, Smith, Cooper, Osman, Tinnion etc - but so what? Why the obsession with LJ? We’ve just won an away game in, arguably, the fifth best division in the world ... cheer up ...

2 hours ago, Davefevs said:

@headhunter started a thread, based on the question….or are we happy to tread water in the Champ.

Yes, staying in the Championship is not what I aspire to…but that assumes we have some semblance of investment from whoever is in charge.  I want promotion, or at least a tilt at it, because it’s not easy to achieve.

If we are now expected to be sustainable / profit making, the answer is very different.

FBC? Apologies if I’ve missed something here - but in the places I’ve worked FBC is full blood count - as I said, sorry Dave but what does it mean here?!

On 30/09/2023 at 09:03, Northern Red said:

You know full well what was meant, don't pretend otherwise.

Nope - someone saying we ‘repeatedly’ have ‘early morning’ kick offs versus the welsh clubs suggests our games kick off between 8am and 10.30am - games that kick off after 12 noon cannot be ‘repeatedly’ described as ‘early morning’ kick offs - I don’t know why some try to exaggerate simple restrictions ...

On 27/08/2023 at 04:59, Sandhurst Red said:

It's staggering that their home fixture v Swansea is being allowed to kick-off at 7:45pm on a Saturday night and yet, we repeatably have our games with both of them moved to early mornings or a Sunday....

When have we had “early mornings” kick offs vs our two Welsh counterparts? Please accept my apologies if I’m incorrect but I can’t remember “repeatedly” kicking off in the “early morning” vs Bluebirds and Swans - I may be wrong ...

Legendary manager - record number of promotions on his CV that probably won’t be surpassed - incredible ability - eg, took over as Cardiff manager when they were in the relegation places in the championship - took them to a top ten finish that season then promoted them to the premier league the season after.

Anyone who doubts his ability in the championship clearly doesn’t know what it takes ... I’ve always said, he ain’t a premier league manager, but if you want to get there, employ him ... Lansdown’s apparently petty dislike of him may well have cost us serious progress - make no mistake, Neil Warnock is a born winner, and the most successful manager ever, in terms of promotions ... 

4 hours ago, pongo88 said:

Splitting the Lansdown (not the Williams) stand ...

I’m a bit too nostalgic where that’s concerned; rather like The Colston Hall, I still refer to that stand as its previous name, The Williams - perhaps because when I was queuing through the night for play off tickets in 1988, dear old Des Williams turned up with a pot of tea and walked down the line pouring cups to keep us going - an absolute gent and as important to our history as people like Beryl Fudge etc ...

5 hours ago, Sir Geoff said:

Failed to notice Liverpool's new stand then. Would suggest Luton's new stand is also a tad better.

That quote was from a few years ago ... but it still showed them up ...

23 hours ago, Davefevs said:

After 5 rounds ...

Mate, you know I think the world of you - but ‘after 5 rounds’ - are we in America? What next? ‘Game day 7’? ‘Match up number 11’? ‘The Robins at The Tigers’?! Help!

12 hours ago, Leveller said:

Let’s not forget that LJ was born in Newmarket and spent his childhood watching Gary who was assistant to John Beck at Cambridge United, during their phenomenal rise up the league.

So it’s highly likely that LJ’s views on marginal gains derived from his experience of Beck’s methods, either directly or via Gary.

LJ was 9 years old when John Beck was appointed manager of Cambridge and he was 11 years old when Beck was dismissed, so surely it’s highly unlikely that a lad at that tender age would be worried about ‘marginal gains’ etc?!