BS4 on Tour...

16 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Seems to me the person being manipulated here is you if you are in denial of climate change. We need a few billion extra Greta’s and less deniers like you. 

*Gretas not Greta’s ... 

4 minutes ago, richwwtk said:

She travelled by train, not private jet.

Why are the people listening to her called 'disciples'?

How is the rubbish left behind after a 5 day festival featuring hundreds if not thousands of acts her responsibility?

Why are people so threatened by her?

You don’t think the thousands of people who chanted ‘climate justice’ at her after she finished speaking can be called ‘disciples’ - and you don’t think that the disciples who supported her then ignored her messages when they went home and decided to leave ‘environmental carnage’ behind are hypocrites?! No one is threatened by her - she’s a young, manipulated kid who should just go to school and stop being a puppet ...

11 hours ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

With respect, all credible evidence suggests your view is naive at best, if not bordering on wilfully stupid. Unless you're a ******, in which case I apologise for saying "wilfully".

From the evidence available to me (your postings on OTIB), I don't think you're a ******. So I'm not sure why you don't want to believe the evidence presented by characters as intelligent and independent as Thunberg, Attenborough and Gore that the planet is getting hotter and the endgame for our planet will be as they describe. They ain't doing it just for shits and giggles. And one look at the characters arguing otherwise should at least give pause for thought - Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Jeremy Clarkson, liars, bullshitters, gobshites. 

If you want to get into bed with Trump, fair enough. Everyone's entitled to their view. This doesn't make every view correct. Some are wrong - hello, you flat-earthers! Consequently, some people have views not worth listening. On this topic, I'd respectfully include your view as one of those.  

But enough, let's not de-rail this thread. We could always "take it outside" to the General Chat forum but what's the point?

Fair play - decent reply - but why are we still here then after 1976? And why are we still thriving after all the ‘heatwaves’ before and since 1976? Can’t believe you dragged Trump, Palin etc into my post - I just said we’ve got a bit of hot sun for a few days - so what?! It’s not the end of civilisation is it?! And, for me, your credibility dissolved when you called Thunberg ‘intelligent’ - she flew into the UK on a private jet to make a speech at the Glastonbury Festival to preach to her disciples on the environment and carbon footprint and how to save the planet and lapped up the adoration before ignoring people contacting her after the festival ended to point out the carnage her disciples left behind, including tonnes and tonnes of single use plastic etc ... utter hypocrite ...

9 hours ago, billywedlock said:

Good move for him, huge club, and a chance for a restart. Another out the door. Well done Gould. 

Yes, fair play to him - he’s moved onto a massive football club - a real step up for him - I hope he grabs the opportunity ...

7 hours ago, BS15_RED said:

Even more of their masses of fans to be locked out!

Hang on a minute - didn’t they proactively reduce their capacity to 9k last season so they could falsely claim sellouts when they had room for at least another 3k?! So what does this further capacity reduction mean?! They can claim their crappy tented village is at full capacity for every home game when just 6k blue few decide the weather is good enough to turn up??!

2 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Preamble: I said last season that I thought this year we’d mount a promotion challenge. So there is confirmation bias here.

There are two weeks to go to the new season. Day one I expect us to line up Bentley-Wilson-DaSilva-Klose-Atkinson-Naismith-Williams-James-Weimann-Wells-Martin

That’s at least a mid table side.

We have a (projected) £20m striker and midfielder to come in and an international centre back, together with HNM. Depth is also there that wasn’t at RB (Tanner), CF (Conway with the extra year), MF (Sykes).

So, again, I ask why we can’t do it? And I look at the competition…

Rotherham - lost players, fall into too good for L1/not good enough for champ

Birmingham - In crisis

Reading - Building a great side for 2014-15

Wigan - Untried

Sunderland - Will be typical Neil side - nasty, hard to beat, but mid table 

Blackpool - Appleton shows budget cuts - in trouble 

Luton - can argue decent signings but from relegated side. Overachieved, unlikely to do so again

Burnley - Massive transition, both players and style

Millwall - lost best player. Mid table at best

Hull - untried team, unused to division. Shit keeper.

Watford - who the hell knows

Boro - expect to be up there. Solid and decent manager

Sheff Utd - transition again. Poor manager, coming to end of cycle

Norwich - Yeah, they might be good

WBA - two strong signings at this level, experienced manager, Dike fit - should be good

Swansea - if in 2022 Joe Allen is your hope, you give up

Stoke - see Joe Allen and read Aden Flint

Cardiff - lots of quantity, questionable quality. Rookie manager to knit it together.

Huddersfield - see Luton. Lost manager, overachieved and unlikely to hit again

Coventry - should be solid and playoff contenders 

Blackburn - lost Lenihan, likely to lose Brereton - transition

Preston - a whole heap of nothing. Signings reflect that

QPR - meh

 

So, I reckon with two weeks out I’m seeing nothing to change my opinion. I’d ask this. If a side, at this level, had:

- A 20 goal championship striker last season

- A central midfielder who is worth £20m

- A beast of a CF who can win games by himself

- The L2 POTY - from bloody right back!

- The best performer from a top 6 side last year

- A proven international CB

- A CM who when he’s in the team increases points by 50%
 

- A gk proven at this level

 Then I’d want that.

So, why not?

Wow - a very detailed and analytical post SD - fair play to you. One quick point though - you dismissed Hull City as being ‘unused to this division’ - yet Hull City has been in the championship for four out of the last five seasons and eleven out of the last seventeen seasons ... wouldn’t that track record make them very ‘used to this division’ ?!

12 hours ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Yep, the hype is all a bit pathetic but typical of the times we live in - we're going to have a few hot days, including one very hot one. It's called summer.

June/July '76 we had 15 consecutive days with temperatures in excess of 32.2C (90F) peaking at 36C (96.8F) which is the hottest forecast for Bristol in the current hot spell.

As I recall the pubs and beaches were packed and everybody was happy. It was very a enjoyable and memorable time - a proper English summer.

... and that heat in ‘76 coincided with our boys getting promoted to the “premier” league - it was a superb summer and nothing to worry about! And if, in the very unlikely event, Greta Thunberg is reading this thread - that was nearly 50 years ago - and the planet is still here - the weather and climate goes in cycles - 1976 was very hot for a few weeks, it happened again in 1995, it happened again in 2018 and now we are gonna have a few hot days this week - so what?! 

7 hours ago, big dosser said:

i got a job to sit in the garden let alone play football in this heat. Would not expect to much today from any side playing

The heat today wasn’t too bad at all - don’t soak up all the mainstream media tripe on the sun! After the two and a half years we’ve had, get out there and enjoy our little bit of summer! We were locked up and drained of all positivity - so now we can enjoy a proper summer, for just a few days, get out there and do it!!!

On 04/07/2022 at 22:14, maxjak said:

Big fan of CHRISTIAN E..................So what a shame he has chosen the team i despise most in the Premier League, however i wish him well as an individual.  I guess it's all about long term financial security, but sorry he did not stay at the club that had the faith in him to introduce him back into football? 

Why do you despise Man Utd more than any other premier league club?

7 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Do you think Bristol City 2022 would beat them? They surely would

I think they would - possibly due to most of those ‘names’ being in their ‘80s or deceased ...  

10 hours ago, DolmanDave said:

https://www.footballprogrammes.net/football-testimonial-benefit-c-95/dave-merrington-testimonial-benefit-match-bristol-city-1970s-p-42297.html

 

Was it this one?

 

“Donny Gillies” ???!!!! Blimey .... dreadful ... our club’s attention to detail was obviously appalling back then too ...

4 hours ago, Sir Leigh of Somerset said:

That was the first thought that entered my head but you beat me to it. God, i feel old...........

Hey mate, be like me - I’ll grow ‘old’, but never ‘up’ ... keep the faith pal!

Junior?!

On 16/06/2022 at 20:13, Snufflelufagus said:

I bet his now fiance replied when he popped the question 'Yes your a keeper'

... although, as the forum pedant, and with extreme apologies, I bet she really said “you’re a keeper” - I’m so sorry ...

18 minutes ago, ScottishRed said:

Agreed. My hometown team, Dunfermline Athletic, are one of Falkirks biggest, if not their biggest rivals...

I thought there was no love lost between the Pars and East Fife? I actually had a couple of nights out with Jim Leishman when he was the Dunfermline gaffer and he waxed lyrical about his club’s hatred for East Fife! 

10 hours ago, Phileas Fogg said:

I’ll only accept pedantry from @BS4 on Tour...

.... you rang?! - I’m honoured!

On 09/07/2022 at 16:03, Oh Louie louie said:

You could get people out the barley mow, at 7pm, who would still get a game in scotland.

It’s a funny line - but you couldn’t, you just couldn’t - the ignorance about Scottish football on here is staggering -  the posts from those who know nothing about the game north of the border is, I suppose, to be expected, but their faux knowledge and faux musings about Scottish football are ridiculous ... based on nothing but their own assumptions ... they will deliberately ignore the incredible result from a European cup competition last season Borussia Dortmund 2 Rangers 4 - because that remarkable, yet inconvenient, result doesn’t help their anti Scottish football diatribe gain any traction ... 

6 hours ago, Malago said:

Won his 1st game 5-0 , albeit against part time Clyde in the League Cup.

No need to say ‘albeit against part time Clyde’ - Roy Keane’s Celtic debut was vs Clyde - and Roy’s ‘super hoops’ heroes got humbled by the Clyde boys as they crashed to a defeat! And, as a Partick Thistle fan, anyone in the know up there would know how hard it is for me to say that ...

I remember when Clive was manager of Carlisle and they drew Liverpool in the FA Cup - a reporter asked him “have you had their team watched?” - Clive replied “of course not, they’re bl**dy Liverpool!” - rest easy fella, a big part of Bristol City’s history ...

21 hours ago, Davefevs said:

The points you’re making have little / no relation to the criticism(s) levelled at SL.  Nobody thinks SL is an underhand owner.

Loads of people, both on here and in real life, have said it’s time for Mr Lansdown to sell up and go - therefore, by highlighting the owners that Birmingham City have had over the last decade, I guess I was simply highlighting the ‘be careful what you wish for’ mantra once again - a lot of the criticisms aimed at Mr Lansdown are valid and he isn’t perfect. I’ve often maligned him on here for being scared of appointing a top manager since he got his fingers burnt by Steve Coppell, until he finally gave NP the job.

But, we’ve got a mega rich Bristolian owner who cares passionately about our club. The Brummies would have given anything to have had one of their own at the helm of their once proud club over the last decade. We’ve got Mr Lansdown - now I’ve long since resigned myself to realising Bristol City will never win the premier league (unlike the club you really support) and I’ve also reluctantly accepted we will never win the champions league (unlike the club you really support). So, given that, I’m really happy we’ve got a proper owner - fans of loads and loads of football clubs in this country would love to say that ...

Look at their ownership model since 2014 - when Carson Yeung was jailed for money laundering - then look at whether criticisms of Mr Lansdown are justified in terms of running our club? We have a passionate Bristolian running our club - he won’t always get it right, but he cares so much about Bristol City - would you swap him for the various owners of Birmingham City over the last decade or so?!

6 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

Our bakers, however, are more than happy to accept a CB for a simple baguette.

What’s a CB?

Rest easy Goalie ... an incredible guy both on and off the park ... legend 

11 hours ago, BrizzleRed said:

Do you what BS4, I can’t even remember the result now!  

My enduring memories of that day was a great piss up in Aldershot, staggering through the park to the ground and that fantastic reception for GR.  

Made me super proud to be a City fan that day and you could tell how much it meant to Glyn.

I think we lost 2-1 - could be wrong though ...

10 hours ago, BrizzleRed said:

I remember us playing away at Aldershot shortly after he left us and had joined them.  He got an amazing welcome from us travelling fans and was a fitting reflection of how much we love an honest, wholehearted player.

Got many great memories of Glyn Riley and he really helped brighten those dark days in Division 4

That was a fantastic day, despite the result - I’ve got a feeling it may have been John Pender’s debut too? Anyhow, the reception we gave Glyn Riley and his response was superb - he will always be a Bristol City legend to me. Interesting footnote to that day - I believe when we were walking out (marshalled by dear old Beryl) we heard that Man City had beaten Huddersfield 10-1 ... the solitary Huddersfield scorer that day? Andy May ...