Nogbad the Bad

6 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Of course. And you'd want to look into the reasons for that. 

But when a hammy goes in the first half I think it requires a deeper dive into why it happened. Did the player warm up properly? What has his work load been of late? What zone was he in? Was his recovery from the last game sufficient. 

All those sort of things. Because Hammys shouldn't be going in the first half. 

Hammy causing problems again - sounds like another exciting episode of Tales of the Riverbank!

15 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

If you look at this, we are about average in terms of injuries.

https://www.sportsgambler.com/injuries/football/england-championship/

Ive not fact checked it, but the bookies are usually correct

Looks to me that we're right near the top with 4 long term injuries (Atkinson & Bell expected return dates need updating)

2 hours ago, spudski said:

I've never understood these fan podcasts. 

Why do fans, want to watch and listen to other fans pretending to be television soccer pundits? It's cringe worthy..

And then put them on a pedestal like they are something special and more knowledgeable. When they obviously aren't. It's just personal views like any of us. 

All seems a bit weird to me. 

The forum is one thing...this however is just blokes playing at being TV pundits. It's exactly the same type of conversations you have with mates at work or down the pub. 

Never understood why anyone would give it their time, and then want to comment about their views. Like these people's views are important. 

I find it very odd. 

Maybe I'm in the minority...

Each to their own, I enjoy the pod.

No one's putting them on a pedestal or thinks they're special, they're ordinary knowledgeable City fans with strong opinions. I would also class myself as having strong opinions and knowledgeable when it comes to City - after 50+ years, so I should be. The difference is they've got the gift of the gab and could talk about City on a pod all day and that certainly doesn't apply to all of us.

The pod seems to get good listening figures, ever rising last I heard, so they're obviously doing something right that appeals to a fair number of City fans.

That much of it is 'the sort of conversation you'd have with mates down the pub' is surely a good thing?

Anyway, very easy to knock it but a lot of time and effort clearly goes in to it which it's appreciated by many fans, and luckily for you watching, listening, or even commenting on it is not compulsory.

20 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

That's funny, after his 5minute debut the other night, a lot of people were raving about him, just goes to show..... !

Indeed, but what about the points I raised, i.e, ridiculously OTT introduction on official site leading to completely unrealistic expectations, and looks like a last minute deadline day punt when all other signing options exhausted, just to announce a forward?

15 hours ago, Graham76 said:

Everyone got way too overexcited when we signed Mebude. Having watched him today I thought he was absolutely atrocious and no where near a Championship player.  

Didn't help that he was introduced on the official site with a great fanfare as an exciting potential season changer.

Looks like he may have been just a last minute deadline day punt, with City determined to get a forward in, and all other options exhausted.

Very concerning display yesterday, but if he does prove to be completely out of his depth the fault lies squarely with the club, not Mebude. 

39 minutes ago, Robbored said:

It means that he’s posing and trying to cool and well ‘ard - just as lots of young lads do.

If he really wanted to look cool and hard surely he'd grow his hair like a girl, wear flares and a denim jacket, and tie a silk City scarf around each wrist?

Pretty sure it worked for me at about his age. 

20 minutes ago, BigTone said:

Unless Cott's is already a vegan

Extremely unlikely, only a tiny percentage in Britain are vegan, and the percentage decreases as you go up the age groups.

'4 free spaces available in hospitality tomorrow for deserving fans'  more likely to catch the eye I'd have thought.

@Dollymarie?

14 hours ago, Simon bristol said:

Agreed, im pleased hes back and has had a few good games, but im not particularly impressed with that attitude, or they way he speaks. hes had 2 championship games in his career as far as i know, he seems to be of the opinion hes the next roberto carlos. Pring paid his dues for years, vyner has too, they have had loans all over the country and had to wait to get a place in the first team. Some humility might be nice.

It's very likely that Pring and Vyner were nowhere near as good as Roberts - who has been capped 19 times at England youth level - at this age. 

As long as Roberts follows up his confident attitude with similarly assured appearances on the pitch it's all good afaic.

It does very much appear as if he sees City as a stepping stone but he'll have to perform consistently very well to get a move to a higher club, so we're all winners in that scenario.

14 hours ago, mozo said:

Yeah I think one of two things are likely; Pring is sold and Roberts has a chance to make LB his own... or Pring stays and Roberts goes. I don't think there's room in this town for both those cowboys...

Not so sure about that, Roberts seems he think of himself as an all round footballer and while he's content to develop as a left back at City he sees himself at least equally at home at CB or midfield where he played the majority of games at youth level before going to Derby.

41 minutes ago, glynriley said:

All this talk of 1974 reminded me that that was the year my Dad first took me to Ashton Gate. Just looked it up and it's only a few days until my anniversary..!! 26th Feb 1974 - beat Millwall 5-2 on a Tuesday afternoon.

50 bloody years..

I remember zero about it..!!

 

Pity you don't remember it, you could hardly have had a better match to have as your first game.

'in the Millwall slums'. 

34 minutes ago, kmpowell said:

As for the shirt. Great idea, and nice to see, but the story & narrative around it is just embarrassing. A QPR ST holder I work with saw the news and laughed at me about it. Leeds fans are ripping into it all over social media, and I had a Forest fan message me and say WTF.

I can only think those QPR, Leeds and Forest fans aren't old enough to have been taking an interest in football in 1974.

Getting in to the play offs is only really a positive if you go on to win them.

Otherwise it's just disappointment, an extended season (and shorter close season) for the players, the real possibility of a negative hangover in August, and the club having to delay transfer activity while they wait to see which division we'll be in.

No one who has lived through all City's previous play off failures will welcome the prospect of another valiant defeat - or, even worse, a complete no show when it really matters.

7th -10th will do very well this season while we continue to build - this club really needs to go up automatically.

1 hour ago, mozo said:

 

Not a dramatic game or end to the season then? But rather good obviously, given the near extinction.

You really need to learn up on your City history, it could hardly have been more dramatic, and one of the best days supporting City, ever.

8 minutes ago, cityexile said:

My memory can very well be playing tricks, but did we not beat Swindon 1-0 the penultimate game to secure promotion? Certainly remember the Swindon game and leaving thinking ‘that’s it, we are up’.

Sure that was 83/84, but it all merges together after a while.

No, after beating Swindon 1-0 in front of almost 13k we still had to beat Chester.

Trevor Morgan put us 1-0 up in front of 3k travelling fans but Zelem equalised in the 81st minute. Morgan then scored the winner on 87 minutes to clinch promotion, followed by a mass pitch invasion and Terry Cooper conducting the chanting fans from the stand.

An absolutely fantastic day after all we'd been through as a club and fans.

As the EP said the next day:

'All the financial problems, internal wrangles, and disappointing results of the past 5 seasons were forgotten as success starved fans mobbed their heroes at the final whistle. Alan Crawford lost his shirt in the battle to reach the players' tunnel, Glyn Riley was raised shoulder high and Tom Ritchie found himself buried in a heap of bodies offering congratulations.

The volume of noise seemed to shake the ground to it's foundations, especially when the irrepressible Cooper appeared in the stand with his victorious team to lead the singing.

It matched the night in 1976 when City were promoted to the First Division. The achievement may not be comparable but the emotion felt by fans who 2 years ago feared they may no longer have a club to support created scenes to remember'.

57 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

I was there and here is my story.

I worked at Colodense in West St, Bemmy. A near neighbour of mine also worked there and he was also a City fan. His job was technical service to our customers and so he organised a visit to a customer inw Lincoln on the morning of the replay.

So at 6am, we set off to Lincoln. My wife and Dad, him and his wife. Went to customer and did the business bit, leaving Lincoln at 10.30. At 1.20 pm we got to Elland Road and bought 5 tickets in yhe stand opposite to stand where players came on to pitch.

My wife had never been to a live game and when Gillies scored, she asked me what had happened? The next 20 minutes were the longest in my life.

We found out later that when we bought five seats together, all turnstiles to terraces had been closed as full, fifteen minutes before we bought them.

One eighteen hour day by the time we got home, delighted but knackered.

I was 15 and, as it was half term, I travelled up to Liverpool the day before the replay to stay with my older brother who was at University there and living in Toxteth.

We caught a train to Leeds on the Wednesday morning - it was an early afternoon ko due to the power crisis and the 3 day week - and, wanting to remain incognito, quickly paid to get in at the first turnstile we came to.

We found ourselves standing in a side enclosure nowhere near the City fans, packed in the midst of the most passionate and intimidating crowd I've ever been in. A full house of 47,000 partisan fans (with many others locked out) baying for blood with the formerly invincible Leeds team utterly determined to put City to the sword. 

Leeds were massively on top but City's players were magnificent to a man and somehow kept the scores level. When Gillies scored we didn't move a muscle, in fact we didn't even speak until we were well away from the ground afterwards. Other fans I spoke to after the event told me the Leeds fans didn't exactly take defeat well and were attacking any City fan they could find, so just as well!

This was a truly momentous victory against by far the best team in the country, packed to the gills with experienced internationals in their prime - no weakened teams for the Cup in those days - who were top of the league and unbeaten in 29 matches, and who went on to win the top league a few months later.

It was such a massive upset it featured on the evening national news with pictures on the the front page of the papers the next day, and rightly so, the result was a seismic shock to the football world, and still stands as the most memorable victory in all my time supporting City.

9 minutes ago, Supersonic Robin said:

Call me a a grumpy b*stard, but this is so f****** tinpot

 

The incredible victory at Elland Road, that shocked the football world and was featured on the front page of the papers, was the most momentous City triumph I've seen in the 54 years I've been watching.

12 minutes ago, glastored said:

Am I right in saying that Port Vale have the biggest pitch?

Not sure about all 92, but according to a quick search Forest, with 105m x 71m, a total area of 7,455m, is the biggest pitch in the PL, and bigger than both Port Vale & City. 

Port Vale 104m x 70m, a total area of 7,280m.

Bristol City 105m x 69m, a total area of 7,245m, which are exactly the same dimensions given for Wembley.

Not sure if the City measurements are pre, during, or post LJ.

City's pitch is bigger than all PL clubs except Forest according to this recent article:

https://www.footballfancast.com/premier-league-stadims-pitch-sizes-ranked-biggest-smallest/#goodison-park-ndash-area-7-210m

Fulham, at 100m x 65m have the smallest pitch in the PL with a total area of 6,500m.

Pretty sure the AG pitch has traditionally been one of the biggest in the league.

LJ insisted it was narrowed during his time here - too much grass to measure?

These days the width in particular seems to vary according to how the current manager thinks it best suits his style of play, so no idea of LM's preference or where AG stands in comparison with other pitches now.

Haven't heard it before - was it original, or is this a chant other fans have used against Southampton, or even one used in the PL to ridicule Spurs?

1 hour ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

I'm pretty sure just about everyone on here appreciates the Mods and what they do, and most will have said so at some stage.

This may not matter to you but it does to many others and this seems a funny thing to put your foot down about when it's clear so many OTIB supporters would much prefer things to go back to the way they were.

 

9 minutes ago, phantom said:

I am not sure how many times I have to say this and reading many of the posts there are many that can't seem to grasp that this is not my decision it was made by all the admin

I am just the one that is able to post the most and is answering the questions

Not sure why you're quoting me Phants, my post doesn't mention you and was in reply to The Journalist (who btw is not an OTIB supporter) who said it didn't matter.

I was expressing my surprise that those who make the decisions have collectively put their foot down on this issue, not you personally.

As a long time OTIB supporter I'm surprised the admin team would initially respond so quickly to the moans of a tiny minority then go on to go against the expressed wishes of the majority to reverse that decision, for no apparent reason.

The Mods can do as they please of course, and 99% of the time we're grateful for everything you & they do, but taking such an obdurate position on this issue is actually a bit bewildering.

No need to reply btw.

Love to see this sort of thing, but personally would have preferred a tribute to all the 75-76 promotion team, with Captain Sir Geoffrey prominent, of course.

It would be great to recognise the loyalty, long service and particularly the outstanding achievement - once in a lifetime? - of the likes of Tom Ritchie, Gerry Gow, Gerry Sweeney and Trevor Tainton.

Hopefully to follow, plus Donnie Gillies celebrating his famous goal at Leeds, and Cheese doing the same at Arsenal would be great.

3 hours ago, The Journalist said:

None of it really matters though, does it? Not really?

(Thanks to @phantom and the admin team, though. I used to do it and it’s a somewhat thankless task.)

I'm pretty sure just about everyone on here appreciates the Mods and what they do, and most will have said so at some stage.

This may not matter to you but it does to many others and this seems a funny thing to put your foot down about when it's clear so many OTIB supporters would much prefer things to go back to the way they were.

19 minutes ago, Selred said:

Personally think you should allow a debate / poll on the matter. Not sure why you won't?

There is already a poll at the top of the previous thread that phantom has highlighted above.

Less than 1 in 4 stated a preference for continuing with a separate ex-players and managers forum.

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Great play Andy King.