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Dickie came into the City side a few years after I started watching. He had a prodigious leap on him for his size and was a decent footballer unlike some of the 'Stopper' centre halves in those days.

Geoff Merrick came though in exactly the same playing style and could also jump a lot higher than his height suggested. 

The Collier/Merrick centre half pairing was the foundation of our promotion winning side along with big Dave Rodgers as a more than suitable replacement. 

RIP Dickie  

6 hours ago, 42nite said:

There was talk on here recently about who we'd have in the trenches alongside us.

Dickie Rooks would be on my list!

RIP mate.

Along with Buster Footman

On 04/04/2024 at 08:27, Silvio Dante said:

To be fair, this was published not two weeks ago so I’m not sure that argument is valid:

Bristol City: How Championship club became a factory for homegrown talent

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68628932

Didn't see that one. Thanks for the update  

Very long and detailed article on the BBC sport website about Millwall being a Championship club and getting to the semi final of this tournament. 

We get a one line mention halfway through.

Talk about London bias!! 

Roughly translated, it says 

"Domino hoo hoo".

4 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Regardless of managers and the politics of the football club. I can’t understand or believe any genuine City fan would want us too lose.

Toulouse? 

2 hours ago, Marina's Rolls Royce said:

Let it go.

To a certain degree, I agree. Let it go. Manning’s here for the next 6-8 months at least. Accept it. It might taste nasty but it's real. And we're winning again. Pop back again in October if we're struggling. 

2 hours ago, Corkonian said:

Handling players like that in public, especially after just giving them a bit of game time, doesn't seem like the best approach. And comparing it to how Fergie used to handle things, it definitely feels off.

Thank you 

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

Leaving the forum because of criticism is a snowflake attitude Harvey - a bit like cutting on your nose off to spite your face.

I suggest that you ‘man up’.

Manning ups not an issue.

Suffering fools? Now that's different 

19 minutes ago, Atyeo's lift said:

But now it's sunny in N Devon

Frustrating isn't it, but hey ho, I'm off to the pub 

3 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Just over the border in Cornwall and it's pissing it down. Safe journey to all City fans heading down. 

Torrential rain and thunder clouds in North Devon at the moment 

18 hours ago, Robbored said:

It happens of pretty much every thread Johnny. Threads rarely stay on topic. As you’re a new poster I’m sure you’ll get used to it eventually 

I never get used to it. My opinion is my opinion. If somebody doesn't agree I encourage constructive argument. Not just someone saying I'm wrong with baseless grounds. 

I've left this forum alone for long periods in the past because every thread seems to deteriorate into abuse and irrelevance. It's disappointing but then again it's symptomatic of people's inability nowadays to accept that someone else might not agree with them. 

(Stands back and waits for face palm emoji) 

5 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Arteta was Peps number two for a few seasons and he’d have know exactly how City would set up and try to play.

The game a draw written all over it and I regret not putting a few quid on Liverpool to win and Arsenal to draw.

Not sure what odds the double would have been but it being Easter Sunday I thought the bookies would be shut.

Man City 2/1 with some bookies to win the league now. That looks tempting 

48 minutes ago, lenred said:

Quite clearly not ‘ripping him a new one’.  You missed out referencing Grealish’s reaction.  He was listening intently to what Pep was saying and nodding in agreement! Pep has these kind of conversations at the end of every game, with his own players and sometimes with the opposition as well.  

Fergie would have put his arm around him on the pitch and painted the dressing room walls with him when they got inside. 

I couldn't see what Grealish did that wrong but then again I'm not a world class manager! 

24 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Pep is untouchable. He’s the best manager in Europe, pretty much every top European club would want him. He’s a serial winner and that showed when he roasted Grealish in public. He was clearly pissed off with JG.

I’m not a fan of either Manchester club and really wanted the Gunners to nick a 1-0 win but earning a point is second prize I guess.

 

I'm not questioning Peps record. That is untouchable. I'm just saying I think he was out of order singling out Jack in public. There were just as many players who underperformed yesterday than played well. 

On a personal aside I can't stand Arteta. I'd rather anyone won the league than Arsenal 

They were well off the pace yesterday. KdB has looked half fit for a while Haaland was out for a long time and not been firing on all cylinders. 

I think Peps loyalty to certain players might cost him this season. 

As for Arsenal, I've a massive soft spot for Spurs so I might not comment but I think Liverpool have the easiest run in.

Gives Grealish half an hour yesterday then rips him a new one on the pitch after the game and in front of all and sundry. 

I suppose it comes with thinking your untouchable as a manager but I thought it was wrong. Fergie would never have done it.

And I thought Doku was even worse than Grealish. Couldn't shoot to save his life and didn't create anything. 

10 hours ago, Numero Uno said:

In a nutshell....................

As Basil Fawlty once said "case, more like ".

3 hours ago, Robbored said:

One swallow doesn’t make a summer.

No, but it makes your Saturday night out 

3 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Did we deserve to win? With Leicesters numerous clear cut chances that they missed? 

We do have consistency. We can consistenly put in decent performances against the better teams but then also consistently put in poor performances against the not so good teams.

We looked to have two penalties that should have been given 

7 minutes ago, Cole Not Gas said:

I think we all deserve to have a little fun; perhaps at the negative **** who seem to think the only point of this forum is criticize my/our club we support. We could start a new threat naming & shaming those who find think it's hilarious to be smug & highly critical of our management and all good things BCFC

Lets start naming Silvio, BCFC 31, Cloudy, Uno, Ivan - all these people who will NOT read this post because it will make them chew so much humble pie they will hate waking up tomorrow to realize what total chumps they've made themselves look, that we did beat a Prem club with a bench today worth £95m, that Liam has yet again shown the football world he is smart and can get an average team to beat the best. I loved today even more knowing those we can name will have a horrible day; lets hope they also have a horrible day on Monday when they'll be unable to roll out their pre-written and predictable complaints about all those guys who do so much to help BCFC. I think a few of them will be man enough to own up and say we were again a good team today, all playing for the shirt, in front of a sell-out crowd at our great stadium and where Bristol Sport did absolutely nothing wrong.

Oh, and by the way anyone who enjoyed today and posts positively may be told by the neggies that they work for B.Sport - hilarious

I enjoyed today and I've been vocal against Manning recently but that's because I was firmly in the pro Pearson camp. The team stepped up to the plate today. I might argue that Leicester weren't at their best but we had a game plan and that's credit to the manager. 

I've accepted for a while that Manning’s going nowhere until at least October next season. He needs a transfer window, a preseason and time to set his ideas and after today he's going to get that.

I'm happy to be proven wrong because I love my football club. What I don't want is another streaky Lee. One good result doesn't paper over QPR and Sheff Wed's. That's where we need to improve. 

What today told me was that we need a quality striker. Not going to be easy but we need to keep Conway and get guaranteed goals. 

Defensively sound, interesting young additions coming into midfield and now we need a goalscorer 

2 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

Ok  that’s  one club . At least they have a history of achievement 

So do Pompey. Premier League and an FA Cup Final recently, ish. But are they bigger than us? Restricted home capacity and competition from Saints locally. 

Bolton have suffered from overspending when they were overachieving under Big Sam. Another in the shadow of Manchester. 

Wigan are ex Premier League and won the FA Cup.  

What makes us a bigger club than any of these? I'd say that potentially were bigger than all of them. 

Just potentially though

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

Another three points at Home Park will virtually guarantee that Manning will be City's manager next campaign.

I think that after the Swansea result we weren't in serious danger from relegation. Sides lower in the table were playing each other so we were relatively safe. 

I think it needed an embarrassing score to get rid of him and after today's showing I don't think that's going to happen.

The team played well and played for him today. Hopefully, the inconsistencies will not return as players come back from injury. I know we've had 'turning points' before but today felt more like a big plus.