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1 hour ago, Top Robin said:

Does it matter if he did a good or bad job at Dons...we are not judging his managerial performance, we are respecting his passing. Rest in peace.

Do you wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and smile just to get it out the way?

I remember when he was manager at Luton, he was walking across the pitch back to the dugout at Kenilworth Road after half time, he got a rendition of “you fat bastard” from our end, he stopped, opened his coat, stuck his belly out and started rubbing it! Suffice to say he then got a standing ovation from us. RIP.

3 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

People on Twitter banging on about the blue away kit, is that not purple? Or am I losing the plot?

Definitely a purple tinge if the above pic is anything to go by.

18 hours ago, Superjack said:

...with the "Steve Lansdown needs to come back and sort this out"?

He's THE BIGGEST ****ING PROBLEM OF ALL!!!

And also, if you haven't noticed, he washed his hands of it some while ago. 

SELL. UP. AND. ****. OFF.

100% this, SL has used our club as an extension of his ego for years, crap decisions, wanting people who’re best for him and not the club. Massively over estimating his own knowledge of football and treating the clubs loyal fans as peasants who to him are contemptible.

I’ve been worried about the club being bought by foreign investors who’d ruin it, but now I realise that SL and his “circle of trust” are doing a damn good job of that. People will point to his investment, but it’s his atrocious decisions that have led to him having to invest millions. 
 

A driver who used to deliver into a place I worked years ago used to refer to his wife as the The Junkyard Dog! I asked him why one day, and he said it was because when he met her she was hornier than a Junkyard Dog!

4 hours ago, JBFC II said:

Someone tell the whopper that we got promoted out of the old fourth division I’m 1984, even a thick Sag should be able to figure out that was 40 years ago! 

RIP fellow Red.

50 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Arthur Holmes, mate.

Absolutely dodgy as **** what went on then, though to be clear it only enabled them to steal the remaining 50% of the ground.

They had recently entered into a partnership with Bristol rugby & had bought 50%, which very soon became all of it for just a further £10k.

Scandalous, but from a club that tried to buy Ashton Gate from the creditors in ‘82 not exactly a surprise.

Parasites.

I remember the Evening Post at the time saying how wonderful them getting the Mem was, no mention that one of this cities biggest sporting institutions was close to going out of business. My late father always hated them more than he loved City, which I found to be the case with a lot of fans from an older generation.

As someone who’s been passionate about Bristol Rugby for nearly as long as I have about City, this was the moment when I really got why he despised them so much. For me, the longer they stay there and the more dilapidated it is, the better. Sanctimonius, deluded assholes.
 

43 minutes ago, beaverface said:

Does the stats on our attendances give us serious credence for somehow getting the capacity increased to ~30,000?

There seems to have been a lot of talk about the number of u12 season tickets restricting normal pay on the day ticket purchases, but would a higher capacity mitigate that?

I’d imagine that if we began to seriously challenge for promotion to the PL then that would definitely become a priority. 

1 minute ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Reading through match threads is always 'interesting'. OTIB is no different to any other site in that respect, if your teams is losing there are always a - more than- a few decrying just how shite you are

Not true, when we’re winning there’s plenty on here still saying how shit we are!

Fantastic away game, I think we got caught cold at the start, and to be fair the touch and finish from Bowen was exquisite. Second half we really took it to them and were full value for the draw. Awful atmosphere from the home fans, I went the last time we played them at Upton Park, and the chant of “you sold your soul for this shithole” was very apt!

4 hours ago, Sheltons Army said:

That shirt / kit
 

I cannot believe the Club don’t do (Sadly , I guess I do) a , even small, range of ‘Classic’ shirts ,

if not a range then that shirt -

they would fly out 

I totally agree, Score Draw have a range of classic Bukta shirts for Wolves and Crystal Palace, there’s 3 great City Bukta shirts that would go down a storm.

If JL & co ever agreed to do anything like this for the Sag’s, I’d personally go down the Gate and lynch them!

Looking for one spare in the lower tier, adult or under 18 please.

28 minutes ago, wonkyone said:

Still many home tickets going for 20£ plus admin.

I just don't think I could handle all those bubble blowers. Shame as Im local at mo.

Have a great day out all.

 

Will this be our biggest away fixture gate since Wembley playoff? ( sorry to bring it up)

We took a fair few up to the Etihad Stadium for the League Cup semi final didn’t we? 8,000 wasn’t it?

Good day out that was, a Pompey fan said to me before the game that he hoped we’d beat them so they’d sack Tony Adams! Jamie McCombe was outstanding that day quelling the threat from Peter Crouch. Here’s a video I recoded at full time. 

This is why I never want Yanks to ever own our club.

Brighton at Cardiff back in 2004.

What year is this?

3 hours ago, MC RISK77 said:

Brilliant find thanks, have watched these before but couldn’t remember this.

One question I have as someone who is fascinated with football during the 70s up to mid 80s is why have the BBC not made the match of the day archives available to purchase? It’s great to watch the BIg Match when it is on but so many games and goals I  and other later have never seen will be on the bbc equivalent?

 

I’m sure Match Of The 70’s was available to buy on vhs back in the 90’s, it would be brilliant if the BBC put them on iplayer. There’s still quite a few of them on YouTube, but as they’re uploaded from old vhs tapes, the picture quality isn’t always the best.

Skip to 20 minutes in.

Saw the tweet earlier, with my car insurance due for renewal on the 25th of January, I got a quote from them of £1050! Suffice to say they won’t be getting my business!

Bring back the Bristol derby? Well, for me as someone born in their supposed heartland (loads of city here, always has been) and growing up at a time when it wasn’t unusual for them to finish above us in the league and beat us, no way!

8 minutes ago, East Londoner said:

It appears most of the Lizzy line service serving Stratford start from Paddington that day. Your original plan would still work you’d just need to change at Paddington

If you’d like more train information check out realtime trains 

As for driving, I’ve driven Bristol to that part of east London more times than I care to remember, the quickest route is via the M25, M11 and A13 and can easily take 90 minutes from when you turn onto the M25 and that’s with a clear run 

Thanks for the heads up, I think I’ll stick to my original plan.

I might drive to Westfield Stratford if the rail service is going to be dodgy, I was planning on driving to Reading then getting the Elizabeth line the rest of the way, but the TFL journey planner isn’t offering that as an option.