redmatt1968 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Reasons to be cheerful ..... Optimism is self-fulfilling .... If this forum is a good cross-section we are both relegated and doomed to watch awfully lame performances week in week out .... This does not need to be so .... But it is up to us!! This time last year we were no better off really; at least our squad problems are blindingly obvious and we have players who given service will score bag loads ..... We also have a better keeper and one half decent centre back which we didn't have last year ..... Greg Cunningham is on his way back and is the best left back at the Gate since Micky Bell and much better than Ryan McGiveup.... #alwaysbelieve works .... It's also more fun, less stressful and healthier ..... Go on help me out please .... I will be as positive as ever at Ipswich and Millwall but I cannot do it on my own! .... I genuinely believe we avoid relegation reasonably easily by the end of the season ..... But we have a role to play ... make Christmas enjoyable and get behind the Reds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 I remember Chuck Drury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redmatt1968 Posted December 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 He left the club the year before I was born ..... Was he any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezer Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Any good? Frickin brilliant. 'New Boots And Panties' was mint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 He left the club the year before I was born ..... Was he any good? He was great, had a good engine, hard and clever and nice approachable guy to boot, many of that era lived in club owned houses in a close behind the kings head pub at Bedminster Down, they all drank and socialised in the kings head, Chuck, Mike Gibson, Gordon low and Jack connor and others. Always gave 100% as they all did in those days, it's something called pride, a long forgotten word in the english language and especially recently at BCFC. These guys earned just over the average wage for a manual worker and they were very honoured to be doing something that was almost a hobby and being reasonably well paid and they never forgot that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redmatt1968 Posted December 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Indeed ... I was inquiring whether Chuck was any good ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Dazzler Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Ian Dury was brilliant - we've got the Blockheads! If anyone is familiar with the song "Plaistow Patricia" (look it up on You tube if not) - the first line sums the team up at the moment ! Getting back to your theme, we were in the same predicament last year so we have experience of getting out of a bad situation and...............that's about it. Oh and maybe Paul Anderson may get a run, as Mr Dury would say "what a waste" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 I thought it was going to be a thread about "Arseholes, Bastards fcukin ****s and pr1cks" ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tall King Blox Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 He was great, had a good engine, hard and clever and nice approachable guy to boot, many of that era lived in club owned houses in a close behind the kings head pub at Bedminster Down, they all drank and socialised in the kings head, Chuck, Mike Gibson, Gordon low and Jack connor and others. Always gave 100% as they all did in those days, it's something called pride, a long forgotten word in the english language and especially recently at BCFC. These guys earned just over the average wage for a manual worker and they were very honoured to be doing something that was almost a hobby and being reasonably well paid and they never forgot that either. But times they are a changin..............sadly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Dazzler Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 I thought it was going to be a thread about "Arseholes, Bastards fcukin ****s and pr1cks" ! And that's just the back 4! (before Cunningham's return ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 or Anderson and Morris - What a waste..................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRIAN WILSON Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 I love Ian ( and The Blockheads ) , so to all the would be Football Managers on here "There ain't half been some clever bastards" ;-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 The Blockheads are in Bristol on the 23rd Dec - at the O2 Academy with 'From The Jam' and 'The Boomtown Rats'........i'll be there - mainly to see Bruce Foxton but looking forward to it all really!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Reasons to be cheerfull...........fork all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Wasn't he the mysterious companion of Trampas in The Virginian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Wasn't he the mysterious companion of Trampas in The Virginian? You mean The Virginian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 The Blockheads are in Bristol on the 23rd Dec - at the O2 Academy with 'From The Jam' and 'The Boomtown Rats'........i'll be there - mainly to see Bruce Foxton but looking forward to it all really!! is geldof singing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddlesdown red Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Met him once in a wine bar in West Kensington and he use to have a flat on the approach to Hammersmith Bridge. Top Geezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 is geldof singing? No, Geldof isn't with them anymore, i saw the Rats in Bideford a year or so ago and they had some other guy singing, he was famous in another old band but i can't remember who he was, too many Black Rats!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorset_Cider Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Reasons to be cheerful .....Optimism is self-fulfilling .... If this forum is a good cross-section we are both relegated and doomed to watch awfully lame performances week in week out .... This does not need to be so .... But it is up to us!!This time last year we were no better off really; at least our squad problems are blindingly obvious and we have players who given service will score bag loads ..... We also have a better keeper and one half decent centre back which we didn't have last year ..... Greg Cunningham is on his way back and is the best left back at the Gate since Micky Bell and much better than Ryan McGiveup....#alwaysbelieve works .... It's also more fun, less stressful and healthier ..... Go on help me out please ....I will be as positive as ever at Ipswich and Millwall but I cannot do it on my own! ....I genuinely believe we avoid relegation reasonably easily by the end of the season ..... But we have a role to play ...make Christmas enjoyable and get behind the Reds!Ian also wrote the classic (written with Rod Melvin) 'What A Waste' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 You mean The Virginian THE Virginian, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 i preferred the rats to the blockheads. went to the bear? inn down hotwells to watch stiff little fingers once.health and safety wouldnt allow it as it was upstairs on the first floor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorset_Cider Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 i preferred the rats to the blockheads.went to the bear? inn down hotwells to watch stiff little fingers once.health and safety wouldnt allow it as it was upstairs on the first floorAlways liked 'Neon Heart' but never really dug the Rats...... a bit hmmmm for my tastes.Personal taste well, Ian & the Blockheads were more my cup of tea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted December 20, 2012 Admin Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Saw the Blockheads at Cropredy last year, really good show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorset_Cider Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Saw the Blockheads at Cropredy last year, really good show.Saw Ian Dury & The Blockheads 5.12.80 ....... excellent show!Do I win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Maesknoll Red Posted December 20, 2012 Admin Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 I'll raise you seeing Zepplin at Earls Court in '76 and Knebworth in '79' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Met him once in a wine bar in West Kensington and he use to have a flat on the approach to Hammersmith Bridge. Top Geezer Read his biography by superfan Will Birch this year and it's warts & all stuff - Dury does come across as a bit of a shiner, who despite his charisma, used people and was incredibly self-obsessed. IMO stuff like that doesn't diminish the music or the genius of the man. I love his stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Rocker Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Saw Ian Dury & The Blockheads 5.12.80 ....... excellent show! Do I win NO! I saw 'em at the Colston Hall in summer 79. And City were in the top flight then too. Has life ever been that good since? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threshersleftboot Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Hit me with your rythem stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 I know it's a matter of choice, which of course I respect, Ian Dury was a genius and his songs were witty, touching, crowd pleasing and his arrangements were brilliant and he only used the best musicians, I have most of his recorded work. The Boomtown Rats with the overrated self promoting gobshite Geldof, didn't like them at the time and still don't, don't have a single track of theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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