Fordy62 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Where does Korey fit in when he returns? Pack to the bench? Quote Link to comment
samo II Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Just now, Fordy62 said: Where does Korey fit in when he returns? Pack to the bench? Imagine Pack, GON & Smith will compete for two spaces - good to have genuine compertition. 1 Quote Link to comment
stephenkibby. Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Anyone know the Wigan line up ? Quote Link to comment
Fordy62 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 1 minute ago, samo II said: Imagine Pack, GON & Smith will compete for two spaces - good to have genuine compertition. I love a West Country spelling! 3 Quote Link to comment
City_USA Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Mornin' all. This is one of the days I wished that I still live in Bristol so I could nip down the gate. Exciting off season and now an exciting opeing day. COYR! Quote Link to comment
kiwicolin Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Notice we have a lot of players starting with O' Luck of the Irish Quote Link to comment
samo II Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 3 minutes ago, stephenkibby. said: Anyone know the Wigan line up ? Will Grigg, presumably. And if I never hear that song about him again, I'll die happy. Quote Link to comment
!james Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 4 minutes ago, stephenkibby. said: Anyone know the Wigan line up ? Quote Link to comment
Fordy62 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 (edited) 1 minute ago, !james said: Is that the old Liverpool keeper? I'm not going to say a word... Will be interesting to see how Gibley fares. Edited August 6, 2016 by Fordy62 Quote Link to comment
downendcity Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 1 minute ago, kiwicolin said: Notice we have a lot of players starting with O' Luck of the Irish They've just renamed the new stand the O'Lansdown Stand. Quote Link to comment
samo II Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 1 minute ago, !james said: Max Power; the Simpson joke that walks. They've a decent line up tbf; tough game today. Quote Link to comment
REDOXO Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Golbourne not even on the bench? Quote Link to comment
1891 B.C. Sweden Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Come On You Reds!!! Quote Link to comment
BigTone Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 4 hours ago, havanatopia said: Good morning to one and all for the start of another new season. I have to say I awoke this morning with a broad inner smile the likes of which I cannot recall for a long time and I am, naturally, a very happy chap. Much anticipation greets us all today in what might be the largest attendance at Ashton Gate for a few years and in what is a new dawn for Bristol City Football Club. Let us all wish everyone, including us the all important fan, the very best of luck for the long and arduous season ahead. I am confident we will end up significantly higher than 18th. So, to the opponents. Wigan Athletic. This is entirely from memory, honest, but I seem to recall that Wigan were only the second team to be automatically promoted into the Football League. The first being Wimbledon a year earlier. I think this was around 1979. For a town made infamous by George Orwell's depressing 'The Road to Wigan Pier' the town has or rather had something to cheer about in the meteoric rise of a club through the leagues. Their recent fall being their first palpable set back but they have returned to the second tier at the first time of asking and, coincidentally, are playing the team that were also Champions of League 1 a season before. That the team even rose into the Football League let alone the top flight is remarkable given the overwhelming depravation of a place and as written so beautifully by George Orwell. “The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather had been horribly cold and everywhere there were mounds of blackened snow. As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her—her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye. She had a round pale face, the usual exhausted face of the slum girl who is twenty-five and looks forty, thanks to miscarriages and drudgery; and it wore, for the second in which I saw it, the most desolate, hopeless expression I have ever-seen. It struck me then that we are mistaken when we say that ‘It isn’t the same for them as it would be for us,’ and that people bred in the slums can imagine nothing but the slums. For what I saw in her face was not the ignorant suffering of an animal. She knew well enough what was happening to her—understood as well as I did how dreadful a destiny it was to be kneeling there in the bitter cold, on the slimy stones of a slum backyard, poking a stick up a foul drain-pipe.” And, according to the Mirror newspaper, nearly 80 years on from Orwell's book describing the effects of the Great Depression, we find soul-destroying hardship – unemployment, hunger, hypothermia and child poverty. And that was only written last year. There has of course been re-development down the years but not having ventured to the town myself one wonders how truly depressing the place might still be for the desperate few. Orwell, while an indisputably master story teller and writer, does tend to portray all before him with chillingly depressing prose. I always considered Wigan the most unlikely place for a football team; always famous for its Rugby along comes the upstart football team. How grateful can they be to Mr Dave Whelan? Perhaps 'The Freedom of Wigan' should be bestowed upon him if it hasn't already although he has received an honorary degree from the 'University' of Bolton; is Wigan so deprived they must hand over such responsibilities to a nearby town who even has a place of education? Enjoy the match today. I surely will; attending my first since those last 5 matches of our promotion winning year. I am envisaging a magnificent season even if we should find ourselves lost in the scramble of mid table obscurity. Bristol City, 27,000, brand spanking new, the sun is shining and its a glorious day, who would have thought it. Wow. Condensed Version Wigan Slag heap of a town where George Orwell fell in love with one of its local beauties Quote Link to comment
BRISTOL86 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 5 minutes ago, samo II said: Max Power; the Simpson joke that walks. They've a decent line up tbf; tough game today. Max Poweeeeerrrr Hes the man....who's name you'd love to touch. But you mustn't touuuuuuuuucccchhh! Said on another thread that Wigan have recruited well and will be a tough opening test. 2 Quote Link to comment
downendcity Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 2 minutes ago, BigTone said: Condensed Version Wigan Slag heap of a town where George Orwell fell in love with one of its local beauties I knew there was something missing from today! Good start to the new season Tone. Quote Link to comment
BRISTOL86 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Ground looks amazing. Feel a real strange mix of pride and excitement taking it all in, looking at the finished ground and seeing all the new players. Genuinely excited like a little kid again. COYR!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Lympsham Red Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Random question - I live too far away to receive BBC RB 1548 MW, and am not prepared to pay for Bristol City Player. Is there any other way to get audio commentary or will I have to settle for Soccer Saturday? Quote Link to comment
nebristolred Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Interesting to see Brownhill playing further forward, I always thought he was more of a standard CM than an attacking midfielder. Particularly over Reid and Freeman. Quote Link to comment
BRISTOL86 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Just now, nebristolred said: Interesting to see Brownhill playing further forward, I always thought he was more of a standard CM than an attacking midfielder. Particularly over Reid and Freeman. I thought the same. I imagine there will be some freedom for O'Dowda, Tomlin and Brownhill to interchange positions. Quote Link to comment
Mrdc Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 The new PA announcer is awful. David Lloyd please come back this bloke is so bland. Quote Link to comment
Garland-sweden Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 COYR!!! Quote Link to comment
Lord Spandex Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 6 minutes ago, Lympsham Red said: Random question - I live too far away to receive BBC RB 1548 MW, and am not prepared to pay for Bristol City Player. Is there any other way to get audio commentary or will I have to settle for Soccer Saturday? Try this Lympsham Red. http://www.radioplayer.co.uk Quote Link to comment
!james Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 12 minutes ago, Lympsham Red said: Random question - I live too far away to receive BBC RB 1548 MW, and am not prepared to pay for Bristol City Player. Is there any other way to get audio commentary or will I have to settle for Soccer Saturday? No other way unfortunately. Player has exclusive online rights. Quote Link to comment
Redandy Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 41 minutes ago, Fordy62 said: Really pleased to see Freeman on the bench. No matter how much stick he gets on here, he's a quality footballer. In league 1 he is but jury out in the Championship. Quote Link to comment
Garland-sweden Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Morning City USA. Lets go. COYR!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Redandy Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Not at the game but best of luck lads. COYR Quote Link to comment
AirlieBeachRed Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Ahhh late Saturday nights on OTIB in Airlie Beach start again. How I have missed it. Quote Link to comment
Cider_boy Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 have we ......* yet? *shown our appreciation to Steve Lansdown Quote Link to comment
Fordy62 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Is player just radio Bristol? Quote Link to comment
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