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2002-2003 part 2 video, Jan to March.


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Looks like a tape has been lost, so the season ends in March. I do have some more clips that I will add , but it will be parts of the following year/years before I start adding full games and Flashback for the fans programs. 
I have been looking for the Gary Johnson promotion, playoff years , on DVD or VHS but no luck so far. I can't even get toe double year, not even from the shop. Pretty poor I'd say.
Still, here you go the end of 2002 - 2003. Another disappointing end to the year. Weird bubble match at Cardiff , after beating them twice not scoring in either game was to finish our chances .

10 May 2003   Cardiff City 1-0 Bristol City

10 May 2003   Oldham Athletic 1-1 Queens Park Rangers

13 May 2003   Bristol City 0-0 Cardiff City

14 May 2003   Queens Park Rangers 1-0 Oldham Athletic

25 May 2003   Cardiff City 1-0 Queens Park Rangers

 

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Great season entertainment wise. That season had some very strong sides in L1. 2002-2003 I could take, what happened in 2003-2004 was heartbreak....1 point off QPR in 2nd who were only promoted simply because we couldn't finish off sides, still bitter about it. Then came the play off final. 

The naughties were the nearly years for Bristol City fans.

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33 minutes ago, Shtanley said:

Really enjoyed these, thank you. 

You'd surely be able to find each season's DVD on here? Or are they only released for the good seasons?

The club don't stock them (made the mistake of waiting for the MRs to buy me the double year DVD) , and I've had a look on eBay. 
I've had an offer of a loan for one which may happen in the future I have a couple of posters I meant to get back to but not sure what might come of it. 

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During the summer of 2002 as England battled to the World Cup quarterfinals, ten players left City; Tony Thorpe went on a free transfer to Luton and Steve Robinson followed him for £50,000, whilst Steve Jones was released, as were seven youth and reserve players. ITV digital, a company that had bought the League’s TV rights for three seasons ceased trading and all clubs were facing a future without planned for income. Nationally, over 600 players were released by their cash stricken clubs. With no obvious striker in the team, many fans feared the worst for the coming season.

The season began with a 2-0 win against Blackpool with Peacock and Murray scoring. This was followed by a 1-0 defeat at Brentford where Aaron Brown was sent off and a 2-0 defeat at Wigan when Danny Coles was showed the red card. The bank holiday weekend brought a 3-0 win against Wycombe with Micky Bell scoring against his former club, Scott Murray hit the second and then set up a tap in for Christian Roberts’s first goal for the club. This was followed two days later by another defeat, 2-0 at Plymouth. Defender Tony Butler was signed on loan from WBA and put in an impressive display in his first game, winning 50/50 balls and setting up attacking moves. In mid September City won away for the first time that season, 3-2 at Cheltenham who had twice taken the lead. This win moved City up to 2nd place, 1 point behind Wigan, but they fell back following defeats at Oldham and at home by QPR.  City then went on a 19 match unbeaten spell beginning with a win at Port Vale.  In that match City had taken a 2-0 lead, only for Vale to fight back and equalise in the 90th minute. In stoppage time 17 year old Leroy Lita got on the end of a long through ball, held off a defender and smashed the ball past the keeper from outside the box to give City a 3-2 win. Off the field, Mr Laycock stepped down and was replaced as Chairman by Steve Lansdown. The unbeaten spell saw City go second in the table, progress into the semi finals of the LDV trophy and the FA Cup 3rd round.  The first round had been a 7-0 romp at Heybridge followed by a 3-1 win at Harrogate.  The most memorable game though was in the league at Mansfield. 4-2 down with three minutes to go, City won 5-4! Many people put the player’s mental toughness down to a sports psychologist the club had employed. The run finally ended 2-1 at Wycombe on New Year’s Day 2003.

In fact the first three games of 2003 were defeats; after Wycombe, came defeats at Leicester in the FA Cup and at home by division leaders, Wigan in a televised game.  They maintained a position in the top five however with draws at home and away.  In the LDV trophy, a 3-1 win at Bournemouth put City into the Area Final where they met Cambridge United again with the first leg at Ashton Gate this year.  Mark Robins, a loanee, made his debut and scored in that game and City came from 2-1 down to win 4-2. The next game, at Northampton, was 10 years to the day since Brian Tinnion had joined the club.  Fittingly, he scored the winner in a 2-1 win, Mark Robins had scored City’s first. City’s fortune continued with a 3-0 win at the Abbey Stadium in the LDV 2nd leg game and then they beat Oldham, who had not lost away all season, 2-0. A 1-0 defeat at QPR was a minor reverse as City continued picking up points in their subsequent games. Robins was recalled by Rotherham after scoring five goals in eight games and scored on his return to the Millers. The same day City won at Huddersfield with their 2nd being a spectacular header from Lee Peacock, his first goal for three months. City’s unbeaten spell continued; at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium City beat Carlisle 2-0 to lift the LDV Trophy whilst in the League, draws at Crewe and Luton coupled with home wins over Cardiff lifted the team to third place with two games to go.  City could still make 2nd spot if they won at Chesterfield whilst Crewe lost at QPR. City and QPR both had two men sent off in those games and City conceded two goals in the last four minutes, so they had to settle for the play offs.  The final game was a 2-0 defeat of Port Vale which secured 3rd position for City.  Kevin Amankwaah came on for the final 20 minutes, his first appearance since that horrendous car crash of over a year ago and received a standing ovation from the 12,000 crowd.  As they had finished third, City played Cardiff who had finished 6th.  The only goal was scored in the first leg by Peter Thorne who had scored Stoke’s winner at Wembley three years before.  Sam Hamman, Cardiff’s chairman afterwards declared it was wrong that third placed City had not been promoted.  City had scored 79 League goals that year and another 27 in cup matches.  That total of 106 made this City’s second best season ever for scoring.  Scott Murray had hit 26 of them and contributed many more with his passing in his 45 League appearances. Goalkeeper Steve Phillips was the only ever present.

During the close season Scott Murray was on the fringes of the Scotland team, Christian Roberts played for Wales in a defeat against America and Tommy Doherty played twice for Northern Ireland, a friendly in Rome and a competitive match against Spain in Belfast.  Spectators judged him to have put in very solid displays. Against Spain, Tommy Doherty tried to lob Iker Casillas from 20 yards, the Real Madrid goalkeeper showing good reflexes to get up and turn his effort over the bar as the crowd held its breath. Northern Ireland defended stoutly in the 75th minute when Doherty cleared off the line after Taylor had turned away a rasping shot from sub Fernando Morientes. Finally early in July 2003 after 271 appearances and 60 goals, Scott Murray was bought by Reading for an initial £400,000 rising to £650,000 dependant on appearances and success. 

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7 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

I do have some more clips that I will add , but it will be parts of the following year/years before I start adding full games and Flashback for the fans programs. 

 

Found some for 2003-04; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebQ6ZtTs0I Eleven in a row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNYuAXO26f0 City v Swindon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ3ob9767aY   and  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5A9J-P9gA for stills of the GJ promotion.

actual match footage, finally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLnKi4ZlsgY

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The 11 in a row is one of mine @22A , saw the Swindon game before. Not sure what I have left, I'll put it up soon. 
Can't believe there aren't Promotion videos around , I'll keep looking. BTW what a surge on that  clips vid of the promotion goals.

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17 hours ago, 22A said:

Some great memories there, that comeback against Boro in the Fa Cup has always stuck in my mind, great goal from Scotty.

And that away game at Doncaster was one of my favourite away days,not the best game but that header from McCombe meant so much and had us believing it was finally our year.

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1 hour ago, Tomarse said:

That goal by Murray v Oldham though.  They really were an awful team under Dowie.

They were awful but somehow kept the pace with the top 2 most the season and ended 5th. I remember the whole ground shouting Boring Boring Oldham at HT. L1 back then really suites long ball, defensive sides which City were not.

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Found a little for 2007 - 08 season; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa4yB6TsOPE  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRp3NJ7lMME 

 

The Summer of 2007 saw the club release Scott Partridge and six lesser players. The first signing was Stephen Henderson a 19 year old goal keeper from Aston Villa who had played for Ireland at youth level. Ivan Sproule joined from Hibs for £250,000 and the Scots were convinced City had landed a bargain.  Michael McIndoe was signed from Wolves whilst Icelander Finnboggeson went with City on their pre season tour of Latvia, but was not signed.  At the end of July City paid £1 million to Swansea for their striker Lee Trundle and then snapped up Marvin Elliott from Millwall who also sold City Darren Byfield. Tamas Vasko was signed for a year long loan from Ujpest of Hungary.  The season began with a pair of draws followed by a defeat at Scunthorpe.  City then won at Hillsborough and Coventry to go top of the Championship.  Those first 10 games produced 4 wins, 5 draws and just 1 defeat.  The good results continued until November where two draws bracketed three defeats, one of those 6-0 at Ipswich which included a penalty and a sending off.  City bounced back though and won 2-1 at new leaders Watford on December 1st to remain 5th after 20 games. A month later on New Year’s Day 2008, WBA, Watford and City had equal points at the top of the Championship.  Nick Carle  an Australian international midfielder was signed from a Turkish club and at the end of January, forward Dele Adebola was signed from Coventry and scored three times in his first five games.  By 1st March City were three points clear at the top of the table. Then came three draws and a pair of defeats with the one at Cardiff being contentious. Cardiff had opened the scoring and City had equalised.  Then Steve Brooker, back from injury and a lengthy loan spell, appeared to score only for it to be deemed offside.  30 seconds later Cardiff scored the winner from a penalty. The following week however Brooker was on side as he scored City’s winner in the dying moments against Norwich to ensure City remained league leaders with five games remaining. City then lost at Southampton but remained on top with a zero goal difference. WBA and Hull both had a game in hand on City and when they won those, City slipped to fourth spot with three games remaining immediately behind Stoke, City’s next opponents. The teams in 2nd and 5th spots lost whilst 6th and 7th drew, so expectations were great, but City lost 2-1 and had to settle for the play offs rather than automatic promotion.

Away to Crystal Palace, City took a 2nd half lead through Carey only to concede a penalty in the 85th minute. City didn’t give up though and scored again in the last minute to secure a win when Noble hit a shot from 30 yards out. The home leg saw Palace take a first half lead and then be awarded a penalty with 17 minutes remaining.  Watson, who had scored the goal, hit the penalty onto the post, so the game entered extra time. Trundle hit a curling shot to equalise on the night and give City an aggregate lead and then five minutes later McIndoe put the game beyond doubt when he scored from 30 yards out. 86,703 fans, a new club record, attended Wembley for the Play Off Final, but McIndoe was ill on the Friday night and was replaced by Fontaine. A 1st half clash of heads resulted in concussion and a fractured jaw for Bradley Orr who was rushed to hospital. The game was won 1-0 by Hull when Dean Windass hit a stunning volley from 20 yards out.

 

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