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22A

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Tranmere were 18th in League 1 then. Now they're mid table National League. About six others in that table are now in L2; proof that City is a comparative success story?

BTW; where's the gas in that list?

Jin

Jin

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Leyton Orient lost on penalties in the play-off final that season.. look where they are now. Sad to see.

I remember beating them away that season with us being the underdogs! 

Mr Popodopolous

Mr Popodopolous

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How times change...

I remember a 2 and a half year gap between being 2nd bottom of League One and being in the play off final...

5 days before 24th November 2005 we lost 4-2 at home to Chesterfield- 2 days after at Doncaster.

Results Soccer Table League One 18. Gameday League Season 2005/06

The League One Table for the 18. Gameday of the Soccer League Season 2005/06.
 

Place League One Team Games Win Draw Loss Goals Points
 
1. Swansea City 18 11 4 3 41:21 (+20) 37
2. Huddersfield Town 18 10 5 3 32:23 (+9) 35
3. Southend United 18 10 3 5 32:21 (+11) 33
4. Chesterfield 18 10 1 7 33:29 (+4) 31
5. Brentford 18 8 6 4 24:18 (+6) 30
6. Barnsley 18 7 6 5 22:17 (+5) 27
7. Nottingham Forest 18 8 3 7 23:20 (+3) 27
8. Colchester United 18 7 6 5 22:21 (+1) 27
9. Bradford City 18 6 7 5 20:17 (+3) 25
10. Scunthorpe United 18 7 4 7 31:31 (+0) 25
11. Port Vale 18 7 4 7 20:21 (-1) 25
12. Doncaster Rovers 18 7 3 8 22:21 (+1) 24
13. AFC Bournemouth 18 6 6 6 20:21 (-1) 24
14. Walsall 18 6 5 7 26:28 (-2) 23
15. Hartlepool United 18 6 5 7 21:24 (-3) 23
16. Yeovil Town 18 6 4 8 21:27 (-6) 22
17. Oldham Athletic 18 6 4 8 23:31 (-8) 22
18. Milton Keynes Dons 18 4 9 5 20:22 (-2) 21
19. Tranmere Rovers 18 5 5 8 19:20 (-1) 20
20. Gillingham 18 5 5 8 14:24 (-10) 20
21. Rotherham United 18 4 7 7 21:22 (-1) 19
22. Blackpool 18 4 7 7 25:30 (-5) 19
23. Bristol City 18 4 4 10 22:37 (-15) 16
24. Swindon Town 18 3 5 10 19:27 (-8) 14

Results Game Result Details 18. Gameday League One 2005/06

Vincent Vega

Vincent Vega

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5 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

How times change...

I remember a 2 and a half year gap between being 2nd bottom of League One and being in the play off final...

5 days before 24th November 2005 we lost 4-2 at home to Chesterfield- 2 days after at Doncaster.

Results Soccer Table League One 18. Gameday League Season 2005/06

The League One Table for the 18. Gameday of the Soccer League Season 2005/06.
 

Place League One Team Games Win Draw Loss Goals Points
 
1. Swansea City 18 11 4 3 41:21 (+20) 37
2. Huddersfield Town 18 10 5 3 32:23 (+9) 35
3. Southend United 18 10 3 5 32:21 (+11) 33
4. Chesterfield 18 10 1 7 33:29 (+4) 31
5. Brentford 18 8 6 4 24:18 (+6) 30
6. Barnsley 18 7 6 5 22:17 (+5) 27
7. Nottingham Forest 18 8 3 7 23:20 (+3) 27
8. Colchester United 18 7 6 5 22:21 (+1) 27
9. Bradford City 18 6 7 5 20:17 (+3) 25
10. Scunthorpe United 18 7 4 7 31:31 (+0) 25
11. Port Vale 18 7 4 7 20:21 (-1) 25
12. Doncaster Rovers 18 7 3 8 22:21 (+1) 24
13. AFC Bournemouth 18 6 6 6 20:21 (-1) 24
14. Walsall 18 6 5 7 26:28 (-2) 23
15. Hartlepool United 18 6 5 7 21:24 (-3) 23
16. Yeovil Town 18 6 4 8 21:27 (-6) 22
17. Oldham Athletic 18 6 4 8 23:31 (-8) 22
18. Milton Keynes Dons 18 4 9 5 20:22 (-2) 21
19. Tranmere Rovers 18 5 5 8 19:20 (-1) 20
20. Gillingham 18 5 5 8 14:24 (-10) 20
21. Rotherham United 18 4 7 7 21:22 (-1) 19
22. Blackpool 18 4 7 7 25:30 (-5) 19
23. Bristol City 18 4 4 10 22:37 (-15) 16
24. Swindon Town 18 3 5 10 19:27 (-8) 14

Results Game Result Details 18. Gameday League One 2005/06

Swansea and Bournemouth..!

Red Army 75

Red Army 75

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15 minutes ago, BCFC101 said:

"City are in dreamland" as we go 3-1 up away at Carlisle to get our first league win 3 months into the season. :facepalm:

At the time that was a much needed result ( shocking commentary) . Didn't waggy get a hat trick. Amazing how football evolves in such little time. Watching Swindon last Friday against FGR shows how quickly it changes. 

GrahamC

GrahamC

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5 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

At the time that was a much needed result ( shocking commentary) . Didn't waggy get a hat trick. Amazing how football evolves in such little time. Watching Swindon last Friday against FGR shows how quickly it changes. 

JET did.

Vincent Vega

Vincent Vega

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5 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

At the time that was a much needed result ( shocking commentary) . Didn't waggy get a hat trick. Amazing how football evolves in such little time. Watching Swindon last Friday against FGR shows how quickly it changes. 

JET I think

Super

Super

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1 hour ago, Southstandoriginal said:

Who was the manager then?  Stupid question.

That clown was taking us down again playing the worst football I have seen.

DaveInSA

DaveInSA

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21 minutes ago, CityLew said:

Leyton Orient lost on penalties in the play-off final that season.. look where they are now. Sad to see.

I remember beating them away that season with us being the underdogs! 

That's well sad - had to google it. Slide had good things going on there and now they're a complete shambles.

We should be rightly proud of what we've achieved as a club...and we should be rightly enjoying our current successful run. We are BCFC and as sure as we have good times, we'll have some bad ones, to be fair they usually follow each other. I wonder if we're starting to see something a little more sustainable?

Son of Fred

Son of Fred

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2 hours ago, WolfOfWestStreet said:

We were bottom of league one. 

Times have changed.

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And Sheffield Utd were 20th!...

It's all pretty much a cycle of ups 'n downs on varying levels..long may this particular 'up' continue until at least Christmas!

robinreliant

robinreliant

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10 minutes ago, DaveInSA said:

That's well sad - had to google it. Slide had good things going on there and now they're a complete shambles.

We should be rightly proud of what we've achieved as a club...and we should be rightly enjoying our current successful run. We are BCFC and as sure as we will have good times, we'll have some bad ones, to be fair they usually follow each other. I wonder if we're starting to see something a little more sustainable?

Didn't Alan Dicks once say that ?

chipdawg

chipdawg

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2 hours ago, WolfOfWestStreet said:

We were bottom of league one. 

Times have changed.

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It highlights what the major issue was with that SOD side when you look at the table and (Coventry and their points deduction aside) there's only 1 team between bottom 8th place who scored more goals than us. No one had conceded more

pride of the west

pride of the west

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I remember lansdown doing an interview on SODs sacking. He said he knew he had to act as having come back from holiday, everyone at the club were patting each other on the back celebrating a home DRAW with orient. 

It just showed the sort of mind set SOD got us into.

BCFC101

BCFC101

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39 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

At the time that was a much needed result ( shocking commentary) . Didn't waggy get a hat trick. Amazing how football evolves in such little time. Watching Swindon last Friday against FGR shows how quickly it changes. 

Yeah of course, I remember how much it meant at the time, I was more referring to the commentary, it still sticks in my mind haha

Super

Super

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9 minutes ago, pride of the west said:

I remember lansdown doing an interview on SODs sacking. He said he knew he had to act as having come back from holiday, everyone at the club were patting each other on the back celebrating a home DRAW with orient. 

It just showed the sort of mind set SOD got us into.

And some on here saying we had turned the corner :facepalm:

Jack Dawe

Jack Dawe

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20 minutes ago, chipdawg said:

It highlights what the major issue was with that SOD side when you look at the table and (Coventry and their points deduction aside) there's only 1 team between bottom 8th place who scored more goals than us. No one had conceded more

Flinty "had a mistake in him" back then. I remember Port Vale away, leading 1:0, I think it was into added time. He could've just launched it into the crowd/empty terraces.........

Garland-sweden

Garland-sweden

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Its only we and SU who has progressed if we look at what division the teams are now. Remember I was at the Charlton game, O-1. Next game think we beat Orient away and then SOD was sacked. Remember I saw the first pressconferenc with Cotts, liked him at once. Funny, at that moment I was beggining believe in this Club again. Cotts in charge and rest is history. Cotts got it and knew what City needed. He will never be forgotten. COYR!!!

Jack Dawe

Jack Dawe

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15 minutes ago, Super said:

And some on here saying we had turned the corner :facepalm:

It was one defeat in seven games under SO'D, the last being the draw at home to Orient. Compared to what preceded it - our first league win coming on Oct 26th! - it was a turning around, of sorts. Tbf, to the miserable SO'D.

Always Believesham

Always Believesham

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14 minutes ago, Garland-sweden said:

Its only we and SU who has progressed if we look at what division the teams are now. Remember I was at the Charlton game, O-1. Next game think we beat Orient away and then SOD was sacked. Remember I saw the first pressconferenc with Cotts, liked him at once. Funny, at that moment I was beggining believe in this Club again. Cotts in charge and rest is history. Cotts got it and knew what City needed. He will never be forgotten. COYR!!!

Not sure where you're getting the first bit from? Charlton relegated us (edit: were the last team we played in the champ), we drew at home to Orient, then SOD was sacked.

But I agree that Cotterill was exactly what we needed, no frills. The team's confidence improved as we eradicated the errors, generally this was done by doing simple things and was a great foundation to kick on.

Warnock could be doing a very similar thing at Cardiff in the championship.

We needed to hit rock bottom in order to turn it round in such style

Garland-sweden

Garland-sweden

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Was ar the gate and we lost O-1, owngoal If I remember right. Think it was vs Charlto but could be wrong. Next game was Orient. And then COD was sacked. Or am i telling about another season? The years pass very fast nowadays.

elhombrecito

elhombrecito

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5 minutes ago, Garland-sweden said:

Was ar the gate and we lost O-1, owngoal If I remember right. Think it was vs Charlto but could be wrong. Next game was Orient. And then COD was sacked. Or am i telling about another season? The years pass very fast nowadays.

Callum O'Dowda got sacked? Shit, I had high hopes for the lad... :shifty:

Jack Dawe

Jack Dawe

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5 minutes ago, Garland-sweden said:

Was ar the gate and we lost O-1, owngoal If I remember right. Think it was vs Charlto but could be wrong. Next game was Orient. And then COD was sacked. Or am i telling about another season? The years pass very fast nowadays.

That was Sheff Utd, G-s. One of the worst games at AG I can remember. Sheff Utd were about as dismal as us, kept 10 men behind the ball and had to rely on one of ours - Flinty, I think! - to turn a cross into our net. Appalling game.

Next game, we played much better at home to Orient. Then SO'D was fired, a day or two after!

archie andrews

archie andrews

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9 minutes ago, Garland-sweden said:

Was ar the gate and we lost O-1, owngoal If I remember right. Think it was vs Charlto but could be wrong. Next game was Orient. And then COD was sacked. Or am i telling about another season? The years pass very fast nowadays.

think youre get mixed up with the Sheffield utd game chris.......

pongo88

pongo88

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3 hours ago, shelts said:

The tables upside down 

When tables were originally published, in the early days of the football league. teams were listed in althabetical order. This meant that Bristol City was always near the top. It also meant the Bristol Rovers would also always be near the top. Obviously this was ridiculous, so the tables were changed to the current format. 

Very interesting that of the teams above City four years ago, only Sheffield Utd have really improved. Well done to Cotts

Monkeh

Monkeh

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39 minutes ago, Jack Dawe said:

It was one defeat in seven games under SO'D, the last being the draw at home to Orient. Compared to what preceded it - our first league win coming on Oct 26th! - it was a turning around, of sorts. Tbf, to the miserable SO'D.

It was also 2 wins in 18 it wasn't turning around it was papering over the cracks he is the worst manager we ever had, 

i longed for pulis football after watching that draw with the blades it was that bad

pongo88

pongo88

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1 hour ago, Jack Dawe said:

It was one defeat in seven games under SO'D, the last being the draw at home to Orient. Compared to what preceded it - our first league win coming on Oct 26th! - it was a turning around, of sorts. Tbf, to the miserable SO'D.

SoD did seem to be turning things around so, compared to LJ’s awful run of defeats, it could be said that he was treated badly. I think one of the reasons he was sacked and LJ was given more time was because SoD was downright measurable and LJ was upbeat. I can remember that, at the time, SL said  he thought it was awful that SoD thought it was a good result to get a draw with Orient. SL seemed to think that this wasn’t much of an achievement 

Mike Hunt-Hertz

Mike Hunt-Hertz

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53 minutes ago, Garland-sweden said:

Remember the manager SOD or COD talked not loud. For me as a foreigner he was hard to understand. Cotteril a complete different person.

Black Country mate....I work there and can hardly understand them!

Wanderingred

Wanderingred

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I remember going into work the day after that Carlisle game and everyone stood up and applauded me as I entered the office. :D

I still can't fathom how we went until the end of freaking October without a win in LEAGUE ONE!!  It's not as if we hadn't brought in some decent players.. And SOD came to us with a good reputation. Just what really happened behind the scenes to make things so hopelessly bad? 1980-83 aside, the SOD era must be the darkest era in living memory.

cider-manc

cider-manc

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Imo the biggest problem with sod was he didn't seem to want to take responsibility for on field decisions for what was a young inexperienced team.

I remember watching an interview in which he said about the players making their own decisions on what type of ball to play and not even practicing set pieces in training. 

I also seem to remember we started off playing well and felt unlucky with some of the results... Then the players heads dropped. So we basically had an inexperienced team who didn't seem to have been given any sort of a way to play who were drained of all confidence. 

Contrast that with cotts coming in and setting us up so every player was told their role/way of playing added some decent experienced players on loan and all of a sudden results started to shift.

Not that it was all plain sailing.  The 3-0 defeat at Sheffield United was one of my most angry moments as a city fan. However that result led to the (much derived at the time) "I'm a winner" interview and boy did he prove it the following season.

You Do The Dziekanowski

You Do The Dziekanowski

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4 hours ago, BCFC101 said:

"City are in dreamland" as we go 3-1 up away at Carlisle to get our first league win 3 months into the season. :facepalm:

That was well worth the trip! 1-0 down at half time, then all of sudden SOD the God turned us into Barca for the second half! 

 

pillred

pillred

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8 hours ago, WolfOfWestStreet said:

It really was horrendous. 

I hated SOD, properly hated him. 

is he doing anything now, never hear of him thank god, used to send me to sleep droning on with his psychobabble, worlds most boring man.

Ohbasso

Ohbasso

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11 hours ago, Thatch35 said:

Not really. Citys owner is a billionare 

If you want to keep it believable Thatch you need to say OUR owner is a billionaire not City's owner is a billionaire. :thumbsup:

Hellfire Corner

Hellfire Corner

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3 minutes ago, Ohbasso said:

If you want to keep it believable Thatch you need to say OUR owner is a billionaire not City's owner is a billionaire. :thumbsup:

Ohbasso- technically Thatch is right, because SL is not your owner or my owner, so he can't be our owner.

Ohbasso

Ohbasso

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34 minutes ago, Hellfire Corner said:

Ohbasso- technically Thatch is right, because SL is not your owner or my owner, so he can't be our owner.

I know grammatically it's not correct but I'm just trying to help him out, he used to be dedicated to the troll game but he's starting to get a bit lazy and his standards are slipping.

Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

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15 hours ago, Jack Dawe said:

Flinty "had a mistake in him" back then. I remember Port Vale away, leading 1:0, I think it was into added time. He could've just launched it into the crowd/empty terraces.........

That's right, Lee Hughes scored the equaliser, then did his stupid little dance. Absolutely gutted.

For some reason though I have quite fond memories of that season, not the bit under S'OD obviously or the first couple of months under Cotterill. The way we finished the season after our incredibly poor start was the biggest relief I've felt since I started supporting City. I was genuinely worried that we were heading for L2 after losing at Bramhall Lane.

 

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