Guest Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 11 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said: I'm bored so wanted to see how much of our fair city is red / blue and came up with this... Anyone else want to have a go? Ah, but you are forgetting the rest of the country who love them!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, wood_red said: Ah, but you are forgetting the rest of the country who love them!!!! Of course, everyones' 2nd favorite team. Silly me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 16 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said: I'm bored so wanted to see how much of our fair city is red / blue and came up with this... Anyone else want to have a go? I’m in BS7 but it doesn’t feel blue here at all. I sometimes see strange people wearing da famous quarters walking towards Filton Avenue when there is a match, but that’s it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 come on, own up! 4 minutes ago, pongo88 said: I’m in BS7 but it doesn’t feel blue here at all. I sometimes see strange people wearing da famous quarters walking towards Filton Avenue when there is a match, but that’s it. Is Yate not a gas stronghold any more either then? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 If Yate is turning red, this isn't looking good for them is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said: 9,926 was the attendance ... Call me a liar for 74 then ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dicks Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Moments of Pleasure said: Just to put that April '76 26,000 Bristol derby game crowd at Eastville in some sort of context, Rovers played some other "glittering" league fixtures at the home around that time, including: Man Utd, March 75: 19,000 Tottenham, 78 (the "second leg," they were 0-9 down on agg): 17,700. Villa, 74: 14,000 Chelsea 76: 13,000 (played Chelsea four or five times around then, 16k in 75 being the largest). West Ham, 79: 12,400. So, nothing came close to us playing there, in the league, in 1976. Which suggests a considerable visiting support! Same as when they played Man Utd, who would take 10,000 everywhere back then. To get a crowd at Eastville to match or better that league derby match in '76, in the 70s, you have to look at cup games. In '78, they had 26,000 v Southampton, with10k Saints fans, from what I can find. This suggests the Muller held at least 10k back then. Meaning at least 10k of us in '76, and at most 16 of them. Prior to this you go back to '72 and a league cup visit from Best and Charlton, and 33,900! at a Bristol Rovers home game (you see! They are huge, massive. In 1972. With a visit from two of the greatest this country has ever seen). They managed two, losing, league cup quarter finals in 70 and 71, pulling in 33,000 for those. Thirty three thousand* - blimey! Long time ago, mind. Half a century. What might've been. My search has not been exhaustive but I believe the '76 game v us was the last home league crowd of 20,000 plus at theirs, and possibly the only 20k plus crowd for a non-cup tie since the days of record crowds everywhere and their one and only half-decent team of the late 50s, early 60s (not sure if they had a "bumper" turn out for promotion in '74?). And it was only so many because there were thousands of us. Like many, many poxy clubs (and not unlike ourselves, in truth), Rovers could/can get a big crowd once or twice a season, for a knockout game or the visit of some all-time greats, or a family day out to Wemberlee, drawing in many neutrals, day-trippers and casual observers, few if any of whom will ever be interested in their run of the mill, mundane league games that make up the majority of a season. The mistake, or perhaps intentionally misleading or deluding conclusion, they come to, is to read far too much into the big one-off occasion and envisage from that the potential of many, many thousands trudging through the wind and the rain, and the grey (and the boob cricket, and the horse interfering) to witness league fixtures against the same old bloody dross week after week, year after year. Lord knows I have made the same error and deluded myself similarly about us. *Many of these "loyal and true/once-in-blue-moon" diehards from 50 years ago in 1971 would be waiting to go again regularly, should they get a ground/take the Prem by storm/overtake us again, were it not for the sad fact that they are now dead. And the "faith" has not lived on through the generations. The 9 nill drubbing was in the league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) Had to bring this back up as I've been winding the daughter up with her Alexa, she now has the Damned and SLF on her spotify and is not pleased with me. Edited April 23, 2020 by Ska Junkie 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Ska Junkie said: I'm sure we had the South enclosure post fire? I'm pretty sure that we had it immediately pre-fire too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty Swallocks Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said: If Yate is turning red, this isn't looking good for them is it? Bradley Stoke is definitely a City area. Always loads of nippers running around in City shirts up that way. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Davey Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 20 hours ago, Ska Junkie said: That's how I remember it, we had the South terrace as well as the MRE didn't we? think there may of been some of us in there ,don't think we were supposed to be in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, Jim Davey said: think there may of been some of us in there ,don't think we were supposed to be in there. My mate and I were certainly jumping around in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 7 minutes ago, Betty Swallocks said: Bradley Stoke is definitely a City area. Always loads of nippers running around in City shirts up that way. Patchway's gas though isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty Swallocks Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said: Patchway's gas though isn't it? Yeah and they can keep it 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 So BS32 is half and half too? Blimey. Not looking good for the blue 10th iss it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 16 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said: So BS32 is half and half too? Blimey. Not looking good for the blue 10th iss it? Just need that little bit of SN and we`ve got the buggers surrounded apart from those few that appear to be running away towards Gloucestershire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Davey Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) 10,400 attendance v arsenal 1984 think we got more than that against York city in the old 4th div a few weeks later Edited April 23, 2020 by Jim Davey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 7 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said: Just need that little bit of SN and we`ve got the buggers surrounded apart from those few that appear to be running away towards Gloucestershire. If i switch the halve of BS32 about, we've locked them in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 20 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said: If i switch the halve of BS32 about, we've locked them in. Cunning - classic pincer movement. Give them an escape corridor and let FGR have to deal with them, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porto Red Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Moments of Pleasure said: Just to put that April '76 26,000 Bristol derby game crowd at Eastville in some sort of context, Rovers played some other "glittering" league fixtures at the home around that time, including: Man Utd, March 75: 19,000 Tottenham, 78 (the "second leg," they were 0-9 down on agg): 17,700. Villa, 74: 14,000 Chelsea 76: 13,000 (played Chelsea four or five times around then, 16k in 75 being the largest). West Ham, 79: 12,400. So, nothing came close to us playing there, in the league, in 1976. Which suggests a considerable visiting support! Same as when they played Man Utd, who would take 10,000 everywhere back then. To get a crowd at Eastville to match or better that league derby match in '76, in the 70s, you have to look at cup games. In '78, they had 26,000 v Southampton, with10k Saints fans, from what I can find. This suggests the Muller held at least 10k back then. Meaning at least 10k of us in '76, and at most 16 of them. Prior to this you go back to '72 and a league cup visit from Best and Charlton, and 33,900! at a Bristol Rovers home game (you see! They are huge, massive. In 1972. With a visit from two of the greatest this country has ever seen). They managed two, losing, league cup quarter finals in 70 and 71, pulling in 33,000 for those. Thirty three thousand* - blimey! Long time ago, mind. Half a century. What might've been. My search has not been exhaustive but I believe the '76 game v us was the last home league crowd of 20,000 plus at theirs, and possibly the only 20k plus crowd for a non-cup tie since the days of record crowds everywhere and their one and only half-decent team of the late 50s, early 60s (not sure if they had a "bumper" turn out for promotion in '74?). And it was only so many because there were thousands of us. Like many, many poxy clubs (and not unlike ourselves, in truth), Rovers could/can get a big crowd once or twice a season, for a knockout game or the visit of some all-time greats, or a family day out to Wemberlee, drawing in many neutrals, day-trippers and casual observers, few if any of whom will ever be interested in their run of the mill, mundane league games that make up the majority of a season. The mistake, or perhaps intentionally misleading or deluding conclusion, they come to, is to read far too much into the big one-off occasion and envisage from that the potential of many, many thousands trudging through the wind and the rain, and the grey (and the boob cricket, and the horse interfering) to witness league fixtures against the same old bloody dross week after week, year after year. Lord knows I have made the same error and deluded myself similarly about us. *Many of these "loyal and true/once-in-blue-moon" diehards from 50 years ago in 1971 would be waiting to go again regularly, should they get a ground/take the Prem by storm/overtake us again, were it not for the sad fact that they are now dead. And the "faith" has not lived on through the generations. @Moments of Pleasure can I please take a "moment" to congratulate you on what must be one of the finest posts ever seen on this venerable and esteemed forum. Bravo sir. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said: If i switch the halve of BS32 about, we've locked them in. I'm BS7 and have cleansed the area pub by pub. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 17 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said: I'm BS7 and have cleansed the area pub by pub. Great effort Rob but I think with Lockleaze, we can't really take BS7 away from them just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said: Great effort Rob but I think with Lockleaze, we can't really take BS7 away from them just yet. Well let's just assume that once the pubs reopen, I'll get that done in a weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said: Well let's just assume that once the pubs reopen, I'll get that done in a weekend. The rugby ground too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 24 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said: Great effort Rob but I think with Lockleaze, we can't really take BS7 away from them just yet. Lived in Lockleaze, plenty of City fans around there. One guy who lives just off Wordsworth Road hung a massive St George flag on the front of his house with Bristol City FC written across it during one of the Euros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BanburyRed Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said: If i switch the halve of BS32 about, we've locked them in. Just going to show what an absolute stain on Bristol they really are.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) I was expecting people to go the other way and say 'such and such an area still has a lot of gas' but clearly not. Kingswood, Fishponds, Eastville, Filton, Horfield, Patchway, a bit of Yate and a bit of Warmley / Banjo. Is that it? They must have more than that surely? Keynsham? Is Lawrence Weston red? I'm from east Bristol so don't know. Edited April 23, 2020 by Ska Junkie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 5 hours ago, Ska Junkie said: I'm bored so wanted to see how much of our fair city is red / blue and came up with this... Anyone else want to have a go? The only Blue and White quarters you'll see in BS16 will be on Beemers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswood Robin Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said: I was expecting people to go the other way and say 'such and such an area still has a lot of gas' but clearly not. Kingswood, Fishponds, Eastville, Filton, Horfield, Patchway, a bit of Yate and a bit of Warmley / Banjo. Is that it? They must have more than that surely? Keynsham? Is Lawrence Weston red? I'm from east Bristol so don't know. In the eastern end of Kingswood/Warmley, there's City everywhere, and growing all the time. Having grown up around there I'd say neighbours, school/work friends was always split right down the middle. The Bristol end of Kingswood might be a bit more blue. In the road I live now, about a dozen houses are City (half attend matches), 2 are Rovers and don't want to know. A clear indicator is at my son's school, full city shirts, not too many Rovers. BS15 is definitely not blue, far from it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 I'm originally a 'Woody myself bud and there were very few of us back in the day, the Cobbler apart. I do agree that even in the 'Wood all the youngsters are wearing red nowadays and there's not much blue about. Great isn't it? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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