BCFC1512 Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 Not quite to the day 22/12/00 friday night under the Ashton Gate lights, Bristol City 3 Bristol Rovers 2! What a night/day!! I can’t imagine they’d allow that fixture Friday night now haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 (edited) City played some great stuff under Danny Wilson. Edited December 23, 2022 by Robbored 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 28 minutes ago, Robbored said: City played some great stuff under Danny Wilson. And achieved very little. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 I remember after the game struggling to get a drink in some city Center pubs but a great night and good way to start Christmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC1512 Posted December 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 18 minutes ago, sticks 1969 said: I remember after the game struggling to get a drink in some city Center pubs but a great night and good way to start Christmas The rising sun pre match was epic!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midred Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 19 minutes ago, sticks 1969 said: I remember after the game struggling to get a drink in some city Center pubs but a great night and good way to start Christmas That was one of Danny Wilson's many faults! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 Best Christmas party ever. Its weird but you see this YouTube clip and you’d love to see another Bristol derby, then remember the string of dreadful defeats and you’re quite happy with them remaining below us 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offside Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 I remember it well. I feared the worst when they got the early goal, but we were much the better side and Thorpe’s header from Aaron Brown’s surging run and cross is one of my favourite City goals of all time. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 36 minutes ago, Super said: And achieved very little. Entertaining football every game tho. Football is about entertainment after all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Balls Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 24 minutes ago, Robbored said: Entertaining football every game tho. Football is about entertainment after all Bar that most important game (the play off final) and his last, against Brighton in 2004 in Cardiff. One of the worst games ever - and absolutely no entertainment to be had, plus Lita not even on the bench. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 (edited) Good game, atmosphere- just before Christmas. They scored after 27 seconds iirc! People are a bit binary on here about Wilson era IMO. Some decent things, some bad things football for good periods not bad but ultimately failed at the last once and arguably twice given that we finished 3rd in each of 2002-03 and 2003-04. Edited December 23, 2022 by Mr Popodopolous 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Soldier Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 What a night! On my birthday that game. Finished work early for the game. Plotted up in Rising Sun with a fair few prematch. Ding dong prematch. Great game to watch. Back in town afterwards. Rammed with City. Just a brilliant night out. Miss the Bristol derbies to be honest as nothing comes close nowadays. Think it would be good for us supporters to have them again as I hate the srekcuf! All feels a bit plastic nowadays - no needle. Miss it. Merry Xmas all you City fans. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 3 hours ago, Robbored said: City played some great stuff under Danny Wilson. Squeezed past an absolutely shite team 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 3 hours ago, cidercity1987 said: Squeezed past an absolutely shite team Yes a poor team, although that doesn’t count for much in a derby, but how many of us walking out of the ground would have even dreamed about that being the last time they would play a league game at Ashton Gate for at least 22 years? 22 years in the other direction and we were playing top flight football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 4 hours ago, cidercity1987 said: Squeezed past an absolutely shite team They were a side who seemed to start the season quite strongly then went into sharp decline and almost made the playoffs the year before so though I don't like them at all, you're possibly underselling it a bit. Them missing the playoffs was marvellous, they were top in mid to late March 2000 iirc and yet fell out on the last day, losing at an already relegated Cardiff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 6 hours ago, Robbored said: Entertaining football every game tho. Football is about entertainment after all If you are only going to count the entertaining games, then you are right..! I assume you didn't go to the play off final..? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 7 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said: If you are only going to count the entertaining games, then you are right..! I assume you didn't go to the play off final..? Your assumption is wrong Bar - I was the Millennium against Brighton and at Wembley against Hull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 37 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: They were a side who seemed to start the season quite strongly then went into sharp decline and almost made the playoffs the year before so though I don't like them at all, you're possibly underselling it a bit. Them missing the playoffs was marvellous, they were top in mid to late March 2000 iirc and yet fell out on the last day, losing at an already relegated Cardiff. They got relegated that season Poppy Loved that game, one of my first AG memories to be fair but you only have to watch the highlights to know they were absolutely dire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said: They got relegated that season Poppy Loved that game, one of my first AG memories to be fair but you only have to watch the highlights to know they were absolutely dire Were strong until maybe mid October, very happy they went down and much the same side who almost made playoffs previous year. They had a fantastically bad, perhaps record breaking in modern times run of no home win until late February 2021. Tbh just checked- sold Roberts, Cureton and Zamora that season- probably their downfall! Edited December 23, 2022 by Mr Popodopolous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 54 minutes ago, Robbored said: Your assumption is wrong Bar - I was the Millennium against Brighton and at Wembley against Hull. No, I was subtly pointing out that you were chatting shite.... that Brighton Play off final was utterly diabolical & on Wilson. To say his team entertained every week is either blinkered or delusional. Yes, at times - but generally, Wilson's era was one of failure. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said: No, I was subtly pointing out that you were chatting shite.... that Brighton Play off final was utterly diabolical & on Wilson. To say his team entertained every week is either blinkered or delusional. Yes, at times - but generally, Wilson's era was one of failure. Just many other City managers were. It’s the nature of the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 38 minutes ago, Robbored said: Just many other City managers were. It’s the nature of the job. Except you consistently talk about Wilson and his reign as some magical time.... He failed to get us out of league one..! In fact, anything much of note that that team managed, result wise, was down to a memorable moment from one player or other, rather than any particularly great games that he masterminded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted December 24, 2022 Report Share Posted December 24, 2022 Great day, finished work early and went on the lash. Watched Slagheads get chased around Bedminster pre match then arrived just in time to see the net bulge in front of the Atyeo not fully realising the game had kicked off already. Watched a very enjoyable victory then went back into town happy in the knowledge that every Gasheads Christmas had been well and truly ruined. 2 months above them at that point. If you’d said to me then that 22 years later they’d still be below us I’d question if it was possible for them to be that pathetically shit but there you go, that’s Bristol Rovers for you. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted December 24, 2022 Report Share Posted December 24, 2022 23 hours ago, Robbored said: City played some great stuff under Danny Wilson. Apart from that kick off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin_unreliant Posted December 24, 2022 Report Share Posted December 24, 2022 As a city fan for nearly fifty years I find it a bit tinpot that 'best ever' memories include beating what is mostly a L2/L1 boomerang club. I don't give a monkeys about them. I just wish we could have more memories of beating top sides since our heyday in the seventies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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