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9 hours ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Are we allowed to talk about this game yet? 

I'm starting to believe that with a lot of luck and if we play to our absolute best, we may be able to pull something off. Man City don't seem to be the machine they usually are this season. 

Losing to Southampton in the other cup and drawing away against Forest the other day should give us some confidence that they are not as unbeatable as they usually are.

Poor aren't they? Only second in the Prem eh?

Maybe we could knock them out if we play our Under 18's!

25 minutes ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

You are quite right, I can still picture it now.

Conversely, Cashley’s drop kick free kick against Fulham for stepping outside the area was at The Open End.

I really can’t remember whether Fulham scored from the free kick, but I am pretty sure they did and, moreover, that this was the match they won 5-0.

Do you recall the incident and match?

I remember the match and that we got walloped. But no recollection of Cash incident. The kicking of clearances by goalkeepers from outside the box. Unlike today when keepers clearances are sometimes a couple of yards outside!

2 hours ago, pillred said:

So the ball went in at the East end? as that's how I remember it, there seems to be a bit of doubt I certainly seem to recall him kicking from the open end towards the East end where it went in.

No, no, no. Cash was in goal at the Covered, East End and the goalmouth that Hull were defending was the Open or Park end.

Oh, the Hull keeper was Jeff Wealands.

1 hour ago, Redland Red said:

I remember the Cashley goal.  We usually stood on the Open End but on that occasion the awful weather persuaded us to move to the East End (was this in the days when you were allowed to switch ends at half time - I can’t remember).  Stood immediately behind Cashley’s goal about half way up the terrace and we knew that we had seen something that we would probably never see again.

No, that handy option disappeared with the erection of the Dolman stand. What a shame.

14 minutes ago, Red Shadow said:

I was there and don't remember it being foggy. Otherwise I wouldn't have seen the ball going into the open end net from my standing position in the East End.

Not fog as far as I remember. Just heavy rain all through the match. One bounce about ten yards outside penalty area at Open End and over keepers head. City won 3-1 if memory is right.

5 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

What are the odds on another 5-5? I`d never seen one before and probably never will again.

5 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

What are the odds on another 5-5? I`d never seen one before and probably never will again.

In the 1930's my Dad stayed with his brother in Bury trying to find work up there. They went to watch Bolton v Chelsea and Dad put it in his  8 Draws on football pools. Result was a 6-6 draw and he never included a match he was going to, on his pools, again.

57 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

A bit off topic but the success of the penalty shows that these days you need to put some proper pace on the ball as well as be accurate. If that had been a tame effort the keeper would have saved it. Going for deception is becoming a 50/50 bet.

Better than a lot of world cup pens we saw, nice one Nahki.

Also a big factor was that Wells hit the ball along the ground. Another six to nine inches higher and I believe their keeper would have saved it.

5 hours ago, City oz said:

I will always remember when Ray Cashley our goalie scored a goal. It was against Hull City in 73. I was at Ashton Gate with my dad, and it was a very cold and foggy night match with high winds. Hull had the advantage in the first half and we had the advantage in the second half. Cash got great distance with every kick in the second half as he had the strong wind behind him. He kicked out from the East End of the ground, and I was with my dad behind the goal in the open end. I remember to this day the ball from Rays clearance bouncing just in front of the Hull goalie, the ball bouncing over his head and the ball going in the net. At first there was some silence and then a fantastic roar as like me this was something different and I think no one actually believed what occurred. 

We went on to win that night 3-1 and were either second or third in Division two at that time. Booby Gould and the sticks Ritchie were the other scorers for us that night.

I did not miss a home match at Ashton Gate that season.  I was not yet a teenager that season, and around ten or eleven years old. 73/74 were glorious years, and I will always remember those early years at Ashton Gate in the 70s.

I for one am quite excited for a good and solid home win against Hull next Saturday as we are doing well and NP now seems to have all the jigsaw puzzle pieces in place, however there is still more work to go with the current players he has. 

Next Saturday should a hard fought but a positive win in front of probably 20,000 of you lucky ones attending Ashton Gate.

I should be able to live stream the match against Hull and also the Man City one most probably will be live on "be in sports" in OZ.

Snap again. I was there. Brilliant view from front of Dolman.

1 hour ago, BCFCGav said:

Crap news - can’t wait to have you back big Rob.

So in terms of fit centre-halves - we’re looking at Vyner and Kalas. King as cover. Joe Low recall might be in order?

Or another Mariappa/Klose free agent might be the best option. 

Recall of Low is not possible as we cannot re-register him until next window.

Idehen in u21squad.

Who is the Sunderland player who conceded this monumental event?

He should be inducted into the Bristol City Hall of Fame along with that Mansfield player who sent the Gas down.

6 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Ps cough Mehmeti cough Ryan cough Kent cough

They even look similar

Hopefully this lad has a better attitude and learns to pass at the right moment 

As different as chalk and cheese. Mehmeti will be a good player for us.

All of the deaths from this earthquake are sad especially because it appears that the Turkish government (*) has acted, or not acted, in ensuring that building regulations for an earthquake area, have  been followed.

(*) I haven't mentioned Syria because they do not purport to be a democratic country and don't have any respect at all for any of their citizens outside of the non democratic ruling government elite propped up by Putin.

I find it amazing that a Premier ref is dumped because of a mistake involving VAR. And how angry the Wonderful Arsenal management are about it.

Now go back to the first game of this season at Hull. Here we are, just little Bristol City losing to an appalling decision by a crap referee when he didn't see the Hull player diving in the box and gives them a penalty which proved to be the winner. All we got was yet another letter of apology. How many of those in the last six or seven years? Several at least!

Did City management go ballistic like Arsenal are? No we just get on with it because we know it will happen again with opposition players who cheat but don't get spotted by match officials. Example is the Sheff U goal when another consistent cheat, Billy Sharp, pushed Vyner as he was jumping to head the ball away and it dropped to a Sheffield player for the winning goal.

20 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I’ve just d/l the clip and watched it back a few times.  McClean isn’t the innocent party in this either.  He’s gone in with more force than Tanner, almost on his knees with a sweeping action, launching in from further away.  He could’ve got a yellow too.

 

McClean is well known for being a nasty barsteward. I saw it as his legs and feet off the ground so it was his foul.

Stroud got it wrong IMO.

22 minutes ago, Dollymarie said:

Those of us in the “singing section/section 82/whatever you want to call it” have been having to show our tickets every time we go in and out of that area for years. 

That's not what the query was in opening post.

Why do we need to show tickets in the carpark at Winterstoke Road end?

The place for checking tickets is at entry gates and the stairs to each block.

He's not yet fully match fit, IMO.

4 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

If Shrewsbury come up, I'll bare my arse in Burton's shop window.

(Think I'm fairly safe there. Burtons went bust years ago)

If Shrews come up, I'll be 100% delighted. Lived there for ten years and saw plenty of matches at the Gay Meadow when I wasn't driving all over the country to see City.

1 hour ago, Jerseybean said:

Under the lights at Ashton Gate is always a bit special. Just saying NP is yet to win three league matches in a row.

Just for giggles and not wishing to tempt fate, the quiz question is….what is our longest ever sequence of unbeaten league games?  The answer is at the end.

On Saturday Wigan we’re home to Huddersfield in a six-pointer encounter, which they won with an 82 minute goal, from a corner. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64520746 They’ve scored nine times from corners this season.

Wigan Athletic Football Club was founded in 1932. They were elected to The Football League in 1978, and reached the Premier League for the first time in 2005. Their first major honour was victory in the 2013 FA Cup Final.

After a total of thirty four unsuccessful applications to join the Football League, not to mention a rather controversial but headline-making application in 1972 to join the Scottish League Second Division. The Latics first ever League game took place on Saturday 19 August 1978 at Edgar Street, Hereford in front of a crowd of 5,674, with about three thousand fans travelling from Wigan.

Interestingly, it was actually Boston that was meant to quality in 1978, since the Latics came second to them. However, the EFL ruled that Boston’s football stadium did not meet league requirements and therefore the buck was passed to Wigan, following a vote that saw them narrowly beat Southport for the spot.

The Tics are no strangers to defeat, but there are some matches that still leave a bitter taste in the mouths of those who remember. Chief among these is the 2009 match against Tottenham, which is burned into the minds of many a hard-suffering Latics fan. A match that saw Wigan lose a staggering 9-1, with four  of those goals being scored by former Wigan striker Jermain Defoe.

More recently on 1 July 2020, the club entered administration, ostensibly because the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant impact to the club's finances. Due to going into administration, the club was handed a 12-Point deduction. Despite great form, Wigan were relegated from the Championship after a 1–1 draw with Fulham, https://news.sky.com/story/amp/wigan-athletic-football-club-goes-into-administration-12018790

Back in August it finished 1-1 away, which provided our first point of the season.

In their last six games they’ve won one, drawn two and lost three, in their last two games they haven’t conceded. They currently occupy 22nd place with 29 points.

We will be without Naismith and Conway and NP will likely make some changes given we have two games in four days. Mehmeti for Bell and Weimann in for Scott perhaps.

Harry Cornick may be playing against Wigan for the fifth time this season. He has scored twice against them (x1 League x1 FA Cup.)

Manager Leam Richardson was sacked in November, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63583133

They then appointed former Arsenal and Manchester City defender Kolo Toure as their new manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The 41-year-old Ivorian had spent the past five years coaching at Celtic and Leicester City under Brendan Rodgers but this was his first role in management.

In January they sacked Kolo Toure after 59 days as he failed to win any of his nine games in charge. The Latics took just two points from his seven Championship matches at the helm and at he exited they were bottom of the table, four points from safety.

At the end of January they appointed their former winger Shaun Maloney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Maloney as manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64439406

Maloney played for Celtic, Aston Villa, Wigan Athletic, Chicago Fire, Hull City and the Scotland national team as an attacking midfielder or winger.

Excellent presser IMO from NP:

 

 

In January they signed defender Martin Kelly on loan from fellow Championship side West Bromwich Albion until the end of the season and defender Omar Rekik also on loan from Arsenal until the end of the season. Kelly will miss the rest of the season after sustaining a serious knee injury on his debut for the club against Blackburn. Omar Rekik is a doubt having also been forced off during their trip to Ewood Park and missing the game against Huddersfield.

Over the years we’ve won 13, drawn 10 and lost 6.

Joe Willams, John Pender, Rob Newman, Scott McGarvey, Steve Johnson, Bobby Hutchinson, Richard O’Donnell, James Tavernier, Andy Webster, Nicky Maynard, Tony Dinning, David Cotterill and Jason Roberts and are among players who’ve played for both teams.

The man with the whistle is (sigh) Keith Stroud, who will be assisted by Ian Cooper and Daniel Leach. The fourth official is Robert Madley

They are owned by Phoenix 21 Limited, https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/wigan-agree-sale-of-club-to-phoenix-2021-limited-1615838413000

Famous fans include Richard Ashcroft lead singer for The Verve, Sky News anchor women Kay Burley, Stuart Maconie broadcaster, actor and journalist and BBC personality Paul Rowley.

They are known as  the Latics as it is a short form of the suffix Athletic.

Hats off to any Wigan fans who make the 350+ mile round trip for the game.

They are part of the Big Help Project whose mission is to feed the hungry, overcome poverty, free people from the burden of unmanageable personal debt, help people into affordable housing: https://www.bighelpproject.com the Big Help Project is a multi-award-winning national charity.

The answer: Our record sequence of unbeaten league matches = 24; 9 September 1905 – 10 February 1906.

Did you have to mention one of City's biggest incoming transfer failures and by goodness, we've had plenty of those over the years.

7 hours ago, pigeon said:

Looking at sitting in the Lansdown next Saturday and saw a couple of seats that have a restricted view warning. Assuming this is because of them being right next to the entrance (W16).

Can anyone vouch how bad the view is? If I just have to poke my head around for a corner, i'm not too bothered, but don't want to be breaking my neck to watch half the game! 

Some restricted seats in lower Lansdown are due to the walls around the disabled sections. W16 for example. It means that the corner (Lansdown corner with Atyeo) is difficult to see.

22 minutes ago, Rossi the Robin said:

It’s going to be a tough game as we will have to break Wigan down with possession, completely different to the game v Norwich. 
Patience from our fans required 

Yes, a totally different set of problems for our team to overcome. How interesting it is to listen to Pearson.

2 hours ago, RedinSpain said:

As I downloaded the page re Edd's dad here it is (on google drive as a pdf)

Amazing coverage

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15xRDc9nVvsyvyS8uRBgCg5j8SIWXuclw/view?usp=sharing

What is even more amazing is that I was at the West Ham v City game on Easter Monday.

Dad and I were at the home game on Good Friday v.West Ham. A 1-1 draw.

On the next day, Dad and Mum plus my younger sister and I went by train to Leicester where my father's deceased first wife originated from. He still kept in touch with her brother and family. They were honorary uncle and aunt and were two lovely people.

At the match all three males went to the top tier of the double decker behind the goal. Another draw and again Dermot Curtis scored our goal. He got 8 in the last six games of that season. Leicester City were promoted.

On the Easter Monday two days later, I squeezed the train fare to Paddington from Dad and went to Upton Park by train and tube. A miserable crowd of 9,000 and we lost 1-3

That season ended two games later after a Curtis hat trick sent Swansea TOWN home empty handed. The last match was at Anfield, yes Liverpool in Second division, with a massive crowd of 15,108 and a 1-2 defeat.

What an Easter weekend!

Plus I had coaching from Josser Watling of Rovers and Alec Eisentrager who are also featured on this page.

2 hours ago, ashton_fan said:

There's a D B Smith who played a few games in 62/63

That seems more of a solution as the paper cutting mentions Fred Ford who managed from summer 1960 up to 66/67 before AD arrived.

2 hours ago, Bob Taylor is GOD said:

Hi, The only Smith listed as making First Team appearances in the late 50's /early 60's is a D. R. Smith and an H. A. Smith - one appearance in 61/62 season

The DR Smith was David Smith a left winger and Gloucestershire County Cricket fast bowler.

I started watching City in 1950 but do not recall any Bernard Smith I the first team squad. In those days City had a first team in Division Two, a Reserve team in the Football Combination and a team in the Western League. I think the latter was for young players who were possibly not professional

Hope you find something about your Father.

13 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

Assuming we don’t get promoted which of these would you prefer facing next season?

Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Nottingham Forest, Wolverhampton Wanderers, West Ham United

Leeds United, Everton, AFC Bournemouth, Southampton.

 

I'd like Wolves to come down and while they are still picking themselves up, we play them at Molineux and WIN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1931.

13 hours ago, mozo said:

I think the most important part of the the season comparisons is that we're currently on track for an improvement on last season. 

In terms of blocks of games, last six is a pretty good indicator of momentum, or lack thereof. 

The last six matches in this season are a collection of difficult encounters. Hopefully, we will be nowhere near the trapdoor by then, so the squad should be able to play with complete relaxation. That is when one gets good results because Pearson will not allow them to go on holiday early.