cidered abroad

Gary Owers didnt think it was a wrong move.

It worked in the end. It would have been stupid to leave too many upfield with the Thugs chasing the game.

9 minutes ago, Pickle Rick said:

Let’s not forget the increase of player value (assets), the successful use of the academy, lowering the wage bill and giving us competitive football (results or not) all with a smaller squad.

Name a better person for the job.

LJ?

No.

They let me down. My forecast was a 3-1 win and they could only manage 2-1!

YEEEEEESSSSSS!

20 minutes ago, RedorDead BCFC said:

No singing Delilah though 

Not my favourite Tom Jones. Loved it when they sang it at the old Victoria ground on an FA Cup replay and we won the match.

27 minutes ago, citywest30 said:

Would love us to beat Man City but obviously staying in the Championship is more important. Just ondered if people would take a win and only get 4 or 5 points in the next 5 league games or prefer to lose and win 12 points?

 

 

 

Thoughts?

 

 

Twelve points please.

28 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Except at Lord's where you can take a bottle of wine, 4 cans or equivalent. Generally though Lord's tickets are a bit more. 

Last time I went to Lords was to watch Glos about 18 years ago.

The row of lads behind me and wife were drinking orangeade which didn't have a limit on entry. Except that they'd dumped the orangeade and filled all bottles with scrumpy.

I had to carry my wife out at end of game because the lads kept refilling her pint glass.

Glos beat Worcs. What a day!

17 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

They’ve lost their last 4 games at home?

Doesn't sound good to me. A fifth in a row is surely unlikely?

COYREDS! Take advantage of their poor home record, PLEASE!

Pearson is known for keeping in those who did well in the last game.

Only change will be Pring. And then unleash the returning Weimann and the newcomers in the second half.

3-1 win.

I do tend to agree that it's expensive if one is a young married person with children, rising interest mortgages, on a below average wage and so on. If it's a spend too far, grin and bear it, at least it's live on TV.

I'm fortunate to have enough pensions at 79 years to have some spare money for my ticket. The price is small compared with the match I will see four days before the Man City game. I bought it on the basis that it might be the last time I'm able to get to Cardiff to see Wales thumping England. £125. I can't take it with me and I don't think they play football or rugby where I will finish up. It's too hot!

Just now, Bristol Oil Services said:

42,000 at Sunderland / Middlesbrough the other week, in one of the poorer areas of the country. Heating, eating or football? 

Have you ever been to both? Utter sxxiholes. So going to football is about the only recreational pastime.

52 minutes ago, weepywall said:

They have large away support always have done, percentage is 10 to 15% for FA Cup games I think.

I lived in Shrewsbury for ten years when Pearson and Moyes were their central defenders. The match against Man City was more than a full house and my guestimate was that Man City had at least 70% of the gate, Shrews 29.99% and Bristol City 0.001% (me)

They were very welcoming to City fans when I went to Maine Road two years running when we were in the First Division.

1 hour ago, jaydee=inspiration said:

How much are we charging ManCity then...38quid?

Heard they haven't got the biggest historical travelling support of the top teams, could be wrong though. Being a lazy ass, what is the ticket percentage for FA Cup games we are compelled to offer...25%?

15%

1 hour ago, Proudpreston29 said:

think you can view as a guest like i originally did here before i signed up to post  

Thanks for your post. I remember seeing your legendary plumber in an FA Cup tie at our miserable neighbours around 1956/8.

Even though the pitch was a mudheap, Tom Finney's skill with the ball was a delight to see. Our player John Atyeo played with him for England. Nowadays one can watch innumerable matches on TV but then we, as schoolboys, had to have parents who could find the cash for entry and a determination on my part to get off my backside to go to the matches.

I've only been to Deepdale twice. First time when you had the artificial pitch, 1-1 I think, and a miserable performance a week after we'd gained promotion at Burnley in 1998. Your fans sang "You're shit and you'll come straight back down" We did!

Enjoy the match. I have a good feeling that we get a win.

On 31/01/2023 at 14:32, Port Said Red said:

So we have earned £225k in prize money from the previous 2 rounds of the cup, a win in this round would double that, but the odds have to be against that. 

However, there is still money to be made, but how much? I would imagine that Gate receipts from a full house, hospitality etc would be approaching £750,000 assuming around £25 for around 20k adults and 7000 concessions at around £15  a ticket. An additional £120,000 in F&B, Gross should be achievable. We receive 50% of the Gate receipts but retain all the additional income.

It seems likely we will also get a live TV spot which is worth £247,500 to each team.What I am not sure of is whether we get more for any overseas sales that are likely considering our opposition and their global reach. 

I am sure there is potential for additional income from merchandise and collectables too. It seems that a gross £750,000 is a good ball park figure to expect.

A televised replay could also earn an additional £120,000 if it is televised and 50% of any gate receipts at the Etihad, would surely be greater than those from the home tie.

This could go some way to explaining why the purse strings seem to have been loosened even more than we thought today.

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A very useful financial reward for beating the Baggies.

10 minutes ago, Galley is our king said:

Maybe but Don't you think that if the post is ironic or sarcastic then it should also contain some sort of clue? Like.... well if you listen to some on here anyway

I'm just a simple sort of chap, read it and replied to what it said....

Apologies @cidered abroad if that was the case.

@Davefevs at my age after a lifetime being a City fan, one needs a pretty warped sense of humour. Thankfully while I can dish it out, I can also accept it. Here's an example of my family's humour.

My grandmother's burial was on a wet day at Greenbank Cemetery, with wooden boards around the grave. As the coffin was being lowered into it, my Mum, her daughter, slipped and Dad and I on either side, held on to her arms. I said "Go steady Mum it's not your turn".

Ten years later at the same family grave, as Mum's coffin was lowered, Dad said "She finally made it into that grave". A sad day but we both laughed at the joke.

15 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I haven't read through the whole thread but I think @exAtyeoMax it was who asked why he ended up in non-league. 

Listening to his interview and him saying he went without a club for a year after Norwich released him, I wonder if he lost his love for the game. 

I know one of our squad who told me that this nearly happened to them after experiencing the drudgery of U21 football, and it was only a chance to go to non-league and play competitively again that rescued them.

alternatively, he could have gone off the rails, and needed setting straight again? The way he talks, so seriously, about winning, and imposing his own mental approach, sounds like a player who has had a few heart to hearts with someone and with himself.

Coping with setbacks in one's life is how so many people get to the top of the tree. All successes without any downsides cannot prepare one for the ups and downs of life.

Having also listened to Harry Cornick and his tale of how he got into pro football, it appears to me that NP and Tinman are looking at the lifestyle, attitude of coping with setbacks of any player that they are interested in for City.

Will they be a team player or will they be selfish? Will they help teammates or let them sink? The character of a recruits is as important as their control of a ball.

On 30/01/2023 at 10:06, TonyTonyTony said:

He is marmite, that's for sure. Personally don't get the hatred some seem to have for him. People forget he is still quite young, and probably struggles with the man-management side of the game. Comments from players seem to support that. Once he has a few more years experience he may well turn out to be a good manager. He certainly has confidence in himself

He is 41 with ten years in management. He'll never be better than a National League manager, just like his father!

The major point that I got from that superb interview, is that he grew up loving football but with an ordinary life alongside like most of us.

So until he was between childhood and a young adult,  football wasn't the be all of his life. It makes me wonder if a life of Academy football from 8 or 9 years is the best way to develop the pros of tomorrow.

I can see a good spell here at City for Harry and I'd bet money that he will be another like Nahki Wells who wants to help the young ones rather than being afraid that they will take his place in the team.

NP and Tinman have picked up a gem for next to nothing.

On 01/02/2023 at 12:29, Son of Fred said:

Should we go unchanged (with the exception of Pring) would we have Weimann,, Cornick & Mehmeti on the bench??....

Good problem to have?? 

I think that Pearson will only change Pring for left back.

The obvious ones for me to change are Sykes and Bell but Pearson doesn't do that kind of thing. Those who played and won against WBA, are the current incumbents and new signings will need to earn their place.

1 minute ago, shahanshahan said:

Will be interesting to see how this has come to be, especially as the window closed on Tuesday...

Is it the same dates for transfers in Women's football?

As I'm a lifelong pessimistic old sod,  54 points.

46 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Dunno if it's worthy of a thread in itself but...

Wonder if PL clubs are trying to tie this to extra revenue.

They flood the four leagues from Championship to National league with young kids who are earning thousands of £'s a week and who would pay these wages?

Of course the greedy barstewards would expect the club to contribute a big percentage. That would do wonders for the team spirit with possibly one 19 year old earning more than the rest of the squad collectively. 

What a brain dead idea. No benefit to those clubs who are forced to use Premier loaners.

After watching the video, how did we get him so cheaply?

At least it's not Wolves. Even I wasn't at Molineux in 1931 to see it.

Oh the problems that many are noting about getting tickets. However on purchases with ST, Membership, or general public, it will all be done in the comfort of one's own home.

You should try queueing in freezing cold and rain or snow for two to four hours in the evening, in the streets around Ashton Gate, like we had to in the good old/bad old days. Two buses from and to Filton where I lived and even the possibility that last bus from Centre to Filton was full up and that meant a walk home!

And an early rising next morning to get last night's homework done!