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Post by Rod1883 on Aug 1, 2020 20:51:32 GMT
Good Luck Tone - I will be ever grateful for the help and guidance given to our young backline. I may even pop up to Crawley to say thanks in person - when we are able
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Post by Rod1883 on Jul 24, 2020 8:28:48 GMT
Hughton is a proven success at Championship level and with Lansdown's millions then I fear he could get them up - if not next season then within a couple of seasons. If that were to happen then we need to have the new ground in place or very close, and ideally be in the Championship ourselves to compete for fanbase.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jul 21, 2020 19:59:11 GMT
Will we still sing When The Gas Go Marching In when we play them? UTG We are the one and only The one and only Gas We are the one and only You can't take that away from us ......perhaps?
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Post by Rod1883 on Jul 21, 2020 16:01:21 GMT
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Post by Rod1883 on Jul 6, 2020 20:38:07 GMT
Have a few fans managed to get into this game? Surely it's not the directors making this much noise? Safety Officer let them in - in case it all went wrong and they needed an excuse to abandon the game.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jul 3, 2020 16:31:25 GMT
Of the four sides involved then Pompey would be my pick from a simple 'which team do I like the most/less least' point of view. I really don't want Fleetwood or Wycscum to go up on that basis. From a matchday experience though, I like Fratton (and selfishly, it's just 30 miles from home for me), and for atmosphere then Oxford and Wyscum are better trips too. So, although I hate them and Barton, perhaps it is best if Fleetwood bu44er off to the Championship for a season.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jun 23, 2020 11:07:00 GMT
No minutes for Linesy over the 2 legs Being saved for the final
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Post by Rod1883 on Jun 9, 2020 20:29:10 GMT
We've drifted a little now but on D Day the British and Canadians landed over 75000 troops, the Americans 57500. We also had nearly 8000 British paratroopers dropped from the air and the Americans 15500. To say the vast majority were not British is to insult their memory. There were also ~196000 Naval personnel (my Father being one) and I don't have the figures but would expect the majority to be British.
In 1940 this country, along with the Commonwealth, stood alone with what at the time must have seemed to be little hope. Had we capitulated then I am convinced History would be very different. When the Germans went East after cancelling their pact with Russia, the Artic convoys supplied vital goods to the ports of Murmansk and Archangel. These convoys also prevented the Germans forcing a another front to attack Russia via the North of Norway. My Father served on the convoys his ship being sunk whilst protecting one of those convoys. That ship - HMS Hardy - can be seen as my avatar.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jun 9, 2020 17:18:30 GMT
Clearly, and as others have already said, you have your view Oldie and won't be swayed, and always seem to want to have the last word. That's fine everyone is entitled to their view - that's the benefit of the society we live in.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jun 9, 2020 16:46:37 GMT
...to target historical artworks, then imho - yes they were.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jun 9, 2020 16:14:33 GMT
Oldie
Sadly many are advocating tearing down images from our history - as I said above - where does that stop?
The Tolpuddle martyrs, the Suffragettes etc were of their time targeting issues of their time.
What is the point of attacking images of and from different times, of people that did things that we don't agree with now, but those things have already been put right? In my view many of the BLM protests and protestors with their acts of vandalism and violence risk fuelling hatred rather than the stated aim of calmly trying to do the opposite.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jun 9, 2020 10:18:14 GMT
I'm finding this thread hard to read.
As an exiled but proud son of Bristolians - My Dad's family were firmly based in Bedminster for generations, and my Mum's from nearer Southville - I firmly believe that this country is as tolerant of all cultures as any in the World, and has a level of freedom of expression that is again as good as anywhere else - a freedom that was fought for by my Father and others of his generation, with the inspiration of Churchill behind them. If it had not been for that inspiration then we could easily have lost that struggle. Who knows what would have happened then - Spain would probably have joined the Axis powers, Germany would have taken the French Navy, and probably some of ours too, they most likely would have achieved the Atomic Bomb first, etc etc. I therefore would not be alive, our minority peoples would have been exterminated as would have all those in Europe. Yes Churchill, as a man of his time made mistakes and held views certainly in his early life that we are not comfortable with today, but you can't really judge through 21st century eyes. We can, and should, reflect and record achievements and the things we are not comfortable with, but put them into context of the time and the societal views and norms of those times.
This is also the case for Colston. He was a big part of a trade that we know was abhorrent. At the time Liverpool, London and of course Bristol grew rich on the trade that was supported by all pillars of society. That doesn't make it right, but it should also be noted that the British were the first to see the trade for what it was and put a stop to it, and to try to stop it throughout the rest of the world. The good things that Colston did in Bristol (and others of his ilk elsewhere) left a legacy of care and education for the poor, of education, arts and religion for all of society too. Again, we should be able to reflect both sides of the man in a reasonable, historically contexed, and reasoned way.
If we can't, then where do we stop - do we tear down all that the man did - churches, schools, etc., and do we then go further back into history and start to tear down anything with a Roman, or Saxon, or Viking, or Norman connection because of the atrocities that those cultures and people dished out to the indigenous peoples of this island and elsewhere? Do we tear down anything to do with Piracy because of the atrocities that those people carried out? Of course not - we learn, we understand, we make sure we improve and don't make the same mistakes again.
Mobs tearing things down and defacing things is not the way.
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Post by Rod1883 on May 31, 2020 21:18:05 GMT
Good luck Theo. Saw him play a couple of times at Bognor - fairly tidy and composed at that level, but not sure he would be able to step up to League 1 tbh.
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Post by Rod1883 on May 26, 2020 13:39:49 GMT
Fantastic day. All three goals were absolute class - Walkers two finishes were absolute class and wouldn't have looked out of place at any level. The build up to the first through was brilliant.
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Post by Rod1883 on May 25, 2020 10:37:03 GMT
A bad week for both Bristol clubs losing real characters of the game in Buster and Keith. Very different people but all added to the colour of being at a match. Doubt we’ll see their like again in the modern game. RIP to them both This. RIP Buster and Keith, condolences to their families.
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Post by Rod1883 on May 23, 2020 15:54:45 GMT
Didn't he say he was a fan of the Dark side in some interview many years later?
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Post by Rod1883 on May 21, 2020 20:01:06 GMT
Lockyer vs Portsmouth last season. Quite remarkable performance in the face of the hostility. So good he had a bottle thrown at him. It's got to be up there. That game was an absolute battle - the reason Locks got a bottle thrown at him was because he had the temerity to have treatment after a cut from a punch thrown by their sub - Vaughan I think (nasty piece of work)
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Post by Rod1883 on May 9, 2020 12:07:37 GMT
15 - got the derby year and player of the year wrong
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Post by Rod1883 on Apr 30, 2020 13:55:19 GMT
What a shame the Sunderland Home game was postponed - we would have had 3 more points and gone up - so unfair
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Post by Rod1883 on Apr 21, 2020 19:26:52 GMT
Yes, I saw that story earlier. Great chance for a design incorporating the quarters and a Pirate figure?
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