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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 3, 2015 16:14:59 GMT
Mine worked there during the War before I was born, would walk there and back from Southmead so I recall her relating those dark days. I'm always amazed when I read these kind of things, how far people would walk to get a days work. My mother has told me that her father used to walk from Easton to Avonmouth Docks in the hope of getting a days work, and often had to walk home again disappointed. And her grandfather used to work in South Wales (Monday to Friday), and would walk home to Bristol from there, returning by foot again on the Sunday. It certainly makes me think how fortunate we are, but I would agree that all of this happened before the welfare state was introduced. MODS: Feel free to delete this post as it is not football related, I just thought that some of our younger posters might find it interesting . . . or not. Dad used to work in the pits at Pensford. He would pushbike it there and back and do 12 hours underground. My abiding memory is of him washing his feet when he came home as they showered at the pits. I don't think many would even contemplate such things now. Hard times and harder folk
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Oct 4, 2015 22:30:04 GMT
I love reading about these stories!
In some ways it reminds me of Monty Python sketch about how times were hard when I was 'lad! Haha!
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Post by kwoodgas on Nov 25, 2015 20:56:52 GMT
2.06pm on Saturday and it was 'In DC we trust'
2 days on and his biggest fan is staying quiet!! Anything to see about 2 lacklustre defeats, 6 out of 9 defeats at home, knocked out of the cup by a pub team?
We'll probably hear how it's because he's got a rubbish budget? Do you think Accrington have a player they paid money for not even in the squad? Players with as much football league experience as Mansell, Mildy and Macca on the bench?
That or it's Harrison's fault despite him being the sole reason DC isn't already at the job centre.
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Post by brizzle on Nov 25, 2015 21:16:20 GMT
Welcome back, but you could have thrown your hat in first, just to warn us.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 23:52:08 GMT
That or it's Harrison's fault despite him being the sole reason DC isn't already at the job centre. The ref at Wembley who didn't do his job and send off both Taylor and Puddy is probably the reason that Clarke is still here. But regardless of how it happened and at what level, he's one of a very small club of managers ever to win promotion with us, so he's entitled to his chance to show what he can do against full time footballers.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 0:48:37 GMT
That or it's Harrison's fault despite him being the sole reason DC isn't already at the job centre. The ref at Wembley who didn't do his job and send off both Taylor and Puddy is probably the reason that Clarke is still here. But regardless of how it happened and at what level, he's one of a very small club of managers ever to win promotion with us, so he's entitled to his chance to show what he can do against full time footballers. taylor ? as for puddy agreed, but then their goalie shouldve walked too
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Post by strung out on May 9, 2016 6:31:12 GMT
This thread is amusing
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Post by brizzle on May 9, 2016 6:54:19 GMT
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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Post by fanatical on May 9, 2016 6:54:57 GMT
and there are a few who should keep quiet in future perhaps
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Post by warehamgas on May 9, 2016 8:58:31 GMT
Yes, as Brizzle said, hindsight is a wonderful thing. This has all been and gone and I never get too involved in the arguments but DC has deserved all the credit with the players. He had a difficult Autumn at home matches when we couldn't buy a win. A poor home record is always more difficult for the manger because it's in front if a large audience. Yet away from home he was very good and that kept us mid to lower mid table. I can remember posting on here when I got back from Stevenage at home saying that DC has done ok but he needs to sort out our home form. 13 wins from 14 matches and the only blip a draw with Argyle. Fantastic, he certainly sorted that out. Haven't seen all of them, but most and we were deserved winners in all I saw. I think he may well find similar difficulties next season early on as he gets used to the higher quality we will be facing but I would hope he would be given time to provide the solution which he has always done. After 2 years of real pressure from expectant fans who didn't like where we are, DC deserves a good holiday and rest from the pressure atmosphere we have been in since May 2014. Upper League 1 is our natural place, I hope we can go further, but DC said that he wouldn't rest until he got us back to this position. Well done DC, mission almost accomplished! UTG!
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Post by Rex on May 9, 2016 10:08:23 GMT
Yes hindsight is wonderful. Then again, thinking about a bigger picture rather than lashing out after every defeat/disappointing result would be a lesson many fans would do well to learn. I had the dubious pleasure of being stood next to two different people away to Stevenage, one who just shouted out 'f**king s**t Rovers' every five minutes, and another who just moaned about how we were 'bottlers'. Although I don't mind sharing my opinions on a game, and I may disagree with a manager's selection etc. I always think it's a fair bet I know more about electrical wholesale than he does, and he knows more about football than I do, so it's probably best not to be too forceful in my opinions regarding on the pitch matters.
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Post by faggotygas on May 9, 2016 10:27:09 GMT
Yes, as Brizzle said, hindsight is a wonderful thing. This has all been and gone and I never get too involved in the arguments but DC has deserved all the credit with the players. He had a difficult Autumn at home matches when we couldn't buy a win. A poor home record is always more difficult for the manger because it's in front if a large audience. Yet away from home he was very good and that kept us mid to lower mid table. I can remember posting on here when I got back from Stevenage at home saying that DC has done ok but he needs to sort out our home form. 13 wins from 14 matches and the only blip a draw with Argyle. Fantastic, he certainly sorted that out. Haven't seen all of them, but most and we were deserved winners in all I saw. I think he may well find similar difficulties next season early on as he gets used to the higher quality we will be facing but I would hope he would be given time to provide the solution which he has always done. After 2 years of real pressure from expectant fans who didn't like where we are, DC deserves a good holiday and rest from the pressure atmosphere we have been in since May 2014. Upper League 1 is our natural place, I hope we can go further, but DC said that he wouldn't rest until he got us back to this position. Well done DC, mission almost accomplished! UTG! I think a lot of people need to realise that the manager is not the team. It wasn't DC that had to get used to a higher level after promotion, it was the players. It was always going to take time for the players to get used to league opposition again, no matter how good the manager is. He can only lead them there.
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Post by crater on May 9, 2016 11:29:15 GMT
The lesson here as always is its fine to have an opinion but not to get personal. I would imagine those who a short time ago were calling Darrell a clown feel a bit krusty the clown themselves today.
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Post by Mario Balotelli on May 9, 2016 13:43:02 GMT
Unfortunately people are too quick to get on the managers and teams back rather than support them.
It's been the case for many a year and I hope if the going gets tough it doesn't cause us to lose DC.
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on May 9, 2016 17:24:43 GMT
2.06pm on Saturday and it was 'In DC we trust' 2 days on and his biggest fan is staying quiet!! Anything to see about 2 lacklustre defeats, 6 out of 9 defeats at home, knocked out of the cup by a pub team? We'll probably hear how it's because he's got a rubbish budget? Do you think Accrington have a player they paid money for not even in the squad? Players with as much football league experience as Mansell, Mildy and Macca on the bench? That or it's Harrison's fault despite him being the sole reason DC isn't already at the job centre How do you feel now kingswoodgas ? Sheepish I guess.
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Post by Bridgeman on May 9, 2016 19:10:20 GMT
2.06pm on Saturday and it was 'In DC we trust' 2 days on and his biggest fan is staying quiet!! Anything to see about 2 lacklustre defeats, 6 out of 9 defeats at home, knocked out of the cup by a pub team? We'll probably hear how it's because he's got a rubbish budget? Do you think Accrington have a player they paid money for not even in the squad? Players with as much football league experience as Mansell, Mildy and Macca on the bench? That or it's Harrison's fault despite him being the sole reason DC isn't already at the job centre How do you feel now kingswoodgas ? Sheepish I guess. Well I guess we've all made comments we'd been better off not making, I know I certainly have
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Post by nerdgas on May 9, 2016 20:21:46 GMT
Well I guess we've all made comments we'd been better off not making, I know I certainly have Well yes but KG has form for making comments he'd have been better off keeping to himself........ Hardly any surprise he is called out when he's more than happy to slate other fans on the forum.
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Post by mrbluesky on May 9, 2016 20:54:15 GMT
i got some hammer for being critical of people on this forum with regards to negative attitudes towards the team and manager but its clear from this thread that many posters were unfairly negative and look pretty foolish now. ref the thread "new forum name"
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Post by kwoodgas on May 9, 2016 21:11:23 GMT
Well I'm not going to hide away.
WCG pissed me off a massive amount because of the disgusting way he spoke about John Ward. McGhee's last game, the 4-1 defeat to York was as low as I'd ever felt as a Gashead. I know there was a lot of the season to go, but I really saw no way out of it and Wardy came in and not only took us to the edge of the playoffs but brought a togetherness to the club I'd never seen in my time of watching. It went horribly wrong the next season, we've done this to death as to why but I think we can all agree that the injuries, some horrific luck, the bored taking their eye of the ball because of the stadium situation and Wardy taking his eye off the ball because of his wife's situation were all contributing factors.
I will admit with hindsight that I held Wardy in far too high regard as a manager and whilst he did a fantastic job to stablise us that season, his negative, percentage football was never going to take us into the upper echalons of the league. However I still found the way WCG spoke about him disgusting when he was going through a situation as tough as he was. (I know there were other posters who were far from complimentary, but WCG was the key protagonist). Maybe its pathetic I feel strongly about someone who I've never met, but I can't help that.
I've always found it difficult to warm to DC after that season and how he seems to have been absolved of any kind of blame for our relegation. It was him who was assisting Wardy all season and when we just needed to stumble over the line to safety he changed the captain and pissed around with the formation.
HOWEVER he deserves all the praise in the world for the last two seasons, I'd go out on a limb and say last season was an even better achievement because he had to build a squad from scratch and there was so much riding on getting promotion. The run in the last 3 months has been exceptional and I'm confident he can push us on again next season.
That said this forum is for football debate, people are bringing up this thread now but there wasn't a queue of people arguing at the time, I asked WCG to defend the perfomances and all he did was talk about Wardy. DC has got it wrong at times this season, if we hadn't pissed around with Lee Nicholls I imagine we'd have been celebrating promotion at York, I still think we have an immensely talented player in Harrison that he doesn't get the best out of etc etc. Holistically this season has been great, but does that mean we close down the forum for the next 12 months and not talk about any individual games next season?
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Post by Westcountry Gas on May 9, 2016 21:33:11 GMT
Well I'm not going to hide away. WCG pissed me off a massive amount because of the disgusting way he spoke about John Ward. McGhee's last game, the 4-1 defeat to York was as low as I'd ever felt as a Gashead. I know there was a lot of the season to go, but I really saw no way out of it and Wardy came in and not only took us to the edge of the playoffs but brought a togetherness to the club I'd never seen in my time of watching. It went horribly wrong the next season, we've done this to death as to why but I think we can all agree that the injuries, some horrific luck, the bored taking their eye of the ball because of the stadium situation and Wardy taking his eye off the ball because of his wife's situation were all contributing factors. I will admit with hindsight that I held Wardy in far too high regard as a manager and whilst he did a fantastic job to stablise us that season, his negative, percentage football was never going to take us into the upper echalons of the league. However I still found the way WCG spoke about him disgusting when he was going through a situation as tough as he was. (I know there were other posters who were far from complimentary, but WCG was the key protagonist). Maybe its pathetic I feel strongly about someone who I've never met, but I can't help that. I've always found it difficult to warm to DC after that season and how he seems to have been absolved of any kind of blame for our relegation. It was him who was assisting Wardy all season and when we just needed to stumble over the line to safety he changed the captain and pissed around with the formation. HOWEVER he deserves all the praise in the world for the last two seasons, I'd go out on a limb and say last season was an even better achievement because he had to build a squad from scratch and there was so much riding on getting promotion. The run in the last 3 months has been exceptional and I'm confident he can push us on again next season. That said this forum is for football debate, people are bringing up this thread now but there wasn't a queue of people arguing at the time, I asked WCG to defend the perfomances and all he did was talk about Wardy. DC has got it wrong at times this season, if we hadn't pissed around with Lee Nicholls I imagine we'd have been celebrating promotion at York, I still think we have an immensely talented player in Harrison that he doesn't get the best out of etc etc. Holistically this season has been great, but does that mean we close down the forum for the next 12 months and not talk about any individual games next season? I was going to say lets bury the hatchet, but there you go again with another load of BS. I never once spoke in a disgusting way about John Ward, i criticised various things about his management style and the decisions he made exactly like i did with Buckle & McGhee, but that's in no way disgusting. I only ever talked about the guy when it came to footballing matters, was never personal about him in terms of anything to do with matters away from football chat. You have been as critical about DC as i was about Ward, but at no point would i say you spoke disgustingly about DC, you just don't like him and questioned various footballing things he's done and said. I was more than entitled to moan about someone who had a good few months following the departure of McGhee, who then went on to leave us in a mess with nothing left in the tank to avoid the drop. Just like you are entitled to moan about a guy who achieved back to back promotions. Because i'm not a fan of someone doesn't make me disgusting, it still seems like you have this very strange need to defend him, like you said it still seems like you hold Ward in too high regard. I wish Ward well, it's good he's back in football in a job that suits him well and a job he should have gone into when he left Colchester. Anyway it's all water under the bridge now, and there's no need to hash over stuff from the past, the future is what's important and whats exciting, but please don't go OTT about what i said/thought about JW.
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