[Lord Snooty]

Bristol City v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday April 13th - 15:00 ko
at the Ashton Gate Stadium

Huddersfield Town travel to play Bristol City to the Edward Colston Arena on Saturday afternoon for a game of football.

This game comes hot on the heels of the debacle at Deepdale in which the Terriers, not for the first time this season, got blown away after half time, despite gaining the lead in a rather encouraging first half performance. Preston came out wearing flip flops, but changed to football boots at the interval and anybody hoping that Bristol City will turn up for this one in a similar holiday mood will possibly be surprised to see the Robins wallop Blackburn Rovers 5-0 on Wednesday night. Our old friend Nahki Wells came off the subs bench to score a couple in that one.

So which set of Terriers will we see on Saturday? And how will comfortably mid table Bristol set about this one?

As for everybody else. We'll all be wondering which set of bottlers turn up at Home Park on Friday night as Plymouth Argyle, two points better off than us, entertain Leicester City, the team who were running away with the Championship, but now can't even beat Millwall.

On Saturday, Birmingham City, who this week announced plans for a new 60,000 stadium, host their former tenants Coventry City at St Andrews. The Bluenoses are a point behind us at the moment.

There's a six pointer going on at Hillsborough as the 'orrible Owls have the pervert Potters in town. Wendy is level on points with us. Stoke are three ahead of us both.

Blackburn Rovers, despite having the Championship's leading scorer, are on the same points as Stoke. They travel to Bellend Road for the lunchtime game. I'm afraid we're going to have to pray for a Leeds United win again. Yuk!

Four points above us, probably uncatchable now, are Millwall and QPR. The 'orrible 'Oops are up north in 'Umberside, whereas the Lions are at home to Cardiff. We could do with the Bluebirds doing us another favour, like they did on Wednesday night at Birmingham. But like I said, we won't get to 47 points, so forget them. It's between us, Wendy, Brum, Plymouth and Stoke.

Tickets:

Adults - £30
Over-65s - £26
Under 25s - £26
Under 22s - £22
Under 19s - £15
Under 12s - £10

Coach travel is priced at £32 per person and our official travel coaches will depart from St. Andrew's Car Park at 8.30am on match day.

EDIT: Town supporters looking to make the journey with us to Bristol can now benefit from free coach travel! Wanting to see as many Terriers as possible with us on the road, the Club has committed to covering the cost of three coaches.



A brief history of Bristol City:

League:

Second Division (level 2)
Champions: 1905–06
2nd place promotion: 1975–76

Third Division South / Third Division / Second Division / League One (level 3)
Champions: 1922–23, 1926–27, 1954–55, 2014–15
2nd place promotion: 1964–65, 1989–90, 1997–98, 2006–07

Fourth Division (level 4)
4th place promotion: 1983–84

Western League
Champions: 1897–98


Cup:

FA Cup:
Runners-up: 1908–09

Associate Members' Cup / Football League Trophy
Winners: 1985–86, 2002–03, 2014–15
Runners-up: 1986–87, 1999–2000

Welsh Cup
Winners: 1933–34

Anglo-Scottish Cup
Winners: 1977–78

Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 28 wins to City's 25, with 13 draws.

Since our promotion to the Championship in 2012, we have had eight seasons together. That sequence was interupted by their relegation for a couple of seasons and of course, our brief moment of time in the sunny uplands of the Prima Donna League. In those visits to Ashton Gate, we have had a few pastings, but also a couple of good victories.

James Vaughan scored a hat trick back in 2012/13 in a 3-1 win. But the most recent win came in the Carlos Corberan era, a 3-2 victory on our glorious march to Wembley. Duane Holmes, Danel Sinani and Danny Ward scored the goals, sandwiched between their goals in the 2nd and the 90th minutes. We even got one of those strange things known as a penalty kick in this game. Missed it, like!

Have a look at this then.......





The home game with the Robins this season was a 1-1 draw in December. We went in one-nil up at half time after Delano Burgzorg had given us the lead. But less than a minute after the restart, City equalised through Tommy Conway. How many goals do we concede just after half time?





So what's going on down at Ashton Gate? Managed nowadays by Liam Manning, the former MK Dons and Oxford United manager.

He's a 38 year old from Norwich whose playing career was all non league, with a brief spell in Iceland. On retirement, aged 30, he coached with Ipswich's academy before going out to Belgium and doing a similar job there. In 2021, he landed the job at MK Dons, taking them to the League One Play Offs, which they lost to Wycombe. But after a bad start to the next season, he was sacked.

In March last year, he got the job of managing Oxford United and with the club up to 2nd place in League One by November of this season, he was poached by Bristol City where he has secured mid table obscurity.

Oh, how we long for mid table obscurity!

Club connections:

Nahki Wells is still there. Now 33 years old, he is in his fifth season at Ashton Gate and has played more games for them than he did for us. He hasn't scored as many goals though. He scored 49 times for the Town, leaving him in 25th place on our all time scorers list. He has 35 for City after his two late goals against Blackburn on Wednesday night.

Andy King, who had a loan spell with us from Leicester, is now there. And in recent years the names of Danny Simpson, Kasey Palmer, Jack Hunt, Jamie Paterson, Benik Afobe, Marcus Stewart, Wayne Allison, Jamie McCombe and Jon Stead (pictured below) have all turned out for both clubs.

Bristol in popular culture: The 7th of June 2020 was a momentous day in the history of Bristol. It was the day that the city finally came to accept it's horrendous past and it's connections to the Atlantic Slave Trade. For years, there had been arguments about the statue of Edward Colston in the city centre. The man was, after all, a philanthropist and obviously well deserved of such an accolade in his home city. Or was he?

Of course he wasn't. His company alone was responsible for the transportation of 84,000 West Africans to the Americas between 1680 and 1692 to be sold as slaves. And so after years of arguments about his statue, the people of Bristol took it on their own back and toppled it over. Not just that, they tipped the evil bastard into the harbour, the same harbour from where many of his ships had sailed all those years ago. Get in!

One of the best bands to come from Bristol actually named themselves after an area of the city. Well not actually in the city, but just to the west on the Severn Estuary. I talk of course, about the band Portishead. Formed in 1991 in Bristol, they are often considered one of the pioneers of trip hop music. Here's Glory Box......








Recent form - last 6 matches:

PNE 4-1 Town
Town 1-0 Millwall
Stoke 1-1 Town
Town 1-3 Coventry
Rotherham 0-0 Town
Town 1-4 WBA

Bristol C 5-0 Blackburn
Sunderland 0-0 Bristol C
Plymouth 0-1 Bristol C
Bristol C 1-0 Leicester
WBA 2-0 Bristol C
Bristol C 1-0 Swansea


Town are 21st in the Championship table with 43 points. City are 12th with 57.


Leading scorers:

Terriers:
Michal Helik (9)
Delano Burgzorg (7)

Robins:
Tommy Conway (11)
Jason Knight (7)
Nahki Wells (7)

[Lord Snooty]

Happy Huddersfield Town Day, everyone.

[jjamez]

Lees and rudoni could possibly be back, but Hogg and balker could have played their last games of the season

[theo_luddite]

I'd like to think the Town that won those two games would turn up Snoots, but I've a feeling the Town that has made a habit of leaking 4 (or more) goals this season and at Ashton Gate over some recent seasons is more likely to get off the bus this evening for a night strolling round Brizzle docks and drinking the local apple juice.

Lump yer brass on a draw then.

[Lord Snooty]

That's Plymouth out of the game then.

[jjamez]

Wednesday beat stoke today and we lose then we are in a fair old pickle. We lose and Stoke win and both us and Wednesday are in a fair old pickle.

Brum win and I'll be pissed off.

Tbh I'm just looking forward to the summer regardless of division as we need rid of the majority of these inept players

[Lord Snooty]

Town’s team vs Bristol City

1. Lee Nicholls
4. Matty Pearson
5. Michał Helik ©
7. Delano Burgzorg
8. Jack Rudoni
10. Josh Koroma
14. Sorba Thomas
17. Brodie Spencer
18. David Kasumu
21. Alex Matos
32. Tom Lees

Substitutes

Chris Maxwell; Bojan Radulovic, Jaheim Headley, Tom Edwards, Ollie Turton, Ben Wiles, Danny Ward, Ben Jackson, Rhys Healey

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1 O'Leary
2 McCrorie
19 Tanner
24 Roberts
3 Pring
8 Williams
6 James
12 Knight
17 Sykes
15 Conway
7 Twine

Substitutes
9 Cornick
10 King
11 Mehmeti
21 Wells
22 Gardner-Hickman
23 Bajic
27 Knight-Lebel
37 Backwell
47 Mebude

[theo_luddite]

The top 3 are falling apart again

[Lord Snooty]

Birmingham are 2-0 up. We simply MUST WIN today.

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First half stats says that City haven't had a single shot. We've had five. All off target.

We have to win this. Take one of the defenders off and bring on either Ward or Healey at half time. Or Bojangles.

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Wendy have scored.

[theo_luddite]

So have Smoke, and us (whisper it quietly).

Helik has had his bits counted and on we go.