Bristol City v AFC Bournemouth

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STEVE SMITH LOOKS BACK AT
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CITY MANAGER ALAN DICKS
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Rovers, we will be facing three Welsh 189
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tthe 1980/81 campaign and Shrewsbury. Supporters will have less distance
following relegation from to travel than they had when we were in Division
the top-flight the previous One but the absence of the visits of Liverpool and
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season, they faced a tough Manchester United is obviously going to hit us hard.
task to bounce back up, as
manager Alan Dicks points “In many ways I expect to face the same problems
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this October 1980 as last
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season only to a greater degree. This
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time a
edition of Soccer Monthly: year ago we lost two very experienced defenders in
Gary Collier and Norman Hunter and couldn’t afford
“Even when we were in the First Division the
to replace them. Young Alan Hay stepped in and did
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City were tight, and well, but 1894
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head and
now we are finding money even harder to come by. consequently paid dear.
New players are needed if we are to make a strong
challenge for promotion again, but the only way we “We have a competitive and talented squad at
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selling others first. Bristol 1894
City, but we need a couple of new 189
faces to
help us turn the undoubted potential we have into a
“We are in a fortunate position in some ways in promotion-winning team.
that we have fairly recent experience of the Second
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Division. Many of the team know what is expected “Where the money is going to come from for those
of them, and they are also keen get straight back players is a mystery at the moment, but I can only
after a four-year spell at the top.”
remain optimistic. Once you let the pressure get on
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The Football League’s longest-serving manager at
13 years was not afraid of the pressure he faced, Unfortunately by the time this magazine had
even though the last time the Robins dropped out of been published, Dicks had already been dismissed
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to ‘bounce back’. on September 1894
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draws
and three points from five League matches, and
“It’s difficult to predict just how much our
with the Robins already knocked out of the
attendances are going to be affected. As well as League Cup.
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