Bristol City v Sheffield United
Bristol City v Sheffield United matchday programme, Easter Monday (18.04.2022). Featuring an exclusive interview with Tommy Conway.
Bristol City v Sheffield United matchday programme, Easter Monday (18.04.2022). Featuring an exclusive interview with Tommy Conway.
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ROB NS<br />
2021/22 OFFICIAL BRISTOL CITY DIGITAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME<br />
TOMMY<br />
CONWAY<br />
#37<br />
v SHEFFIELD<br />
UNITED<br />
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP<br />
ASHTON GATE | MON APR 18 | 5.30PM<br />
MATCH<br />
SPONSOR
ROBINS IN<br />
FOCUS<br />
36<br />
ALEX<br />
SCOTT<br />
AGE: 18<br />
POSITION: Midfielder<br />
SIGNED: January 2020<br />
The teenager has come into his own<br />
this season with 35 appearances in all<br />
competitions, including four goals in the<br />
Championship. His first for the club came in a<br />
2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest.<br />
At just 18 years of age, Scott has made himself<br />
one to watch for both now and the future and<br />
he’s certainly impressed his manager, Nigel<br />
Pearson.<br />
The England Under-19 international was<br />
handed a new four-year contract last August,<br />
with the news confirmed on his 18th birthday<br />
just five months after he was awarded his first<br />
professional deal.<br />
Scott became Guernsey FC’s youngest ever<br />
senior player at the age of 16, before being<br />
picked up by <strong>City</strong>’s scouts. Upon joining the<br />
Robins' Academy setup, he progressed from<br />
Under-23s football to experiencing first-team<br />
football last season.<br />
He made three appearances during the 2020/21<br />
campaign, with his debut coming against Luton<br />
Town in April.<br />
#FulfillingAmbitions
THE<br />
GAFFER<br />
Hello and<br />
welcome<br />
to our<br />
penultimate<br />
home game of<br />
the season.<br />
This evening we go up against a strong<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>United</strong> team who are very much in<br />
the fight for a top-six spot.<br />
Due to deadlines I’ve had to write these notes<br />
before Good Friday’s match against Stoke<br />
<strong>City</strong> so without reflecting on that result and<br />
a Peterborough team we should have done<br />
much better against.<br />
We have some talented players who have made<br />
great strides this season. However people want<br />
to look at the campaign, I know that we have<br />
had some real successes too but unfortunately<br />
what we haven’t been is consistent enough to<br />
get results.<br />
We are always looking at how we can progress.<br />
The close-season programme for the players<br />
has all been taken care of already and in terms<br />
of how we shape the squad there are plans in<br />
place. It’s always a mixture between planning<br />
WE HAVE SOME TALENTED<br />
PLAYERS WHO HAVE MADE GREAT<br />
STRIDES THIS SEASON...<br />
BUT UNFORTUNATELY WHAT WE<br />
HAVEN’T BEEN IS CONSISTENT<br />
ENOUGH TO GET RESULTS<br />
regardless of the outcome, we know we have a<br />
new challenge in front of us today.<br />
Paul Heckingbottom’s side are in the mix for<br />
the play-offs so we need to match their energy<br />
and show our own quality.<br />
Last time at Ashton Gate was a frustrating 1-1<br />
draw against Peterborough <strong>United</strong> where we<br />
expected a much better team performance.<br />
We can play well against the top sides in this<br />
division, as we did against Bournemouth, but<br />
then we showed our inconsistent side against<br />
for the future, looking at how you get from A to<br />
B, but of course A is the most important place<br />
and that is the present.<br />
There is a lot of hard work to come but our<br />
focus remains on the final four games, starting<br />
this evening.<br />
Enjoy the game.<br />
Cheers,<br />
Nige<br />
NIGEL<br />
PEARSON<br />
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SHEFFIELD UNITED<br />
CLUB FACTS<br />
GROUND<br />
BRAMALL LANE<br />
FORMED<br />
1889<br />
MANAGER<br />
PAUL<br />
HECKINGBOTTOM<br />
NICKNAME<br />
THE BLADES<br />
HONOURS<br />
1 4<br />
Football League champions<br />
1897/98<br />
FA Cup winners<br />
1898/99, 1901/02, 1914/15, 1924/25<br />
Second tier winners<br />
1952/53<br />
Third tier winners<br />
2016/17,<br />
pictured<br />
Fourth tier<br />
winners<br />
1981/82<br />
THE BLADES VISIT BS3 FOR<br />
OUR PENULTIMATE HOME<br />
GAME OF THE SEASON…<br />
Clockwise from top: Manager Paul Heckingbottom; on-loan Aston Villa<br />
and Republic of Ireland midfielder Conor Hourihane; Irish international<br />
centre-back John Egan; Northern Ireland midfielder Oliver Norwood<br />
and veteran striker Billy Sharp, the club's <strong>Sheffield</strong>-born skipper.<br />
In May 1988 the Robins overcame<br />
the Blades 2-1 on aggregate<br />
over two legs in a Third Division<br />
play-off. In front of the largest<br />
home crowd in nine years, Alan<br />
Walsh put <strong>City</strong> 1-0 ahead before<br />
a 1-1 draw at Bramall Lane. In the<br />
final <strong>City</strong> were beaten by Walsall<br />
in a replay.<br />
LEAGUE ONE CHAMPIONSHIP<br />
55<br />
GOALS<br />
SCORED<br />
76<br />
GOALS<br />
CONCEDED<br />
19<br />
TOP SCORER<br />
ANDI<br />
WEIMANN<br />
POSSESSION<br />
44.8 %<br />
PASSING PERCENTAGE<br />
69.6 %<br />
TACKLE SUCCESS<br />
67.8 %<br />
AVERAGE AERIAL<br />
DUELS WON<br />
24.7<br />
V<br />
HEAD TO HEAD<br />
LEAGUE<br />
POSITION<br />
R3<br />
YELLOW<br />
82 1<br />
CARDS<br />
58<br />
MATCHES PLAYED<br />
Best victory: 5-1, January 1957<br />
Worst defeat: 2-5, September 1959<br />
Last time out: 0-2, November 2021<br />
2021/22 IN NUMBERS<br />
18 TH<br />
7.02<br />
BEST AVERAGE<br />
RATING (OPTA)<br />
ROB<br />
ATKINSON<br />
R1<br />
RED<br />
CARDS<br />
9<br />
MOST<br />
ASSISTS<br />
ANDI WEIMANN /<br />
ANTOINE SEMENYO<br />
59<br />
GOALS<br />
SCORED<br />
14<br />
TOP SCORER<br />
BILLY<br />
SHARP<br />
W<br />
16<br />
D<br />
11<br />
49<br />
GOALS<br />
CONCEDED<br />
7.05<br />
BEST AVERAGE<br />
RATING (OPTA)<br />
MORGAN<br />
GIBBS-WHITE<br />
CITY v BLADES<br />
27.5 %<br />
WIN RATE<br />
POSITION<br />
R3<br />
6 TH<br />
YELLOW<br />
85 2<br />
CARDS<br />
R3<br />
L<br />
31<br />
RED<br />
CARDS<br />
7<br />
MOST<br />
ASSISTS<br />
MORGAN GIBBS-WHITE<br />
/ BILLY SHARP<br />
POSSESSION<br />
56.9 %<br />
PASSING PERCENTAGE<br />
78.9 %<br />
TACKLE SUCCESS<br />
69 %<br />
AVERAGE AERIAL<br />
DUELS WON<br />
19.9<br />
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SHEFFIELD UNITED<br />
DID YOU<br />
KNOW?<br />
In the 2003 FA Cup semi-final Blades striker Paul Peschisolido was<br />
denied a goal by what is considered one of the greatest saves<br />
of all-time. Arsenal keeper David Seaman somehow managed<br />
to scoop the ball away at point-blank range before Phil Jagielka<br />
blazed off target as the Blades were beaten 1-0 at Old Trafford.<br />
KEY PLAYER<br />
27<br />
MORGAN<br />
GIBBS-WHITE<br />
The Stafford-born midfielder has enjoyed<br />
a great season on loan from Wolves, with<br />
Paul Heckingbottom’s side rumoured to be<br />
considering a bid to make him a permanent<br />
figure at Bramall Lane.<br />
His form earned him a place in WhoScored.com’s<br />
Championship Team of the Month for March, with<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>United</strong> pushing for a top-six finish.<br />
The 22-year-old has so far netted 10 goals in all<br />
competitions and assisted seven more for his<br />
teammates from 31 appearances, with recent<br />
star-man performances against Middlesbrough –<br />
a goal and an assist in a 4-1 win – and Barnsley.<br />
Gibbs-White is a product of the Wolves Academy<br />
and made his first team debut in a 2-0 FA Cup win<br />
against Stoke <strong>City</strong> in January 2017. He<br />
helped Wolves win promotion to<br />
the Premier League in 2018/19<br />
before a brief spell on loan<br />
at Swansea <strong>City</strong>. He joined the<br />
Blades on loan in September,<br />
scoring in his first two games<br />
against Peterborough <strong>United</strong><br />
and Preston North End.<br />
THE TOP SIX IS WITHIN SHEFFIELD<br />
UNITED’S GRASP WITH JUST FOUR<br />
GAMES TO GO, AS THE BLADES AIM<br />
TO RETURN TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE<br />
AT THE FIRST ATTEMPT.<br />
They face stiff competition for<br />
a play-off spot from the likes<br />
of Middlesbrough, Blackburn<br />
Rovers, Coventry <strong>City</strong> and<br />
Millwall to name just a few, but<br />
then the Championship has<br />
never been known for a smooth<br />
and easy ride.<br />
Paul Heckingbottom’s side come<br />
into today's fixture off the back<br />
of a last-gasp defeat against<br />
Reading on Good Friday.<br />
Lucas Joäo's 17th-minute<br />
opener for Reading was<br />
cancelled out by Iliman Ndiaye<br />
in the 90th minute, which<br />
looked like it was going to<br />
salvage a late point only for<br />
the Royals to deliver the sucker<br />
punch two minutes later through<br />
Tom Mcintyre. <strong>United</strong> will now<br />
be hoping to capitalise after<br />
seventh-placed Middlesbrough<br />
could only draw with AFC<br />
Bournemouth, while Blackburn<br />
lost at Peterborough.<br />
The Blades have been hit by<br />
injuries, with Jayden Bogle,<br />
David McGoldrick and Rhian<br />
Brewster ruled out for the<br />
season, and defenders Chris<br />
Basham, Enda Stevens and<br />
Blades defender Chris Basham challenges Nahki Wells during the Robins'<br />
2-0 defeat at a snowy Barmall Lane earlier this season<br />
George Baldock also facing time<br />
out on the sidelines. This has<br />
forced the club to act outside of<br />
the traditional transfer window<br />
with defender Filip Uremovic<br />
arriving on a deal to the end of<br />
the season, after his contract<br />
with Russian side Rubin Kazan<br />
was suspended.<br />
After Easter Monday’s clash in<br />
BS3, <strong>United</strong> host Cardiff <strong>City</strong><br />
before travelling to QPR, who<br />
still have an outside chance<br />
of finishing in the play-offs<br />
themselves. They finish their<br />
season against Fulham, who<br />
are all-but-promoted as things<br />
stand.<br />
It’s not an easy run-in for<br />
manager Heckingbottom,<br />
who moved up from his role<br />
as Under-23 coach after the<br />
departure of former boss<br />
Slaviša Jokanović in November.<br />
A former <strong>Sheffield</strong> Wednesday<br />
player, the 44-year-old is<br />
chasing his second promotion<br />
after leading Barnsley to the<br />
Championship in a doublewinning<br />
2016/17 season.<br />
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PLAYER<br />
INTERVIEW<br />
Words James Crawley<br />
CONWAY<br />
TO DO IT<br />
ANOTHER ROBINS PLAYER WITH<br />
A BRIGHT FUTURE, TOMMY<br />
CONWAY IS LOOKING FORWARD<br />
TO MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO<br />
SHOW THE CITY FAITHFUL<br />
WHAT HE CAN DO…<br />
It’s 12 months since then<br />
18-year-old Tommy<br />
Conway made his debut<br />
for the club he had<br />
been with since the age<br />
of seven. In fact, it’s<br />
closing in on a year to the day<br />
since he scored his first goal for<br />
the Robins, away to Millwall at<br />
the start of May 2021.<br />
Conway has had to be more<br />
patient this season, especially<br />
after recovering from an<br />
ankle injury at the start of the<br />
campaign, but there’s a lot of<br />
promise which comes with the<br />
Academy graduate.<br />
Looking back on the last year, the<br />
striker has learnt a lot and recalls<br />
the moment which marked the<br />
start of his first-team journey.<br />
“Me and Alex Scott were asked<br />
to train on the Thursday and<br />
we went back on the Friday as<br />
normal with no idea at all,” he said,<br />
remembering <strong>City</strong>’s away trip to<br />
Swansea <strong>City</strong> in February 2021. 4<br />
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I COULDN’T<br />
QUITE BELIEVE<br />
IT...FOR HIM TO<br />
PUT HIS TRUST<br />
IN ME WAS A<br />
PROUD MOMENT<br />
FOR ME AND MY<br />
FAMILY<br />
SQUAD NUMBER<br />
37<br />
DOB: August 6th 2002<br />
Birthplace: Taunton<br />
Position: Forward<br />
Joined: Academy, 2009<br />
PLAYER PROFILE<br />
2021/22 STATS<br />
4“We didnt realise until<br />
Scott Murray said: ‘you’re<br />
travelling and you’re on the<br />
bench’. It was a 20-man<br />
squad with nine on the<br />
bench but I couldn’t quite<br />
believe it. We travelled up<br />
with the rest of the lads on<br />
the coach, I did my initiation<br />
which was the Thiago Silva<br />
song (Dave x AJ Tracey).<br />
Everyone buzzed off it,<br />
everyone enjoyed it,” he said.<br />
<strong>City</strong> won 3-1 at the Liberty<br />
Stadium and while Conway<br />
didn’t make it off the bench,<br />
his debut came shortly after<br />
at Coventry <strong>City</strong>. However, it<br />
wasn’t until the home match<br />
against Luton Town that he<br />
earned his first start.<br />
“Yes that was good!”<br />
Conway told THE ROB NS. “The<br />
day before the gaffer said:<br />
‘Tommy Conway, you’re<br />
starting.’ I couldn’t quite<br />
believe it because you had<br />
other players in there so for<br />
him to put his trust in me<br />
was a proud moment for me<br />
and my family. I did alright<br />
too and played the full 90<br />
minutes.<br />
“Still to this day the likes of<br />
And Weimann, Nahki Wells,<br />
Antoine Semenyo and Chris<br />
Martin are helping me out<br />
and I’d add Andy King to that<br />
list too. Even though he’s a<br />
midfielder, he helps out all<br />
of the young lads. Nahki is<br />
really good, Andi is likewise<br />
and they’re always giving us<br />
tips to make us younger lads<br />
better players.”<br />
Conway has been patient<br />
this season though, keeping<br />
his match sharpness with<br />
minutes for the Under-23s,<br />
with whom he recently<br />
scored a hat-trick against<br />
Crewe Alexandra.<br />
He explained: “With those<br />
games some people might<br />
sack them off but if you do<br />
well you can only make the<br />
gaffer think about you.<br />
"Do well in those games and<br />
CAREER HIGHS<br />
APRIL 2021<br />
Makes his debut against Coventry <strong>City</strong>,<br />
coning off the bench in the second half<br />
APRIL 2021<br />
Earns his first <strong>City</strong> start, playing 90 minutes<br />
against Luton Town in BS3<br />
MAY 2021<br />
Scores his first goal for the club<br />
at the Den against Millwall<br />
MAY 2021<br />
Earns a new three-year<br />
deal with the Robins<br />
that can only bode well for<br />
you and your chances.<br />
“It’s different playing in the<br />
Championship. It’s more<br />
physical and there’s more<br />
pressure with the fans<br />
watching you too. The main<br />
difference is the quality, both<br />
who you’re playing with and<br />
against, but that only makes<br />
you a better player.<br />
“Some people might think<br />
it’s harder but when you get<br />
on the pitch it is still another<br />
game of football against 11<br />
other players. The technical<br />
side changes compared to<br />
Under-23s but I’ve learnt how<br />
to move my body and use the<br />
ball quicker.<br />
“Next season I just want to<br />
break into the team more and<br />
get as many appearances as<br />
I can. I have done all I can<br />
this year, I might get another<br />
chance but if I carry on<br />
working hard and get more<br />
appearances next year then<br />
that will be a positive.”<br />
Far left<br />
Scoring his<br />
first senior<br />
goal against<br />
Millwall last<br />
season<br />
Above left<br />
In action<br />
for <strong>City</strong><br />
Under-23s<br />
for whom<br />
he recently<br />
scored a<br />
hat-trick<br />
against Crewe<br />
Alexandra<br />
Below left<br />
Pictured<br />
after signing<br />
a three-year<br />
professional<br />
deal with the<br />
Robins in May<br />
2021<br />
<strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
2009<br />
Academy graduate<br />
TOTAL MINUTES<br />
PLAYED<br />
70<br />
BEST OPTA<br />
RATING<br />
6.56<br />
v BOURNEMOUTH<br />
APPEARANCES<br />
4<br />
PASSING<br />
ACCURACY<br />
CAREER PATH<br />
Yate Town<br />
2018/19<br />
Loan<br />
70.6 %<br />
ASSISTS<br />
1<br />
AVERAGE<br />
OPTA RATING<br />
6.22<br />
Bath <strong>City</strong><br />
2020/21<br />
Loan<br />
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<strong>City</strong> stars from the 1960s were<br />
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More than half-a-century since they graced the BS3<br />
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Johnny Watkins<br />
A day earlier, some of the group were also given a<br />
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Remembered for their services to the club were:<br />
Alan Dicks, Danny Bartley, Ian Broomfield,<br />
Phil Coggins, Jantzen Derrick, Brian Drysdale,<br />
Tony Ford, John Galley, Mike Gibson, Johnny Giles,<br />
Bobby Gould, Geoff Merrick, Geoff Palmer,<br />
Trevor Tainton, Johnny Watkins and Bobby Williams.<br />
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CITY<br />
ARCHIVES<br />
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894 HALL 1894 OF 1894 FAME 1894<br />
PAUL GAINEY PROFILES POPULAR STRIKER TOM RITCHIE<br />
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Lean but strong, striker Tom Ritchie<br />
forged a strong partnership up<br />
front with Paul Cheesley in the<br />
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promotion season when 1894 1894<br />
he was top scorer with 18 goals.<br />
He amassed 504 <strong>City</strong> appearances – fifth-highest<br />
894<br />
of all-time – and scored 1894<br />
132 goals, second only to 1894 1894<br />
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created the illusion of strolling, uncannily accurate<br />
at nodded deflections and a cunning caresser of<br />
the ball when it was on the deck.<br />
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He was one of several young prospects lured to<br />
<strong>Bristol</strong> <strong>City</strong> from Scotland in the late-1960s/early-<br />
1970s. Tom made his debut against Millwall at<br />
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Ashton Gate in 1972 and 1894<br />
– an 18-month interlude 1894 1894<br />
with Sunderland aside – went on to serve <strong>City</strong> for<br />
15 years.<br />
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neat control, smooth<br />
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Tom made a surprising Football League exit in<br />
passing ability and limitless stamina which<br />
1984 when he was signed by former colleague<br />
enabled him to make penetrating runs from deep Gerry Gow for Yeovil Town. He had already<br />
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positions. In the First<br />
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Division he was not as ensured<br />
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his place in <strong>City</strong>'s Hall of Fame<br />
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as one<br />
prolific but was revealed as an aerial threat who of the few players to play for the club in all four<br />
often stole in for blind-side strikes.<br />
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in the old Fourth Division Later, 1894<br />
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was my<br />
after financial collapse, Tom returned to <strong>City</strong> from postman. I immediately conducted a frantic search<br />
Sunderland in the summer of 1982, ready to lead for my York <strong>City</strong> programme of November 22nd<br />
a revival under Terry Cooper's management. His 1975, when he scored his first ever hat-trick. He<br />
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factor as he captained the signed 1894<br />
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humility, a<br />
1983/84 promotion team, making 53 appearances wide smile and a slightly nervous laugh at being<br />
and scoring 15 goals from midfield.<br />
recognised.<br />
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Carl Shutt with the matchball<br />
after his four-goal display<br />
versus Fulham, inset<br />
Spirits were high<br />
in the <strong>City</strong> camp<br />
after a 2-1<br />
home win over<br />
Chesterfield on September 29th<br />
1987, which took them to the top<br />
of the league.<br />
But they then drifted downwards,<br />
eventually reaching 14th following<br />
a 2-1 defeat at Aldershot on<br />
November 7th.<br />
Even so, journalist Richard Latham<br />
reminded us that Terry Cooper<br />
had built: “One of the most<br />
experienced squads in the Third<br />
Division for a net outlay of £51,000<br />
in transfer fees…the envy of many<br />
Third Division bosses.”<br />
Two draws steadied the ship<br />
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TERRY COOPER'S SPELL IN CHARGE OF THE ROBINS<br />
before four wins and a draw in<br />
December won the Manager of the<br />
Month award for Cooper.<br />
Steve Galliers answered critics by<br />
scoring a brace in the 3-2 home<br />
win v York <strong>City</strong>. Our next visitors<br />
Fulham fell victim to the on-fire<br />
Carl Shutt, who scored all four in<br />
a 4-0 triumph. The Yorkshireman<br />
then scored the winner away at<br />
Doncaster Rovers before Rob<br />
Newman converted from the spot<br />
to earn a draw at Gillingham.<br />
But the big result was the 5-2<br />
trouncing of Brighton & Hove<br />
Albion at Ashton Gate on<br />
December 28th, which ended their<br />
17-match unbeaten run and saw<br />
<strong>City</strong> overtake the Seagulls into<br />
fourth position.<br />
<strong>City</strong> dominated the first 20<br />
minutes before Alan Walsh’s<br />
free-kick was headed home by<br />
defender John Pender. Left-back<br />
Newman curled in a shot from the<br />
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edge of the area 11 minutes later<br />
and just before half-time a brilliant<br />
nine-man move culminated with<br />
Tony Fitzpatrick heading in at the<br />
far post.<br />
But the Seagulls staged a<br />
comeback after the break and<br />
Cooper admitted suffering a<br />
few nerves when <strong>City</strong>’s lead was<br />
reduced to 3-2 with 15 minutes<br />
to play. Up stepped Walsh with a<br />
moment of individual brilliance to<br />
turn and smash the ball into the<br />
net. With one minute of normal<br />
time left, Walsh crossed for<br />
Joe Jordan to seal victory.<br />
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For 1947/48 and 1948/49, Bob Bennett’s cartoons in the <strong>Bristol</strong> Evening Post were as per<br />
this long format style, tight to the centre margin. These two examples from the paper of<br />
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STEVE SMITH<br />
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LOOKS BACK<br />
Rovers and <strong>City</strong>’s doings in the FA Cup and the local derby at Ashton Gate.<br />
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AT AN INTERVIEW WITH<br />
FORMER CLUB CHAIRMAN<br />
HARRY DOLMAN<br />
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Our former<br />
After winning 9-2 v Dartford in a First Round Replay, <strong>City</strong><br />
chairman,<br />
were unable to find their scoring boots against Palace and<br />
Harry<br />
are made to pay for their many squandered chances when<br />
Dolman,<br />
Albert Robson wins the game for the visitors. He brings<br />
was so much a man for the<br />
a high-centre quickly under control and fires past the<br />
Former <strong>City</strong> chairman<br />
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advancing Clack. Both Don Clark and Robson have goals<br />
Harry Dolman<br />
disallowed for offside. It was, however, a better outcome<br />
to share his plans on the<br />
for the Rovers as they beat New Brighton 4-0 in front of<br />
new stand that would bear future? Harry was sure everything was going in the<br />
a 10,723 crowd at Eastville to progress through to the<br />
his name in this copy of right direction.<br />
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Third Round.<br />
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the Football League Review<br />
<strong>City</strong>: Clack; Guy, Bailey; Morgan, Roberts Thomas;<br />
programme from around December 1968. Here, he “We intend to incorporate six indoor bowling rinks<br />
Hopkins, Townsend, Clark, C Williams, Osman.<br />
begins his column by stating more clubs should on the ground floor which will be in use for most<br />
Palace: Graham; Harding, Dawes; Buckley, Millbank,<br />
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share their ideas.<br />
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of the day and evening, all the week, 1894<br />
most of<br />
Reece; Mycock, G Lewis, Robson, Kurz, Clough<br />
the year. A league of six divisions will be formed<br />
Referee: PC Annette (Basingstoke)<br />
Attendance: 22,327 (£1,569)<br />
“In these days of modern design and new ideas, and knock-out competitions will be arranged.<br />
I sometimes wonder whether football clubs<br />
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belonging to the English 1894<br />
League, could do a little “We 1894<br />
have the co-operation of the <strong>City</strong> 1894<br />
and County<br />
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more to helping each other.<br />
of <strong>Bristol</strong> Indoor Bowling Association, who already<br />
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have a large membership. They are going to make<br />
"In the past, and I believe at present, new ideas our new stand their headquarters. Two large club<br />
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Three (South) 1894<br />
are put into being in the 1894<br />
greatest secrecy, later rooms, 1894<br />
approximately 50 feet square, 1894<br />
and bars are<br />
Jackie Pitt’s long pass splits the <strong>City</strong>’s defence to<br />
to be copied by other clubs. This secrecy may be provided.”<br />
produce a bout of inter-passing between Vic Lambden<br />
necessary in some cases but it would be better if<br />
and Len Hodges that leads to the latter volleying the<br />
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opener past Frank Clack. <strong>City</strong> salvage 1894<br />
an extremely<br />
new ideas were circulated so that they benefitted It was at the start of the 1970/71 season that the<br />
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fortunate draw when Don Clark’s angled-shot is<br />
many clubs.”<br />
stand was first used at a cost of £230,000. Could<br />
fumbled into the net by Jack Weare.<br />
other clubs around the country fund a scheme of a<br />
<strong>City</strong>: Clack; Guy, Bailey; Morgan, Roberts, Peacock;<br />
As the programme went to press, it was estimated multi-purpose structure like this?<br />
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Townsend, Mullen, Clark, Barney, Lewis. 1894 1894<br />
that the cost for the new 1894<br />
Dolman Stand was now 1894 1894<br />
Rovers: Weare; Bamford, Fox; Pitt, Warren, McArthur;<br />
at £170,000. But with the club already in the lower “If clubs are thinking of new stands, I am sure it<br />
Petherbridge, Hodges, Lambden, Morgan, Watling<br />
part of Division Two, would it not be better to buy would pay them to see the plans and model of this<br />
Referee: RJ Burgess (Reading)<br />
players rather than build new facilities for the scheme. That is what I mean by co-operation.”<br />
Attendance: 27,543 (£1,813.17s.0d)<br />
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Swansea 41 -5 58<br />
Stoke 42 5 55<br />
Blackpool 41 -4 53<br />
Cardiff 41 -15 49<br />
CITY 42 -20 48<br />
Hull 42 -10 47<br />
Birmingham 42 -19 45<br />
Reading * 42 -28 40<br />
Derby ** 42 -7 31<br />
Peterboro 42 -47 31<br />
Barnsley 41 -29 30<br />
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**deducted 21 points<br />
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