tamthebam Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 City fans twitter says fans are welcome at the Queensberry Bowling Club which is about 5-10 mins walk away from Ainslie Park. Address is 16 Pilton Drive North. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 9 hours ago, tamthebam said: City fans twitter says fans are welcome at the Queensberry Bowling Club which is about 5-10 mins walk away from Ainslie Park. Address is 16 Pilton Drive North. Never knew about that place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEFP Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Episode 51 ‘Total Agreement’ reviews the 1-0 victory over Stirling Albion, while looking ahead to this weekends massive game against Stenny. Tune in from 21.51. https://anchor.fm/the-edinburgh-football-podcast/episodes/51--Total-Agreement-e522dr 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenkay Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 2 hours ago, tamthebam said: Henderson's a poacher and Court can hold up the ball/ rumble them up at corners so I'd play both of them Agreed. While I can half see what Ally says, I just can't have Court as a lone striker, as the guy couldn't score into an empty net! Sure, have Court on the park to do whatever he does, but we still need a striker beside him to score the goals! Stenny are a decent team, and this will be a tough game, so City need someone (BH or SS) on the pitch to put away the chances we create. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars1885 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Genuine question here, n not to sound like an erse but do Edinburgh city have fair few of their own fans? From what I’d heard most of the fans in attendance are hibees or jambos if their teams playing away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllyMonc Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Genuine question here, n not to sound like an erse but do Edinburgh city have fair few of their own fans? From what I’d heard most of the fans in attendance are hibees or jambos if their teams playing away. There is a bit of that to be fair but you also get a lot of folk who maybe are Hibs or Hearts but stopped regularly going to games at Tynie or Easter Road a few years back and are either season ticket holders at City or are there every week. We are a very small club even by League 2 standards with 2 huge clubs in the same city so it’s always going to be hard to have a massive base of our ‘own fans’ but I think there’s a halfway house between the 2 extremes (Hearts/Hibs fans coming on away days for something to do vs City badge tattooed on your leg type fan) that can work in the short to medium term. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Pars1885 said: Genuine question here, n not to sound like an erse but do Edinburgh city have fair few of their own fans? From what I’d heard most of the fans in attendance are hibees or jambos if their teams playing away. Quite a few of us originally were Meadowbank fans who decided being told to "f*ck off" by Mr Blobby wasn't conducive to supporting a franchise 15 miles away in a different town. Others have joined the merry band along the way. Having our own ground might help but we are where we are (thanks Spartans, thanks pals) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars1885 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 On 23/08/2019 at 13:13, tamthebam said: Quite a few of us originally were Meadowbank fans who decided being told to "f*ck off" by Mr Blobby wasn't conducive to supporting a franchise 15 miles away in a different town. Others have joined the merry band along the way. Having our own ground might help but we are where we are (thanks Spartans, thanks pals) is there a bit of rivalry with Livingston then with them relocating and changing name? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 I wouldn't say rivalry as such. Given we've been watching City in the EOSL/LL for most of the last quarter century Livingston are now more of an irrelevant nuisance. Our rivals for a long time were Spartans and Whitehill Welfare as they were the 2 big local EOSL teams (and there was, shall we say, a history of "interesting" refereeing decisions in games against them). Spartans are now our thoroughly decent landlords and Whitehill are decayed in fortune. City don't really have a local rival now as such- the only club we had a sort of rivalry with was Clyde but they're not universally popular among other clubs' fans either and Clyde's rivals will always be Partick or QP. To take a scenario Cowden rejoice when the Pars lose but I doubt many Pars fans care about Cowden's score as they're more likely to be hoping the Bairns lose. I wouldn't cry if Livingston were to go bust again but the current Almondvale board seem to be pretty careful so it seems unlikely. I have never set foot in Almondvale and never will and If City were to draw Livingston away in a Cup I wouldn't be going and one or two others feel the same way but that's about as far as it goes. For me as a Meadowbank fan the real bitterness is 1) Meadowbank Thistle Football Club seem to have been airbrushed out of history (see also Clydebank FC who played in the Premier League twice) and 2) the fans' story was never reported, it being easier for reporters to get a quote from Bill "Blobby" Hunter. Otherwise Hunter lead Livingston to their first near bankruptcy through incompetence and that's almost a vindication of our stance (see also Gavin Masterton and Dunfermline) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 Unlike the chairmen of some clubs, the bank manager didn't hide under his desk when John Blacklaw walked in. Thistle were always in the black in those days (apart possibly from the very first season) though I admit that the subsidy paid by many Ferranti employees will have helped here. It was only when Blobby got involved that things started to go tits-up financially. Incompetence off the field as well: the last straw for me was the first game of the final season, Brechin away, which we won comfortably but were then stripped of the points because one of our players was suspended. I only went to three more games that season: a cup-tie against Celtic, played at Hampden because Parkhead couldn't handle the huge Thistle travelling support was being redeveloped, the last home game and the very last game of all - Morton away, IIRC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 Journey to Borough Briggs! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEFP Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 52. ‘Full Kit’, listen from 1.00 to hear our take on Edinburgh City, discussing last weeks 3 points over stenny and a look ahead to this weekends away trip to Elgin. https://anchor.fm/the-edinburgh-football-podcast/episodes/52--Full-Kit-e54sdh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Looks like you lads would know best out of anyone - what's Sean Mackie like? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 12 hours ago, Dee Man said: Looks like you lads would know best out of anyone - what's Sean Mackie like? *polite cough* erm, the nights are fair drawing in... ...to be fair he had come back from a bad injury when he played for us. Otherwise underwhelming. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 On 03/09/2019 at 20:19, tamthebam said: *polite cough* erm, the nights are fair drawing in... ...to be fair he had come back from a bad injury when he played for us. Otherwise underwhelming. I've never looked forward to a debut so much since Caniggia signed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenkay Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 On 03/09/2019 at 00:19, Dee Man said: Looks like you lads would know best out of anyone - what's Sean Mackie like? Mate, I think you've got a decent signing there! I used to watch a fair amount of Hibs under 20 games and always rated Mackie quite highly. He's since had a few games for Hibs first team, so he's not a bad player at all and should do well in the championship. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenkay Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Seems like City got a decent point up at Elgin on Saturday, but once again we're hampered by more injuries. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEFP Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 53. ‘Fast & Furious’ reviews the weekends 3-3 draw away to Elgin and we review their league season so far with the first international break. Listen from 23.43. https://anchor.fm/the-edinburgh-football-podcast/episodes/53--Fast--Furious-e57p20 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 5 hours ago, Tenkay said: Seems like City got a decent point up at Elgin on Saturday, but once again we're hampered by more injuries. but the League leaders are playing Clugger's Quay Gonads away this weekend so they may end up similarly hampered ... ..even going for a pie risked injury there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Is the City heritage top a hint back to when they were Postal United with the red & black post box colours? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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