Jump to content

richwwtk

OTIB Supporter
  • Posts

    6907
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    4

richwwtk last won the day on October 26 2022

richwwtk had the most liked content!

Reputation

5818

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Not Telling

Recent Profile Visitors

6758 profile views
  1. That's a very optimistic guess!
  2. I think Italia 90 was the start of the switch from the Union Flag to St George's. Pretty much complete by Euro 96. Having said that I took a Union Flag to the 2002 WC
  3. Is it wrong to be wondering what on earth you could be meaning when you say 'proper blokes'? Is it a badge of pride that no women were involved in the fundraising (not even ones pretending to be blokes)? Or is there some kind of definition of bloke that only applies to people raising money to buy a flag?
  4. I lost 3.5 stone with Man v Fat in the very first season in Weston before breaking my ankle and subsequently piling the weight back on. That season was amazing with a really good bunch. The focus was fully on losing weight, and the football every week was a bonus that nobody took TOO seriously. I have tried a couple of times since, but it has completely switched. There are now teams getting sponsored, and some actually have stars on their shirts for how many times they have won the league. Weight loss is very much a secondary factor and the team seems to be overpopulated with blokes that really don't need to lose any weight but enjoy looking good in the lower standard of football being played. Add to that they now want over thirty quid a month for the privelege I find I can't stick with it any more.
  5. Just who do you imagine is laughing at and looking down on the England flag? Certainly not me, nor anybody else on this thread that I can see. I would accept your saying that the St. George flag is now part of footballing culture, as for traditions it has only really been a major thing for about 30 years so a bit soon for that maybe? And once again, it was @Cowshed being laughed at, not the flag, no matter who raised the money for it.
  6. It was @Cowshed and his 'defacing flags is illegal' that was being laughed at, not the flag
  7. You're quite correct, it's a small motif at the back of the neck of the new England shirt. It would remain as such if it was just plain red and white. You know it's not a flag, I know it's not a flag, why bring defacing flags into it?
  8. But nobody has defaced a flag. Are you just looking for something to be upset about?
  9. Where have Nike said they are concerned about the reaction of certain elements of English society? What elements of English society do you think they are trying to placate and what evidence of it is there? It is not in the least bit woke, I don't see how you came to that conclusion?
  10. How is it 'woke gone mad' what is even woke about it at all? Looks to me like a designer just redesigned something for the sake of it, they have to earn their crust somehow! I agree that the plain red/white cross would have been a better option there, but it really isn't woke. It's just the horizontal bar looking like it's based on the colours of the away kit and the vertical bar based on the reds that are often involved as well, so just the colours generally included on the kits. Certainly not a rainbow or anything like that.
  11. richwwtk

    BJ

    I liked Scott Davidson as well, and he did many things better, but we were stagnating just as much with him in charge. And names such as Lansclown are uncalled for imo.
  12. richwwtk

    BJ

    Fair enough, although it isn't just league position. You have a fan base grown beyond anything I have seen in my 40odd years of going to Ashton Gate. You have the improved ground, the fact that we are seen ever more widely as the top club in the South West (I'm not 100% sure but has the gap as it is ever been wider?). The training ground will take a while before it really shows its benefits, but is above what was there before. And as for league position, we are now established in the Championship and it feels like home. 21 years ago we were at best a yo-yo club between League 1 and the Championship, and to be honest the times in the higher of the two divisions always felt like brief visits. As for Bristol Sport, I have now got used to the idea and actually quite like it. The Sporting Quarter (or whatever it is called) looks very impressive and I am looking forward to it eventually being built. I do think that Bristol Sport is, however, an indication that SL is most passionate about Bristol itself rather than City specifically, and whilst I can understand people not being comfortable with that it does no make him a bad owner. I think maybe what does need to change is the mindset of the club. Things like celebrating the anniversary of 4th round cup matches etc show what is essentially a 'small club' attitude and maybe we really need to start thinking of City as bigger than we are in order to really progress. Another symptom is over promoting club 'legends' such as Tinnion. With the changes that have happened over the last few years maybe that will change. We will see. All finally though, I really do not believe you can say that the SL era has, to date, been a negative one.
  13. richwwtk

    BJ

    If you are referring to SL's time in charge overall I don't think you could be more wrong. You have @Barrs Court Red 's list a few posts up, all things that have happened over the last 21 years as a result of multiple (mainly business) decisions that have been made by SL. Your list on the OP is a list of individual decisions that were either obvious mistakes at the time or turned out to be mistakes with hindsight, but I do not believe for a second any of them were made with anything but the best intentions for the club. There are also some things listed that are either debatable or simply wrong. Overall though, the positives have to outweigh the negatives simply because the club is in a better position now than when he took over. Of course you can point to clubs that have overtaken us in that time, but the fact that our average league position these days is higher than it was then means there are a larger number of clubs that we have overtaken ourselves. Things aren't great right now, but in my opinion they are nowhere near as bad as the overwhelming mood in here seems to be. We are frustratingly inconsistent, and certainly poor at breaking obstinate sides down, but we are also capable of being very good on our day and Manning may yet find the key to that happening on a more regular basis albeit a poor run to the end of the season would see him sacked I would think.
  14. Saw him being interviewed on Points West the other day, lord knows why Points West was on though.
  15. richwwtk

    BJ

    I was also under the impression that Robins was, and has been for a while, SL's #1 choice for the manager job here. It seems every time the search for a new manager begins, until recently at least, somebody on here always complains that he is about to approach Robins and they hope we don't get him.
×
×
  • Create New...