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Yep I'm there now too. 80% of what is rotten in football would be instantly removed by having the top clubs gone. Genuinely, without the state-backed clubs and equivalents, the competitiveness of the English league as a whole would accelerate overnight. You'd be back to the 80's and 90's, the gap to non-league would not be so large, achievements like Wimbledon's promotion and Clough's back-to-back promotion/Championship win would be so much more possible. More than just 4 clubs would be able to win the league. Let them have their league and close it off. Sounds great to me. And the 'super league' wouldn't get a penny from me.

Coconut Tree is amazing. Tried Nadu the other day too which is very similar and also very decent.

Yeah that's basically a Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, etc. You plug them in and they give you access to all of your subscriptions, which you still have to pay for. They've been around for about 10 years by now I'd imagine. They're handy if you have an old TV with no apps on, or if you want IPTV or something.

For IPTV? Not at all. Just need to download particular apps and you're away. You can even run it on an Apple TV with it's locked app store.

Another top notch thread from RR

Did you get the DSP at Renato's? The guy who runs it has been doing it for some years out of old pubs and stuff trying to get it going I think, genuinely some of the best pizza I've ever had. Really need to get back there.

To be honest I think it's just going to be crap for a while. Even passing in 2009 it was only sub-£2k if you got Pass Plus as well. Biggest recommendations are to try all of the comparison sites (Compare the Market, Go Compare, Money Supermarket, Confused) - on all of them try with yourself as an added driver or your wife, or both (sometimes it's cheaper if you add both of you on!). Then if you have time just try to play with each filter, e.g. jobs can be quite subjective, some jobs could be described as Banking or Finance for example so try both and see which one comes out cheaper. Also sometimes car being parked on the road rather than on the drive can sometimes come out as inexplicably cheaper. I tend not to do it now so much but when I was younger I'd muck about with all of those and some of those little things would shave £30 off or so here and there.

Lounge's do a decent job, really don't mind them. Quite looking forward to seeing what they do with that work going on on Welsh Back by the Hole in the Wall. Supposed to be a food court of sorts with pop up restaurants and bars. Always thought Bristol could do with something a bit like Freight Island in Manchester, not that there is much space for it.

At least it's literally his only platform. Completely shunned by everywhere else, just a leader of idiots so daft they believe him. A complete loser.

Same vibes

That Saka penalty shout is a real tricky one, and yet again just shows how hard it is to referee a game. I think you can make a pretty decent case for both shouts in reality, but for me it's not quite a pen. Saka clearly looks for it and although Neuer is a bit daft with his challenge, Saka deliberately leaves a trailing leg way too far out. As 50:50 as it is, I think it's a superb decision from the ref. The easy way out would've been to give it.

Thanks for that, that's a great tip actually. Must admit I only really check Bristol, Cardiff and Heathrow.

Yeah absolutely. As much as I say the current domination is worse (in my opinion of course), it's just a different level of the same shit. Even if the Merc years were 'better' on account of two teammates being able to fight it out, the problem is still there. The sport as a whole is just miles away from where it could/should be competitively. 2026 could genuinely be pretty exciting, and it's almost impossible to predict which team will come out on top at this stage. Here's hoping the regulation period as a whole has a few twists and turns though - a shake-up in 2026 is only useful if it doesn't remain the same throughout the whole regulation period.

Unless I have something wildly wrong, that must be 10 hours of football now without a goal for them?

Ha, what a tragic little piece of **** that guy is. Completely unemployable, reduced to desperate attempts to stay relevant on Twitter. Deserves every last second of nothingness that the rest of his life will bring him.

I think I've said it before, but I think the lack of competition at the front is the biggest issue here. Though not perfect by any means, at least in the Hamilton years you had his battle with Rosberg. During the Vettel years the rivalry with Webber was great. There were actually some title deciders at the end of the year. At the moment there is just... nothing. And it's partially because Max is so good, partially because we have new rules that completely play into the hands of Newey (who is already the best designer in F1), and partially because Red Bull are and always have been pretty much a one-car team. That means the fastest team is miles ahead, and within that team there is little chance of any title battle. Throw in the new budget cap meaning it's very hard for teams to catch up within a rules period and it's basically a recipe for having near enough the same sequence of cars in order from 2021 to 2025. Which is absolute crap. While the budget cap is well intentioned, it's causing damage here and I'm not sure it's possible to rectify it before 2026. Liberty adding more and more races also makes year-end title deciders mathematically less likely. It's just all a bit stale nowadays.

Not always my thing but loving Kneecap at the moment.

A few of my mates were at this and they're about as far away from the 'great unwashed tribe' as you can get. This is a completely different crowd.

100% this. DnB isn’t my bag at all but it’s absolutely everywhere in this city, don’t see any issue with it whatsoever. Bristol being at the forefront of anything good is a positive in my book.

Pretty solid that to be fair.

Poor lad, really hope he's found. What's particularly weird is that although (sorry to say it) it's entirely possible he's sadly in the river, like a few others in recent years, his phone apparently pinged as active up on Granby Hill shortly after he went missing. Doesn't make all that much sense unless he's doubled back on himself. Really good shout to make more people aware of this.

That's a great spot. A 'design agency' paying a mass-market web design/hosting company what, £15pm to run basically a pre-templated website for them is laughable.

The stages are side-by-side so it shouldn't really matter. Wonder how sales are going for this (and Forwards for that matter).

That's daft though, it's not what any of us would actually say in that situation though is it? We're talking with hindsight, and based on the perceived aims of the club at the start of the year. At the end of the day everyone here is on about relative success (which is what success is to most people 90% of the time). You're just sticking to your guns that success is absolute which is fine, if that's really how you want to see it. To most of us, if you are predicted 22nd and finish 4th, and you end up better off talent-wise and financially, with a better platform for the next year, that's a success. Progression can be success. It doesn't mean you're any less ambitious.

In the context of the fact that we would have been happy just to stay up that year, reaching the play-off final (even though we lost) absolutely was a relative success.