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Isn't it amazing that we can build that massive roof on the Lansdown stand with zero restricted views and they have a 163 seater tent with FIVE posts in the way. EDIT: Just realised why those seats are more expensive, because the posts are in the way you don't have to watch it all.

Did Ian Baird then ask you how many fingers he was holding up?

No need.... as it's such a common mistake, we'll just mark 'ee down as an honest error........

Does erecting a structure ?,with a one sized Allen key count as building something.

Their only intention is to not pay for any stadium. Always has been. They have never been knocked back in their plans (planning permission) to build a stadium; they've just never been able to afford it.

Don't sweat it.... For all in tents and purposes it's an easy mistake to make.......

To be fair I don't think the BBC Did them any favours when they dispatched Garth Crooks West with his pith helmet, to interview Wael.. "You can buy any club in the prem (he fawned) why Bristol Rovers?" Well, not any club he joked, You got that effing right...

Oh, of course, the Meade King LLP South West Corner By the Real Cornish Pastie Hut Cricket Pavillion Side Stand.

Are the EFL planning on buying their own board room table off themselves?

The fact that big clubs appear to thumb their noses at FFP with impunity makes it a fig leaf for me. Brum were an easy target as the media are not going to fawn over them as they do the likes of Villa and Derby. I predict that within a year the rules will be relaxed to the extent that they will become irrelevant.

Interesting debate and nice to see fans from different clubs chatting. Villa fan in peace here. There are a few mentions of Villa selling their ground to themselves (like Derby) to pass P&S. Although this is not against the rules albeit not in the spirit of P&S, it is not the case that Villa has sold Villa Park. Since buying Villa NSWE have been putting a lot of money into the club and with each investment Xia's shareholding is further diluted, apparently he now owns less that 20% of AVFC whereas he had 45% the day the sale went through. The name of the Villa Park holding company was changed and the directors of the holding company were also changed. It went from Recon (A Xia owned company) to Aston Villa (an NSWE owned company) with Xia removed as a shareholder. There was no sale of Villa Park, it was simply a further dilution of Xia's equity on AVFC

they could do with some extra stands outside for all the lockouts though.

Also worth mentioning that Bristol are the second seeds from the Premiership for the draw. Two of the second ranked teams will be drawn into tier one with the other going into tier two. So one of Bristol, Stade and the Blues will be in tier two and theoretically end up with a more difficult draw. I don't think that you can draw another team from the same league until tier four is drawn, so with that in mind you'd say that a good draw for Bristol would be to end up as one of the first seeds and get something like Blues, Pau and Calvisano. You'd have to fancy your chances of getting out of that group. There are eight French teams involved this season though so you're fairly likely to draw two of them.

They'll be telling everyone that they've gone from being 60 % full to 65% and point to it as progress....rather than because of them reducing the amount of inbreds they can get in there. Because they're loyal and prowed.

Don't think they needed allen keys.....Just a needle and some cotton.

The draws for the composition of the pools for the 2019/20 Heineken Champions Cup and Challenge Cup will take place at the Centre de Congrès Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday, June 19th. The key event which starts at 13.00 (UK and Irish time) will be streamed live on www.epcrugby.com. The draw for the Challenge Cup pools will be followed immediately by the pool draw for the Heineken Champions Cup at approximately 13.20. Bristol Bears reached the quarter-final stage of last season’s competition, eventually falling to Top 14 giants, La Rochelle at Stade Marcel-Deflandre. The following clubs have qualified for the 2019/20 Challenge Cup: TOP 14 – Castres Olympique, Stade Francais Paris, RC Toulon, Bordeaux-Bègles, Pau, Agen, Bayonne, Brive Gallagher Premiership Rugby – Wasps, Bristol Bears, Worcester Warriors, Leicester Tigers, London Irish Guinness PRO14 – Scarlets, Cardiff Blues, Edinburgh Rugby, Dragons, Zebre Rugby Club Qualifiers from Continental Shield – Enisei-STM, Rugby Calvisano The event comperes in Lausanne will be Sarra Elgan (BT Sport) and Matthieu Lartot (France Télévisions) with Bryan Habana (Channel 4) and Dimitri Yachvili (beIN SPORTS) conducting the draws. Event: Pool Draws for the Challenge Cup and Heineken Champions Cup Date: Wednesday 19 June Time: 13.00 (UK and Irish time) Challenge Cup draw followed by the Heineken Champions Cup draw at 13.20 approximately

I counted 163 seats . That is the most embarrassing stand I’ve ever seen. The premium seats in the middle have 2 posts in the way and not even a row H . Tinpot rovers

Fortnightly livestock shows.

The sun are reporting that Reading are currently under a soft embargo - https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9316083/reading-soft-transfer-ban-championship-efl/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunfootballfacebook170619&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1560794522

I have that problem consistent persistent discontent omnipotent malcontent impenitent inexistent idempotent totipotent overpotent subsistent coexistent ?

Your assuming that they started from Row A!

https://www.google.com/search?q=eastville+stadium&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=chje0ImtIjUGUM%3A%2C5PC7B0VNRr5dBM%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kT-lGPdnVuzU1fYg944-zcceumaqA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9wYqNn_HiAhXYQhUIHejUBy8Q9QEwBHoECAMQDA#imgrc=8Eq1i5GAJCjxaM:&vet=1 Packed out. Nothing changes.

Oh, silly me. Getting my tents mixed up. Sorry.

I always thought that it was amusing that they sold season tickets for “Row M”, because there wasn’t a “Row M”. I’ve only just realised that there’s not even a row H, I, J, K or L either..! ??

Urmmm HELLO...???!

I see their glasses aren’t half empty,they’re completely empty ?

These things take wine.

There is only one word, deluded. The trouble is that all of his acne faced morons in their "Windyass 9" jester's top lap it up every time so much so that if you say it enough times then it must be true. (Sag) 40,000 fans (reality) 4,000 season tickets (Sag) if we had a 25k stadium we'd fill it (reality) they can't manage five figures (that's figures not fingers although they'd struggle with even that) at their dump. (Sag) "family club, every one likes us" (reality) they've had more incidents of racist abuse, equine boxing & theft. Everyone thinks they're a laughing stock as one away fan put it "there's a tent, a cricket pavilion and a hut and that's just on one side of the ground. (Sag) Our away support is massive like it's an extension of their manhood (reality) its just bang average at best. The most prominent part of their manhood sticks out of their foreheads. (Sag) we have our own identity with our kit and song ( reality) Other clubs early in the last century wore that out dated design before they did. The dirge is an old Plymouth Argyle song reminiscing about a prostitute, hardly original & hardly family club material. (Sag) We should be pushing top half championship (reality) until they accept that they have to learn to compete with the likes of Shrewsbury, Fleetwood and Accrington both on and off the field and show them the same level of respect, they won't be going anywhere. As I said, deluded.

The disappointing bit- no the really annoying bit - is the way fans are almost admitting they are getting away with it because the rules are not tight enough and that even if any action is taken, they see little chance of points deduction now they are in the prem. You get the feeling that as a club Villa decided that they would do whatever it took financially to get back to the prem, in the almost certain knowledge that they would face down any attempt by the EFL to bring them to book over ffp ( and win!) and that the money they would pocket in the premier league would enable them to balance the books. In a nutshell it crystallises the problem the EFL has singularly failed to grasp and address. Namely, that the financial rewards for getting promotion are so great that some clubs will risk everything to get there and that they will do this because they know that the EFL is inept in implementing , applying and enforcing it's ffp rules, and in particular when faced with so called big clubs.