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Terraces? Bless. For younger OTIB members, terraces were (and apparently still are) a flight of wide, shallow steps providing standing room for spectators in a stadium or tented village.

Interesting only two Saturday games for the rugby, getting back to how they used to be This should improve attendances so that combination players (which Bristol's fanbase has been historically well supported by) can now attend more games again

Falls apart in the box??

No.................I'm not worried in the slightest !

Thanks- it just "feels" out of kilter though- the Madejski Stadium, a ground admittedly not as good as Pride Park and smaller, completion 1998- sold in 2017/18 to owners for £26.5m, book value £20m. Possible there's been no revaluation of any kind in that time- not looked at their 20 years of accounts. Major discrepancy not talking gross cost but everything else. Maybe there's been no upgrades in last 2 decades there. It is largely the fault of the EFL too for seemingly changing the regulations to allow this as a safety valve in terms of FFP- hopefully Aston Villa spend themselves stupid, come back down and fail FFP in the 3 years to May 2021, Derby stay down and that profit drops off the books from 2017/18 as it will and Sheffield Wednesday stay in a soft embargo, lose Bruce and slip further into issues. PS- Bruce quitting Sheffield Wednesday, potentially for Newcastle. Some rumours say it is due to "broken promises" on transfers- for that read soft embargo, unable to sign players except within strict limits. That would be karma- sure @chinapig @Davefevs @downendcity might concur? Shame eh, if it happens and if that part is also accurate. Unsure about @Owl Visiting ?

Why not? Ryanair is probably the best option to get to Ireland flying from Bristol. If it was City would you prefer that they hired a private jet?

Like this: ?

Springfield Park - one of the last grounds to sell Wagon Wheels in the away end ...

I do remember having a great time on the grass bank at Springfield park in the rain. I've no idea what the score was but we were covered in mud all the way home!

75 of your English Pounds for a season ticket at Melksham. Get hold of Jeffers, he'll sort you out @Miah Dennehy. Nice ground, good bar and top food. Don't do tapas yet but I'm campaigning for it! Footy ain't brilliant………..but you'd be quite used to that ?

Ah Springfield Park, standing on t’bank. We arrived in Wigan and went to visit Wigan Pier and buy Uncle Joe’s Mintballs, had a couple of pints in a nearby pub then saw a couple of locals who were obviously heading to the ground so we offered them a lift in return for directions. I guess I’ve not thought of that for more than thirty years! Strange the crap we’ve got lodged in our memories. (Just looked it up - 23 April 1985, 2-2 Attendance 2,423!)

Meh, swings and roundabouts. I have only used Ryanair twice and both times were fine. Aer Lingus I flew with once, which was an awful experience although to be fair that was more to do with the fact that we had quite a few pints in the airport and I was sat at the front of a tiny plane so when the trolley dolly was out you couldn't pass it to go to the loo- I was in agony! Which, of all people, Warren Gatland found hilarious!

No, purely indicative build costs.

The 2k per 1000 is for new build. If Pride Park had to be built from scratch now and assuming a good finish (2,4k per seat) the cost could well be around 81m imo.

They have trouble seeing the penalty spot at the Mem, they would never be able to find the G-Spot.

So Derby’s £81.1m (if just Stadium) is way over with “depreciation”.

General rule of thumb is £2k per 1,000 seats for a new build with an average finish, so thats about right if they're going for a decent finish.

True, but Bristol have always traditionally never really played on a Saturday. Last season seemed like an expirement and for whatever reason they have gone back to their former days

I haven't undertaken asset valuations for donkeys years Mr P, I deal with commercial property acquisitions, disposals and everything in between i'm afraid so can't comment on the valuation, particularly as I have no idea whether it was the stadium solely or associated leisure outlets etc, but I would say that the oft quoted figure of £1m per 1,000 seats is woefully outdated and fails to properly account for facilities within stadia,anyone putting their name to a valuation of £81m would have to be qualified to do so, and further, when you consider the costs of stadia coming out of the ground elsewhere recently, I think it would probably be very difficult to challenge the sale price. Interesting stuff about Aberdeen's 20,000 capacity stadium https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/aberdeen-fc/donsnews/cost-of-stadium-to-rise-to-45-50m/

Are Lingus fly twice a day and is a far better experience, it is a couple of quid more expensive though which might of been the deciding factor ?

And backtracking on last season's preferred timing of 3pm on a Saturday. The obvious knock-on affect though is that people who have bought STs for their younger kids (my lad is 6) will have a lot less games that they'll be able to take them to - which seeing as the Family Area was moved to cope with demand and be nearer the Community Corner does seems a tad counter-productive for the younger fans.

Depreciated replacement cost. "The DRC method is a form of cost approach that is defined in the RICS Valuation – Global Standards 2017 (RB Global) Glossary as: ‘The current cost of replacing an asset with its modern equivalent asset less deductions for physical deterioration and all relevant forms of obsolescence and optimisation. The DRC method is based on the economic theory of substitution. Like the other forms of valuation it involves comparing the asset being valued with another. However, DRC is normally used in situations where there is no directly comparable alternative" The DRC method may be used for the valuation of specialised property, which is defined in the RB Global Glossary as: ‘A property that is rarely, if ever, sold in the market, except by way of a sale of the business or entity of which it is part, due to the uniqueness arising from its specialised nature and design, its configuration, size, location or otherwise.’ This is the RICS approach so gospel and often applied to public buildings.

No, he’s called jigsaw because he goes to pieces in the box ?

#DoItForTres

Stop referring to Gloucestershire as 'we', it's confusing the hell out of me. This is clearly a Somerset forum, your views belong on Gaschat ?