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This is one of the drawbacks to living in a modern democracy. When I was in China 2 years ago, our guide in Shanghai was quite ‘political’ and he said ‘you westerners value your democratic system where everyone has a say, but we built Shanghai into a huge metropolis in 30 years with fully functional everything. In your west you would still be arguing over where the first stone should be laid.’ although I wouldn’t swop his regime for ours quite yet (getting close recently) he has a point.

Suddenly the dualing banjo song makes sense

The home shirt looks nice, would rather there was no red but that’s what it is. Away shirt looks class though, will be getting that one. Renewals are all great, now if Charles Piutau could renew as well...

Blimey! Just reading that report makes you wince! If Brunel had had to live with that I reckon the GWR would never have got further than Saltford.

Would imagine it’s a kit reveal, and announcement of Morahan signing a new deal together with maybe a couple of other renewals. the way they’ve phrased the hashtag seems to rule out it being new signings. Hopefully I’m wrong though and it will be #announcegengey later!

May be of interest to some on here (especially @Never to the dark side ) This is the presentation that was given by Peter Maliphant the Membership Secretary of the Portishead Railway Group at a recent meeting with North Somerset council https://www.portisheadrailwaygroup.org/The Next Four Years.pdf Also the full report to the council following that meeting http://apps.n-somerset.gov.uk/cairo/docs/doc29672.pdf

The more football becomes about money , the more this will happen. I wouldn't blame the fans, but I suspect there were a fair amount of them demanding that the chairman 'splashed the cash' in order to keep up with the Joneses, it happens at every club. I guarantee you that during the course of the upcoming season there will be a fair few demanding that Lansdown gets his hand in his pocket, they would do well to remember 1982.