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If you can read this I’ve lost my caravan ?

Good chance of it being called off I would have thought with all those temporary structures around the place.

This is going to be Edward Ware, former director of Edward Ware homes, That went bankrupt and I believe was banned from being a director of a company for a time, as a result. Fortunately, he wasn't made to suffer too much financially, as his Mrs found £5m down the back of the sofa to carry on with her own property company, as she was a real property expert. It might also include Nick Higgs who is reportedly still owed a substantial sum from the original sale of BRFC to Dwayne Sports. I don't like the talks going on with BCC as they will bend over backwards to help that lot out. Just as they did when changing the planning committee on the day of the meeting to decide the application for the redevelopment of the rugby ground. Six councillors were removed from the committee who'd previously voiced their concerns about that application, to be replaced by other councillors friendly towards the application/club. BCC previously promoted the idea of using the fruit market site as a joint stadium for both clubs. As we have ours now, they'll say it's only fair that Rovers can compete on an even footing and bend a few rules, re access, travel arrangements, noise and light pollution, granting of long leases with peppercorn rent, on the adjoining council owned depot for hotel/housing developments which will go towards financing. There are many hurdles to cross here, none less than agreeing a figure with the Al Quadi family for their money back, plus interest/profit on their original property deal. Then actually getting money out of BRFC for rent on a £40-£60m build. Someone is going to take a hit in this plan. Probably the new stadium company formed to see the project through, that gets loans on the value of land, who will then go bankrupt, leaving BRFC to pick up a newly built stadium at a knock down price from the liquidator, with the financiers ultimately taking a hit and writing off £40m. some people are good with shares and when to acquire and sell them, and the club has history in forming new companies and obtaining property when someone goes to the wall. Seen it all before with that lot. Slippery as hell.

Just wondering if there are any of you who are old enough to have witnessed the Bristol Punk scene in its heyday? Can any of you remember Seeing The Clash, and the Stanglers play the Exhibition Center? Did you see Siouxie and the Banshees play the Barton Hill Youth club? Do you remember gangs of Punk Rockers congregating outside the Virgin Records shop? Does anyone still go to see Punk bands? Is there still a Punk Scene in Bristol?

Should be Always The Sun...doh.

I’m sure sometime in the dim and distant past I saw Becki Bondage at the Granary.

I know a lovely man in Henbury who fixes computers, he can do the job (he deals with all the IT at Ashton Gate as well apparently so comes highly recommended.....)

You should perform an immediate virus scan, or a man from India will call and offer to help!

You are right about Hugh Axeing some guy with his guitar, because he missed me by about two bodies!!! I still have the Pistols ticket also, I think we had to pay to go watch the awfull band The Stukas to get that ticket. Shame the club burnt down a few days after. I also saw the Siouxsie at Yate, great gig. Interesting days my friend,

Saw loads - Stranglers Exhibition - I am sure there was spitting and Hugh leapt off stage and poleaxed some geezer with his guitar :laugh: - never saw the Clash (grrrrr) had (still have) a ticket for the Pistols at the Bamboo Club Can even remember seeing Siouxie at YATE and Blondie - saw the Damned backing T REX and left after the Damned (fool that I was)

Bury have been given 14 days to avoid being expelled from the EFL after having their Carabao Cup tie with Sheffield Wednesday suspended. The EFL previously called off Bury's games against MK Dons and Accrington. The League One club had been given a deadline of Wednesday to show the EFL a plan to pay off outstanding creditors. But after not providing "the clarity required" they have now had a third game suspended and given two weeks to meet the EFL's insolvency policy. "Despite continued efforts, regular communication and dialogue with [Bury chairman] Mr Steve Dale and his team, the required evidence has not been forthcoming," EFL executive chair Debbie Jevans said. "Albeit regretfully, the board has been left with no choice but to take the action it has." The EFL said they would continue to work "constructively with the club and Mr Dale" to obtain the details required to avoid calling off further fixtures. BBC Radio Manchester have contacted Bury for comment. Financially-troubled Bury's first-round match against the Owls had been due to take place at Hillsborough on Tuesday, 13 August. The club have already been given a 12-point deduction for the season after entering into a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) - which is classed as an insolvency event by the EFL - to try to clear some of their debts. The Shakers saw a winding-up petition against them dismissed by the High Court on 31 July, while Dale claimed the EFL were "working against" them, to which Jevans later said that the league was "not standing in the way" of the club's survival. The EFL had previously issued the club with a withdrawal of membership notice - which was itself suspended since 25 July. But this has now been lifted, with the Shakers given until 23 August to prove their financial viability or face expulsion. Bury, who won promotion from League Two last season, have also previously been referred to an independent disciplinary panel after their opening-day fixture against MK Dons was suspended.

Yes chief. Was a teen and saw the Clash and the post City Gas dust up … That in 2019 would be front page it was full scale. And the Damned and the post City Gas dust up. Crass new Trinity was the gig. Yes there was a dust up but pre gig v the British movement. That small gig changed Punk in Bristol and its politics. For some anyway. Do you remember gangs of Punk Rockers congregating outside the Virgin Records shop? Yes twas also the eighties. Thrash and anarcho of the eighties could be Bristols punk heyday Chaos UK, Disorder, Lunatic Fringe, Amebix in squats around St Pauls and the Vice Squad but the not the Vice Squad of now. We had kicks todays kids can never know … Can smoke, cant squat, drink is expensive, can't protest like the eighties and can't dive off the stage if I could muster enough energy to climb on one. Is there still a Punk Scene in Bristol? Yes. Check the exchange. Check St Nicks covered market. Easton Pubs. Its not as big, numerous and spiky and has a lot less hair but is still there.

In light of the various issues raised in the ffp thread, this section is especially pertinent. And what a background Anderson had. In the 1980s Anderson worked as a used car salesman, getting himself a criminal conviction for selling second hand Nissan cars as new. In the 1990s he was running pubs and restaurants, closing them down after evading tax and not paying suppliers. He got 18 failed companies under his belt before finally getting a directors ban for being an unfit person. Anderson also worked for a few years with Vantis, a firm of accountants later shut down for money laundering and aiding and abetting VAT fraud. As if that wasn’t enough, Anderson had less than favourable comments about his dealings in the football world, primarily involving attempted takeovers at both Southampton and Liverpool. Would the leopard change his spots at Bolton? Shaun Harvey and the EFL thought so, bygones were bygones and so Bolton had new last minute owners, confirmed ironically enough at a club winders court appearance for unpaid HMRC taxes. What followed was a three year master class on how to exploit an environment of slack regulation and incompetence, applied in true brinkmanship style, with a couldn’t care less as to the consequences attitude of someone with little or no skin in the game. Forget for a minute the questions it raises about the criteria on which an owner is judged fit and proper ( or whatever term is now used). The fact that Bolton's financial demise has occurred over a period of time during which the EFL made the financial rules more stringent, must give cause for concern. In particular, and has many have commented on our own ffp thread, the highlighted section of the article is especially telling and damning. The very rules that are meant to safeguard clubs against profligate and reckless owners, appear to be only loosely applied when it suits the EFL's need to be flexible when dealing with the big and powerful but useless when really needed.