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Unfortunately, Stuart Taylor, a long-serving centre half for our blue friends during the late 1960s and 1970s has passed away. Many of the younger posters on this thread will probably never have heard of him, but I had the pleasure of meeting him on more than one occasion, and I can assure you all he was a most charming man, a perfect gentleman. Believe it or not, Stuart actually started his career playing for Bristol City. RIP.

Every one was amazed it was Lloyd and not Taylor who went to Liverpool !

Shaun Harvey speaks- including on FFP! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/10/09/wanted-hold-carabao-cup-draw-space-ousted-efl-chief-reveals/ The relevant sections...the headline with one of his ideas is a cracker though! Incidentally, I think he actually raises one or two good points, but overall he was useless... Denies a 2016 rule change was an oversight? Curiouser and curiouser...raises some serious questions IMO. I struggle to see why 18/24 clubs would vote for it when the majority comply or make serious efforts to comply with FFP! I think they already have mandatory wage cuts in the form of relegation wage clauses, but maybe not all clubs do and could they be higher? I agree though that a closure of the loophole should be tied to other reforms. Wage cuts repaid as a bonus in the event of promotion is in fact an interesting idea. The first bolded bit, makes me wonder further whether they appointed him as he's an idiot who won't bother much with oversight and is just somewhat of a patsy. @Davefevs @downendcity @chinapig @BobBobSuperBob @CyderInACan @Coppello you might be interested in this. Varied others too I suspect.

R I P Stuart Taylor... (lived not too far away when I was a kid) a time when footballers were still local blokes living just slightly better off than normal working class people) Stuart at the time lived just off Banjo Island on the Park Estate Council estate, just like the rest of us. I was always a Red but as a kid slightly miffed that Stuart Taylor was blue and therefore 'one of them'. Sad News.

Sad news - a proper centre half, daunting opponent and a great servant for the Rovers .... rest easy fella

Rip Stuart. He was a proper player.

Bristol Sport do....and have done for some time it looks like. The announced deal they were on about was a renewal of the partnership where they supply fresh produce to the Bears and Flyers. But we all know the Sags don't like to let little things like facts get in the way of anything. https://www.bristol-sport.co.uk/news/bristol-sport-team-up-with-total-produce-foodservice/

I don't think so. Perhaps we're just sowing the seeds?

Question is, was Richard Keogh in the car...? Too soon?

Or as we know it he's doing a Higgs.

Basically, Wally is hawking the club round to anyone who might take it. I'm sure the next owners will be nothing but the best if that's his approach. Given he claimed there were a number of other parties interested in buying the Fewers when they got involved, you would think he would have approached them first. Or perhaps they have seen that losing 65k a month to go nowhere isn't the cash cow they thought it was.

He joined us as an amateur I think, but he didn’t play any games for City

That I didn’t know and perhaps why I had respect for him. Very consistent player and good in the air. Back in the days when I could name a Rovers team, now, some guy with a double barrel name is about all I could offer! ?

That is the million dollar question- why were they changed, who instigated it? Would also add when exactly they were changed? We believe 2016 but I still feel the when is quite important. Yes, it seems a bit of a soft line of questioning on reflection. David Conn or Kieran Maguire for example would be a very different proposition! Potentially the two Matts who actually swapped papers, possibly even direct job roles- Lawton and Hughes- both seem pretty sharp. None will be on his interview list! Like I said he seemed to have one or two interesting ideas but for me, the rule change- this leaves more questions than answers. I am assuming he did not instigate fair market valuations when Derby and Reading in 2017/18, possibly Sheffield Wednesday that said same season though it's not in the public domain, when the contract in place etc, Aston Villa season just gone- should he have been quizzed on this too? I know it's being done now but it's far too late in some respects, even were we to reach the final outcome with an adjustment made. Certainly in Aston Villa's case! Additionally, in the case of Sheffield Wednesday should he not have been all over the fact there was a possible discrepancy between sale date of Hillsborough and accounting period? Again, an ideal q for him! The interview thinking about it should also have asked him about Projected Accounts- did the EFL just ignore/forget these? Because for a long time the system was mooted as 2 years of real accounts and then third year of projected accounts as submitted by the club in order to prevent what we've seen in the past of sides who have clearly breached and by a good margin going up and flourishing as only judged retrospectively. If there were legal concerns about this fair enough but again, more questions than answers unfortunately! Serious note, I wonder if the EFL could take legal action against Harvey if it turns out that certain rules were just blatantly overlooked, disregarded or at best, significantly misinterpreted etc when he was in charge- ie projected accounts. Let alone valuations and even possibly on one case, the correct accounting period!

Thanks for the link. The interview comes across as a journalist giving Harvey a free pass to whitewash his reputation. Why not ask him straight out why the rules were changed and who instigated the change? Somehow I don't think Harvey will be agreeing to an interview with the likes of David Conn.

Well this is new information...

Real football or Fifa20 on the Xbox?

Ask yourself this just to cheer you up. Name the last Gas striker to score against Brazil?

Will be merging this with the Wag Wars thread in the Non Football forum in 3... 2... 1...

Tomorrow, will you give us the result of the EU referendum. I do like to get breaking news first.

You're getting very good at starting silly threads....

Non football surely? Mods please move to "No one gives a s**t" thread

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49985658

Whilst it's all a bit silly, I've actually quite enjoyed a refreshing laugh at the news for a change.- It normally just fills me with rage.

It's a sad indictment to today's society when a story like this makes national news headlines. Colleen Rooney is as shallow as they come, what normal wife would put up with their husband shagging prostitutes, caught drunk driving another woman's car to her place and taking another woman to his hotel room in another country and that's just what he's been caught doing. She's only stayed with him for the money and to stay in the limelight.

That was quite funny, and seing AJ dismantled was a fascinating watch. Off on a tangent...As much as I think WWE is a pathetic excuse for entertainment, I think Fury doing it is a PR masterstroke, and his profile in the US will get a massive boost. He's a bigger name over there than Joshua already (I reckon) and he'll sell more PPV with this stunt. He's great at schoolboy amateur dramatics too so is probably doing a better job that half the wrestlers. If Fury can keep winning I can see him being a bigger hit (pun intended) than any of the big British names of recent decades.

And a fence. Mind you, they never paid for that.

Alistair Durden tweeted an hour ago that despite the Bristol Post report, David Platt is not involved in any consortium regarding da gas ... the plot thickens!

I know what I am about to say is not likely to be a popular view on here but I'd quite like someone to actually turn Rovers into a halfway competitive side again. I miss derbies and I miss that point at the beginning of the 90s where there was a genuine argument to be had about who had the better players. I obviously want us to do better than them but a rivalry gets pointless and boring when one team is so far behind the other. I don't really give a toss about Rovers these days and am far more interested in our rivalries against Cardiff or Swansea because they actually matter but it would be good for the city to get to a point where Rovers actually pushed us a bit. Can't see it happening though.

More pie in the sky than a fray bentos factory

OK, the Rovers' results have improved and they are now near the play offs, so well done. Remember history repeats itself. Will this season pan out as the 1999/2000 did? After 45 games gas were in the play off places and would only miss out if they lost the final game; home to already relegated Cardiff and Millwall managed also to win. You've guessed it Rovers 0 - Cardiff 1 and Millwall 1 - Oxford 0. To compound matters, the following season Rovers were relegated and have remained below City ever since.