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Just been taught a new drinking game, you neck a shot every time Rovers score. It’s called dry January.

I was intruigued by your description of these players as 'short' so I looked them up. Guess it's all relative... Gentrey Thomas - 6ft 4in Lewis Champion - 6ft Jordan Nicholls - 6ft 1in Panos Mayindombe - 6ft 2in

@TBW is the Basketball Guru, but here’s a “what can we expect” ??? Bristol Flyers: Starting 5 likely to be: Dan Edozie - Forward - British born, captain, came through US College system. Very Tall. Read his back story https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/34666043 Raphell Thomas-Edwards - British, signed from lower division in the summer. Strong as an ox. Tall Fred Thomas - US import, and effin’ brilliant. Mr Highlight Reel!!! 2nd season here. Arms like Mr Tickle. Tall Gentrey Thomas - Canadian import. Showman, incredibly quick, but a fighter. Short Lewis Champion - Brit signed from lower division 18 months ago. Controls the build-up. Short Bench: Marcus Delpeche (Delpeche Mode / Del-Dunk). Jamaican, but British passport, signed from German lower leagues 2 seasons ago. Likes a slam dunk. Very Tall Levi Bradley - US import straight outta college. Left handed, and smoothest shot in the team. Tall Chris Taylor - Brit, who studied in US. The team-man, fills the minutes whilst others rest, but gives great defence. Tall Jordan Nicholls - Brit, through college and lower leagues. Improving. Short Panos Mayindombe - Greek / Congolese. Duracell bunny, just coming back from injury. Brings energy to the press. Short Josh Rogers - Brit, former Flyers youth who returned this summer. Tall Marvin Dinall - Brit / local - Academy lad who’s been shown the pathway into the first team Coach: Andreas Kapoulas - been around Bristol for 15 years, through University System, and the rise to the BBL. Wears heart on sleeve. Wolves: If Flyers are about the 3 Thomas’s, Wolves are about the Williams. Jordan Williams - our nemesis. Power forward with good feet and hands. If we don’t get him into foul trouble to restrict his minutes he may be the difference. Amir Williams - 7 footer, useful around the hoop Kofi Josephs - GB Olympian. Dangerous shooter, but got some attitude. Cortez Edwards - skilful guard, can score points quickly. Mark Hughes - guard, hot and cold Raheem May-Thompson - good player who can shoot from deep as well as inside. Maarten Bouwknecht - guard, who is getting better as he adjusts to BBL. Julius Van Sauers - don’t know much about him We’ve played Wolves 4 times this season, 1 friendly, lost with last shot of the game, 2 cup, lost two really close ones in group stages, 1 League, won by 10+ If Gentrey Thomas and Fred Thomas get hot, Flyers stand a good chance of winning.

Hopefully, that topic description will stop the purists of the forum moaning that this isn't football chat! Anyway, before this gets moved to non-football chat (which is reasonable, but give it an hour or so, eh Mods?) Flyers are on your tellybox this weekend. Details below. I've never seen 'em play before, but once that basketball arena gets built, I might take a bit more interest, so this could be a useful introduction.

Definitely relative. I’m 6’1” (shrunk from my 6’2” playing days). This was their tallest player last season....6’9 3/4”....my daughter stood on chair. Joe is wearing his match-won west....it’s like a full-length dress!!! Heart over head 86-79 to Flyers. Yes, BBL Cup like league Cup. Flyers are in semi’s of BBL Trophy (FACup) Here’s a few tweets to show how athletic they are.

But have those small ones had their late teenage growth spurt yet? And can they defend a near post corner?

Wahey! Highlights a poster’s spelling mistake - with a mistake! - *their

Fair dues to the flyers, they’ve spent the last couple of fridays at parson street school teaching the kids basketball. My boy couldn’t believe the size of em !

Like the idea, but will probably wait for the redevelopment to proceed before I get involved!

Not sure "guru" is the word but I'll drop a little bit into the mix! Bristol Flyers and Worcester Wolves are both very capable of beating one another, neither team is streaks ahead of the other and have played each other multiple times already this season. Previous results are: - Bristol Flyers 94 Worcester Wolves 96 - Worcester Wolves 74 Bristol Flyers 70 - Bristol Flyers 81 Worcester Wolves 66 The three main players to look out for on each team are: - BRI - Gentrey Thomas (#0) - BRI - Fred Thomas (#3) - BRI - Raphell Thomas-Edwards (#10) - WOR - Amir Williams (#1) - WOR - Jordan Williams (#6) - WOR - Cortez Edwards (#10) (Yes you saw the name Thomas 3 times, Edwards 2 times and Williams 2 times. It's be nice to have a Thomas Williams-Edwards in the game too but alas, there is not.) Likely non-factors in the game will be: - BRI - Marvin Dinnall, Jordan Nicholls, Panos Mayindombe. - WOR - Julius van Sauers, Wayne Kitenge. The game could ultimately be won/lost between the teams "bigs", I know the majority of you find all of them big as they're mostly over 6'0", but the biggest guys on the court. Amir Williams (WOR) can be particularly dominant under the basket and against Leicester Riders, Marcus Delpeche (BRI) had trouble against a dominant player of similar mould. Daniel Edozie (BRI) though was missing for that Leicester game so Delpeche had to play significant time against the guy. If Delpeche can fix what he struggled with against Leicester on the defensive end then that's one problem down. Amir Williams will score, just try to limit that scoring. Worcester aren't a deep team. They don't have a LOT of players and as such their team will play a lot of time without rest. This needs to be taken advantage of. Especially when Martaan Bouwknecht (WOR) is on the court as when he has a bad day, he has a really bad day... He recently put up a 29-point game but that is a complete one-off. The guy isn't good for 20+ per game regularly. Hound this guy for the ball and he'll make mistakes. Otherwise, Jordan Williams (WOR) is quietly very good, he'll get lots of stats to his name without you realising and then suddenly you just go "oh shit, he's having a good game!" and it's too late. Cortez Edwards (WOR) is a bit like Gentrey Thomas (BRI). He'll drive, he'll shoot. He'll do what he wants.

Ahh, I recognise you and your seeing you around the ground @Davefevs Next time I see you I will say "Hello"

No longer a "stupid boy" then ? Apart from being a 15er, of course.

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Normally between 9 and 18 so the questions were on my side today. To get a full house they must be very good so all credit to the bloke. Get the bonuses and you can score well but I don't normally have a clue until Ken gives the answer, then it's a 'FFS of course it is' moment.

Listened to that this morning, missed the gas reference! And the bastard beat my score!

Let's hope he gets more points than the sags do !

Any chance of a brief introduction/synopsis of players to watch, things to look out for or anything else to get us Flyers friendly?

If you see a middle aged fan, with a red t-shirt (we all will be wearing red, Flyers and their sponsor having given us all one ??), getting slightly over excited and into it....that’ll be me. Look out for a Big Aussie Flag....we will be sat in front of it (probably). Cmon Flyers. You might also see @TBW too, but he looks nothing like his avatar pic.

Fixed that for you.

On a side note, in the last 10 minutes the sags became the only side in the top 4 English divisions to have not scored a goal in their respective domestic league in 2020

Well that were a waste of time, 5 minutes none of us will ever get back, had a bit of a chuckle though! Hope I win the shirt - toilet brush is broken, I could wrap it round the stick!

How do you travel to the ground? Hang glider. How could your travel be improved? A strong wind...

What has prevented you from visiting a game at the Memorial Stadium this season? my mate who passed his ticket through the fence stopped going

There is currently a survey for 15ers for them to give their mid season opinions. They are asked for three positives and three negatives. Fair play to this bloke ? : Three positives... The football is positively awful The stadium is positively embarrassing The owners are positively silent There are positively loads more...

No doubt accompanied by use of the term 'lady garden' - something that few of them will have ever seen unless that of a sibling

Your racism is appalling. And does our entire club a disservice. With the recent increased focus on racism in football, I hope you stay away from Ashton Gate and don't drag us all down to your disgusting level.

How do you have the energy for this run on your lunch break!??? fair play to you

Bath Half tends to be a sellout so you’ll probably need to get a charity place with designated minimum fundraise if aiming for this year. Find it a bit of a slog as it’s two laps which is psychologically tough (Although the one time I did it I beat Mark Ashton and LJ...) Like you, I like putting the headphones on and being in a bubble. You can still do that on the bigger races, what tends to happen is after the first k or so the field gets spread so you don’t have to worry about banging into other people. Even in the bubble though, there are real advantages to being in a large run - you can use the actual pacers or just use other runners for tempo. Most importantly, other people drag you through - I recall struggling in the final stages of the Bristol half a few years ago and the number of other runners encouraging and pushing you on was a real boost. It’s a strange sport - definitely prefer it solo but there is also a huge sense of community