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yeah, and fans of all other clubs in the country would suddenly love us

Well done everyone! I did the Bath Half in 1:44 which was good but very slow start due to amount of people! Currently done 60k so far this week and 440k this year, still really enjoying it especially now the weather has got a bit nicer.

Just discovered this thread. I’ve been running for thirty plus years but never to a great standard. These days I’m chuffed to get under 60 mins for a 10k and 28 for 5k. Running is now on hold as I’m in the “shielding” category for the current crisis, having had a kidney transplant (courtesy of my wonderful wife) in 2013. I’ve ordered a turbo trainer for my bike which will hopefully partially fulfill my cardiovascular fitness. ?

After your lot activity wanting us to go bust in 82 and trying to get your hands on Ashton gate. The block by rovers over a bail out by the council. I for one would celebrate joyously if you went bust ( not that I think it’ll happen) . Bring people together !?? when it’s suits you and are in the shit. Boot on the other foot you’d have it on our throats . Not a chance in hell it would happen .

Carlo Ancelotti says "things will have to change," and that footballers and coaches will have to earn less, and fans pay less for tickets. Bloke must be under the weather. He needs testing, pronto

I could only foresee a situation where any 15er's 'supporting' a United team at AG would start singing their own songs, of course including the dirge - in the pubs beforehand and during the match only to be shouted down by the rest of us. Rather than uniting support it would cause a division amongst our home crowd which I could see spilling into nastiness before, during and after home games. It would never work. Too many people with very long memories. I would never go to watch a United team. I've been a lifelong red - CTID and FTG not UTID. It's a no from me.

How do you know what people are and aren’t doing/giving? It doesn’t always have to be made public

Back out for a proper run yesterday. BS3 to Cabot and back along the waterfront and Hotwells. Very eerie as there is hardly any traffic and seeing the Waterfront all closed felt like end of days stuff. Certainly felt like I earned the beers I had afterwards!

The trouble the saggys have is that they have no real way of generating further cash out of the Mem unless their gates significantly increase. As it stands (sorry, as it tents) at the moment, in order to generate more revenue Wally needs to spend proportionally more revenue. Let's be honest, without a new ground they are are never going to progress. Whoever owns them is going to find it impossible to close the gap between income and out goings. I would be willing to bet that City make more money on match days from concessions sales, bars, the fanzone and shops than the Sags get from non season ticket match day ticket revenues. Their training ground is dead money hence its a muddy patch of scrub land. There is no way of generating short term cash from it so its going nowhere. The family have tried to spend some cash polishing the turd that is the Mem. A tent here, a TV screen there and that has enabled a few quid to be added to the ticket prices, screen a few more adverts and increase the price of sausage rolls. That 3.4 million pound gap won't be closed unless more people click through the turnstiles. It's all nice and lovely that their nice man with his lovely watch wants to keep the club going but in the long run he has two options, significant investment or sale. The longer he waits, the more he needs to spend to close the financial hole or the more of an asking price he needs to put on the club. In the short term they will keep ticking along but in the long run, with their debt the highest its probably ever been, their gates at what they've always been, no significant value in the team and the ground massively secured through a foreign shell company to enable the owners to have at least some form of financial exit, they are in deep poop. If there is no sign of any big investment in facilities or finance in the next 18 months, I can't see how they can come back. Oh, shame.

I'm currently reading a book about City's all time record cap holder for England - Billy Wedlock - and it's quite an eye opener to hear that back in the late 1890's, Bedminster and Bristol City(formally Bristol South End) we're major rivals, and yet they wanted to move forward and become a powerhouse in footballing terms, and so amalgamated. Similar circumstances to what you're describing as there was a strong rivalry between the two, and pretty much all of the assets from one club was used compared to the other, the exception being the two grounds, whereby the newly merged club shared grounds between Ashton Gate and St Johns lane before eventually settling on Ashton Gate. I guess, if we want Bristol to be a big player within the country, then a Bristol United would (with emotion set aside) be the best way for the entire city to get behind one club. Personally, I'd miss the intense rivalry as there's no other game that comes close to a Bristol derby, but in my eyes, if I was to look at it objectively - a merger would be way forward to giving the WHOLE city the impetus it needs. Fundamentally, you'd need to ask yourself why you watch football? Is it to win trophies, or is it because of the historical meaning of having generations of family supporting and following your club. My family all hailed from Bedminster and so City is my club, however I now live in Kingswood, and we know there are supporters of (any) club that are spread throughout the entire Country, if not the World. I know fans who sit next to me at Ashton Gate who are from Oxford, Southampton, and I have one friend who lives in New York and attends whenever he's back. Football has changed now from being a locally supported club, to being a global commodity. It appears to me, that if people want an intimate part of football, then following amateur grass roots football is probably the better alternative these days, which kind of harks back to what City, Rovers and other clubs used to be like until the money came in and made it a global sport. Proof of the pudding being, how many clubs are now owned by local businesses in the community - pretty much a majority of the top 40 clubs are owned by nobody with any affiliation to the clubs locality.

IF, and although this is obviously hypothetical it suddenly doesn't seem so far fetched, football & society is devastated by this virus, with thousands of deaths and dozens of clubs Rovers being one of them, go to the wall. If then City survive and the league is reformed into a much smaller number of clubs, what would you think if Lansdown announced a proposal to merge the clubs, call them Bristol United , play in red and blue etc, and he is doing it purely as a gesture to bring people together after a catastrophic period of history, what would you think? I'm not trying to be flippant about the current awful situation and I really don't think the outcome will be as bad as the picture I have painted, but I am really interested in genuine answers. There has been a lot of talk that this virus could bring everyone together and that we will all learn a lesson from this in many other areas of life, but would this be a step too far for you?

Unbelievable. Can’t believe they’d charge anything at all for such a vital not for profit service like you say, let alone hike the prices. Sad times Bristol Sport.

Unfortunately it is true, the “rent” Bristol sport was charging was being put up too much so they have had to go elsewhere. I imagine it was a couple of years back now. Sorry I should had said it wasn’t the car park but the use of the lounges etc. I was surprised Bristol sport charged at all let alone increased it.

He bought the club because of the Sainsbury’s deal thinking they can make a quick buck they are also losing money because of the London Office no one knows why they need it for the club

Apologies if this has been raised already but is / could the club be doing something like this? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/29/home-park-nhs-find-new-ground-with-plymouth-coronavirus?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

And this is exactly why it could never work. You couldn’t trust them not to turn up in the Jesters uniform and belt out that shit anthem of theirs at every opportunity (those that would actually attend). The result would be carnage, you’ll have ‘ex’ City support launching ‘ex’ Gasheads down the stairs of the Dolman and if we’re playing Leeds it’ll be 90 minutes of gobby ***** getting thrown down stairs all around the ground.

Top tier then and umbrellas for everyone else. Shit fanta in the top tier to make them feel at home plus out of date crisps and pasties. Job's a good 'un. No idea what they would make of seats though and a roof which isn't made of canvas plus how they would understand shops' and toilets inside' a stadium might be too much for the poor lambs.

They're entire fanbase could fit in the Lansdown with 4000 spare seats

They could be our away following - go to away games - and we'd cover the home games. We'd be huge! The envy of all ......

How interesting. Curiosity got the better of me, so I did a little research. The Beeches is owned by two former Rovers Directors, Messrs Watola and Durnford - I am assuming the latter is related to the dairy family of ex-directors.

Not if the other club had gone out of existence and it was done just to unify the supporter bases. As for the building plot that is known as "The Colony", of course it is. They are waiting for the adjoining plot to be developed for housing. Then it would make sense to sell for housing and use the profit for developing a new stadium/pocketing the profit. Thanks very much. Just as the Rovers new training ground at Hambrook, was bought with the insurance money from the Eastville fire, then "The Beeches" was bought with the profit. Do Rovers own that? NO.

For Miah's hypothetical question, if City changed their name to United, wouldn't it be exactly the same as, with all respect to Miah, what would the hypothetically (hopefully) defunct rovers bring to this? nothing as far as I can see, not one thing. It would be Bristol City with a name change wouldn't it?

I would say you could all go hypothetically **** yourselves. It'll never happen.

While this is true, it's more applicable to individual donations IMO. At a club level, or maybe players deferring wages, this tends to get into the media one way or another. Can be impressive PR for a club for one. Secondly, it just has a way of finding its way out into the news- football is a leaky industry!

Goodnight Irene..

This moron should be thrown out of boxing. He is a disgrace.

Rubber Bullets - 10cc ”load up, load up, load up”

No merger required. Rovers struggle to keep the supporters they already have, let alone attract new supporters. They are in the process of dismantling their club, bit by bit, year by year. If they had an active and committed fan base, they would have stopped the rot years back, but their collective apathy in not holding either their board to account whilst seemingly voting a fan to the board who doesn't communicate with them tells you how much they don't care. I'm sure for a lot of them, the sooner they are put out of their misery the better.

I get that Miah .I'm sure you just do it to anger up the blood ? fair play, reading your post was the first time I’ve had the rivalry emotions for a few weeks ??

If they are 24 million in debt I am afraid the sale of their ground won't nearly be enough to clean that slate and by a long chalk.

Its the last time I will say it was a hypothetical question that if Lansdown suggested in a spirit of altruism would you support it. I'm not suggesting it, or advocating it, I wish I hadn't asked

Thought I read Juve players were foregoing wages for 4 months saving the club 89m

I'm not sure he even has a bean to count, but he is a really nice man with a very fancy watch, of course.

That's great to hear. Said it before (not thinking of any club in particular), football as an industry could do a decent amount here. Time of national emergency, pandemic- we all have a part to play IMO. I see Brighton are giving 1,000 free tickets to NHS workers once this gets going. Bournemouth have joined them with the same. ? to both. They're hoping clubs will join them with the target of 100,000...interesting to see how many clubs will join that.

It is. Well the Sports bar at least is being used for storage and distribution of food and clothes for the homeless.

Any one asked for Spurs v Rovers ? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Tottenham.

In my eyes it’s Lewis,they both liked to lean so probably be a crap fight but Lewis had skills and power and never ate boar meat

Stay safe Miah. I know this self isolating can cause people to go a bit mad .

I'm of the belief that until we have only one league club in this city, the chances of true success for any club are diminished. How that is achieved is the question. Rovers currently have little if anything to bring to the table as far as negotiations for a partnership go. So, all they have is a customer base, if the Lansdown's could encompass that into BS, then I think they would and I wouldn't be averse to it. They will have blue in our kit soon enough anyway, as part of the overall BS brand, in my opinion.

If and its a big If , if Rovers did go bust and City survived , couldn't see any reason why the two clubs would merge , how could you merge with something they don't exist. Why we would change are name etc , fantasy to think that would happen.

Bit early to start drinking paint stripper isn't it?

All true and conveniently ignored by Gasheads and, sadly not known by many City fans. The fact that we never actually went bankrupt is also omitted. A deal was agreed with the creditors for payments of 20pence in the pound, this was agreed with creditors and after payment of all agreed debts, the company was wound up. The registration of the club as a football league member never lapsed and as such we have ALWAYS been BCFC regardless of an admin change.

Hahahahaha, a £15,000 IWC. SL probably wears one of those when he’s grouting the bathroom.

I don't. Sooner they go bust the better. The only ones I would feel sorry for would be the staff who would lose out.

Couple of remarks from asschat Because rest assured, this club is on the edge of oblivion. Even genuine City fans sympathise with us at the moment with the people running our club Um I don’t think we do

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