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Maybe if a few of them started by buying season tickets..!

Dont think anyone is gambling with anyone's lives. We've been kept in for 7 weeks now which is an extraordinary amount of time and it's fine its job of helping the NHS cope. We now need to get back to normality as soon as we can without going overboard. If we extend lockdown further then this country will sink. Boris Johnsons doing the right thing for all of us going forward.

It’s funny how he mentions Lambert who apparently credits his goal against us as the reason why he went on to play for England. Thats the same Ricky Lambert who, after scoring on his debut for his country, thanked everyone from the Beetroot Factory to Southampton Football Club but totally forgot to mention Rovers. What is it with these ******* idiots pandering to 5000 insecure, fragile nob ends in North Bristol through the Evening Post? ?

Not really....having to react quickly to Johnsin’s desire to be popular by announcing relaxing of some lockdown aspects (on Monday) in Parliament yesterday. And then leaking to the press to whip everyone up ahead of a dry / sunny bank holiday weekend. And then Raab having to back pedal today. Johnson is dangerously irresponsible. As for Sturgeon, I’m no great fan, but she isn’t gambling with our lives like Johnson is. If they are really worried about grandstanding, why not schedule press briefings at the same time.

Yet more hilarity from Asschat.......... All the Gassholes talking about whether they'd put in some of their own money to 'save' the club. May 5, 2020 at 3:46pm Gassy said: I’d do it, proving it guaranteed the survival of the club So would I. I would hope that the City Council would chip in as well. Rovers is a Bristol institution with a 130+ year history. Obviously this hypocrite can't remember 1982 when those running the sags, bitched and whinged to Council because they wanted to help BCFC and demanded they receive the same. Neither can he remember when the shower of shite he follows pissed off out of Bristol for 10 years with their glorious 130 year history of achieving F'All.

:laugh: a Bristol institution! They spent 10 years in Bath and have spent the last 20 hears trying to leave Bristol. Mental institution would be right.

Not really, you reap what you sow. I suppose if we had a solicitor to unearth information to feed to opposition groups that opposed all their plans for new stadia, supermarkets, or were the only professional sporting club in the region that failed to support Bristol's WC bid and then, tried to take their ground off of them for a paltry sum, then we'd be getting a bit closer.

What you going to do offer covid 19 out in a one to one no weapons fight in the robins car park instead?

They'd have been drowned out by the bloke hawking copies of the BEP outside Dixons. EVENING POST, 3 STAAAAAAR. 3 STAAAAAAAAR, EVENING POST.

May 5, 2020 at 3:46pm Gassy said: I’d do it, proving it guaranteed the survival of the club So would I. I would hope that the City Council would chip in as well. Rovers is a Bristol institution with a 130+ year history. It's an institution alright, but not the sort any right minded individual would want to be associated with. Destitution maybe.

Thank you Donald !

Another few weeks of ‘pain’ will not hurt in the grand scheme of things. Rushing out of it just to placate the people who believe ‘enough is enough’ thus far will, with the greatest respect, be a complete disaster.

We live in the UK not Wuhan and I wouldn't believe anything that comes out of that place.

Bristol Party wasn’t it? As as child I vaguely remember seeing a bunch of mutants in donkey jackets stood across the road from John Lewis in town, shouting and screaming about something from behind their banner. Even now, if I close my eyes and really concentrate I can almost smell their B.O. wafting across the street. I asked my mum who they were and she said “no one that matters”.

Whilst clearly this would be what everyone would prefer a vaccination could be years away or not arrive at all. We can’t wait for it. It has to be treated as a good to have if/when it arrives and not something that starts a return to normality. I also don’t really see how trying to restart football will have a negative impact on vaccination research but I’m happy to be corrected on this. They claim to have more testing capacity than is currently being used and will continue to expand it before football restarts so that shouldn’t be a major issue (although the government’s record on this is terrible). Clearly if they are taking testing capacity away from more essential areas then this should be a major consideration. The same goes for the emergency services but again I imagine they hope that that the situation is a little less volatile by the time it restarts so it should be manageable. If not then again they will have to have a massive rethink. It might not lift your morale but I imagine there are plenty of people who would be delighted to be able to watch some football on TV and have one extra thing to think and talk about that isn’t the virus. They may well come up with some very creative ways of making the viewing experience more appealing especially given that it’s not likely to be a short term fix but could be in place for quite a while. These people’s livelihoods are directly related to football. They have to think about how to start things again just like every other business in the country.

....and yet our Mayor has graciously decided to accept his £9k pay rise in these challenging times for Bristolians ... and our councillors have also awarded themselves generous salary increases that are now in effect: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-52141054 https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/pay-rise-mayor-councillors-come-3974687

The trouble is that they`ll use the fact that Flapper said it as proof that they did take 50k despite all the evidence to the contrary. And the irony of him looking for a `fan` who went to Wembley but hasn`t been seen since...……………………..

Couple of years ago saw Flapper playing for Mangos v Hereford..............something or other happened and their manager ,one Peter Beadle shouted "Flapper shut yer ****** hole ,****** village idiot !" He obviously knew him well , how me and my mate laughed !

The reality is that, if the season cannot be completed, it will be shit, depressing for all involved and financially challenging for many people. But cancelling Glastonbury was shit, depressing for all involved and financially challenging for many people. Yet Glastonbury nonetheless took the decision. Ditto holidays being cancelled, events being cancelled, businesses, pubs and restaurants being closed. This is a depressing sacrifice but one that has rightly been deemed necessary. I've been fortunate in that I've kept working but everything I was looking forward to this year has been cancelled. Others have had that AND financial damage. The reality is, even when restrictions are lifted, many fans - including some of the longest-serving season ticket holders - will probably be advised to avoid large events or even seeing their loved ones. All of this is horrible and depressing but it is a sacrifice we have collectively made to contain this virus. Deciding football is immune to that sacrifice and taking unnecessary risks and resources to make football happen will shatter that sense of collective sacrifice, cause resentment to everyone else who is having to cancel things, cause resentment amongst fans that cannot watch matches and create bad feeling as well as genuine risk. It is a shame we have reached a point where it is in the best interests of everyone that the season cannot be completed but it is in the best interests of everyone that the season not be completed. Struggling against practicality to try to put it on will achieve nothing and the focus should now be on resolving the season's outcomes in the best and fairest way possible without more matches taking place. And working out plans to run a truncated season (perhaps on a north/south split with play-offs at the end) from January to May 2021.

What would really lift morale is finding a vaccination so we can get to some form of normal life again. Allowing grandparents to hug their grandchildren, families to reunite, bars and restaurants to reopen so we can mix as a society once again. For us not to have to queue outside supermarkets , to be allowed outside other than essential shopping / exercise What will not improve my morale is seeing 20 football clubs playing games in empty stadiums, taking up recourse of the emergency services, taking up tests that could be used for front line staff / the general public to allow us to speed up an exit from lockdown and a return to some form of normality.

Here’s one: travelled to Weston to shop as queues were shorter in the shops than in Bristol ?

Many in this country are incapable of sticking to clear guidelines - the North West now has more people in hospital with Covid19 than London - could it have anything to do with the 1,008 house parties Greater Manchester Police were called to over the Easter weekend?! They just couldn’t stay in could they?! Idiots ... https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/lockdown-what-lockdown-police-called-18090966

And you believe anything our government says?

There are also articles suggesting the virus hasn’t mutated. It’s always hard to which articles to believe at the moment.

Don't think for one minute we are going to go back to normal as of Monday but we simply cannot and will not continue as we are or else the country will collapse and people will get hurt in other ways.

What do you mean enough is enough? I take it you've had a word with the virus and told it to pack it in?

Your last sentence says it all and that's why I said Sturgeon is a grandstanding idiot. Throughout she's tried to act like Scotland is some world superpower.

Uruguay didn't bring many mind!

I think things have possibly been fraying a bit in the last couple of weeks but overall yes, the country has done pretty well I think. Few weeks back there was a briefing and I'm sure it showed a model that expected the compliance rate to be about 80%. Was well in excess of that. Will try and find it online but that's an indicator for sure.

Think you might be in for a shock. And rightly so.

We will be perfectly behaved as we have been for the last 7 weeks. The country has done a fantastic job of sticking to guidelines, better than anyone could ever have envisaged.

199,854 people at the 1950 World Cup final. It was Uruguay v Bristol Rovers.

Am with you now. May well be- and quite right too. I'd say in a fanciful yet just scenario, relegate the bottom 6 and promote the top 6 of this League if the bottom 6 in the PL try and block it- majority 14/20 etc. God knows how- top 5 then playoffs 6th-9th?

The lobbying and self-interested scheming is embarrassing. Particularly when disguised as ethical concern.

WE HAVE A WINNER!! ?

There isn't going to be any spare cash from Bristol City Council. Not whilst public services continue to close.

Typical of that lot. They'd probably cry if they never got anything from them as well. I'd hope that if that were the case, we would then do exactly what they did and complain unless the council gave us the same. Simples.

The relegation spot in League 2 just became interesting, Macclesfield deducted 7 points (4 for charges and 3 previously suspended) for not playing the game v Plymouth and not paying players on time in Feb, they also have 2 points suspended providing they don't break any rules this season. That reduces them to 25 points in 23rd place. Stevenage are on 22 points but have a game in hand. However Bolton had a suspended 5 point deduction for not playing at the start of the season (compared to the 4 points for Macclesfield for 2 offenses including same charge). If this had been a 5 point deduction with the 3 suspended points then Macclesfield would have only been 2 points ahead of Southend who could have then argued their game in hand could have seen them out the drop zone. The inconsistency in points deductions is a problem.

I want Darryl Sheets (or whatever his name is) to come round and value the contents or my parents attic. A 1970s fake Christmas tree? That's a 100 dollar bill! A VHS Video recorder that clearly doesn't work, but the old man paid money for it in Dixons in 1994? That's got 50 written all over it.... Based on his pricing, I reckon my folks are worth more in tat than in cash and assets.

Soon one of them is going to think shit or bust and claim 100,000.

Since 1945 to be fair.

We’re miles behind Germany in this pandemic.

Ah but it’s the Germans. They might be able to make it work but our bunch of profiteering scumbags will only have their eyes on the Yankee dollar. If fans, players and officials get sick, they won’t be bothered as long as the Sky moolah rolls into their and the marquee players’ pockets. Hope it all implodes so we can start football again with a level playing field, salary caps throughout and a ban on foreign corrupt investment.

I’ve had a recurring dream where I think I’m a horse. 5 nights on the trot.

100% agree. I'm amazed and disapointed that authorities can't see this above any other reason they think justifies restarting. The Government are using the 'Moral lifting' statement to try to divert media attention (and criticism) away from their failings in handling the virus. Football authorities should be taking a higher stance and just say no. This will (hopefully) backfire massively on the football authorities if they do bow down and go through with resuming. Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from both parties.

This whole debate by the authorities is shameful in the current climate and shows a real disregard for players (their families), coaches, support staff and medical staff (not to mention any non football people that would be impacted under some of the rumoured plans, e.g. hotel staff needed if players are quarantined). It's also hugely disrespectful to the NHS and would be a needless drain on their limited resources given there will be an expectation on them to treat any infected players should that happen as a result of restarting this season. All the authorities care about is the money and greed. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know the risks are too significant to be thinking that football is a priority right now, let alone debating finishing the season by actually playing games. Scenario planning about when and how to restart for next season is the right and proper thing to do but exploring plans to actually finish this behind closed doors is offensive. This sport moves further and further away from the game I enjoyed so much. Not sure I could come back from this if football goes ahead right now.

I agreed with all the peripheral stuff, money and the PL. But after watching videos of us recently I do miss the cheer and euphoria after scoring and a good win. Daft as that may sound. I've also been listening to these BBC podcasts... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p06qbzmj ... and they have been bringing back great memories of all sports. I know way more important things are going on at the moment but the entertainment and pleasure sport brings shouldn't be overlooked. Sadly it's a luxury we can ill afford at the moment (excuse the pun).

Yeah..I really dont see the EFL being completed if it doesn't start by mid june (parry said end of july deadline) Given that the premier league is aiming for mid june and has far more resources than the EFL then it looks pretty unlikely city will play again this season.

I disagree 15 minutes each way at St George's Park. Larger goals to ensure a result and plenty of goals for TV. Rush goalies obviously One touch football to keep it flowing and avoid any tackles or physical contact. Ball must not go above head height to make sure no heading. Throw- ins to be kick-ins to avoid touching the ball with bare hands. Just a towel down with players own towel at half time followed by half an orange from the player's local farm shop to preserve the integrity of the competition. Shirts to remain on at all times. In the unlikely event of a draw penalty shoot outs, all players including the goalies in hazmat suits. Halftime analysis by Ant and Dec ,