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Any football fan who celebrates (or even doesn’t care about) other fans going through something that Swindon fans are going through is pretty pathetic in my eyes. Wouldn’t want any club to go bankrupt

Should really still be the badge IMO...

We're not all bad and there are some decent fans who enjoy the friendly banter without being hostile. I'm Swindon through and through for the last 45 years so won't desert them now and watching many Derby games between us over that period I can't help be envious on what you've now got in place and really miss the atmosphere of playing City and who knows if we're ever play you again the way things are going.

I agree. I would never want to see any club disappear. We all have our rivals and we can detest them but football clubs are a key part of society.

Not a great kit, but I will give them credit for a great launch. Inclusive, representative of all elements of the community. It’s not often that I’ll say well done to them, but on this occasion they deserve it.

Superb ... what a crest that was, Robin, football, Suspension Bridge ... job done ...

Haha, a fair question that I will try to explain. Ok, so being "colourblind" doesn't mean I do not see colour. Basically I just see red and green less intensely than most. In reality this affects my daily life very little, however there are some circumstances where it does cause issues. I find that when multiple shades of red/green/brown (or blue/purple or white/pink) are present and 'mixed' together - I have trouble distinguishing them. So, where it is just City in red versus a green pitch, it's basically fine. That's one strong clear shade of red on a strong, clear green background. I probably don't see the green as brightly as you, but I can see the players just fine. It's when a third option is introduced that the struggle begins for me, especially if, as on Wednesday, that third option is a darker green like Celtic wore. Another example is a snooker table - apparently there are green and brown balls on that thing but all I've ever seen is a bunch of reds at one end, and then two others next to the yellow ball in baulk. As @Tinmans Love Child says, actually I more often have issues seeing purple. I've had numerous pieces of clothing that I've thought are blue, only to be told years later they are purple. Our purple kit really isn't that offensively bright to me either. It's all because I don't perceive the red element of the purple very well, and so it comes across as a muted blue. I absolutely refuse to believe in made up colours like 'turquoise', 'magenta' and 'cyan'. Caveat all the above with the fact that colourblindness is very much a spectral issue (pardon the pun) and everyone that 'suffers' from it will be affected in a slightly different way, and will have a slightly different experience.

Semantics. If you wish other clubs to go bankrupt you are taking football rivalry far too seriously. We are all football fans and peoples football clubs can be extremely important to them. We are all one terrible owner away from bankruptcy

Both ends singing Come on Irene?

Massive sympathy for anyone going through that. Imagine that was our club? We have been through similar not long ago at all.

Porthtowan is great. Many happy memories in the tidal pool when the kids were tiny.

When I first met my wife and I told her I was colour blind she said to me ‘you do realise I’m ginger don’t you!’ ? So glad I’m not the only one who didn’t know Dairy Milk has a purple wrapper!

Totally agree, and we should know better after what nearly happened in 82 ?

Vile shirt for a vile club, in a battenburg style but for them its twattenburg

Look. Let's be fair here. The shirt is dogs eggs. But, the way they have presented it is lovely, it's inclusive and accessible.

Make them stop please ?

And has been tattooed on my arm since then.

THE ROBINS FOUNDATION TACKLE LONELINESS FRIDAY, JUNE 18TH 2021 This week people and organisations have come together to raise awareness for loneliness. It's no surprise that this past year has left a lot of people feeling lonely and isolated. As socialising was put on hold, those who had previously relied on attending weekly sessions for their social interactions really struggled. This was very much the case for some of the players of the Bristol City Walking Football team. When Covid-19 first hit back in March 2020 and sessions had to stop Lee Gillett - the Health and Well-being Lead at the Robins Foundation was conscious that some of the elderly players in the walking football team would find it difficult. To tackle this Lee would call to check in on players who lived alone for a chat and to make sure they had everything they needed. Lee would also knock on the player's doors that lived locally to him, for a chat and to drop off sport's equipment so players were able to stay active at home. For many of the players walking football means a lot more than just meeting up with friends and playing football, as for some it is the only social interaction they have. Pre-covid the players would stay after sessions had finished, for a cup of tea and coffee to catch up and check-in with one another. As a team, they would also have quiz nights and organise social events throughout the year. These formed friendships and solid support group has kept many of the players going when they were struggling with their own mental health issues or going through difficult periods of their lives. Lee Gillett said, "Our walking football sessions are much more than just a kick about, we have created a team spirit where we support each other on and off the pitch." To get involved and join the walking football team, feel free to come to the sessions below. Tuesday’s at Imperial Sports Ground South Bristol, BS14 9EA. 10:30am - 11:30am. Cost: £4 (Outdoors) Thursday’s at Imperial Sports Ground South Bristol, BS14 9EA. 10:30am - 11:30am. Cost: £4 (Outdoors) Should you require any additional information on these sessions, please contact the Robins Foundation on 0117 963 0636 or email: lee.gillett@bcfc.co.uk If you or anyone you know feels lonely or struggling please contact Samaritans Call: 116 123 Email: jo@samaritans.org

Imagine if it were the slags !

Absolutely brilliant

If I was wearing a gas shirt, I'd want a Brown Paper Bag for my head.

My parents got a set from the states to try out on patients. I was the Guinea pig. Honestly it was an absolute sensory overload. Stuff was really vivid, very bright, there was green bloody everywhere ??? I tried them for a day and decided I was happy in my muted world, even if I do wear purple every now and then, and sometimes struggle with the odd football kit.

Here's the Four Saisons having been conditioned in the bottle for a further 5 days followed by a day in the fridge. Wow! The clarity and taste.

I, like a few on this thread have to make do with colourblindness (interesting to read your experiences, it's frustrating how difficult some things are - especially when you have no experience of them). I shared my experiences with the team at work and did a little bit of research but am absolutely no expert in this. Aparently there are rods and cones that work together in your eyes so regular eyesight can detect 1 million colours. If one of the cones is not quite aligned perfectly you can loose tens of thousands of shades for the smallest defection. Football has never really been difficult for me in person (except the occasional confusing orange shirts with the yellow bibs used in 5-a-side) until really recently. In the space of 2 weeks, the one group I played with started using two lots of bibs that I can't even describe the colours of. Another game, one I organise, someone brought a ball I couldn't distinguish from the pitch. I felt like a dick to be honest - I've profusely apologised to the bloke with the ball and offered to get him a white ball out of the kitty. It was good of him to be on hand for if I'm late (fortunately if I'm not there, the problem's gone away!). I've never really struggled when at a game but can't remember any tricky colour clashes involving city, and even watching teams in the flesh, where seats are often the same colour as the home shirts, it's never been an issue. Watching on tv is a different matter though - there have been some classics in the past with Brighton in green and Southampton in red being one of the high profile recent ones. Did any of the colourblind city followers watch our game at home to Birmingham or Milwall last season? The red/green clash was too much for me - I had to take a break from watching. Watching City takes a painful concentration at the best of times, this was too much! Generally speaking, it's not that much of a problem these days, because the colours or shades are accessible on a computer (with an RGB value) and lights tend to have a place or do something like flash - but the whole red light/orange light thing can be hard (I tend to go by whether the speaker in question is chucking out sound or not, it's not sophisticated or sustainable). At least playing fifa I'll scroll through kits if I have to (or can). My partner is fascinated by all the crazy stuff I can't see properly, there's an app that shows people with normal colour vision, what it's like. Apparently it's amazing. Just for good measure I didn't know the dairy milk thing either, although it was going through 30 years of my life thinking peanut butter was green that tips people over the edge.

Seriously, life wouldn’t be the same without them entertaining us ?. They try so hard to be professional and to make a presence in the city …. but are off-the-scale, hilariously, tinpot. Assume the subliminal message for using our Bridge as a backdrop for their ‘models’ is that they will be ‘forever in our shadow’. Pity that there are so few iconic landmarks in their quarter of town now they’ve demolished the Gasworks. Maybe they could use IKEA for next year’s photo shoot. Shocking shirt btw.

I think, I think the point I’m making is their shirt looks like tacky trash, as it does every single year. and yeah ours is always red, your point being??

So I am a lawyer. I trained in 2013 and did part of my training in the property law department. Property lawyers have a very particular way that they colour in the borders of a map to show how a bit of land is parcelled up. IIRC it goes piece 1 = red, piece 2 = green, piece 3 = pink, piece 4 = brown. It honestly could not be worse hierarchy for those of us with colourblindness. As a trainee I was asked to colour code a plan. I asked, out of interest, if the colour hierarchy was a legal thing, and was told no, it was just custom. Cool thought I, and off I trotted. I grabbed my red, blue, yellow, and black pens and proceeded to use my own, brand new colourblind friendly hierarchy to colour code the plan. Upon turning it...honestly I've rarely received a bigger bollocking at work. The partner was incredulous. "But you said it was just customary" I said innocently...well it turns out that 300 years of property law 'custom' wasn't about to be overturned by one smart arsed trainee. I had to re-do it, torturously trying to figure out if I was using red/pink/green/brown correctly. And I swore to never, ever, do property law again.

Absolutely spot on Chief ....????

They just couldn`t resist claiming the Suspension Bridge again either could they?

Vastly more. IIRC it is something in the region of 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women that have some measurable level of red-green colourblindness. There are a couple of other, more niche variants of colourblindness, and of course many millions go through life without any formal diagnoses, and their only experience of it amounts to a couple of strange anecdotal stories where they got a colour wrong for whatever reason. When you look at that kind of prevalence, and then look at a male-dominated group of people like a football crowd, then you start to see why I think organisations need to take it a little more seriously. You're probably talking about something like 1,500-2,000 people in an average AG crowd who have some level of the condition. It's not negligible. I am relatively mild - maybe a 6 out of 10 for severity. I also was lucky and got diagnosed very early in life as my parents are optometrists and so spotted it very early on. Most kids get diagnosed later when it inevitably becomes an issue at school. Far from it! the red/black thing is really tricky. Don't know about you but when someone edits a word doc and uses red to show their changes...yeh that can be tricky. I always edit and mark up docs using a bright blue.

And until reading this thread I always thought the Dairy Milk wrapper was dark blue. You live and learn!

Really interesting, obviously I knew colour blindness existed but never had any experience at all. I never knew it was so varied, I thought people either saw certain colours or they didn’t. I guess it is similar to that white/blue/gold dress thing that swept the Internet a few years ago, everyone is different. i certainly didn’t realise it affected so many people. More males than females if I remember correctly?

Do you drive a BMW?

**** me. I’ve just learnt that today. Purple is my nemesis. Either blue or pink to me. Quite often I guess it’s purple when I can’t decide which colour it is, but Dairy Milk being purple never occurred to me. My worst error was buying ink cartridges for school. We had to have blue or black ink. There was a great offer on “Peacock Blue” so I bought a job lot and was pleased as punch until the **** of an English teacher refused to mark my work as apparently it was turquoise.

I only learned that car brake lights and indicators are different colours when I did my theory test at 17. Genuinely still don't really see it, I only know they're different because I've been told so.

Blimey just like the video for our new shirt launch, THEY HAVE DOGS IN IT ?

Genuine question and 100% not a piss take....but how do you cope with the City kit and the pitch?

How do sagheads get excited for a kit launch when all their kits look the exact same every single year?? this one is particularly trash, but no different then the other trash they’ve worn in previous years.

So many to choose, chuckled.at this one.

got to say dude, I hate Swindon as much as any other city fan but feel sorry for you, you sound like one of the rare decent Swindon supporters

Why I will never have sympathy for Swindon: Horrible club:

In fairness, that's a tough fixture, Winterbourne under 7's have been making great strides lately. It was only last year they were playing the year below.

I'm here. What a place. So foggy for a couple of hours but it's nice and clear now. Just some bleating lambs to deal with. Glad I'm here to be fair .

Lovely place, my grandparents had a farm just outside Looe, I used to spend my summer holidays as a kid down there, wonderful times..

My god I miss Cornwall.

Has Joe just run over that bloke on your right?

Nah, that’s ok Dave. It’s Because we like it! We do go to other places too. When I say each year, this will be our third year. As you know, with Joe, finding suitable accommodation is not easy. We found a lovely converted barn on a farm just outside Porthtowan, where the owners had made it accessible, level access, wide doors, wet room, etc. Both kids love it, the farm dog comes in and says hello, it’s nice and relaxing and a good base to head anywhere in Cornwall. Porthtowan beach, although not the prettiest is fine to get Joe’s beach wheelchair on and off. For us, there’s something to be said for turning up somewhere, and not having to suss everything out, and the holiday starting the moment you arrive. It takes a helluva lot of prep (and money) taking Joe’s wheelchair abroad, so we tend to do a big trip every few years, e.g. Oz, LA / Anaheim.

We go (or at least try) to Looe once a year, and from there go off to a few different places around Cornwall on daytrips. If you like an area that much, then why not? We also try to go to a few different areas at different points in the year (maybe not so much now as we have the dog and baby), but never enjoy it as much as Cornwall/Looe. Some people prefer to go abroad every year, some stay in the UK, some will go to one place once, and never go back again. From the sounds of it you're in the latter group, that's fine if that's what you prefer. Also for different people, their needs/requirements will be different, and perhaps a specific area/Park/accommodation is a perfect setup for them. For @Davefevs his requirements will be more specific than for me and my family. With that in mind this year we're taking my mum and dad away with us as it will be their 40th anniversary, in the same week it will be our 11th. My dad can't walk far, mum had a stroke a few years ago, and as a result she can't walk far now either, in fact uses a scooter most of the time if she's out for a prolonged amount of time. The place we are going, we all like, all know, and although it's not on the flat exactly, they can still get about the site. We also know that they can cater for their needs as well as ours by having a fully accessible caravan. That's one reason we usually go there when we do go to Looe.