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If you can’t go 2x 45 mins without a drink… ?

Its works with terracing but is a pain in the arse with seeting. Its what has stopped me from going to the Bears so much as you're constantly up and down for people either going to the loo or getting a refill.

I don’t understand why they would ban betting company sponsors for moral reasons but it’s still ok to be sponsored by alcohol which ruins millions more lives a year ?

So it's a terrible idea.

Does it? I have never seen comparative figures. From my own experience I spent 15 years in the casino, and latterly casino and bingo industries and I left in great part because I became less enamoured of it as I moved up the ladder. The idea that gambling was potentially dangerous to people's lives was not new to me, but on reaching upper management level I grew angry at the cynical way they tried to encourage "spend" especially in bingo which tends to cater for the less financially secure areas of society. The way they are able to advertise these days is a complete anathema to what was legal when I was involved, and that is a big worry. I have had some bad experiences of alcohol as well, losing a brother to it's effects was devastating, I've lost count of the number of times I sat at a hospital bed over his life. Having said that I am well aware that the vast majority of people can have a flutter and a drink and carry on their lives, so I agree with control rather than outright bans.

We have become a reasonably good counter attacking side but at home struggle to break down stubborn defences. My theory is that Largish Nige has decided to make us look easy to beat at Ashton Gate so that opposing teams come at us thus enabling us to counter. The man is a genius.

I’ll give you 5/2 on that it doesn’t.

Just sit or stand where you should. Not difficult.

It would never happen but it would be nice if alcohol was allowed in the stands but the bars shut whilst the match is in progress. That would avoid the ridiculous need to neck a pint at 2.55 and also avoid people coming and going throughout the game.

It would be a great idea if people could be trusted not to be arseholes

Used to be one in Kingswood that sold jester outfits, think its gone now.

JOHN ATYEO HOUSE PLAQUE John’s family home was 60 High Street, Dilton Marsh, Westbury, Wilts, BA23 4DY. A wall plaque has been arranged by the Local History Society and will be unveiled on: Friday, 24th September at 6.30pm. A gathering will be held afterwards at Dilton Marsh Memorial Hall also in the High Street but BA13 4DW followed by: “JOHN ATYEO’S LIFE IN FOOTBALL” a talk by John’s biographer Tom Hopegood at 7.30pm

Is this what we pay our licence tax for?

The club have probably been told by some safety people that they have to issue a statement like this but I doubt it will be enforced. It`s more about covering themselves in the event of an accident.

Don’t know why you’re always having a pop at the BBC, fantastic value for money at less than 50p a day despite all the negativity and hatred from Tory politicians and the Sun, Mail, Express etc

Luckily before I was born. I’m 26 and all I remember is the sags being total dog shite.

He who laughs last, laughs longest, and we’ve now got plenty to laugh about with the Rovers.

PLEASE, don't anyone say it !

I'll try not to get too involved in this as it's a personal subject for me, I've seen gambling and alcholism ruin my family - the combined were the symptoms of underlying mental health/depression issues but anyway... The way I see it is gambling is actively pushed at us far too much, many adverts before during and after the game and it does influence people I don't think alchohol sponsor has quite the same affect because if you didn't have it in the house you'd still have to go the shop and buy it - a small thing I know but it's very different to reminding you or encouraging you to place that bet just before kickoff from the device that's probably already in your hand Also, all the free bets and promos are further encouragement. Of course, you get deals on alchohol at the shops and pub but that is outside of the scope of footballs controls. Do I think a betting company on a t shirt will encourage anyone to gamble? Probably not, but it's part of a culture within the game that there is far too much encouragement to place a bet Lastly, the increase of betting shops and/or access at stadiums has increased and made gambing easier. You could argue the over inflated prices of alchohol at football have done the opposite for drinking. And that, probably badly explained, is why I have more of a problem with gambling sponsorship in football over alchohol. The only benefit I'd give to Thatcher's is at least they are a local company over say Mansion Bet but personally would prefer neither

South Bristol Gentrification complete ?

FFFS

Getting rid of betting and alcohol would be a good thing IMO but then I would like to see all advertising taken off shirts and a return to those simpler days when footballers weren't commercial billboards. Of course there will be many arguing the loss of income. Well here's an idea - how about football starts behaving responsibly and gets back to being an affordabl game for all. Over-commercialisation of football has been a disease for years and it needs be stopped before it kills the game

Yes he was really ill with depression, And as a suffer of depression and knowing first hand how it can effect you and your work, Hunt has all my sympathy and more, the way I look back on in is a player who was basically our "injured" for his entire time here through no fault of his own Dani Rodriguez or elokobi if you will It wasn't a stolen living it was someone who was mentally ill

Well what a surprise? i was Tempted in, to read a piece by Hollowhead on today's Bristol Post website with regard to the new initiative to re introduce standing at soccer grounds, I should have known better? Given the opportunity to make some serious points and insight into the issue....Hollowhead, given so many choices as examples, decides to regurgitate May 1990 at a Bath building site.? Quite probably my worst ever experience at an away match, and i have been to a lot, standing on a ramshackle terrace on crutches, due to a broken leg suffered playing football a few weeks before, it started badly, and then got worse. It was just the most horrendous capitulation to a pumped up Gas side, who just blew us away with route one football that we just couldn't cope with. i spent a depressing 90 minutes teetering on my wooden props, trying to stay upright, hating every minute, and wishing i'd stayed home. I have just rewatched the video through gritted teeth, made even worse by Malone's wittering monstrosity of a commentary, and it is still the horrible mess I have tried to forget. . So thanks a lot Hollowhead for stirring up a memory i have tried to suppress, you just couldn't help yourself could you FFS? Apparently you got a great Buzz from the game?, well you know where you can stick that Buzz don't you? Anyway time is a great healer, and as we gradually move onwards and upwards under Uncle Nige, I take great solace in seeing our sad neighbours slow decline towards Non-league football as some kind of reward for my worst ever 90 minutes at an away game. Any other away game horror stories out there? ?

Well, from the info you showed on your first post on this thread, I reckon your seat is Block 25, Row 19, Seat 27 - hope that helps ... ??

You can. They have done it to singing sections ove the years.

I still think that area needs to be expanded along the south stand, 3 blocks is nowhere near big enough for the demand IMO

On the vexed issue of Force Majeure and any appeal on the -12 points: Derby will have to: 1. Within 7 days of receipt of the formal notice - appeal and provide all the documents they intend to rely on. 2. Pay the EFL £5,000. 3. Agree and pay for an independent accountant's report that will review the circumstances before and leading up to the Administration and report on the causes of the Administration. 4. Prove on a balance of probabilities that that there was a single event causing the Administration. If for instance the club still hasn't been paid for the ground they are stuffed before the process starts.

I guess there would be a counter-argument....what did MM do to mitigate Covid? Should he have signed Joswiak, te Wierik, Kazim-Richards, Marshall, Byrne, Ibe and Clarke (loan) in such a Covid-landscape? Other clubs cut back last summer (most didn't admittedly).

About time that this has been formed to benefit former players and supporters. Well done Messrs Palmer and Gould.

He is and I should know, I’ve followed a few.

He's a very.........sorry.

I would nevertheless suggest that any reasonable person properly instructed as to the law as the lawyers say would apply the same logic i.e. that the impact of Covid was not unique to Derby, and therefore dismiss the argument. The "we lost more than those little clubs" argument ignores the possibility that the clubs you disdain might have lost a smaller amount but an equal proportion of their income and amounts to special pleading. It also ignores the costs side of the equation, those costs having got out of control over a period predating Covid. Still, Honest Mel is Innocent t-shirts could be a new income stream I suppose.?

You a regular in the Daily Mail Comments section too? ? In all seriousness- Why should anybody have to, its not illegal to have a cider & watch some sport, except in football stadiums - it might even liven our home crowd up a bit. Its ridiculous having to go queue then down a pint and rush back to seat. As long as it doesn’t apply to the away fans though. They don’t need any encouragement.

Stupid idea. Bad enough the constant interruptions of folks disrupting watching already, let alone exacerbated by those carrying drinks. So what's the proposal - drinks have to be in an open/closed container? Will it be non-carbonated drinks only as if in a closed container imagine what all that shaking up and down will do when opened? Not we get too many at AG but imagine what happens when a goal goes in and the inebriated numpty next to you celebrates? If you cant go 45 mins without a bevvy, don't go.

If, say, Preston, Millwall or Middlesborough were facing administration due to the impact of Covid and pleading force majeur as a result, then there might be a degree of sympathy, as all these clubs complied with ffp rules, which, lest we forget, were introduced to prevent clubs getting into a financial mess. Derby’s flouting of ffp rules, and attempts to disguise the level of losses, would seem to indicate that it was their own financial mismanagement that bought them to the brink. Covid merely served to tip them over the edge.

You just don't get it, do you? How can you state there was a drop in income when you've no idea what the income was in the preceding periods? What purpose do you think accounts play? Why are they important? You claim you were driven to administration by 'cashflow' problems associated with Covid yet that doesn't accord with the numerous dodgy dealings obvious in the numerous accounts pre June 2018 and since then? Yeah, nobody knows as accounts haven't been filed since and that, if for no other reason, should see strike offs. You don't need to be an accountant to see Derby gambled sums far, far beyond their means. Covid didn't turn Ince's mother into a scout, or pay ransoms to dodgy associates for scouting reports highlighting Mbappe & Dembele are 'useful', or sign a succession of expensive & overpaid chancers. And that's the problem with gambling, when you lose you lose. You don't get your stakes returned. If Derby fans, like Morris, are looking for sympathy because they are/were weak and addicted to the prospect of success I give you the immortal prophecy of Jim Bowen:" Look what you could have won." That you also appear to have done your BFH; deserving of cheats, I'd say.

Quite agree. I quite like my match day routine which does involve a pre match pint, but to watch the game with a pint in my hand, knowing that if we score, there will be idiots who decide they need to lob beer in the air... less so. Odd how beer throwers don't feel the need to throw a cup of bovril when we score.

Without getting too scientific/philosophical, where do you stop? Dopamine = want more of said thing. Sugar = high dopamine Sex = high dopamine Games = high dopamine Alcohol = high dopamine Gambling = high dopamine Heck, a goal for BCFC = high dopamine

I see the traveling wagon of methane snorting goons rolls up in my neck of the woods this weekend. Sadly family commitments prevent me from visiting the Bescot to take the piss out of Biffer and his geriatric footballing oafs but at least I have enough warning to keep away from the centre of town. They are already crowing about away ticket sales on the Narnia that is their forum. At this rate they may need 2 coaches.

Precisely. Others have set out the black and white rules, so this is more of a common sense/golden rule approach. I don't see how Derby could claim that they went into administration solely because of Covid-related losses when there are literally dozens of other clubs in the EFL, the Premier League, non-league, France, Italy, the USA, Sierra Leone etc that have suffered similarly due to Covid and yet have somehow managed to not enter administration. Any particular sensitivity or exposure that Derby had that caused Covid to hit them harder than other clubs immediately defeats the FM argument as it intrinsically means that their administration is not solely down to Covid - it's down to that pre-existing financial sensitivity or over-exposure that was then compounded or exacerbated by Covid. It's only made worse by the fact that those sensitivities were created through the flouting of the P&S rules. Logically it just isn't an argument that holds any water.

Bad idea. Spillage, interruptions during game to get refills plus loo visits. Will cause aggro amongst fans. Get drinks before the game, at half time and at the end.

The supplementary rules already allow for adjustments for COVID-19 and apply to all clubs equally. So you can't just pluck a figure out of the air. Assuming you ever come up with any actual accounts. Shockingly there is no special provision for Derby, so more victimisation by the EFL.? 1.1.7 COVID-19 Costs means lost revenues and/or exceptional costs incurred by a Club that are directly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic and that are identified and calculated in accordance with such guidance as issued by the Board; and: 1.1.11 P&S Calculation means, save as indicated below, the aggregation of a Club’s Adjusted Earnings Before Tax for T, T-1 and T-2. In respect of Season 2020/21 only, the P&S Calculation shall be the aggregation of: (a) the mean of the Adjusted Earnings Before Tax of T and T-1; and (b) the Adjusted Earnings Before Tax of T-2; and (c) the Adjusted Earnings Before Tax of T-3;

Don’t normally associate that kind of thing with football culture #EvenworsePun

Did that have anything to do with a German legend taking a set piece that occurred after the ball had passed over the touchline with the last contact being made by the defending team? #LabouredPun

Have you thought about asking the BBC, rather than a bunch of very confused football supporters?

Only one 't'. Since when could you use a single letter at the end of one syllable and the start of the next?

Covid was first reported end Jan 2020, it's impacts not felt for a couple of months afterwards. Odd it therefore prevented publication of accounts for the period June 2018/2019. You see the problem with claiming all these 'ifs and buts' sums is they're meaningless without reference to non-impaired accounts and the problem at Derby is it appears most linked entities are allergic to posting those.

I’ve always pronounced Atyeo phonetically as At-te-o, three syllables said quickly.

Have you tried Rovers' Club Shop? They've got some very funny looking costumes in there.