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When I see pics of the old stand, I always think its incredible how they were able to squeeze the dolman into such a tight spot.

Absolutely this. The longer it goes on, the more insane the game will be when we finally play each other. Can you imagine the scenes at AG if a few Gashead's celebrated a goal in the Lansdown? It would go off big time. If you are daft enough to buy tickets in the home end, keep your head down FFS.

I still hate Charlton. Cheating p****s.

They'll both go long in the Champions League and be utterly knackered by the time the Euros come round!!

This is up there with the "unlucky the shit" video! "Coarse ee ****** iz"

A beautiful documentary. Sad to see Jack in his later years, dementia is a cruel disease.

Exactly what I'm thinking Yet another club goes past us. When we beat Liverpool in 94, my uncle (who was about the same age as I am now) turned me and said: "We're on our way back. It's been a long road, but we're on our way back" We'd only been out the top flight 14 years at that point! That's shorter than the gap between now and the play-off final... FFS.

This isn't the case in the a-league - it's why the league/clubs itself is only about 15 years old. They were set up to replace the old national soccer league. This was where the historic clubs lived (and still do, they've all just been booted down into state based leagues). These were the ones set up by various sets of migrants and have their historic ties - greek, Italian, Croatian, Dutch etc etc and often had trouble at the games. This current wave of trouble has been set off by the brewing frustration at the way the league is run - no relegation, daft insistence on playoffs rather than a league champion, security clamping down on atmosphere, increasing costs to go. It exploded this week when the bosses decided the rather than the league winners hosting the grand final - it would be in Sydney irrespective of who's qualifies. All of the other clubs had peaceful walkouts during their games but Melbourne Victory (probably the team with the highest proportion of ********* wannabe ultras types) decided to chuck flares at the players. The City keeper chucked one back and it all kicked off. All the media goodwill from the world cup run has gone out the window and they've reverted to the usual AFL/NRL spun "soccer isn't our game" crap. Great.

I love Milligan and Sellars individual stuff. Even yer man Secombe was good on Highway But I agree - it just sounds like teenagers doing silly voices into their tape player!

Dodgers Stadium is now the 3rd oldest park in the league!

Cardinals fan here. I had a tear in my eye when the big fella hit 700 the other night. When the next one above you in the home run list is some bloke called Babe Ruth - you know this is a big deal. He came home to St Louis for a last year. Everyone thought it was just for vibes and to coach the young kids. No-one really thought he'd be this good. He's 43 ffs.

Aside from it being on our patch....can you imagine the nightmare it would have been to actually get to? Transport misery.

Hi all, Sorry for the daft question. Where do people do to buy pervious years kit/merch? I haven't bought a shirt in a few years and also want to get one for my little uns. I really like the Hummel stuff, especially the training gear, but this years selections don't really appeal. The club used to be half decent at flogging off old gear in sales but they seem to have dumped this. (Also the shipping costs to ?? are yuk) Is it just a case of scouring eBay or am I missing something? Thanks everyone.

This is the worst Australia squad in 30 years. Absolutely no chance of getting through the playoffs. Arnold is no Ange, but he can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

All my mates have gone to the saca members lunch. All you can drink for 3 hours so they'll be useless later. Gonna sit with barmies for a bit! (There's quite a lot of northerners mind)

Bowled reasonably well early but didn't make the most of the scoreboard pressure. Looked very inspid from about 30 overs on. If the plan was to use a bowler as the bouncer Im not sure why we'd leave the fastest bowler out of the side? We need 3 wickets in the first hour tomorrow. Otherwise the 40c heat will make bowling very difficult. I'm a pessimist. Could quite easily see Aus declaring on about 450 and us being 30/3 at stumps. Still. The grounds pretty as always?.

5-0 incoming. Christ I'm just going to get hammered at the match next week.

History backs you up on this. About 10 years in the top flight, 2 in the bottom. Remaining years spent bobbing around the middle divisions.

Inspiral Carpets/Stolen from Man Utd but I still think it works: This is how it feels to be Rovers, This is how it feels to be small, This is how it feels when your club means nothing at all, Nothing at all Nothing at all...

Boycie Bradshaw does not look happy............

Having seen the video (how much did the s*n sling at M'bargo to get that CCTV BTW) I'd be very worried if were Stokes. Cricketing wise, we are ****ed without him but he has a serious case to answer at the ECB.

Not if you lived here you wouldn't. The last series was an utter disgrace, completely humiliating. I called 5-0 after watching them in the nets before day 2 in Adelaide. KP was taking throw downs and not a single English player was talking to him. I'm not saying we'd have won that series. Mitchell Johnson was bowling like a man posssesed - I had the dubious pleasure of watching all of his wickets from behind the arm - some of the best bowling I've ever seen live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzhzQiW4rtY but It was obvious something was seriously wrong with that squad. Don't get me wrong. I love cricket. I want the best XI's to play each other. BUT if we have to play a team consisting of failed state players I'd take it.

I'm actually on the side of the players in this. The test players are sacrificing potential revenue at the expense of protecting their colleagues lower down in shield cricket. With only 6 first class sides the pool of players is actually quite small and it will be very difficult to retain players if they can't earn a reasonable living at Shield level. The game is already losing plenty of talent to the AFL (can't speak for the NRL, don't live in a rugby league state) and this won't help matters. However, both sides digging their heels in could be very damaging. As you say, CA have shot themselves in the foot by making all the players unemployed in the middle of a discussion period. They've also threatened anyone who plays in a overseas T20 while unemployed with a ban which is just adding more fuel to the fire. As it's the middle of AFL/NRL season the media haven't gone big on it yet. If the whole thing isn't sorted by finals time (Sept/Oct) things could start getting very nasty indeed. (Obviously this is all great for England :-) )

Anyone got any thoughts? http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1107576.html I know the Ashes is a fair way off, but this has the potential to get very nasty. England could potentially be facing a team of grade/retired cricketers come the start of the series.......

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