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Well, that certainly caused some interest and a bit of a feeding frenzy. Final price of £454.00!!!

That single match sale of vacant ST seats is the perfect solution. That would involve some extra effort from the club to make that possible though. At present, they seem to prefer putting their effort into pointing a finger at non-attendees, even though the club have already been paid for that seat. The only time these vacant seats really become a problem is on the rare occasions of a sell-out match. Seems like a lot of noise from the club about nothing.

As you say, it is a lottery and for all the guidelines, the officials often interpret stuff so differently. The offside situation is getting silly now though, with the matter of millimetres being measured. It's like those songs about 'Aguerro, your teeth are offside', or 'Ozil, your eyes are offside'! Joking aside, nobody gains an advantage with a couple of mm, so should it really come down to such small fractions? One of the better suggestions I've heard is to say there needs to be clear daylight between the last defender and the attacker, maybe measured at the waist, being the centre of the body. Ok, that certainly gives the advantage to the attacking team, but the defending team may be less likely to be constantly playing the offside trap, because if they judge it wrong, that really hands a significant advantage to the attacking team. We already see advantages given to keepers in any body contact at present, so giving advantages in the game aren't unprecedented. Don't know how difficult that type of offside decision would be for a lino to judge, but it must already be difficult enough to judge these fractions at present. The problem with VAR is, it seems to be the first point of reference, rather than leaving it to the officials to make a judgement first and leave it to them to ask for VAR if they aren't certain. It just feels like VAR is becoming a massive hindrance to football at present and arguably, causes more controversy than before it existed.

Couldn’t agree more Max. In theory, if VAR was employed properly, it could possibly be a valuable tool, just like goal-line technology undoubtedly is. Sadly, the combination of crap offside rules and the completely flawed employment of VAR above the match officials, has actually made it a blight on the game, rather than a benefit. Higher end football needs to sort itself out, before it actually destroys itself.

Good ol Jon! I know it’s a delicate balancing act with supply and demand and income for the club, but the amount of gaps in the Lansdown particularly, tells me they’re priced too high. Could find even more gaps appearing there once potd people start moving to the SS..

We’ll have to see how it pans out. The prices for all stands are obviously set by the club, so they certainly aren’t forced to price the Lansdown and Dolman so high. Would be interesting to compare our current income to the sell ‘em cheap and stack ‘em high pricing structure at clubs like Bradford City, who apparently manage to average around 18,000.

Good heads-up and wonder how many are thinking it’s midnight tonight. I did mine a bit after midnigt this morning, as I don’t trust them to not have a website crash today.

Happy St George’s day folks! Proud to be English and Bristolian

Let’s hope so NU, as I’m running out of years left for it to happen!!!

Apparently not. The mere mention of Nigel Pearson in a positive tone seems to be a massive trigger!

3 points for a win and the play off’s were a couple of other notables that boosted entertainment and increased attendances. At the moment, there’s loads of TV money sloshing around and clubs seem focussed on that and don’t appear to worry about providing entertainment. If that TV money dries up, you can bet your bottom dollar that clubs’ attention will turn back to pleasing their fans and getting them through the turnstiles again.

Definitely green shoots. I wasn’t at all impressed when he first came in and immediately imposed a different playing style we didn’t have the players for. At that point, he looked like a one trick pony. He’s now shown he’s pragmatic and has adapted the tactics to something more suited to our current squad. Although we still get the occasional stinker thrown in, he’s starting to play to our strengths and getting more consistency in our performances and results. Although we’re all well aware of some deficiencies in our squad, if we can strengthen over the summer, I’m certainly more optimistic that he can improve us than I was when he arrived. Credit to him for showing some resiliance and self-belief and hope it continues.

I recently tried to have a sensible convo with you on here, in the hope that you actually possessed an element of common sense. Won’t happen again after seeing this moronic, attention-seeking post.

I’ve got no love for Man City, but after seeing that today, I hope they totally humiliate United in the final. Absolutely gutted for Coventry. They can hold their heads high, but to go out like that is so cruel and another example of technology killing the spirit of football.

Sounds very plausible. You just get the feeling that he could be the last person left on the bench and we’d choose to play with 10 men, rather than bring him on!