ralphindevon

52 minutes ago, phantom said:

I'm curious by a couple of your points, where are the club saying they are prioritising POTD? 

It's more beneficial to them to have the money in the account for the summer etc than sporadically getting different numbers per match. 

Again, you talk about capping season tickets, this isn't anything new every club has had to make a minimum number of tickets available to non ST holders for a long time. 

They certainly won't be capping them at a lower number than what we currently have sold this season. 

I'm confused by the last paragraph, how will those not attending spend any money? 

There's no evidence a ST holder spends more or less than someone who pays on the day 

I think the point is a potd fan is going to spend more than a season ticket holder that doesn’t attend.

At bigger clubs there is evidence that they spend more than attending ST holders, Spurs are trying to get more potd fans as they, especially the South Koreans spend over £200 per person.

Obviously that would be hard to match at Ashton Gate, our one rail of clothing in the club shop couldn’t really support that! 

4 hours ago, Swede said:

I've renewed my ticket. Its a 50 - 60 mile round trip for me and I still work so I can't make all of the games especially some midweek games.

By renewing my season ticket I am supporting the club whether I attend all of the matches or not, its my choice. I really can't understand all of the fuss with people not attending and leaving seats empty. There's usually other areas not occupied so what's the problem? Non attendees are counted in the attendance anyway and if its a high profile match them I'm sure the non attendees would be minimal.

I’m guessing like me, you and many others have paid upwards of £400 for your ticket and I don’t think anyone has been moaning about those people not making every game.

The problem lay with seats that had sold for 40? odd quid to kids that rarely or never attended. As this was mainly in the south stand, the cheapest stand that the occasional supporter would most likely want to buy a ticket for, then it’s obviously a money missing opportunity for the club.

24 minutes ago, Jeez said:

As it stands

6095 unsold + 4200 for the Atyeo plus whatever is held back for hospitality & South stand POTD

On that’s basis I reckon about 14k again wouldn’t be far off the mark.

Yes I was bored so counted them

I’m sure there wasn’t that many available in the Dolman at this stage last year, especially the centre blocks. Might be wrong though

6 minutes ago, sh1t_ref_again said:

Just had a look around me in the immediate area and everyone has renewed, whats the story with the South Stand? as only S19 seems to be on sell with 1 ticket remaining?

No new season ticket sales in the south stand, renewals from that stand only

Seems to be an awful lot of seats available in the Dolman stand. Everyone around me in lower Lansdown seems to have renewed and of course we can’t see the south stand.

I suppose we’ve still got seat moves and new sales but unless I’m missing something there’s a hell of a lot of green blobs around. 

24 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

For me, it's the fact that VAR allows for a level of fussiness you (rightly) could not get with the naked eye.

Offside was ultimately created to stop players gaining an advantage by just hanging around the goal waiting to score. Pre-VAR,  a player needed to be far enough offside to gain an advantage in order for a decision to be correctly given. Otherwise the referee or assistant simply could not possibly see it, and there was a clear rule the attacking team was given the benefit of the doubt if it was not obvious.

Now you've got several minutes of studying camera angles to establish a player was marginally ahead in a way that

a) could not possibly confer an advantage to the attacking player

b) an attacking player could not be expected to notice and correct themselves against. 

 

I agree that, by the letter of the law, Haji Wright was offside. I do not believe anyone could possibly argue that Wright gained any kind of advantage by being offside or that, had he been onside, the goal would not have bene scored. I also don't think anyone could claim Wright was at fault for being offside to such a fractional degree that he could not possibly have noticed and corrected without the aid of a replay and video cameras. So what you get in practice is a player who has made no correctable error and gained no possible advantage getting penalised for an infraction that nobody could have been expected to notice without watching multiple replays of the decision.

By the letter of the law, it's the correct decision but I don't see how anyone could argue it's a decision that makes football better or a fairer game. I think the whole "a play is offside if his right testicle is fractionally ahead of the defender" is a nonsensical law, especially once you apply cameras and slow things down to check the testicular configurations. To my mind, the only way to make offside and VAR compatible with the spirit of the game is either to

a) only correct decisions that the Assistant or Referee could reasonably have spotted

b) change the law so a player's whole body needs to be ahead of the defender for an offside to occur. 

Agree, well put. How anyone can think what happened there is fine for the game I don’t know.

If you can’t see an obvious error within seconds of seeing a replay then on field decision stands. Officials would obviously have to go back to decision making instead of just waiting for VAR

The authorities will be glad Coventry have fallen out of the play off race a bit else it’d be a nervous 30 odd minutes coming up, what with the play off final being the day after the FA cup final 

A couple blokes at cricket yesterday saw my City cap and said they would be buying a season ticket for the first time.

My guess is the numbers have been very low but loads renewing this weekend and tomorrow but overall we’ll be slightly down on last season. I’m just guessing though.

3 minutes ago, Midred said:

Whatever happened to having a registered  squad at the start of the season and playing every competion chosen from that squad all through til September? The idea that we in effect sign different players for different competions and loan players out/in for beginning or end of season is beyond me! How can a group of players settle together.

And I wasn't even going to mention the ... oh bugger!

I know it’s difficult nowadays as overseas players are rarely available for the whole of our summer like they used to be. But once we couldn’t get Will Sutherland because of injury we shouldn’t have bothered, unless a real gem came up like Henry last season.

I’d be very surprised if Pretorius performs any better than Green would have. And the point is the club are in big cost cutting mode, no Brian Rose gates on the Morrisons side open during championship games. The majority of the Somerset stand, which offers good respite from the burning sun in the afternoons, closed.

Yet they spend thousands on bringing a player unlikely to better what we’ve got.

Anyway, besides that little moan things are generally looking good at the club, just give me a wicket to cheer me up this afternoon!

I expected a backlash from Notts today but even so this isn’t going at all well.

Can’t for the life of me understand why we loan Ben Green out and spend our hard to come by cash on Pretorius.

10 hours ago, ralphindevon said:

Agree, I don’t know why I enjoyed that more than I have for a long time. I was even wishing I lived in Taunton so I could easily pop in and out for every game this summer.

I’ve liked the look of this squad for a from the start and with the a bit of luck and the weather gods in our favour who knows where we could end up….. Second probably.

A real long batting line up with Abell still to return and if we can keep Aldridge and Overton fit, Leach and Bashir will also have a lot to do as the summer progresses.

Really looking forward to the summer ahead.

Oh and Richard Gould was there with his dog. I was wondering if Nige was there, he’s a big cricket fan and supports Notts I believe.

4 hours ago, bearded_red said:

Two absolutely brilliant days in the sun at Taunton, genuinely nothing better.

Agree, I don’t know why I enjoyed that more than I have for a long time. I was even wishing I lived in Taunton so I could easily pop in and out for every game this summer.

I’ve liked the look of this squad for a from the start and with the a bit of luck and the weather gods in our favour who knows where we could end up….. Second probably.

A real long batting line up with Abell still to return and if we can keep Aldridge and Overton fit, Leach and Bashir will also have a lot to do as the summer progresses.

Really looking forward to the summer ahead.

As someone who was undecided but always probably going to renew, I am now really looking forward to next season, misplaced optimism probably.

I wonder if any others have been persuaded to renew when a month ago they were in the “not sure” or “probably not” camp?

6 hours ago, Ziderarmy said:

How are you so confident nobody will be sat behind or in front of you this season? 

There aren't any seats behind or in front of me. Behind is the wall  which has the corporate boxes behind and in front it's just steps. 

I’m renewing tomorrow. This winter and it’s endless rain, grey and dullness has made me realise how much I need to escape Devon for a few hours of city life.

Of course I could still come up regularly without bothering with football but there’s no way I would do it as regularly as I do now.

Seeing Bristol friends and others from further afield is very important too.

I don’t want to lose my seat, great view, nobody sat behind me or in front of me, a great bunch of fellow fans around me.

There’s something else which I’ve forgotten……

……….oh yeah, last and not quite least, the football. I’m already looking forward to being the first to declare we’re safe for another season around the middle of February as we make that 12th position our own.

31 minutes ago, Offside said:

 

Agree about Port Vale, and it’s a decent size as well. Bloody freezing whenever I’ve been there, though!

I’d forgotten about Rotherham’s old ground. Full of character. I might be wrong, but think it’s still there and used by a team. 

My memories of Rotherham back then is of scrapyards, pubs with ridiculously cheap and very good beer and outside toilets at the ground.

Only somewhere like Rotherham could vacate their ground and it still remains a ground. Most other places it would have become a supermarket or flats within months

It could turn out to be a very rare bargain.

We didn’t play in a cup final in 1985!!

This thread has enough information to have a great time in our great city.

It almost seems a shame to have to squeeze Bristol City v Rotherham into the day

I do like some old grounds, I found the old Rotherham a bit like visiting a museum in an interesting way. Also liked the old Brentford.

However, recentish visits to Villa park, the away end at Elland rd and Fratton park had me thinking they were all close to being unfit for purpose. Horrible experience.

10 hours ago, frenchred said:

What a great story, we loved our time over there, truly a memorable experience

If your ever there the Indian was called L'Agra and was actually in blagnac close to the airport, another has since opened in Cornebarrieu, next to an expat bar that serves thatchers gold! Called Rajpoot, both worth a go!

It’s great how an influx of English has improved the Indian food around Blagnac.

I had an evening there fairly recently, early flight, and saw there was 3 nearby, the two you mentioned and one called Layaja which was in Cornebarrieu and the pub was called The Temple Meads. Sadly we had eaten a big lunch so didn’t try any.

I did go to one of them when I was living in Carcassonne, a little excursion after a trip to IKEA. Very good from memory and I’d forgotten about it until now.

19 minutes ago, Robbored said:

The advert claimed that it’s perfectly legal…………

My reply was a bit tongue in cheek but I think everything is legal until you access subscription channels without a subscription, then as you say that’s too good to be true.

From what I can gather it’s only those supplying that have been prosecuted.

I’m sure others will be more informed than me. 

3 minutes ago, phantom said:

Another injury 

Oh ffs! Poor lad.

4 hours ago, Robbored said:

The advert claims that it’s simply plugs into your tv and it gives access to all subscriptions including Sky Sports free of charge. As I said it seems too good to true and that’s why I’ve asked on here if anyone has any experience of using one.

Lots of posters know far more about the internet and tv technology than I do.

Just make sure you’ve blocked everyone on this forum that work for the police when you come back to tell us you’ve bought one

1 hour ago, Northern Red said:

Battle of the England spinners as Dom Bess and Jack Leach play in the 2nd XI match between Yorkshire and Somerset.

Michael Vaughan's son Archie is playing for Somerset. Meanwhile Flintoff's sons Rocky and Corey are playing for Lancs 2nds today.

I hadn’t realised both Flintoff’s sons played. 

4 hours ago, Lrrr said:

Genuine question, should teams be allowed to shake hands for the draw when Somerset and Surrey did? Chance of a result was much higher then the start of Surrey’s innings, should the umpire have the power to say it’s still light and we can see the game out? 

Over the years there have been games that I’ve been surprised at when they’ve shaken hands.

Nowadays especially since T20 things can turn so quickly with someone hitting 20 off an over or 3 wickets falling in an over.