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BBC News - Football comes first for Devon boy, 12, who scored IQ of 162 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68103402

Much as you might like to believe otherwise, it was a minority thing back them too, especially by the time of the Forest incident you all seem so fond of, which was fairly recent compared to a lot of it. I couldn't give a monkeys if it still goes on away from the grounds, at least it's no longer a part of the matchday experience and is no longer ruining watching football like it used to for the majority of fans. P.S. pretty sure I'm not a millennial, I grew up watching City in the late seventies and early eighties.

Is there any possibility of a 'reminiscing about how football was better with violence involved' subforum where people can boast about how hard they used to be without the rest of us having to put up with this brainless mush?

They are looking for some to elevate their financial systems to Championship levels, it won't be just the sprinklers for long!

I had momentarily forgotten the hilarity that was meeting the Matty Taylor clause!

There is talk on there of them making a bid the doesn't meet the release clause in some lower leasgue players contract and have missed signing him as a result Apparently the release clause was less than a Tilson. Is it normal for players below the Premier League to have a release clause? If so, might some of our players have release clauses?

The person I was replying to suggested pricing the U12 tickets in the SS at £99 - that is what I was referring to.

That certainly needs clamping down on, when my daughter was U12 I would giver her my adult ticket and use hers for myself almost every game and nobody batted an eyelid!

Yes, but without the free shirt offer those tickets in the SS would be less likely to be bought as 'placeholders' or to keep an empty seat and more likely to be used each match. Doubling the price of a true U12 supporter in the SS would not be very fair.

I would keep the £50 tickets but limit the free shirt part of the offer to the Family Stand only

on the pitch I can get it, but do you really believe that being intimidating to away fans outside of the ground is going to have any effect on the result at all?

Do you ever go to the areas outside AG? There's loads of them!

The Semi-Final winners get £1m, the losing finalists get £1m so losing the final would get you nothing if it didn't all add up as you go along.

You must get the money each time, otherwise the losing finalists would get nothing for the final

All advertising and marketing - Bill Hicks had it spot on

I'm not going to comment on any transfer fee because hardly anyone is going to know the truth and contracts these days make it near on impossible to place an actual figure on it. I've seen Kalas quoted at £8million for us and he certainly wasn't worth anything like that, However, it feels to me like this is a player that would do us a hell of a lot of good. Take some pressure off of Knight who is doing a lot of heavy lifting with his forward press and also introduce some much needed creativity, I believe he has created almost twice as many chances for Hull this season that anyone has done for us? Add to that that he had some of his best form playing for Manning then it would seem like a sensible investment if the finance people think it's worth it.

Not Ashton Gate I know, but does anyone from here ever go to the Arctangent festival? Is it worth it?

Yep, they were supposed to go on sale at 10am iirc, got down there at 6am with my mate and the queue was from the Williams ticket office, onto Ashton Road and way back past the Dolman entrance. They were selling 4 tickets per person so people were buying them, going to the back of the queue and offering them for double face value, that's how we managed to get tickets in the end.

Don't bother printing, just scan your phone

That date isn't set in stone. I would think it's likely this match is chosen for TV somewhere, so might be played Monday or Wednesday yet! There will be uproar on here if the date is moved.

1.1 million would seem a fair allocation

All I would say is be very careful checking the car over on pickup and take pictures of anything wrong. Miss the smallest scratch or dent and you just know you will be charged for it on return

Thank you for that, stops wildly innacurate rumours getting out of hand. Over 20% still feels like an awful lot though.

I agree that the FA Cup is not as important as it it used to be. In my mind it is entirely the fault of the Chamions League. When only the League winners qualified for the European Cup it meant that winning the FA cup was an important route into European Football so that the prestige and glamour of the competition was preserved. As soon as 4th place in the league became more important the top teams stopped taking the Cup seriously which severly undermined the competition in the eyes of the public. Unfortunately I see no way back for the prestige of the competition now as too much damage has been done. I should also point out that, in the season of the League Cup run, results didn't really turn against us until we had been knocked out so if anything the opposite to what you describe is true.

I saw 6K mentioned earlier, and we have about 15K ST holders normally, so 40% was just my rough guess