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I'm not convinced @Red_Alligator was being sarcastic as you seem to think, it sounded to me like he was thanking you for an interesting bit of football trivia.

Would be interesting to hear if anyone actually gets caught out by this

From the way he speaks, pretty sure Alistair Campbell is a real football fan as well, so would have known what a daft idea it was.

I guess it didn't work out for Reuben in Scotland so they are heading back south?

Yes he is??

New Years Day it's the airport buses only. https://www.firstbus.co.uk/bristol-bath-and-west/plan-journey/travel-season/christmas-and-new-year-bus-services-20232024

It mentions in the article that this deal will replace iFollow for domestic customers. Does this mean Robins TV will only be available abroad? Or is every match not available anyway? I don't tend to use it so not really sure what matches are on and which aren't.

4 out of 13 matches being shown every week means we will be affected more than twice I would have thought!

The way I saw it the only period they were really on top and in control was from our opening goal until half time. The second half they sat back, timewasted and barely threatened us. They deserved to let those two goals in playing like that.

What they may do is crosscheck against City's database, so if your email is on there you might find your ticket withdrawn

There IS a family area - South Stand end of the Lansdown, upper area. The concourse has activities going on for kids, there are often injured players there signing autographs, The food kiosks are more kid orientated (pizza and the likes), there is a guess the attendance competition to win a signed teamsheet (my daughter still has hers from her first or second match). Plenty going on, the club make a pretty decent fist of it. On the other hand, you do feel a little bit out of everything in the Lansdown upper. I have no issue with kids tickets being sold anywhere around the ground, but do think the free shirt offer should be restricted to that area, otherwise it is possible to 'reserve' a seat next to yours in the SS by buying one for an effective price of £10 a season once you have cashed in the free shirt offer.

For once Spud, we are in agreement! Is there any other road user that is out there for the fun of it rather than trying to get somewhere? If you want to cycle for lesiure go offroad you slow, wasting my time *****!

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More time than me admittedly, but a really good and appreciated OP showing some things not included in the highlights that people may have missed and are well worth a mention. @1960maaan - any chance of this becoming a regular Monday feature or do you do it already and I've missed them somehow?

The more I think about it, I think the main reason for the spaces aren't U12 ST's (though there may well be a handful not ever used), but more likely people buying a ticket in the cheaper South Stand and then finding empty seats in more expensive areas.

One of the strangest posts I have ever seen.

Never seen Max and Paddy which is why I just think he's a bit shit. Broadly agree with the rest, apart from there was nothing wrong with Why Don't You? I quite enjoyed it when I saw it, though that would have been 40+ years ago now!

I think that, especially now that streaming has essentially taken over from Live TV for most people under 40 the BBC should have it's roles and responsibilties changed maybe. Stop trying to produce generic entertainment programmes,soap operas, reality shows etc. and stick to real Public Broadcasting. Continue with news, free to air sport, radio (especially local), things such as the World Service, the more niche output (documentaries that nobody else will make etc), but leave everything that is essentially profitmaking to the commercial broadcasters, be it ITV, Netflix or whatever. In return for this the Licence fee should be scrapped but the BBC would be properly funded directly by the government. The Licence fee is only really a ringfenced tax anyway, so why not just fund them directly?

I'd quite like to see Ryan Searle do well

I did say sell kids tickets anywhere, just limit the free shirt to the family area. £50 is still amazing value for their ST, free shirt or no free shirt.

Most games it is virtually impossible to buy more than single seats in the SS 2 or 3 days before the match - Take a look, there is one ticket available in one of the corners for tomorrow, that is it. There is a good 10-20% of the seats empty virtually every match, not a good look and doesn't help the atmosphere I should also add that I think a lot of people buy SS tickets because they are the cheapest, then go and find empty seats in the Lansdown or Dolman. That is an altogether trickier problem to fix.

The solution is incredibly simple, make the free shirt offer that goes with U12 tickets apply to the family area in the Upper Lansdown only. Still sell kids tickets elsewhere, just no free shirt unless it's in the family area.

Please tell me that's not an unwanted ticket being shifted already!

You do need to provide a birth certificate, or at least you used to. Had to do it for both my kids when they had U12 STs. That was 4-5 years ago now though

If anyone listens to podcasts, this weeks episode of Sherlock & Co contains a dig at the fewers. Can't remember it exactly but it was part of a speech about how we all need human community, and if we get it via supporting a football team then that is fine, unless it's Bristol r****s! The next line references the speaker as a Swindon fan, but at least his heart is in the right place....