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Definitely, thought it was purple at first

The bleakest bit is not seeing any way in which we progress past mid-to-low-end Championship in the forseeable future. Destined to tread water.

One of my favourite authors on sports geography/sociology, John Bale, refers to them as "concrete sports saucers" which I think must be the best description for these stadiums going today.

Isn't Plan-Do-Review page ******* ONE of the coaching manuals? Don't see much review going on with him.

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Not to get all philosophical after a few Madris but here goes. This is the primary issue with the way football clubs are run near globally - there is a mealy mouthed attempt (at least in the UK) to weed out chancers but there's nothing really to stop a despot from running it exactly to his own whims once they're in power. God help you if they're established and have been there a while. This is exactly it. What are we going to do? We all going to chuck a fiver in for a boat and storm Guernsey as an armed milita? There's NOTHING we can do to change the course if Lansdown decides this is how he wants to run it. Nothing changes til the Lansdowns and their peons are given the heave ho into the river and replaced with some ambitious owners, and some staff with some actual experience, football nous, and ability. Til then, enjoy League One and low-end Championship football.

Post to this effect has been made already too, but I've switched off emotion towards City as well. I didn't even watch today. Saw we went two-nil down and put my phone back in my pocket and carried on with my day. I'm actually more alarmed at how little this has mattered to me. Liam Manning's style and persona is everything wrong with modern football, it's devoid of life and boring as ****. "I'll ******* bounce when we win something", wonder if I'll be able to take my pension by then.

Probably fantasy, as I kind of mentioned in my last post on this thread. Point regardless is that one of the wealthiest groups in our society get a pretty easy ride and mostly have done for their entire go round, whilst working people today struggle. Long term ST holders should definitely get a reduced fee, but not because they happen to be retirement age. It ends up being unfair and uneuitable.

Pie in the sky but it would be great if that was the case. Just sad that the wealthy get the breaks at all times.

Of course I agree with the thrust of your post. I uoted @ChippenhamRed who made the case about how the flat rate for discounts for pensioners is a bit silly considering the economic situation of the country. I do also meet every day pensioners who struggle to pay bills and struggle to pay for gym membership, where being able to offer a discount is a delight, and I do feel proud to give those people a realistically very good price to use a gym and pool. I think we agree that the 60+ group deserve something from their eternal support of a shit football team, and a discount to ST prices is absolutely reasonable. I just think it should be built as a percentage from how many years you've had a ST (surely the club will have this data)?

I manage a gym right now for work and this is so spot on. Pensioners get a discounted rate and are the ONLY group that moan about the fees. They pay around 250 bob less per annum than someone in their early 20s. This group complains the most, is dissatisfied with immaterial somethings the most, and it is truly remarkable that those in that bracket have so many benefits living in the UK, yet still find so much to bemoan (in my opinion). This gym is in a rather well off area and many elder members are extremely wealthy, I know for a fact from conversations with them. Chris Martin is also a regular as it goes. Rather than it being a flat rate for seniors, it should definitely be a discounted rate for years of service following the club.

Tears his foreskin every time he pulls it back

I remember the advertising board going over in the atyeo and chucking my programme towards the pitch, then ******* off home to seethe for months on end hahaha

EFL Green Club of the Year (note capitalisation) don't you know?

Was it really that long ago? Seems like yesterday

I reckon they must treat him like a dementia patient and send him up to Wraxall from Failand, and let him coach the U9s at the Downs School.

I challenge anyone to find a worse corner taken by a professional

I genuinely think Andy King would do a better job right now.

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Huge fan of your posts Mihai, always genuinely loved hearing from yourself and the Swedish contingent. If you remember the energy and confidence GJ had instilled when we were floating around the autos back in 2008, it's their momentum, when you look at that team on paper (pre-Jan) they are nowhere near a top 6 team, the same was the case for us back then. We failed to mobilise that momentum. We didn't do it with Cotts when we went up from League One most recently eitehr. I mentioned in another thread how apathetic people from Bristol are. It's always 'oh well, could be worse' rather than demandming more. It's ******* tiresome. It's the whole area, the region from which City draw it's support (Bristol, Somerset, parts of Wilshire, Glos, Dorest and Devon) are far too accepting of ONE HUNDRED aND THIRTY years of winning f all. @BCFC31 mentioned that you wouldn't get this up north or in the Midlands and it's spot on. I despair. Well as far as Lansdown goes, the sooner the odious tax dodging ***** get out of this club the better.

Old Yeller him

Whole fanbase is too soft and forgiving. It's beyond depressing, yet another club with no right to be flying in the way they are flying past us to the PL. Oh well, at least we have a couple of academy graduates playing in the first team we can sell on for a couple of million.

Oh well. Sack the bugger now and save us all 6 months.

Hope you know I'm going to have to report you to the OTIB mods now x

I ******* hate this football club with a burning passion