Tinmans Love Child

6 minutes ago, pillred said:

Looking Like another team with no parachute payments might overtake us to the premier league, Ipswich town. Does anybody care to offer an excuse?

If only we still had Mark Ashton

45 minutes ago, phantom said:

The other point, is how big the allocations were for the grounds these clubs have played

Yeh that would be a better stay really, who fills out their away allocation average

We just need to be in touch with the playoffs at this point for me, which we are.  We easily could/should be on more points as well which although annoying is positive.  It's all about the second half of the season which is where historically we seem to fall away.  If we are within 6 points of the playoffs in Jan then it's all to play for.  I think there are so many teams who are similar to us who have a chance, so hopefully the 3 years of Nige gives us a bit more?  Time will tell

12 hours ago, weepywall said:

I'm not condoning what they did, it was horrendous and awful for the family of the young lad that died but I'm sure that because it happened at a football match that they have been arrested and charged. A shop local to me had some bloke go in on Saturday night who helped himself to a pack of Stella, when a member of staff tried to apprehend him a knife was pulled.. after several phone calls by different people to the police they still didn't attend the scene.

I think the point is this sort of thing wouldn't happen anywhere else apart from at a football match

10 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Me and you are about the same age then. Mine was the man on the other wing, Dave Smith. As a fellow left footer I think I was biased! 

My first season was 89/90 and Dave Smith has defo my fave player, so fast, and then we got Junior on the right wing later that season!  

15 minutes ago, WWred said:

The big clubs are just the "big clubs" now.. I can't see what will change that

 

You've got players leaving clubs like Brighton - a club in the absolute form of their life looking to break into the top 4/6 still leaving to play for the likes of Chelsea or Liverpool rather than staying where they are trying to build something

 

When Leicester won the league players still left for these "big clubs".. 

 

It is what it is now we're too late to become a big club 

Agreed, look at Newcastle, nearly 60k stadium, loads of prem experience, champions league, all the rest of it, but still won't ever be one of the big clubs.  I guess Chelsea and Man City are the ones who have broken into that group due to the money, but they had some form of provenance, I can't see even if we had that level of financial input and we win things that we would ever be considered one of the big clubs 

What is the list of clubs to have never played in the Prem?  That would be a better list to look at and compare us against, rather than comparing to clubs who have been in the prem.

Looking at championship teams this season it's only Us, Preston, Plymouth, Millwall, Rotherham who havnt played in the Prem.  You could argue between us, Plymouth and Preston but we defo sit above the other two on most measures I can think of.

From the other leagues I don't think there is any other club of note to get in this list who HASNT played in the Prem yet.

10 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

While I backed the Fleece when people moved into flats near by, and then tried to get them closed due to noise, this is utter madness. They have halted work for something that hasn't happened and may never happen. I understand concerns, but surely it would be easy to give warnings to prospective buyers of what is in the local area. 
Another thing, why go straight to Court, couldn't they have listed concerns during the Planning process ? To wait until now seems odd.

The Fleece debacle at least led to a change in planning law so the onus is on the builder to soundproof if building near an established music venue

6 hours ago, Johnny Musicworks said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/ashton-gate-sporting-quarter-hold-8761331?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
 

All on hold again !

I hope this waste company havnt waited until now to take legal action deliberately as it will have more potential for compensation.  I can see where they are coming from if they haven't been considered in the planning, but it feels like timing is key with this legal action.  

58 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

I think the point was made earlier in the thread but the “3 in 3 years” isn’t really a reflective spin. We had one CEO (Ashton) who had been here for several years and reached the end of his shelf life. Gould then took over and only left because he got offered his dream job. 
 

Clearly something has gone amiss with Alexander - whether that’s bad recruitment or something else remains to be seen, but Ashton and Gould going in quick succession, considering the length of the formers tenure and reason for leaving of the latter, isn’t really a red flag when you look beneath the surface.

I politely disagree, you are only considering one aspect of impact, 3 CEO's regardless of how when or why they left is terrible from a cultural point of view.  

The rest of the business are are going to get a 4th person at the healm soon with new ideas, and things will no doubt change again, as they will have done under the previous 2 CEO's.  

There is complete uncertainty at the moment as you can't trust that whoever comes in will stick around either.  This again is not great for the culture of the business.

If we want to get to the Prem then we need to be all on the same page across the board, from the top down, we need consistency and longevity, not chopping and changing, whether the CEO had a valid reason to leave it not.

How many CEO's is that in the last 3 years, 3?  Major red flags if that was in another industry, it really does seem as though there is something seriously amiss with the oversight of this club, and it's going to make it all the more difficult to attract top candidates as the first question they will be asking is 'what the hell is going on!'

8 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

At what point was Gould sh1t exactly. As far as I can see none.

Jon Lansdown has frequently been lacking, less said about Mark Ashton the better and NP being classed as such shows a major lack of understanding of the situation we had for some time.

In respect of Lansdown senior, not so bad at times, poor indeed in others. Cornick okay but could he better for sure.

Your post seems more than a tad reductionist really. 

For the purposes of the comedic post he was

16 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Gosh and he'd only just managed to settle his feet under the desk. 

Normal practice would be to keep the CEO in position until the sale completes, then change it.

In my experience normal practice, if a sale is pending, is to get a CEO in to make that sale happen, so maybe no sale pending imminently or the situ has changed since PA came in and PA is now not the CEO with the right experience to facilitate the sale?

2 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Turner and Taylor. Gave me a slight twinge 

Especially in those shorts! 

"oh happy days"

8 hours ago, Wedontplayinblue said:

I wasn’t saying that was I, I was stating a lot of YouTube videos such as these are done for the revenue it bring. 

That's commercialism though isn't it?  You could said that about pretty much anything that is sold.  The difference here is it's free content so costs you nothing 

On 31/08/2023 at 21:53, pongo88 said:

 

It would be nice to have more corporate boxes and in a completely new stadium it would be easy to design them in from the start. I can remember the suggestion to put boxes in the Dolman. This was before the ground was redeveloped and I sure it was an idea that was floated without any consideration of the practicality. In reality it would have been impractical as a large section of seats at the back would have been lost to incorporate the dining area of each box and food and drink facilities would somehow have to have been fitted in. 

The sun blazing into Dolman corporate boxes would be a nightmare!  They would need tinted windows and air con pumping!

8 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

https://x.com/afcbournemouth/status/1696138058096369695?s=46&t=4w4wRaeZYqo50-a3ONBubA
 

looks to have had a very good start to the season. 

He looks to have beefed up a bit to me

17 hours ago, extonsred said:

Pointed out this Missing Person issue some weeks ago and with the comments on Robby McCrorie topic thought it deserved a topic on its own. People in the club may see it and suggest he makes an appearance!!

Yet people moan and mock Mark Ashton for making statements all the time, now a thread asking for more statements

And what is really grating is that the money generated goes, in part, to pay the players a crazy amount of money that puts us at a loss every year!  But the justification is if we don't pay it then we won't get the players and will go down, or we won't get the players needed to get promoted, but every club says the same so every club does the same nonsensical thing.  All clubs could charge less for tickets and pay all players less if directed as such, especially if told you can only spend x on players, or x on tickets, but this self governing thing between clubs is terrible, they should have an independent body who sets the boundaries 

What is a real shame with the pricing especially is that they are treating fans like consumers, we should, at our heart, be a football club, with fans at the centre, and to fleece them with tat shows where our moral compass at the club currently sits.  
 

They may argue that if you want a successful team then you need to get the money in to pay players wages, but that is BS when you have a billionaire owner who bails the club out to the tune of millions every year, so getting a relatively low sum from fans is a drop in the ocean.  
 

How many shirts do we sell? Even if for ease of maths you went with 10,000 shirt sales per year, if SL said I will personally take £10 off the shirt price to help fans, that's still only £100,000 out of his pocket, compared to the multi millions he spunks up the wall on players and wages and everything else.  The fans would feel valued, SL has made the money back by lunch time in interest, everyone is happy.

The fish rots from the head!

8 hours ago, SouthStand Sandwich said:

That’s one of the biggest piss takes I have witnessed at the city store….

You’d get a lovely Sergio tachini/ Lacoste for less…

Ours is more like Sergio Georgini

As mentioned many times, market forces will dictate what happens next, if people still buy the stuff then the club will think they have made the right choice.  Ive seen plenty of people wearing the kit and accessories already so they either don't care what it looks like or genuinely like it.  
 

I agree that hoody looks completely generic and void of any quality, but I'm not stupid enough to buy it!  it reminds me of stuff you get personalised online for stag do's or class of 23 leavers hoodies!
 

The difference between that one and the very good quality grey Hummel hoodie is poles apart!

12 hours ago, OddBallJim said:

Definitely not an empty seat next to me in the South Stand.

In fact this weeks’ resident was so large they were overflowing into my seat. 
 

 

Fat people shouldn't be made to feel uncomfortable at Ashton Gate, so but two seats!