Up The City!

Rochdale 3,574 (record average attendance) Oldham 4,264 Bury 3,845 Bolton 15,887 Wigan 11,661 Salford 2,489 Are those average attendances from last season really big enough and sustainable?

The issue is, can greater Manchester sustain all the teams they have in the area? 20 years on and there is now two huge Manchester clubs that will draw support from far and wide. Personally I don't think all these greater Manchester clubs will be able to continue in their current form. Wigan, Reading, Cardiff and Swansea all rose up the football pyramid because of investment. Unfortunately the Burys and Rochdale's of this world are not that attractive of an investment as those clubs were, due to living in the shadow of the huge Manchester clubs.

Way back, a proposal was also out forward to merge Bury, Rochdale and Oldham, to be called Manchester North End, 20 years down the line and you could say that idea wasn't that bad of an idea.

I'm sorry but yes I do wish it on the sags because they are a horrible football club and their fanbase is rotten to the core. If Bury or Bolton were closer then no doubt they would be after their stadiums, whilst trying to get someone else to pay for it.

Im not a proper football fan because I out the suggestion forward? Hmmm ok then. Louis Carey often put forward the idea of us and Rovers merging, guess he's not a proper club legend either then? What I am saying is we are on the brink of losing two historic football clubs, if a merger was the only way to save them, then surely that should be explored? Businesses merge all the time so what's the difference?

But if the only way to see his club survive was to merge? Whilst I get the rivalry, wouldn't that just be them cutting their nose off to spite their face? When you look at the teams that are in the conference, Notts County, Chesterfield etc, teams with a long football league history then it won't be long until Bury and Bolton are forgotten about.

But maybe more of an attractive proposition to a potential buyer? I ain't going to pretend I know what the rivalry is between Bolton and Bury, all I know is they are close geographically but have had contrasting footballing fortunes over the years so from the outside it doesn't appear they are fierce rivals. It just seems strange that two clubs within a few miles of each other are both about to go out of existence yet the idea of merging hasn't come up.

Why has a merger between Bolton and Bury not been mooted? Surely makes sense?

Did I read that right? They asked him to send a detailed response as to why he he should be the new Plymouth manager and he gave a brief reply asking to meet with them? The Memorial ground will get sold off to fund the scheme, hotels etc will get built using that money, and then when it comes to building the football stadium the money would have ran out.

He needed this tbh.

I'm a huge AJ fan, i deliberated about spending the 20 quid to watch this thinking it could be over before it even got started. Within 2 rounds I found myself cheering Ruiz on. Delighted I spent the money now.

Wow wow wow

AJ started to show signs of tiredness in that round. Wow

Im actually finding myself cheering Ruiz on ??

Wow

Or we could turn it the other way and say that's the advice Nantes received. It all depends on the wording of the transfer agreement which none of us know.

I agree with your summary. The insurers won't pay out because of the irregularities around him being registered so Cardiff are following a course of action that any other club would follow. This clears it up for me. BBC Sport has also learned arrangements for a signing-on fee did not meet Premier League rules and so had been rejected by the league.

Would the EFL even allow them to play in that stadium in the Championship??

I can't wait for the day when we enter a U21 side in this competition and come up against you. Our U21s beating your first team would almost be as funny as when you became the only Bristol football team to relegated out of the league, especially as you were 3 points clear and you held a survival party before the game.

We were able to pull out of the Metab? Transfer after everything was all agreed.

I think it's a shocking state of affairs that it took a privately funded search to find the wreckage.

I'm glad you asked this, was gonna ask it myself but didn't know if I should. Would Cardiff be able to claim the transfer fee back from insurance?

Something just doesn't make sense with all of this.

Fans on Radio Bristol are already calling for their new managers head ?

Should have went to Leeds when he had the chance. At least he would be set up for life financially. I would feel sorry for him if he wasn't such a ******* cock #happydays In other words, we can't afford to sack him and pay him off so we're placing him on gardening leave. Can you imagine Steve Lansdown issuing a statement like this? It's totally unprofessional.