Mr X

I would never want heading taken out of Football but it would be interesting to watch a match where heading wasn't allowed to see properly what it'd be like.

I can never understand why more rugby players don't wear scrum caps, especially given when they're on the floor at rucks with a high chance of other players payers studs hitting them in the head when trying to get the ball.

I wouldn't mind seeing Ebosele here from Derby if they're accepting cheap offers for players

I'm not sure the approach to Health & Safety used when building the Trans Siberian railway would work for the Portishead line today!

Just checked and Buffon is playing for Parma again in Serie B. There can't be many footballers left still playing who played in the 90s.

OTIB must be one of the only forums without clickbait and pop up ads that keep appearing all the time. Congrats to all the admin team on a great job

Agreed - but what are the chances of it ever happening!

Third time lucky for an international career for Caulker. After his one England cap he's tried to get in the Scotland squad but was never selected. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-fc/1772233/ex-dundee-and-england-stopper-steven-caulker-wants-to-play-for-scotland-at-euro-2020/

Some decent players in the squad that last season we went down from the Championship (along with Wolves). On paper that team should have had enough to stay up instead of finishing 15 points from safety. Some absolute dross mixed in that squad as well though. No. Pos Nat Player Total Championship FA Cup League Cup Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals 1 GK ENG Tom Heaton 44 0 43 0 1 0 0 0 4 DF ENG Liam Fontaine 43 1 41 1 1 0 1 0 27 MF ENG Albert Adomah 42 7 30+11 7 0 0 1 0 15 MF SCO Stephen Pearson 38 3 33+3 3 1 0 1 0 16 FW ENG Steve Davies 38 13 21+16 13 0+1 0 0 0 7 FW ENG Sam Baldock 34 10 23+11 10 0 0 0 0 25 MF ENG Marvin Elliott 33 3 25+7 2 0 0 0+1 1 17 DF IRL Greg Cunningham 31 1 29+1 1 1 0 0 0 2 DF SCO Richard Foster 31 0 27+3 0 0 0 1 0 9 FW ENG Jon Stead 30 5 21+7 5 1 0 1 0 21 MF ENG Paul Anderson 30 3 18+11 3 1 0 0 0 14 MF ENG Cole Skuse 27 0 24+1 0 1 0 1 0 18 FW ENG Ryan Taylor 26 1 16+9 1 1 0 0 0 8 MF AUS Neil Kilkenny 24 0 15+9 0 0 0 0 0 5 DF WAL Lewin Nyatanga 20 2 18+1 2 0 0 1 0 10 MF SCO Liam Kelly 19 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 19 DF IRL Brendan Moloney 17 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 6 DF SCO Louis Carey 17 0 13+3 0 1 0 0 0 11 MF ENG Martyn Woolford 17 3 10+5 3 0+1 0 1 0 39 DF ENG Matthew Bates 13 0 12+1 0 0 0 0 0 26 MF ENG Joe Bryan 12 0 9+3 0 0 0 0 0 19 DF SCO Stephen McManus (on loan from Middlesbrough) 11 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 38 MF ENG Neil Danns (on loan from Leicester City) 9 2 9 2 0 0 0 0 12 DF WAL James Wilson 8 0 6+1 0 1 0 0 0 3 DF SCO Mark Wilson 8 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 29 DF WAL Wes Burns 7 0 0+7 0 0 0 0 0 11 MF ENG Brian Howard 6 0 0+6 0 0 0 0 0 24 MF ENG Bobby Reid 5 1 1+3 1 0+1 0 0 0 10 FW Jersey Brett Pitman 4 0 0+3 0 0 0 1 0 22 GK ENG Dean Gerken 4 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 20 MF ENG Jody Morris 4 0 2+1 0 0 0 1 0 29 DF ENG Matthew Briggs (on loan from Fulham) 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 40 DF SCO Danny Wilson (on loan from Liverpool) 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 30 DF CMR George Elokobi (on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers) 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 MF COD Yannick Bolasie 1 0 0 0 0 0 0+1 0 28 DF WAL Aaron Amadi-Holloway 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 GK ENG Lewis Carey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Come on you chicks!

The differences between a City kit launch under Bristol Sport today and 15 years ago getting Cotterill just to stand by a wall are clear to see.

Brings back bad memories!

That's a good shout. There certainly wouldn't be a round of applause for him when his name was read out

With the ongoing Mark Ashton thread on here it has got me thinking do you think there's any other ex-player/staff member that would get as bad a reception as I'm sure he will do next time he graces us with his presence at Ashton Gate?