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I think LJ coming back here now would remind him too much of the (uphill) job he faced at Oldham, so I'm going to say @Davefevs has got this one wrong, and wait to see what kid in his riot van says.

LJ to return it is, then. And his first signing - Marlon Pack.

And Roger Malone.

No? Not making your own luck? A bit like delaying the kick-off to a critical end of season do-or-die game so as to know what result you (both) need to stay up. Naughty, and not nice. We're too nice, nicer than bloody Bournemouth.

This is simultaneously demoralising and encouraging. Depressing and inspiring. To think they were in the Conference in 2014!

Not so much concerned, more thoroughly looking forward to it

I don't have sky, I have otib/this ^^^

Do we have any more detail on Kieran's one touch - was it off his shin, by any chance?

Fake (team) news. "Bristol’s Scottish Butchers" I think is/was more accurate

I hate Nottm Forest, I hate Liverpool too, I hate Man Utd ....

Hadn't thought of that. Poor Nige

You should accompany @Harry on some of his scouting trips ....

Average male life expectancy: 79.3 years; Nige: 58; answer: about 42 transfer windows

He tries another stroll in the Carpathians? Ukrainian Carpathians?

None of the opposition attack is Sunday League, mind ....

No? Not Steve, by Mark Ashton?

The pandemic brought this home, to most. @Robbored might catch up, some day

@Merrick's Marvels: I will get you this for yer birthday what I missed in January, unless you've got it already? Or, I could get you a hat like Geoff's there. Up to you.

Not unfavourable (take a look at the top five or six in League One)

A horse he owns. Someone put a £150k punt on it winning, too. Probably not an accountant in Guernsey.

Good shout, mate. Yes. But question is: where? Probably not the Carpathian Mountains this summer, I would suggest.

Whichever division you/we are in, there's a certain minimum number of games you need to win - or a limit to how many games/weeks you can go without a win, before a significant percentage of yer crowd lose their rag - to keep people reasonably calm/satisfied. In a 46 game season that number of wins will be somewhere around 15 (14-16) minimum, meaning on average you're winning once in every three and not going months without a win. Unless LJ is on one of his hot or cold streaks. Winning makes supporters feel good, very good; not winning denies them that feeling. We are addicted to the buzz of feel-good hormones that flood our bodies when we win. To feeling prowed. When we don’t win and are forced into cold-turkey, we are agitated and unreasonable, and someone will know about it, and someone must pay. Some people can put the defeats and not-winning streaks into context and soothe their disappointment accordingly; others are more reactive and lose their shit more rapidly. Whatever division we are (the top, the middle ones, the bottom) in after a while and the initial euphoria or depression has receded, we return to our ordinary levels of contentment and or disappointment. And our aching need to win the next game, and feel the buzz again.

Our are lads out on the lash (and the flash) for a day at the races anyone know? Or has Nige binned that off after last night's showing? And I just see Brighton's Tony Bloom has won up there - good job Steve and his Bristol Sports stable have steered clear of that sort of thing, I'd say.

What is happening here now is that Steve and his eye-watering wedge is keeping us, just, a second-tier club, our head's above the water of relegation, where under any previous owners we would be sunk. If we hadn't gone down last season, under any previous owners, we'd be bottom of the pile now on about 24 points and already planning for Gillingham / Walsall / L1. Rather like modern medicine keeps old folk alive well into their 80s and even their 90s, living a dismal life of decrepitude and decreasing independence and autonomy, grimly watching afternoon telly in their own homes (if they're lucky; if they're not, in an old folks home), whereas decades ago 99% of them would be six feet under by now having gone before getting to the almost pointless existence that is life post-80 with all its aches and pains (and worse), so is Steve keeping us alive about at least six places higher than where we usually would be, ripping up L1 and enjoying the gay-abandon of trampling Gillingham / Walsall / L1 in to the dirt. Or, er, about to do that very soon. Instead, thanks to Steve - thanks Steve! - we cling on grimly to our Championship lives, stinking and stagnating the place out, turning people off and away in their hundreds. All that's happening here is a long goodbye - to the second tier - a much, much longer goodbye than typically. And boy is it painful / dull! Put us out of our misery, Steve, and take us back to L1 now!!

It's like the best time to plant a tree being twenty years ago and all that, we might've got Nige in 2016 when we had a group of decent lads struggling to step up and Nige hadn't yet been struck down with covid (if someone hadn't been set on having Mark Ashton and Lee Johnson). In other words, our timing's shit. Like Phil Tufnell batting. I still expect us to appoint Moyesie, but in about 25 years and only when he needs us more than we need him (because he's lost it). And maybe Joe Royle, who we coul've had twice before (when he was top notch).