Eddie Hitler

Yes, that is also my view. Saved my typing it out. I am hugely grateful for what the Lansdown family has done for the club, and this view is strongly coloured by the knowledge that if I had their resources and owned the club then I would very much have done the same, mistakes and all. From betting the house on Gary Johnson, to sticking with Lee Johnson despite the critics. Maybe not appointing Mark Ashton, or if having done so then quickly sacking him, but apart from that I have broadly agreed with the way that they run the club. Oh, and of course Bristol Sport is a daft concept which should have been quietly put of its misery years ago. But we all know that. This is why, if I win £100m+ on the Eurmillions, I will not be buying City as my reign would be very smillar to their reign. And also why I think it should be somebody else's turn, and the Lansdowns will leave with my thanks for what they have achieved.

Maybe you should take up John's offer of help as that's presumably not how you want to be spending your Saturday evenings. @Never to the dark side

I could be being harsh but I thought him similar to Nicholas Anelka, "le sulk", who could be the tsar player all season when it suited him but usually it didn't. In contrast I noted that Carlos Tevez gave his best in every game I saw him play. He wasn't a loyal player and was motivated by money but he always put in a shift and earned his money, which Pogba and Anelka very much didn't.

What your nan didn't tell you is that the correct procedure is to scrunch up each sheet and then flatten it before using it. That way it works similarly to soft toilet paper. Here to help, several decades after the event. My college also had it in the bogs, I don't know whether it was the general ethos of traditionalism or whether because they saved money as people tended to use their departments' toilets instead.

I've zero interest but in the grand scheme of things they probably cost in total, wages, all expenses and training staff, about as much as one or two senior men's players. It would be churlish to close them down IMHO, a lot of people enjoy watching them.

Have you won the Euromillions then Rog? I don't know if I've mentioned quite how much I appreciate your posts but would like to take the opportunity to do so now.

You do know your stuff Dave!

Certainly the football club and stadium sit under BCFC Holdings so that's a simple transaction. Don't know about the HPC. It's anyway going to be doable whatever the corporate structure if the money is right, though what value the remainder has is dubious. You could maybe carve out and sell the rugby club but what would be left, Bristol Sport, basketball and women's football team, would have no value and then would presumably be wound up.

And of course Arthur Dent / Bridey actor Simon Jones who went to King's, though Wikipedia doesn't seem to be aware of that.

I'm not about to take up verbal arms in a Taunton vs Yeovil rivalry given that it is decades since I lived there! I haven't been back for years and wouldn't have a clue about bands.

It's nearly thirty miles driving or 2hrs 16min by train accordng to The Trainline, I lived in Taunton for maybe six years and went to many places but never Yeovil. I have nothing against Yeovil but it's one of those places where it is hard to discern a reason for visiting them, like Ilminster or Chard.

Can we not please learn to love and embrace mediocrity in all its forms instead of continually striving to be decent? What is actually wrong with finishing in 16th position every year? It saves you the rollercoaster of emotions that each new season would otherwise call forth.

I was saying that for years - Benny as DoF. However as he is now aged 81 and has been out of the game for fourteen years I would say that the window has closed. Neil Warnock as DoF on the other hand would be great, he may be 75 but he is still an active manager. On a related point to this thread QPR had Les Ferdinand as DoF for years before he was given the push about six months ago, his recruitment was poor and his contribution to team tactics hard to discern. But he was "Sir Les" so gained and kept the job when anyone who hadn't been a star player for QPR would never have been given it in the first place and would have been sacked after a couple of years.

It has always baffled me that Taunton Town FC has never risen to a better level. Taunton is a big place with no local rivals and keen on sport as the support for Somerset Cricket Club shows. I used to live there as a kid and still faintly know a small number of people there. Whilst the cricket was a big deal I never had one conversation about TTFC and the only connection was one of my parents' friends had a season ticket as his birthday present each year. Now there is a sleeping giant, albeit a non-league one.

Quite right from what I have read, the children's ST prices have shot up. That's a really bad decision as you are killing off your future support by stopping families from going.

Yes, the ruthless discipline of diet and fitness as Ronaldo displays is not for everyone. If you were good enough to play pro football at a decent level whilst dossing about all week and going to the pub several times a week then that would be a very enjoyable ride. Whilst pro footballer is most people's dream job it is still a job. Few of us dedicate ourselves wholly to our careers. My most memorable JET moment was when the ball came to him on the edge of a crowded penalty area and he appeared to slowly walk past two defenders before whacking the ball into the net. I'm sure there was all manner of technically excellent close control going on to make it appear like that. Similarly for Tomlin as mentioned above, whilst I didn't see this one live I remember his doing something to the ball as he was approaching goal, put backspin on it or something, so that it came up off the turf and sat up for him in a perfect position from which he scored, like someone had gently thrown it to him at knee height.

City - yes undoubtedly better. Anyone who disagrees tends to either come down on "we should have been better" or "we don't own the ground", but we do. BCFC Holdings owns the club and the ground in separate subsidiary companies and anyone who still has shares has them in BCFC holdings, so owns part of the ground. Torquay - wasn't this the mob who left Swindon is such a state and then moved on to Torquay in the hope of persuading the council to sell them the leased ground, which they would then have presumably sold for development and then put the club up for sale. The council wasn't so daft after all. I grew up with the three Devon clubs almost always in Division 4 and Yeovil in the Conference but with regular cup runs. It's a shame how far Torquay and Yeovil have fallen.

Yes, I stopped watching the Premiership for just this reason and my dad, previously an avid MOTD viewer, mentioned that he doesn't watch it much these days. All the emphasis on technical excellence, diet and fitness certainly means that you win more games, but it also strips the excitement from the game and the fans drift away. When I bump into my old school mates these days and go down the pub for a chat, football rarely merits a mention when it used to be the main topic of conversation. You could say it's becoming older but it's more than the regular excitement has gone. Two teams with technically good coaches and technically good players makes for a very dull spectacle. Tap tap tap. Give me Hereford vs Newcastle on a muddy pitch every time.

I still occasionally play Championship Manager 93/94 because I found the gameplay became overly complicated and slow on later versions so that they ended up going to charity shops. At the youngest end you have Nicky Butt, now about fifty, and at the older end Ray Wilkins, Alvin Martin and Peter Shilton. City's older players include Gary Shelton and Mark Aizlewood. Whilst I can't name even one player from most Premiership teams these days, I can give most of the squad from that time for some teams. City from memory: G - Welch, Leaning D - Osman, Llewellyn, Scott, Bryant, Tinnion (central defender in that version), Thompson, Harrison, Shail, Atteveld. M: Shelton, Aizlewood, Martin, Pennyfather, Robinson A: Dziekanowski, Rosenoir, Morgan, Bent, Baird, McIntyre Looking up the ones I missed: Munro, Gavin, Allison. Of those I have had Bent playing for England several times, and once or twice Bryant made the squad.

Yes, you're right. That is an attractive freehold asset.

Yes. Any buyer would just want the football club and a freehold ground without any strings, the Bristol Sport organisation is a costly bureaucratic overhead which reduces the value so would be unlikely to form part of any purchase.

From what I have read about QPR they have a similar coach to Manning so it should be an entertaining game. I expect City to win as we have the much stronger team, though of course QPR could always pull a great performance out of the bag.

Good lord. Maybe we are going up then.

That was a very decent FA Cup run to give a bit of excitement to another mid-table season. I really enjoyed listening all the way through a radio commentary, this was a classic game and there is no shame in losing on penalties against a Premiership club.

The sheer unprofessionalism of not mentioning that he played for City is ridiculous, but just look at that first line for more amateur hour idiocy. "Bristol Rovers F.C is delighted to confirm the full compliment.... It's either "FC" or "F.C.". It isn't "F.C" A "compliment" is saying something nice about someone, what they mean is "complement". If you're going to use a long word then use the right one.