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Bat Fastard

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  1. Almost certainly he will have good private treatment in the best hospital in Bristol and with the best surgeon. There will be no waiting list!
  2. Bellew has no chance whatsoever - but will get a great payday - and a very sore head!
  3. I cannot help liking him! He was sometimes a wonderful fighter and sometimes he frustrated - but he was always his own man and unique. I can see that he must be a pain in the arse to deal with and that the promoters are used to dealing with pushovers and not a man who still carries the hurt of being short changed when he was an active boxer.
  4. He is clearly disturbed but I would be sad to see him go because he is an entertainer - sadly, more so outside the ring than inside. He clearly has talent and if he does retire I feel the division will be the poorer without him. Hopefully his team will help him to rehabilitate himself so that he can come back and compete once more.
  5. Blackburn score a large proportion of their goals from set plays and Alby is good at defending! As the defenders tire in the last 20 minutes - we will rip them apart!! (I hope)
  6. It can't be watertight because I just read the news and wet myself!
  7. If there was widespread corruption then Septic Bladder must have been in the know - he has been in post for so many years.
  8. I think we will miss El Abd's height, pace, skill and passing ability at the back ;-0 Frankie is a great shot stopper but must be one of the smallest 'keepers in a City shirt since Mike Gibson - who was a much better player in my opinion.
  9. A 6ft 3in heaver up-front would be in keeping with SCs "Land of the Giants" reputation that he had at Cheltenham. If he also signed 6ft Myrie Williams then I assume he would not play Joe or Bobby very often. That would seem to run counter to at least one of the five pillars. I, for one, think that Bobby and Joe are two of our best players and the only local lads in the team. If we don't push these two talents then why bother with an academy?
  10. There must be more to this than meets the eye because it looks like an obviously stupid move. SOS was making progress with huge limitations to his budget. We will have to pay a year of his wages to get rid of him and the new coach will want further turnover of players. Backroom staff will be likely to leave and need to be replaced. All this costing money from a budget that is hugely limited by the 60% cap. If this is just a knee jerk reaction because of results then the board are the ones in the wrong. SOD had the ability to recruit on a budget and it is easy to forget that many of his team are in their first full season of league football. SOD had given hints about this - so it might have been in the offing for a long time. Maybe Gary is coming back??
  11. That's cool - surely a small number of objections cannot stop anything........ (Tin hats...)
  12. That is very sporting of you!! Thank you. Likewise - if you would like a lift to the games, I usually go very early to be sure of my favourite parking space and to be ready for a quick getaway after the match. I think my email is on the link.
  13. Having never lived in Bristol - although having supported City for nearly 47 years, I do not know about parking away from the ground. Over the years I have found one or two places that allow for a quick getaway after the matches, and this will suffice for the time being. The train service from Temple Meads to Taunton does not fit very well with evening matches and then there is the problem of getting to the station. As a fat old git - it would be heroic to have to walk so far.
  14. I drive up from Taunton now I have retired - but before that I used to drive from London in a people carrier with a bunch of London and M4 based fans. Parking was frequently a cause of stress because it was difficult to always arrive early because of the traffic. A later than normal arrival often meant parking a very long way from The Gate - very frustrating. Just imagine this situation made worse by more and increasing parking restrictions and traffic congestion due to the rapidly expanding population. Just because parking zones finish at a certain time does not mean there will be lots of parking spaces there. The bigger car parks are only part of a solution. Park and ride might help if there were very frequent match day shuttles and the rail option could be very helpful if there was parking near the stations that would feed Ashton Gate. A train from Taunton to Parsons Green would be helpful if only the times of the trains fitted in with match times (including the odd instance of late kick offs and extra time in cup games). This would entail our visionary board of directors to have sufficient insight to negotiate with the Rail company. Do they care? Can they be bothered to ask a staff member to sort it out? Answers on a postcard...
  15. Of course you are right. You also might have expected the "head in the sand" directors to have thought of something like this.
  16. Parking is becoming more difficult year by year and just imagine how it would be if we did get 27000 crowds. If the bus services improved - where could they all pick up? There are no viable transport links and the revamp will take away even more parking spaces. This has no been though through. It should be a very nice Championship level stadium once you are inside - the trouble is going to come in trying to persuade people to go through great difficulty in getting to the stadium for every match. Short of concreting over the park and making it into a car park - (with lousy road access) this is not the right solution for the next 100 years.
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