BCFC_Dan

After winning a trophy last season it does feel a bit flat seeing the season end with nothing but I'd say there's been some progress made. Up until the Durham game they did really well in the T20 and really should have made the finals day. They've also kept their Championship season alive a lot longer this time. If there was more than one promotion spot on offer they'd still be in with a shout.

Kings Head was towards the Dursley end of Uley, just before the corner where the road narrows before the brewery. It closed down quite a few years ago now. On my one appearance for Uley cricket club (out for a golden duck) we definitely went to the Crown afterwards.

Presumably Taylor wasn't playing because he could no longer bowl and they'd suffered a bit from a lack of available bowlers in the previous two games. That said, he'd batted better than Cockbain in the previous matches and he can be so dangerous it does seem madness to leave him out. No idea why Noema-Barnett was preferred to Van Beuren. He really does need to start showing why he was worth his contract soon. I think he can be forgiven last year as a settling in period but he's got to produce something this year. We probably shouldn't be expecting to win the trophy again this year. Last year they won it through determination and a fair bit of good fortune, rather than by being an exceptionally good side, but a failure to get out of the group stage, which now looks highly likely, would be massively disappointing.

Glos putting up the worst title defence in living memory....

As a fan, maybe, but I'm not sure that'd be in the club's best interests. There's surely more money to be made from good runs in the one day cups and the chances of actually succeeding in promotion this season are pretty slim I'd have thought.

One step forward, two steps back: Jack Taylor's been suspended from bowling again.

I do like Jack Taylor. Up to the heady heights of second in the table now. I doubt they'll remain there but wouldn't it be frustrating to finish second in a season when it doesn't count for anything?

If the light holds then this could get interesting....

Well you've got the first half of your wish. Let's hope you don't get the second.

These aren't super rich, though. They're well paid compared to the average for sure but nothing like the top players get. Being a footballer is a short career and the sensible ones will try to invest as much of their earnings as they can to prepare for a retirement that could come at pretty much any moment. Obviously these invested very badly and should have been suspicious of anything promising 20% pm ROI but there is nothing wrong in principle with them wanting to grow their wealth (or indeed with anyone wanting to, rich or poor).

Thank goodness for that. Yes I was misunderstanding. I haven't read the whole thread, just skipped to the end. Anyone daft enough to pay £70m for that lot would be welcome to them!

Considering that Gloucester Rugby was sold for around £20m last week I'd say £70m is massively overpriced for the Rovers. Potential or not I'd rather have a profitable Premiership rugby team than a football club that was only promoted out of non-league 8 months ago.

Chris Dent getting most of his runs for the season in one innings...

C'mon the Shire! It'll be annoying for me if we get Yorkshire at Headingley because I'll be away when it's played. On the plus side it's a chance to get some bragging rights over the gf's parents who aren't keen on accepting that we were on track to beat them at Scarborough last month (no doubt they'll win this time though and I'll have to put up with at least a year of ribbing).

And in doing so have done themselves out of two days of festival revenue. Only Glos could stitch themselves up by winning too well!

Neither seems to be having a great time. Maybe they'd like to come back to Bristol (where nobody is having a good time).

It's Gidman vs Gidman!

Worse than that, Klinger & Cockbain have given us just the slightest glimmer of hope, which will no doubt be dashed by 11:15 today. It's the hope I can't stand.

What the club needs is the executive boxes and non-matchday facilities, not the capacity. A redeveloped Ashton Gate can provide these, thus solving the immediate problem and helping the club finance itself without outside investment. If this proves successful and the club is regularly pulling in 25k+ crowds at Premiership level then they'll be much better placed to get a new stadium built. Maybe not at Ashton Vale if the TVG is in force but somewhere, and the argument of "they'll never need it as they're not successful" will not apply to the same extent.

Ashton Vale would have been better bit this is the most pragmatic option under the circumstances. Perhaps if the club achieves sustained success over the next 10-15 years they could look at Ashton Vale again, but the redevelopment solves most of the immediate problems.

JET is in the form of his life right now, so it's the perfect time to sell. He might well go on to play successfully at a higher level but he's not the sort of striker who's going to score goals at the rate he has been on a regular basis. The trick will be to find a club which is either too daft or too desperate to realise this, get them to part with a few million and then build a more balanced team that isn't based around catering for one talismanic player. SO'D has alluded to the number of times we've been in this situation before and probably taken the wrong option. There are many examples, from Aaron Brown to Marvin Elliot, where we've been offered sums considerably over the player's value and turned them down because we're an ambitious club, when with hindsight it might have been better to sell. Right now it looks like without JET's goals we'd be ruined, but that's because the team is set up around him. Set the team up around Baldock and Taylor instead and they will get the goals. Far more sensible to take the money and do that than hope JET can keep up the kind of form he's never shown in the rest of his career.

I'm not sure you understand what the word 'ironic' means. They used to operate on a budget which was a fraction of the other clubs in the league. Now they have one which allows them to compete at the top. It's hardly ironic. Yes. Are you suggesting any of this is a bad thing? I've been watching them for as long as I've been watching City. They were my local team growing up. If the owner thinks a diet without red meat is healthier and the manager and players don't disagree then I don't see the problem. The kit change is certainly controversial but I think the new green kit is far nicer than the old black and white stripes. But then I didn't much like the old red socks either...

As a Guiseley supporter I could have done with them beating Brackley! I think it's just to do with the large number of teams around London who are in the Southern division. Oxford are in the North now too! That's fair enough. I have heard one or two negative things about him via employees too. He may not be the world's nicest chap. Nevertheless, I am proud to have them supply my electricity & gas and I think he's generally doing things right. Please accept my apologies for assuming you based your opinion on what he stands for, not what he's like.

Why is Dale Vince a plonker? I don't agree with veganism particularly but I don't recall any rule stipulating that a football club has to provide burgers and pies. The rest of the stuff he does is tremendous and pretty important for the future.

He's hardly super rich. They finally have a budget to be competitive at that level but it's about far more than just throwing money at the team.