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26 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Did Huboo fund it then?

Makes you wonder, as it’s certainly pretty fancy for just a card and a key ring.

13 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Might have it wrong, but I don't think safe standing increases capacity, one standing spot is one seat (I think).

Pretty sure you’re right there.  Whan stadiums went all seater, capacities were significantly reduced.  

You can bet with H&S these days, they wouldn’t let us revert to jam packed terraces again and it will be a staight swop from 1 person seated, to 1 standing.

2 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I finally got into a thread that started on Thursday, they are almost unanimous in wanting to Bowyer to leave and then happy he has gone.

They think he had been leaking negative stuff to the press and engineering his sacking and annoyed that he hasn't just walked. They think the timing of the sacking is because the pay off will be less as he is the last year of his contract.

Also rumours of a takeover and that the new owners would have sacked him anyway, if they aren't already pulling strings.

Interesting.  

Sounds like they think things are going to be improving with him gone then and  I wonder how they think that will help re-open the stands?!

Looks like it could be quite entertaining following the Brum off-field saga this coming year!

32 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I tried to look at their forum to see what their fans were saying, but it's such a mess and covered in ads that I struggled to get into any threads.

Absolutely!  

Just had a look and it’s basically a pop-up ad site, making a pathetic and futile attempt to look like a fan’s forum.  What a shambles of a site, but actually quite fitting for that club atm.

Thank heaven for OTIB!!!

1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

That was a fantastic day, despite the result - I’ve got a feeling it may have been John Pender’s debut too? Anyhow, the reception we gave Glyn Riley and his response was superb - he will always be a Bristol City legend to me. Interesting footnote to that day - I believe when we were walking out (marshalled by dear old Beryl) we heard that Man City had beaten Huddersfield 10-1 ... the solitary Huddersfield scorer that day? Andy May ...

Do you what BS4, I can’t even remember the result now!  

My enduring memories of that day was a great piss up in Aldershot, staggering through the park to the ground and that fantastic reception for GR.  

Made me super proud to be a City fan that day and you could tell how much it meant to Glyn.

20 minutes ago, sglosbcfc said:

In my 40 years watching Bristol City, Glynn Riley must be right up there in terms of popular players amongst the City support. 

I remember us playing away at Aldershot shortly after he left us and had joined them.  He got an amazing welcome from us travelling fans and was a fitting reflection of how much we love an honest, wholehearted player.

Got many great memories of Glyn Riley and he really helped brighten those dark days in Division 4

2 hours ago, In the Net said:

In this case, my thoughts consisted of "I have incurable cancer, maybe life is now too short to get involved in unnecessary dialogue". 

I believe that I need to focus on the positives in life, and the laughs on here have provided some of that in the past, for which I thank all posters.

That’s awful news ITN and thoughts and hopes are with you and your loved ones.  

You’ve always come across as a great poster on our board and the good natured banter in both directions has typified what inter-club rivalry should always be about.  

Hopefully you’ll have plenty more laughs over here for many years to come and you’ll always be welcome.

Stay strong and stay safe 

Just had to be some sad sag behind this, didn’t it!

 They’ll continue to claim it’s us obsessed with them, but we all know better!!!

4 hours ago, The Gasbuster said:

Without doubt the worst driving I have ever seen ! Not sure what it is like now, but when I was there the road surfaces were totally worn out, making the roads seem like skid pans !

Pretty much how I remember too with the roads.  

I also got the impression that all vehicles seem to have been modified, so that any movement of the steering wheel or any of the pedals immedialy causes a beep on the horn!!!

Traffic lights are clearly for decoration only, as nobody takes the slightest notice of them

6 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Going back to Naples, it was common to see bike couriers carrying boxes that were bigger than their bike, on a couple of occasions more than one! I said to my wife that I was waiting to see a display team in pyramid formation making their way through the streets.

i Used to have an old video of the centre of Sorrento where about 7 roads met at what was supposedly a roundabout (a metal pole in the middle of a large circle) in the video an old lady with a walking stick makes it from one side to the other in about 2 minutes, while cars, trucks and bikes race past her on every side. I wish I had it in a format I could post.

Haha, and pedestrians are certainly made of stern stuff in those situations 

I always chuckle when you hear people complaining about driving standards in this country.  Obviously we’ve got some right mupputs here, but there are many places around the world where the standards are absolutely atrocious in comparison.

Some of the antics are great for a laugh when you’re on holiday though, as long as you’re not actually having to drive in it!

23 hours ago, One Team said:

Agreed I have been there twice, it’s mental. Three lane carriage way with seven rows of traffic. Families of five on a moped. 

Sounds like Cairo in Egypt, though over there you can add in the occasional bloke perched on a pile of greenery on the back of a donkey, or old geezers pushing hand carts!!!

1 minute ago, View from the Dolman said:

You can submit via the ticket site that you aren't renewing so I assume that frees up your seat to everyone else.

I also assume your seat becomes available if you pick an alternative seat now instead of staying where you are.

Ahh right!  
I thought the only way that could be done was after deadline day, so thanks for clarifying vftd

35 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

Existing season ticket holders can move to seats which are currently unoccupied or have been marked as not being renewed.

…. so how is the ‘marked as not being renewed’ relevant at the moment, as surely that won’t be known at present?  

Isn’t it the case that existing ST holders have until the beginning of May to secure their current seat, before they are then made available to new takers?

If this did actually happen, it would be conclusive proof that SL really hasn’t got a clue, or has totally lost the plot.

Fantastic news and massively well deserved.

Andi has been a model pro for us and regardless of how poorly the rest of the team are performing, you just know you can always rely on him to give everything he has when he’s on the pitch.

Just goes to show what he can do when he’s played in his proper position, rather than stuck out wide.  He even said when we signed him yhat his best position was in the centre, but some people at the club didn’t appear to listen!

With the way our defence have leaked goals this season, I dread to think where we’d be in the table now if we hadn’t re-signed him.

Top bloke!!!

They ought to give a try up front ……. She certainly knows where the net is!

6 minutes ago, CodeRed said:

Under Mark Ashton he often used the phrase "We fish in ponds, rivers, and lakes"

Well now we're fishing in that puddle at the bottom of the garden.

May well be the case CR.  I’m starting to come to the conclusion that if that puddle produces a few more Atkinson’s and Tanner’s rather than overpaid Chelsea left-overs, that may not be such a bad a thing.  

At least if they don’t work out, like Eisa, Adelukan, etc, we can shift them on and even make a small profit in some cases.  That certainly won’t be case with recruits at the Chelsea end of the scale.

I just hope the Lansdown’s have realised that flaw in their business plan.  Hopefully they’ll  then look for a Head of Recruitment with the expertise needed for the areas of the market that we’ll now be shopping in and not someone used to having bucket losds of dosh to chuck around
 

13 hours ago, billywedlock said:

Hope he is better than the last ex West Brom head of recruitment we had.

WBA do not appear to me to be anything special regarding recruitment but I have zero idea about him or his abilities. Shame we cannot bring in Walsh who is top notch. 

Agree and can’t see us shopping for the same kind of players as a club like WBA with their benefit of parachute payments.  Would be nice if we were trying to snap up someone with a record of unearthing lower league gems.

If the Lansdown’s are serious about sorting out the financial mess they’ve created, that’s surely where we really should be recruiting from. If not, it may be more about providing the right image for potential buyers.

50 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Yes, I agree. It tallies with what I suppose I've known for a while but thought it not appropriate to say. Unfortunately, we are in yet another scenario where the home truths delivered by the manager of the day have not gone down well with The Lansdowns. 

The last two managers to have a difficult relationship with The Lansdowns were SOD and Cotterill and neither lasted more than two years. 

Barring a change of ownership it'll be the same for Pearson. 

Realistically, you can't have a wannabe-successful club with everyone pulling in the same direction when your chairman (and son of owner) are in public disagreement with the manager. 

Frustrating, but entirely predictable. 

I honestly think this situation is as much, if not more of a test for the Lansdown’s as it is for Nige.  Jon’s comments make me think they still can’t see what a total mess they’ve made of player recruitment at this club and the ever mounting debts prove it.

Can’t disagree with anything Nige said there and it feels like in the short time he’s been here, he’s got the problems at this Club totally sussed.

The Lansdown’s need someone to tell them they aren’t God’s gift to club ownership and if NP gets binned because he stands up and tells them how it is, I think that’ll it for me. 

16 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

Our football can be good enough to give us hope. This doesn’t feel like last season at all. 

Completely with you on that.  

The progress has been slower than hoped, but still think we’re gradually moving in the right direction.  

I think some people are still fixated on our previous few seasons, where we’ve had brief flirtations with the play-off places, but as we approached the business end of the season, we’d invariably revert to the stagnated, mid, lower-mid table side that we actually were.

We were going nowhere, but at least we now have the nucleus of a young, talented, though inexperienced side to build on.

3 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

I kind of get the forum can be a bit of a funny place sometimes, especially if you have a niche view - so taking a step away for a bit to reassess is sensible if it's stressful. I kind of get that. The "delete me from existence" stuff was very odd though.

What I don't get however is returning under a poorly thought out name CLEARLY referencing your old one, denying it, and then immediately starting to post in the exact same rude / provocative / toxic manner that got people's backs up in the first place.

There are thousands upon thousands of members on this forum, and the vast majority manage to get along really well. If you find a repeated problem I'd suggested some introspection, rather than throwing blame/attacks around at everyone else, even if it's only for your own mental health/wellbeing.

The person clearly has issues and seems to be deliberately provocative and controversial to get a reaction.  They then play the victim and accuse people of bullying, or harassing them, if they have the temerity to call them out on it.  

The next step is to go on a totally OTT and abusive rant in a manner that, if it was a bloke doing that to a woman it would be totally unacceptable, but for some reason, they seem to think it’s ok if the genders are reversed.

As you rightly say, why change your forum name, then leave clues in your new name as to who you were previously?

Extremely strange behaviour, that’s for sure and sadly, the only thing they bring to this forum is conflict.

37 minutes ago, Tafkarmlf said:

Thanks for telling me my own views,  I can only assume that your post was blinded by your complete lack of wit and intellect. 

Genuinely had less aggro from someone who abused me for months and is with the police to deal with, than idiots on here. Think about that for a moment.

I can only assume therefore that your post sounding off here is more preferable to abusing someone else.

It's not the gaslighting or the frankly crappy small willy waving that bothers me, its the little pricks who dont want to hear any other views than their own. 

It's like watching a cult in action some times and is thoroughly depressing to see.

Football is subjective and isnt about having the same opinions. I'm really sorry that you can't work that out. 

 

 

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Ohh dear, had a bad day?  

Still makes a nice change from having a pop at Pearson, so do you feel better now??

3 hours ago, Tafkarmlf said:

Going with gut feeling, hence the passion in the interview. He's been told to ship up or ship out. He feels its the players, i really really do think our players need ptsd counselling. Not a joke, aware it's hippy crap, but it may help. 

…. and you’d just love go believe that wouldn’t you!  

You’re totally bitter and twisted regarding NP, but the only thing I’d agree with is, City sides in recent years have suffered severely weak mentality on the pitch.

If we haven’t already got a sports psychologist, we need one pronto.  If we already have one, we need to sack the bastard!!!

30 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

he's got potential, but still a way to go to this:

 

God, how I miss the great Brian Clough. Now there was a real character and wish we had that in the game now, but they broke the mould after him.

He’d give journo’s and the football authorities a hard time, but you wouldn’t find any of his teams cheating.  He had real footballing principles!

I’ll hold my hands up and say, I could see a lot of promise in AS early on, but just had a nagging concern that the promise would come to nothing, due to lacking that vital composure and eye for goal.

Talk about blowing those doubts away!  What stunning progress from Antoine this season and doubt anyone could have predicted the massive leap he’s made in such a short time.  A fantastic achievement and such a richly deserved award.

It’s been a funny old season and although results haven’t been great on the pitch, that’s to be expected anyway.  Our big bonus this season is the amazing crop of young players we now have getting crucial Championship experience and that can only make them better.

Let’s just hope we can get them to choose to further their careers with us and if so, the future looks very bright.