Red-Robbo

ITV don't have a World Service, radio outlets or rolling news services.

True mate, but we'd be feeling quite buoyant if a PL side only beat us by one. We obviously had more talent, but they came out to give us a game and we had one.

I wouldn't slate them too much: they kept going, had chances and finishing let them down. And we are a pretty poor team. That may change, but it's been true all of 2013. At the end of the day, we beat a team two levels below us by one goal. No wonder they feel proud of their boys. If they approach their conference games like that they'll stay up easily. For me, I'm happy to cut them slack as I am happy to see the progression of JET to a more all-round player.

Just watched it on ITV 1+1. Scrappy first half, firmer second. Their goal NOT over the line. Why was every Tamworth player called Jako though? Big fans of Brush Strokes?

It was. They showed Spitting Image in South Africa at the. time, but strangely that song was cut.

It's 7 days until his state funeral. Freeze Nelson Mandela!

Other than people who knew Osborbe at Oxford. The FCS - at the time led by BBC political editor Nick Robinson - DID produce Hang Mandela t-shirts (I've seen them) and Gideon's contemporaries said he had one. He had an interesting time at "varsity"; living with a Colombian prostitute and being keen on the odd gramme of "Nigella". Just imagine the Mail if a Milliband had led a similar youth?!

I wonder if George Osborne still wears his Hang Mandela t-shirt which he got when he was in the Federation of Conservative Students? My POV on NM is he was one of the few people who enters politics for the right reason. Prevented a civil war, it has to be said.

So we'd be .... 24th. As I said, he could hardly do any worse.

Well he can hardly do much worse, can he? There's only one more place for us to fall.

23rd now. The O'Driscoll legacy.....

yes please. Opportunity to try a different system but same timidity.

Oh great. We're without our best central defender now...

Classless and Australian: The words go so effortlessly together don't they!

Good point. However I can only think of AG redevelopment as a stop gap. Long-term the club will need a more flexible and profit-bringing home. I just hope it's in south Bristol. To get to somewhere like Portishead or Avonmouth would be a nightmare for someone living where I do.

I thought Dawn Primarollo brought the misuse of TVG legislation up in Parliament. In fact, I'm sure I've read she had. I also read that the legislation was under scrutiny to have major changes made to it. Anyone au fait with this? Maybe as long as Lansdown owns the land AV isn't off the agenda in the long run...

Sounds like once again, Sean was too late with his subs. How he can see us getting battered and not act I'll never know. Still at least he didn't wait until we were a goal down this time.

Again, I just cannot fathom SOD's logic. The two weakest players last Saturday were Shorey (never a midfielder!) and Cunningham. They get included but Burns who nearly scored and looked sharp in his brief cameo isn't even on the bench.Hmmmmmm....

Good effort, mate. Keep us updated. My donation - via the DEC appeal - has been made.

You can already see that Bob has a natural instinct. I think he'll be a fabulous player in 2-3 years. Even now, he holds his place on merit. I doubt we'll get offers in Jan, so this discussion is hypothetical, but this lad could be central to City's squad in a few years.

I just want to point out that "may" is not the same as "will".

It would be ludicrous to issue lifetime bans (or have the police involved at all) for "offences" such as running onto the pitch or swearing. However, until I see what all these folk are charged with, and what the evidence is, I'll refrain from drawing the sort of sweeping generalisations some people on this thread have done. Anyone throwing objects or fighting in or near a football ground deserves a hefty banning order IMO.

53,000 Scousers meet in Anfield for a 'Scousers Are Not Stupid' convention. Steven Gerrard addresses the crowd.. 'We are all here today to prove to the world that Scousers are not stupid. Can I have a volunteer please?' Wayne Rooney gingerly works his way through the crowd and steps up to the stage. Gerrard asks him 'What is 15 plus 15?' After 15 or 20 seconds Rooney says, ' Forty!' Obviously everyone is a little disappointed. Then the Scousers start chanting 'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!' Gerrard says, 'Well since we have a capacity crowd, world-wide press and global broadcast media here, I think we can give him another chance.' So he asks, 'What is 5 plus 5?' After nearly 30 seconds he eventually says, ' Twelve?' Gerrard looks down and just lets out a dejected sigh. Everyone is disheartened and Rooney starts crying. But then the 53,000 Scousers begin to yell and wave their hands shouting, 'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!' Gerrard, unsure whether he is now doing more harm than good eventually says, 'OK then, what is 2 plus 2?' Silence hangs over the stadium. Rooney closes his eyes, and after a whole minute eventually says, 'Four?' Pandemonium breaks out throughout the stadium as the Scouse crowd stand to a man, wave their arms, stomp their feet and scream, 'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!'

Indeed, I expect his bank account is quite large - providing he didn't invest in the scheme he was trying to flog to others! As a player he had his limitations, but you had to admire his tireless running and commitment. The guy was always fired up - and that was why he clashed with the increasingly tyrannical GJ of course.