Welcome To The Jungle

8 minutes ago, Super said:

Sure Glenn will be predicting a 5-0! I agree looks really week, Obviously Wood isn't fit?

No, but do we need him just for some pace? What concerns me is Vince. Why?

Aussies to lose in my opinion. Lack of real pace that works so well down under, Broad and Anderson are not getting any younger. Can't bat. Could be shambolic 

6 minutes ago, AppyDAZE said:

Well. they were The Bath City Rovers for many a year

Our blue chums have had many names over the years

1) The Black Arabs (racist) FC

2) Gas Sniffers Rovers FC

3) Bath Rovers FC

4) Bristol Rugby Club Rovers FC

5) We Screwed Over Bristol Rugby Club Rovers FC

6) Mind The Gap Rovers FC (2001-Present)

7) Non-League Bristol Rovers FC

8) 6th Richest Club Rovers FC

9) Not Quite So Rich Rovers FC

10) Anyone got a spare 6-man they're looking to sell that could double up as a football stand Rovers FC

4 minutes ago, Tomarse said:

Could be annulled. But usually if a boxer fails a test etc.  

As other have said, his perfect record is no longer perfect. If his record had blemishes I'd be less annoyed. But I feel sorry for the lad

Can a fight be subsequently re-scored? Probably not but I cannot understand it. Alvarez was more entertaining in my opinion but GGG won, simple as that. 

1 minute ago, Robbored said:

I can't agree with you there WttJ. Your comments are very harsh imv.

All top batsmen fail at times and yesterday the conditions were ideal for bowling. Both teams struggled to cope with the swinging ball.

My issue being that it is all the time our top order fails. If Broad and Anderson had made 100 between them then you could understand. But they didn't. They made 46 and our top order made 40...an average of 8.  

Back where it all began #500WicketsLater

11 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Easier conditions. Sunshine, tiring bowlers and the freedom to  go for their shots.

You could also add that the ball wasn't new either. But the fact still remains that five men, two of whom are among the worlds elite, who's job it is to bat, failed to score as many as the two worst batsmen on the team. Conditions or no conditions, indefensible. 

Broad and Anderson outscore the top 5...

8 minutes ago, Super said:

Could easily bat him 4 or 5.

As our lower order is arguably the best lower order in Test cricket I'd be inclined to leave it alone. How hard can it be to find a 2,3,5?

Ben Stokes takes 6 wickets then has a higher score than the top 5 combined. On his day he is simply superb and is the sole reason I feel we won't get whitewashed again, though almost certainly lose the series down under. Our top order as a whole is simply embarrassing

Play football with plenty of them. Obviously nice people and loved the banter last year with Matty Taylor. I want to see City do better than Rovers and I want us to beat them when we play more than any other fixture, but I'd never ever wish they went bust. 

Going to leave this here

Root mate, give yourself the ball. 

The last test match was one of the worst ever. This coukd be a cracker!

For what it is worth, if you treat this as the faux fight that it is, as a piece of entertainment and not serious boxing, you might come around. It isn't serious, but hey it's happening

Reminiscing about a first 6 of Strauss, Cook, Vaughan, Bell, Collingwood and KP. Such great test batsmen that we really need right now

The position of Cook's partner is now a poisoned chalice and the pressure is mounting on every new batsman. Post Ashes the ECB need to pick a young batsman, probably Hameed, and tell him he will be Cooks partner through to the 2019 series, no matter how his form is. That takes the pressure to succeed straight away off him and may allow him to play freely.

The same may have to be done at three as well. 

Westley out!

In other news Cook has the strike rate of a T20 match at the moment...

5 minutes ago, hodge said:

You sure its not more like this? 

 

That's me

6 minutes ago, Super said:

Next opener?

Well how many people are there left in the country? I'm pretty confident I'm one of the top 5 batsmen yet to be tried as an England opener and I haven't played since school...I bat like this

28 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

I guess we will have to agree to disagre but I don't think 27k is too big at all, Bristol averaged 13k last year despite being bottom for the whole season, if Lam can get us to the top 6 in the premiership we will average 20k easily imo

Perhaps, but I have not felt comfortable watching Bristol at AG. It's like wearing a designer shoe that is a few sizes too big.

26 minutes ago, MichaelRobartes said:

I'm also inclined to agree with WTTJ on Lansdown. Of course you can't take away how much he's done for City or Bristol Rugby or whatever, but he must not be exempt from criticism. For me there are two things which are indefensible: his tax exile status and the red creeping onto the Bristol Rugby jerseys. I'd like to be wrong but I'd be amazed if they're not togging out in a predominantly red kit within five to ten years.

A big yes from me too.

2 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

 

He isn't doing the same thing though is he.

Tan bought cardiff as a foreign owner (this is irrelevant) stuck a load of Malaysian flags around the stadium (still there) and gave them a red strip for luck, the fans complained and he changed it back after a season (two and a half years).

Lansdown has taken over Bristol rugby and saved them from financial meltdown (Tan saved Cardiff from financial meltdown), without SL Bristol might not still be a professional rugby club (they'd have made a comeback by now as arguably a top three club in terms of total supporters), we were in ruins. He has set the team in a positive direction and bought in one of the best coaches in the world as well as some of the worlds best players (but why change the colours?), Bristol have moved into a 27k capacity stadium (which is way too big, has no standing areas which many were used to) which means that they can now compete with the best and yes, he has put some red on the kit but in no way is that going against past generations, Bristol have always been blue and white (and red?) hoops and we still are.

There is no correlation between tan and lasndown (well that isn't true is it...see above)

You don't have to agree with me 100% but everything SL does is done in his interest. He wants to be the saviour of Sport in Bristol and anything or anyone is expendable to reach that goal, be it supporters or traditions or anything else. Everything that comes out his mouth or his companies should be taken with a lot of salt.

2 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

Tan built a team that made the prem but he never built one that was going to stay there, lansdown has built a team that will be a solid prem team next year.

And lansdown hasn't 'shit on generations of history' either...

Sorry, the present tense of sh*tting should be used. He's doing the same thing but because it is Lord Steve it is somehow different

15 hours ago, JBFC II said:

The difference between Tan and Lansdown is that Lansdown is securing Bristol for the future and building a team that will challenge at the top of rugby, however I do agree that the red shouldn't be on the home kit, Bristol have always been blue and white hoops, never red

Tan built a team that made the Premier League and expanded the Stadium so it is now in the top 20 club stadia in the country in terms of capacity. I don't really get your point. Two men who are willing to shit on generations of history just for a bit of success. 

Just now, MichaelRobartes said:

Totally agree with you @Welcome To The Jungle I'd be amazed if the Bristol home jerseys aren't red within ten years or so.

But some will still not hear a bad word about Lord Steve of Guernsey. This move is so Vincent Tan esc, except he is gradually doing it like a slimy toad rather than having the balls to just change it.