steveybadger

Lots of Bristol references, e.g. Brunel top hat, balloon festival etc?

Yep me too. There are plenty of Welsh who will always want to beat England / see England lose, but do you know what, there are a lot of people with dual allegiances. And regardless it’s only football so I don’t get the need to express ‘hatred’ for other football fans who if you sat down and had a drink with you’d probably get along famously with. Especially given Wales’s opposition today and the real world issues they face.

Yep he is defo a Rangnick type player

Pre season gets longer every year ??

A good lesson to not judge people from afar I guess - myself included!

Never been a fan of his - always seemed a bit self serving. But credit where it’s due - well done that man. ?

Initial thoughts suggest he’ll play at the back in a 3 but completely agree he gives us a tonne of flexibility. If the rumours of the FGR lad come true (no idea if true) then isn’t he a very attacking RWB / FB?

Thought we needed a right back? ?

I remember thinking we hadn’t played well at all and being gutted. Then I got home, watched the highlights and thought actually we played ok and were beaten by a cracker. No consolation at all mind!

Anybody else sometimes wonder if it would have been better if they’d just b******** off to the Super League and not come back? Greed, greed, greed.

Absolutely.

Encouraging that there’s only been 1 ‘who cares’ type post so far. I was at St James Park Exeter when Justin Fashanu played for Torquay just after coming out. Not sure I’ve heard worse abuse aimed at an individual. I’m much more optimistic that Jake will get a better reception.

And arguably most important is that he pulls defenders out of place and creates space for others. It was no coincidence that we started scoring regularly when he started starting.

Lovely, no franchise in the Championship next season. I’ll let it go in another 50 years ?

Hendrie’s complete lack of research is very poor.

Nor me.

Anybody see the article the other day about WSL matches only having 1 ball available during the match? So occasionally you get huge delays at times getting the ball back from the stands. Bizarre.

Tbf Grealish almost scored twice in a minute which kills the game, and any manager would’ve ‘shored it up’ with a 2 goal lead and not long left. agree not sure how they list it mind, and Casemiro’s non bookings?!!!

Nail on the head. It’s easy to mock and quite possibly hides other’s guilt at not doing enough.

This is quite old news Mr P - it’s from May 2021! That said looking at the news section on the site Gigg Lane has now been ‘tidied up’ sufficiently to hold a Bury women’s game recently - the first game there since 2019. Speaking to my brother in law recently (Bury fan who was one of those helping getting Gigg back into shape) there is still some disagreements between Those owning the stadium and AFC Bury ( basically to do with staying with the original club rather than forming a new one). That said my BIL thinks, as I do, that inevitably the 2 will come together at Gigg Lane eventually. This gives a good summary https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/mar/30/so-proud-bury-afcs-promotion-marks-first-big-step-on-a-different-path

You’re stretching out the joke here

Phoning the club now….. ?

Fair, to be fair!

!! ? 3rd worst defence. ? Although only 2 conceded in the last 4…..

Further update, apparently Joe thought it was really funny (though there are rules against child violence). In fact Chris Martin described himself as having cheese string hamstrings!