East End Old Boy

3 hours ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Hence the old ' We hate Nottingham Forest...' song.

Think I was the only one singing it last night!

1 minute ago, richwwtk said:

BBC News - Football comes first for Devon boy, 12, who scored IQ of 162
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68103402

Too slow!

51 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Which makes you a genius.

Look at the kit he’s wearing, he’s one of ours, isn’t he?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68103402
 

Good spot!

The North Devon Gazette states:

“He is also an avid Bristol City Football Club supporter.”

33 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

The walk back includes a very narrow and not well maintained, often covered in wet leaves, pavement and I often wonder if this is the reason the P&R never officially gets mentioned as an option.

I do it every game and for me it’s no problem but I’m not sure what would happen if they encouraged a thousand people to use it then someone was clipped or worse by a passing car on what is a busy dual carriageway with a pavement less than a meter wide in places.

It’s a shame people don’t walk on the pavement, walking 2 or even 3 abreast in the road is stupid and asking for an accident to happen!

9 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Afraid there is signage and has been for a few months. 

I’d say they’ve been there for a couple of years?

8 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Could be in and around the first team next season if he keeps developing.  A lot thought Conway needed a loan before last season started. Quick progress can be made 

Starting to train with the first team on Tuesday’s. There’s been interest from League one clubs, but staying at Newport for the time being.

1 minute ago, Bristol Rob said:

I am surprised that the club haven't looked to address this, the height of the television gantry makes it almost impossible to have anything than a 'top down' view.

Frustrating as it is for watching football, it's even more annoying when watching rugby.

Every time we feature on telly, there are complaints from neutrals and away fans not at the game regarding it, and you wonder if this has any material impact on viewing figures, which might make broadcasters reluctant to use Ashton Gate as often as they could. Which would of course be at a cost to the club as the 'home' appearance fee is quite considerable.

Dare say the bean counters have weighed up the options, SCAT have asked questions and it's just an accepted imperfection.

I actually like the camera position! Been watching the TV coverage of last night’s game this afternoon and it’s much better for assessing the positional set up - which is the same for rugby!

Although, I dislike like the frequent changes to pitch side etc. fine for any replays. As an example the change to pitch side missed the timing of Tommy’s run for the goal, which again happens in rugby coverage!

1 hour ago, bcfc01 said:

I think the Bears have the record attendance at the "new" Ashton Gate 26,399.

Published yes, actual bums on seats (or safe standing!) no.

Dave Storr, the safety officer, did a talk at a Senior Reds lunch and said due to the number of no shows at the rugby, the Manchester City game holds the rebuilt stadium’s highest actual attendance!

39 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

At the top it says 'The barcode only allows one entry per ticket' but actually you scan the QR code to get in, not the bar code.

I gained entry by scanning the bar code!

2 hours ago, Riaz said:

Forgot to bring my printed tickets. Not a problem i thought, they are on my phone. 
 

Until i got to a packed turnstile and the internet signal is slow because of so many people.

I had to load 4 separate tickets

Took a while 

I saved my ticket onto my phone, so didn’t need to try and download. Surely this is the sensible thing to do, especially if you’ve got multiple tickets to scan? 

1 hour ago, cheese said:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/qJjK63ck4NZJN8jq9

I think that’s the City Mill River, not a stream?!

21 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Might have been a couple of hundred, not many more .

The attendance was 2,772!

6 hours ago, phantom said:

Our numbers are incorrect, see my post above

The electronic option was when our allocation was set at 5k, but when it changed to over 9k was when the panic set in about the fall out our end for those who can't use electronic tickets 

I discussed this with Jerry at the Senior Reds lunch last month, as he kindly provided me with my ticket for the game at that time. He explained the reasonings and mentioned ball park numbers which, I presume, became blurred in Thatchers Gold!

57 minutes ago, 22A said:

I  was surprised to see Shape, not Garland at 8 as (so my memory tells me) he was always 11. Danny B would have been sub until Trevor Tainton took on that role.

Several of you have posted what a great team that was. A few years later it improved to become Gibson, Jacobs, Drysdale, Wimshurst, Rooks, Parr, Skirton. Garland, Galley, Kellard and Sharpe with Tainton as sub. 

Despite the team selection being the same nearly every week, we still bought the programme to see who was playing. 

 

 

In that game Garland played at 8 and Sharpe 11, Bartley didn’t play. 

Learn something new everyday, as didn’t know there was a sub forum! Although, when I see a thread with multiple pages I very rarely read them these days - not a fan of everything being lumped together!

14 hours ago, View from the Dolman said:

Sounds like that was the plan from WHU but does look like our own fanbase's aversion to digital season tickets discouraged that one.

 

Spot on! West Ham offered an either or option, tickets or digital. But because 6k season ticket holders aren’t digital the club had no option than agree to tickets. In context, West Ham have 45k season ticket holders and only 2k are not digital. We have 14k season tickets where 6k have cards!

1 hour ago, ExiledAjax said:

Pula Sports is owned by Steve and Maggie. @Davefevs has a diagram that shows it.

Yep, which is what I previously stated!

31 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

Ashton Gate is owned by Ashton Gate Ltd, part of the Bristol City Holdings Ltd group. 

This much believed thing that SL owns Ashton Gate in some wholly separate entity is becoming a bit of a myth. Yes, he effectively owns it via his controlling stake in the Holdings company but it remains part of the group (which is also the relevant FFP entity) as it has been for a considerable period now. 

Interesting, as Mark Kelly and/or Gavin Marshall said the stadium was ultimately owned by Pula Sports at the Senior Reds lunch last month?

3 hours ago, BlowerBCFC said:

Football club owns the stadium which all event income and staff will be included in.

Therefore would be included in the group accounts for the football club which are the ones being shown.

The companies that make up the stadium and the actual football side of it will have separate accounts filed online which will break down those costs into stadium and football side wages separately 

I thought Pula Sports were sole owners of the stadium, which is just Steve and Maggie?

1 hour ago, Galley is our king said:

As above, said a few very noncommittal words and then went into a Q and A.

The Hen and chicken it was not!

First question about the accounts and when would they be published?

Answer.... they are being bought into line and published with the other members of the group, no idea when that would be.

Second question. Could you please explain why Phil Alexander left the football club? 

Answer..... We felt things weren't going as well as we expected, nothing particular and Brian Tinnion was growing into the role.

Third question. Do you feel that you should listen to the opinions of experienced supporters when making big decisions like changing managers? (Some clapping).

Answer.... we can't consult on everything but everything we do is in the best interests of the club.

Forth question. Now Liam Manning is here, what do you consider to be a successful season?

Answer.... well there are an awful lot of points still to play for so we are looking for progression.

When pressed he said TOP 10!!!!!

Fifth question. Do you understand the disappointment that the fan base currently feel about the current board of directors.

Answer.... well you can't please everyone and I'd like to think many do support us.

There were other important questions about lighting in the stadium during evening games, music too loud and giving the opposition an advantage by then having the Atyeo stand. Sorry if I missed any others, please add!!!

Don't think he enjoyed this at all so it was ended although there were others wanting to ask further questions.

My second question would have been.... If you consider 10th to be a successful season why did you sack a manager when we were eleventh?

Worked well as everyone was too old to work for Bristol Sport.......

Good summary, thank you.

The first question included why are the accounts overdue, which was incorrect as they’re not due for another 3 months I believe?

Also, I missed him including Brian Tinnion, and the context, in the Phil Alexander answer!

Atmosphere must have been pretty crap if he could hear the constant abuse?

12 hours ago, Super said:

Actually amazed there was only 3 minutes added at the end.

My guess was 6, but hoping for 5, as you say was amazed, but pleased, to see 3!

2 hours ago, Leabrook said:

The strategy is not to find almost ready made players at very small clubs so it’s irrelevant. He’s a one-off

Actually, it’s well known that the strategy IS to find almost readymade players at smaller clubs, improve and sell on!

3 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

If it’s in Splott I would imagine it’s all hands to the pump to make the thing explode……..

I’ve heard if it explodes there will be a minimum of £50 million pounds worth of improvements made!