Silvio Dante

I’m saying nothing.

That seems like a fantastic idea. I remember when Tranmere did that in the 90s and it galvanised the club - Weston look to have the biggest potential to do the same (although with the development of Yate/Sodbury, we’ll be nudging 40-50k conurbation population soon)

…but what about a third? I’ve posted here before about Yate Town - pretty much smallest club in their league at level 7, and last night won their 4th game on the bounce to hit the playoffs. Weston Super Mare are one place behind, and the game at Lodge Road in two weeks looks set to be a cracker. Anyhow, it got me thinking. Yate are punching above their weight now, and although there are plans to improve the infrastructure, getting anywhere higher than Conference South seems optimistic - unless there was a Salford style takeover. So, if there was something of that nature to Yate, Weston or another club in our catchment area, could the Bristol area sustain a third league club, and where? I’d assume attendances of 2k-5k tops and the question becomes if that’s new fans or taken from us/Rovers. Would it impact? Is it sustainable? It would, however, be a fantastic laugh to see Yate beat Rovers in a League 2 or Conference match!

Found some: https://youtube.com/user/ApeOfDeath1990 That’s the grainy Cardiff mobile version. If you want to see us battered in the finals, and have Amazon prime, go nuts:

Trying to find. I went when we played in the Masters at Cardiff in 2008. Squad is below. I can only imagine with Kuhl, McCarthy and Biff in the squad we just waited for everyone else to get tired by running around the vast surface area of our players to get to the goal.

Ahem.

To be fair, i think that’s been in the concourse for over a year

On a random note, is it Romeo that’s Jazzie B of Soul 2 Souls son or did I work event heavily and dream that up?

Nobody “put the boot in”. What you have to remember about Robbored is that he plays on saying mildly controversial things, and does enjoy borderline trolling. It’s entertaining at times, and I don’t think he means badly by it. I didn’t report him, but I believe he got given a holiday after he made comments that were the wrong side of that “mildly controversial” line and went into straight out offensive in a conversation about Covid where, at best, he misjudged the appropriateness of things he said about breaking regulations when others were sharing stories about loss, and not being able to hug dying loved ones. I don’t think he meant bad (I don’t think you can work for the NHS for that long and be a bad person), but he undoubtedly said the wrong things. I think he’d probably admit that himself. The trouble is if you post things to deliberately start fires, sometimes you get burnt. I am, however, glad to see him back and look forward to winding him up and posting running jokes over GJ and the official site going forward.

That’s what I’m expecting - although I can see Vyner replacing Atkinson. In a bizarre way, although I feel we have been short in CM, the bodies we have and how we set up now mean we’re overstocked. I’d prefer Scott in that three, but for the team he’s better at RWB when we have Han-Noah, Matty and Andy available as opposed to dropping one of those and moving Vyner to RWB

I’ve never heard of this incident where a fan was dragged in by Gary Johnson! I’m assuming said fan was so chastised he stopped posting nonsense from that point on….

More news from Gregor McGregorface on this…. Two young fans sat on his car, swore, and were moved on by stewards(allegedly)

…for comments made after QPR. Expected, but still a joke.

Reading the EP article, I may be naive, but I’m still not that concerned at this stage. When he was chief executive of Surrey, Gould often used the media as a means to put pressure on the ECB. This is what he’s doing here - he’s laying out a damaging but plausible scenario of the majority of clubs having huge losses and breaching FFP, and then pointing out that in turn would kill the integrity of the competition due to those losses arising from an “act of God” as opposed to mismanagement (although there is a degree - cough - Ashton, it’s not the main factor here). The line about taking the deduction vs selling players is an iteration of that we can’t undermine the competitiveness of clubs following Covid. Basically, it’s a push article to set the ground for either a major allowance for Covid related losses (as noted, our concerts/conferences is actually the big hit), or reform. As all bar the parachute clubs will be impacted to some degree, there will be a rally behind this - it’s just we’re first over the hill and laying the groundwork

Yesterday, I think it was Blackburn who played their #2 on the basis that they could not be sure that the #1 would not go down with COVID at any stage. I’d guess something similar here - there was probably no intent to play Wiles-Richards but it was to have him involved in the match day squad (I know he already joins in the warm up) in case he is needed for real, either on the bench or starting, of which the chances are higher than normal currently

This tournament could get interesting. AFCON rules are that if 11 of the squad are available, the game must be played. And it doesn’t matter if there are no goalkeepers in that 11. Already, teams are suffering from Covid related absences - Senegal had to leave six at home and a further three (including Fam) are now in isolation. With the spread of Omicron it’s not unfeasible to see there being a lot of forfeits or very odd lineups!

With Sky not having the FA cup rights, I can quite easily see this being on TV now. It’s not the most glamorous game but it’ll be the highest ranking one they can show…so don’t bank on it being Saturday 3pm

I like the look of that side. Martin at RB has the engine to get up and down and the pace to cope with any counters.

I think you only have to go back to this seasons game with Luton where Tom Lockyer was given boatloads for 90 minutes, including the above. It’s naive to think it doesn’t happen. However, what I would say is that most of our fan base now won’t have a clue, outside of 1-2 exceptions (Clarke Harris for example) who’s been playing for them for the last few years, as they are at that lower level - which with it brings a huge turnover of players. So it does, or will, become less prevalent as players who have played for them don’t often reach this level post Rovers, and if they do, Rovers are a blip on the CV.

I think George Nurse already suggested that.

I said this the other day - Antoine has a touch of the Reid’s about him since he came back in. Not the goals (yet), but the physicality, the strength, the energy and the press. The latters the most important - what he’s brought is pressure on defenders and giving them no chance to relax. That in turn forces mistakes, playing backwards and gets us higher up the pitch. I think he’s making a real difference.

From my vantage (Dolman centre top tier), Vyner probably doesn’t do a huge amount wrong. Could be closer, but my thought was “stand, don’t dive in” which is what he did. The cross itself was excellent quality and was one which a keeper would have to gamble on - whipped, pace, corridor of uncertainty. I wouldn’t blame Max for not coming for it, it’s one where damned if do, damned if don’t. It’s Towlers error for me. He’s a yard off Bradshaw and enables a free header. Find it hard to fault Max for any of the four goals so far, although I think the term “Anti-Maxxer” is genius.

I’m requesting royalties on this one from now on!

Just seen mate, seems we were typing at the same time and felt it had to be brought to attention. Mods - please merge

After Benik scored the penalty he went to first celebrate, then stopped and held his hands up to apologise. So far, so against old club celebration. However, after the Millwall throng had cleared, he went to his knees and pointed to the heavens. We all know what happened when he was here and what that celebration meant. And the fact that, despite us conceding, a good number of city fans applauded him after it is something we should all be proud of. Some things are, and always will be, more important than football