Silvio Dante

I’d be surprised if we didn’t hit 10k - the 8k mentioned by Marshall was as at Thursday, and many left it late to renew as we know. But I’d be equally surprised if there was a large number of seat moves. People will be reticent to move from the South Stand as they can’t get back there now. Possibly a few hundred overall. The number of 15000 mentioned as this seasons figure on the pod and ambition to grow it do feel unlikely for a number of reasons. Ultimately ST holders miss odd games but the volume missing from several recent games does suggest a degree of disillusion. My guess is we hit around 12-13k sales overall. Down on last year due to several reasons: - Disillusion and dissatisfaction with club hierarchy (think that’s #1) - Cost of living crisis remains ongoing and it becomes a necessary or reasonable sacrifice - Unhappiness with management/style in some quarters - The new TV deal (I think that’s a tiny factor - the club haven’t publicised and it won’t be known unless you look) It’s still a decent number and bigger than our neighbours capacity. Won’t be any joy from me if the number is down but if the hierarchy think the main reason is anything but them then I think they’re probably not reading the room

It will happen - but will only happen when games sell out constantly. From the clubs perspective they’ve sold your seat to you and have the money for it - they’d rather sell the other seats in the ground then have to resell yours (and possibly give you a cut)

Story from the club on Twitter and the website. Copious quotes from Marshall but missing one detail

Thankfully no, so the memory isn’t sullied. That was Byker Grove

But you could yesterday. To recap - Up until 12 yesterday you could move your seat to any seat in the stadium (not SS) that wasn’t held for an existing ST holder. They have now reset the system and removed the holds for existing ST holders, releasing their seats, which will be available (in addition to all other seats which weren’t held) from 10am

As would I, but as a bit of devils advocate here if he wasn’t one of our own would we be so bullish? The fact is that if you take out the penalties Tommys scoring record this season has been pretty poor (debate/discuss the reasons why) and there is an argument he’s regressed. I don’t think a Scotland U21 cap adds any real value so if we were looking at a player who say, played for Stoke and had Tommys record this season pre penalties would it be a deal many of us would be that keen on? (FWIW I do think he’ll have suitors, I do think he’ll go but in view of the above I’m not sure we’re getting top dollar, particularly at this contract stage)

I’d also guess that they haven’t reset the system as yet and this seasons ST seats remain classed as “sold” prior to today to ensure that people don’t transfer into them, so probably a futile exercise all round.

Because essentially the thread isn’t about him specifically but more around the due diligence process followed in the signing, whether we’re damaging his career, the possible reasons he’s got a season ticket for the bench but doesn’t touch the pitch and then a bizarre detour into a poster feeling a touch precious about facepalms. If it was 9 pages on the performance against QPR I agree it would be very bizarre!

No, not City related. But the best show about football (other than the early years of Dream Team or possibly the Manageress) ever committed to television…definitely the best theme!

I think he’s on about the charge Leicester are making.

But the issue is that you don’t debate. You’ve brought up a few times “The Truth” and when asked to expand have said “It’s something you deny” as opposed to giving any kind of coherent argument. You get the memes and facepalms not because others have lost - but because you can’t, or won’t, give coherent points. In respect of being sick of snidey posts, I’d argue you’re equally as guilty - across multiple threads in the last 48 hours you’ve referred to “Nige Groupies” and brought him up unprompted on at least one thread. You’ve then just gone on a bizarre rant at @GrahamC when a valid point has been made about the providence of signing Medube (where Tinnion was very vocal on Twitter as to how good the signing was, so the player not playing is very relevant criticism). Supporting a team isn’t assuming Brian Tinnion is infallible- in fact, evidence in senior roles is very much the contrary. I’d argue that supporting a team is very much not just blindly shouting how awesome everything is - in fact, we often mock the other lot because of their lack of ability to critique, so it’s actually the opposite of your final sentence. You blindly not questioning and “FFS showing a bit of support” is actually the meat and drink to other fans. If you want to avoid the facepalms, debate. Or keep shouting at clouds and think something’s happening that isn’t. And for everyone else I apologise if this makes the Medube thread “hot” - we’re not signing him (we hope!) (Aside on DM - I saw a theory earlier that we weren’t playing him so we didn’t alert teams to him. Utter nonsense. We’ve agreed a fee. If we want him he’s our player. He’s not playing because he was pony when he did play and because the coaching staff have seen him for 3 months and concluded he’s not good enough).

Yup. https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/young-robins-host-tigers-at-ashton-gate/

It is. I find Wilkins an absolute moron both on Radio Bristol and Twitter when it comes to his knowledge/views of football, but I would never knock his podcast considering the subject and the likely challenges he’s gone through and continues to go through. I see Tinnion being on that more in the community sphere and it might be an interesting listen if they touch on the footballing drinking culture that was prevalent when Tinnion was a player.

Eh? You’re bringing Pearson into a thread that has nothing to do with him, and it’s not the first time. You seem to see conspiracy theories everywhere….

In the grand scheme of things, of course not. But it’s our club, it’s a matter that people are interested in for many reasons - firstly in that the number sold if down heavily indicates that there is more discontent in the fanbase than many say (as this place is often - erroneously IMO - stated as not reflective) - and to be clear the reverse could hold in that more have been sold than anticipated but as the media team tweet when they’ve had a particularly satisfying dump, you’d have thought that would have come out by now. And this season , the number sold in the South Stand - if decreasing markedly - may indicate that people were buying kids seats and not intending to attend. It’ll also confirm if that area may be a POTD hub. Basically it doesn’t really matter. But if you want to get all existential none of the threads on here really do.

To be fair, and I know you’re not saying it wasn’t publicised, it was on Twitter and the OS.

This comes up every year. They’re (currently) a second tier Dutch club who are typically in the lower reaches of the top flight. From a friendly/revenue point of view it wouldn’t bring in many floating fans. Willem just aren’t a big name or a big club. It would no doubt be good for fans who are engaged in the link between the two clubs but that is in reality a very small proportion of the fanbase and doesn’t butter enough parsnips to make a game at Ashton massively commercially viable. I get why people ask for it - but from a £ point of view I don’t see it happening. (NB - Per Opta rankings the Dutch Eredivise is one step below the Championship and the second tier isn’t in the top 30. Competitive wise that makes Willem a Rotherham in real terms currently. There is a merit in playing them as a test of a team who should be a little worse than us based on current record, but the commercial side often wins out here)

I’ll set ‘em up, you knock ‘em down….

Just looking those links up, it seems Fabrizio Romano did one tweet linking DM with the above and it was picked up by the Standard but then there were no further reports/links post that point. It smacks of an agent planting the story as opposed to genuine interest, and you’d have thought if they were genuinely interested they could have beaten Westerlo - particularly as he’s warming their bench before he warmed ours. With the whole work permit debacle and what we’ve seen here in terms of not touching the side there appears to be more fiction than fact as far as Dire is concerned.

It’s a conversation me and @Steve Watts have had a few times - there is a real thing in both youth coaching and as a parent where you have to realise that going x way is not the best both long term and short term even if it’s the accepted route. In a way, not being approached is the best thing as it means the kids enjoy it - if they’re good enough they will make it eventually as everyone gets watched. Steve would probably agree though that we might take losing the one who could make it as he’s just so bloody annoying!

Have you got one for 3-3 as well or are you starting to run low on tenuous cultural references…

Great post. My lad is an excellent keeper but I’m also realistic enough to know that the chances of him making it are likely to be limited, and that if he did get into the academy system, he’d be more likely to be one of the “making up the numbers” than one of the sure things. Nothing wrong with that - they need 11 to play a game and 10 of those are unlikely to make it. Thats the game. But as a parent you weigh up the chance (which even if in the system is small) of making it as a pro, versus the damage that may be caused by being spit out by the system. Put it this way - knowing what I know, from speaking to parents and also posts like this, it would never be a straightforward decision.

Can’t see them asking him either of those but you’re more than welcome to submit to the pod.

Rolando Aarons?