Silvio Dante

For myself, I’ve been away all week with work so have only been dipping in and out of the forum and didn’t see much traffic. I assumed it was end of season malaise.

Amended.

Hang on - youre saying if we didn’t have replays, Tinnions goal against Liverpool wouldn’t have been immortalised? And by extension, he wouldn’t have been portrayed as a club legend and engineered his way into a role on more than one occasion where he could bugger the club up from the inside? Ive changed my mind. **** replays.

Depends on the stage of the sales tbh. I’ve got no idea when bears went on sale / priority periods end but if it’s still in week 1-2 I’d expect few emails then activity to be ramped up as it gets nearer deadline day - all that’s happened here is names on a database and automated mails. Bears activity will ramp up as it gets nearer deadline day But, once more, that still means they know if you’ve renewed to not send you a reminder mail so not releasing figures is bizarre….

The most bizarre thing about this is that AFAIK there are still replays in things like the preliminary round. On a realistic basis, if you get something like Yate vs Mousehole going to a replay, there is every chance teams lose money based on travel costs, appearance fees etc vs gate receipts - it’s not like Southern League games will generate massive crowds. Add in the mass fixture congestion this year and the sensible thing to do would be to do away with replays but before the final qualifying round - this would mean grassroots clubs have more chance of completing their seasons on time but don’t lose the chance of multiple paydays as they go through.

The problem with Worldpay for some reason appears to be from desktop PCs as I had the same but mobile device worked fine (after seeing the issues here this morning thought I’d best do mine as opposed to leaving it until 12 on the last day). The £1.25 is only charged once (I did three tickets and got one £1.25 fee) As I said prior, always going to renew - not happy with the hierarchy/football but it’s my club. This is the latest I’ve left it to renew and it’s the latest I feel comfortable leaving it in view of our abysmal technology!

It’s apparently a load of hot air.

If you’ve never watched a preseason game, then you can’t say that. In fact, that makes this comment the type of wild speculation that I know you hate….

You can tell this thread is old - it’s Lezs 75th user ID ago (“Targeted By Mods”) However, in the spirit of revisiting here’s what I put… ….I think on broad terms that still meets the definition of not meeting the targets

Unless I’m much mistaken Phants the same poster told us 12,000 people had renewed season tickets yesterday. Just glad he’s not my accountant.

I believe that we recalled Raph Araoye early from Weston specifically for this game in line with our club strategy.

The next email has come out. Usual caveat, this will be scheduled communication and not sent because things aren’t going well but the text isn’t dripping with “join all the others who have renewed” and seems more acceptance of “we accept a lot aren’t renewing”

Killing time in the airport this morning saw the annual list of this was out. Dewsbury-Hall number one, but there was one City player in the list - Step forward Max O’Leary, who has come in at number 40 based on votes from other clubs.

Few quick points: - He has played the full game. For some reason, despite an insipid performance, he was left on for the full 100 minutes on Saturday - On a broader basis, although you have only seen him for 3 games, he has had 6 starts and 1 sub appearance. If you were scouting a player from another side to determine if you thought he was a worthwhile signing (and not just in a loan spell), that’s at or above the level you’d need to give an accurate gauge. And that normal scouting process doesn’t have the benefit of him being “in the building” and in your side to see how he fits in. The sample size in those cases can be markedly smaller. You may not have seen enough to pass judgement, and that’s fair (and Tbf you frequently forget what’s happening as well ), but in normal scouting and judgement metrics used to determine if it’s worth making a signing, then it’s been more than enough. Medube however…

Nope. And if 12000 had renewed over one week prior to the renewal deadline in a cost of living crisis, uncertainty over the TV deal and a feeling of malaise around the club, Jon wouldn’t just be tweeting it, he’d be walking round Bristol with the equivalent of a “Golf Sale” sandwich board on. So, Ipso facto, it’s bullshit with no source and no reason to believe correct. Although, I do agree - nobody wants to see you come all over Robbored.

If we could get him, and also Ryan Hedges from Blackburn, we’d be smoking next season.

Are you missing the words “far from” or have you seen the light Game management klaxon!

Miah, as a Rovers fan I’d have thought you’d be revelling in a season of mid table obscurity…

Well. It’s already a better bill than BS3 live.

Corrected

True. I’m sure I read it but equally I may be talking bollocks. Wouldn’t be the first time!

I’m sure I’ve seen something before that, somewhat counter intuitively, clubs prefer to play teams that are a fair way away in midweek, in part because they know that the away following may not have been great because of the distance in any case. Take this season - Ipswich and Blackburn were both home and away in midweek.

It depends. You say Manningball but equally we could play with more of the intent shown against Leicester, Blackburn etc. If it’s also a game where we play Knight-Lebel, Meerholz etc then I’m less concerned about a loss. If we lose to Rotherham I’m honestly not that bothered and don’t see that potential result as a reason for SL to pipe up. It depends, in the unlikely event of if we did lose, how we lost that game - both in respect of personnel and performance. Put it this way - we’re not talking about “how did we only draw with Huddersfield” - we’re talking about “How we drew with Huddersfield”. Big difference.

What’s interesting about the Twine discussion is that it’s not really split on “factions” - whether people are more pro LM or LM doubters, this thread has mainly the same conclusion - that he’s not really worth the likely fee and, other than Lez doing his normal stuff, pretty much everyone is on a scale of doubting the signing to straight out not wanting to do it. There is no question LM knows more about Twine than any of us, and he may see him as a puzzle piece that is only fully effective with the rest of the puzzle, but it’d be an odd scenario when we’ve all seen him that the majority of this thread is totally wrong.

Jesus. Swansea then that. Irrespective of results I’m not sure if I’d come back if I was him!