Silvio Dante

If you cared that much about how the forum was made up you’d have put your fiver a year in. Just saying.

Out of interest, what’s the success criteria?

Yeah not sure of the need for this myself. Ex player threads aren’t exactly a daily occurrence (other than for Lee Johnson) and the more sub forums there are the less the threads in the sub forums are used. By nature ex players fall into city chat and people can just ignore the subject on the main forum. The other thing is that when the ex player is recent the thread often includes observations from things still relevant to the club. So, not really sure of the point here. Can see a lot of threads being moved for no real reason and it making the place less user friendly.

Is that the Kevin Mabbutt who’s contributed to getting the Mural done?

Thats not Ian Rush.

Whenever anyone says Keith learnt nothing from Gary Johnson, they’re wrong. Just wrong.

Yes - with the exception that they can fly to Hartlepool on the proviso they leave before the game.

So, what you’re saying is that if you were running a project, and had done everything right, including amending your plans to satisfy someone, and those plans had been independently approved through the formal processes,you would then, when a spurious challenge is made, give that person a million quid. Nobody would do that in business. Not one person. Yes, BS can pay it, but it sets a precedent and is wholly unwarranted. It’s a nonsensical point.

I’d say you’re wrong here. Bristol Sport don’t get the development they want by paying for a roof - they get a revised development with less houses, so don’t make the £ they expected when they put the “roof offer” out and it doesn’t cost pride, it costs a lot of cold hard cash. The scenarios are simple. - BS pay for the roof and have development as approved go ahead - BS c£1m out of pocket - BS pay for the roof on the condition that plans revert to original - delay in planning, reopening of conditions, delay in construction and additional cost - BS likely still very much out of pocket even if permission approved - No roof paid for and judge kicks out what is clearly a vexatious claim. Small delay, lowest cost (but to BCC and not BS) It’s not about “pride” - it’s about ETM not wanting houses near to them but also wanting BS to pony up for a roof. The only logical business decision for BS is scenario 3 here.

This guy might be ITK:

That’s not just coming out punching, that’s coming out prime Mike Tyson. I said a few pages back that considering the persons involved I expected ETMs case to be shoddy and easily pulled apart. This statement (assuming it’s all correct) validates that. There will be record of when ETM installed their current structure, there will be record of the plans being revised for the housing. Hell, considering how strong they’ve gone on that statement I’m also willing to bet they have a lot of documents around the offer that was turned down. This has all the hallmarks of a cowboy exercise and frankly, you can colour me unsurprised by that.

He is - now been confirmed.

When do Leicester play Birmingham? Asking for Hello magazine….

Dan really, really, really wants Joey to talk to him and the evening post again. There’s no other excuse for this nonsense.

Burnley, I think I said in the summer, are a real strange case. They closest remind me of Fulham when they went up, spent £100m and came straight back down. It seems as if Burnley got addicted to signing after signing - while not signing players like Tella who’d done well for them and was available. They got great social media traction from each signing but ended up with a bloated squad of indeterminate quality, of which HNM is at the lower end. I don’t know why they signed him other than the “hits” to be honest, and from Hans perspective, he’d have been far better playing in ligue one. Nice kid by all accounts but this move made no sense and makes me question his desire to actually be a footballer, or is just happy to “be a footballer”.

This is well worth five minutes of your time. It’s a bit of an insight into the mentality of the group and not typical “footballers” answers:

Knight, Sykes and O’Leary all in the ROI squad. Have we ever had three players all called up at once by a national team??

From QPR TV. They do have a point mind…

I think we’re roughly where we deserve to be. It’s notable (but also a sign of resilience) that two of the four wins have come through injury time winners - no doubt Millwall and Rotherham will feel we got more points than we should there. I’ve watched all games bar Millwall and my feelings on what was merited from each game are: Preston - Draw, possible loss Hull - Draw Birmingham - Loss Swansea - Win WBA - Draw Plymouth - Win Leicester - Loss Stoke - Win Rotherham - Draw That says to me we’ve broadly got what was merited each game, drawing and winning games against PNE and Rotherham we probably could have lost and drawn respectively and losing a game we should have won against Stoke. Bizarrely, had the points come as merited we’d have exactly the same number now. With Conway and Weimann now fit, Vyner, McCrorie and Atkinson to come there are lots of reasons to be optimistic from a solid base.

Tinns

Still a red.

I wish this commentator would stop laughing every time their 27 touches the ball.

Things like this almost make me sorry for them. Genuinely. Imagine this -this - is the high point of your existence. Playing in a laughing stock stadium with a hated management team and players you keep as nobody else wants and this is as good as it gets??? **** me ragged.

Sensible World of Soccer on Amiga was, is, and will forever be, the GOAT. Used to play CM on the Amiga then Pc before life (and football manager being a full time job) got in the way. I believe there is a CM01/02 that gets updated each season but I don’t even have enough time to play that!