pongo88

It’s Bristol Rovers standard. An embarrassment

The 2013 line up is interesting. A mix of some good player and 3 or 4 who are dubious to say the least.

There may be 20k members but how many post regularly? There is a small core who provide the majority of the input, another smallish group who post semi frequently and the majority who either never post or post once in a blue moon.

@Never to the dark side - A risky strategy as it’s about a 25-30 minute walk from the ground to the station. With the extra extra time we get nowadays, plus a delay in leaving the ground it could result in a run to catch the train. Perhaps this explains why you’re always out of breath when we hear you on Radio Bristol

Didn’t you mean infamous?

The UK’s next entry for Eurovision

Can anyone write a song about Clarks pies?

This is nothing like Paul Cheesley. He had one injury which, with the proper medical treatment available today, could easily have been diagnosed and treated. Instead, City’s medical team devised their own recovery plan. When they belatedly sent him to see a specialist, 3 months later, the specialist told him the training he had been forced to do was the worst thing possible for his injury

Gay Meadow, the old Shrewsbury ground, the night John Atyeo scored 4 goals. It’s been downhill all the way since then

I can’t imagine Benarous ever playing for City again, and possibly it’s the end of his career at professional level. Some players are doomed from a fitness / injury perspective and nothing can be done

If viewing red gives teams a boost it will affect the opposition, equally as much as City, as the opposition has to look at City’s shirts

By the time we get to the Premier League AI will have taken over and players replaced by holograms. Matches will be streamed so that you can watch them any time you like.

I think you’re right about the new owners. They were obviously not under Barton’s spell, and could see him for what he is, unlike Wael who ignored his many abusive failings

A speedboat is small fry. Pepsi had a promotion where you could win a Harrier vertical take off jet (value $37.4n). When someone followed the rules and actually had sufficient points to win, the lawyers were called in and he got nothing. Just goes to show you can’t win if you take on a big corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.

I’m 74 but I’m convinced I’m only look 25. Somehow I get away with only paying for an over 65 season ticket. The people on the turnstiles obviously don’t pay attention

They should but there’s one problem - money. They haven’t got any / don’t want to spend any. All the recent plans have involved other people’s money, in one form or another. The current new stand is financed by a loan, which is why it’s so cheap and nasty. Even the new owner, when interviewed on Radio Bristol, talked about further redevelopments being financed by loans or other investors.

We just need someone to link it to return flights to Hartlepool, travel to and from Parson Street station and black bins

Only 8 for me. I hadn’t a clue with the foreign ground and all of my guesses for these were wrong. I’d actually been to some of the UK grounds that I got wrong, but as that connoisseur of all thing football and beer, @Dr Balls, said it’s all about the angles Angles are very interesting - e.g. When a line crosses parallel lines, alternate angles are equal. When a line crosses parallel lines, corresponding angles are equal. Not a lot of many people know that

I know the feeling. Several years ago I started taking my son and daughter to watch games. After a while I realised that my daughter was only interested in buying a burger and wandering around, so I gave up taking her. Luckily my son had an interest and still attends matches.

“…in all fairness”! I don’t want fairness on this subject. I want total ridicule and humiliation

The Rovers’ average attendances are boosted by the away support from some of the bigger teams in the league. There may be a few local teams who bring a good away support to Chesterfield but, in the main, Chesterfield don’t get as many away supporters as Rovers. Strip out the away fans and Chesterfield’s average attendance is probably higher than Rovers

That explains why we’ve signed to many foreign players in the last couple of years

I just wish there was an emoji I could add that reflects your post to expose this sort of thing. Perhaps Inspector Gadget as he’s a cyborg police inspector

Serious question - what exactly was Cisse’s job title and actual role? He seems to have been around for a while and had something to do with foreign signings but I’m not sure how players from Scotland and Ireland would need his help

The players brought in by City’s recent transfer policy are mainly league one standard, bought on the hope they can develop into top six Championship players. Nigel wasn’t given the budget (transfer fees and salary) to get anything better. If LM has to operate under the same constraints the results will be broadly the same. If he suddenly has a bigger budget in the summer, and better quality players arrive, it will be an admission that the current strategy was wrong