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On 17 May 2016 at 12:10, Big C said:

 may have misread you but to clarify Barcelona isn't a one team city.

If you were promoting your business and wanted to take clients and potential clients to a sporting occasion in Bristol, I wonder what sort of impression you'd make taking them to ramshackle rovers and then next week your business rivals take the same clients to the newly refurbished AG, whether that be for football or rugby........  Tinpot would would spring to mind!!

4 hours ago, Philgas said:

At the time it was a nightmare, but we got rid of all the deadwood players and fought back ... Probably the best thing that could've happened to us would have been to go bust and leave Bristol as a one team City.

There, corrected that for you.

I was in Barcelona Saturday night, the after match party, that went on was amazing, a mass cycle ride, 1000's of cyclists, a mass drive around, car horns honking all night, little old ladies out with their Barca scarves on, huge explosions, etc etc.  A bit different than Bristol I appreciate, but having heard the reports from Leicester, it all points to one team cities being happier places!!

32 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

What a condescending post I for one think they have done very well to get promoted to league one when I thought they would struggle to get out if conference. You make some valid points but also make us sound like some vastly superior Bristol super club when we are now only one league away from the gas and they have momentum.

also you say they always harp on about us but 205 pages on this thread suggests we are no different and most match days just as many songs are sang about rovers than our own team so we can by no means say we are not obsessed by them.

we have struggles most of the season and while I can see hope for a better one next year most of us are realists and know that bcfc is never a straightforward love affair and we could be at the same level as rovers before very long.

our fan base continues to grow? Yes agree but not at the level to fill a 27k stadium with our newsstands top tier not being used much if at all next year.

they have struggled yes but with a new owner some good players could ensure a comfortable mid table season next year.

 

I'd rather see them fold and disappear, I accept that's not likely to happen next year, but I can dream.......

Interesting to see the whole of Leicester celebrating, many commentators in the media have made reference to it being a one club city and how that has helped the feel good factor be even better.

I have long been of the opinion we would be better of as a one club city....... I can but dream that Wally's tenure will lead to their demise.

10 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

If I replied like that after the Hull result I'd probably be banned on here.  So I stick to reasonable debate and no abuse, just discussion.  Many on OTIB can see that Rovers are doing well and perhaps finally, after so many years, are going places.  Wouldn't it be great to have both Bristol clubs doing well, in new stadiums, playing each other regularly in front of 25,000 crowds?  

No

Is it silly to be concerned we might still go down?  Another two or three defeats on the trot and I'll be bloody concerned, as it stands, I try and remain hopeful we'll stay up.  Not sure why really, the Championship is a farce, clubs getting parachute payments are going to be very difficult to overcome, the least that should happen is that clubs without parachute payments should be able to inject the equivalent in, without falling foul of financial regulations.

20 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

Fair play to Eubank Sr.  He saw the way Blackwell's head was swelling and told his son to direct shots to the body in the last rounds.  Could've saved a life there.

Before the 10th round, Eubank Snr also told his boy to finish him off, as he didn't want it going to a decision.  The point has been made on here, but it took a caller to R5L, before they considered that his corner also have <horrible modern phrase> a duty of care to their boxer.

7 hours ago, GazSaid said:

 

By the way I've always been here, I've not crawed out of the woodwork - i'm on my third otib username, it must ran by the tool in your avatar, because the mods seem to ban gasheads for innocuous posts.

 

 

 

That's not something that happens, but previously banned members returning under another name get banned again, so thanks for 'coming clean' and saving us the legwork.......  Bye.

25 minutes ago, bert tann said:

 

Would you like to add an investment in Bristol Rovers (1883) Ltd to your portaloo ?

 

I found a small cloth bag in the loft, it has a couple of Victorian pennies in it, a farthing, a thrupenny bit, a silver sixpence and a couple of French coins.  Not sure of the value, but I'd happily donate them to ensure the gift keeps giving for a few more days.......

35 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

I had one like that and am just waiting for the paperwork to arrive that confirms I now own 80% of the Nigerian oil industry. I`ve used my life savings and I`ve remortgaged my house to pay the processing fees but I reckon it will be worth it.

Hmm, maybe I missed a trick, I did receive a similar email myself several weeks ago, I screenshot it and put it on FB, quite a few of my 'friends' urged me to comply and send the requested processing fee and bank account details, I was a little busy at work and forgot, seems I may have wasted a huge opportunity............

1 hour ago, bert tann said:

 

 

This could mean the new investor has taken up a minority shareholding and could be outvoted by the current board and Geoffrey Dunford who will between them control 51% of the issued shares unless new shares have been issued.

If true it seems safe to assume the new investor is more likely to be an independent businessman rather than HH Prince Ali of Jordan himself and, having identified the undoubted business acumen of Nicholas and his colleagues, this person wishes them to remain in charge and look after his investment.    

There are rather a lot of these types of people in the Middle East and most of them don't wear the kind of vests you find at Marks & Spencer.

 

 

I am led to believe that the board of BRFC received an email from a Nigerian Princess, she has a fortune just waiting to be ploughed into a shabby, ragbag outfit.  To enable the funds to be brought into the country, board members had to gift her no small quantity of shares and the clubs bank account details for her to transfer the sum of $300M dollars.  Once this was done, she would give favours to the requisite officials to ease her passage to the UK and reclaim her money, leaving Piggs to see that she was a 18 stone transvestite all along, who was just after a visa for the UK.

22 minutes ago, billywedlock said:

 Everyone will scream, but Warnock on a 3 month contract with a big stay up bonus is as good as we are going to get right now.

I might scream if he had a 3 year contract, but one to the end of the season, with the sole intention of keeping us up, then no, I wouldn't scream, I'd agree with you. That gives months to find a permanent Manager for the summer (as permanent as football Managers are.....) with time for him to plan his signings and structure.

 

He's a better boxer than singer......

just saw this on Aunty Beeb's webpage, brought a wry smile to my face after some of the sags comments about Fredricks..... What goes round, comes round  

hello, yes, is that the Samaritans......... 

Have they no shame!!

No it won't. It'll be the end for Higgs though if they lose.

Yes, hence they are appealing appalling.

There, thats better

If you were a sag, would you really believe anything your board or Chairman told you anymore....... I struggle to see how they can fund an appeal and the risk of losing it.

Because losing your rivals would really make football more exciting... What was that about the sanitisation of modern football?

Do you really class them as rivals? I'm of the opinion that in the long term, it would be better if Bristol only had one team, I wouldn't expect any hardcore sags to swap sides if they were to go under, but long term, it would help with support and sponsorship.

I know, but if it amused 10% my work is done.

Shame the spelling wasn't right

Yours Pedantly

Shame? Come off it. My opinion is that Cotterill was a terrible appointment. There are loads of reasons for that, some of which aren't for the public domain, but there are two that are absolutely fundamental:1) His appointment was divisive. Before he was appointed a massive majority were against it and even after it was a done deal a large minority of fans still did not want him. The most divisive since Pulis or Osman.

There was a huge range of opinion on who we should have had, from keeping SO'D, to totally unrealistic expectations of poaching Managers from higher divisions. Warnock was being mooted by some as a walk on water saviour, by others opinion, it would be like inviting a demon from hell into the club.

Due to our tragic slide and continuing inability to stem this, I reckon even if SL had coaxed SAF out of retirement it would have been devisive, there was no one name that receieved even a majority opinion endorsing their appointment.

It probably didn't help that the club didn't go through a recruitment and selection process, with names being banded about in the media and fans conversations. That might have brought some unity of feeling towards the appointee, even if after a robust selection process it was Cotterill.

One last point, in my opinion, Pulis wasn't a devisive appointment, he was from the outset, unpopular with a majority and by the end, did he have any City fan left who would defend his appointment. All water under the bridge, but given his record since moving on from us, why was he yet another in a long list of Managers and Players whose careers seem to hit their low spot when joining us.

I couldn't believe the bowlers, unable to see through a couple of overs at the end, why do they find it so difficult to bowl a ball that requires a defensive stroke?

Lucky we avoided the follow on as if they had put us in again it would of been over in two days.

They had to make it last 3 days as the third day is 'pink' day, a cancer charity day.

Crazy decision to play two ashes tours so close together, R5 was reporting last night that England have played more tests recently than any other nation. Still poor to fold that easily, but ashes series 3 months apart!!