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I somehow got 5 correct, despite deliberately trying to get zero!

At least Tranmere are doing their bit

I believe temoperatures above 25 degrees kill it off, so just hoping for a decent summer!

6 minutes ago, BS2 Red said:

Your racism is appalling.  And does our entire club a disservice. With the recent increased focus on racism in football, I hope you stay away from Ashton Gate and don't drag us all down to your disgusting level.

Not entirely sure jumping down his throat publicly was the best way to deal with that?

Maybe pointing out the racist remark (made by a non native English speaker) and letting him see the error of his ways would be more positive?

I was under the impression that the mem was worth £10-12million - it seems to be accepted wisdom over on gaschat that it is worth upwards of £25million now?

8 minutes ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

there are grounds in the Conference South in better shape than the Minimal 'Stadium' (a term that must contravene the Trades Description Act or something).  Anyone who believes they are a bigger club than those aforementioned should seek medical advice immediately (there are bigger clubs in League 2)

It was only the fewers that started calling it a stadium when they gatecrashed their way in, it was the Memorial GROUND until that point.

21 hours ago, fatchers said:

If the women's team continue to improve on their attendances that would make the Chernobyl residents Bristol 4th team. 

The City Women's team overtaking the fewers on average attendance would almost be worth them not going out of business for.

RIP. His testimonial in 1977 was the first match I ever saw live. It was a school trip.

31 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

I think what bothers me more than 'poverty on a plate' is the placement of the ketchup.

Am I the only one who thinks it should be up by whatever food those letters are supposed to represent?

It should certainly be at the edge of the plate, rather than in the middle to my mind.

If they did come up you would have to be reasonably confident of the Gap surviving the season.

The derbies being back would be nice, but it would be terrible to lose the Gap just because they scabbed a draw at home on the first day of the season and we were the TV match in the evening or something.

On 18/09/2019 at 19:11, TomF said:

At the police HQ open day on Sunday at Portishead I saw kid after kid wearing City Shirt.  I saw nobody wearing a Rovers one. Then again the open day did include horses and dogs so they were probably bared from attending

Football shirts spotted at school open day in Weston today - City 3, Liverpool 1, Barcelona 1.

We are quietly building a very strong support base amongst kids in the area.

Just hope Banton plays a bit more sensibly than the 1st innings.....

1 hour ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

I think other than a spell in the 50's this is the longest period we have not played them!

January 68 - December 74 appears to be the longest gap without a match between us in any competition.

1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I hadn't thought of that! Thank you, that's cheered me up no end

I followed someone out of the ground yesterday with Miah as the name printed on their City shirt - you seen the light?

I see the excuse for the sub-10000 crowd on Saturday was the fact that POTD attendees had to buy tickets at the ticket office portakabin rather than cash on the turnstiles. Must have been so confusing for the poor dears.

3 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Does anyone else find it strange that we have signed 3 former Chelsea players on permanent deals and the Fewers haven't signed any?

Give that Wally is a massive Chelsea fan (with connections, apparently), and given just how wealthy he is, I am amazed they weren't in the frame.

Seriously though, I do recall the Fewers expecting to take Chelsea youth players on loan, thanks to a special relationship.

I thought they had a couple the season we had Tammy? Didn't work out too well as I recall

15 minutes ago, paul_fox said:

Bury? What on earth have we done to them

Maybe they asked Nicky Maynard?

I would be interested to know just how wide your social circle would need to be to meet three people that moved to Bristol for work, decided to go to both Bristol clubs before choosing one to follow and then all chose the ramshackle bunch.

That Henbury bloke must meet a lot of people!

You see amateur teams playing hockey/rugby etc around various parks wearing blue and white quarters quite often, so I can't imagine it's a template that takes any longer than other kits to produce.

The last place I ever saw with attendants was a petrol station in Leytonstone in the late 90s.

Although there you had to pay them first and they existed purely to stop people trying to do a runner!

1 minute ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

(An explanation for people under the age of fifty. A Petrol Pump Attendant added petrol to a motor vehicle while its driver went to pay).

Or whilst the driver sat in the car and paid through the window.

Does that story really quote their manager as saying their training ground isn't up to Pre-season?

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35 minutes ago, Loon plage said:

My point is Rich that we have an incident of some kids with a spray can which unfortunately happens all over Bristol, usually affecting normal people far more often than FV yet on this occasion because its the rovers ground and the words "csf" are sprayed it's deemed newsworthy to the extent that a well known chap puts out a massively tongue in cheek "statement" that the Bristol Post and gasheads actually consider some kind of formal announcement.

Now that I agree with, but it has bugger all to do with football violence (tenuous csf link aside)

Graffiti like that is common in many places around all cities and barely raises comment. This was blown out of proportion agreed.

12 hours ago, Loon plage said:

To be honest, they effect nobody who thinks the same way as you in any manner whatsoever do they.

They are therefore irrelevant to you surely as I am not aware of anything occurring home or away associated directly with the so called CSF.

Football violence affects all football fans directly - why do you think normal fans are treated differently by government, police etc to every other sport?