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13 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

Buses in Bristol on New Year's Day are running on a Sunday service. Whatever made you think otherwise.

If you live near Mem that's not a problem at all with several routes going down Gloucester Road from top of Muller Road.

New Years Day it's the airport buses only.

https://www.firstbus.co.uk/bristol-bath-and-west/plan-journey/travel-season/christmas-and-new-year-bus-services-20232024

It mentions in the article that this deal will replace iFollow for domestic customers. Does this mean Robins TV will only be available abroad? Or is every match not available anyway? I don't tend to use it so not really sure what matches are on and which aren't.

16 hours ago, Super said:

Why? We will be on twice at most I expect

4 out of 13 matches being shown every week means we will be affected more than twice I would have thought!

The way I saw it the only period they were really on top and in control was from our opening goal until half time.

The second half they sat back, timewasted and barely threatened us. They deserved to let those two goals in playing like that.

40 minutes ago, Leveller said:

I foolishly left it too late to get a ticket - despite having as ST.

However, I went and signed up on the West Ham website and have just bought tickets, which went on general sale at 2pm - no payment for membership required, just create an account.These are etickets which will be sent out seven days or so before the match.

Personally I dont mind being in the home areas and for £25 I've got tickets at the side of the stadium, where I prefer the view.

I had to put my address in (Somerset) but it doesnt seem to exclude by postcode or anything.

So if you missed out, there are plenty of tickets available, provided being in the away fans' area isnt crucial to you.

What they may do is crosscheck against City's database, so if your email is on there you might find your ticket withdrawn

7 hours ago, stortfordred said:

However that does create a problem for the fans who are over 12 and want to attend the odd game; they can never buy a ticket in a half empty ‘sold out’ stand 
it also means that the stand always looks half empty. 
There  needs to be a family area. Probably in the Lansdown which is where you can buy kids tickets. 
I’m not innocent myself because back in the day my kids had a season ticket but I only had one and therefore one had to stay at home. I wouldn’t have minded being shunted into a family area. 
 

Even longer ago there used to be a Saturday footballers season ticket. You were guaranteed the same seat and you could choose which 8 games you wished to attend. Rest of the time your seat was empty. Same problem but I guess we were in the third tier then so the club ere grateful for any money you could get. 
 

Need to encourage the kids but not at the cost of a half empty home end and subsequently no atmosphere. 

There IS a family area - South Stand end of the Lansdown, upper area.

The concourse has activities going on for kids, there are often injured players there signing autographs, The food kiosks are more kid orientated (pizza and the likes), there is a guess the attendance competition to win a signed teamsheet (my daughter still has hers from her first or second match). Plenty going on, the club make a pretty decent fist of it.

On the other hand, you do feel a little bit out of everything in the Lansdown upper.

I have no issue with kids tickets being sold anywhere around the ground, but do think the free shirt offer should be restricted to that area, otherwise it is possible to 'reserve' a seat next to yours in the SS by buying one for an effective price of £10 a season once you have cashed in the free shirt offer.

On 18/12/2023 at 11:22, spudski said:

Cycling on roads to commute I'm on board with. Also like you say, if cycle lanes are provided then use them. I'd actually make it law that cyclists have to use them if provided. 

What I'm not on board with...and this comes from me a recent ex cyclist, is the hypocrisy of using the roads built for commuting, for a form of racing. 

Lycra clad racers, in groups or clubs, clipped in, going as fast as possible, the majority trying to beat their personal best times on Garmin etc. 

Clogging up the road, often ignoring traffic laws. Often being dangerous. They don't want to slow down, don't want to unclip...focussed purely on personal best times. 

No insurance.

As someone who's been there and done it, knows how the community think, then imo it's madness. 

The lycra clad will also not use cycle lanes. 

Oh...and add Jeremy Vine to that. Worst cyclist in the world. 

For once Spud, we are in agreement!

Is there any other road user that is out there for the fun of it rather than trying to get somewhere?

If you want to cycle for lesiure go offroad you slow, wasting my time *****!

6 minutes ago, Super said:

Who?

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=lucy+charles+barclay

11 hours ago, Andy082005 said:

Anyone who has watched the full 90 minutes of that again has far to much time on their hands 

More time than me admittedly, but a really good and appreciated OP showing some things not included in the highlights that people may have missed and are well worth a mention.

@1960maaan - any chance of this becoming a regular Monday feature or do you do it already and I've missed them somehow?

2 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

I dunno what how long I have supported the club has to do with anything, a good 25 years as you asked. Not as long as you no doubt  but I've been a season ticket holder both in the Atyeo and as one of only 247 or something in the East End in the late 2000's.

As others have said its clear what's going on and you wouldn't find such a sparse home end at other clubs. No doubting your genuine reasons for not attending sometimes but South Stand season ticket holders appear to have more genuine reasons than any other set of fans anywhere.

No-one can get tickets in there due to people hoovering up cheap season tickets and then not attending often. I don't know why the club do it as I can guarantee they would make more money selling those seats to pay on the day'ers including groups who currently struggle to find seats together anywhere in the stadium.

The more I think about it, I think the main reason for the spaces aren't U12 ST's (though there may well be a handful not ever used), but more likely people buying a ticket in the cheaper South Stand and then finding empty seats in more expensive areas.

1 hour ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

... had a pop at Delia. Chucked a beer can at her car as she turnt up. She is 82.

At least when we roughed up one of the Nolans in 1984 she was in the mood for the prime of life (and it was Saturday night, which was fer fighting back then), not a pensioner. Which one was it? Not Bernie. The drummer?

Anyhow, Ipswich: top team, crap mob.

 

One of the strangest posts I have ever seen.

1 hour ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

He was excellent in Max and Paddy but I would sya that the problem with putting him onto QoS and Top Gear is that the BBC executive is misunderstanding, some would say patronising, the audience for each programme by thinking that they are watched by low brow working class people who would like to see one of their own presenting and think him ideal.

This is simialr to my memories of the absolute worst of children's TV where the execs reasoned that as kids were the audience then they would like to see a kid producing.  Usually some annoying precocious yet very amateurish twonk from the Anna Scher Stage School.  I give you: Why Don't You, Razzamatazz and (brace yourselves) Our Show.

When what we actually wanted was funny professional adult presenters like John Noakes, Johnny Ball and Brian Cant to whom youngsters could relate.

Top Gear was different as they couldn't really have kept Clarkson on but there was no sensible reason for replacing Sue Barker on QoS she was was ideal for the job.

 

For those younger souls who are fortunate enough not to have seen it, here is Our Show in all its unwatchable shambolic amateurness. 

Well done if you can make it to the minute mark without stopping it or throwing your screen / tablet / phone against the wall.

 

 

 

Never seen Max and Paddy which is why I just think he's a bit shit.

Broadly agree with the rest, apart from there was nothing wrong with Why Don't You? I quite enjoyed it when I saw it, though that would have been 40+ years ago now!

I think that, especially now that streaming has essentially taken over from Live TV for most people under 40 the BBC should have it's roles and responsibilties changed maybe.

Stop trying to produce generic entertainment programmes,soap operas, reality shows etc. and stick to real Public Broadcasting.

Continue with news, free to air sport, radio (especially local), things such as the World Service, the more niche output (documentaries that nobody else will make etc), but leave everything that is essentially profitmaking to the commercial broadcasters, be it ITV, Netflix or whatever.

In return for this the Licence fee should be scrapped but the BBC would be properly funded directly by the government. The Licence fee is only really a ringfenced tax anyway, so why not just fund them directly?

I'd quite like to see Ryan Searle do well

1 hour ago, pj76 said:

That's simple, but also shit. My kids don't want to sit in the family area. They want to sit in the dolman, not with the prawn sandwich brigade. They love hearing a good swear. They laugh at the guy who shouts "defend it" at every corner, for every game, every year. "What else are they going to do, Dad?" they say. 

Why can't they have a free shirt? 

Just get rid of the free shirt offer. £99 still very cheap. Be nice if we could actually buy a shirt though, stock levels are abysmal.

43 minutes ago, nickolas said:

But my son will like to sit in the Dolman with me, listening to the pr1ck behind me still not understanding the offside rule. .
Its good education for my 7 year old to understand how stupid a single adult can actually be!

I did say sell kids tickets anywhere, just limit the free shirt to the family area.

£50 is still amazing value for their ST, free shirt or no free shirt.

6 minutes ago, Pezo said:

What's the problem? We don't sell out, It's not like people are locked out is it?

Most games it is virtually impossible to buy more than single seats in the SS 2 or 3 days before the match - Take a look, there is one ticket available in one of the corners for tomorrow, that is it.

There is a good 10-20% of the seats empty virtually every match, not a good look and doesn't help the atmosphere

I should also add that I think a lot of people buy SS tickets because they are the cheapest, then go and find empty seats in the Lansdown or Dolman. That is an altogether trickier problem to fix.

6 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

My solution to this is that if a STH fails to attend X amount of home games (without a good reason) then they forfeit their seat. 

I simply refuse to believe that we have 1000s buying adult season tickets and then not attending. 

These empty seats are kid STs..

The solution is incredibly simple, make the free shirt offer that goes with U12 tickets apply to the family area in the Upper Lansdown only.

Still sell kids tickets elsewhere, just no free shirt unless it's in the family area.

1 minute ago, Tomo said:

Pm me

Please tell me that's not an unwanted ticket being shifted already!

37 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

If we get to the premier league, lots of those child season tickets will get upgraded to adult season tickets. 

You don't need to provide a birth certificate or any proof that the child even exists.

People are basically buying these cheap kids season tickets so they can secure priority on away tickets and have a spare seat for if we go up. 

I think it's something like 50 quid for a child's season ticket? Adult shirt costs 50 quid so essentially they are just paying the 15 quid to secure that ST which is less than a membership. 

Annoys me cos I'd quite like to move seats but none available despite the vast amounts of empty seats. 

Yea it's totally wrong but people do it. It seems like the club isn't going to allow upgrades and that's good but it will mean lots of empty seats because people chanced it. So therefore people like you miss out. 

I hope you're able to secure a ticket. 

 

You do need to provide a birth certificate, or at least you used to. Had to do it for both my kids when they had U12 STs. That was 4-5 years ago now though

If anyone listens to podcasts, this weeks episode of Sherlock & Co contains a dig at the fewers. Can't remember it exactly but it was part of a speech about how we all need human community, and if we get it via supporting a football team then that is fine, unless it's Bristol r****s!

The next line references the speaker as a Swindon fan, but at least his heart is in the right place....

On 12/12/2023 at 22:15, Ivorguy said:

If I was him I would get my Agent to ask for a transfer this January.  What is the point of him staying. We will never be promotion candidates under Manning

This has to be the most un-football fan comment I have ever seen on here.

I believe you've been following City a fair few years. Surely you know that hope triumphs over adversity every time!

7 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

Easy, count the legs and divide by two !

Is that going to work? Well known fact that over half of their fans have an above average number of legs!

1 hour ago, Superjack said:

I don't want to argue with you, because your stance is of course admirable. 

But you must surely see that even if the vision you describe doesn't totally materialise, we have people in power at the club that will give it the best chance. 

With the greatest of respect and sympathy, you seem to be one of the supporters that facilitate the Lansdown's agenda.

What agenda might that be?

21 hours ago, Erithacus said:

I passed my test a year after you, PSR, and also have the 'paper' licence. It still amuses/frustrates me when I have to provide it for the bank or whatever and the spotty clerk is dumbfounded. They don't realise that they don't have a photograph inset and can't work out what else to do. I've lost years off my life trying to get anything sorted at times.

Looking at the official Government website it looks like the DVLC at Swansea was set up in 1965 taking over licence issue from county or borough councils. The new green paper format was introduced on 1st March, 1973 (there were about 20 million drivers then).

The hassle will be over soon, you'll have to renew and get a card licence at 70 and you can't be far off that now

13 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

Red button is having a meltdown (Virgin, rather than direct through Sky) 

Red button working OK, but a similar issue to the last time we were on there, every few seconds the picture freezes very briefly and then everyone runs around comically quickly as the picture catches up again