And Its Smith

Those prices are at least a 30% reduction in real terms since 2007. 

I’m delighted to share two webinars from up and coming young football coach, Lee Johnson

In the first one Lee will take you through recruitment, club structure and the interview process 

In this second edition, you will be educated on building a game model, methodology and developing young players.  

Please note that this is may be too highbrow for some and if you cannot follow it or it makes no sense at all, that is on you and not Lee.   

People acting as if Nike just released this kit without any say from anyone else! 

33 minutes ago, BigTone said:

I think he's referring to a Robins TV subscription and the restrictions on getting games if UK based

Hardly an insurmountable issue.  If you need help @David Brent just DM me

5 hours ago, David Brent said:

London is in the UK 

What a strange post 

23 minutes ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Respect to those who live locally and this is by no means a competition or remark on other fans, I’m a Bristolian from birth but haven’t lived there for a good 20 odd years and unlikely to ever move back. That said I am a season ticket holder of over 30 years yet feel frustrated in many aspects. 

Well I guess to start with, it costs probably £100 a home game without season ticket, so every game is an away game, six hour round trip, yet you don’t feel you get plaudits for that or recognition, believe me it ruins your Saturday more than a 20 min drive home (I’ve done both and for sure it hurts more as you sit on the journey mulling it over and get home late!). 

You get the odd ‘home’ game in London fair enough, but you still pay for your match ticket and travel! 

You can’t even listen to City on Radio Bristol without paying! Because you are a city fan who doesn’t live in the area….I mean how unfair is that?! So if you can’t make a game as an exile you are essentially out of pocket either way. A local fan who cannot make it can pass the time by switching on local radio. 

Basically I think us exiled fans deserve a form of loyalty! Now whether that’s loyalty points for distance travelled overall, discount off merchandise, or a free home shirt, but minimum allow exiled ST holders free radio commentary coverage! 

I could easily get a season ticket at Arsenal tomorrow or West Ham. But they aren’t my club, City are, however I probably spend more than a season ticket at both those clubs combined to watch Champ football at AG. So, what can be done to encourage that and commend those supporters (many I know on here) who commit huge amounts of time and money to get to home games, plus the fact travel away most weeks too. Interesting debate, appreciate life is about choices, but some are enforced too and one thing we cannot lose is our first love - our football club! 

You can watch every game from the comfort of your own home for £25 per month.  That’s incredible value. Beats a free shirt any day. 

Up the wales 

People pretending to be outraged is hilarious.  

Snowflakes upset again I see 

When he signed for us he would have known there was a chance this would happen. Let’s not pretend a lot of it will be money based 

5 minutes ago, LoyalRed said:

I couldn't see us buying a player from Derby and then loaning him back to them for the rest of the season, but it happened.  I can see the player being extremely demotivated though if Derby to get promoted, he would want to stay with them where they have the momentum.  

Maybe but the transfer won’t be reversed. Clubs loan players back all the time. A cancelled transfer….has that ever happened ?

Bet on Portsmouth so that’s looking good!  Other than that, I’d like two smaller clubs to come up and struggle so we don’t go down!  

3 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

Max Bird getting promoted automatically with his childhood club and then joining a distant team with no greater prospects  

I can see some money changing hands and the transfer cancelled to avoid us having a greatly demotivated player

I cannot see that happening whatsoever. Would be completely unprecedented 

48 minutes ago, Robbored said:

You don’t know much about MI6 then - everything is based on deception and bluff including all spies and their families having pseudonyms to protect their true identity.

It’s fictional!  In one of the books his father is named! The book isn’t an MI6 manual!

2 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Sorry but someone has to tell you Smith - James Bond is a fictional character invented by Ian Fleming.

Yes I know that.  Read the books and you will learn that it is his real name.  Fictional characters have fictional families.  

9 hours ago, Robbored said:

Bond is a spy so James Bond would be  a pseudonym which means the real name of 007 is a mystery.

This isn’t true. His father is Andrew Bond which implies James Bond is his real name 

23 minutes ago, Red Skin said:

So in the last 10 years out of 30 teams promoted how many have stayed up and cemented a place in the PL?   I really don't think it's many.   Those that do stay up are usually at the bottom of the league. And out of those 30 they'll be a fair few yoyo clubs so featured many times.  Every season the bookies and pundits all have the promoted teams as most likely to go down again.  I haven't looked at the stats, but I think what I've said is generally the case. 

13 out of 30 have gone down I believe. You said very few exceptions which is what I disagreed with. Over 50% have stayed up which means they have competed 

1 minute ago, MarcusX said:

Isn't this said because even the bottom place finish gets £100m if they go down? So they don't get that upfront to improve their squad

Nobody buys a player paying the full fee up front nowadays. 

40 minutes ago, Red Skin said:

And yet all promoted clubs fail to compete with very few exceptions. 

I disagree here. Out of the last 10 teams to win the championship, only 3 have gone down the following season. 5 of the last 10 runners up have stayed up.  Only 2 of the last 6 play off winners have been relegated.  

They get £150m  golden hello already.  Seems enough to me 

Just now, Kid in the Riot said:

Either way, it's surely completely obvious that Manning does have 8 games to save his job?

 

Probably but he’s not getting emotional about it 

Ian Gay’s 8 game comment could easily just be his opinion rather than something Tinnion has told him. The text didn’t say anything about sources and can be read as opinion if wished.  Think conclusions might have been jumped too here 

The clubs twitter feed celebrating each renewal one by one isn’t the great look they think it is. Small time attitude 

Cloud cuckoo land 

30 minutes ago, David Brent said:

Free transfers aren’t ‘free’ 

It’s still us spending money 

It’s a forum and the thread will move with debate. No issues if people want to talk about the frees as well