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So we take their players, they take our songs.

What a season that was. Simon Jordan’s Crystal Palace away in the playoffs. Not sure that will ever be beaten. (Wasn’t at Manchester U at home mind).

Couldn’t finish his dinner today. Keep an eye on him though, by all means

Watched all the 1st half on RTV. Not bad given the circumstances and Colin, could be worse, they’re probably gonna get a player sent off. We need to switch it quicker and shoot, test the effing keeper. Toe punts are underrated.

Just seen we’ve bagged a sleeve sponsor for tonight in addition to the safari park one. Any idea how much these will get us, or is the safari one a freebie as it’s a charity? I’m not saying it is a charity, it just looked like one based on the headline. Also, what sort of overall revenue can we expect?

I’d rather see Bell get big game experience.

That’s a shame. Teach ‘em young I say! Mind you, this as a policy would discriminate against people without 6 year old grandsons ?

Which “singing section”? Mistake me if I’m wrong but if there were no checks at the top of the steps, wouldn’t you be able to sit anywhere in the Dolman or South Stand? Just thinking she’s checking to make sure people are in the correct block/seat. The turnstiles nowadays are probably just to make sure you’re in the correct stadium/stand on the correct day.

Brilliant!

What about the window for loans. Does that slam shut on Tuesday as well?

Fair enough. As an expat I’ve watched 90% of all our league and cup games over the last few seasons on telly and can’t say I’ve ever seen or heard other fans taking the piss of that song. Could be different coverage to what you see on sky though. But even if they were, who cares? Opposition fans will take the piss out of anything and everything, that’s their/ our job :laugh:. The fact that they probably don’t realise it started as a piss take makes it funnier IMO.

Not me Steve.

Disagree. This sounded great on the telly. I think it started as a piss take to the MLS iirc. I like it because it’s a slower chant. Sometimes I think we can sing too them too fast. It’s definitely one of those that would sound good when the whole stadium gets involved. Each to their own of course.

Must admit I do like the idea of one lad with a megaphone and a couple of orchestrators. Seemed to work well a while back in s82

Unbeaten in 7 and 2023, shall we re-run that poll from a few weeks back? Or how about this for next week to the tune of “I see the east end rising”: We’ve got Super Nigel Pearson, He knows exactly what we need, Vyner at the back, Belly in attack, Nige’ll take us to the Premier League! Too soon!? ?

Didn’t know he was that reliable. Appreciate the insight ??

So hypothetically, if they wanted to encourage the player to go to them would they not offer us more to assist with the encouragement? Hope that makes sense…. I mean Palace give us a bit more dollar to nudge him towards Palace. We can say “Tony me old luv, show us a tiny bit of loyalty, and go to Palace because they offered us more” that sort of thing. I’m also assuming palace would match AFCBs player contract offer or better it

Are Palarse out of the picture now then? Just heard that Naouirou Ahamada has turned them down, although he’s a midfielder. The beeb are also saying Viera is frustrated with the lack of activity. Am I clutching at straws by hoping for a “Palace swoop for Semenyo” headline? What are the legals, can we accept more than one bid?

I’d hazard a guess that it was to do with Tommy being on a good run at the time, and Nige not wanting to disrupt that. If memory serves, we’ve not seen a great deal of the two of them in the same starting XI. I think we were about to were it not for Tommy getting injured. The thought of the two of them on the same pitch, in top form… sheesh. I genuinely believe that would scare the living shit out of any defence in this league.

Have a feeling that getting Network Rail’s backing will be the tough one.

I could tell you were involved somehow. Really interesting insight to midfield dynamics. Hope you get chance to further pursue your interests. I too am interested in coaching. I see friends coaching their kids and am very tempted to give it a whirl someday.

Why not try Naismith in midfield. He’s a good ball carrier after all. When we were going through our leaky spell I often wondered what it would be like having him at holding mid or vyner for that matter. Either way good that Nige spotted it but should have seen it before HT

Incredible post this. Tried playing centre mid once, ended up running around in circles not having a clue where I was supposed to be. Out wide was much more my comfort zone. Different breed players like James, and yourself based on the way this is written.

Why don’t they put gates at the bottom of that top tier in the Atyeo and block off the first and last blocks!???

Being a life long Bristol City fan will make this a walk in the park in terms of resiliency. Good work digging deep today though. Hope you stayed for the 2nd half because that alone was worth the price of the ticket.