Port Said Red

Not any longer. But still in touch.

I am really pleased for Rob, it will have been 8 days shy of a year out. I know he had that 45 minutes in November, but I am sure he would have expected to have been back before now. He has been in full training since 28th Jan, so he's probably more prepared than you might think. He's been through a lot away from football too, (sorry to be so mysterious) so I am sure he is itching to get back tomorrow.

Would be good wouldn't it? Naisy looks more likely, there is another U21's game on Tuesday, so that's an option as well as the first team bench.

Starting for U21's tomorrow, let's hope it all goes well and they available for 1st team action soon. More to come too.

It doesn't seem to be affecting attendances though, streaming might be effecting Sky, BT etc, but the numbers in the ground continue to increase.

Ah right, that was another "port" @Portland Bill he's answered your point above I think?

Did you mean to tag me here? I haven't followed any of those sports. I am new to basketball and they don't really have a sin bin as such. A player can be "sent off" for 5 personal fouls, but it doesn't reduce the team numbers, just the options for making changes. Coaches seem to use there own sin bin approach though and will take a player out if they are 3 or 4 fouls, and reintroduce them in the final minutes, reducing the risk of losing them completely.

I don't know how you can say that the game is on the decline because it's attracting more fans from a different demographic than before. That's a good thing isn't it? Of course the game may be losing some people (e.g. single males over 45) I don't know, but they/we aren't the future of the game. If your personal interest, or the interest levels of your friends is declining, I don't think that's indicative of the sport as a whole.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/686981/football-aggregate-attendance-by-league-united-kingdom/

I thought attendances were on the up? Every club is trying to increase it's capacity in some way.

That's bizarre. Is there an issue with the colour of the barrier and the background we can't see? Amazed no one was seriously hurt.

Unnecessary, the one thing that took me out of the nostalgia was sitting playing cards on my laptop.

I have just watched the highlights on a bigger screen and it seems to me that the defender does just enough to shepherd Wells beyond the ball so that he is ahead of it when it comes across. Should really have still scored though.

I listened to the 5Live Sports extra broadcast which was actually Radio Nottingham's commentary and it was very good. Apart from the odd mention of "we" the commentary was really fair and they weren't one-eyed at all. The commentator had really done his homework and knew a lot about individual players, and he called us "City" throughout. Steve Sutton was the summariser and he was a little more biased, but really impressed with Max, he did call us "Bristol" a lot though he did correct himself at times. At @Davefevs is right, it was a bit like the old days. I even had the lights off, so it felt like the days of the "3 day week".

You do realise we wouldn't have got to a shoot out if it wasn't for Sam's great defending, and that he set up Nakhi for what should have been the winner?

Unlucky Anis

I thought Bak might start, but for those who have suggested that recent signings mean that the Academy isn't all that, I have seen almost all those players playing and looking good for the U21's and several have already made the 1st team bench at least. That's pretty impressive for an U18s side.

I am around at my father in law's setting up his laptop for him. Knowing that he is a Gashead I thought I would set up their official site for him. I noticed that on top of the airbrushing of Jamie MacAllister, they also seem to have selective match reporting, you wouldn't even know they played Fleetwood last night, let alone the ignominious defeat.

I think it's worse these days with social media. Someone picks up on that post here and posts it on one or two of the other outlets, that gets picked up again and recycled back on here and all of a sudden it's a "fact" that he has a "bad attitude". It then becomes difficult for him to prove that wrong.

You might not know them by name, but A Punk was probably the most used promo music around for ages, on TV and radio. Very "percussive" band, I have always liked how every instrument and even the vocals at times seem to have a beat to them.

No?

I thought that was some sort of gay porn fantasy for a minute!! Neil not not kneel.

I think the venue may be the issue. They will want to let the lad get settled in Bristol and a 600 mile round trip with lads he mostly doesn't know wouldn't help that. I don't know where the story of Yeboah having an attitude problem comes from, it's the opposite from what I have been told. He is only playing for U18'S Wednesday because they want to have their best chances of progressing in the youth cup.

I don't know how many Vampire Weekend fans there are in here. I would say 3, but if I am wrong I Stand Corrected.