Merrick's Marvels

5 minutes ago, Wealwayseatcheese said:

Thank the lord that self loving self righteous wage stealing bellwhiff is out of our club. Onwards and upwards 

I always enjoy learning new insults, so thanks for this.

Bellwhiff, indeed. 

19 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

 

George Ferguson didn’t object to City moving to Ashton Vale, he objected to a Sainsbury’s supermarket being built at Ashton Gate. He proposed some other development, but never actually offered to buy the ground to facilitate thus development. He’s now one of the people objecting to Bristol Zoo selling its current site for housing to enable it to move to Cribbs Causeway. Again, he likes an alternative option for the site but isn’t actually putting up any cash. He’s full of “brilliant” ideas as long as someone else pays 

It's not his responsibility to fund anything. But as someone with an interest and a degree of expertise in town planning and regeneration, he's entitled to suggest alternative uses for the zoo's current site if in his view, and it's a view worth respecting (though not necessarily agreeing with) given his knowledge of the subject matter, there are better options than housing. 

To suggest you can't object to the zoo becoming flats, or any other planning proposal for that matter, unless you have the funds to pay for an alternative is absurd.    

I'm sure you can see that, so can only assume you just don't like Ferguson. Which is fair enough but just say so. 

As if the last two and a half thousand pages doesn't prove what a bunch of oddballs (to put it mildly) they are, we now get this!

Official confirmation.

You really couldn't make it up, the gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving.  

Truly, our cup runneth over with hilarity and, boy, do we love a glass of schadenfraude. 

16 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Put Semenyo in the right set up and I think he’s quite capable of scoring 20 goals next season.  I wouldn’t consider selling him for a moment, but if he did go I would be very disappointed if he went for anything less than £10m.  But what I’d really like to see is us build a team around him, because I believe he’s going to surprise a lot of you.

I completely disagree but there we are, that's life

As others here have said, he's not actually a natural footballer. He's an athlete with a well developed physique for his age who happens to play football. So he's just not my type, I'm afraid.

9 hours ago, JoeAman08 said:

Pretty sure he has multiple years left on his deal. Risk it and if he scores 10-15 he is worth more than 3-5m even with a year left. He isn’t a great finisher at the minute and may never be. That said, he gets into good positions often and a bit more composure his goal return could easily go up. We have finally developed him into a championship player, so why sell him? We sell too early too often. Let’s build around some of these players for once. 

We sell because we can get a better replacement, in the current market. Maybe more than one. Players who aren't learning on the job and who can fill a specific role immediately - what is Semenyo? A winger, a wide forward, a centre forward? Right here, right now we don't have the time to wait and found out, given the mess we're in.

In a way, he would be a victim of our circumstances if we decided to sell him, although moving to the Premier League would hardly be a hardship.

Personally, I'd sell because I find the idea of Semenyo ever scoring 10-15 goals fanciful in the extreme. 

Yes please. Goodbye, good luck. 

Not saying he won't have a career, he's just not what we need right here, right now. 

8 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

going to get laughed at... by the other half of the city... who? us? surely not 

"half"?????  say that in Nottingham or Stoke, do they??

wake up, you deluded morons - this city is ours, now f!ck off out of it 

13 minutes ago, 054123 said:

It’s too nice a place.

 

I wanted to reply Bournemouth, Norwich, Brighton, Fulham... but there are a lot of sh!thole places in the top two divisions, aren't there?

So basically, we're fooked and might as well give up?

14 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

I remember being frozen at a home game against Wednesday on a Saturday afternoon.

I had a Saturday job on Park Street and because it had started snowing there was next to no shoppers out and about, so come 1pm, you can go home.

A 99p Micky Finns lunchbox and off to the gate I head. In jogging trousers and a t-shirt.

No idea what the score was, just remember spending a fortune on Bovril. (Might have been a draw, I do remember they got the orange ball out).

11 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

I was stood on the Open End for that match. My mates went home at half time as it was so unbelievably ******* cold but for some reason I decided to stay despite not being able to feel my feet. 

Ive never been so freezing in my life before or since.

We drew 1-1.

Martin Scott man of the match on his City debut.

Nigel Pearson in defence for the visitors, Danny Wilson their goalscorer.  In fact Sheff Wed scored both the goals that day. 

27 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

It does for the teams that go down

14 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

It did in the “Colin Daniel” season..

You don’t have to follow that level too closely to realise they are effing awful, they drew with Wigan when they had to put out a youth side, then under Barton they lost at home to them, drew at home to Wimbledon when they were bottom, lost on Saturday to Plymouth (who had lost their previous 5) & now Swindon have done the double over them.

Barton has lost 7 out of his 10 games in charge, 7 points from 30 is not relegation form, it is 24th place form.

Stop getting my hopes up. 

7 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Ipswich, Sunderland, Doncaster, Portsmouth, Lincoln to come

We both know football doesn't work like that (well, at least 9 times out of 10 it doesn't...  ). 

47 minutes ago, Rich said:

Apart from a few unpopular city centre pubs back in the 70's, yes. The Bank, The Prince Rupert and the Mailcoach. Don't think I've missed any out.

Just out of interest, and because I've never heard this before, why were these pubs considered "Blue". 

29 minutes ago, phantom said:

Nice touch during the minutes silence in memory of John Pullin 

 

 

 

Thanks

Black armbands aren't a tradition in rugby but I trust the death of John Pullin, announced today, is marked in some way.

 Bristol captain. England captain. British Lion. World class player.

Legend. 

RIP, sir.

17 minutes ago, 77 punk said:

and shrewsbury coming up

I'd be confident of a convincing Shrews win if Cotts was fit. Sadly, that seems unlikely.

Would give Wilbs a chance of more heroics, though! 

13 minutes ago, 77 punk said:

we want 9 !

Only 9???

46 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

A lot of it is down to Willis, when he starts they win more often than not.

I do feel they get away with a lot at the breakdown, but fair play to them. 

You should have seen Dallaglio play - constantly offside at ruck and maul while simultaneously telling the ref how to ref.

T w a t (not when playing for England though, obviously).

5 hours ago, Midred said:

Wow! 34 - 5, was that Exeter's 5th team?

Not quite but virtually a second string pack and also without their 2 best backs. Wasps at full strength, I think.

All teams do it - occasionally "sacrifice" a fixture to rest key players. It's a brutal game these days.

36 minutes ago, RedRock said:

Am I allowed to say I enjoy watching Bristol Rugby more than watching City?

 

Indeed, this thought occurred after the Clermont game. The disparity between Mr Lansdown's two "products" is startling, isn't it 

44 minutes ago, Midred said:

 

22 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

How the **** didnt we get a penalty when tom ritchie was blatantly fouled in the box ill never know.... I was there

Tom Ritchie doesn't know either, I can tell you that for sure. 

13 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said:

They have been long ball merchants all my life.

 

You've clearly not seen the goal they scored at the weekend then - we'd have been delighted with that one.

I'd agree they've been more successful in recent times with a basic style than when attempting to play "properly" - Dobson was a disaster following on from the thugball hoofing of Jabba the Hut Francis and I suspect the already legendary Garner went wrong by trying to play "too much" football with the resources available to him. 

I also have a gut feeling that Tisdale, if it's he, will do just fine there.   

1 hour ago, CyderInACan said:

Yeah I agree - BUT they won the league knowing they'd have to win 2 more games to be crowned as champions. So nothing has changed. AND this was in the rules when the league restarted. PLUS I have never forgiven them for that win down here 2 years ago. 

Maybe I don't agree after all . . . 

Agree entirely with all that. Just can't stand any sport where the best team over the course of a season - and Exeter have been - need to subject themselves to an additional knock out series in which they might not be "champions" after all. Seems to be against natural justice, that's all.

Believe me, I've no great love for them - I was there the night they beat us to win the play offs even though we'd won the league by 4 points and, if memory serves (but might not), we'd beaten them home and away in doing so. Not the best night out, that one. 

I respect what they've achieved since then, certainly, although the way they play bores the arse off me. 

50 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:

I don't really agree with it, but it would give us a shot at the double! 

Exeter best team. Just give it to them. It's like asking Liverpool to go through a play off system last season to be confirmed as Champs. Ridiculous. And all just for bloody TV.  

5 minutes ago, sludge said:

That’ll cheer up the blue few

They'll  probably write a letter of complaint to someone about it.

T W @ S.