beaverface

9 minutes ago, 2015 said:

I do like the Wrexham story and what the owners have done regarding the local community and they are genuine for sure.
I just think it's a shame that Notts County who by comparison don't have anywhere near that money are going to be pipped to automatic promotion with 100+ points. Really hope if they don't make it they go up in the playoffs as they very much deserve it.

Given the side that are now going up and down each season, I think the league should consider 2 automatics and 1 play off winner promotions. Like you say, to get over 100 points and still not go up isn't right.

17 hours ago, myol'man said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-rovers-report-record-losses-8323652

So with the amount of loan players they have, I'm assuming that they don't particularly have any players to cash in on, except maybe their striker, Aaron Collins is it?

19 hours ago, JP Hampton said:

You never see players surrounding Rugby  officials. It’s never been tolerated so it doesn’t exist.
 

 A sin bin equivalent wouldn’t be a bad idea. 

What I'd like to know is what would happen if a rugby player did overstep the mark and man-handled a referee in Rugby - whats the punishment likely to be?

At the moment, there's this so-called respect, but you only want one player to overstep the mark, so what would the rugby authorities dish out as a punishment to uphold that respect?

2 hours ago, ralphindevon said:

Ah ok. The voucher is in my wallet, it has been from the start but it just comes with a unique code which doesn’t work in the Promo code box and doesn’t have a pin to go in the gift card box. And the fact they said wait for an email makes me think this isn’t it. 

Have you used yours? And if so what format is the code in? 

I've not used it yet. I haven't decided which cuddly toy, that I as a middle man, wants to buy just yet. Although I am torn between that and a calendar with 8months left !

11 hours ago, ralphindevon said:

As the points are expiring soon I thought I’d get a £5 voucher with some of my points, I would have had more but soon realised you’re only allowed one.

Anyway, I thought I’d reserve something so I could pick it up on the following day, Saturday.

A unique code appeared once I’d done the transaction but this didn’t seem to work anywhere, then I read it may take 2 weeks for the code to be emailed!

Eh? I must be doing something wrong, a code should be generated immediately surely? It’s just a code it’s not stock. Anyway I still haven’t had it but I can’t help thinking that unique code is it and I’m doing something wrong.

Anyone else bought a £5 voucher with their points? 

I went through the same. Bought a £5 voucher weeks ago, and didn't receive an email.

During all the faff I've been describing over the last day or so, I clicked on my name in the top right corner, and then clicked on Wallet...........the £5 voucher code is there.

8 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

I take that back just checked and the bobble hats are now available. Better than last years mug I suppose.

I notice they're not allowing us to get the decent bobble hats!

44 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

Totally agree, however I saw the sideline jacket for several days ,like you. Tried a medium jacket on in the shop on Saturday and it was a bit tight as I'm normally a large. Clicked on the Rewards mid morning and there it was so grabbed it. Straight afterwards checked my daughters account and the jacket was sold out, so guessing only 1 or 2 available which is poor.

If when it arrives it really is too small for me I will give you a shout.

Sir Geoff, that's really kind of you, and I really appreciate your gesture, but ultimately though, I can live without the jacket.

I just felt the need to rant and have the ear of likeminded fans who equally share my frustrations at the way the club treats us with disdain and attempts to throw us a bone in the form of left over dregs or sell & return stock that they can't do anything with. 

Just thought I'd have another rant about the crap rewards scheme.

I've literally had the portal open in a browser tab for a few days now. Every so often I'd take a look as I particularly liked the idea of getting my son the City Sideline Jacket in Medium, but for the last week (including yesterday) it was marked as "coming soon"

In the last few minutes I've received an email from the club saying that there are new items added to the portal, and lo and behold, guess which item is Sold Out already???

What the hell are we meant to do? Are we expected to constantly sit at a keyboard pressing F5 hoping that we stumble on the availability of an item before someone else grabs it??

It blatantly seems to me that their offloading old stock, whereby they're probably waiting for a single item to be returned or not collected before they put it on the portal, but seriously, how many of these items are they actually putting on there?

Oh well, back to pressing F5 in the hope of getting "another" keyring or bottle opener, or maybe a lanyard that any company worth their salt wouldn't allow for security reasons !!!

4 hours ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

Surely if they are charging 3 % over base rate that's making a profit. So that's greed. Saving the football club is just a front for profit. 

In this instance, isn't a win-win? Wrexham are top of the league on the cusp of going up, and the owners get a return on their money.

4 hours ago, Countryfile said:

I will be amazed if they play all home games at AG, the pitch as we will see later today is taking a hammering and to play an additional 20 plus games on it is asking a lot, and when would they play? Playing games Friday, Saturday and Sunday consecutively seems unlikely.

Bath is also unlikely as they have a women’s team themselves, so I’d agree with Weston where our U23 team played a lot of matches recently, if it meets the standard for men’s u23(21) then it will almost certainly meet the standard for WSL.

Does anyone know if there's the option to extend the capacity of the HPC? For example, literally putting two or three steps of terracing either behind the goals or down the dug out side of the pitch, I'm sure they could easily get a capacity of a couple of thousand by doing so.

1 hour ago, NOTBLUE said:

What sort of person are you,just when ‘Right Dick Head’ had been erased from my memory,you post that .

Try erasing it with this instead....

On 29/03/2023 at 16:15, The Humble Realist said:

It's good to raise awareness but it's pretty flaky to be honest. The industry and world.needs to change. 

 

We score 3 out of 3 for transport but the team flys to away games and gets the coach to drive up on its own. 

These sorts of things are very misleading even though its clearly good for us to be 2nd out of 72 within the parameters set 

I think Bristol City Council need thanking for that, with all the parking restrictions, shite bus service, non-usable Long Ashton park-and-ride, clean air zone, one way streets and blocked off roads, it's no wonder that City fans can't take combustible travel to Ashton Gate!!

On 29/03/2023 at 16:35, Northern Red said:

At a guess I'd say that's since the year 2000.

Agreed. According to that chart, we've never beaten Bournemouth !

2 hours ago, Marcus Aurelius said:

Always loved Korey making the most of this, whenever I player would stand in front the ball, he’d just kick in in to them even if a ball wasn’t on, and then start going mad at the red, often getting a yellow for their player. Don’t know why we don’t do it more.

Tinnion was the master at doing that.

51 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Genuinely thought when Coppell arrived followed by David James that we were geared up for a serious promotion push and we only had to turn up to beat Millwall on the opening day.

I was convinced Man City would beat us 6 or 7 nil all 3 times we’ve played them in recent years.

Aside from that many already mentioned but the two that really stand out for me are the Stewart and Bridges combo that never took off as expected and I NEVER thought the slags would get relegated to Non League going into that last day. I didn’t even glance at the scores until 16:45 walking back to my car at Morrisons and even then it was just an afterthought to look at L2 after seeing we were drawing with Crawley 

 

I can't believe you're the only person who mentioned David James, especially with fanfare and VERY long OTIB thread at the time. I too thought Coppell and James was about to take us somewhere.

1 hour ago, beaverface said:

Ronnie Sinclair and Andy Leaning?

Maybe Dan Bentley and Niki Mäenpää?

1 hour ago, cidered abroad said:

In my long time watching City, it has been a rarity when we have had two number ones vying for the team selection.

The mid 1950's with Tony Cook and Bob Anderson. And mid to late 1970's with John Shaw and Ray Cashley.

Can anyone add to that? 

Ronnie Sinclair and Andy Leaning?

On 02/03/2023 at 07:57, ralphindevon said:

Because we generally lose when we do that.

That was exactly my first thought!!

Have we ever won a beam back game? I'm thinking Stockport away...maybe? But can't remember if it was beamed back.

51 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

Best to stop calling them gasheads; as they like the term

“Assheads” is far more appropriate.

Actually I prefer "Gash ead" (note the space) - I think it's quite appropriate given the over use of the term "lady garden" that they use!

How about the Colosseum on the walk from Temple Meads through Redcliffe?

1 hour ago, sticks 1969 said:

Your allowed to only 1 gift card 

absolute Fxxxxxg shambles 

They're almost there.

I'd they offered the chance of having multiple vouchers, but only one voucher can be used per item bought, then that would work for me.

55 minutes ago, Sandhurst Red said:

Agreed on Cardiff and Brum - still annoys me to this day that we failed to send them down on the last day of the season when Redknapp was in charge a few years ago.

No issue with QPR - ah honest, proper football club with an old skool style ground. Would I want to go every week, no!, but it has some charm about it.

It is also funny how Brentford have leapfrogged them (and us...) as it really winds up the hoops fans - seeing as they used to play a yearly friendly with Brentford to give them good ground receipts.

I'd much rather Reading or Watford went down - Reading for just being about as plastic as you can get. Fans, Stadium, Atmosphere - all of it is just wrong and the local area only cared when they were in the Prem. And Watford deserve a stint down another level for just being moronic in how they operate the club. I feel for the fans, but the owners need to be taught a lesson. 

Completely agree, and I think thousands of other City fans feel the same way also. 

We had a massive attendance that day (25,404) and I'm pretty sure it was because we wanted to send Brum down, and we literally just rolled over and gifted them the win.

 More items added, but only a tote bag remains as not sold out !

On 08/02/2023 at 18:47, Davefevs said:

I think that depends on whether you sell one player and replace with fifteen!!!  I appreciate that it shouldn’t always be one in / one out, as sometimes you need to strengthen certain areas.  But one Webster sold on say £10k p.w. (total guess) and replaced with Kalas on £25k p.w. plus all the others is why it spiralled.

I’m quite intrigued how we’d go about replacing Scott.  Buying multiple players isn’t the answer, only one can play!  That was out failure last time.  I’m also keen to see how we make sure we don’t cut off the pathway too.  

The way I look at it, is that Scott is an amazing talent, but he's only as useful as the other players around him in the team and in our squad.

Right at this moment, we're 17th in the Championship, so there's 16 more teams above us without an Alex Scott in their sides. What they have though, is a collection of players that operate at a consistently higher standard than Bristol City, which has resulted in them getting higher up the table than us.

The key for me, is making sure that the day we lose Alex, we bring in players where we're lacking in other areas of the team. For instance, we may have 2 defenders and 3 midfields scoring an average of 6 out of 10 per match, however can we improve on those players to deliver a 7 or 8 out of 10 to make us collectively a much better side?

Of course, the best option would be to keep Alex Scott, and gradually bring up the standard of the rest of the team over time.

We need to have a sweepstake on the next item to be Sold Out - my money is on the pin\badge !