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On 30/03/2024 at 22:05, fgrsimon said:

Barnsley also have an FA Cup win

Don't forget one of Rovers major honours - National League runners up 2014-2015

Sincere apologies for being pedantic but they were Vanarama Conference runners up 2014- 2015.

29 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Yep. I've posted about how Brighton strive to always have the best people before. 

Where as at Bristol City/Sport its full of Jon's mates.

A professional CEO would be nice.

22 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Reportedly a £122m Profit from last year??

Although they seem to have taken it down from the site..maybe released a day or 2 early.

SL take note.  You have to speculate to accumulate.

What triggered the sacking of Nige was the sacking of Phil Alexander.  All the subsequent events cascaded from the removal of PA and SL allowing his son to take charge.

Say No to nepotism.

4 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

Shrews 0-0 Poos

Sounds like a thriller  

4 minutes ago, Graham76 said:

Surprised to see Robert’s come off, thought he played well 

Tactical switch?

That’s a definite pen.

1 minute ago, Numero Uno said:

Each game means something different to each supporter and not necessarily revolving around what you think it means. Some are looking at these next three or four matches and deciding whether they buy a season ticket or not. It's not bog standard to them and if their decision goes the wrong way because Liam is safe in his job and can't be arsed to produce then it won't be bog standard to the club. After the 90% rubbish we have sat through since the win on Boxing Day it is not unreasonable to ask Liam to give something for supporters to grasp onto.

As I said I hope we play well, I hope we win. It just won’t be the end of the world if we don’t, at least not for me.

15 minutes ago, lenred said:

So you’re saying that’s it now for the season?  Weird POV. He’s very much on trial still for me and all games matter.  Let’s follow up Friday with a win today.   We were promised better.  Let’s have it.  

Anything that happens between now and the end of the season is meaningless in comparison to what happens between August and the mid/end of October.  That’s when Manning will be truly judged.  That’s my POV.

7 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

No game is meaningless for Manning at this point in time, nor is it for several players either.  It’s about more than the league table at 5pm.

Win, lose or draw, Manning will be manager at 5pm and he’ll be manager at the start of next season too.

Its what happens between then and the second international break that will really matter.

All you’re trying to do is build up an end of season bog standard championship game into something it isn't.

Where’s all this “acid test”, “big game” etc stuff coming from.  It’s a fairly meaningless end of season game.  Hope we play well, hope we win, but depending on other results, the best we can hope for us to jump up to 11th.  Hardly earth shattering stuff.

50 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

I take it no red button Sky ?

RTV £10 a pop

7 hours ago, extonsred said:

Any streaming?

Available on RTV to domestic and overseas viewers.  £10 for a day pass.

21 minutes ago, cotswoldred2 said:

Public discourse? This forum does not represent anything to do with public, it is a cosy little chatbox for likeminded nay sayers of the club of which you seem to want to be the main windbag instigator.

 

More of an Echo Chamber in my opinion.

1 hour ago, steviestevieneville said:

Bubble , what bubble

The type you get when you fart in the bath.

14 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Let’s wait & see on that.

Today’s result significantly increases the likelihood of Manning being in charge next season & it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he made signing him his number one priority.

You may well be right, but imho Manning’s number one priority should be getting Matty James to sign a one year extension.

Hahahahaha

8 minutes ago, One Team said:

I got “yeah, no”, “on the grass”, “Southampton”, “delivering the actions” ticked off on my bingo card!

What’s the point of following a football team if you can’t enjoy it when they win?

1 hour ago, sglosbcfc said:

Larry Lloyd won more trophies than him surely.

Hapgood won 5 league titles and 2 FA Cups with Arsenal.

Lloyd won 2 League titles, 2 European Cups, a UEFA cup, a European Super Cup and 2 League Cups.

If think it’s fair to say both had illustrious careers.

8 hours ago, 22A said:

Hey Rovers; there'll soon be a ground available at St Andrews!

Birmingham Alabama would be better.

41 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

I was also at the Chelsea match at Ashton Gate and still have the programme. We got Terry Bush, Jantzen Derrick, Brian Clark and Lou Peters as regular first teams and also Adrian Williams who played only one or two for the first team.

I also was at the Ipswich home game.

Would dearly like to be at Man City. Is it a one or two legs semi final?

One off game.

The final would be at AG in the unlikely event that we win.

14 minutes ago, Red Moseley said:

In tonight's Bristol Post James Piercy says it is the first time that City have reached the FA Youth Cup semi final. This is not true, City lost to Chelsea, the eventual winners, in 1959/60 losing both legs 3 - 0. I attended the home leg as a 12 year old having just moved to Ashton Road by the ground I got 4 autographs of the Chelsea team - Venables, Bonetti, Tambling and Dennis Harkness (I know - who!!!)

As has been previously discussed many times on here, we also lost to Spurs in the semi in 1970 and to Ipswich in the final in 1973.

The crux of the problem is Jon Lansdown.  Nepotism never works.  Lansdown senior needs to get his son out of there, appoint a top of the range CEO and let him run the club unfettered, including the appointment of an experienced Head of Football and possibly a new Head Coach, although I’d give Manning the benefit of the doubt with professional people around to support him.

1 hour ago, Kid in the Riot said:

This is our 40th season spent consecutively in tiers 2 and 3.

21 seasons in tier 2 and 19 in tier 3.

True, but 15 of the last 17 have been in tier 2.

5 minutes ago, harvey54 said:

Waiting for Chelsea to come calling.........

I think Postecoglou would take Antione’s game to the next level.