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@Ivorguy You look well mate 

1 hour ago, Norn Iron said:

Wasn't his chant Amankwaah, wo ho ho oo,

He plays out on the right....

Kevin had a talent that was exciting to watch. As others have said, the unfortunate car crash changed things.

Thank you for posting the story about his mum. Wow!

Good to know Kevin is still involved in some way re fitness.

That's a long chant

1 minute ago, ChippenhamRed said:

My brain was adjusting for the filter and making me think it was navy blue, but according to the BBC article it IS purple!

A case of over-stylised photography leaving us not able to be sure what it actually looks like.

 

Even the filter in the above looks a bit like a navy blue rendered purple? 

Not opposed to a purple away kit, break from tradition and pretty cool and interesting. Yellow nike logo and three lions maybe? 

Definitely not ideal that we can't tell now!

1 minute ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Lovely kits but the stylised colour filter makes it hard to tell exactly what colour that away one is.

Definitely, thought it was purple at first

The bleakest bit is not seeing any way in which we progress past mid-to-low-end Championship in the forseeable future. Destined to tread water. 

3 hours ago, Phileas Fogg said:

I’m not so sure - I feel like the club culture at Arsenal has been infiltrated by the reactionary YouTuber generation which has cheapened it. Highbury was a proper stadium, but the Emirates (like the Etihad) epitomises a soulless bowl.

Personally i’d find it very boring to support them. This season being an outlier.

One of my favourite authors on sports geography/sociology, John Bale, refers to them as "concrete sports saucers" which I think must be the best description for these stadiums going today.

Isn't Plan-Do-Review page ******* ONE of the coaching manuals? Don't see much review going on with him. 

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Not to get all philosophical after a few Madris but here goes.

This is the primary issue with the way football clubs are run near globally - there is a mealy mouthed attempt (at least in the UK) to weed out chancers but there's nothing really to stop a despot from running it exactly to his own whims once they're in power. God help you if they're established and have been there a while. 

Just now, TomThumb84 said:

So whats everyone going to do then?

Turn up every week, get excited by the odd win in three?

Clap politely and be thankful for a really nice ground and a pleasant day out?

Buy into our youngsters that are pushed on us like they are actually Championship ready?

Laugh at some childish social media content?

As a fanbase we are so tepid and passive its untrue.

Its why these clowns are still in post and can afford to make these stupid decisions like the clubs core does not matter.

We are part of the problem.

This is exactly it. What are we going to do? We all going to chuck a fiver in for a boat and storm Guernsey as an armed milita? There's NOTHING we can do to change the course if Lansdown decides this is how he wants to run it. 

Nothing changes til the Lansdowns and their peons are given the heave ho into the river and replaced with some ambitious owners, and some staff with some actual experience, football nous, and ability. Til then, enjoy League One and low-end Championship football. 

Post to this effect has been made already too, but I've switched off emotion towards City as well. I didn't even watch today. Saw we went two-nil down and put my phone back in my pocket and carried on with my day.

I'm actually more alarmed at how little this has mattered to me. Liam Manning's style and persona is everything wrong with modern football, it's devoid of life and boring as ****. 

"I'll ******* bounce when we win something", wonder if I'll be able to take my pension by then. 

1 minute ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Don't see how that would work in practice.

I doubt the club have any record of my attendance from 1970 to at least 1997 when I first got a ST because I wouldn't have dreamt of getting one even though I barely missed a home game.

My discount next season will be 85 quid or 17.5 %. I actually think it should be more.

 

Probably fantasy, as I kind of mentioned in my last post on this thread. 

Point regardless is that one of the wealthiest groups in our society get a pretty easy ride and mostly have done for their entire go round, whilst working people today struggle. 

Long term ST holders should definitely get a reduced fee, but not because they happen to be retirement age. It ends up being unfair and uneuitable.

6 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said:

Or maybe a properly means tested model - those that can pay more do, those that can’t get the reduced rate.

It would be wrong if minted pensioners with multiple properties pay the same as those on the breadline.

Pie in the sky but it would be great if that was the case.

Just sad that the wealthy get the breaks at all times. 

1 minute ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Don't mistake your wealthy customers in a well off area to the average Bristol City fan.

Many pensioners are not only not well off, in fact far from it, and in the case of City fans will probably have been paying into the club man and boy for 50-60 years.

Do you think City get many new fans aged 65+?

Whatever way you look at it, pensionable age or discount for long service following the club they damn well deserve a small discount.

 

Of course I agree with the thrust of your post. I uoted @ChippenhamRed who made the case about how the flat rate for discounts for pensioners is a bit silly considering the economic situation of the country. 

I do also meet every day pensioners who struggle to pay bills and struggle to pay for gym membership, where being able to offer a discount is a delight, and I do feel proud to give those people a realistically very good price to use a gym and pool. 

I think we agree that the 60+ group deserve something from their eternal support of a shit football team, and a discount to ST prices is absolutely reasonable. I just think it should be built as a percentage from how many years you've had a ST (surely the club will have this data)?

1 hour ago, ChippenhamRed said:

I won’t be popular for saying this but OAP discount is a completely outdated notion given the distribution of wealth by age group in the UK in 2024.

There are - of course - many who are not well off across all age groups, including pensioners. But a broadly applied discount based solely on age must be broadly applicable, and it simply isn’t any more. It would be fairer to distribute that reduction across all age groups, and introduce a loyalty discount increasing with each year which would recognise the long serving (suffering) nature of our oldest supporters.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/distributionofindividualtotalwealthbycharacteristicingreatbritain/april2018tomarch2020

 

I manage a gym right now for work and this is so spot on. Pensioners get a discounted rate and are the ONLY group that moan about the fees. They pay around 250 bob less per annum than someone in their early 20s. This group complains the most, is dissatisfied with immaterial somethings the most, and it is truly remarkable that those in that bracket have so many benefits living in the UK, yet still find so much to bemoan (in my opinion). This gym is in a rather well off area and many elder members are extremely wealthy, I know for a fact from conversations with them. Chris Martin is also a regular as it goes. 

Rather than it being a flat rate for seniors, it should definitely be a discounted rate for years of service following the club. 

11 hours ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

Unfortunately, SL is a thin skinned dick.

Tears his foreskin every time he pulls it back

1 minute ago, GeoTheCiderHead said:

Still grates on me that game. We didn’t even need to win - all we had to do was NOT LOSE and we would have relegated them. Felt pissed off with the club for the whole summer after that

I remember the advertising board going over in the atyeo and chucking my programme towards the pitch, then ******* off home to seethe for months on end hahaha

5 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

Liking the hedge, although I would go for a native mix of blackthorn, hawthorn and yew. This country needs its hedgerows back.

EFL Green Club of the Year (note capitalisation) don't you know?

1 minute ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

We had the opportunity to send them down in 2017 of course..

Great chance to get back for 2013 and 1999, although the latter wasn't mathematical confirmation.

Oh we had lots of possession but 0 Shots on Target, biggish crowd for us at that time..a draw would've done it on GD the way results played out.

Annoyingly our first Home loss since mid to late February, just a draw would've done it.

Was it really that long ago? Seems like yesterday

8 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

He was taking the picture - he did say he’s working hard with the first team. 

I reckon they must treat him like a dementia patient and send him up to Wraxall from Failand, and let him coach the U9s at the Downs School.

7 minutes ago, northsomersetred said:

 

I challenge anyone to find a worse corner taken by a professional

I genuinely think Andy King would do a better job right now. 

1 minute ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Got me excited when this popped up but nothing new,I have had a few beers and thought I was seeing double at first with the amount of times you mentioned Mowbray in one sentence 

Mowbray Mowbray Mowbray Mowbray Mowbray Mowbray Mowbray Mowbray Mowbray Mowbray

7 minutes ago, Mihai said:

Hello ! 

Ok, I bad a bet on Ipswich to win and to score more than 1 goal but that has nothing to do with this question. I am pretty familiar with English football and I was looking at the history between these two teams. I know they beat us 6-0 back in the day when I was a "fresh fan" but we had wins also against them lately. I saw no games for 4 years against them and my first intention was to check if Ipswich was in PL and they relegated last season ( even if knew they were not in PL ) . You know why ? Because I can't understand anymore how a team which was lost in League One for a few season (and my brain refused to first verify their last 3-4 season in League One for them) how this team will make it to the PL ? 

Can you explain it to me ? What is the recipe ? 

Look at them https://www.transfermarkt.com/championship/startseite/wettbewerb/GB2.

Look at their transfer record https://www.transfermarkt.com/ipswich-town/transfers/verein/677/saison_id/2023

How can a team based on mostly players from League One with transfers from lower leagues gain promotion ? How many wasted season do we need ? How many "bananas" will give us this fkang BOARD ? Come on mate, let's start a fu**ing riot or something ? Let's make them f**ing go and destroy other teams. 

Don't start with the "stability, longevity and academy". We create some players we let them go without even get some help to gain a promotion or play-off battle. We get rid of them at the first BID that matches, we have no future like that. Then we start again, we buy some 18-19 years old players and stuff. Let's **** sell the whole team then and let's buy Ipswich line-up, I am sure we could afford that based on what players they have. Even the wages I am positive we have more money for salaries than them.  I AM TIRED TO BE A FUN OF A FEEDER CLUB. Bristol is the biggest city to not have a team in PL, where is the desire ? The desire is to sack your former coach and bring in another who has a worse win ratio than the former one. Do you see any future with this Maning ? I don't, he has no experience, probably Nigel couldn't take their sh88iet anymore while they get involved in line-ups and stuff. GET A FKING PROVEN MANAGER, pay him good money, let him do his job and have some guts to use some money on the transfers, or at least keep the players.

FU** OFF STEVE, I AM TIRED OF YOU ! go TAKE YOUR RUGBY TEAM AND STIK IT IN YOUR A** !

Huge fan of your posts Mihai, always genuinely loved hearing from yourself and the Swedish contingent. 

If you remember the energy and confidence GJ had instilled when we were floating around the autos back in 2008, it's their momentum, when you look at that team on paper (pre-Jan) they are nowhere near a top 6 team, the same was the case for us back then. We failed to mobilise that momentum. We didn't do it with Cotts when we went up from League One most recently eitehr.

I mentioned in another thread how apathetic people from Bristol are. It's always 'oh well, could be worse' rather than demandming more. It's ******* tiresome. It's the whole area, the region from which City draw it's support (Bristol, Somerset, parts of Wilshire, Glos, Dorest and Devon) are far too accepting of ONE HUNDRED aND THIRTY years of winning f all. @BCFC31 mentioned that you wouldn't get this up north or in the Midlands and it's spot on. I despair.

Well as far as Lansdown goes, the sooner the odious tax dodging ***** get out of this club the better. 

Old Yeller him 

28 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said:

This is what we’re reduced to now. We’ve lost our fourth game in a row to a club who’ve just spent four years in League One, but it’s OK because “we gave it a go”. So what if it felt different. It felt different against Southampton and we’ve lost every game since then. I have zero faith in Manning now, and even less faith in the people that put him there.

Meanwhile Ipswich join the long list of clubs that emerge from the depths of lower league football and pass us on the way up.

Sick of this club.

Whole fanbase is too soft and forgiving. It's beyond depressing, yet another club with no right to be flying in the way they are flying past us to the PL. Oh well, at least we have a couple of academy graduates playing in the first team we can sell on for a couple of million.