Tinmans Love Child

2 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

We still need to put the taffs away and send them home, regardless of what happens this evening. 

Yeh we want to beat them obvs but they can't catch us if we beat USA tonight l, we draw against USA and the last games will be very interesting!

3 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:

Thoroughly deserved by Iran. Really happy that their nation has something to celebrate with everything they are going through right now.

It’s looking very tough for Wales now, they are gonna need to go gung ho against us.

As long as we beat USA and are safely through it won't matter what Wales do, although I can't see them beating us they looked very poor today

Fair play to Antoine, he's played in a World Cup, on the pitch with Ronaldo, can't knock it!

Interestingly at the time of the '66 World Cup it was still illegal in the UK to commit "homosexual acts" in private, yet here we are now sat on our pedestal only 56 years later!  
 

I don't agree with the World Cup being awarded in the way it has been, the corruption and money paid, changing it to winter, the migrants workers etc but it's worth remembering that we aren't exactly perfect and havnt been in the recent history, people and attitudes can and will change

13 hours ago, Alan Dicks said:

I’ve not watched an England world cup final game.

Anybody else refusing to watch this farcical spectacle?

Football is awash with money and dodgyness, I'd give up watching the sport all together if I were you

Good doc, and focussed more on the fan side of things rather than the games which was a different angle to the many many other docs on Italia 90.  This was the first proper tournament I remember.  I had the Mexico 86 sticker album but can't remember the games, but Italia 90 I remember trying to recreate the David Platt volley in my garden in the dark after watching the game!

5 minutes ago, sglosbcfc said:

Yes, that is my understanding, even though footy fans might have watched matches at Ashton and Eastville they only supported one team. My Dad lived in Eastville and watched Rovers one week and City the next. However, he said the experiences were very different, with the Rovers it was just watching a match, with City he was desperate to see them win, and it felt much more at stake.

My Dad is City through and through (he was born in Pill) but used to watch Rovers if City had no game, in fact he met my mum at Eastville (my mums family are from Kingswood and are Rovers) as the City away match had been called off, the hand of fate!

6 hours ago, David Brent said:

If we lose, we lose 

51 minutes ago, BCFCGav said:

Forgive me for a negative post. I was really upset by Tuesday, the Carabao is wide open this year with many big teams drawing one another. Good opportunity for a club of our calibre to try and do something great. But we fielded a poor side and played awful, and for me it was Pearson’s last straw.

We all know about his awful win rate. We all know about our seemingly ‘unsolvable’ defensive frailties. We all know about his ‘bombing out’ of players off one bad game (Pring, Massengo, so unnecessary). 
 

Looks like we’re sticking with him… so what if we lose to Rotherham? Is that the last straw? Because his replacement then has 3 days to prepare for his first match rather than 3 weeks. He should go now. Financial restrictions due to Ashton’s negligence mean our squad is thin, but is it one point above relegation in quality? No it’s not. So the problem for me lies with the manager.

Howpfully many of you will have seen my many posts on this forum and know I’m not a doom merchant or a knee-jerk nay sayer. I just truly believe Pearson’s removal is now in the best interest of the club. 
 

COYR.

That's the spirit

1 minute ago, M.D said:

I have this superstition, When I listen or watch online with any City type top on, we loose

Last week, the misses bought my a new City top, I had it on Saturday for the draw.

Tuesday she said 'You not wearing your City top?'

Its on today as I can only listen in Brighton..

Well that's that then, thanks a bunch

It's the Mickey Mouse cup with a second string team, who cares, the league is what we need to worry about and I think we are doing about as good as we can in the league with the tools we have.

2 hours ago, NcnsBcfc said:

Every Gashead I know would love to play us in the cup. Why, because they haven't played us in the league for 22 years now.

There is absolutely no upside to playing them in the cup for us. They would treat it as their cup final, whereas we would collectively just be paranoid about losing to them, and further fuelling their "We're coming to get you" mantra nonsense.

Can you imagine the utter s### that we would have to listen to coming from Barton in the run up to the game. Followed no doubt by a pumped up Rovers team probably taking out every City player going, to prove to their manager that they were "Up for it". It would be Ian Alexander x 11 out there, complete carnage. Not to mention, a nightmare situation outside the ground, before, during; and after the game.

When we had to play them in the league, it was of course a necessity to play them twice over the course of a season. I would be very, very careful what we wish for here.

Or we play them and smash them 5-0 and laugh at Barton when he looses it with big Nige and gets sent off

57 minutes ago, glynriley said:

Rolf Harris...?

Rovers are the definition of Rolfs cartoon club

4 hours ago, robinforlife2 said:

I think we should use the old Yaya/Kolo Toure song

 

Joe Low, Joe Low, Joe Low
Joe Low, Joe Low,
Joe Low
Joe Low, Joe Low

Tommy Conway works for the Yaya bit pretty well

Conway, Tommy Conway, Tommy Conway, Tommy Tommy conway

Joe low, joe low Joe low etc etc

To the tune of Flo Rida - Low

1 minute ago, REDOXO said:

Ok so going to the following season JETs contract expired and he went back to London. Cunningham was pissed off and was sold and Elliot retired. 

I guess fairly natural attrition under the circumstances arguably. 
 

We did very little to bolster the players that were not gone immediately which was most of the team and struggled. Remind me was that when we bought Kodjia. Again seven years is a long time at 60. 
 

Gayle and Grey didn’t come and I remember being in the hostility suit at Reading pointing out to Mrs D we were in the bottom three. I’ll always remember her saying ‘we know where we are’. :laugh:. 
 

I guess after SC and the appointment of LJ the squad were dismantled as we  appeared to find gob loads of cash that SC wasn’t given and the promotion squad by and large were not thought good enough by the new incumbent. 
 

Is that a fair summary or am I way off? 

Obviously there is always natural attrition and changes with any squad, there has to be, and it's not as if we didn't bring new players in cause we bought boat loads in, but to see such a great group of players who had a great team spirit and bond I would say, who were successful with what they achieved, completely ripped apart within 3 seasons really, means that we lost  identity completely and with so many comings and goings it was inevitable that we ended up where we did with a bloated and disjointed squad.  If you look at the top clubs by and large they stick with their spine and have a good few years to tweak and get success, whereas we sold the whole spine twice over!

22 hours ago, REDOXO said:

Was it? I seem to remember that SL fell out with SC they got into an argument over Gayle and Grey and the promotion team were not reinforced sufficiently. Even the leg end that was Sack Cloth kicked us back. But I’m old now memory might be faulty!

The last player standing was Smith and he left in 2020, so within 5 years the squad had all gone (3 by 2015, 7 by 2016, 11 by 2017, 14 by 2018, 16 by 2019 and 17 by 2020):

Fielding left 2019

Little left 2017

Williams left 2016

Ayling left 2016

Bryan left 2018

Flint left 2018

Cunningham left 2015

Pack left 2019

Smith left 2020

Wagstaff left 2016

Elliott retired 2015

Freeman left 2017

JET left 2015

Agard left 2016

Reid left 2018

Wilbraham left 2017

Burns left 2017

That 2015 squad was dismantled quicker than a formula 1 car 

5 hours ago, downendcity said:

Would put the cat among the pigeons if a player selected for a world cup squad came out as gay on the eve of the tournament.

I think all the England players should give each other a kiss before kick off, then get the cameraman to zoom in on the Qatar official in the stand lookjng outraged!

4 hours ago, Sheltons Army said:

So naive regarding anti drug work Harry - how deep is your actual knowledge 

 

And......... cocaine is not physically addictive so absolutely zero excuse for the end users , zero

and if there’s no customers there is no dealers 

I watched a doc which said that the addictive element comes from the fact that the first time you take coke your brain does a little re-wire and you feel great, and subsequent uses never quite live up to the first time (as that part of the brain has already re-wired) but that doesn't stop the user chasing that first great high. They showed the science behind the discovery and it seemed a legit point 

HIGNFY was good last night, host Gary Neville got torn a new one by Ian Hislop on his stance of going, taking cash to commentate, but highlight issues when he's there (which he cleared won't be able to do during his match commentary) 

Watch from about 17mins25

https://youtu.be/X41N-eCQmOQ

38 minutes ago, Rob k said:

It wouldn’t make a difference in my opinion 

Nothing makes a difference currently does it.  Maybe have UV lights on the turnstiles to illuminate the coke on peoples hands and noses, so they can be set upon by angry police?

34 minutes ago, Bernard Lerring said:

I disagree, that kind of info is included in almost every documentary created on the subject and so can't see it being a deterrent. 

People who want to get high will do so regardless of the punishment (as evidenced by people doing it in countries that have the death penalty for it).

Legalise, regulate and educate is the sensible solution, but it'll never happen 

I think my point is that making people watch the documentaries might help to educate them, which is actually one of your ideas?  If they haven't watched them then they won't know about the info will they.

I agree that drugs should be legalised and regulated 100%, we are so behind the times in this country wasting billions trying to stop something that can't be stopped, pumping billions into criminal gangs when there is tax to be made.

if drugs are regulated like alcohol it won't solve the behavioural problems of over users (see alcohol) but at least the criminal gangs arnt gettjng the cash

A much better way of dealing with people who take coke is to make them sit and watch a video of:

1) how it's made (barrels filled with petrol to extract the cocaine from the plant is one part),

2) how it's trafficked across the globe and how many people are killed in the process

3) how the money from the drugs trade goes directly to fund criminal and terrorist organisations to buy arms, kill people, etc etc

Education might make more of them think twice than some 10 year banning order that probably won't ever happen

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