Tinmans Love Child

Grandads Team - Rovers, he was a season ticket holder his whole life, last time I saw him before he died was at the Eastville Club playing skittles which was quite fitting!

Dads team - Bristol City, my Dad is born and bred in Pill.

Mums team - Rovers, she met my Dad at a Rovers match as City away game was cancelled so my dad and his mates went to watch the Rovers game as was the done thing back in the day, luckily for me!

Local team - Mangotsfield Utd is closest to Downend I guess, I’ve had a few mates down the years play for the Mango’s

Your team - Bristol City!

Kids team - Bristol City.  I also bought my nephew a City shirt for his first 18 birthdays to make sure he had a life of mostly misery as well!

2 hours ago, Robbored said:

He messed up at Sunderland when he suffered two hammerings in quick succession and pissing off some of the senior players which probably contributed to those heavy defeats and any stock he may have had dipped significantly. I read that he was shortlisted for the Barnsley job but obviously never got.

LJ is what I call a ‘theoretical’ manager. Knows all there is to know about the game but who lacks motivational skills.  He’ll do what his father has done - wander from club to club in the lower leagues and in his case, Scottish football - the Championship will be as good as it gets in his career.

When he was sacked he was the current manager of the month and they were top before the hammering weren’t they? I still think it was a stupid sacking and unnecessary  regardless of whether they go up in playoffs, they were fighting for auto’s under LJ

8 hours ago, Owl Visiting said:

 

Yep, longest ever period outside the top flight for us this, 21 years and counting. I'm a bit too young to have fully appreciated the brief period in the early 90s when we were a really good side. In 1991 we won the League Cup in what is now The Championship, went up that year and finished 3rd in the top flight. I caught the tail end of it when we still had some great players like Waddle and Hirst, but it's been mainly downhill ever since. 

My mate was at Sheffield Uni 97-99 so when I went up to see him we watched Wednesday in the Prem, they beat Arsenal 2-0 in the year Arsenal won the double (first league title under Wenger I think) and then they beat Man Utd 3-1 in the year Utd won the treble!   

7 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Yep, here’s the story:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/09/northampton-to-lodge-formal-complaint-to-efl-over-Scunthorpe-selection-bristol-rovers-promotion?CMP=share_btn_tw
 

I don’t see this going anywhere and, dispassionately, neither should it. Big fine should be incoming for the invasion including the length of it, and that police had to get involved, but aspects such as if the game should have been abandoned or the integrity of scunnies side are probably off the table.

Northampton should have objected when Scunthorpe’s team sheet was read out.  Complaining after they didn’t get auto promotion just looks like what it is, which is sour grapes.  I assume Northampton wouldn’t have complained on behalf of the integrity of the league if Rovers had only won 6-0 against the same team of teenagers?

43 minutes ago, Taz said:

That's like taking the mick out of someone for living in a grotty rundown top floor council tower block, whilst sleeping on the street in a cardboard box 

This forums so inclusive, a Rovers fan and a Swindon fan mocking each other on a City forum!

17 minutes ago, Clevedon Red said:

We should sign him

And that bloke from Egypt!

I can’t see any of the 3 teams winning anymore games apart from Everton beating Watford, which would keep them safe, and Burnley would stay up via GD meaning Leeds down.  Will see what happens!

It’s amazing how much racism is still around, even if the blatant everyday racial slurs have reduced since when I was younger.  I worked for one of the Big 4 consultancies until last year, and we had some training on D&I, and some 5 or so grads from Malaysia said that in their first week, one of the trainers said to them all why can’t we just give you all a number as you all look the same! 

Just emailed you, don’t know if what I have is of any use but happy to donate!

12 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

And….

 

So predictable!  Do people still buy this rubbish?  They completely engineered a story, absolutely ridiculous 

On 07/04/2022 at 13:13, southvillekiddy said:

I second that mate. Burn it after as many England fans as possible have had the opportunity to defecate and urinate on it. Lovely job. Never been able to understand why top footballers still say he was one of the greatest as though they can ignore his blatant cheating. I would argue most England fans believe he was (god rest his soul) the biggest cheating b.....d in the history of sport and don't get me started on Thierry Henri.

Hope you agree with me Darkside

Is this a wind up?  I don’t want to get whooshed!

3 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

A lot worse in my book.  At least the Sun can laugh at itself.

The Daily Hate is defo the worst

14 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

On in 60 minutes . Might be reading to much into it. But seems a bit pointless if his last game is Saturday. 

“What’s the best thing about coming from Switzerland?”

”Well the flags a big plus”

23 minutes ago, Super said:

Game over

3 hours ago, SecretSam said:

What do you win if you get all 11?

This!

23 minutes ago, Agard Days Night said:

Hoping this kit is a nice one. No central badge, no parasite betting company sponsor, no Comic Sans, no hashtags. And out in the club shop ready for purchase in time for caravan holiday in late July. Fingers and toes crossed!

I posted this previously, seems an apt post to include again:

New kit bingo goes as follows:

1) I don’t like the shade of red

2) I prefer a proper collar cause it looks well smart when I wear it out on the town innit

3) I don’t like the badge position

4) I don’t like the sponsor

5) I never buy the kit anyway

6) It looks cheap

7) It looks tacky

8. I like it

9) I don’t like it

10) Modern kits look crap in XXXXXL

11) I can’t believe they’ve run out of the 3rd goalkeeper kit socks

9 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

I think this is what people don’t realise - if you take the cost of rent, rates etc even before staff costs for most retail areas it isn’t viable for a business like City/Bristol Sport

https://shopproperty.co.uk/PropertySearch.aspx?Region=SouthWest&Tenure=Leasehold&SortBy=Highest Price&Page=4

This is a search of retail properties to rent in the South West. For City to have a unit in Broadwalk is £50k (plus rates, heat, light, staff) before we start. There is no way BCFC are making the £4K a week it needs to make such a unit viable - and that’s not in prime retail location.

If you take another example, Villa closed their shop on Broad Street for similar metrics.

The talk of a “centre” location is nonsense. Yes, we need a better shop/range - but it needs to be in the wider AG estate when redeveloped 

Agreed, they would be better off selling shirts or whatever in agreement with another retail store and save themselves the hassle and costs of running a shop

21 minutes ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

I would suggest the shop hasn't been any good since we had that Portakabin one behind the Grandstand, a proper Tardis in there

I remember going there in my first season 89/90 as a 10 year old, and it was like being on the terraces, you just had to squeeze into the shop and you sort of got moved around by the crowd without moving your feet!  

Surely by now there has been some analysis done on how much food and drink is sold on a match day, including how often they sell out, and therefore they can adequately stock all of the outlets based on the expected crowd?  

I’d also have communication channels with the outlets open at all times (I assume there is somebody in charge of the outlets?) so they can talk to each other and if stocks are running low in one, they can share stock with each other to keep sales going.  

It’s not rocket science but it’s always seems to be the same.

8 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

It seems a bit strange that Bristol Sport do not have a Superstore in town. You could buy match tickets make club enquirers and sell lots of shit too! Player appearances would be great and little charitable events and any amount of community out reach. 
 

I think we are still restricted even now with a small town small club culture and attitude. The place only needs to pay for itself any profit really is a bonus. 

They had a pop up shop in cabots at Christmas a few years back, I guess rental for a shop in town will be very high so might not be worth it?

11 minutes ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

The madness of having three teams stuff in one shop is crazy. The whole space in the shop needs to be Bristol City end off. I am sorry to the rugby and basketball but you can bog off elsewhere. 

During the week when no games on I can’t see an issue with all 3 teams merch out, but on match days for City have all City stuff and match days for Rugby have all rugby stuff, wouldnt take that much effort to sort out surely

39 minutes ago, tin said:

Our club shop has been a joke IMO, possibly since we dumped Adidas.

My first child arrived in 2020 and I was surprised to see they didn’t offer babygrows. I dug a little deeper and saw there was next to nothing for kids. 

Agreed, my daughter was born March 2020 and I had to buy a ‘City Born and Bred’ baby grow from some eBay site as City had nothing much apart from the mini kit, which is crazy really as there’s so much stuff they could stock including clothes, baby bottles, plates and bowls, dummies, bibs, which I’m sure would be a popular range for those with kids or those buying for new parents etc

3 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Having led the moans about the rewards offer ending on Friday instead of yesterday, I ended up not going in there. The queues before and after the game were so long I thought I couldn't be bothered to get in and probably find that my £10 off didn't extend to a stationery set for my granddaughter.

I agree that the choice is poor and the shop is the least fit for purpose part of the stadium redesign.

If the club want to do it properly and serve the men and women's teams in football and rugby and the flyers, they should  look  to rent the space that is vacant in the retail park, or open plan the bar, coffee shop and retail shop to create a space similar to those branded American bars. It worked for Hard Rock and others, so why not?

I was chatting to a friend last week who was in America recently and in the same arena he watched an ice hockey team, and the next day two different basketball teams who played one game in the afternoon and the other team played in the evening, and he said the stadium including the shop completely changed stock and branding depending on which of the 3 teams was playing.  He even went in to buy some merchandise for the ice hockey team when one of the basketball teams was playing and they said come back when they play!

12 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

No. They planted then and they sprouted organically. #Sark

Quite agree with you though, come up with a shit design, pay to get the thing made and then wear it, get photographed in and and then roundly mocked.

Not exactly Paris Fashion Week.

Sure a few years back, someone make some "City as ****" tshirts and the club took the decision to ban those sporting that particular legend from the stadium.

I wasn’t sure if the t shirt was being made and sold somewhere, glad to hear they are not!