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That's a big lead for them

If they bat all day tomorrow and get 500 plus in front they will have two full days to get England out

Smell Aussies one up?

Just got up

What the ****!

Batsmen fail again

Nathan Lyon? Really?

My lord!

Dreadful but come on Kev tis England!!!

94-8

And getting done right up the ring peice !!!!

Follow on ?

Could be Aussies 1 up in three days?

Good day for the lads, they would have taken that at the start of play.

2 quick wickets then bat all day with minimal loss of wickets. Big score, declare, get the prisoners in and beat the hell out of them!!!

So much for sleep then.

Aussies back in it now. Need a quick wicket

3 hours to the first ball - it's a right laugh being here when we come to visit!

Australia are well up for this.

KP has been slagged to buggery in every form of media, just to mess with his head. Him and Cooky will need to knuckle down.

Huge doubts over Matty Prior - calf strain, has more tape on him than a sparky!

Highly unlikely to get a result - weather forecast is for storms and high wind for the next 5 days.

Take the draw, its at $2.85 atm here - well over the odds. The weather in Brisbane has been rain/storm/hail/rain for a week.

If a full game goes ahead - England easily - as long as they can hold out Ryan Harris until he starts to tire - he's in the best shape of his career atm.

Bloody boxing day Test in Melbourne - be there with my finest Crusader gear - and BCFC flag. Then home for a break!

Can assure you fella much rather be there than here!!! Be loud

Balls to it. I'm staying up to watch at least the first session

Me to Kev

In bed just to really nause the wife off

1st test draw....bad weather forecast on day 3 and 4

2nd test win......spinners paradise and England have the best in the world

3rd test win, huge pressure on the Aussies because a loss sees the English retain the Ashes

4th test....who cares

5th test....who cares

Before the start of the Ashes test down in Australia.

Lets give those convicts another good hiding. COME ON ENGLAND.

The Barmy Army warming up.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgwsaUnZa8g

The point is though Arn as the likes of Nick J pointed out at the time, it was never clarified how much of the revenue generated at AV would be going to the club. A drive thru restaurant was proposed at AV for example, and there's no way McDonalds/KFC/Burger King would've been giving their profits made to City! Therefore, the fact there is no drive thru restaurant proposed as part of the AG redevelopment is no loss whatsoever.

 

For the record AV proposed ONE shop, a drive thru, conference facilities and NOT leisure facilities.

 

Personally, the 80% figure quoted sounds believable to me.

Fair play K I T R

I think the "proposed" bit was what was said to get things up and running. I know for a fact that some of Citys top brass went to The Stadium of Light to see how they done their stuff.

Very impressive was the word going around. Im also sure that things would have been added over the years to make it into a profitable business

Don't know where you or anyone else got that from Arn, it's just not true.

It's been stated many times that a redeveloped AG would produce 80% of the maximum income Ashton Vale could achieve.

It will be by far the best stadium in the Bristol area even if Rovers eventually get the go ahead for their shockingly tedious and characterless bowl..

Morning Nogs

My understanding was the new Ashton Vale to have shops, bars, restustants,perhaps leisure facilities such as ax swimming pool, bowling etc etc

The whole idea was the arena to have things that would be used 7 days of the week and not just on matchdays

The stadium of light is typical if what City were trying to build

Ashton Gate new ground would be nothing like that hence no where near the same amount if revenue produced

Dont think we should wallow in any piss take about what has happened at the Gas.

Still believe it will happen for them even if it takes a little longer.

For us though it seems totally dead and buried.

As many others has said developing the Gate will not produce a third of the income a brand new stadium would.

Bad thing for the manager to say but absolutely no doubt bigger clubs are watching his progress

Still don't really get why Ipswich let him come to us

Or is it something none of us know about?

What a plank coming out and saying that.

And if the board got an ounce of common sense they will come out and say he's staying.

Unbelievable

Boring now

Mods please

Lifetime ban?

 

I admit I went on the pitch after the Rotherham game and shall hereby ban myself for life from Ashton Gate.

You and 18,000 others Ian

4 points behind the pack and it isn't impossible.

We've soundly beaten 4 of the top 6, which shows we have quality.

And now we have a manager who plays our best two strikers and a simple, organised 4-4-2 rather than 4-5-1, 6-4-0 or 5-4-1 we definitely have a chance to survive.

Here we go again...................................

I went to a Fancy Dress shop yesterday to hire a vampire costume for a Halloween Party I have been invited to.

The girl behind the counter handed me a Bristol Rovers kit?

I said '' Sorry love, you mis-heard me. I said I want to look like a Count '' !!

A Bristol Rovers fan who appeared on "Embarrasing Bodies" last night ,was delighted to find out that the red rash around his Penis was only his sisiter,s lipstick!!!!

Can we get Dave Penney down the Gate tomorrow night, so we can show our appreciation for the tremendous job he's done up the road ??

who has attitude???

RIAZ....ffs?

Bucks is sound, and just cant belive some attitude on this forum at times.

You seem to be a sound felllow to. So.............

It wasn't me BTW

You dafty sod. :noexpression: