Fatknacker

I often wonder if we should adopt them as our development partners, we could lend them our promising juniors and squad players who can’t make the team sheet even on the bench, they could use last seasons away kit, we could loan them the LWB Transit van for away matches and let them sell off our out of date snacks with their fake Fanta...and as Red Army 75 suggests we could give them a charity game at Ashton Gate during the summer.

He’s an active member of my golf club and played behind my group on Sunday, as is Sammy Nelson.

No, because no one other than the fans of the two teams involved would give a toss but matches at Twickenham will always attract neutrals because it's a great day out. i seem to remember Quins v Bristol as the 16/17 season opener attracted double the combined attendance the two clubs would usually get for a home match.

I wasn't aware of that but not surprised in the slightest

Personally I think Harry Randall is already top notch and will continue to improve with premiership exposure, age is just a number and we are lucky to have a player of such class in our starting line up.

...and Harry Randall isn't? I'd be interested to hear who you think may be available and would be an improvement.

Of course they rely upon ego to ensure losers return

What else do you think it's objective is?

The only function of the gambling industry is to separate the unworldly and unwise from their money...why would you expect it to treat you fairly?

No, he was binned off because he's a gobshite who publicly slagged off his employers when he failed to get results. I can't imagine any club would be so hard up they employ him unless they need someone to park the coaching staffs cars.

I'm a watcher of their two main forums, I read the vitriol ridden crap they write about us, I listen to the total nonsense my Rovers supporting brother spouts, I think of their attempts to grab AG and their quite disgraceful plan to turn The Memorial (to the dead of the 1st World War) Ground Into a supermarket, and quite frankly I will laugh myself shitless the day Rovers folds and disappears for ever.

What a classy interview by Michael Zerafa

Yes but I don't think it was a master plan...all pros hit hard and no one takes a few to entice someone else into the ring.

It was a final eliminator after all and Zerafa isn't a bum...although perhaps Kell needs to think about his future.

Yes

Self preservation being a very strong instinct! Bristols excellent start to the season when they should have won at least one more game possibly two and Worcester and Newcastle improvement in the last two seasons really has complicated things for the bigger boys...every one other than Exeter and Saracens really are vulnerable because there's no nailed on bottom three.

Thx

The problem is that would mean 4 more weekend fixtures and the calendar is already chocca...I think expanding to 13 is just about doable and would enable the thirteenth shareholder, London Irish, to join a ring fenced Premiership.