WarksRobin
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1 hour ago, tin said:
Sean definitely went to Gordano; I played in the same Sunday team as him about 15 years ago. I think JL went to QEH or BGS.
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Well played England
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Clown show. Games gone
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England have a reputation for poor discipline and therefore refs keep pinging us
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3 minutes ago, SecretSam said:
Come on, then, enlighten me (I was the last person on earth to get the "Colin" gag about Warnock)
The gag’s been gone too long
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8 hours ago, Midlands Robin said:
Looking at the statement above, if we imagine that JCH left Portsmouth to travel up to Bristol at around 6pm, he would have got there for around 8 to 8:30. It's roughly a 2 hour journey.
That fits nicely with the time line. The Posh send over the paperwork at 8:30 and the Sags agree to the deal at 9pm.
According to a statement from the circus, there were some changes to the paperwork that held things up. This clearly can't be the case if Ferguson is telling the truth as the Sags agreed the paperwork at 9pm. The only changes after that point must have come from JCH or his agent if there were any. Either way, 2 hours should have been more than enought time to sort all of that out and send the registration paperwork in to the FA.
As Ferguson said, it is possible to send in an agreement form and get a short extension to enable the paperwork to be finalised after 11pm. This cearly wasn't done.
So, there are a few questions that need asking:
1) Why, if he wanted the move, didn't JCH press the Sags to get the deal done after the two clubs had agreed terms at 9pm?
2) If Ferguson is correct and the agreement between the clubs took place at 9pm then who was responsible for the paperwork changes after that point?
3) Why didn't the Sags send in the relevant paperwork to extend the deadline?
The only person who knew how to operate a fax machine was unreachable
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1 minute ago, BigTone said:
Take away all our fun why dont you
If you’re in France, they’re always on standby
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Put the pitchforks away and extinguish the torches
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3 hours ago, nebristolred said:
Just been looking at the time period during which this was used.... I wonder if this could have impact on our very own Dolman Stand? It would fit in the correct timeframe.
It may be present but hopefully the club have maintained the stand and waterproofing so it should still be serviceable
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Anticlimactic
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From the New Civil Engineer today:
QuoteFears of a “catastrophic failure” of a bridge in Bristol have caused the council to bring forward a £50M plan to repair a road network “deteriorating at a significant rate”.
The Cumberland Basin road system acts as the entrance to Bristol City Docks and is currently experiencing traffic levels two and a half times higher than it was meant to when it was built. A report submitted to Bristol City Council’s cabinet stated this is causing an accelerated depreciation of the network, which opened to traffic in 1965 after construction began two years earlier. One structure the report highlighted was the Avon Bridge, which links Cumberland Basin with Ashton Gate on the A3029 Brunel Way over the River Avon. The report stated its design was “no longer approved in the UK for any new proposed highway structures as the potential risk profile of potential catastrophic failure is considered to be unacceptably high”.
It further stated that the bridge consists of a considerable number of inherent high-risk construction design features which include post-tensioning, or half-joints, and tendons in box-beam bottoms. These features coupled with ongoing road-water and gritting salt ingress leakage the bridge has suffered from and its increasing age has given the council no option but to intervene. To help combat extend the lifetime of the bridge, the council has been recommend to approve a £4M plan for inspections and structural maintenance over the next five years.
Major works for the structural maintenance of the bridge outlined in the plan include concrete repairs to half-joints, soffit, bridge piers and main cantilevered bridge spans and the installation of drip rails on each side of the half-joints to stop water tracking onto cantilevered sections. Due to apparent concerns regarding the structural integrity of “half jointed”/post tensioned fixed bridges and to determine the current overall structural condition, the council conducted a post-tensioned special inspection of Avon Bridge in early 2021. Following the completion of this report, urgent works were undertaken in 2022 to re-waterproof and re-surface the bridge deck and replace all four expansion joints to mitigate the issue of water ingress into the structure. The whole Cumberland Basin complex contains a broad range of reinforced concrete structures in which a failed Challenge Fund Bid in 2015 by the council identified a number of concerns. These concerns included issues with elastomeric and roller structural bearings and expansion joints between all elevated structural deck areas, ineffective waterproof membranes throughout all bridge deck areas and a sub-standard parapet system throughout.
Works under the £50M plan for the whole of the complex would include structural concrete repairs, expansion joint replacement, resurfacing and re-waterproofing of bridge decks, bearing condition assessment and potential full bearing replacement, parapet containment barrier railing refurbishment and wholesale railing replacement. Currently over a third of Bristol City Council’s £1M annual structures maintenance budget is spent on the Cumberland Basin network alone. Since the failed Challenge Fund bid, the council’s structures team has been able to use this budget to conduct a small amount of repairs listed above.
Bristol City Council was contacted for comment.
Its report stated: “Significant elements of the Cumberland Basin network are nearing the end of its intended working design life and are now deteriorating at a significant rate. “The overall Cumberland Basin structure complex has deteriorated much faster than originally designed for, given that the current traffic figures are currently over two and a half times the projected traffic figures in 1963-1965 anticipated, with the consequential increase in structural component deterioration. “Given the condition of the Cumberland Basin network, additional capital investment is now required to manage its ultimate depreciation and decline, and to facilitate the emerging Western Harbour Development.”
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The sale of Alex Scott does seem to have dented the confidence of the team and the fans. A signing would help to improve the ambience around Ashton Gate, or some communication of the strategy from the top. If SL is creating headroom for an investor then he can tell us and it might buy some patience.
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13 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:
Although Ipswich do appear to have been purchased by a pension fund.
If they're at this level in two or three years still that would be an interesting one to watch!
Indeed, given the pension beneficiaries are US emergency service personnel that could be interesting if it goes tits up.
"... the new ultimate beneficial owner of the Blues is a US investment fund called ORG, which manage funds on behalf of large US pension pot - the Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System - and who own 90% of Gamechanger 20 Ltd."
I hope they have a good CEO....
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The other consideration here is who would want to invest? There are essentially three types of investors:
1. Institutional investors, eg pension funds who want a stable long term income from their investment. They are never going to invest in a Championship football club.
2. Venture Capital type investors who will be looking for a strong return in the short or medium term. If there was no return in a few years they would start selling anything to find a return. Also, they may not have the means to invest significant sums. A possible investor but undesirable from a fan perspective.
3. An angel investor. Similar to what we have today in SL. Someone who invests and wants a long term return but is patient and prepared to take a loss. Most football investors fall into this category but there are not many of them around.
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2 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:
I mean revenue streams. E.g. SL could in theory sell naming rights for Ashton Gate, as a stadium, each stand individually and even maybe the HPC.
In theory we could run on less than £39m in 3 years but that could limit progress. Run on more for a time, if it doesn't pay off we stall or maybe even fall foul eventually.
Well we know the club underperforms on commercial rights, from sponsorship to selling replica kits, or selling anything much in the club shop. If I were an external investor I would definitely see upside opportunities to increase revenue. However, I don't think this is a massive game-changing opportunity, it would need to form part of a package of savings and improvements.
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The first consideration is that any owner has to be prepared to put in an average of £13m per year, just to stand still. The alternative is to cut operating costs (player wages) or increase revenues (player sales or promotion) to run the club more sustainably. This is what has been happening over the past 2-3 years but we are yet to see how successful this has been.
I'm sure we would all welcome investment into the playing side if we had a wealthy investor keen to see us promoted, but there are no guarantees that spending lots more results in success and at some point FFP becomes a limiting factor again.
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What do we reckon?
England will do well to win any of their group games, on current form.
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That was a very England match. Plucky but not quite good enough
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3 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:
Flares.
Good innit?
A matter of opinion, each to their own
Shame they weren’t in the right place
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4 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:
I hope everyone in those stands joins in, this dragon display by Porto shows how good these can become.
Why are its eyes on fire?
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1 hour ago, Fordy62 said:
They could legitimately just sack him. It’d cost nothing.
Depends whether they could prove gross misconduct. You can’t sack someone without due reason
They would probably need to reach a financial settlement for termination.
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I get the impression that SL would really like Mark Robbins here as manager but it will be very difficult to prise him from Coventry. Unless it goes tits up, I fully expect Nigel to be here for the foreseeable future
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2 minutes ago, MelksRed said:
Lot of complaining.
You love to see it
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I can’t see any merit in their case. To win a JR they will need to show the council failed to follow the correct process, and unless the council failed to consult (unlikely) there is no case to answer. If the firm responded to the consultation and the council took it into account in the officers’ report they have done their job. If the firm did not respond to the consultation that’s their own fault.