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  9. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    3 hours ago, Wanderingred said:

    Crowing again….

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    Gas took 595 to Crawley a few weeks ago we sold our 800 allocation for today's game in a day and asked for another 800 as the away end holds 1600 but it was refused. Strange considering they are skint and they get crowds of just over 2000

  10. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    10 minutes ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

    OK, call me cynical, I prefer pragmatic, but I am now more convinced than ever that the JB case is going to die a death.

    We will all have our views as to the general circumstances, but, unless I am mistaken, none of us on this thread were present on that fateful night so, by extension, none of us really know what happened.

    The only ‘facts’, such as have been described in the media, are that, whilst entertaining friends back in June 2021, Mr and Mrs B got involved in a drunken argument (they drank four or five bottles of wine each!?); Mrs B (presumably under the influence of alcohol) telephoned the Police on the emergency number claiming she had been assaulted by Mr B; the Police arrived and found Mrs B with a lump on her head the size of a golf ball. Apparently, Mr B was upstairs, asleep and intoxicated, when the Police arrived.

    When the proceedings started in Court this morning, the first thing the Prosecutor’s barrister did was to request a short adjournment as she had discovered this morning that Mrs B had written to the CPS one month ago, and followed up her letter with two E-Mails, none of which had been acknowledged.

    I can imagine Ms Duong, prosecuting, was both embarrassed and absolutely furious, but I am curious; not only as to why the CPS didn’t respond to Mrs B, but also why they didn’t disclose the letter to the prosecuting barrister until this morning.

    The cynic in me wonders whether the last thing the CPS wanted in their file was a statement from Mrs B saying that she wasn’t actually assaulted at all (by Mr B) - this is a Victimless (or evidence-based) Prosecution, after all - and, by withholding the letter until today, they hoped to just present their case to the sole District Judge – not the usual Bench – basing their evidence on Mrs B’s 999 telephone call, made whilst in drink, and the Police video.

    Are the CPS not obliged to present all evidence, not just that which suits them? Might the fact they declined Mrs B’s request to provide a written statement be considered an Abuse of Process?

    I have not seen it mentioned that Mr and Mrs Clint Hill were in Court this morning, but I can imagine the Prosecution were not best pleased to see the alleged victim of this Victimless Prosecution arrive, arm in arm with the man accused of assaulting her.

    Anyway, the case has now been adjourned for a second time, and I wonder, yet again, whether it is really in the public interest to proceed with this prosecution.

    I am not in any way condoning the alleged crime, far from it, but Mr and Mrs B are (ostensibly) living a happy family life together with their children, and I wonder whether the Court really want to proceed and perhaps find him guilty, whereby he probably loses his job; very possibly is ostracised from football, but, most importantly, suffers disruption to his family life with the resultant distress to his wife and children.

     

    Leapords don't change their spots it's just a case of waiting for the next incident to occur.

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  14. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    3 minutes ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:
    Two minutes in and he hasn't kicked off .... yet! Although his wife was holding her head!
     
    10:02

    Joey Barton has arrived

    Joey Barton is sitting quietly at the back of the court waiting for proceedings to start. He arrived a short time ago with his wife Georgia - who he is accused of assaulting. (pictured in between them is a member of his legal team)

    Nice to see he's made an effort and dressed for the occasion!

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  17. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    27 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

    They said on Sky yesterday that Northampton had 380 fans at Carlisle. Well done to them, that`s a bloody good turnout for a horrible away trip.

    Agreed that's a good turn out by Northampton. We took 600 up there a couple of weeks ago the day after the storm and quite a few fans that went by train had to turn back at Wigan as the lines were blocked and there was no way of continuing the journey to Carlisle.

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  21. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    4 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

    You have a great catchment area to be fair with no real rivalry, there are a lot of clubs with smaller scope ahead of you in the league structure. Getting some sort of additional investment is a must but shouldn't be out of your reach. I think the ground should stay where it is too, not a great deal of room for expansion, but you don't want an out of town soulless bowl like Reading. You have greater potential than a second Bristol club in my opinion.

    Fair points you make and I would prefer to stay where we are similar to what you did at Ashton Gate even though you originally tried to move half a mile away. I think our new owner has a lot of contacts which will be crucial in developing the County ground and just a shame we couldn't buy the cricket ground behind the Arkells stand but the pavilion is protected so that's a no go.

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