BS3City

29 minutes ago, Scrumpty said:

Good advice, will continue with the day job (erecting temporary stands), but don’t seem to have a lot of work on at the moment

Aaahhh I see! Are you a retired former tradesman just keeping your hand in?

12 minutes ago, Scrumpty said:

Absolutely, not many feature in two top bands, up there with Paul McCartney.

Incidentally, Scott once gave me the original words to 'West End Girls'...

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Sometimes you're better off a s’head

There's a top gun in town and its messing with your head

You think you're mad, you’re in the stable

Punching horses and falling down tables

In a restaurant in a Tote End town

Call the police, there's a mad man around

Wait a minute he’s building our ground

To a dive bar in a Tote End town

In a Tote End town, a dead end world

The East End boys and Tote End girls

In a Tote End town, a dead end world

The East End boys and Tote End girls

Tote End girls

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Apologies, slow day at work!

 

Nice effort Scrumpty!

No matter how slow your work day is mate I wouldn't suggest giving up the job anytime soon...

When do the school holidays finish?

Pardon my ignorance but Billy Wedlock certainly isn't fat in those images. Would it be right to say he gained weight (and hence the "Fatty" label) later in his career?

22 minutes ago, Hot Air said:

No Dunfords, no club. I've said it before and will say it again. 

The idea of money being 'creamed off' as part of a criminal conspiracy by the Dunfords to fund the purchase of new milk floats is mildly amusing, but deserves no further consideration. 

Nobody mentioned "criminal conspiracy" other than you. It was a fiddle and you know it.

You are also very keen to put down events of 30 years ago as "deserving no further consideration", yet willingly pull up events relating to City from a similar era that suit your befuddled agenda. 

You are fortunate to be given the time of day on this forum. Why not now trot off to your Sag chums, boast about how you baited and outsmarted all of us, and celebrate with a packet of stale crisps, some out of date Fanta and a quiet intimate evening in with your sister, safe in the knowledge you have cemented your reputation here for evermore as another Sag bellend?

****...

2 hours ago, Hot Air said:

At the time we were being run by the Dunfords - a solid, decent and unstated chairmanship. 

Utter crap you Sag ****! Anyone familiar with events at that time will well remember that any profit made on a player sale resulted in a new fleet of milk floats for Dunford Dairies.

No pun intended, but they "milked" you for every single penny.

You have a very selective memory and are full of shit...

Spawny bastards last minute winner. Charlton by far the better team in my opinion...

4 minutes ago, David Woody said:

Can’t understand a booking fee for an online transaction with a print at home ticket. What exactly is the cost to the club they are trying to cover? Charge is per ticket too not per transaction. 

100% agree! Had the same with 3 x tickets I bought for the Oxford game, an extra £3.75!!!

Probably a decent signing for the Blue Few, but they do seem to have shelled out a few quid on signings / wages this summer in their desperation to catch / match us.

Surely the idea is flawed though? If they don't make it it's an expensive gamble, with little prospect of any significant rise in income (over and above the current stand fiasco) until they get a new stadium (which looks years away at best). However if they did fluke promotion I don't believe the financial rewards of The Championship are sufficient to make it worthwhile anyway, and even if it was I'd guess the amount of investment necessary to give them a fighting chance of playing survival would be on a level they are incapable of sustaining with the current regime.

Therefore, it looks like a gamble to make them a more attractive investment opportunity perhaps?

OTIBers with far superior financial knowledge than me please correct my understanding if I'm wrong.

In the meanwhile FTG...

Massive 

4 minutes ago, petehinton said:

I see Friend and Wilson are out injured already. I thought Two 35 year old cbs were ‘statement of intent’ signings?

They are Pete!

Statement of intent to carry on being shite...

17 minutes ago, Quedgeley Exile said:

I heard that they put foundations in the wrong place 

Now that would be another interesting development...

32 minutes ago, redkev said:

that’s rather conservative

loads of Welsh in Weston aswell , I would say when walking around the front probably more welsh than brummies

Do they come over in dinghies too?

3 hours ago, Sniper said:

 

Of all the crap we've followed and laughed at from those blue clowns over the years this clip probably makes me laugh more than most. Thanks Sniper for sharing again.

I too am a bald-headed ***, and am frequently blamed for things that go wrong. 

It sounds just like my wife...

I used to use the Midland Bank in North Street back in the day. One time I was in the queue behind Les Kew and got pretty frustrated with the time it took the cashier to sort out the large bag of coins Mr Kew was depositing.

Always made me wonder where that might of come from....

12 minutes ago, The hand of RO'D said:

If you honestly think this bloke was being serious you need to have a look at yourselves. He was quite clearly having a laugh.

I don't think it really matters. He still made himself look an absolute (now well publicised) bell end...

1 hour ago, CyderInACan said:

I had an issue with Oxford tickets yesterday, after buying 4 online. They sent me the email immediately but with no tickets attached! Tried to call first thing today but phone lines all down. 

I had exactly the same issue.

To me there just seemed to be no links between both full backs and the players in front of them yesterday. No lung busting runs from Pring (that I can remember), and very poor interaction between Tanner and Cornick. I'm not gonna bash Cornick, (and trust Nige that he starts for reasons he knows best) but on the basis of what I've seen so far (since Jan) Sykes seems the better option.

Getting wide, with balls into the box was a big part of what we were good at last season. Didn't see much of that yesterday, but only one game gone. Still time to see the best of everyone yet...

11 hours ago, BS3 Ark at Ee said:

Fair play on the new owner, 

fair play on the Braille

but the biggest question?....

whys Joey B not in Jail? 

To what tune am I singing that?

26 minutes ago, WessexPest said:

I can assure DarrellsPupGas that, of the things that keep me awake at night, the Scum being bought by another “wealthy” charlatan ranks an emphatic last on the list.

While they rub their hands (and moisten their pants) in glee at becoming the next Newcastle, back on this planet this is the stark reality for “dA pRIDE oF bRISTOL”.

Thanks for the picture Wessex! Next time I'm looking to hire a skip that's one company I absolutely won't use.

The power of advertising eh...?

5 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

When you say “Once again” - since when? 

Good point...

Sags have sussed me out, I can't "bare" it anymore. Once again they will be the richest, most successful team in Bristol. Gotta be honest, it's looking like a new stadium and Premier League within 5 years.

I feel so unlucky...

******* *******...

So I take it they haven't released this investment news today to take the emphasis away from the stand debacle?

Honestly, those sad sacks will suck up absolutely anything the fake sheikh tells them...

The Fewer I work with actually used the words "tinpot" and "embarrassing" himself this morning without any prompting from me...

34 minutes ago, TomF said:

I’ve got a trophy for that somewhere.. 

So have I.

It's currently baking, but in about an hour I could fish it out the toilet, put it in a shoebox and present it before the Barnsley game.

*****