East Londoner

Missing today as having a colonoscopy this morning, jury is still out as to whether my bowels or city’s defence will have the more uncomfortable afternoon

Seems the village green nimbys are back again so I’ll sit back and get my popcorn

Forests forum has an amusing list of people Derby fans are blaming, currently at 145 so too long to screenshot and no Mr Pops in sight https://www.forestforum.co.uk/threads/44511-The-demise-of-Wayne-Rooney-s-D***y-County-(in-Administration)-(and-denial)/page944

Unless I’m missing something here Derby owe more for the player than they’ve got in a transfer fee. They must be desperate

I did see on twitter also that Boro would have to take responsibility for the away fans it sold tickets to and wouldn’t have access to who was banned etc Theres no chance of it being behind closed doors though

Why can’t Boro sell the away allocation or is that too simple

It’s very apparent in the new series of drive to survive. It’s almost bizarre how obsessed particularly Horner is

Although isn’t that kind of irrelevant as they’d still need funding and currently have no real assets with their better players out of contract in the summer

I’ve heard a few times no other administrator would touch it, because of Mel Morris? Or some other reason which might not be their fault? Although i did find it odd that there was no real effort to sell any players like others have done

It’s a mixture of second season syndrome and having a number of championship standard players who’ve over performed for a sustained period. Was inevitable

I get where you’re coming from but it’s probably unfair to just blame the players. From some simple research it appears anyone of any value was sold off and sometimes for less than they were worth and not replaced. So perhaps falling through the leagues was inevitable and remember while we were the first Wolves also suffered three consecutive relegations no long after However what’s always amazed me is how those running the club seemed to escape scrutiny. It appears there was a lot of taking more money out of the club than was being put in as well as a lot of incompetence. Maybe it was a different era but whereas Risdale at Leeds was crucified although has somehow remained in football those allegedly managing the club just seemed to disappear into the background

And the Millwall one was outside the box

He’ll be back

Ref seems very excitable

Just a thought though, with all the Ashton Gate Eight stuff planned tomorrow maybe there’s pressure on not to call the game off

Surely it depends on how much damage there is and whether having 12 hours to repair it is realistic

Guess that explains why that part of the story gets glossed over It is interesting how it’s different now but guess there’s now more knowledge about how to look after yourself these days

Reading all these articles of the Ashton Gate eight one question keeps coming to mind. Why did the likes of Geoff Merrick never play professional football again given he was only 30 and had previously turned down the likes of arsenal?

It would be interesting to know exactly how much naming rights would be worth to allow an informed decision

You could argue behaviour breeds behaviour. On visiting our place both Swansea and Cardiff supporters were given the freedom of Bristol to do what they liked whereas when we’ve visited Wales we’ve been kettled either before or after the game and this has magnified the behaviour of some of our less savoury fans. As for the police escort, they might as well have put a big arrow on top of the bus saying Bristol City supporters here. And after the game they had a whole two single decker buses that were absolutely rammed so was a complete shambles

It’s funny, i remember both Swansea and Cardiff fans being given the freedom of Bristol when at our place and yet welsh police are preventing those who travelled by train to leave the front of the station. And it’s raining

I’ve just boarded the 0834 from Paddington to Swansea the 0954 from Bristol Parkway. Train this morning is short formed and formed of 5 carriages (3 and a half standard class) so will be a little cosy heading to Swansea

Couldn’t really miss tbf

It’s not really a smoking gun but does make for uncomfortable listening. Kinda get the impression F1 and it’s more prominent commentators have put the whole situation in the too difficult to deal with pile and thought if they kept quiet it would all go away and yet it hasn’t In the meantime the new cars look cool but Abu Dhabi and the sports credibility lurk just beneath the surface

Alex Neil said to be the new Sunderland Manager. Sounds a decent appointment in fairness