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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 

16 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Derby fans on twitter starting to see Quantuma as the devil now they can’t blame Gibson, the EFL, Mr Pops (), etc.

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 

13 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Think it's more a case of where does the revenue go.

Chelsea could - I would imagine - donate their share, meaning Boro and the FA still get their cut. 

Who knows.

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 

1 hour ago, daored said:

Chelsea today asking for cup game against Boro to be played behind closed doors as can’t sell tickets to their fans l. 

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

On 10/03/2022 at 20:14, TomF said:

It’s almost obsessive, it can’t be good for their health.  

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

1 hour ago, cider11 said:

 

I think it’s because they didn’t start this season in admin, only went in part way through. So can start the next season in admin but couldn’t start 23/24 still in admin.

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 

13 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I would think there handling of this case would have an impact on their whole business.

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 

8 hours ago, Simon bristol said:

Cool, if this was our current squad that got us relegated to league 2, the level of animosity towards them would be unbelievable, yet thats not how the 8 are remembered.

I understand the levels of salary arent the same as now, but they were still making a good living, yet some of them, in some form, must have been horrifically underperforming? 
 

im trying to get some idea of whose responsibility it was that the collapse was that bad.

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 

59 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

If those are the two he refereed this season.

Millwall away- Lost 1-0, penalty awarded against us (which they scored).

Huddersfield home- Lost 3-2, penalty awarded against us (which Bentley saved IIRC).

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 

6 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Mickey Mouse club.

Why won’t they play tomorrow? Absolutely pathetic outfit.

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

5 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

He did play, in Hong Kong, but by then even only 30 he was well past it. Few seem to wish to accept with these players City were already hurtling over the cliff, they were either past it or never were to have it. We've had loads of talented players over the years who for injury or sometimes just age, lose that they once had overnight.

Guess that explains why that part of the story gets glossed over 

4 hours ago, CiderJar said:

30 was old back then. I remember a past it Kevin Keagan playing for England in the World Cup Spain 1982 he was only 31 but long past his best.

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 

9 hours ago, Stockwood gate said:

I have been thinking long and hard about posting this but today I am ashamed to be a football fan , from the behaviour of our fans on the train down to Swansea from Parkway to being rounded up outside the station to the City fans damaging the new Mercedes with the casually  thrown flare onto its roof ,to the mini ambushes from the Swansea fans and the fighting between sections of fans on route to the ground , I thought the way the police handled a horrible situation well as can be expected along with the vile abuse they received from some city fans I have been supporting city 40 years and that 1 and a half hours from train arriving to kick of was disgusting 

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 

6 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Scored the winner the other day didn`t he? At Donny?

Couldn’t really miss tbf 

2 hours ago, TomF said:

It’s not actually new it’s been around about 3-4 days after the race.  It just seems to have gained traction all of a sudden. 

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