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8 minutes ago, Harry said:

Regarding the confrontations in the park afterwards. 
oh the irony! 
Had the game kicked off at 3pm it would’ve been pitch black in the park at 5pm and no one would’ve been able to see anyone, let alone fight anyone. 

t’s not like there’s anything that that would cast light on the front bit of the park like street lights or a stadium.

4 minutes ago, Snufflelufagus said:

I'm still amazed at home many people go mental when the opposition take a corner and the ball is right on the edge of the quadrant. Some people are literally bursting a blood vessel shouting the ball is outside the quadrant. Even if the ball was 1 metre outside it literally makes no difference to what happens

This annoys me as well - as so many fans don’t seem to understand the rule that the ball only has to be overhanging the quadrant.

Just now, The Horse With No Name said:

Dont condone it at all, but players HAVE to start being booked when deliberately goading the oppo fans when scoring. There is celebrating in front of them, then there is the pr1ck today and against Huddersfield .  Stamp that out and the throwing will stop.

In some cases, yes but why are some fans so precious that they feel they have to throw something if someone celebrates in front of them? How is that a normal reaction.

What a result - and very clinical finishing.

Average verging on poor in general but they’re luckily not good enough to take advantage.

Cardiff fans seemed to arrive insanely early this morning. Been an atmosphere building around the ground since ahoy quarter to 11.

Why would this truly bother anyone? 

Really good performance second half - looked a bit lost at times in the first half. 
Always good to beat them.

7 minutes ago, Wiltshire robin said:

There’s a thread on their forum discussing the possibilities of sharing with us , fgr and Chippenham just so they can get some home revenue. I think in a couple weeks we’ll be in the same position.

I think that's possible. I find it weird in these situations over the past year or so that the first step isn't to stop away fans travelling before going behind closed doors. Given the infection rates in London and that our next few games are an away game close to London and two London based teams at home, that surely can't be good for stopping the spread of the variant?

2 hours ago, Wiltshire robin said:

Might be a stupid question but I take it that means Cardiff and Swansea ? . If so can their fans travel away? 

Weirdly I'd imagine they can still travel, unless the Welsh government have also put travel restrictions in place.

Just now, Greedo said:

Raw egg and an empty bottle. Hardly f*****g Zulu is it. You’re a bunch of bedwetting old farts on here, honestly. 

Just evolved human beings, you should try it.

1 minute ago, bexhill reds said:

Quite, but then don’t create a situation where this happens, you get booked for celebrating in front of the opposition fans for a reason… Thomas was being a ***** and goading, then some reacted. 

Oh for gods sake. Fans gave him some earlier for an incident, he gives some back and then some precious little idiots decide to to throw things. Don’t give it out if you can’t take it.

Never really been in control of the game all afternoon.  Even whilst winning. A lot of average performances today.

My pass got checked on the way in.

19 minutes ago, East End Old Boy said:

If they didn’t piss all the licence fee money on overpaid presenters they may have had a chance?

Highest salary at the BBC 1.3m

Total cost of Premier League rights over 3 years - 4.5bn.

Would love to see your maths.

1 minute ago, East End Old Boy said:

Well, as far as the BBC are concerned woman’s football is more important! 

Yeah because the BBC could show the premier league live if it wasn’t for the women’s football 

14 hours ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Imagine Rodney marsh on tv nowadays,the soft lot will be up in arms 

And that’s all that really matters.

15 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

If they wait until it does happen, will that be “sad” as well ?

Last time there was all of this speculation about a non-white male appointment, the first person appointed was Tony Pulis….

Not a great performance but hopefully a monkey off of our back.

7 minutes ago, Magger1 said:

There doesn’t seem to be any reports of fan arrest so I’d say I well behaved afternoon 

Yes, the definition of good behaviour is not getting arrested 

37 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

I suspect this is it. If someone has reported it then the police can’t really say “nah, we’re not gonna be looking into this one” but I struggle to believe that they will find an offence has been committed.

I’d hope so. I don’t see anything particularly offensive on that poster.

4 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

The url is somewhat clunky let's say, and seems to combine some post match reaction with this story but anyway...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/23/callum-wilson-is-the-best-natural-finisher-ive-worked-with

What do we think? Worthy of prosecution- in the public interest, attempt at censorship? A complaint was made about a Holmesdale end banner basically and police are investigating.

Plus forgot to add, a sensible use of police resources?

Princes of the type you find in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states- well I'll choose my words carefully but it's fair to say they don't much care for criticism or being told 'no'.

Plus a statement by the HF.

 

I think it’s ridiculous that the police are investigating. Let’s hope it’s just that someone made a complaint and they have to be seen to be following up.

9 minutes ago, Pezo said:

I did a quick search on "All lives matter" and it doesn't appear to be a racist slogan in any context. It appears to be a slogan used in criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement - which isn't beyond criticism.

It does say that All lives matter is associated with conservative values, I would say once again conservative values aren't even close to being racist. What I increasing see is that it is convenient for some to lump everyone on the right in the racist bucket to try and make them look like an extremist which ultimately means they don't want to be part of the conversation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Lives_Matter

I don’t necessarily think it’s racist but it literally means the same as Black Lives Matter. Therefore using it is a bit stupid.

11 hours ago, Cowshed said:

It isn't analogous. The context is the words were included on a banner stating what the group was, a message for a police Superintendent and this was displayed in BS1 by a group that was not exclusively white. This group cannot be perpetuating anything associated with racism, it’s quite the opposite. The group was multiracial.

There was no aid given to any racists. None. Bristol has no far-right groups of any significance. The racist oddballs in caves that there are would loathe knowing who bought the banner, their backgrounds, knowing they were not anything to do with the far-right.

Unfortunately, there are left wing groups who don't like it as well. There is your division. As Steve highlighted in the article. 

As per the politics forum - there has been no evidence prevented that they were called far-right. They were called  ‘right wing’, which they can get offended about by all means. However, no one, despite mentioning it many, many times can actually seem to show anywhere that they were called far right - other than the reference to it on their banner.

Good performance all in all. Was worried after that awful start to the 2nd half but they did well to come back into it.