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Nige only has himself to blame, here. He had only to ask around, plenty of people within the game would know and tell him. And besides, he worked for Mel Morris and at Watford

It might be Deano (if not "Phlegm-o")

Cotts said this too! He said it was a "little West Country habit" of ours, to have a bit of a moan. Think this was early doors in the promotion season, did we lose at home to Oxford in the League Cup? About then, it was. We didn't moan so much after that, that season. Not sure having a bit of a grumble is exclusively West Country mind, not sure Cotts was right about that.

That'd be a "lively" point to put to Nige on a Thursday or post match, might bring out the ostrich in him. Need to spark something somehow, are BBC Radio Local up to it?

How would our existence be put at risk? I cannot think of a football club in England with 25,000 seats, 20,000 crowds and 14,000 season ticket holders that went bust and disappeared. I can think of diddy little clubs in low catchment areas that disappeared, but not one in one of the biggest cities in the country. If you are content with merely having football to watch at Ashton Gate every Saturday then that includes L1 or even L2? So why not risk a few years of that for the chance of doing something we have only managed twice in 120 years, and our friends in Horfield have never achieved? Something thrilling and memorable, way beyond anything anyone has witnessed from Bristol City since the late 1970s. Another five seasons of 14th - 17th in the Championship struggling to score goals at home will only lead to more financial strife anyway, either way we go about it, money will be a problem. The only way I can see money not being a problem for us in the Championship is by being relegated down into it (just as long as we remember those relegation clauses!)

You don't need good players to go up, Luton went up with players not as good as ours - source, Steve Lansdown - and ours were shite last season

If there was a takeover in the next 12 months, I would expect the new majority share owner to find a handwritten note on his/her desk saying: "I'm afraid there's no money." Plus some additional details from @Mr Popodopolous.

Pep's off work at the moment, recuperating in Catalonia after surgery on his back ......

On the topic of "dodgy foreign owners" the words if you can't beat 'em spring to mind, and let's be plain, Steve has been unable to beat 'em ......

There's an element of Britney Spears/Mr. Spears in this Massengo family thing going on here, I feel ....

That was a cracker, that one at Sheff Utd.

Joe Bryan? Not Tammy, or Bobby Reid, that's for sure. Or Han Massengo. Did Jamie Pato Patterson smash one in from miles out somewhere? Marlon Pack scored at Cov from outside the box once.

My dentist mate reckons his dentist told him to move abroad so's he won't have his face rearranged by Marley Watkins again

What is it they're afraid of, exactly - the flat, unexpectant atmosphere at kick off? The funereal silence during large stretches of uneventful back and sideways passing? The mild disgruntlement of the Lansdown Stand? The general air of apathy about the place? A bit of booing at full-time? Herds of wildebeest?

It doesn’t matter a jot what we wish for, Steve is getting on a bit now and will not be here holding our hand for ever. And unless his son succeeds him, things are going to change at Bristol City at some point, for (a bit) better or (much) worse.

With the benefit of hindsight it was a wasted opportunity - a small window - the like of which SL might not see again. The years 2017 to March 2020 were a Golden Opportunity, with the first season survived, the ground re-development completed, crowds jumping to 20,000 plus, revenue soaring, the ability to pay competitive wages, and still the nucleus of a talented group from the promotion year. And SL handed this opportunity to a coach that had not managed at this level, and had no promotions under his belt. Having said all that, the best and only realistic opportunity to go up in that period for us was probably 2016/17 when Huddersfield scraped up via the play-offs, LJ's first full season here when he got in a complete mess with Tomlin and set a club record for consecutive defeats.

How was lunch?

I dunno. If Topper'd been running our recruitment summer '15, then Cotts'd've signed 'arry McGuire, Konchesky, Fredericks, Andre Gray, Dwayne wotsit, Kodj, Bakes, Tommy Tomlin, probably a couple more, and we'd've swept all before us and stormed to 100 points, and still be in the Prem now having a laugh at all the dopey EFL clubs dotting their ffp "eyes" and crossing their ffp "teas" (like Bournemouth and a few others)

He's no Danny McGrain, George Tanner. Not sure what Pep could do with the Cornick/Tanner right hand side. Maybe the new kiddie will liven things up there

He said he'll leave it there, Dave, he wants you to have the last word on this, look

Never knew Glos had an open top bus in '77, heady days in May '77 for City/Glos fans. Never knew one of Belle & Sebastian started life as a Glos fan, neither. Wonder who's next?

I like the sound of that kinda deal, mate. Way we're going with all these academy kids we're bringing through jt'll be Nige's Stay & Play (£2.50 get a free coffee)

I remember fans singing his name, the season he left (and was struggling), think it was the Ipswich game when he finally scored a (cracking) goal. They were singing his name before he scored. I remember that his stepover worked in L1 but not the Championship. I don't remember Luke acknowledging this (support), perhaps he was unaware. Neither do I remember him saying anything when he left. Bit of a cold fish, was my impression.

We've fine tooth comb-ed most things on here - the owner, his boy, the manager, the previous manager/s, the CEO before the previous one, the players, the recruitment, the kit, the crowd, the atmosphere, the ffp, the "High" Performance Centre, the parking, the ticketing, the club shop, the concourse- but not so much whoever drills the lads Mon - Thursday up Failand (assuming Nige mostly leaves that to his staff). Are we good enough as far as training ground coaching goes?

That's a 5:0 drubbing home and away now for Lee, v Villa. Did he stick his centre back up top at 0:2?