Bristol Oil Services

The thing about us is, we neither get behind and back the team the way Leeds crowd do at their most noisy and vitriolic, and we don't get on their backs with anything like the toxicity that Elland Road can whip up. Ashton Gate is tame. We are pretty much Reading now, Reading without the years in the Prem

Yeah, then pop down Bristol City to see how their manager works under pressure (and tell Matron/Sarge Major all about it afterwards)

We were a bit more spontaneous back in the 80s with the old "protest" against things than today's kids, by looks of it. We'd only have to go 1:3 down at home to Walsall/Gillingham/Notts County and we'd crack on with it, giving poor old Les n Des both barrels . Then exit the Enclosure at the final whistle and carry on from the car park. These kids up the Lions need to get a bloody wriggle on ....

Ok, ok! Don't tell us, tell the bloody lads up the 3 Lions

That was the world's First Ever Humble Brag. Well done, Fred.

Was that the 10.30 am on a Saturday night programme, or the 08:00pm Sunday morning repeat one, mate?

Yeah, he did. Used to say he was "carrying a bit too much timber" when ever we lost a game ....

Yeah? Spent last night with a Brentford supporting mate, and a Brighton supporting mate. Got loads of mates, me. Tomorrow, I'm spending the night with a Leicester supporting mate. And a Plymuff supporting mate. Don't have a Few supporting mate, though. Wouldn't spend the night with him/her if I did, mind.

Was it not on Sunday morning, at 08:00pm?

Dunno, mate, but it's been going on for over 100 years now. You ever tell yer missus what she needs to do?

How d'you know what time Big Al and Toby wake up, mate?

You ever done drugs, mate?

He might, mate, if he goes full "Tony Harling" from the word go. It's what I'd look for in a CEO,

I'm sure SL did the "DNA" background check thingy that has served us so well

Not going to happen, mate. Lansdown not keen on ginger managers

.... they would possibly wake from their delusion and slumber and their fantasies and be confronted with the cold, grim reality that .... we are shite and a shambles of a club and run by people who will never outwit the competition and that this is about as good as it's ever going to be. Let them be in their nonsense, they are better off there with their "if only .... " thinking.

Graham said yesterday, we need humour ....

Or, just:

Or, just:

So, c'Mon otib: is it a myth busted, or not? Love to know, cos bustin' makes me feel good

Why's that? What we wish for won't make a jot of difference to anything.

I'll believe the scores on there (after a bit of cross-referencing), but beyond that ....

23rd in L1?

To be fair to Nige, if his Aunty had Hibs squad this season I think they'd be doing better than St. Mirren .....

It's very difficult to just tread water, in this division. To just pootle along. Who manages this? So success is getting promoted and arriving back in this division as one of the minted, PP clubs. Lansdown realised this, hence the rather steep challenge put before LJ: play-offs, minimum. If we don’t get promoted from this division, going backwards at some point is almost guaranteed. So, I say again, success is promotion even if we're immediately relegated. This is why LJ failed. Look where we are now. Rotherham, Yeovil, Burton, they cannot hope to get promoted from the Championship when they get to it. Any club with 25,000 seats and 20,000 plus fans in the Championship has to get promoted nowadays. If you don't, you're going to go back and down sooner or later. There's no in between. Not when, if you finish 17th, you're best player is off. Every time. So, again: success means going up, and to have any chance of that, 6th is a minimum (even though it's a ridiculous "ask." Lansdown still has to ask it, there's no other option).