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Climatologists?

Was always impressed and surprised with Tony Blair, keeping it up with Kevin Keegan. Can't see Michael Foot/Ed Milliebland/Jezza Coyrbn managing more than one ....

Reckon he's out tonight, getting scrumped up

One or two relegation spots wide open, still

"A lot of pointless running around" - working title for Richard Latham's forthcoming '350 Years of Bristol City' mighty tome. Available in any book shops left standing

Will have upset Stoke quite a lot though, so not all bad ?

Cheers to you. Cheers

You can keep yer spelling; it's all punctuation, fer me

Just waiting for England / Jos to seal this win, and I'll put the kettle on

Excellent, and essential, punctuation, sir. If I may be so bald ....

Generally speaking, or anywhere specific?

Because most clubs were in the north, Midlands, London, in clusters of clubs, and had less need to?

Minus the Top Flight football

Cheese rolling, up Gloucester?

I'm not big on poetry and shit, is he offering us out?

Like Joe, Mick and Paul in 1976, down that back alley in West London, ass they're about to rock the/our world. And they know it....

Bristol City FC - reducing small boys (and many big ones) to tears, for years to come. The future's bright, Marina, the future's salty.

That's going to take new/fresh ownership, isn't it? To find our own approach to this that works even half as well as Brentford's is going to require a fresh start from the top, fresh thinking, new ideas. It's not going to come from SL now, or anyone he appoints. Is it? If SL had an original or brilliant idea on this front, it would've happened by now. You would think. There's not an ounce of originality or ingenuity or inspiration at Bristol City, currently, not even with Nige there. Is the impression I'm getting. To do any better than this, or this era (2008; 2017-19) we need to move on from SL; to avoid being disastrously worse, we need to cling on to SL as long as we can.

We are between a rock (the stultifying safety and security of SL, going around in ever-depressing circles) and a hard place (the great unknown of Bristol City post-Lansdown, which could go tits up or better than expected. But if you had to put your money on it, it'd be "tits up" under some dodgy overseas ownership).

Lady behind over his left shoulder appears to be, er, enjoying events a bit more ....

Anyone who ever went to Middlesbrough ever to watch Bristol City, is a moron.

If we'd still paid out what SL has paid out (ie what he was paying Ashton, and buying yer Kasey Palmers and yer Gustav Dionies, oh, and yer David Jameseses, for example), then, yes. We'd be bust.

Wonder if it's got "Making Bristol Proud" plastered all over it, too?

Our record season by season over the four games v the eventual top two automatically promoted clubs in points and goal difference: 15/16: 6 points, -3 gd 16/17: 4 points, -2 17/18: 4 points, -1 18/19: 7 points, +1 19/20: 0 (nil) points, -9 20/21: 1 point, -10 So, started ok, got better, peaked, fell off a cliff. And our record over the same period over the six games v the three relegated parachute-payment minted clubs: 15/16: 2 points, -10 gd 16/17: 5 points, -2 17/18: 11 points, +2 18/19: 12 points, +5 19/20: 10 points, +3 20/21: 1 point, -12. So, started meekly, improved quickly, peaked, still good, fell off a cliff. Conclusion: it's not about them, it's all about us.

The Office of National Statistics (get a load of this @Davefevs) report that "fewer than three" baby boys have been registered with the name "Nigel" in the past year. Nigel=dinosaur?