redysteadygo

Funny how a camera was able to capture the whole  truly embarrassing episode. Stage managed and rehearsed probably.

5 hours ago, Midlands Robin said:

Regarding the relationship with agents thing. When it comes to Ashton there's always this nagging feeling in the back of your mind that there's something dodgy or inappropriate going on when of course there's absolutely no suggestion there is.

When my mum and dad have replaced their car, on the last two occasions they've gone to the same garage and dealt with the same salesman. In all likelihood they'll go there again as a first choice when it comes to replacing their current one. Why? They tell the chap what they want and he finds the right car and gives them a competitive price. All parties are happy.

At face value, that would explain why Ashton uses the same agent / agencies on a regular basis.

Here's the thing however, Ashton is not buying a complete outfit but parts of one. So, instead of replacing a Ford Fiesta for a Ford Focus, he's buying new tyres, then a new body kit, then a new fuel filter and so on.

The way he does his upgrades is by going to the same parts shop every time and by buying parts that look great but may not even fit the car he's buying it for. Of course, he doesn't bother talking to his mechanic about this but relies on Google for his research.

He may have a Ford Fiesta but he'll buy a sports exhaust for a Mondeo because Google says its brilliant, then ask his mechanic (Paul Cook) to make the thing fit and get it working. 

The parts shop (agents( aren't going to question what Ashton's doing because why on earth would you want to stop someone from spending a fortune with you and, after all, it's none of your business why he needs those parts or where they are going to be used.

When you find out you can't fit the part or its not working properly it wil just sit in the garage and rust unless you can persuade someone to buy it off you. Sometimes you can't and end up giving them away. Sounds familiar.

A Mark Ashton assembled squad:

 

Why not, Johnny Cash did it "One piece at a time"

7 hours ago, Waffleflap said:

As a person who struggles with my mental health on a daily basis, I have taken upon myself to get out more and go for walks etc. I have recently been hooked on watching wild camping videos on YouTube and it has inspired me to do the same. It really has lifted my spirits

This Friday I will be doing my first solo wild camp on dartmoor. Hopefully the peace and quiet and the lovely views will be great for the mind.  

Hope you're all good out there

Have a great trip but don't take your Black Mountains map instead of the Dartmoor one like I once did! Oh, forgot about all the modern gizzmos these days.

When asked what I enjoy most about walking Dartmoor I always reply " the helicopter ride home".

7 hours ago, Waffleflap said:

As a person who struggles with my mental health on a daily basis, I have taken upon myself to get out more and go for walks etc. I have recently been hooked on watching wild camping videos on YouTube and it has inspired me to do the same. It really has lifted my spirits

This Friday I will be doing my first solo wild camp on dartmoor. Hopefully the peace and quiet and the lovely views will be great for the mind.  

Hope you're all good out there

Have a great trip but don't take your Black Mountains map instead of the Dartmoor one like I once did! Oh, forgot about all the modern gizzmos these days.

When asked what I enjoy most about walking Dartmoor I always reply " the helicopter ride home".

1 hour ago, Bas's perfect hattrick said:

Barton camp (can't) go to football stadiums anymore

Went to Barton Camp, Winscombe in 1958  for a week through the school and at the expense of Broad Plain House Boys Club. The first holiday I ever had. Joined the boys club after and helped out at the camp in later years. 

1 minute ago, Bristol Rob said:

I have got Twentyman on, annoyingly because relegation hasn't come as a surprise to them there is a lack of quality callers.

Although some of them do try and give the impression that prior to this season, the Fewers had the monopoly on passion and fight.

Hate to be the one that breaks it to them, but most sides have passion and fight. 

See you chose your words carefully in the last paragraph.

7 hours ago, Galley is our king said:

Hated sing something simple along with 2 way family favourites on a Sunday lunchtime.

Our generation certainly changed the music scene!

My mum's favourite, all us kids knew all the words. Sat around the wireless, no telly then, listening to dramas like Quatermas and Cabin in the clearing.

My abiding memory of the football results was following a 1958  6-1 opening day win at home to Rotherham the Tuesday night game result was read out.  

Barnsley 4

Bristol City     SEVEN

Then we lost 4-0 away to Sheffield United on the Saturday. Result heard on the trannie whilst bathing in the Pool ( Tropicana ) at W-S-M. Bloody useful them new fangled transistors.

32 minutes ago, italian dave said:

Have you ever seen it live? It’s not my thing either, but I did go to watch it at Eastville a couple of times, and must admit it was quite exciting. Noise, smell speed etc.

Feel the same about powerboat racing: not something I’d ever watch on TV, or go out of my way to, but in Bristol Docks it was something else. 

Even more exciting at the Knowle track. Shorter straights and tighter corners. Oh, and we made a relative fortune returning discarded lemonade bottles to the kiosk and pocketing the deposits. Profitable Friday nights.

29 minutes ago, Leveller said:

I’m sure relative size must be a big factor here. I wonder how competent male keepers would look if the goals were a foot higher and a yard wider?

I have commented on this before. I saw a television programme about 15 years ago where they took into account the average height of a keeper when football first started compared to the goal size. Since then the average size of a keeper has increased tremendously. They then increased the size of goals pro rata to the height of the current average size of keepers. The goal sizes were tremendous.

They then played a game using semi pros and to start with the style of play was as is now until as half time approached the players cottoned onto how large the goals now we're and they started bombing in shots from all over the field realising the keepers now had higher and wider goals to defend. Can't remember the score but plenty of goals were scored and keepers left floundering.

22 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

This is bollocks, the cheque book was open to Cotts but he tried to spend it all on one player, twice, and not even in the  most important position at the time. When that failed he decided to throw his toys out of the pram and leave spaces on the bench rather even give some of the kids a bit of experience. 

I don't know why we have to keep going over this, we had one wonderful season which we are all grateful for, but he was the one that tried to initiate a power grab on the back of it and failed. If we were getting any decent results in this league, he might have succeeded.

Spouted about unrealistic targets, who would never have come here anyway, in order to get his retaliation in first.

7 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

What's a computer?

Ask matron. I would do it myself if I could remember who she is.

Take a look at fake highlights on Youtube. The new stadium was completed ahead of time.

Good cup draw away to Darrell

After all their practice they still lost on penalties.

19 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Well, not actually possible - Ceefax ceased to exist in 2012 - the gas went down to non league in 2014 - but it’s a good story ... 

Apologies and I bow to your superior knowledge on these matters. I meant teletext or BBC red button text as I think it is now renamed. 

The Gas have obviously improved as it's now only 3 clicks between the two of us if you scroll through the league's.

52 minutes ago, OldlandReddies said:

Two full divisions between us again !!!!!!!!

When they were in Division 5 you had to scroll down 6 pages of Ceefax league table pages to find them after checking our position.

4 hours ago, TomF said:

Blimey things I'd never imagine ending up on this thread - links to derelict places and talk of a Colony. 

The terminology of 'idiot' comes from the Victorian era really.  You had your standard 'Lunatic Asylum' for those of poor mental health but then you also had Asylums for Mental Deficiency and also Idiot Asylums.  Most of the terminology faded away in the 1930's when in particular the 'Asylum' tag was dropped from institutions such as Glenside on the other side of what is now the M32 divide. Stoke Park was also termed a colony.  From 1930-1930 they'd all get referred to as mental hospitals but then the mental part was dropped too. 

The  'Colony' tag line is a reference to the layout of the site more than anything else. During the early years of the 20th century there was a dramatic shift in the design of mental hospitals, earlier institutions like Bristol’s existing mental hospital (Glenside) had been designed around an imposing complex of ward buildings linked together and, to service areas, by a network of corridors into a single large hospital complex. The practical benefits of this style of hospital where one part of the hospital could quickly and easily be reached from any other part of the hospital began to give way to the perceived therapeutic benefits of a dispersed layout. Where patients were treated in a complex of smaller separate villas clustered around the hospital site which was believed to give the patients a greater sense of community and privacy. 

Barrow Hospital is (well, was) another 'Colony' layout but never gets referred in the same manner. It's strange how it seemed to stick with some and not others.

Here ends today's irrelevant history just for @Eddie Hitler

Well I played against City teams at Farleigh "Hospital" which at different stages was an hospital of the two different types described above. My sister was a resident at the latter type and was very well looked after until it closed.

Think it may have been used for training purposes as well. But let's keep it quiet and not let the other lot know.

9 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

I've been in an all ticket crowd of 38k.................1966-7 home to Saints in the cup, won 1-0 .

I've been in a pay on the day 42.5k crowd........1959 FA Cup v Blackpool and Stanley Mathews.

1 - 1 draw. K.O. 3. pm gates opened at 12 noon, we started queuing at 11.00. a.m.

15 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Forget usual dates. Just finish this season, when it is safe and start the next one a month or so after this one is concluded. 

Agree with this sentiment as this season has gone to far to not complete properly.

Why not next season forget cups and internationals to give space to complete a full league programme again regardless of when the start is.

4 minutes ago, gl1 said:

Fair enough. I just found it to be very humbling and it changed my outlook on life from that moment to this. As they say, lest we forget 

I did not intend my post to be critical or anyway offending so apologise if you saw it as such, it was just how it affected me at such a young age. At least we both had life changing experiences which hopefully instilled in us both some sensitive feelings to the rest of the human race.

27 minutes ago, gl1 said:

I would like to believe it’s been photoshopped. Having been to auschwitz, it’s quite remote so there is long journey to reflect on what you are about to experience. No words can describe emotions whilst you are there. It’s not dressed us as tourist attraction and no punches are pulled and there is little to prepare you for what you are allowed to see. Torture chambers, medical experiment rooms, huts 40 feet long that housed HUNDREDS of prisoners and rooms that are literally filled floor to ceiling with suitcases, glasses, and human hair. I walked round alternating between shock, anger, and tears. It truly is a awful awful place. Everyone should go if they can only to remind themselves on the atrocities that man can inflict on man due to lack of tolerance, hatred, and twisted ideology.

 

if this picture is real I am truly at a loss for words 

When I was a nipper in the mid fifties I can remember reading stories in the News of the World about these atrocities. Even at that age I could not understand how cruel human beings could be to other human beings and I have never wanted to see the evidence.

2 hours ago, mjd said:

Pc world , sorry I get my coat I just couldn’t help it had to say it 

I never go in there, you have to watch what you say.

13 hours ago, BanburyRed said:

They won't recognise in their tiny underformed brains how big a number £22M is - so for all the pikeys still breaking their bedtime curfew, that 59* Tillsons (*actually 59.46 but i've rounded it down to a simple number so your brains don't frazzle like a plug with an incorrect fuse).

But, but, but..... we always round up and a bit more, well a lot more really.

5 hours ago, 54-46 said:

Re the size of goals - There was a debate some years back (not sure where) suggesting that average heights have increased by around 10cm since football was first played competitively.  Therefore, mens’ goals should be increased in size by a similar percentage relative to new average heights. It was claimed that’s why there were so many high scoring games in years gone by compared to now  

So by that token, perhaps the size of goal is about right for the women’s game and it’s the men who have the wrong size instead?

Watched a TV programme about 12 years ago on this very subject. After doing the comparisons on a average goalkeepers heights they enlarged the goals pro rata. They were huge. They then played games on the newly sized goals and it wasn't until the second halves that the players adjusted to this and then the shots started raining in and the goals scored increased significantly.