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It worked on Quest with Colin Murray because he knew the leagues, had an interest in it and could pose decent questions to the pundits. He’d reference results from previous weeks or give an insight which allowed the pundit to spin off into an opinion piece. Get two presenters in who’ve no interest or knowledge as ITV did and you reduce pundits to really basic followup to their inane openers etc “A good win today coming from behind… they’ll be really happy with that result today won’t they?”

Bears home kit getting a universal disapproval on social media then

Perhaps he just wants the right offer. He hasn’t really ever come across or been rumoured to be living a particularly flash or lavish lifestyle. Assuming he’s been quite comfortable on his £1.3m annual salary and has banked enough to survive a couple of months out of contract, he could be waiting to take advantage of free agent status post window closing and exploit a club for a little more when they’re desperate.

This was uploaded around 6am this morning on The Athletic. Obviously much like an obituary, they’ve penned their “big money move profile” piece already and had published it in error.

Didn’t go but surely an organised event would’ve been players at one end of the Dolman concourse and any queues formed down from the Lansdown under the south stand? Then people exit from the end of the Dolman and it keeps a flow going. Like anything, much easier to have wasted a couple hundred quid on an overkill of stewards / security and have 200 people turn up then have 2000 and it be a PR failure. Chuck them against the interior wall and it’s just going to be open access with people making a dart for it?

This is elite level trolling. A new coaches range available to purchase with just the four different badges on!

Preseason friendly away called off at half time after cars drive on the pitch, do donuts around centre circle, distribute a load of leaflets with allegations about (presumably) a Gateshead official and then “armed men” leave a hearse in the middle of the pitch and crash out through a side fence. lower league is crazy

Well it’s also being broadcast live so that doesn’t help shift some on the fence fans. Bears v Gloucester at 3:05 and then Cardiff v Scarlets at 6 in the Arms Park. That’s a lot of rugby back to back in Cardiff.

Surprised this hasn’t come up yet - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-12304079/amp/Bristol-Bears-talks-Welsh-Rugby-Union-host-Gloucester-clash-Principality-Stadium.html Seems a very odd move and one that surely won’t go down well with people with season tickets - even if you get the game included, you have to get to Cardiff rather than Ashton Gate.

Who has honestly bought this? https://shop.bristol-sport.co.uk/bcfc/bcfclifestyle/all-lifestyle/all-lifestyle/1888_bristol-city-94-red-sweater-adult.html Only now available in 2XL (as is the black version). It makes us look like we are 29 years old. All this shit has to be print on demand right? It can’t be produced in advance. I got better quality gear from Cafepress back in the early 2000s!

Coventry were in a very different position than us with Elite Sports Group. Owed much more by ESG, had to do deals with the administrator to buy their Hummel kit (& then sell it with a % given back to the warehouse who were storing it and also owed money) plus all the non-kit Coventry merch that Elite provided. I’d suspect Coventry with their financial position also weren’t able to be too picky. The administrator reports go into lots of details for Coventry (and someone else, Northampton?) and their deals but don’t reference us at all - clearly we just cut our losses and didn’t have any exposure from a third party still holding “our” stock. Elite ran their store and everything else so they were properly at risk of shutting all retail operations down. So for them continuing with Hummel made sense…

An absolutely universal outpouring of praise for his new contract from both the young and old in our squad on social media. Says a lot about his importance to our squad.

Are the club just trialling different types of kit until they decide on what is the most offensive away kit? Can’t believe we’re into July and not even a rumour of it yet.

I was about to listen to it but… I don’t know if I can cope with him! I like Price of Football - and I know as they always say it’s not a football podcast, it’s a finance podcast - but at times there seems to be some massive knowledge gaps in the lower league analysis. I feel like Ashton will get away with too much self promotion…

Well his contract only expires tomorrow so it’d be a surprise if he announces he’s signed with anyone else yet.

Apologies if it has been covered but what did Bears do last season to compensate those with STs for two fewer games once Wasps and Worcester went? And what were the ST prices for 2023/24 vs 2022/23 … especially as you’d already lost 2 games and now with Irish there’s a third gone? 9 home league games over an 8/9 month season is really poor.

Bristol Half for me. Miles off any pb potential and more done just to tick off the first time I’ve ran the half in Bristol. I hated the route. Liked the old 10km route in previous years where it was Portway, in at the Louisiana and then centre to finish. All the rubbish Queen Square onwards just sucked.

They’ll throw all the money in the world to keep PL. Five Championship televised games - plus the L1/2 games - won’t get anywhere near the audience that 2 big PL games can get in a weekend. Which means less sponsorship money.

Reckon some will just double up tho, match choice style? Else they’ll be showing EFL games up against Premier league slots.

Plenty of players make a move and spend a little time settling in and acclimatising before they break through the next season. Scott is still young. Managers won’t want to throw him in too much and expect him to thrive every week, his game will need to be adapted from being a good player in a crap team to being a good player around good players. Semenyo’s early Bournemouth career could reflect Lloyd Kelly’s… handful of appearances the season he joined but then near enough ever present since (albeit with a couple of Championship seasons).

Sky have already been put forward as preferred bidder. There isn’t another broadcaster who will get it. The EFL meeting will be to decide the details and - probably - allow all games to be streamed domestically instead of just selected games.

Nice of Downsy to show his OTIB readership and reveal his anti Cornick bias when he gave the second goal to Wells

Three possible answers presented by Google Bard. This is “draft one”. Some obvious concerns… who is Tommy Casey and quite why does it think SWP ever played for us? The greatest Bristol City XI of all time is a difficult question to answer, as there have been many great players who have played for the club over the years. However, here is one possible lineup: * **Goalkeeper:** Steve Phillips (1997-2006) * **Defenders:** Louis Carey (1995-2014), Shaun Wright-Phillips (1997-2005), Tomas Kalas (2016-present), Joe Bryan (2012-2018) * **Midfielders:** Brian Tinnion (1993-2005), Tommy Casey (1939-1951), John Atyeo (1951-1966) * **Forwards:** Billy Wedlock (1901-1921), Andreas Weimann (2018-present), Tammy Abraham (2016-2017) This lineup includes a mix of players from different eras, all of whom have made significant contributions to the club. Phillips is one of the best goalkeepers ever to play for Bristol City, while Carey is a club legend who made over 600 appearances. Wright-Phillips and Bryan are two of the most talented full-backs to have played for the club, while Kalas is a solid center-back. Tinnion and Casey are two of the best midfielders in the club's history, while Atyeo is the club's all-time leading goalscorer. Wedlock is another club legend, while Weimann and Abraham are two of the most talented strikers to have played for Bristol City in recent years. This is just one possible lineup, and there are many other great players who could have been included. However, this team would be sure to give any opponent a run for their money.

Good podcast on BBC sounds about John Palmer specifically as well- https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p0dwnc59

Ha. I managed to over work my knee / quad during an ultra marathon last Saturday, felt it ache a bit but workable during a recovery run on Wednesday and then decide I felt stable enough to give football a pop Thursday night. Mistake. Quite sore this morning, figured I’d test it further with a “semi long run” and parkrun. More mistake. Throwing any pace into the run over strained it and sore again. Great job I’ve got Brighton Marathon in 3 weeks. That’ll just be a car crash…. haven’t done a decent long run at any target sustained pace. Bollocks