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  1. That said, not a fan of the revamp last night. 

    Third game shown was the Friday Sky game and by that point that starts you’re over 30 minutes in, have had two ad breaks and it’s been almost exclusively Plymouth-Huddersfield dominated bar the Blackburn highlights. 

    Don’t mind there being an extended game but to feature it & various interviews for well over half of the time you’re showing Championship highlights is too much. Especially when it inevitably will end up being a crap game between two crap teams.

  2. 7 hours ago, winsaw said:

    Didn't mind not having a so called expect look at a few of the goals they didn't do it properly on the previous version of the show so not a big loss, goals and a little action from all the other games worked well, 

    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?”

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  3. 56 minutes ago, Club and Country said:

    At this point you do have to wonder what TK is holding out for/hoping for as it's clearly not been that forthcoming or he would have a club by now 

    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. 

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  4. 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?

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  5. 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

  6. 6 hours ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

    Coventry no problem getting a new kit from Hummel 


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    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…

     

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  7. 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…

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  8. 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. 

  9. 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. 

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  10. 16 minutes ago, Dolman_Stand said:

    Unless theyre pre-empting that they are likely to lose their stranglehold on Premier League matches whenever those bidding rights are up next? DAZN, Amazon,Netflix are all going to be going after them aggressively next time around as well as BT Sport so it's unlikely it will be as exclusively Sky based as it currently is.

    If they were to have lost EFL now and then some or all of the Prem stuff it would have been a deathknell to Sky.

    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. 

  11. 17 hours ago, BCFCGav said:

    Worth considering he himself might push for a loan back. He's been very vocal about his want for lots of minutes season on season, he might be looking at Semenyo's early Bournemouth career as a warning of what a prem move can look like. 

    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).

     

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  12. 38 minutes ago, Street red said:

    BT sport or TNT sport as it will be called after July should bid for it theyve done fantastic coverage of the national League. 

    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.

  13. 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.

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