Red Billy

Watched the highlights on sky sports. Turns out it was just a Max O’Leary greatest saves reel.

Did like the chant but awkward when you’re taking your eleven year old and nine year old to matches!

Good example. A player at the time who was held in high regard and it looked like there was a good player in him. Now on loan at Burton.

I meant in terms of not performing well for their parent clubs but having potential to be a good player rather than their age or senior games played.

The signing reminds me a lot of the Lois Diony loan from the outside. Had performed well in the past but had struggled leading up to us signing him. Bring him in and hope you can get the better version playing for you. I’d rather we loan these players first and take a look at them than sign them like Gustav Engvall and never play them and have them stuck on a three year deal nowhere near the first team set up.

I don’t mind getting beat when we are trying to win but can’t stomach losing when we are trying not to get beat.

Ah - I see what you’re saying. Weirdly though without the football club it’s probably a better investment. Lower incomes yes but lower outgoings. Cant see the basketball bringing in the money like it does in the NBA but the home they play in used as a music venue and conference centre could be a nice little earner. It would probably put of a sole investor but maybe the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund might see it as a nice addition to the airport.

Absolutely. Get promoted and we have Man City, Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea etc coming down in the masses. Get relegated and we have Lincoln, Stevenage, Wigan and Burton coming to town. Not sure there will be demand for huge hotel in Ashton on a weekend without top flight sport. Could be a massive millstone.

It was talked about on another thread but once / if the hotel gets built and we were to get into the Premier League then the whole Bristol Sport package starts to look more attractive as a tangible asset. The football tourists who would snap up all those controversially available South Stand tickets whilst spending the night in the “Lansdown Plaza” perhaps make a weekend of it and watch the basketball on the Friday, Football on the Saturday and Rugby on the Sunday. “Build it and they will come”

Purchase of intangible assets is an interesting line to put in accounts. I notice we had it a few years back in our P&L. It had a sub header reading Watkins and Engvall.

Otherwise known as a sh@t sandwich

It’s an interesting question as there are examples to support either way but ultimately it’s not about what revenue you generate (or are bankrolled) but how wisely you spend your disposable income. Many teams have risen up the leagues with a relatively low expenditure whilst you only need to look at what we’ve spent as a club in comparison to others and where we sit in the football pyramid. If all clubs were forced to be ran by trusts and only spend what they earn big clubs would still drop down the leagues like the size of Sunderland and Derby and the likes of Luton and Bournemouth would still get promoted. In the first premier league season there were three teams with a capacity under 20k - the same as this year. Lazy statistics maybe but shows that even with all the money small clubs can still reach the top.

Nice play! Did it work?

Extrapolation - now there’s a word you don’t hear everyday! I needed this yesterday in a business case I was writing and could not think of it for the life of me!

The same team for two consecutive games, purposeful substitutions at half time and now Chris Hogg doing a presser. I’m sorry but this has come too late for me! We are finally turning the corner but ive gone past the point of no return and promised the wife I wouldn’t renew my season ticket next year!

Cant find anything online about consecutive games for players only for the fan Jerry Tocknell that had reached a thousand.

83 consecutive games? Wonder what the record is at city for consecutive games played? Anyone know?

Cant seem to put my finger on exactly what it is but when ever we have a pen claim it always look like we’ve gone down to easily. Even when it’s a stone wall pen on the replay we always make it look like we’ve dived.

Don’t buy it! It will only fall apart half way through the season and need a whole summer to rebuild it again at a huge cost.

We sold over 14k seasons tickets for this season. I myself am not renewing and will pick a few games to pay on the day instead. I’m not sure even if ticket sales plummeted that the board would be that concerned. The increased Tv money will just about cover it and there confidence that we will be top six will give them the belief that they will fill the stadium with pay on the day and hence generate more match day revenue anyway. Get a cup game like we did against Man Utd and everyone will be snapping up the half season tickets. Five points adrift at the bottom of the league in January and it’s a different story obviously.

Can see us throwing a lot of money at the problem in the summer to try to make it work as those in charge try to save face and we’ll be back to square one like where we were after COVID. I would love Manning to prove us all wrong and make us successful and there are lots of reasons to suggest he may be able to do this but there are equally as many reasons to suggest he won’t.

We don’t need Paul the Octopus to predict our results at the moment!

I don’t think he’ll risk playing him personally. We have the international break so it gives him extra recovery. It’s going to be so important he’s fit for out last few games where we have nothing to play for as we strive for mid table obscurity. Really can’t understand why we’ve loaned him. The talk is we are unlikely to be able to sign him so not sure what the sense was.

The dump is called Newport and it’s several miles from the service station