Red Billy

12 minutes ago, Lorenzos Only Goal said:

Congratulations, but you have to feel for the Rovers fans. Their fan base is so small now that it is barely genetically viable. 

Yet explains so much! Would be great on the piano though.

Congratulations  

53 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

how about a shirt for the day?

Maybe we could just borrow one to truly authenticate and mark the occasion?

Sometimes you think you are safe and that the results needed to create the swing won’t happen.  Some times you think fifty points will see you over the line.  Some times you laugh so hard you have tears that roll down your cheek. 

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

17 minutes ago, kmpowell said:

 

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

Just now, Davefevs said:

Reminds me more of the Leko signing.  

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.

7 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Diony had 3 full seasons of Ligue 1 football under his belt when he signed on loan, it didn’t work out but he was an experienced forward.

Mebude is 19 & had started 1 game in the Belgian league & made 2 sub appearances.

Beyond the fact they were both on loan & haven’t worked out I’m struggling to see any similarities at all.

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.

16 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Think we are cross purposes to a degree.

A premise on here is that the Rugby Club, the Basketball and possibly even the Women's side act as a millstone around the sale potential of the club.

What you say certainly makes sense too.

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.

8 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

I mean it's hard to say. On one hand I agree and it is notable that Birmingham (US) owners appear to he going for a Sporting Quarter or a Sports Quarter or similar.

Otoh it is on here seen as a millstone, if not necessarily financially then as a preference.

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. 

7 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

I'm interested in why nobody else should want to buy the club if the price and the package is right.

SL does need to change it up. The risk is, would a new prospective buyer have a medium to long term vision?

What if Ipswich, Hull, Birmingham are not up in 3 or 4 years. Will their owners start to change track, get cold feet. The ROI element is always one to consider.

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”

12 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Luton are an interesting example..mostly via their own endeavours and well within FFP but I didn't realise that the sale of some Tangible Asset, anyway, has given them a major cash boost.

Says Asset under Construction intriguingly in the Year in which it was sold.

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.

4 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Made this post as a bit of a joke, but we really are in this mid-table-mini-league. Maybe that's depressing, or tinpot, or whatever, but it's where we are.

I've included Hull and Swansea in the screenshot, but really they're acting as the bread in this gorgeous mid-table sandwich. It's really us, Sunderland, Watford, Cardiff who are the bacon, lettuce, tomato, and er...rogue slug(?) respectively.

 

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.

1 hour ago, And Its Smith said:

I remember my first time extrapolating. Got Woolworths to trial a line I was selling in one store.  They made the mistake of telling me which store. Cue a 7 hour round trip to said store to buy all the stock and then when the sales data came through, an email to the buyer telling them if they extrapolated those sales to all Woolworths stores they’d sell 300k pieces a year so should place some bloody orders quick! 

 Nice play! Did it work?

11 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Maths = spot on

Personally, and this is just me, is that I didn’t expect a linear extrapolation for the remaining 31 (or 32) games, depending on your starting point.  I expected with injuries returned / returning that we’d keep that “gap” closer, not allow it to grow at an equal rate.  We still had a window too.

The window started with us still 4 points off (36 from 26).

The window ended with us 6 points off (38 from 29).

I don’t think it was a bad window per se, but we’ve now drifted to 11 points off.  Much as there is loads to play for for LM and the squad, it’s been over since pre-Easter, 14 points off (47 from 38), and as much as I’d like us to win our way home, it kinda doesn’t matter what points tally we get.  Perversely I’d rather be sat here with 58-60 points / 4-6 points off and blow it, ie we’d been in with a chance.

Dunno if that makes sense or not?

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!

On 02/04/2024 at 09:08, richwwtk said:

Agreed, I would guess someone like Tom Ritchie or Ray Cashley might hold the consecutive appearances record for City but no idea really.

A couple of years on from them, Rob Newman felt like a permanent fixture in my early days as a City fan.

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.

33 minutes ago, Redrascal2 said:

What worries me is that although he is clearly not up to the job you seem to be willing to let him spend our transfer money in the summer. 

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!