TheReds

Corrected.

I don't think I've ever read a bad word about him, seems quite happy to take the pee out of himself and have a right laugh. Imagine a few hours out with him would be quite entertaining. He's do well if he kept up his persona if he wasn't like it in real life, even though a few seem to do it (Frankie Dettori being one of them).

I'd rather listen to Kammy with a bit of slurring than many of the others, at least the bloke is a great character and has a superb personality. Top bloke.

You mean the Fruit Market Stadium..... Surely

Surely it is a case of trying to keep the pub afloat, rather than just trying to rip off supporters. The rest of the week they seem to be extremely cheap, which is to try and just get punters through the door. I am only guessing, but at those prices all year round there is probably a fair chance that they would not be opening at all. If it is £4.20 then that seems to be fairly cheap in todays market regardless, and they will certainly have higher costs due to the football with bar staff, door staff etc. I'd rather go in there at £4.20 (any day of the week) than the Tobacco Factory myself. Bottom line is if anyone doesn't like their policy then they can choose to go elsewhere, and pay the other places standard prices, which are a lot more expensive.

Great logic..... I know the sags pay poorly (especially apprenticeships) but do none of those 15 players want wages? What about all the backroom staff he brought in? What about the ones that left, did nobody need paying off? As I said previously - "incredible job", my arse.

The bookies set the odds and adjust them accordingly to make a percentage book. If you think they were favs (they were second favs behind Salford) solely on a load of gasheads betting them, then I think you are mistaken. If plenty of gasheads were betting them after the book had opened then they would have shortened considerably from their opening price - which they didn't.

How many players did he sign? How many players did he want that would cost a fortune and told he couldn't sign them? How many restrictions did he have regarding signing/departures? How many are long term players for them and what is their worth now? Loans and a few on 1 year contracts I thought? Incredible job, my arse.

I'd expect the players to take the knee there, how can you even support them taking the knee here but not over there - isn't that the whole point? It is disgusting it is being held there, FIFA are a disgrace, and it is disgusting that these same people who want to shout about equality at every opportunity (in a Country where they can), are not prepared to do the same about "equality" in a Country where there is hardly any. As for Lineker, those first 2 links are hardly damning, he's basically just blaming corruption, he then says those lines above you quote in The Sun. In an exclusive interview that is all he can come up with? How many people have died building the Stadiums, purely for a tournament that is "entertainment" for others? His ultimate line for me "In an exclusive interview, the 60-year-old star told us: “I get this all the time. ‘So you’re not going to go then?’ I’ve got to go because it’s my job. News reporters go, so why am I not allowed to? That's ok Gary, people in Qatar rape women with impunity - why am I allowed not to? China doesn't care about Climate Change, so why should anyone else? Does he really have to go? Who is forcing him, has he been captured by someone from Qatar, and has no rights like the builders of the Stadiums (hundreds who have died building them), Stadiums he will happily sit inside of? Of course he is allowed to go, but I would have expected the amount of times he takes the moral high ground, he would have taken a stand and he wouldn't be going.

Agree 100%,. The big issue for me is if I/we/everyone have to listen to a commentator say "the players are taking the knee for equality for all" at the start of every game on tv, then why the hell are these same players going to happily play there for their respective Countries? Why is the likes of Gary Lineker staying silent on Qatar, who loves to be political about everything else? The likes of Ferdinand, Shearer, Wright, Lineker etc etc should all be boycotting going there to sit in a studio and be any part of it imo. Until it is boycotted by some higher profile people, or some players, then why should fans (or anyone) believe these players are standing for equality for all?

I don't know him personally but definitely recognise him. RIP Ron.

Think that is my take on it. Massengo came here to get games and improve, and the other two definitely seem grounded and I would expect they would all be happy to stay at least another season, and can surely see the improvements from a year ago. I think it more depends on if we have to sell to balance the books, rather than just accepting a decent offer because it's a decent offer. But this is football and money and agents are involved. Interesting summer, hopefully we can keep all 3.

I don't think that is fair. You have to take everything into account, with opposition, formation on the day, who was playing in front of him etc.

I honestly reckon a few would still be telling us Reading, Derby and Posh scores if there was only 7 games left and we were 19 clear.

Give it 10 years and when it doesn't hit the crazy temperatures as predicted, we will hear "that's because we did x 10 years ago", and then because it hasn't hit those giddy heights that were predicted, we will also hear "send more money as it's obviously working". A win win if you like, whilst some people will be making an absolute fortune from it, the manufactured Greta being one of them.

I notice a couple of people mentioning a negative of King, but I was under the impression he wasn't just brought in solely to play (even though he is injured at the moment). I thought it was partly down to his attitude and experience which is a huge positive to others (already buys into Pearsons methods and plans etc). Unless I have that wrong?

Amazing how he miraculously loses it when he is after a new contract, a mere coincidence no doubt.

You could bet your life on it that they would happily allow it though, I mean who is going to stop them, the University certainly wouldn't for fear of some Twitter mob. We are now at a point where ITV will not even name a "man of the match" solely because it has the name "man".

The same as the word racist has lost all of its meaning too, like most of the "ists" and "isms" now used to label people to try and shut them down, all thrown around like confetti.

Don't worry, at least they are justifying putting their prices up due to their exceptional service....

Nothing here either

We were shocking to watch, and very lucky in a lot of games to get us points on the board before Holdens sacking. Pearson has had his hands tied and has been playing with some young, inexperienced players learning their trade in the Championship, and has to contend with injuries to the players he has brought in himself. I don't think it is a fair comparison to what was here 12 months ago whatsoever, if anything he is getting a lot more out of the youngsters than most people would have expected. We are seeing patches of very decent football, creating chances, getting youngsters plenty of experience, if we can sort the defence out then maybe at a push, we would be a top 10 side imo.

We were indeed and we also watching some of the worst football I have ever seen from my years of being a Bristol City fan. We had one shot on target at home to Cardiff, then managed 2 against Sheff U, 1 against Watford with a 6-0 drubbing, then 1 against Reading and Holden was sacked. I can at least see what Pearson is trying to do, and we are miles away from those awful, monotonous performances - albeit our defending has been shocking, which nobody will disagree with. We have the likes of Scott, Han, Pring, Semenyo all starting games now, showing some unbelievable talent at young ages. We (most of us), have at least got something to look forward to now. To simply look at the League table from 12 months ago and compare the two is very short sighted imo.

You've lost me now. You were basically questioning what Luton players would get into a top 10 team, even though they are all in one as they are 9th, and now we differ to teams above us because they have better squads than us, but you say we should be in the top 10 even though we have an inferior squad to the teams above us??