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A mis quote there? Instead of '..... intent and drive' He said '..... in tents and drivel'

My Dad used to say you could always tell a true sports fan by the way he gave traffic directions... 'Can you tell me how to get to the train station please?' 'Yes, you go left at the Queens Head, straight on at the Kings Arms and right at the Red Lion. If you see the Dog and Duck you have gone to far.'

I grew up and went to school in 1970s Wiltshire. All the football talk was about the big teams. No one else even went to watch professional football, it was your local town game Saturday and The Big Match on Sunday. Then for the last couple of years there was a lad in class who had moved out of Bristol and was a City fan. I finally had someone to talk to during Monday morning maths about the game we had seen 2 days before. It was great to chat about our heroes, not so good for my maths though.

My view is the 'areas' thing is in the past, for any team in any city. Life just isn't like that any more, what with work, transport, education, accommodation. Perhaps some of your generation have given up somewhat on catching up with City and the next youth generation have less rivalry in mind.

I can't answer your question but can I ask another? Do you think it true that there is an older demographic at the Mem or is that just an OTIB perception? If true that would be my concern if in your shoes, rather than the actual numbers. I think the Barton era was terrible for a club trying to be family friendly. How would anyone want to align their youngsters with that sort of role model?

Plenty of pillars in Venice, explains the inspiration for the new stand.

This is cautionary example to us all I guess. I wasn't there but can imagine how a crowd would jump to the wrong conclusion, adding to the problem and the stress. The instinct to protect is very strong, leaving one child to deal with the other must have been very tough. I was in Cornwall over Easter. Met a family who had lost their 4 year old who had run out of a public toilet into a car park and disappeared. The panic and stress for the parents was easy to see. Roads, cars, incoming tide, sand dunes, cliffs.... several of us, all strangers, helped search the area, fortunately he was found safe along the beach but in that moment of dealing with such a situation your mind is racing.

There are so many factors at play here. There are 4 physical mobile networks, companies such as Giffgaff, Tesco, Sky etc all piggy back onto one of those. The proximity of the cell tower and the capacity of the cell tower will dictate how much data can pass through. All very well having a high speed 5G connection to the tower but if the data link back to the network from the tower is at max capacity your data will still queue through a router and/or get discarded. People trying to watch video such as Sky Go updates rather than just browse the BBC scores pages will clog up the whole works. Wifi technology is short distance so would need a lot of antennae around a ground to work well. This also still needs a high capacity link back to the network to carry all the data. If you are linked to the wifi but on the edge of range, your mobile might keep swapping between cell data and wifi which probably won't help. As with all things, it comes down to money. Installing lots of network capacity which is only used for a few hours a week and for half the year might seem costly to a club. I am surprised that mobile or fixed network operators don't do more in exchange for advertising.

No way they would get that apostrophe right.

Are we reading too much into some of the players gestures? What is the difference between waving at the last home game of the season and waving because you might be leaving?

If that was pushing for the playoffs, someone left the handbrake on, it was still in gear and very uphill.

It's the lino I feel sorry for... a 100 mile touch line.

Eyes and mouths - always tricky to draw.

Being at the wrong ground would explain why they haven't got any shots on target yet. They are shooting from 200 miles away.

It would be interesting to see Forest go down and Derby go up. A feisty couple of games next season.

People who exit a roundabout without indicating whilst I am sat waiting at the next exit, giving way to absolutely no one....

I have revenge on that today. We have 2 builders outside laying slabs, 1st day on the job and too polite to play their music. I have my 80s and 90s play list on loud whilst decorating inside.... I fully accept this might have changed around by Monday.

How would it look on a match day? Oh, that is a match day....

Next time I watch it I will press paws.

Indeed, thought I was on the wrong forum for a moment. All this movie star talk too. Our friends daughter works in TV and films, reckons Anthony Hopkins is a real gent.

Body alignment advice? You are leaning to the right Tommy. Health and fitness is such a vast field it can't hurt to have some outside input. As long as it is complimentary to the other work they do, should be all good.

The manager will be delivering his pre match motivation to an all new team:- 'Remember this lot last season, turned us over with that dodgy last minute goal? Remember that?' 'Err, no boss'.

'There doesn’t appear to be much wrong with your football club other than a few quality addictions in the summer' Ah, good old Freud steps in again...

Surely any progress has to be slow and well underpinned with a new generation of fans and income otherwise they will trip up on FFP anyway? If I was their owner (shudder) I would back the manager regardless with a long term plan. At least he isn't a twitter embarrassment.

That would set alarm bells ringing if I was a gas fan. If the rhetoric or ambition is only saying 'top half' and 'reasonable' and 'not just about money' that doesn't sound promising. Most clubs talk about wanting promotion. On gaschat earlier in the season there was talk about how they were 'yet to adjust to their new found wealth' and that once spending targets were calmly identified, the money would flow with success to follow. It sounds as though the wealth they found was a fiver on the terrace. I am not being arrogant here, it was their fans who said they were hugely rich. We all know it is a money game, but projecting an image of wealth that doesn't exist is a folly. My mates definition of surface wealth - '2 new cars on the drive but sod all in the fridge'.