Mad Cyril

The most creative sport-related bullying invented at our school was "Davros-ing". Involved securing the victim into the teachers chair using a combination of hockey sticks and school scarves, placing an upturned bin over the head to render said victim blind, then commencing a game of human shuffleboard, taking turns to slide the half-man / half-dalek along the polished top corridor to see who could fire the victim the closest to the open precipice at the top of the stone stairs. The disappointment was palpable when you over shot your go, and were disqualified (as a screaming Davros plunged down the staircase....)

I think we need to give ourselves every advantage going and play a 4-4-3 set up.

Wrong thread. Ease off the cider chap.

Plymouth - the biggest city in England never to have had a football team play in the top flight. Even we can't out-moan that one.

What is it with football where someone's personal life has to be published by the employee or the employer. I don't need to know what someone in my office is off sick with. Nor do I need them to apologise for looking drunk on holiday in Vegas. Nor do I need them to come out. It's only bloody sport.

In reality, it's Manchester United fans facing the biggest cost hike this season. Petrol has gone through the roof.

Palmer absent? Check where your wives are chaps.

Make Ashton Gate a "feared place" again?? Not sure that ever stopped. I brick it every time the opposition put a cross into the box.

Is the dodgy SS imagery entirely appropriate Cambridge?

Fixtures out already? After what he did. Should still be in chokey like Mendy.

Was Instalments that lad who ran on the pitch and yacked up? If so, I very much hope Instalments won't be able to purchase a season ticket. Should be banned for life.

Oh goodie. "Impact players", "specialist kickers and retrievers", "offensive team/defensive team".... all giving me more time to buy more hotdogs and popcorn while the KissCam focuses in on a couple of belltards in the Dolman willing to have a snog and fiddle to get on the big screen.

Put them in row z... more likely to get hit

We were third for kick-offs last season (123 of them). We should really be prioritising a playmaker for re-starts.

Do you really believe any footballer is happy wasting a chunk of their short career not playing the game? Even Bale would rather be playing, albeit at a team where he is appreciated. Sometimes a big fat contract can actually be a curse not a gift. The best outcome in any such situation for every party is to find a way the player can get back in the team and have an impact.

That is long overdue. After that result against the Italians, there is no way the Welsh squad should still be able to drink beers on the pitch in the second half.

I stuck £500 into supporting the team whatever. And best bit, that £500 goes to the club for my season ticket next season, not to a corporate bookie for a silly bet.

That's Bristolian innit? Fair play me babbers at medial.

Glass half full... the prices are reduced for those committing earlier. Normal prices thereafter.

My hat goes off to anyone like Mike Dean who can control a load of overpaid, diving, injury feigning, moaning, cheating prima Donna's. Plenty of managers can't.

Of course if we hadn't lost at Stoke a few weeks before (switching off at a throw in) we would have gone up in automatic instead of them.

Bunkum. Everyone knows football only started in 1992. Manchester 19, Liverpool 1.

"...Doctors and nurses, what's all the fuss? Loads of 'em save lives...." ? Dumbest post of the post-season yet.

Christ, what would he have done to Sharp if they had lost??? Utter person I disagree with.

First 10 minutes I thought this is the guy to watch.... then became a bit Bakinson.... not using his physicality in the way someone like Vierra could. Really wanted him to stand out, but for me that award went to Conway, Rose, Tyler and Bell (at the end)