Calculus

Honestly mate yes the first was a 110% boundary, the bloke had his hands over the boundary scooping it back from the floor, the second a closer call. I have never been to such a hostile cricket game by the way. 2/3 fights nearly broke out between a few Hampshire and Glos fans, was a heated affair off of the pitch. Odd really.

Well it is Gasland.

Were any horses punched?

I see that, with the closure of Kids' Company, Camilla Batmanghelidjh has returned to her real life identity of Camilla Brucewayneghelidj.

Anything said about costs? Do Rovers have to pay Sainsburys' costs?

#brexit

Jeeesus, just give the Yorkies the title now and everyone else can fight it out for 2nd place downwards.

Am very happy to say that I think Yorkshire will win a few titles with their current team (obviously I'm an exile). Just imagine how well they'll do with all their England players available.

That said, I went to see them for the 3rd day at Taunton this year. Somerset put on 175 in the 1 hour and 45 minutes of the morning session. The Overtons were fantastic and the attack was made to look very ordinary, Adil in particular looked awful.

In a fish shop in Wiltshire I asked "Do you like Chippenham?".

 

"Of course I bloody do!. Why else would I work here?"

... and they've got special Devizes to help them as well.

Will all the new policy directives and rolling back of the 50+ year Cuban embargo by Barack Obama with a Republican in the White House? Is it a nightmare scenario to contemplate yet another Bush ascending the Presidency? On this South East Asian morning I contemplate the probable huge implications of what Obama announced last night.

 

Close to my heart, since I lived in Havana for 8 years and return regularly, Cuba is not even allowed to receive close season football friendlies from international or club teams; I was told this directly by Geoff Twentyman when I called in to his show many years ago in a Q & A with Gary Johnson. GJ's retort was that we are not allowed to play games in Cuba but i suppose I could send Keith Millen.. he would like that!

 

Lifting much of the restrictions on American citizens visiting Cuba, allowing a four fold increase in remittances, direct ship calls, personal import of cuban cigars into the States (that'll please many) and, perhaps most symbolically, re-starting diplomatic relations after 50 years; all of these mean, on paper at least, that this morning we see by far the biggest change in US policy toward Cuba.

 

Whether Jeb Bush makes the White House and whether he will or can roll back these policies due to come in starting almost immediately remains to be seen. For now I am popping a cork to celebrate unselfishly because we cannot and should not stop the yanks engaging with a country on their doorstep. 

 

And I hope this opens the door to football being played in Cuba with overseas teams taking pre season tours. Is this thread football related then? Hell yeah

... and about time too. The USA has better relations with North Korea than it does with Cuba. Guess that this must have been in the pipeline for some time. Seem to remember Obama going out of his way to shake hands with Raoul Castro at Mandela's funeral. That must have been planned.

Apart from when she said there could be EU reform?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26362034

French don't seem keen though

Have just returned from some time in France and if anybody thought they didn't like Sarkhozy you should hear what they say about Hollande. I spoke to many who are of the firm belief that France is fast becoming a basket case and that the current socialist government is very unpopular. Given a distaste for Sarkhozy and co the population seem to be heading towards the daughter and father Le Penn. I believe that the mood is running against any development of an 'ever closer Union'  in France - the elections just haven't caught up with it yet. The message will be received loud and clear in the upcoming Euro elections, after which expect attitudes to change. Farage plays a useful role in all this in the UK, but by the time of the general election his fox will be, I predict, well and truly shot.

I'll be voting for Nigel Farage's UKIP in the upcoming Euro elections. It wouldn't surprise me if UKIP becomes the biggest UK party in the EU parliament with millions of votes more than the Lib-Lab-Con EU loving traitors combined. At the end of the day, Conservatives, Liberals and Labour are EU loving traitor political parties and they're now ripe targets to be shot down by UKIP.

I fully expect UKIP to do very well on a small turnout in the upcoming Euros, and although I'm not a supporter of them it won't be a bad thing if they do. By the time the General Election comes around I expect that both Conservatives and Labour will have committed to EU reform and a referendum and that UKIP's poll ratings will be much reduced. No bad achievement for Farage.

Indeed, Nigel Farage was way below the best we've seen of him in the European Parliament where he's destroyed far bigger despotic EU targets than Nick Clegg. It's a total disgrace that the publicly funded BBC has not shown the brilliance of Nigel Farage until now. For years Nigel Farage has been seen on Youtube exposing the corruption and the criminality of the despot led European Union project. I can't wait to see an open debate between the main EU loving traitors - David Cameron and Ed Miliband - and the basher of EU despots that is Nigel Farage. People's champion Nigel Farage will destroy them. Bring it on.

I think you're going to have to wait a very long time for that - there is simply nothing in it for Cameron and Miliband.  The EU debate might well be important to you but it won't be on most peoples' radar come general election time.  Farage was ok last night and Clegg dreadful but neither have a cat in hell's chance of being the next Prime Minister. UKIP has the princely total of zero MPs, that's less than each of the Greens, Plaid, SNP, DUP, UUP, SF and the odd independent. Farage, IMO, is already given massive over-exposure on the BBC, but I suppose he is 'box office' so I guess you can't blame auntie.  My prediction for the GE is that Cameron and Miliband will debate with each other on TV before the main campaign starts.

You may have guessed that I'm not a fan of Farage but I do believe that he has provided two useful services, both of which improve UK politics. Firstly, he will make sure that the Eurosceptic voice is well aired and that EU zealots like Clegg don't go unchallenged. The second service is that by providing a home for the wider elements of the right he has almost singlehandedly destroyed the BNP. For both these services he has my unfailing gratitude, although I wouldn't vote for the b^gger in a million years.

Nick Clegg is a known liar. Nick Clegg promised the university students that there would be no increase in student fees. This was to get the student vote in marginal university areas where the Lib-Dems had a chance to win. This area is where the middle class Oxford University educated Nick Clegg needs to be attacked. Free University education for Nick Clegg but for no one else !!!!!!

Not really. When Clegg made that statement he was talking about what a Lib Dem Government would do. Of course, at the time the Lib Dems really didn't have any chance of forming a majority government, so I suppose that he should have admitted that and said that he couldn't actually promise anything on his own because he'd have to compromise with a much larger coalition partner at best. He could, have course, have specified exactly what his negotiation position would be in all detail, which would have been a totally unrealistic way of entering any negotiation. 

Farage of course won't face any on these problems for a number of reasons that I can see: 1) he's interested in influence only and not any responsible exercise of power, 2) so far, he and his loopy party have not been scrutinised and they won't stand up to it when they are 3) he's a populist rabble-rouser with nowt behind him, appealing only to the small minded and 4) and most importantly: nobody else in politics would touch him with a large barge pole.

The short-lived pinnacle of Farage's career will occur this May when UKIP do reasonably in the Euro elections. Turnout at Euro elections Is usually low and people don't actually care much about the outcome, often preferring to give the incumbent government or opposition a good kick. Some years ago the Greens finished second in the Euros. It was of no significance to the next General Election although the zealots predicted it would be. What did happen was that there was a 'greening' of policy in all of the major parties. Wind forward, and I predict the same fate will befall Farage and Co - he will manage to keep the other parties honest on the EU. That in itself will, of course, be a significant achievement, but he and his party have no long term future as a serious force.

Have we conceded yet?

Hello everyone,

 

I am starting a Trivia website www.trivipaedia.com.  The idea is to have a kind of Wikipedia for trivia.

 

I would love some good football/sporting trivia.  Do any otib members have some good trivia they can share?  Please either post hear or, alternatively, you can contribute directly on the site, so to www.trivipaedia.com and click on 'submit some trivia'.

 

Looking forward to seeing what the community can come up with.

 

Thanks all.

 

SR

Apparently Ryan Taylor was originally signed by Bristol City as a striker.

Who'd have thunk it?

What's Malay for going down going down going down ?

It means something else out there....

Perhaps the supporters trust (thatcham ) can get something going,

I do agree with a few things thats been said by both sides but with out dialog things will continue to drift apart, I do enjoy reading the e-mails we've had from JL and I think he is doing a good job on that front but the silence from the rest of the board is deafening, leaving poor jon to face the brunt of things,

If Dawe doesn't want to speak to the fans then he should resign as chairman and just sit on the board, bring an experenced chairman in to help Jon, he doesn't even have to invest we just need someone other then the current board to help change impressions,

Off the field we are nearly there on the field we are a million miles away and you can't put 100% of blame on the board but they do need to take some responcability and have some accountability,

It isn't the role of a chairman to talk to the fans: he's there to chair the board on behalf of shareholders. The fact that you want something else will cut no ice with anyone. There are many ways in which club and fans communicate: letters from JL, SL in pubs and on radio, the manager (when it was SOD) meeting fans in pubs, DL and all his works, fans parliament etc.. The club communicates enough, IMO, and much more than most. Our problem is that we don't like any number of things about BCFC, not that we are communicated with. Perhaps as a group maybe we should let them get on with it and stop being so bl**ding negative and needy...

it's a matter of record that SL approached the rover's board first and they turned him down.

Again the comparison between rovers, Eastville and the dog company joint ownership are striking.

it's worse in my view for city because SL wants to control everything and when he realises that he can't I think he will throw his toys out the pram and walk away. The BBC RB interview shows the cracks are their.

The second part is he is a capitalist and therefore will seize assets when the opportunity occurs. AG is now gone forever as Eastville went for Rovers in the 50's

as long as he is interested or needs a play thing for junior City will be fine. When this comes to an end City will follow a similar path to Rovers.

Exactly so, and it's fairly clear that were the Lansdowns to get serious grief from supporters they would be off. The end game is nigh, IMO, and the question in my mind is what will follow. FC Bristol City playing at the Hand stadium anyone?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/529276/20131211/nelson-mandela-sign-language-interpreter-fake-south.htm

If randomly waving your arms about qualifies you as a sign language interpreter then SOD's future is assured......

We are a club in dire straights... Fans have gone from dreaming of playing premier league football in a brand new stadium to more than likely playing league 1 football in a mish match of a stadium that can only ever house 27,000. Some may say that puts the gas in a superior position to us going forward... The Ashton vale saga and the way we gave gone down with no fight or a whimper has left a massively bitter taste in our mouths...

Is that poor excuse of a stadium ( the new gate) gonna take that bitter taste away.. Nay chance

Does anyone know if the design of the new Gate has the potential for an increase in a capacity from the 27,000 or is that the absolute max?

Anyone who thinks they're not deluded, is deluded.

Thank you

... and anyone who thinks they are deluded is clearly not deluded.

A Catch 33 situation, as my mother in law once said...

I think you will find that there are flash points at these sporting events, just not reported on.

Football related stories sell papers where as the others don't.

As these events seem to have passed me by would interested if you could let me know when scenes like the City/Rovers night last happened at a rugby or cricket match in this country. Sad to say football seems to be the only sport where you still get this sort of behaviour. The club have given a very strong message that they don't want people that can't behave properly at games. At some point the very small number of idiots and their apologists need to catch on to this simple fact and grow up. And don't believe that the club can't afford to lose these 'supporters'. I know of a fair few people who like football, but don't attend because of the acivities of yobs.