Southport Red

For example... ”The contract we have with Sainsbury’s is watertight”.

Fruit Market. Mahoosive 40,000 seat stadium so almost 50% of their ‘true fan base’ can go to the games, as long as they don’t have to give up too many seats to tin-pot away teams like Sunderland and Bolton.

Lee Johnson. Club stalwart and decent managerial reputation at Oldham then Barnsley. Steve Cotterill, good reputation at Cheltenham, Forest etc etc etc Sean O’Driscoll, (before joining us) pedigree as one of the best coaches outside the PL versus Scooby Doo, ex Salisbury then Father Ted, ex God knows where, now the Academy Manager (basically a Scout Leader). Mind the Gap.

Steady on Rob. Growing up in Midsomer Norton, Bath Rugby was always going to be the oval ball team for me. #WeAreNotAllAssholes ? edit quoted wrong person (might be an asshole after all) ?

That one who says he never refers to them as ‘The Gas’ calls himself Pusey GAS. So you NEVER use that term huh?

Beaten by a team that has lost TWICE against Rochdale. ROCHDALE!!!

They said the Mem was a brilliant laugh. Wow, Gasheads don’t understand irony huh?

Southport were elected out of the football league (in favour of Wigan) in 1978, but still exist, still have a stadium and still play home games every other Saturday. It doesn't have to be the end for Bury. Hope it isn't.

Reading the story of the Bury collapse is no cause for celebration for Rovers. The rescue failed because of a loan charge secured against Gigg Lane. Short of ‘Doing a Derby’, Rovers fans really have no cause to High-Six each other. Sounds to me an AWFUL lot like their situation.

I love how if you score two goals, you are awarded the title ‘Goal Machine’. Just think, Ray Cashley was half way to being a ‘Goal Machine’ ?

#MindTheCrap

One of them’s the ref! Even officials don’t want to share the pitch with them!

I used to work with the Chairman of Wigan at that time. That particular year the Football League were v keen not to dilute the NW contingent. If a Southern Team had finished bottom if Div 4 that year, Wigan mightn’t have gotten in. Because Southport is less than 20 miles from Wigan, it was felt to be OK so Wigan took there place.

Southport were replaced by Wigan.

Someone who owns football people obvs. Do I have to explain EVERYTHING to you Droopy? ?

Now we see why. Shame is, one week of the salary that the Chinese were going to pay Bale would save Bolton and Bury. Football is very broken.

Welcome. It would be nice if we could actually debate reasonably. We get some Gasheads on here who are valued contributors like @Miah Dennehy for example. Hopefully, it will be the same with you.

That’s why I put ‘leave’ in quotes. We felt let down by Eddie and they felt let down that we had had the temerity to activate the (publicised by them) release clause in Taylor’s contract. The sense of let down was probably commensurate but the reactions weren’t. He can only read your forum. Any time anyone of us tries to post anything we get banned. Your forum is like the Soviet Union. Yet we let you come on here spouting your moronic bile.

Difference between us. Nketiah ‘leaves’ us for Leeds, reaction on here “I hope his loan there is a failure and he comes to regret it”. Taylor leaves them for us then goes to Oxford and gets injured, reaction on there “ I hope it’s career ending”. Family club huh?

Just out of interest. Did ANY City fans try to go to the Swamp today?

Presumably, in the ENTIRE history of football, a player has NEVER returned with his new team to a former club. When Flint, Joey and Bobby come to ashton Gate later this year, the ONLY issue will be if their applause is merely polite or something more enthusiastic. Sue him for lost revenues? If they cap it at 8,000 then Matty will have put 800 ON the gate.

I thought they already did?

So if their troglodytes cause trouble, it’s City’s fault?

Thing is, I cannot think of a single reason why an investor would take them on. The Bury/Bolton thing would surely put investors off investing in lower league football teams. If you could get a decent Championship team with a good catchment and infrastructure at a reasonable cost (Charlton? Preston?), then maybe. The only ones you would really want (big gates and infrastructure, e.g Wednesday) are probably too pricey (and also not for sale). Cannot think that an insolvent third level team, doing it’s best to get into the fourth level, with pitiful (and shrinking) gates, crumbling infrastructure it doesn’t even own in a large catchment that is already largely committed to the other local team, would be attractive to anyone other than a very wealthy fan of said club. It is certainly not a business proposition. A theory however. It may be that the AlQ’s bought Rovers on the understanding that the stadium at UWE was a ‘done deal’ and they are hoping to pull the same stunt on some other poor numbskulls.

I had completely forgotten about that song May be a cultural reference too far for any under 60's on here though @WhistleHappy