Rich

No, his legs went, I saw them wobbling facing a penalty.

In fairness, that's a tough fixture, Winterbourne under 7's have been making great strides lately. It was only last year they were playing the year below.

Thanks for that. Looks like a lot of shunting around of the same debt originally used to purchase BRFC, plus the interest charged against it. Still the same position of Wael owning the club and having his investment protected by the value of the stadium. Plus the Colony seems to be owned independently with a possibility of being used for housing at a later date, if the adjacent site wins PP. I know this puts the actual club in a similar position as others but, for them to improve and become really competitive, they'd need massive investment for a new stadium, something Wael doesn't seem able to provide.

Can you remind me who has control of Dwayne Sports and Dwayne developments, also who owns the colony? Thanks in advance.

An independent firm was called in to carry out a financial report, they were called administrators in the press briefings, supposedly because the were a Financial Administrative firm. Frankly Mr Spencer: Ashton Gate Eight Page 3 - The story of Bristol City and Ashton Gate Eight (sportskeeda.com) I'm probably guilty of using the more up to date term of administration. This firm were negotiating between the old BOD and the prospective buyers. They made recommendations of go bankrupt, do a deal with creditors, or sell to another party. Interesting quote from Gordon Taylor in this report.: Ashton Gate Eight: How eight players tore up their contracts to save Bristol City - BBC Sport

I know.

It was an easy decision to make for him, probably the only offer he had. He first joined the club as a sixteen year old in 2013. The season ultimately finished in disappointment as Rovers were relegated out of the Football League for the first time since their admission in 1920. Despite Rovers only ever occupying one of the two relegation places following the final game of the season, the threat of relegation surrounded the club for the entire season. Sounds like the perfect signing.

Always the victims, never to blame.

It started the tightening of laws within football, yes.

Administers were appointed and new owners sought, but a package from Ken Sage, Derryn Coller and Bob Boyd was accepted. Quite certain of that, perhaps some finer details to that as well. Just looked up company law and, it states that it became legally binding to appoint administrators in 1986 with an act of parliament. BCFC must have appointed them to act for the shareholders.

I think it was Martin Flook, who was then chairman of BRFC who made the offer to the administrators. What money he had I don't know. At the time he was blaming BRFC losses on Terry Coopers spending on transfers. 1981-82 - The Pirate revisited (weebly.com) So that would probably mean they'd use the true value of AG to raise a mortgage to buy AG. Or get someone to give them the ground.

Not just Francis. The directors loaned the club the £225k to buy Barry Hayles. When he was sold, they pocketed 50% of the profit on his sale of £2.225m, a tidy profit of £1m on their investment. And the fewers are reluctant to question the club over where the money goes for fear of being branded a shyte head. Long may they continue to be fleeced, I say.

I'm referring to underused lines like the Henbury Loop and the Portishead line. All brought into operation would provide a circular figure of eight cover vast areas, as well as central stations. Link them from Ashton through to TM via the waterfront and Redcliffe Way and it's minimal cost for a small section of overland rail (tram like) making a complete circuit.

We don't need an underground, we already have a wonderful trainline system serving large parts of Bristol and, going underused. Bringing back into use the concreted over line at Cumberland basin and extending it a quarter of a mile overland to TM would provide a fantastic amenity to the City of Bristol.

This was reputedly new old news. Evidently August has been pushed back a little due to Covid. They do still own the adjacent land.

To be quite honest Bert, I would have expected bigger fish to have been involved in this prime land. I just want to keep it out there so the council do the right thing and not some shady deal. When the new stadium was being planned at AV, there were deals done for some council owned land at pre planning/development prices, namely the car park at AG and the allotments. The club already had a 99 year lease on the car park, which was going to remain as a car park, so the real benefit was the allotments. But for that deal, Bristol would have got a stadium capable of holding large events Like the WC, Euro matches and the whole region would benefit. With this muted deal, it would appear there is one privately owned beneficiary. The wealth reference was over estimated, I would have put it much lower myself. It was more to do with not having a row over his wealth.

Talking with one of their supporters the other day, who said that people in the know have heard that a deal has been done for the fruit market, by either Wael, or his company. Backed up by the fact that he now has a personal wealth of some £400m. When we delved a little further into his personal wealth, we found that the information on his wealth referred to 2016 and was the family wealth, not Waels. If I'm not mistaken, this wealth was diminished with a drop in share value of the Bank or Hotel business. Even so, with the passing of his father giving his bank account a boost, you'd expect a figure possibly around 25% of that family wealth, so upwards of £100m. A tidy sum but, is it enough to purchase the Fruit Market and adjoining land and build a stadium? Just saw that Everton's new stadium is expected to cost £500m. What could Wael expect to get if he decided to spunk all his fortune into this venture. If he did, at least it would prove how insane he actually is. My one fear is that Marvin and his right hand man are doing a covert deal with the city's land, just to give those cretins a more even platform to compete.

Thanks for that. I must be going mad. I know I commented on it during the consultation period, perhaps I should pay more attention.

Thanks, I believe I'm going mental, must be old age.

Don't think that was on the original plans, perhaps they saw my comments. Though I was meaning more from along the side of the arena, so all facilities were accessible.

I was saving that, as that list will be exhaustive.

I'm all for developments which might aid BCFC and enhance profile and increase our chances of success. I can't help feeling that we've missed an opportunity here. Firstly in the design of the structures, they bare no resemblance to what has already been a fantastic development of the stadium. Ie: no rounded corners to the arena or car park, which looks like it's been copied from the "Bristol" former Unicorn Hotel. The block of flats could also have continued the theme, with a rounded design like the one in Broadmead or the "eye" at the back of TM. It's all a bit Lego. The other thing that strikes me as odd, is that there are no shared facilities with the Lansdown stand, which could easily have been accessed with bridges, linking the arena to the restaurants and toilet blocks at different levels. Perhaps this is intentional, for future sub division of the site, who knows? No doubt the usual nimby's will be out in force moaning about traffic increase, pollution, lack of affordable housing, newts in the stream upset. What they'll conveniently forget is that, there are already buildings, both retail and commercial on this site, which have hundreds of vehicle movements every day, the new link road has also taken traffic away from the area and a giant store was previously approved for AG with thousands of vehicle movements included in those assessments and, three quarters of the site is currently used for vehicle parking. They'll probably state there's a loss of retail to the area with these plans and they'll miss the site of the platforms on the horizon. No benefits to the area or community whatsoever, in their eyes.

For a little clarity, their golden years when they used to "beat us a lot" were so say in the 80's and 90's. So I spent a little time to assess that period. Between August 1980 and October 1999 the two clubs played each other 36 times. They won 14, drew 10 and we won 12. a slight advantage but, not quite the way they like to remember it. Their real glory period was actually condensed into a four year period from January 1987 until January 1991, winning 6 and drawing 4, when no matter what we did they managed to get the better of us. So in reality, apart from that four year period of hell on earth, we won 12, drew 6 and lost 8 in the rest of those glorious two decades.

That statement sums up their whole supporter base in one. Deluded, irrational, ignorant, gullible, pathological lying victims. They'll read that and believe every word of a made up series of possible scenarios.

Trial by Bristol Post.