Portland Bill

Shows how pointless Shorey sub was. What a waste

If it has helped us win it wasn't pointless.

Pen to them!

Christ, he's coming across badly at the moment.

I've spent years defending him and I've turned. FFS I hate feeling so dejected about this club already.

I'm feeling exactly the same,I'm getting seriously worried about where we are going as a club.

Whereas it was only 2-3 years ago that he made me feel excited for our future when he spoke to us at h/t on the AG pitch.

I'm not suicidal over our league position,because we can come back from things like that,eventually!

The owner just seems to be making mistake after mistake and not learning from them.

The way we sacked a manager and appointed another one without ( it feels like) a thought was/is staggering.

Surely after coming in for constant criticism on previous managerial appointments, SL should have taken a step back and looked at ALL manager options,not decide on a new one on the same flipping day!

Perhaps it might help you to see exactly what I was replying to.

It might help me as well.

Just what were you replying to?

Because it was f.a. to do with you.

Surprised Bill, you were all for giving him a chance, still an hour that's pretty good I suppose.

I don't give managers of BCFC a "chance", I actually support them.

Surprised Bill, you were all for giving him a chance, still an hour that's pretty good I suppose.

Irony, ever heard of that Esmond.

SODs legacy lives on

Eh? I thought that all we needed was passion and a manager who shouted at the players on the pitch.........................

Oh, nearly forgot, and likes the press.

Also fully explained the recruitment of SC and 5 pillars etc etc etc.

Great interview with no punches pulled from SL or the interviewer.

Should shut up a few gobs.

It was a very good interview, he was certainly peed off with the moaners.

On your last point, I doubt it!

Us Brits do love a bit of mawkish third hand sentimentality. Tell people someone's a hero often enough and they'll eventually believe it. I'd love to know how much of the moral indignation directed at negative posts on this thread are a result of recent Wikipedia sessions, as opposed to genuine empathy with South Africa's turbulent past.

The facts of Mandela's terrorist leanings are still facts, even if some try to interpret them otherwise (hilariously)

Back to sticking fingers in ears and lalalalala-ing when anyone offers a different opinion all you Nelson fans!

The only fact that really counts, is that 40 million people were being ruled by a system that was evil and treated them as sub human.

Anyone who took up arms in that situation ( after exhausting peaceful means) is a hero in mine and billions of other peoples eyes.

wow. 4 pages in and nobody mentioned anything about his love and admiration for the IRA.

Are the IRA only terrorists when they're blowing up people in England? all their funding and training to the MK / ANC came in quite handy in Church Street, Pretoria. - but let me guess, because it's for "the greater good", it's ok?? Tell that to the relatives of innocent people who passed away that day.

presumably you're all going to show the same regard to Gerry Adams and Martin Mcguiness when they die.

at the end of the day, i will never accept the bombing of innocent civilians as a means to getting your point across as acceptable. Mandela's intentions were good, but his actions were not.

The Church st Pretoria bombing was in direct response to murders that the SA government committed.

It was in response to a South African cross-border raid into Lesotho in December 1982 which killed 42 ANC supporters and civilians, and the assassination of Ruth First, an ANC activist and wife of Joe Slovo, in Maputo, Mozambique.

I'm presuming you feel it was ok for the South African apartheid government to kill innocent people on a daily basis, but the ANC were not allowed to respond?

Apartheid caused the whole situation,a cruel and injustice way of treating human beings.

When people are backed into a corner they will respond in any way possible.

That's what happened to the coloured people of SA.

Imagine if the Germans had invaded us in the 40's. Do you think our people would have just accepted it, or fought back with any means possible.

Not me. If he gets it, he deserves it.

Same as that.

JET is wasted up front, we need him on the ball.

An obvious point, but we need this 2nd goal. We have had the chances.

I dread them getting to 1-1 with them playing down this slope.

English football should just concentrate on English football. There are other arenas for discussing events of sociological or political interest. There are too mamy of these sentimental silences or minutes applauses these days. They are mostly all bullshit. Everybody is going to die one day. He's been brain dead for some time.

English football hasn't concentrated on English football for years The Premier League is now 70% foreign for instance.

We are constantly told it's a " global brand" now and has a massive following in countries like South Africa,for instance!

But I do agree with you re the minute silences/applauses and think they should only be for major disasters or someone from your own club that has passed away.

Myself, personally, "I've never met a nice South Afrikaan."

"And that's not bloody surprising man, because there a bunch of arrogant bastards who hate black people"

Bring back spitting image!

Wookey, I'm sure you would be more than happy to be treated as a second class person, I'm sure you would just sit on your hands and do nothing about it.

Some people won't accept injustice, some people have the balls to stand up to terrible wrongs.

I presume you think that Apartheid was a good thing?

It is amazing that so many people on this website can believe the official line on Mandela. He was a terrorist as is Mugabe of Zimbabwe. He would have been released at any time if he had rejected violence and stopped the killing of whites. Perhaps you could explain why Winnie Mandela necklaced so many African kids

I think you need to step back a bit,go and read your history.

What rubbish.

Mandela would have been released from prison the moment he rejected violence and he refused to do so.

He preferred to carry on killing.

So are martyrs created

You sound like Thatcher, Thatcher thought he was a terrorist. We all know which one will be a hero to future generations.

A truly great man, RIP

Cricket Australia needs to take a long hard look at itself. That's the second cheap shot at Panesar on their watch and it simply isn't acceptable.

I'm not a great cricket follower, but can you or someone explain to me, how a bloke who got peed out of his head and then actually peed on people's heads,is allowed to play for England?

Are we really that desperate?.

Picture the picture,Hollowhead standing on the pitch at AG,holding a Bristol City scarf above his head after being named as manager.

I'm off to be sick.

The Blackpool relegation from the Premier League is hardly a failure.

In fact they did bloody well under him in the top tier for the budget they had in comparison.

Do you think that managing QPR and Leicester and relegating both to League One was good as well ??

so all the people who don't want him cause the gas link would rather end up in basement footy rather than having a successful candidate?

cutting your nose to spite your face springs to mind :-/

As much as I don't like the bloke I'd rather him for the good the club.

Holloway has 3 relegations on his cv, don't kid yourself he wouldn't make it 4,if given the chance.

Bill, Chill........all said n done, it,s only foootball.......thats all it is

I know just got in from work!

But I'm having flashbacks of those games 20 years ago when he played against us and I still want to lump him!