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Exactly. At the moment there is no discernible head of anything. The obvious silence within the management of all groups leads me to believe there is something in the offing, but who knows what. However the only thing that makes sense from my perspective is a full sale, the structure is tricky, but really isn’t that complicated from an asset purchase perspective. The issue is returns and to whom they go. For example anyone thinks MBS gives a flyer regarding money generation at Newcastle is nuts. Saudi Arabia just wants an image wash. There are many reasons to buy sports clubs.

The issue is I can not see SL wanting to sell just the football club. He’s 70, his son seems less interested by the day and we have silence from the club unless you are the manager of the football club or the rugby club who are pushed up in front of the cameras after every crap performance. The Bears have a get out of jail free card for the Heineken, which is convenient, but Pearson is holding a team together based upon bringing players through from the HPC, not helped by Klose and Martin having hung up their boots prematurely. The value of the other clubs connected with Bristol sport is unknown, plus there is permission for construction that will need to be funded and the strange looking stand on what is the open end could really do with rebuilding. The idea that City could be purchased by anyone and then be beholding to other entities is not a serious option. A lot of upside in owning Bristol Sport INCLUDING BCFC and the HPC, but work needs to be done/significant money needs to be spent over and above the purchase price. My thought is that this may not be (if something exists) a US based interest group.

A lot of talk of Private Equity and Leveraged buyouts. In the USA equity (most have it in their heads this is likely to be an American person or group) Tend to be backing known entities. For example say a known business group with a track record perhaps wants to buy a business or group of business, they would approach an equity house they already have a relationship with. So group/individual goes to say a company , let’s call them Mass Equity (these groups tend to have 500m to 100b under management) look at the industry take a look at the risk and make a calculation of predicted returns. If it fits the model it’s a goer. A letter of intent will then be issued. This could take up to a year in due diligence and if there is a deal in the offing there will be individuals representing the buying group taking a look at the organization being bought internally at some stage. The big sports deal here was the buy out of the LA Dodgers which was financed by Guggenheim and put the bloke who is now at the top at Chelsea as one of the ones in control there. (4.5b) If anyone seriously thinks something is close keep an eye out for people at the club and HPC who are not typically there!

So we have a continued diagnosis and a poster using a professional health qualification. I will report the issue to food.safety@bristol.gov.uk and Bristol City FC Tomorrow morning How to report a food safety or hygiene issue You can report a food problem in a restaurant, a food shop, a concern about an item purchased or with food ordered online to the local authority where the business is located. The local authority food safety team will consider the complaint and determine the most appropriate course of action. Use this service to find contact details of the food safety team. You will have an option to email the team or use the local authority's website to report your issue. What you can report You can report: suspected food poisoning a foreign object found in your food dirty premises poor hand hygiene poor food handling food with visible signs of mould or decay food sold past its use-by date unavailable or incorrect allergen information

Last time I say it. Possible but not likely.

Bloody Nigel Pearson. I told you he wasn’t grilling them sausages properly Food poisoning sickness etc in an hour Possible, but not likely, and I don’t care who you talk too!

I think that’s true. However home fans behind the goal is a tradition that we unilaterally did away with. The idea that we are crap at home for long periods is in my opinion partially due to this. Im an old man now. But the upside is I can remember times in the 60s and 70s that it was intimidating to come here and the crowd would attempt to metaphorically try and suck the ball toward the goal and get right under the goal keepers skin at dead balls. Those days are long gone. We are a way to welcoming across the club and have been for 40 years.

I was replying to the earlier post and their thoughts. However it has to become more intimidating. Pearson himself said for years teams like coming here because it’s all a bit nice. No home end and giving the away the end behind the goal to visitors has been a problem for years and pretty much the only time LJ said anything right/pointed at hierarchy. It’s going to be small margins now and we need as a club to remember that.

Maybe some entertainment in the bar areas at HT then. Anything to whip up the atmosphere for the second half of the season.

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Yes I’ve mentioned this before. We are so passive at home. we have no home End but give the away team an entire stand behind the goal. When you have to label a corner of the ground a singing section that tells you all you need to know about how intimidating it is at AG.

Williams can be shocking too. Good twenty minutes today mind you

City/sheepshaggers v chesterfield/WBA

They are doing the draw now. It’s on talk sport

What’s our ball number?

Cut and paste a lot do you?

Center back makes horror pass. Yep Pearson is responsible. We could have had three penalties, he’s not responsible there either. They owe us a good go second half. Guess we will see

Overseas? It’s on ESPN. But I’ll check

How do they always make a mess of this in the Cup!

The idea that a level of shirt pulling in the penalty area is acceptable is to me nuts. But you see it all the time. Didn’t they try adding ten yards to a free kick for arguing once? I’m all for anything that stops that. Oh and make referees better by micro phoning them up for pro football

I'm watching the Brentford v WHU game on ESPN+ in the USA and the commentator has referred to Jay DeSilva a couple of times, so I guess he's not playing tomorrow.

It’s on ESPN+ in the USA. So yep there will be streams.

That must have been a hell of a primary school you went to! Of the promotion team and since, how many, if any, have won more? Serious question. I don’t have time to look.

Italian Dave and I have made our piece over LJ, so I won’t respond in this thread again. However I certainly would not say LJ was a fraud of a player. He was part of two/three good sides for us and won a Scottish League Cup winners medal. Despite inviting the obvious ironic statements with that last sentence, you can’t be a complete fraud winning one of those!

Steve Lansdown answered the point about a top half side so I didn’t have to four years ago. He got fired for failure per paragraph one. The money was a huge part of that continued failure But yes we can agree as you say!