WTFiGO!?!

I like the other angle see, conspiracy theories and all that behaviour.... city get back to losing ways and go down and the gas have a late surge to the play offs, wembley and L1 and beyond... I  Sent from my windmill with smoke signals from my reefer..

Always had a soft spot for Hartlepool, ever since the Roberts/Goodfellow show.

Is it 13 years now?

Can someone PM me when it's confirmed, please?

Very much hope it goes tits up for them.

anyone else having trouble with player ?

11 of them usually.

So are we 2-1 down?

Are we really the biggest team in Bristol ?  We took just over a thousand to Watford and the gas took almost 2 and a half thousand.

Stupid question.

Why do you think kids and folk alike, from the provincial towns and countryside, adopt a 'second team'?

"Miles away" in more ways than one, it seems.

Ah, Uncle, isn't it that magical 'Wurthers time of the year' again? Well where's mine, you bugger!? I've been a good boy this year as well

You ca't say he was just a politician though, OK he was President for three years but was 76 at the time of the election having spent most of the previous 30 years behind bars. Was not a politician, certainly in the coventional sense, before that in fact I think he was a lawyer.

Lawyer, activist, prisoner, Prime Minister - they do say there's no such thing as a 'job for life' anymore.

But he's up there with Lincoln, Ghandi, Therasa and all that crew in terms of legendary (genuine meaning, not popularist) status and his impact on humanity. Not just 'a politician'.

On the news now people are gathering at Nelson Mandela House...oop, there's Del Boy come out to tell them all to **** Off!

 

Peace and reconciliation no matter what went before is what he'll be remembered for, by most anyway. 

 

The boy sure had a bit of thinking time, didn't he?

There's too much history.

This argument that the only problem is that he's a sag is akin to saying the only problem with Linda MaCartney running a slaughter house id that she's vegetarian, the only problem with Neil Lennon taking over the church of England is that he's Catholic and the only problem with Boris Johnson taking leasership of the Labour party is that he's Boris.

He's not just any old sadsag.

My only grudging respect for him is in the words of that 442 article. Even he knows it'd be selling his soul coming here.

Some things are just inherently wrong; him coming here is one of those things.

Trying to think of an appropriate ananolgy but just can't put my finger on it.

I would definately suspend my affiliation to BCFC until he was gone.

Just wanna see a lady with obesity issues belting out Nessum Dorma, a Wurzels number or even a Jack FM regular in the shower would do.

Ah yes, Miahdennehy, as your lot demonstrated perfectly in 2007, on an obviously smaller scale of course <wink>

Lucky you! and what about the significant amount of folks who have to work on Saturday morning (myself included) who don't have time to turn a matchday into a day long piss-up?

Footy is a working class sport, so threfore an awfull lot iof fans will be in my position.

I hear what you all are saying about AV parking tho' - I don't know the site proposed personally, is it really as bad as the gate? ?

If so thats carp! Bloody double yellows and cones everywhere.

Off work at 1, straight onto a bus then a pintt in town/hotwells then BS3 if time. Done it many times, have even been known to cycle bloody hippie that Ip am.

I appreciate that's not possible for everyone but don't see parking as a major issue in this debate either.

Buses, then walk.

 

Or park centrally and bus or walk. Which is what we do (walk from the centre).

 

Or train, then bus or walk.

 

Parking at the ground should be for those unable to walk far.

Exactly. Bus Pub-Crawl has been my traditional mode of transport.

Fully understand what you're saying. Of course we all love the spiritual home of our club.......but! I'm not sure of your personal circumstances but parking at the gate is absolutely horrendous, even at the moment with small crowds!

Can you imagine what this would be like if we were getting 20,000 + crowds regularly?

To be honest, it would probably stop alot of folks comming eventually, stifling the club yet again.

As beaverface says; parking seems like a bit of a red herring. It's an issue a more compitent council would deal with re public transport. Secondly, what's AG's record attendance? 30 000ish? and we managed then. Also, the last time I went to the hellhole that is the Madjedski stadium it took an hour to escape after. We could also build a multi-story car park around AG.

Not being a $azy bastard, I

As a youngster in school, I used to look at the map on the back of my excersise book and make comparisons with other cities in the UK, I would also take an intersest in all major planning applications for the city and surrounding area. Over the years I've seen hundreds of things fail to come to fruition, or been lost when we already had them. For example here are just a few that spring to mind: Exhibition centre, lost. Grand prix boat racing ,lost. Shipwreck centre, lost. ATA metro, lost. numerous other transport schemes lost. Centre for the performing arts, lost. numerous arena plans down the drain. Ring road never completed. Stadiums held up/lost. International/ large swimming pool, 50 years to build. Ice rink lost. I'm sure there are many more.

And that's not to mention our second/third/fourth rate sporting representatives.

I love my city and will fight for it. I want my city to be better, I don't want a collective of mediocre things, which I admit do make for a very good city compared to others, I want top quality things for my city as well. Instead we get a Mayor who's doing his best for all the minority groups while ignoring the masses, a Mayor who's concentrating on stopping car use and bringing in a congestion charge, in some sort of attempt to quell those commuting into the city. Installing RPZs (paid parking zones). Instead of decent transport we have, the promotion of cycling, which might suit those in the flatlands of central Bristol but, does nothing for the people living within the boundaries up the hill and miles away, those who struggle to commute through or around the city because of the restrictions imposed on road use in the last decade and before.

Not massively negative, just totally peed right off with it all.

The area doesn't need a Sainsburys, the sole purpose of the idea is to benefit share-holders, nothing more.

Plus I believe the flattening of the site is wrong on every level. Plus I hate Bristol R*vers.

The unfavour of the month -the green counci- deserve credit if supposed progress is denighed in this instance.

As for AG/AV - I was never for a move. The identity and tradition of our club would be further up in smoke. Let's emulate Norwich or West Brom, not souless bores like Reading.

Rather be at AG in league1 than play in a different colour, be called City Robins or play in a shopping mall.

Shame, my Newtown newts were neutered as I needed no new newts.

It's a sad state of affairs when the only things fans of BOTH clubs can gloat about at the moment are the misfortunes of the other. 

Everywhere else in the country seems to be trying to be progressive.  The mentality in Bristol is always negative.  Such a shame.

I'm sure we'll end up with a nice expensive white elephant Arena in the wrong part of town, costing the taxpayers millions, but neither of the moderm new football stadia funded from private equity.  Glad I moved away to be honest.

What a diplomatic approach to employ at this moment in time. However, were you preaching it to your fellow sags over AV or our relegation? Infact, isn't the identity of R*vers based squarly on the fortunes of Bristol City? Because that is your reputation.

Secondly, this is a football forum not a local council/town planning one.

Well what do you know? The glea they took over Ashton Vale, the paranoia about SL being the wealthy resident putting in for a JR given their overt attempts to highjack AV and now this...... absolutely priceless.

Sorry if the point's been already made - it's already a five pager over about 2 spoken quotes - but how about we wait and see what happens and cross the bridge then?

Nothing like conjecture, conspiracy and all round fanny attacks to keep things interesting, though, eh?

I know, it's a forum, it's what we do.

That's it, I'm off for a ****.

Don't know whether to laugh or cry reading this so I'm kinda doing both. Come On City!!! let's just knick it....

Here's a question.

Years ago, we were playing the gas at our place, it was when they had half the park end.  As I left the Dolman, a gashead came charging at me so I belted him. Yes, I was aggressive but I was always going to defend myself. As I actually threw a punch (before the gashead could), should I get a life ban? By the attitude of some on here, I should even though I did nothing wrong.

Well I s'pose self-defence is fair game, but as none on here are likely to know the exact reality of each and every of the 16 cases then really the whole bloody thread's just what it is, unfounded speculation in the main.

This ain't a court of law, mate.