BigTone

4 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

For goodness' sake, man, read the shirt. It makes very clear it is their Daddy who is 10 years old.

Both of him ?

1 minute ago, LondonBristolian said:

For goodness' sake, man, read the shirt. It makes very clear it is their Daddy who is 10 years old.

I'm just sooo confused !!!

8 minutes ago, Dollymarie said:

That’s his two daughter’s shirts. It says “one last time” underneath 

Are they both 10 ?

7 minutes ago, Cowshed said:

You may find something on Whitchurch Sports Junior Football clubs website. The matches ( males and females) involved Whitchurch teams v ex City and Rovers teams. 

No. nothing there which is surprising

5 minutes ago, Robbored said:

I don’t get why two shirts means that he’s not staying. I can only guess that they’re being put away as he’s no longer playing.

Val, Val, Val. it's obvious really.  Maybe not to you and I but I'm sure someone is in the know.

Is there a funding page for this ?

42 minutes ago, 54-46 said:

Wish I’d been aware of this as would have attended. 
 

A truly cruel disease that sadly my mum is in the latter stages of suffering and I’m sure many others on here have been affected by it at some point. 

Exactly, my Wife

Just now, Dollymarie said:

Don’t think he’s staying. His wife posted this yesterday on her instagram 

Dolly my beloved but why would she post !"m a little teapot short and stout ?

I must admit to finding this stuff to be a complete load of bollox. You can have XG, MG, TV, D&G, XTC, MTV, E TYPE etc etc but at the end of the day you need to score more goals than the opposition and win games.

Have you ever met a broke bookmaker.  Only one winner in gambling.

2 hours ago, Ivorguy said:

Just thought we should acknowledge what he has done for City, both on the pitch and off it, as mentor to younger players.

 

Not sure what he has done but am sure Camilla supported him all the way.

On 27/04/2024 at 01:10, Harry said:

Looks like he’ll be the new Liverpool manager. 
I remember a time, only a short four years ago, when he was linked with the managers role here (when he was at AZ). 
I think he was at something like 20-1 at one time. 
But old Ashton plumped for Dean Holden after a 6 week rigorous and vigorous comprehensive worldwide search. 
What might have been eh??!! 

Conversely he could be the next Benny Lennartsson. 

On 11/04/2024 at 00:11, HengroveReds said:

Should we be worried someone will come in for Max in the summer?  

 

Simple answer is Yes 

16 minutes ago, Tim Monaghan said:

Absolute height of comedy that! Get in. Almost fell off my chair.

Classic. 

Love you Big Tone, keep em coming.

 

Love you too 

2 minutes ago, Tim Monaghan said:

Let’s gooooooooooo! 7 unbeaten! 
 

LIAM MANNINGS RED AND WHITE ARMY!!

Thanks Mrs Manning

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

Pompey of course and almost certainly Derby but the play offs are too close to call with four clubs all within two points of each other all looking for three more points to guarantee a pray off place.

Personally I hope  Lincoln City can stay in 6th and are at Sincil Bank today facing already promoted Pompey who hopefully are already ‘on the beach’. If they can win the pray offs then it’ll be a definite away trip for me next season.

Lincoln is a beautiful City having spent lots of time there visiting my paternal g’father as a lad. 

Val, are you insinuating that the Pompey players are all at either Skegness or Grimsby ?

4 minutes ago, BrizzleRed said:

Interesting.  

Looks like that winning bidder waited until the last minute of the auction and slammed a massive bid in.  All the bids after that were automatically getting blown out the water by that huge winning bid.  Makes you wonder what their top limit was?!

There are many stupid people in this world

12 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

Our last home game of the season as we look to extend our six game unbeaten run. We won the corresponding fixture last season thanks to a late winner from Andi, https://youtu.be/GULOo7F1GbA

In October, thanks to Tommy Conway’s brace, we won a poor game at their place 2-1 all the goals coming after 80 minutes. For those who miss him here’s NP post-match, https://youtu.be/YENnTEWl0xw?si=1zgiY3H3OKVru5mS

Two minutes after coming on as a 79th-minute substitute Conway, in his second game back after a two-month injury lay-off, controlled a long ball and cut in from the left to fire past Viktor Johansson in the Millers net. Then, as the game looked set to end in a draw following Tyler Blackett’s equaliser, Conway popped up again, in the 95th minute, to deftly steer Andy King’s cross into the net, https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/highlights/extended-highlights-rotherham-united-1-2-bristol-city/ TC described this, at the time, as his best moment in a City shirt: https://t.co/o3EfMt1454

The Millers' two-year stay in the Championship came to an end with five games still left to play when they lost on 5 April 0-1 at home to Plymouth, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68691286

They have endured a dismal campaign, with just four wins and are guaranteed to finish bottom of the table. They have failed to win a single match away from home all season and have not won a league match on their travels since November 2022.

There will certainly be others but Shaun Goater is the only player I can think of who played for them and us.

LM pre-match https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/interviews/manning-previews-final-home-game/

They signed goalkeeper Dillon Phillips on a two-year deal, following his departure from fellow Championship side Cardiff City. Also signed midfielder Cafu after his release from Nottingham Forest. The 30-year-old joined the Millers on a one-year deal.

They signed winger Fred Onyedinma on a season-long loan from Premier League side Luton Town.

They also signed forward Andre Green on a two-year contract after a successful trial. The 25-year-old spent the past two seasons in Slovakia with Slovan Bratislava. He came through Aston Villa's academy and had loan spells with Portsmouth, Preston and Charlton before joining Sheffield Wednesday in January 2021.

In mid-August they completed the permanent transfer of midfielder Christ Tiehi, who arrived at AESSEAL New York Stadium for an undisclosed club-record fee from FC Slovan Liberec.

Also signed winger Arvin Appiah on a season-long loan from Spanish second division side Almeria. The 22-year-old started his career with Nottingham Forest before joining Almeria for £8m four years ago.

On the eve of deadline day they signed Exeter City forward Sam Nombe for an undisclosed club record fee on a four-year deal and on deadline day they signed Aston Villa defender Sebastian Revan on a season-long loan deal.

At the end of October they added ex-Middlesbrough and Blackburn defender Daniel Ayala on a deal until the end of the season. The 32-year-old Spaniard was a free agent after leaving Blackburn Rovers at the end of last season.

During the November international break they sacked manager Matt Taylor with the club 22nd in the Championship. In early December they appointed 44 year old ex-Wigan boss Leam Richardson as new head coach on a two-and-a-half-year deal.

Then Leam Richardson was sacked on April 17th and Steve Evans left Stevenage to take his place with immediate effect. The decision to part ways with the 44-year-old came as a surprise to many fans.The Millers' plan all along seemed to be that LR was going to be the man in charge come the start of the 24/25 campaign at the AESSEAL New York stadium.

Instead of Richardson, it will be Evans. The Scottish boss previously took charge of the club from April 2012 to September 2015.

Fan, Tom Eyre’s reaction to the news of Richardson's sacking. Eyre believes that the decision to get rid of Richardson wasn't the right one, and that he would have been the right person for their upcoming return to League One.

He said: "Time will tell if the decision to sack Richardson was the right one, or not. I'm very shocked. It was only a couple of weeks ago that our chairman said that he was the man to see us through to next season, that Richardson wanted to be here, wanted to make sure that things were going well, and that he wanted to prove himself.

"I can't see it being a sacking. I think one of them has decided to walk or part ways. It's just a huge shock.

"I didn't think that this would happen this season, I thought that he'd be given until Christmas at the least, so yeah, I'm just in shock.

"But given his huge losses, given the fact that there wasn't an up-turn in form, or the football, you can argue that it is the right decision. Personally, I don't think it is. I thought that he was the man for League One, and he would have rebuilt the club, and the culture, much more efficiently than anyone else will do."

Evans has had a lot of success with the Millers in the past, and, as a result of that, he's someone that knows and understands the club. His record with the club is almost as good as any of the other teams that he has managed in his career.

The Scotsman got Stevenage surprisingly close to the play-offs this season, in what is their first season back in the third tier of English football.

So, bringing in Evans isn't a bad appointment. He's certainly a proven manager at this level, although he has the reputation of being someone who needs a lot of financial backing. But why was now the time to sack Richardson? That is the intriguing, and confusing, part of the equation.

Family day today, which includes The Wurzels who will be performing following the match. They will play an hour-long set in the extended Fan Village.

Other family day stuff:

All Under-12 tickets just £1!

Party Peeps pre-match entertainment and music

Extended Fan Village with lots of fun, family friendly activities

Puxton Park will be on site with a tractor and an alpaca!

Face painting in the Fan Village and South Stand

Lower and Upper Lansdown Stand games and activities

Head-to-head record

Won: 23

Lost: 24

Drawn:10

Officials

Charles Breakspear from Surrey is in the middle. In the thirty-four games he has been the referee for this season he has shown one hundred and sixty-four yellow cards and nine red. He normally does 1st and 2nd division games and this is only the second time this season that he as reffed a Championship game.

Running the line are Daniel Leach and Nigel Lugg and the Fourth Official will be James Bell.

Proper Condensed Version

Rotheringham:

Our last home game of the season 

Go chaps go !!!

1 minute ago, Robbored said:

Many European languages are derived from Latin, including French. Latin and Greek are the core sources of medical terminology.

Indeedly doodly

Who cares ?

13 minutes ago, Robbored said:

I came across numerous Latin terms/abbreviations in my career Tone.

Moi aussi

39 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Per se is Latin for ‘by itself’.

Thank you oh wise educated one 

1 hour ago, Robbored said:

It seems that the Americans want to take over the football industry per se.

You can say that again but who's Percy ?

Can we have PK's, CK's & FK's ?

17 hours ago, myol'man said:

Big Tone, should we add you to our list of celebrity supporters along with Trump, Button, Cleese and Robinson?

I don't mix with the Z list

18 hours ago, TV Tom said:

Big Tone started it, he showing off that he's worked with the Hollywood elite and had a "dalliance" with Cate Blanchett 

Not to mention the series of TV ads I did for the State Government Insurance Commission (SGIC) in South Australia back around 1980 and also resident Quantity Surveyor on About The House with Duncan Stewart (Discovery Channel) for several episodes in Ireland circa 2002.  When you're this handsome super stardom comes easy !!!