GrahamC

We had the success bit under LJ, Man U win etc, but you’re spot on, as soon as results start to dip then he’ll soon go missing. “I’d love to come back on the show, Geoff”… Let’s face it getting out of L1 spending money like water is no achievement at all. Cotts is supposed to have done that but he sold Sam Baldock for £2m & balanced the books, no £1m full backs in his side. As his recruitment being “amazing”, several of his initial signings there like Pigott & Harper are already out on loan elsewhere. Bloke’s a *** & will get slaughtered in BS3 when we play them next season.

Loving the statement there about the Memorial Ground having a “rich football history”, all 27 years of it..

Now being linked with Brighton, which I’ve thought all along for many reasons is a very likely destination for him, but this talk of being loaned back is fanciful. How many times has it actually ever happened? Are we sure a player who has just had a career changing move would want to come back & do the same things all over again?

April 2016, home to Sheffield Wednesday, won 4-1 Tomlin & Kodjia scored the penalties. Oxford had 4 awarded in a game at Gillingham last season..

How’s that going?

******* pitiful, what’s their excuse? Of course, we’re tinpot & liars about our shit away following.

Think you can draw a fairly obvious conclusion as to why not, when he’s currently fit to play.

He still dived to win it.

Watched the last half hour or so of their win over Rangers, he was captain & played RWB though when they went 2 up he was effectively RB in a back five. Reminded me a bit of Bradley Orr, tall, physical & covered a lot of ground. Played mainly at CB earlier in the season, also featured as a DM, like Mark Sykes he’s versatile, decent age & as yet I’m not sure where we see his best position.

He’s totally in the wrong but let’s see if Carlton Morris gets one for his blatant dive to win a penalty last night, eh? No chance.

Frost is an embarrassment. He actually tried to pretend earlier in the season the Burnley defender they had on loan (Thomas?) who buggered off in January to join Barnsley instead wasn’t someone that they would miss, because he had been “inconsistent”. The total opposite of what he’d been saying only a few weeks before. They are 2 points ahead of Cheltenham, they way he’s reported on them you’d think they were having Argyle’s season.

Very similar. Said yesterday the only other one I could think of was me for the Bountyhunter in 1990 v the Leyton Orient fanzine on Hackney marshes @Merrick's Marvels @77 punk @CyderInACan @Bristol Oil Services..

Tom Ince.

Sure is, if you look at the penalties Barton’s lot get (7 & counting) this is how they get the majority, initiating contact & going to ground. Ivan Toney is a serial offender too, deliberately makes contact & goes down, Brentford get a large number of penalties as a result.

It was a terrible decision but I think a big factor in them not getting their second shout, when Pring tripped their player after it came back off the post. Having given one so incredibly soft he then bottled a far stronger claim. One of few occasions when it actually did even itself out.

Probably saying something, but think he was amongst the worst of the season. Got so much wrong, Hugill could easily have been sent off for his elbow on Pring, their penalty was a joke, I actually thought they had a far stronger claim when the ball came back & the guy was tripped by Pring after hitting the post. Their 16 had most of Weimann’s shirt in his hands but after playing an advantage never booked him, then inexplicably penalised Weimann when we broke with a 3 on 3. Harding the sub for them committed at least 3 foul throws that were missed & I thought it was a penalty for the foul on Conway, again blatant shirt pulling. Abysmal.

Good shout, no less “Academy” than Semenyo, though we got him because he was released by Chelsea.

Bloke who has managed Fleetwood & Roverrz is now giving clubs miles above them who are about 3 or 4 times as big his advice. He has to be the least self aware manager in the league & the Post lets him spout this deluded shite without ever challenging a single word he says.

Pearson’s press conference today seemed to as near as possible confirm he’s not going to be fit to play for us again this season. Can’t see any way we’ll make him a contract offer now.

That’s exactly what it means & is completely misleading. If Hillsborough can accommodate 30,000 & 25,000 people turn up that’s obviously far better than having a ground which holds 10,000 & 9,000 turn up, but not in his world apparently. He’s trying to pretend they now need a bigger ground because they almost fill a very small one #gaslogic.

It isn’t, as has already been explained it is the Barnett formula or as it should be called in Wales “free money”.

We’re of a similar vintage & for years the only striker we produced was bloody Nigel Hawkins.. The fact that this season alone we have had Semenyo (who was with us at 16/17 whether he’s technically an Academy product or not), Conway, with 8 Championship goals already at 20 & Bell. We’d have been happy with one of these in the past & like @Davefevs I’m in the camp that he’s shown more this season than I expected.

Depends on the question. Who is Mickey Bell’s son? Definitely the answer to that. He’s 20 & blows hot & cold, great finish against Boro recently (remember that?), a few excellent goals in the FA cup. He wouldn’t be an automatic starter for me but has already proved his value. Plus if we think that we got his Dad cheap, he was even cheaper…

That’s true, but some parts of Bristol are still incredibly deprived. For a person who lives in Hartcliffe & works 40 hours a week to have to pay tax on just £25k or so that then enables someone on £100k a year in Cardiff to have free prescriptions & capped tuition fees for their kid is simply disgusting.

Already happened with Swansea, council bought the land with EU funds, built the stadium then leased it back to Swansea & the rugby team for a nominal rent, it might even be as low as £1 a year. The more you know about how much public money Wales gets comparatively to England the more angry you’ll get, it’s an absolute scandal. Remember playing veterans football once Caerleon way, the opposition said the pitches were free for them & they got public money for a new changing room, it’s a farce.