Eddie Hitler

Yup. Footballers and entertainers generally are paid a portion of the gates receipts / ticket sales they generate. I am sure that the players of Torquay train just as hard as those of Man City, there is no complaint that they receive less in a year than Man City players do in a week. They aren't salaried roles where you are paid to carry out a particular function to a required level, those should be equally paid.

Flares. Good innit?

I hope everyone in those stands joins in, this dragon display by Porto shows how good these can become.

Absolutely that. Look at all the highly qualified and fully badged up assistant managers who step up to being a full manager and it's an absolute disaster because they don't have the man management skills that such a job requires. Brian Kidd was the classic example of this. Superb assistant manager, terrible manager. The best preparation for being a good manager of a big club is to start in the lower leagues and prove yourself there. Brian Kidd's dire managerial career: 1998–1999 Blackburn Rovers Kidd left United to take charge at Blackburn Rovers in December 1998, replacing Roy Hodgson who had been sacked after Blackburn's poor start to the season left them in the relegation zone. Despite Kidd having a promising start with Rovers, which saw him voted Premier League Manager of the Month and having also spent nearly £20 million on new players in his first four months in charge he was unable to save them from being relegated from the Premier League (just four years after being champions) and Kidd was dismissed on 3 November 1999 with Rovers standing 19th in Division One Brian Kidd's absolutely superb assistant managerial career: 1988–1991 Manchester United (youth team) 1991–1998 Manchester United (assistant) 2000–2003 Leeds United (assistant) 2003–2004 England (assistant) 2006–2008 Sheffield United (assistant) 2009 Portsmouth (assistant) 2009 Manchester City (youth team) 2009–2010 Manchester City (assistant) 2010–2021 Manchester City (co-assistant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kidd

Betting man who throws it all away like so many of them, Keith Gillespie springs to mind.

Indeed. We can still win this.

I think it's great that we can count amongst our chairmen and managers a successful musician, a film star, and an England national team manager. It's much better than being a run of the mill club.

In the Championship we are the nineteenth least safe for car crimes or, put another way, very safe. Full survey: https://www.scrapcarcomparison.co.uk/blog/match-day-parking/

No, just tried and straight in as normal. This is on an Android phone.

I look at it that they're copying us, and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I like the Spanish, that would be the semblance of a decent motto on a shirt. Estas cosas toman tiempo

This bit is fairly impressive tbh; even if the rest is more of the "of course nothing's happen WRT a new stadium, but we will pretend that it is". The debt was £7m over a year ago at the last accounts and maybe £9m now, usually people want it to stay as debt because then there is no tax liability from repaying it in full. Good news for Rovers as a club but bad news for Wael's personal fortune. Though I'm sure that the Lansdowns would do similar for City in similar circumstances. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04501223/filing-history Rovers also confirmed that as part of the takeover process, the debt owed to Dwane Sports will be capitalised. This means that apart from ordinary trade creditors the club is substantively debt free.

If he had been entirely honest and revealed every detail of a confidential ongoing transaction worth upwards of £20m and so jeopardising that transaction then that would have been the response of an utter moron, which he very much isn't.

I did check and it's not online for Radio Bristol. I remembered some cup games being available last year so maybe they were early FA Cup games. 09/08/2023 BBC Radio Bristol Sport EFL Cup coverage of Bristol City v Oxford United and Ipswich Town v Bristol Rovers. NOT online.

I go 16th to 18th, though without any serious relegation worries. This IMO is our last transition season from the problems that Ashton left us with.

I knew that it had happened once subsequently for the same reason, a bye given to a club in European competition, but I didn't recall the club. It was AFC Wimbledon in 2011/12. The 4 in brackets after each club refers to their division. Preliminary round Times up to and including the fourth round are BST (UTC+1). Times from the quarter-finals onwards are GMT (UTC±0). Due to newly relegated (and League Cup title holders) Birmingham City having a bye to the third round following qualification to the Europa League and the extra Europa League berth awarded to Fulham through the Fair Play league, newly promoted AFC Wimbledon and Crawley Town played each other in a preliminary round. The draw for the round took place on 13 June with Crawley Town at home. This was the first need for a Preliminary Round since the 2002–03 season. 29 July 2011 Crawley Town (4) 3–2 AFC Wimbledon (4) Broadfield Stadium, Crawley 19:45 Akpan 38' Torres 53' Tubbs 64' Report L. Moore 26' Midson 46' Attendance: 3,204 Referee: Darren Deadman (Cambridgeshire) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–12_Football_League_Cup

I bet he regrets burning all those fifty pound notes these days.

Unless they have bought them for the same reason that Robert Maxwell bought Oxford United; he wanted somewhere near his home where he could land his helicopter.

Time to remind our younger readers of 19 year old property developer and "multi-millionaire" Spencer Trethewey. https://taleoftwohalves.uk/featured/not-run-football-club-spencer-day-story

Dr Faustus is actually very sound, he used to post on Ziderheads. Though I can't speak for the veractity of what his mate has told him.

Until the voice of unblemished truth that is Henbury Gas posts that he knows something then I won't believe a word of it.

I do find it unbelievable that "nice man" Wael has appointed Barton and then let him sign that Exeter striker. This has totally divided their fanbase and the rows keep flaring up between them, the damage from bringing those scumbags to Rovers is going to cast a long shadow. I wouldn't be surprised to see some scrapping between their own fans this season.

They're entirely dependent on the company carrying out the wider development. It is very possible that the FM is redeveloped without a football ground.