Eddie Hitler

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.

I'd say that the people who live there have had so much in the way of planning applications thrown at them by Rovers over the years (Sainsbury's, student accommodation, possibility of high density housing if the Fruit Market happens) that they are all very switched on with regards to monitoring planning and how to draft an objection that will work. If this was the first and only proposed change by Rovers in the last ten years then I suggest that it would have gone through on the nod with few objections raised. If however you keep messing people about with frequent planning applicaions. or threats thereof, as Rovers has done then the residents will become rightly peeved and start to object to anything and everything. People buy a home partly because they like what surrounds it, their interest is not going to cease at the border of their property.

He's often cited as our best / most important post war manager on here so the fans do indeed recognise his contribution.

Correct, but it isn't exactly commonplace. Whilst with Bristol City in October 1983, Terry Cooper became the Football League’s first player-director this century. https://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/2240

Personally I blame Wreckless Eric for all of the problems in the whole wide world.

No. There is a long long way to go yet. Sadly. As an example Barcelona is raising 700m Euros by selling big chunks of its future income streams. Gotta keep that money flowing in so they can keep spending it. https://theathletic.com/3366941/2022/06/17/barcelona-lewandowski-de-jong-socios/ The only possible way I can see of the English top division going back to the pre-1994 days when it was fully part of the league system would be if there was a European super league of twenty teams established which scooped up all of the big teams and they only played in that league and not their national ones; no promotion / relegation except by the odd election as used to be the case with the Conference winners usually denied promotion to Div 4. This would divert a lot of the current Premiership TV money into that league and away from the Premiership and so bring the Prem down to a far more equal footing with the Championship. If that doesn't happen then it's business as usual for decades IMHO and all that Bristol City can do about it is to try to be promoted so that we also have our snouts in the money trough.

You have to buy lots of things, shoes, clothes, central midfielders. Even when you already have loads of them.

They are really obscure. I doubt many on here could even have a decent guess, I can't.

In Rovers' case however "they" will not be some disgraced baseball team but rather Planning Enforcement officers from the council coming to tell them to take it down.

Realistically he should be heading for a Division 3 or 4 club as that's his current level. It will take the pressure off and give him the opportunity to regain his former ability. I think his going to any Championship club would be a disaster for both him and the club. I have enough confidence in our current recruitment team to know that he won't be coming here.

Don't hold back Sir Rog! BBC TV may have turned into a load of unwatchable rubbish (even their major soap Eastenders is down to only about a million viewers) but I really like a lot of the radio output including the local radio football commentary. Sound of the City was, and hopefully still is, an absolute gem. Don't throw the baby of their radio stations out with the bathwater of their TV channels. Why do radios have stations, and televisions have channels? https://www.quora.com/Why-do-radios-have-stations-and-televisions-have-channels?share=1

Tbf to the Topster I can make such mistakes when typing but would never make them when writing. It isn't because I don't understand English but because when typing I think phonetically and "hear" the word. So "there" becomes interchangeable with "their" and possibly "write" with "right". If I don't read back what I have typed then the errors can remain. When however I am writing I am not thinking phonetically so I don't randomly interchange homonyms. I use slightly different sections of the brain for typing and writing; I think it unlikely that I am the only one who does this. Also there is a big inteprlay with memory in that I have a far better memory of somethng I have written than I have typed. Which is partly why I think online learning is very substandard compared to being in a classroom or lecture theatre. Where was I, oh yes - £17 for a friendly against Chesterfield ffs. I still haven't forgotten when they tred to withhold our share of FA cup receipts, away to them first round FA Cup 2000/01 we won 1-0 with a goal by Tony Thorpe, and why we called them "Cheaterfraud".

-ish. I was hugely enthusiastic about Scott Davidson's starting up an Academy, in 1996 maybe, and thinking that the home grown players would start rolling off the production line and into the first team in a few short years but they just didn't. The Academy was costing over a million year and wasn't producing the players to justify that. It has only been since the spend on the Academy coaches and facilities was seriously upped that the production line has begun to roll and a steady stream of excellent players has come through. Rovers will do it on the cheap like we did for many years and as a result it just won't work beyond the odd decent player coming through who might have done so anyway through their existing youth programme. I'm not blaming them for being enthusuiastic, hell I was in 1996, but our experience has shown that just having an Academy isn't enough. It needs to be properly staffed up and have great facilities.

Well that would make sense of taking out the loan rather than putting more of his own money in. The loan will go with the club but anything owed to him personally is going to be negotiated down as part of the sale.

That's true but Wael has been soaking up big losses for years, albeit a small fraction of those that the Lansdown family pick up for City, so unless he's running out of money this isn't going to be a problem. Football clubs don't have the same business rules as other companies, losing millions a year is absolutely standard. I suggested that the loan was taken out to try to impose some financial rigour upon the club in the same manner that the Ashton Gate redevelopment was funded by a third party loan, which the income from the new structures are steadily repaying. @bert tann suggested otherwise and that it was a sign of stretched finances. I don't have his inside track but I would have thought that if Wael is either running low on funds or no longer wishes to keep pouring the money in each year then he would have put the club up for sale rather than taking out a loan.

I know. Many times people are acquitted when they have committed the crime of which they are accused, far less frequently people are found guilty when they haven't done it. He has not been found guilty of the offences so if you say that he has done them he could in theory sue you, but in reality wouldn't bother. The UK criminal justice system is far from perfect, but it just about does the job.

That's a technicality, he wasn't found guilty.

I can't stand the bloke but his name has been dragged through the mud and his reputation ruined for accusations of which he has been found not guilty. This trial reminds me of the Dave Lee Travis one. Think he was a Yew Tree I love you? Think again. He lost his house, his wealth and his career and the only crime of whch he was actually convicted was to walk up behind a researcher on The Mrs Merton Show and jiggle her tits. Whilst that's not a good thing to do it hardly puts him into the Savile category. In his own words after the original acquittals: "I do not feel like there is a victory in any way, shape or form. On the contrary, I think you already know that I have been through a year-and-a-half of hell on this." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Lee_Travis

Revised plans have been submitted to allow completion of the new stand in time for the start of the new season.

He will always have that special status for me as being part of the first Bristol City team I ever knew.

It means that someone has lied in order to get round Twitter's minimum age requirement of thirteen.

Most people are fortunate enough to be brought up in loving stable homes which, because it is the norm, we usually take for granted. We want to overlay onto that other successes, playing for England, being a pop star, but really we have already had the greatest success with our family upbringing. If you look at Dele Alli, Kurt Cobain, or Gazza you can see that there was a lot of trauma in their early years and that never goes away. They become rich and unhappy rather than poor and unhappy. I'm not lecturing here as I also used to think "How can Stan Collymore suffer from depression when he's a successful footballer on a million a year?". Or Stephen Caulker for a closer to home example. I now appreciate that material success won't make you happy if you are fundamentally unhappy inside.

That looks like he knows the Premier League and has just guessed all the other divisions. City and Preston for two are not remotely amongst the smallest six clubs in the Championship.

I actually think that we ought to embrace 1982 to the extent of having it as a second date on the club badge. I wasn't old enough to really appreciate it at the time but the huge amount of work and cash put in by the rescue team and the supporters plus the actions of the Ashton Gate Eight should be celebrated IMO as 1982 was the year when the club could have died but through the actions of several incredibly hard working individuals, eight players ripping up their contracts, and many thousands of fans reaching into their pockets to buy shares and make donations it survived and has become the biggest and best club in the South West when it could so easily have folded. Thank you all the people who in 1982 contributed to the rebirth of our club.

I take it that that's a rhetorical question.