Eddie Hitler

I still occasionally play Championship Manager 93/94 because I found the gameplay became overly complicated and slow on later versions so that they ended up going to charity shops.

At the youngest end you have Nicky Butt, now about fifty, and at the older end Ray Wilkins, Alvin Martin and Peter Shilton.

City's older players include Gary Shelton and Mark Aizlewood.

Whilst I can't name even one player from most Premiership teams these days, I can give most of the squad from that time for some teams.

City from memory:

G - Welch, Leaning 

D - Osman, Llewellyn, Scott, Bryant, Tinnion (central defender in that version), Thompson, Harrison, Shail, Atteveld.

M: Shelton, Aizlewood, Martin, Pennyfather, Robinson

A: Dziekanowski, Rosenoir, Morgan, Bent, Baird, McIntyre

Looking up the ones I missed:

Munro, Gavin, Allison.

Of those I have had Bent playing for England several times, and once or twice Bryant made the squad.

5 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

What of the Sporting Quarter or would that ideally come with the football club and the rest being disregarded?

Only reason I mention it is that both Birmingham and Hull owners seem to be looking at something like a Sporting Quarter or similar.

Yes, you're right. That is an attractive freehold asset.

37 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

Agree, but who wishing to buy a football club would buy us with all that goes with BS.  Plenty of much more straightforward options

Yes.

Any buyer would just want the football club and a freehold ground without any strings, the Bristol Sport organisation is a costly bureaucratic overhead which reduces the value so would be unlikely to form part of any purchase.

From what I have read about QPR they have a similar coach to Manning so it should be an entertaining game.

I expect City to win as we have the much stronger team, though of course QPR could always pull a great performance out of the bag.

Good lord.

Maybe we are going up then.

That was a very decent FA Cup run to give a bit of excitement to another mid-table season.

I really enjoyed listening all the way through a radio commentary, this was a classic game and there is no shame in losing on penalties against a Premiership club.

4 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

They’ve finally formally announced Jamie Mac, giving details of both his playing and coaching career in full:

 

The sheer unprofessionalism of not mentioning that he played for City is ridiculous, but just look at that first line for more amateur hour idiocy.

"Bristol Rovers F.C is delighted to confirm the full compliment....

It's either "FC" or "F.C.". It isn't "F.C"

A "compliment" is saying something nice about someone, what they mean is "complement".

If you're going to use a long word then use the right one.

To answer this question I have consulted the Prophesies of Nostradamus and it appears that we will be winning the Champions League in the very near future against a team which also plays in red.

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To support the great troubled Cappe;
the reds will march in order to clarify it;
a family will be almost overcome by death,
the red, red ones will knock down the red one.

Or the Europa Cup in five years anyway.

Interpret your own prophesy here

1 hour ago, Big C said:

We are much better with Manning than Pearson

27 minutes ago, frenchred said:

We are really not!

23 minutes ago, Big C said:

Yes we are. 

51 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

I'm old and old fashioned so I  disagree to some extent. What Forest have, and what many have including us, is not so much a badge as a logo. What Barnsley have on their shirt is a proper badge that honours the club's history. Personally I think clubs should have both. For simplicity of design for replica shirts have a logo but for official correspondence the letterhead should sport a badge. 

Yes, I agree with that.

I like the Bristol coat of arms but I prefer having an instantly recognisable logo on the shirt.

Making it simpler and more recognisable is good, IMO the best badge is Nottingham Forest - bold, distinctive and instantly recognisable.

The worst would be something like Barnsley's which is ridiculously complicated and blurs into one at a distance.

12 minutes ago, myol'man said:

Ziderheads used to be a real laugh but I left when TTO became the fun police

Which is why he was given his own subforum where he and @Robbored pursue their virtual romance.

52 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Not having Ziderheads available must be painful for Ian Gay ala TTO. He used to be the most prolific poster on there. I called him out several time about where he got his information from and was accused of not reading all the relevant City articles…….a very unsubtle avoidance of the question.

He also repeatedly criticised Nige and his record all without any context like injuries for example.

Apart from me no one else on Ziderheads challenged him and he was able post pretty much unquestioned.

Thats why he doesn’t post on here - too many challenging types for his liking!

 

I don't know @CodeRed, I have also been unable to get in for a couple of months despite having been bumped up to Admin because "there appears to be an error with the database". 

Being Admin just means that I can do more when I can get in, but I can't get in.

I can assure you that we're not all in there and slagging you off having changed your password!

Cider Head has been clear for a while that he was finding running it a struggle given what else he had on (I don't know precisely what that was and it wouldn't be fair to discuss it).

@phantom may know or be able to revive it, I'm not assuming that he will take it on.

3 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

I see that little thug, the ex-Bristol Rovers manager is at it again;

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/joey-barton-eni-aluko-response-31899999?int_source=nba

Bloke has no filter.

He's building the "character" persona which the media tends to love, think of all the gushing praise for Holloway with his "getting a bird in a taxi" simile.

I expect that the "An evening with Joey Barton" tour is already in the planning.

It's a bit rough on the people into whom he is putting the boot but the press just loves controversy in what is a bland world these days where even saccharine Harry Styles is viewed as "edgy".

8 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

The distribution should be the same regardless as it's a bell curve normalised on 100.

If he's smarter than 99.99% now and is also smarter than 99.99% when he's older his score will be the same, no?

Yes.

The false comparison however is with an adult score, and at least nine times out of ten it's with Einstein.

Just search:

child with higher iq than einstein

And you will see pages of the same story being wheeled out again and again.

All these people supposedly cleverer than Einstein but never heard from again.

These are filler stories.

Whilst he is probably a clever kid, IQ is essentially mental age / actual age and so effectively falls off a cliff as you get older.

A very bright five year old can have a mental age of ten so an IQ at genius level 200.

Maintaining that same age differential at age ten gives him an IQ of only 150.

They haven't become thicker though, quite the reverse.

If someone is bright then the younger you test them the higher will be their apparent IQ. Though a lifetime of disappointment stretches out before them as their IQ will fall steadily with every year that they age.

Wiki:

Historically, IQ was a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months. The resulting fraction (quotient) was multiplied by 100 to obtain the IQ score.[3] For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15.[4] This results in approximately two-thirds of the population scoring between IQ 85 and IQ 115 and about 2 percent each above 130 and below 70.[5][6]

4 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

So this Kuwait "academy" charges £320 per month per child plus £70 for basic kit ?

Bargain 

Maybe they should consider a few words/photos about the facilities and the coaching staff to go some way towards justifying the costs and spend a few quid on developing a professional website. As it is, it comes across as a scam.

Embarrasing, as ever.

There was a big old fuss on Radio Bristol maybe ten years ago when it was revealed that the Rovers' academy was making their trainees buy their own kit. I think their Board was so embarrassed by that revelation that they stopped that happening.

And now it seems not only are they back to doing this again, and this time openly, but are even charging for the training.

Any local parents who had any doubt about which club's academy they want their talented son to join must no longer be in doubt.

4 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Even the current conmen sorry, owners are talking about financing through loans, what do their fans think will be the collateral for these loans? 

Surely this highly desirable slice of real estate would be sufficient security for a £10m revolving credit facility from any reputable bank.

1 hour ago, Curr Avon said:

Mark McGhee?

Michael Mifsud

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mifsud

Wiki glosses over it but if I recall correctly GJ almost physically ejected Mifsud's agent from his office.

And of course...

I'll cross that off my list then.

h=Here's a trivia question for you all:

Which North West England seaside resort built a similar tower a few years after the Blackpool Tower was completed, which was taller than the Blackpool Tower and the tallest building in the country at the time? It had a theatre and a ballroom where a thousand couples could dance and at which The Beatles played no fewer than 27 times.

1 hour ago, frenchred said:

Maybe due to them not wanting to do it or simply by not being good enough

It's a non story really and only in this box ticking world we live in does it become relevant 

I would doubt that there are any bars to entry.

I suspect it's because referees receive abuse and ethnic referees probably receive more so a higher number drop out and fewer start in the first place.

My take on this story is that the FA wants more referees so if they can increase participation by any group then they will release a PR story to do it, and on the quiet news day that is Boxing Day the press will run with it.

I have never wanted to do this, I have only ever known one person who has, to my mind it's a thankless task.

I could only find a record of actual appearances for Chippenham Town.

He played for England schoolboys so it looks like he moved around as a youth prospect but didn't make the league grade, hence going into refereeing to keep up his participation in football.

7 hours ago, Fuber said:

And Appointing Millen.

And Tinnion.

And Holden.

And Alexander (just railroad him within 5 months).

And Pilling.

And LJ.

And not backing Pearson.

And the Hummel Debacle.

And the O'Neills situation (late kit launch).

And the poor continuous communication across the last 12 years - the last two months not withstanding nor making up for it in the slightest.

Why is Ashton the only egregious mistake? They're all egregious as they keep being made.

Possibly it's just semantics but I would say that those, despite being mistakes, were not body blows to the club.

Ashton's tenure was.

Maybe it isn't a common word but this is why I am labelling his time at the club as being egregious. It was outstandingly bad, it was shocking.

egregious

/ɪˈɡriːdʒəs/

adjective

1.

outstandingly bad; shocking.

4 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

SL worst creation was Bristol Sport. To much going on. 

Yes, I don't like that.

Though I have no interest in either, there is some logic in having the rugby and women's football team playing at AG to increase ground revenues but it made zero sense to buy a basketball team, there's no synergy there.

Why not add a pickle factory under the Bristol Sport banner while we're buying up random entities?