Eddie Hitler
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@Ghost Rider is our Pol Pot and with him we celebrate Bristol City's Year Zero where we will only ever look forward and never back.
No more Freight Rover Trophy reminiscing please, we are into a new era.
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56 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:
I must be in a minority because I like sport but have always thought QOS is shyte. About as funny as a fire in an orphanage.
Sport and humour have rarely made good bedfellows.
The only genuinely funny, as opposed to humorous, mixing was Fantasy Football League IMO.
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On 16/12/2023 at 13:22, Davefevs said:
Just chatting to Mrs F. Aren’t they narrowing the market to those fans who support both, the classic Venn diagram???
Well on that basis they ought to put in the rugby players as well so that you have four of the men's football team, four of the women's team and four of the rugby team.
And that way for most purchases you will end up with a calendar where you know four of the people featured and the rest being all "whothey?".
I detect the cold dead hand of the Birstol Sport marketing team at work here, "leveraging up" the support for the men's football team in order to boost the support of the other two teams.
By force if necessary.
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2 hours ago, Redrascal2 said:
Hard to have a lot of sympathy for the BBC when the likes of Lineker is paid over a million a year.
Back in the day TV had a lot of money sloshing about before the internet came along and stole much of the advertising revenue.
Channel 4, dazzled by the popularity of Countdown, kept giving its presenters rises so that they wouldn't leave as the show was its most popular output.
When they realised that the money was drying up, and that friendly Richard Whiteley had popped his clogs, questions were asked about how much Carol Vordermann was being paid for doing some mental arithmetic and putting letters into a frame.
I don't know the exact amount but she says about a 90% pay cut on her offered new contract so she left.
It's not unreasonable to suggest that Rachel Riley is on £100k which would have meant that Carol was on £1m.
Lineker's pay looks excessive now but would not have done so in 2000.
That said I find the cuts to BBC local radio have mostly ruined it and I would prefer that the money went to that rather than to one replaceable individual.
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Just now, cidered abroad said:
It ceased to be a Question of Sport and has become a comedy show.
Bit like 606 then.
I used to listen to it with Dannys Baker and Kelly whne it was excellent, humorous but not clownish.
Then I listened to it on the Sunday after Nigel had been sacked, expecting it to be covered and at least one call taken, and it was quite astoundingly bad. Robbie Savage and Chris Suttion sounded like two old drunks making each other laugh at a corner table of a pub without realising that they were actually meant to be presenting a show.
I couldn't believe quite how far it had fallen.
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28 minutes ago, TheReds said:
I bet he's made some serious money basically because of being a mate of Peter Kay. I actually seen him down the Colston Hall for a stand up gig and he was pretty poor, not surprised he knocked that career on the head. Decent in the comedies with Kay, but as a presenter he certainly does seem an odd choice to keep getting roles.
He was excellent in Max and Paddy but I would sya that the problem with putting him onto QoS and Top Gear is that the BBC executive is misunderstanding, some would say patronising, the audience for each programme by thinking that they are watched by low brow working class people who would like to see one of their own presenting and think him ideal.
This is simialr to my memories of the absolute worst of children's TV where the execs reasoned that as kids were the audience then they would like to see a kid producing. Usually some annoying precocious yet very amateurish twonk from the Anna Scher Stage School. I give you: Why Don't You, Razzamatazz and (brace yourselves) Our Show.
When what we actually wanted was funny professional adult presenters like John Noakes, Johnny Ball and Brian Cant to whom youngsters could relate.
Top Gear was different as they couldn't really have kept Clarkson on but there was no sensible reason for replacing Sue Barker on QoS she was was ideal for the job.
For those younger souls who are fortunate enough not to have seen it, here is Our Show in all its unwatchable shambolic amateurness.
Well done if you can make it to the minute mark without stopping it or throwing your screen / tablet / phone against the wall.
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5 minutes ago, GrahamC said:
This isn’t true though, is it?
She’s been an EFL referee since 2021, so she is clearly thought to be a good one & she’s got a Prem game.
I can’t see how her gender plays any part in this, other (male) referees are also being moved up this quickly.
The overall refereeing standard is really poor, if we can find better referees early that’s a very good thing.
Fine if that actually is the case, I was relying upon the previous post as they clearly know the system of promotion for referees.
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On 15/12/2023 at 04:51, bemmyredjeff said:
It's not really fair when she has been fast tracked through the system when good male referees have achieved their end of season marks and continually not been considered for promotion to the next level.
Yes, that's the problem with this.
They have received the promotion because they are a woman rather than upon merit.
Women who are good enough to do this would have come through anyway but pushing one through the system early is going to be counterproductive if she isn't actually up to the job.
They risk becoming the crap referee that no one wants to see listed for their game and so generating the association: woman referee = useless.
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As I saw just one game in each of the 70s (79) and 80s (81) I'm not going to claim to have a genuine favourite from those decades.
90s for me, started going in I think '94, so I didn't see Andy Cole, is Shaun Taylor.
'00s Scott Murray
'10s Aden Flint
I'm probably biased towards defenders as that's where I played.
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15 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:
Kinda wish I could find the 'Player of the Year' awards going back to the 80s, I feel sure I'll drop a rickett if I try and come up with my short list!
It's on the wiki page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_City_F.C.
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9 hours ago, Hello Dave said:
Just bumping this. Any offers before I put it on Facebook/ e bay?
I might buy it off there so do please link it.
I've never really understood this internet payment stuff like Paypal so only buy through eBay from UK sellers (and not Amazon on principle), I know there are more fees but that's life.
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47 minutes ago, Hello Dave said:
It was donated to the raffle/ auction. I really wouldn’t have a clue what it’s worth. I suppose it’s worth more to some than others. If I said £50, I wouldn’t know if that was too much or not.
Fair dos but your uncertainty puts people off. I'd pay £50 for it but maybe others would pay more.
Maybe other contributors to the thread would care to price it?
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I'm not saying that I want to buy it @Hello Dave, but I will say that the biggest deterrent for people in anything like this is the absence of a guide price.
Obviously you want more than a tenner for it but I really don't have a clue as to it's value or what you are hoping to get for it.
You answer above "every bit helps" really doesn't help.
Say what you would be happy to get for it - £60, £80 - and then people can start PMing you with bids.
As it is I don't have a clue what you're looking for: £50, £100, £200.
And as I don't know even a rough guide I won't pitch in. This is why auction houses give guide prices: to give people an idea. Sure it may go for much more in a bidding war but you need a starting point.
eBay auction linked from here maybe?
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Interesting.
Link below for anyone else who didn't know about this, it was news to me.
Obviously have a guess before clicking on the link.
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I'd say that because people support "their club" for life in most cases people tend to project onto them special, even unique, qualities which really don't exist.
At root they are, location excepted, interchangeable professional football teams and this decade's success is next decade's struggler falling through the leagues if something goes awry.
My earliest memories of supporting City were under Alan Dicks in Division 1 with that classic line up, meaning that I have always since then seen us as a top division club in waiting. I am however wrong in this, as the companies selling investments always say "past results are no guide to future performance".
Man United ruled for a decade from the mid 90s because of the combination of a great manager and half a dozen superb players coming through the youth team at the same time and forming the core of the side.
And look at them now.
Brentford has been very well run recently but for years was just another small lower league club.
Currently City has a very strong youth programme, great facilities and coaching, and wealthy owners. This is an excellent position in which to be.
We are however lacking two things: an excellent manager (maybe that is Manning, too early to tell yet) and some decent player purchases.
Add those two and we become a "special" club.
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I know this isn't what the thread is asking but it brought it to mind.
In the late nineties in London I had a member of staff whose landlord was Kevin Nugent's brother, I said to pass on my admiration.
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8 minutes ago, freezer said:
They don't take cash down the ground so do you not buy food or drink there?
Nope.
I find the price of a pint eye-watering.
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Just now, BigTone said:
Not related to BCFC but to do with food & drink prices. I went into one of our Cafe / Bars the other day and bought a 330ml bottle of Kronenbourg 1664 zero alcohol beer. This is not an establishment I usually frequent. I went to pay as I left and was charged €6.00 for the drink. I was somewhat taken aback because I can buy a pack of 6 in the local supermarket for €4.60 or 2 bottles of wine for a few cents more. Needless to say I shall not be returning in a hurry.
That's fairly standard in the UK TBF, Wetherspoons excepted.
Sub £1 for can of beer in a supermarket, £6 for a pint in the pub.
I'm fairly surprised that France has gone that way, cheap booze and the one Euro, now 1.5 Euro, cold pint of local lager has always been an attraction of Mediterranean holidays.
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27 minutes ago, Winterstoke toad said:
One thing I’ve noticed with our fan base compared to others is how quickly they forget about things and just accept the situation and carry on as normal .
Yes, and it didn't used to be like that.
We criticise Rovers' fans for their passiveness, where have their "sack the board" protests been over the years for example, but we have mostly gone the same way.
The sheer cost and being crammed into small seats makes for a very passive audience these days; most clubs are likely the same.
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Covid killed it for me.
When league games are stripped of the crowd-generated atmosphere they look like school kids having a kickabout in the park.
It was an "emperor's new clothes" moment; I retain an interest in City but have lost all interest in the England national team.
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17 minutes ago, adamski said:
I still have my original £100s worth, somewhere, no idea where though
Go to the link that @ExiledAjax posted and look for your name on the register giving your shareholding, as long as it's there then you don't actually require your certificate to sell (not that you appear to be intending to do so anyway).
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5 minutes ago, nickolas said:
And are they as worthless as they seem?!
The shares have been so heavily diluted over the years by the Lansdowns doing debt for new equity swaps to keep within the FFP limits that yes, they are really only of sentimental value these days.
At how much would the club be valued with the ground? £40m maybe, or £30m with the third party debt on the ground going with it.
The minority shareholding of 1.3% is worth £390k on that £30m basis, each ordinay share is worth 19.4p. The buyback by the Lansdowns was incredibly generous as it was at £2 a share. If I had only had a few I might have held on for said sentimental reasons but I had a fair few so accepted it.
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25 minutes ago, Charlie BCFC said:
So everyone who has a different opinion to you must be a Nigel Pearson hating robot from Bristol Sport?
Yes, absolutely that.
Well surmised.
The Lansdowns - What Do People Actually Want
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I like their ownership and would say that it has clearly been of overall benefit to the football club.
This isn't my saying "there are worse owners out there", rather that I think that they are good owners and I would like them to continue.
That said I am not a happy clapper with the blinkers on.
They have made mistakes but for me the only fully egregious one was appointing Mark Ashton despite his dire track record and allowing him to pour money away on far too high wages for years and years.
He has finally gone, though it is annoying that he was allowed to choose when to leave rather than being booted out of the door when the desperate financial consequences of his player purchasing became starkly clear to all concerned.
As a nod in Ashton's favour though he was genuinely excellent in obtaining top dollar values on player sales when for thirty years it has seemed to be official club policy to sell 'em off cheap as chips. That doesn't however make up for the poor track record on purchases and wages.