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Agree. The whiteboard just about sums them up. Tinpot they are not. They’re worse. Far worse.

You’re not the dog walker who goes on about more horse punching and the now homeless tits scaring the newts away? Got to go some to beat the planning application for a ‘thatched roof’ on one of the classic, balconied Georgian terraced houses in Clifton in giving planning staff a laugh, but good effort.

To save the ‘design team’ trouble… here’s a compromise that could be quick and look smart. Use our home shirt design template with the standard badge. Substitute the red with white, and the white stripes with your blue. If you must, put splat on the back as a small motif below the collar - although the outline of the Suspension Bridge would be better (how many Robins does one need on a shirt?). Exercise some quality control on the shirt materials, fit and finish. There we go. That’ll be £100,000 please.

Anyone else thinking that they may be delaying the release of the away kit until after the start of the Season to take the heat off a controversial - blue element, splat motif (although think we’ll keep standard badge) and poor quality shirt? A couple of decent performances and then, maybe, they’re hoping it’ll slip through relatively unnoticed in the ‘noise’ of being Premier League bound.

You’d think for a multi-million turnover business that someone would have noticed this sock/shirt mismatch and if the suppliers couldn’t fix it in 24 hours then they’d bugger off down JDSports and just get a couple of dozen white socks. This has been going on since Luton away hasn’t it? That’s months ago. That kit is truly below Sunday League standard. Shockingly bad for a professional Club.

Have they left the security tag on at the bottom of the shirt?

We are miles off being remotely competitive at the moment imo. This ain’t ‘fun’ football any more, this is serious, real business. Super fit, sharpness with strength as well as football talent and skills - we need players with it all. This Season could be a total embarrassment if we don’t sign a minimum of 6 quality players with top league experience. We need a good vibe around the Club, particularly as the Women have now been fully integrated into use of our facilities. If the women are getting beat 8, 9, 10-0 every match and are on nil points for the majority of the Season that won’t be helpful. Negative perhaps, but realistic.

A real quality player, just so quick, smooth and slinky in his movement. A ‘natural’ finisher, who instinctively knew where to be in and around the box. A true diamond of the game. Rest easy ‘young man’ as Cloughie would say.

Ffs…. he’s wired in and generating his own posts electric posts now. I got it Lew, even if it bypassed others. ‘Ffs’ is the sound made by a short-circuit.

Yes. It looks like they’ve thoroughly assessed the application, whereas I just had a cursory glance. Couldn’t believe that if they were increasing capacity, by more than a couple of hundred, that there was no traffic assessment and/or a mitigation plan. This is basic stuff. That, in part, is why I’m surprised it was even validated and is being progressed. If the local residents are to be believed and trees existed on the site and were felled, surprised the objector didn’t pitch in on that tbh.

Think this could end in a pyl on.

Ahhh… that brings back memories of primary schooldays. Mr Jackson and a cardboard box of neatly folded cotton shirts. After each position 1-11 was called, a name was read out and each lad went to the desk at the front of the class and was given the shirt. Magical. Actually, our school was ground breaking. It wasn’t just lads. We had two girls, including Jane Rogers the younger sister of David, who were regularly selected and were pretty good too. Unfortunately, the FA took a dim view of this and banned us from every league and cup competition, so we only played ‘friendlies’. Sure this was the reason I never got to play for England.

The Council/decision would be in judicial review territory if they have! Pretty sure we’re still in the statutory consultation period. Personally, would have thought it would be highly improbable that a decision would be made within 8 weeks - which I think in this case is sometime late in August. Frankly, having been involved in planning for 40 odd years, I can’t understand what the hell Rovers are doing with their submission and frankly - all be it from the briefest of glances - how it got validated. It was patently obvious to anyone ITK that the ‘stand’ would not be remotely ready for the start of the season if due process was followed. I’m not even sure pp will be granted tbh.

Could this be another Dismaland Banksy creation in the offing?

Frankly, since Beryl departed, the Club’s commercial side has been a shambles. That’s starting pre The Lansdown’s. Admittedly, it’s not improved, indeed probably got worse under their tenure. That decline accelerated by Hummel letting us down big time. The Club needs to engage with fans in this aspect of its business affairs more than any other. Beryl had her finger on the pulse. She knew what the fans wanted and delivered. That’s because she regularly talked to, and - critically - listened to people on the terraces and in ‘her’ shop. That was her ‘market research’, not some insular team of professionals locked in some remote ivory tower. She was a success, the products sold well and there was a real buzz about the commercial side. The Club needs a massive reset in this area. Will it happen? Not so sure.

Well, good luck to the guy. For me though, he hasn’t that magic ingredient, just a competent presenter - of which there are many. Fear, with the recent panel changes, it will just become yet another scores/results show lacking any personality. The show was mastered by Stelling who made it ‘his own’ show, ably assisted in the past by the established panel. Someone like Danny Baker - sharp, comic value, non-prem team supporter, strong character - was needed to set the programme apart from the field.

Yep, lost my Dad when I was 27 which was hard enough, all strength to the family during what must be a deeply traumatic and troubling time. Rest easy my fellow red, a long-standing Member on here and one that will be greatly missed.

A true local hero. Like many on here Chris was the player that I always tried to emulate when I put my boots on for local kickabouts and, in supporting from the East End, someone who I was always in awe of as ‘one of our own’. Probably our first ‘superstar’ that actually made it on to the national stage. Rest easy Chris and thanks for the memories.

Thought they said they were going to issue a statement post court hearing. If they have sound principles, can’t think how they could say anything other than ‘terminating support’ for the Club. However, ‘sound principles’ and the Sags are not common bedfellows.

Ah. So it WAS a deliberate act to create a shirt with a massive oversized collar and neck for the KnightFever promo. Bit to subtle for me (and some others). Thankfully, Stefan Kuntz has now retired from playing!

I think he’s wearing a scarf on top of that shirt. Either that, or having been so sh*te at scoring headers from corners, we’ve worked on a new routine where we hide our heads below that collar only for them to pop out above the collar when the ball is crossed in. Now waiting for the new ‘terrapin’ logo to replace ‘splat’ in recognition of this new tactic.

Is there a ‘switch off/reset’ button for our current design team?

All Clubs, aside from the top four Premier League are ‘selling Clubs’. Our massive failure has been not to reinvest the money wisely in player recruitment, whether that be quality and/or timing. We will continue to fail until such time we have a proper, fit-for-purpose scouting network imo.

I’ve only had a quick glance at the BCC site and, what I assume to be, the relevant application. Struth, with the (big) caveat that if what I have seen is the ‘full’ submission and if I was engaged to oppose that development the application could be literally torn apart even before considering the merits or otherwise of the proposal. I can see the Planning Department asking for loads more information before they can even start considering it. They may also be asking for ‘clarification’ of certain responses on the form, assuming the objectors claims about the presence of trees on site is correct. ‘Back of fag packet, but it didn’t even manage that’ quote springs to mind from an old Inquiry. Of course, the Sags will claim the delays are all BCCs fault.

Erm…. not quite right, as much as I would love it to be in this case. The onus is on the owner/tree surgeon to satisfy themselves that there are no nesting birds or the presence of a bat roost before commencement of tree (or hedge) operations. As you can imagine, this legal ‘obligation’ is easy to flout by disreputable owners/tree surgeons who will claim they did check and found no evidence. Of course, if there is evidence presented by others that birds were nesting at the time of the works or a bat roost existed, the key test would be the quality/robustness of that evidence in a court of law. The bar would be set high, not just ‘say so’. With major developments, or in instances where there are likely to be nesting birds it is regarded as good practice not to undertake works between Feb-Sept/Oct. If, for whatever reason, that is unavoidable many reputable owners/tree surgeons will employ specialist ecologists to undertake surveys to provide evidence prior to works. Yours Monty Don