SecretSam

On 23/07/2021 at 18:54, Shaun Taylor said:

New shirt for next season awaiting sponsors name. Better that blue & white square shirt from north Bristol!

 

The irony is, that's not bad...

You should do a raffle for the sponsor, like the Fewers did a while back. It was (whisper it) actually a good idea

2 hours ago, The Truth said:

Agree with them including folk from other parts of the community 

You mean people who aren't inbred?

24 minutes ago, Steve Watts said:

Genuine question and 100% not a piss take....but how do you cope with the City kit and the pitch?

One of them is moving about?

12 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

'Trouble' for a club is all relative of course- there are many, many in worse positions but all the same!

Looks like they're under some kind of La Liga imposed Transfer Embargo.

High riding clubs don't usually get punished, will be interesting to see how it plays out...

Don't get me wrong, certainly players who can be offloaded but if not, will La Liga make it stick...?

I'm struggling to play my microscopic violin for them

Meanwhile, at the Mem...

It's a very simple risk equation. Balancing the risk if we keep him - that "this" is all he has, he doesn't develop, etc., vs the risk that if we sell now, we miss out on his potential and don't necessarily get duly rewarded for it. On the other hand, we get £Xm in the bank that we could spend (although with no guarantee that will work out), versus the risk that we have a Ribeiro/Brown situation, where we're offered a moderate fee by a bigger club, don't take it, but then never get that offer again.

I could write an equation if I could be bothered.

Me? I think £3m doesn't get you a lot these days, whereas we know what we have already. I'd be inclined to keep him another year, see how he goes.

But ultimately, the player himself will probably decide.

Shame if they decide to sell, but if that's what the lad wants, and we get add ons...or they loan him back for a season...

3 minutes ago, OneCity said:

They have really lost the plot. They've spent the vast majority of their history in the 3rd tier. They are a proverbial Astronomical Unit from the likes of Reading or Brighton. Rovers are far closer to being approximate to a Shrewsbury, a Chesterfield, or a Mangotsfield Town.

FTFY

8 hours ago, old parkender said:

Absolutely mental

I couldn't help it, I replied and yanked his chain

37 minutes ago, EnclosureSurge said:

In place of ClapfortheNHS tonight I suggest ClapforgAss on our doorsteps. Accompanied by singing that splendid New Order song, ‘Two, Twooo Divisions Apart. Again’. 
#Clap4gAss

Joy Division, FFS

So, how's that "coming to get you" going?

49 minutes ago, CiderJar said:

I can't help thinking that business must have been up and down?

 

Could well come down to GD

8 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

I make it 11, so by #gashmaths at least 1100

You missed off a zero

On 09/03/2021 at 21:01, The Constant Rabbit said:

The Lady - The Goddess.... Michelle Owen    

 

Goodness. Forgive my ignorance, but who is she?

28 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

007 ... Desmond Dekker & the Aces

"House of Cards" - Radiohead

2 hours ago, Carey 6 said:

 

Possibly not the smartest thing Mark L's ever done...

9 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

I wouldn’t open with it - maybe bury it somewhere in the middle of your set ....

*Rimshot*

17 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

They couldn't afford to put 50p in the electricity meter.

They have electricity there?

15 hours ago, BS15_RED said:

Caption this!

"Remember your anger management classes, Joey, remember your anger management classes...I am at peace with myself and the world..."

Poor s0d must be desperate. Still, even Horfield's nicer than Fleetwood...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/22/joey-barton-bristol-rovers-manager-league-one

17 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

.... and to think people on here also use those three words (and worse) to describe Neil Warnock - perspective?!

I stand by that, he's a nob.

2 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

My gut feel is that’s much more of a consideration in the leagues below us, where wages are much lower.

Possibly. How the hell do Exeter or Carlisle recruit???

5 minutes ago, Red Exile said:

I have to confess I did!

Sad I know...

For the record in my original post wasn't referring to Top Cat btw.

 

But I wonder how many of us now have that song in our heads....

22 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Being facetious....worth going and having a look how competitive Millwall, Blackburn, Preston, Barnsley, Brentford are on fractions of our budget / costs.  It’s almost immaterial whether you take players wages or not, we are still vastly higher....even when just looking at the football club.

Here’s the same picture (above) with the football side separated.

If you take:

Millwall - Income £18.4m / Costs £23.4m (staff costs £16.9m) / Transfer Profit (£5.4m)

If you compare that to just our football side, they have bigger revenues (£2.2m more), smaller overall costs (£26.4m less) and smaller wage bill (£10.5m less).

Brentford - Income £17.8m / Costs £35.3m (staff costs £16.9m) / Transfer Profit (£27.2m)

So you can be competitive on a fraction of the costs City are.  I’d suggest we’ve got a bit carried away!

 

OK, fair enough. One thought that does occur: do we have to overpay on wages because of where we are? London, midlands or north west clubs all have other clubs near. We don't, so if you settle here, there's more of a risk of upheaval? Just a thought.