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4 hours ago, CotswoldRed said:

If you like your football to be about money and little else, Scudamore is your man. 

For me, I hate his legacy in football. Others will love it. 

Agree. Complete *****. Parachute payments and the Elite Player Performance Plan will be his legacy. 

46 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

He needs to lose about 2 stone, and yes. I did laugh when he spent than last 15 minutes holding his hamstring after they'd made all of their changes.

So we couldn’t beat 9.5 men? I’m not even annoyed. It’s just depressing.

I don’t envy the position the club are in, given no one could have planned for covid, but there comes a point when fans paying premier league prices at least expect a credible push for promotion to that league.

We’d need a buy and sell masterclass to offload our best assets, then replace them with like-for-like as well as bolster the defence.

11 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

The Swede was the only one of the 3 who had the ability to beat players and cross the ball, which he always did out wide, rarely troubling the box.

The other two couldn't beat their own proverbial, rarely enter the box and in CoD's case results either in  a corner (major success) though normally sees the ball fly high and beyond the dead ball line.

Even this season when the likes of Semenyo have broken into the box it doesn't help the ball's invariably yards away from his control.

There's no conspiracy against us. We don't get pens because we don't create enough of those opportunities for them to be given and as I written elsewhere, our propensity to fall over in a light breeze everywhere on the park creates a reputation that negates decisions when deserved.

Did Luis Suarez stop getting penalties shortly after arriving in England when it was obvious how much he dived, and the 1000x as much coverage of the EPL cemented that deserved reputation rapidly? Was he regularly booked for diving? 

1 hour ago, Bouncearoundtheground said:

Yep at cardiff station. Not many joining in but enough to be heard. 

Absolute bellends.

11 minutes ago, billywedlock said:

We need him to do well enough to make the move permanent this summer

He’s a great human, I’m sure we can expect £10m for him

39 minutes ago, The Horse With No Name said:

But its not consecutive because the list doesnt run in date order. I fail to see what the poster is trying to say here.

Few too many whiskeys for me last night

The oh-so familiar pattern for us in the championship, consecutive seasons of decline continue until relegation and we start all over again in League 1. Hoping NP can buck the trend

Love Micah Richards, a great contrast to the dour approach from Roy Keane 

17 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Sorry, I don’t agree. As collective football fans we can unite on some issues and this is one of them.

It’s simply not right that a club that pays average footballers thousands of pounds every week then charges all fans extra money, to cover the idiotic actions of a tiny minority, to go and watch them. I get it’s supposed to be a deterrent, but it just doesn’t sit right with me. The club should be paying it from their own pocket and doing everything they can to ensure the perpetrators are caught, punished and not allowed to return.

All jokes aside, I agree with this.

the idea of then “self policing” of the ********* by the innocent fans is laughable, a point well made on their board:

”If a fan confronted these morons and was attacked, leaving them potentially needing hospital treatment and taking time off work to recover, I doubt the club would stick a pound on the ticket price to cover their loss of earnings, or to pay privately for any treatment. They'd soon distance themselves from it.”

If I was a regular away fan, I’d attend the remaining away games up until the point they’re safe from relegation then wouldn’t attend another game this season.

I’d be fuming if I was a Cardiff fan, but thankfully I’m not so I just think it’s funny.

They really are taking the piss now

4 hours ago, TomF said:

It really did get weird,  They were absolutely obsessed with a few people on here for a while.  I would walk up North Street and get eyeballed many a time, especially walking past a certain shop.  I was told it wasn't my area to stick my orr in because I lived in Portishead.  Despite the fact my parents lived in Ashton Vale for 25 years prior to moving just before I was born and being the 3rd generation of my family to work in this actual building (parents/grandparents both worked for Wills at times). Yet someone who moved from London and supported Chelsea was perfectly ok to lead a crusade against the club.   

As you say the irony is now most of the residents around AG are fed up of the general traffic chaos on match days (x2 with Rugby as well) and the AV residents aren't happy about potentially several 1000 houses making the roads around them busy.   Soak it up, you ******* won, you deal with the consequences. 

Was the Chelsea guy the one who stood up in the council hall and started doing impressions of reversing trucks?

”MEEP, MEEP , MEEP, MEEP”

He’ll have plenty of reference material with a new housing estate being built.

“meanwhile the AV residents are moaning because their bus service has been cut, as it’s not viable. Delicious”

Brilliant stuff. “GIRFUY”, as the jocks would say. If only a major commercial development had occurred in the area, resulting in significant trade and investment in the area, including in transport links.

7 hours ago, Barrs Court Red said:

meanwhile the AV residents are moaning because their bus service has been cut, as it’s not viable. Delicious

7 hours ago, Barrs Court Red said:

5 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

Captions please?

“It’s what we do”

There’s no way the public can accept 75% of the debt being written off to save the club when in three years time they’ll be back in the championship paying £12k a week to mediocre footballers.

20 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

We need the ref at Gillingham v Oxford today.

Oxford won 7-2 and one of their players scored four penalties.

We’ve only had four penalties since 2020 and they get the same number in one game.

1 hour ago, VT05763 said:

Marc Albrighton's partner 'tweets her delight' at Nigel Pearson's reported Leicester departure - Mirror Online

Others not so keen but that's the same with all managers.

Yeh Jim Leighton’s Mrs didn’t rate Alex Ferguson either.

If Derby aren’t able to pay HMRC then they should go to the wall, “pour encourager les autres”.

11 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Is this valid whilst in Administration?  

If they haven’t got funding this is gonna look really bad.

Wonder if the worm might turn in the coming days.

Millwall might find that in a weeks time they’re getting a phone call and a conversation starting “so how how about Sibley for £450k”, at which point if I were Millwall I’d be suggesting £250k and that’s the final offer….

FFS there is no way he should be refereeing that Luton game 

Europe doesn’t show enough respect to a tournament where a ref blows up five minutes early, his fourth official thumps a protesting manager in the shoulder during an argument after the final missile and where none of the fans seem to support a club that’s even in Africa. Crazy stuff!

The club only have themselves to blame. I hope the shit is hitting the fan somewhere in the top corridor.

1 hour ago, sglosbcfc said:

Kilmarnock are a huge club by Scottish second tier standards with double the gates of most of the division. He will be under pressure to take them straight back to the Premiership. My bet us that he will be backed this month in the transfer market and will win the title.

Not too dissimilar to the situation LJ finds himself in, a very different job to managing city but challenging for different reasons.