View from the Dolman

Faithful and true! The most loyal supporters in the land. The envy of the football world. Yada yada yada.

Bristol Rugby are progressing their own plans for a new training ground near ours at Failand (they were given planning permission in April) so I'd presume that would be the end of their usage of Clifton Rugby. http://wam.n-somerset.gov.uk/MULTIWAM/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=3286B09356AEA00A767B661CAEF18C3E?action=show&appType=Planning&appNumber=16/P/2607/F

Are they building it with Lego?

What was it the Radio Bristol caller said? "Ground, ground, ground and they forgot about the team." Ah well.

They've got two away friendly games simultaneously. Thousands will be locked out at both games, obviously!

Yes, BT Sport have the rights to all cricket played in Australia including the forthcoming Ashes series.

Part of the reason for Glos's extended break is the extra County Championship fixture they play in July at the Cheltenham festival (July 9th-12th - it's the only CC match being played then).

State-of-the-art sprinkler system in place...

So a link that shows us as 9th and 15th over the last 6 and 10 games respectively is now "17th". Eh?

The Ricoh was always a decent hunting ground for City.

Might be a bit relevant that for one of those seasons in L1 we only had 3 stands. And Bristol Sport didn't even provide us with a replacement tent. And that "average" for the last 7 seasons appears to be made up. For the last 7 seasons, we've not had a seasonal average below 11,929 so 11.5k is impossible.

The Des Taylor stuff was being discussed at the beginning of February. I'm not sure you can draw any direct connections between that and the Pembo events.

Staffordshire Police say... "During the game some 30 Bristol Rovers supporters were ejected from the ground for a variety of offences including making racially motivated insults towards stewards." "A steward reported being racially abused and as a result a 52 year old male was arrested for racially aggravated abuse." "One 23 year old male has been arrested for the assault of an official." "One match day official was arrested for assault of an away fan." "One further arrest was made, a 52 year old male for the assault of a police officer." Full release: https://www.staffordshire.police.uk/article/7043/Disturbance-at-Port-Vale-v-Bristol-Rovers-match.

If it's important to you I was actually looking for Tin Plavotic's goal but that hadn't been uploaded yet so thought I'd give myself a moment to chuckle. Hope that meets with your satisfaction.

Decent finish for the OG! http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/competitions/league-one/10773548/port-vale-1-1-bristol-rovers

Ah yes, the cropping doesn't help! It's the RFU statement as per the Bristol Rugby site: http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/news/rfu-releases-investigation-statement/

Dwane Sports Group has acquired a training ground. They're beginning to sound like a franchise...

Oops, bit of a brain-freeze moment!

If the ball was bad...

Before that Chelsea's US tour. Before that the summer England U19 tournament... etc. LJ said at one point the longest break he'd had in something like 2 years was 3 days.

Doug Harman also recently resigned as Bristol Sport's company secretary.

Chris Booy? Perhaps of relevance that he resigned as a director of Bristol Sport on October 7th? Although Keith Dawe also left the board of Bristol Sport on the same day... https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07881103/officers

Plans for a new rugby training ground in Failand... http://www.bristolrugby.co.uk/news/club-statement-bristol-rugby-training-ground/