Lack of Action Man

3 minutes ago, bert tann said:

I aspire to be a South Stand snob.

Nah, trust it’s not what it’s hyped up to be…

1 minute ago, Silvio Dante said:

To provide some balance here, considering the home sell out the half time beer queue moved exceptionally well in the Dolman as they’d pre poured loads.

However £7:50 for a hot dog pre discount (for my son, not me) is robbery with violence.

Not only is it robbery the hot dogs are frankly crap. Whole cabinet full of them in the south stand kiosk, not hard to see why. Get some more pasties in ffs.

You could also argue the lack of food meant queues flowed more quickly… maybe.

28 minutes ago, An Outstanding Human said:

Today's midfield felt a bit like this!

This post wins the forum for today.

Positives were that we did (in spells) look a threat on the counter attack. New signings look OK and for the most part seemed to gel, if not looking stellar. 
 

Negatives for me were a general naivety in our mentality after scoring. Similar to last season, we shrank back into ourselves and invited pressure. Then followed frankly comical mistakes, such as players colliding with each other, clearances being hacked over shoulders without checking their surroundings, a multitude of underhit passes, and so on and so on.

I bought one, it’s pretty good and with a few improvements could be very decent. I appreciate as a fan-led production, it’s difficult to get access to the club and the current playing side.
 

Naturally, a lot of the content in the programme appealed to those of us who pine for nostalgia, but there wasn’t loads in there about the current side (though the features on Preston were well written and informative).

Additionally, it would be very challenging to achieve but for me it isn’t a programme unless it starts with a column from the manager and the chairman.

Okay, may be having a moan over a minor thing but seriously whoever is managing stock at the ground needs a fat steel toe-capped boot up their backside. Kiosks in the south stand running out of pies and pasties at half time!
 

Wtf!!
 

Though we then did have a fairly tasty burger from the van by the thatchers bar, at £22 for 2 burgers we won’t be buying there often. 

So we have two season tickets, each with £150 points. If we each order a £5 club shop voucher, can they both be used on the same transaction? £40 for a shirt is doable, but £50 is too much.

3 hours ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

As I’ve said earlier on in this thread, there is a definite whiff of brand snobbery going on - if the current kits were made by a bigger brand then almost certainly there would be less complaints (apart from that robin of course).  Because O’Neills isn’t well known it must be naff (in the same way wearing Gola or Hi-Tec trainers to school in the 80s instead of Adidas or Puma was)

You’re spot on. Irony being that naff looking trainers are somehow back in fashion now. Answers on a postcard for that one.

1 minute ago, Wedontplayinblue said:

I would have no problem with a 100 / 125 year anniversary blue FA cup final kit, that’s different. 

Trying to ingrain blue into the club, which I feel they are trying to do is completely different which historically it isn’t a colour of ours. 

2034 would be the 125th anniversary, so that could work.

Not sure of any historical significance leading to a blue away kit this year… but maybe I’ve missed something.

11 hours ago, eardun said:

Scan it. From the FAQs:

The scanners at the concession stands within the concourse of Ashton Gate Stadium are compatible with Digital Season Tickets.  Simply select the relevant Season Ticket from your Apple Wallet or Google Wallet and scan it during the transaction to obtain your 10% discount.

I wonder if that will slow service down for a few weeks. The staff didn’t seem to care much with the old cards. You could’ve just waved a red piece of paper in front of them and got some form of discount.

14 hours ago, phantom said:

To be fair to the club no other club has seen demand for a physical ticket on the scale we have 

From being involved with a few different groups who follow the Bears, there will be a similar (if not larger) percentage of supporters requesting a card to attend the rugby.

7 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

Yes, but I'm sure it was a normal sized one but with an over cover by the match sponsor who were covering the costs of the programme. I think hundreds of programmes ended up on the pitch due to the 0-6 mauling (and bveing free). As did someone's boot (I've mentioned that before). Good times.

I am fairly sure it was a poor/tatty quality programme due to us playing Cardiff twice in quick succession. Seem to have visions of many being turned into paper airplanes. Can’t have been a full 30-odd page one to my mind. 
 

Going back to my original point, best for those volunteers who are making this fan-led programme to avoid producing something akin to that as you can guarantee it’ll be chucked. At least if it’s something produced to a quality standard (and in limited numbers) people might think twice about lobbing it or littering with them.

People forget that we’ve had so called “big names” supply us in the past.

Puma under GJ - generally quite middle of the road bland kits.
Adidas under DMc - catalogue template rubbish and never any stock. 

For me, some of the best kits we have had in recent times were the “in-house” Bristol Sport ones. Wouldn’t be against us going back to this sort of arrangement tbh.
 

People having a moan because they/their kid doesn’t want to be seen in an O’Neills kit/tracksuit. Can’t get any street cred unless you’re in the latest overpriced releases from JD sports? Jesus wept, talk about first world problems.

Fine with a blue away kit. The FA cup final kit was blue, though arguably the ideal time to launch a blue away kit would’ve been the 100th anniversary of our one and only final… but that would’ve been back in either 08/09 or 09/10 season so we’ve well and truly missed the boat on that one. 
 

Worth also mentioning the club ran a blue away kit as an April fool’s joke in recent times! 
 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-city-reveal-brave-new-2707162

Looks promising, I’ll buy one see what it’s like.

Certainly is better to produce something which has some collectible value, rather than a tatty leaflet which would likely be thrown in the bin or worse at the players! Probably better for the environment also to produce lower quantity of a quality product over high volume of a poor product.

Speaking of which, does anyone remember that Cardiff game where they gave out a free “programme”? It was utter crap, basically a leaflet. Plus we got absolutely pumped. No wonder so many ended up on the pitch. 

Bring back the coat of arms.

6 minutes ago, milo1111 said:

Mark ashton

Running a football club is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman

5 hours ago, OneTeamInBristol said:

Still think we need another experienced keeper as back up/competition/mentor for Max.

Agreed, Young ones not at the level yet.

1 hour ago, phantom said:

On some frequencies last year there was a generalised EFL show, I would imagine this will be the replacement 

Awful show.

On 29/06/2023 at 18:19, Littlesh*t said:

I have no issue with 9 subs being named but I do wish it would go back to only 3 subs allowed during the game 

This 100%.

3 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Look. 
 

Can we stop complaining. Things could, genuinely, be a lot worse…

 

Now! That’s what I call shit!

Anything by Wiper & True.

Liquid gold.

1 hour ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

It all went downhill from the moment some (tv executive?) prat decided to put a summariser (of the bleeding obvious) alongside the commentator. Once he had someone to natter with, like two ladies over a garden fence, he stopped commentating on the game and entered into a constant diatribe of everything except the match. They never know now when to shut up, instead talking more than the guys on the radio. O for the days of Moore, Coleman, Wolstenholme, and even Roger 'Noddy' Malone. 

I wholeheartedly agree. Now they often have two summarisers per game plus the commentator. 

Utter tosh.

Good career, but been boring to listen to for about 10 years.

Commentators - please just commentate on the game and occasionally drop in a bit of useful trivia. I don’t want to know your opinion on each individual player’s form/career. Leave that to the pundits.

21 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

It's been five months not two. I would also question how this could be called a highly successful partnership over such a short time, but it's just marketing spin.

Bristol Sport was mentioned because they've got the Bears contract for the sole reason that they are under the Bristol Sport banner. 

As somebody else mentioned, previous Bristol Sport kits were made in Scotland.

I know, for whatever reason, you are keen to stick up for O'Neills as much as possible, but I'm afraid the quality of previous Bristol Sport clothing is not a reason to do so.

I can’t speak for Norn Iron but their justification of support for O’Neills has been sound from what I’ve read previously. 
 

O’Neills GAA range is of fine quality, no better or worse than any other sports wear. Granted the initial kits they produced for us seem to have been a bit rushed on quality control, but the revised 3rd kit looks to have sorted that.

This entire thread has reeked of kit fashion snobbery imo.