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Post by chelt_gas on Nov 13, 2019 19:58:55 GMT
personally would not run him out in this weather, cold and damp ,no good to a suspect hammy!! unfortunately with the rules of this dumb competition sort of restricts bringing on the wannabees It’ll be interesting to see the body language if Nicholls and/or Bennett. They’ve had a rough reception recently and hope they use this chance to demonstrate intent.
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Post by chelt_gas on Nov 10, 2019 9:03:27 GMT
Win this game then we presumably have the funds for a quality loan signing for the second half of the season.
First Round Proper winners = £36,000 Second Round Proper winners = £54,000 Third Round Proper winners = £135,000 Fourth Round Proper winners = £180,000
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Post by chelt_gas on Nov 8, 2019 3:20:49 GMT
Going on the other site is like rummaging around a skip looking for that book you mistakenly threw out.
I’ve almost wholly used this site and it’s predecessor Rivals.net as a more one-stop place to get good opinion and debate - in a nutshell. The likes of Angus, Faustus, gasheadwes, Kingswood Polak and all the many others have given me good insight of the supporter base that I don’t really get now being overseas or from the other site that really is infantile.
Appreciate everyone’s time and thoughts through the years - I hope it continues but if not thanks for everyone’s contribution.
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Post by chelt_gas on Oct 27, 2019 21:48:06 GMT
I caused some controversy, at the other place, in suggesting TN is suffering from depression. I based it upon his sobbing when substituted and in the way GC cuddled him. I do believe the guy has obvious confidence problems but playing him, each week, is not the best way to deal with it. In my view, I think loaning him out, to a lower league club could just be the panacea that he needs. In my 49 years of going to games, I’ve never heard such vile abuse towards one of our own players. I understand the moaning but NEVER on a match day. I actually got a bit of a rollicking , by an older fella, sat in front on me, yesterday. I was chatting to my mate and saying we were 5h1t and he really got stuck into me. I smiled as he was right, it’s not going to help our players. We have no idea if he is suffering any form of Mental issues, and you would think that the setup, team Managers, Trainers, Health expert, Doctor that he works with on a daily basis would not be putting him in the firing line if it was so, surely it could not go unnoticed?, his attitude appears to be good behind the scenes according to GC. I remember Josh Low receiving all sorts of crap from the supporters when he started here. The longer it went on then the more he got. In the end he had to get away but showed the fans what a decent player he was in a different team and atmosphere. TN comes across as a decent guy; booing doesn’t help anyone. He does however need to overcome his mental block stopping him scoring goals. Jose Altidore has the worst premiership strike ratio of 2/70 and accumulated £14m of transfer fees along the way
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Post by chelt_gas on Oct 12, 2019 11:37:59 GMT
My father must have mentioned Stuart Taylor hundreds of times over my thirty years following the gas. Although he was before my time I could sense his importance from the stories from my father’s generation.
Huge symbol for the club, for Bristol and for a generation of Gasheads. Condolences to all, thoughts are with all.
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Post by chelt_gas on Oct 4, 2019 12:39:30 GMT
There’s quite a few in the Sydney area. Being down here the biggest nightmare is time zones - having to watch ifollow at 2am is a nightmare!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Oct 2, 2019 6:52:31 GMT
I have no real opinion because I’ve barely seen us this season but from the outside it seems we’re pissing with the cock we’ve got. I thought it was pretty obvious back end of last season that 5-3-2 was the formation going forward with the squad we had/have. The summer signings only added to that. I’ve not seen us in 5 years, bar the friendly at Melksham 2 years ago. But we’re only as strong as our weakest part which seems to be our increasing reliance on JCH. We knew what happened when Ellington was replaced with Nicholls last season so if/when JCH goes we need an effective replacement immediately. 5-3-2 definitely suits the squad but we seem a few injuries to key personnel when we’d struggle regardless of formation.
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 22, 2019 12:31:07 GMT
Wasn’t he one of the few players the fans directly bought the club through the share scheme. Agogo also signed a further contract to enable the club to gain a transfer fee on his eventual sale to Forest.
Such sad news for an important player in the clubs recent history.
Very sad news for a truly memorable Rovers player.
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Post by chelt_gas on May 5, 2019 3:53:27 GMT
Good luck to the bloke, a nice pro and representative of the club
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 13, 2019 16:15:21 GMT
Just before midnight here, 3-2 win and sweet dreams for me!.... 4:00am here now I can't get back to sleep! Performances are irrlevent it's results like this that matter and that was a great result. UTG 2am here and relieved. That was a shocking first half. JCH is so much better than Paul Tait.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 12, 2019 11:54:16 GMT
He’s ingrained in English history. A man who will live on in many a memory. A true gentlemen and part of all of our national football identity.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 4, 2019 21:31:13 GMT
I'll be back in Bristol for the last game of the season (Barnsley) but it's the same day as my son's wedding. So my dilemma is... How do I tell him I can't make it? I would suggest by text or e-mail! So long as the ceremony finishes at 2pm and the reception at 5pm then you may not need to tell him at all. Or just VPN iFollow.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 4, 2019 10:30:44 GMT
The televised game is also a good opportunity for fans to openly show their displeasure with visual signs from the terraces. What, like boycotting the game? Good post earlier in the thread about the absence of consensus amongst us fans. Most are boycotting the tournament for either principle or disinterest but there are still many that want to support the players and see a football match, even if they disagree with the tournament.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 3, 2019 22:37:39 GMT
Echo the sentiments. I also like to see players with personality which seems increasingly uncommon in today's game.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 3, 2019 22:34:43 GMT
The televised game is also a good opportunity for fans to openly show their displeasure with visual signs from the terraces.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 3, 2019 22:22:29 GMT
Does any club produce their 'own' players? Gone are the days of a one-player team since most players will have, and want, the experiences of different teams and places. Especially where there are riches involved. I'd argue that having the best coaches to develop almost-ready players whilst giving better first-team opportunities is a better use of funds. Unfortunately.
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 22, 2018 1:24:58 GMT
It's all a load of horsew***.....this system has existed for donkeys. 72% if true is a huge turn out, and the majority of them voted a very clear way. That's what is true. Most important. And the country should follow that mantle, much like in general election, we accept the results of that. If 28% chose not to vote, that's their democratic privilege and there's no point in speculation on how they would have voted - it's only the losing side that tries to smear the statistics to suit their own ends. They didn't vote, so can't be included. With the easiest way to register an opinion ever, they chose not to. For whatever reason. That's up to them. If we concentrate on the majority (as per democratic reason taken from a few hundred years in it's current format) decision, to not implement what was fairly decided would wreck all faith the electorate has in so say public servants of members of parliament. They are instructed by us, not the other way round. Unless anyone can come up with a better alternative, we should exit the EU as instructed on 29/03/19. If a trading deal is agreed, then so be it in interim period, but we will leave. It's law. It's binding. It was what was asked of us in June of 2016, and by all rights what should happen. The main problem is what do we mean by leave? Under what terms? We faced a choice between the known (remain) and the unknown (leave), because no-one has left the EU before except for Greenland, which is three men and a seal. It is unlikely in the extreme, that there is a leave with no deal majority in the country. That would mean 96% of the 52% of people voting remain would had to have favoured no-deal. There is virtually no binary choice question on anything at all, that would get 96% in favour of it. Unfortunately there is probably no majority for any other deal either, as we see reflected in the utter chaos in Parliament. We face the seemingly impossible position of trying to be outside the EU, while having a soft border with an EU country. A soft border which is part of the Good Friday agreement, ratified by the people of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic in separate referenda. Canada ++, Norway+ and any other suggested deal, does not seem to give a way around this problem. In the end we may finish up with Parliament saying OK, we can't come to a conclusion, here are your options, make your choice in a second vote. “A good idea is a good idea forever” David Brent on Brexit. Equally many remain voters would have wanted change in our relationship with the Eu but they didn’t want to lose the privileges of the Eu or risk the uncertainty of a hard Brexit. Brexit is failed democracy and politics.
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 21, 2018 11:48:12 GMT
Identification is easily solved you just take the form you receive in the post the officer takes it crosses your name off the list and does not return the form to you so once your name is off the list no one else can use it to vote simple isn't it.that's how other countries work it Of course, it just amazes me that in a country where there is a form to be filled in and copious red tape for the slightest change to anything you do that they have no way of telling if their voting is being rigged. And as you say, so easy to solve! Quite aside from their ridiculous system of actually voting of course. A lot of people vote for one candidate and their vote ends up counting towards a completely different candidate due to the system. Each to their own but I think it's twisting the whole concept of voting. Australia’s politics is Monty python-esque. Its riddled with corruption, an unhealthy religious fanaticism and struggles to implement a federal policy as there’s so much in-fighting between the states and territories. Not many young people really understand the voting system and even bugridge having to make a vote (and have to spend time learning what they’re voting for).
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 21, 2018 6:46:53 GMT
How else would it have been fair have the opportunity to exit the EU? Quite. But I think you'll find that people are only happy with the concept of democracy if it's totally on their terms. Which kind of defeats the object. Democracy works as a concept but absolutely isn't working well in practice. Look at Trump, Australia's annual prime ministers and the chaos in the UK. Democracy is being exploited by social media and 'influencers' and the consequence is not very funny.
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 21, 2018 0:02:05 GMT
Brexit is a huge failure of politics on all side and naturally a reflection of the apathy of the people behind those democracies involved. Brexit is not the will of 'the people' in the same way as Steve Brookstein was not a national pop idol. Brexit is a consequence of a vote, taken at a time, by an audience motivated by prior lobbying and caught in the moment. It's embarrassing watching everyone try to follow a map which doesn't exist - even it it did everyone would interpret it incorrectly. Brexit is unbelievably stupid and shows the pig-headed attitude entrenched in parts of our (anti)culture. Of course. There is a road map, it’s called the same state of affairs as any other sovereign democracy. Hundreds of countries are not EU members. What has happened my friend, is that those the run the country, those on your side, have made it deliberately difficult. You have turkeys in charge of Christmas. So you, and any other bad losers out there can crow “see, we told you so” The vote was not about the technicalities of withdrawal. It was an order from their citizens. How you could possibly equate nearly every news outlet, every political party, every large corporation behind remain bar some tiny exceptions to be a landscape of pro Brexit lobbyists is beyond me. This was a message, from mainly the working class in this country, in response to wide ranging change which was mostly assimilated by other working class people. The EU will always have the public sector - it’s the money tap. Other than that, it was a remarkably working class vote. Against all the threats and constant propaganda, even taxpayer funded propaganda. You will always get short term volatility on any change. The markets don’t like uncertainty. What will shape our future outside the Eu will be apparent in 2-5 years. You can’t just say “well, it takes a bit of effort to change things for the public will, so we’re keeping the status quo” It wasn’t a problem changing things when we went further integrated into Europe, was it? All that standardisation and harmonisation we had for years and still do? It was just fine changing all our regs before, we can damn well change it back if the public wills it , and they did, no matter how much you want to believe it was Nigel Farage and his billboard Reviewing the post for (1) Fact (2) Opinion (3) Assumption. Therein lies the problem of the Brexit Referendum. The question asks the voter to choose in or out based on their opinion from a collection of politically and culturally formed assumptions available or considered by that person at the time of the vote. The EU was not transparent before the vote and people's fears of various Eu policies were not respectfully handled by politicians and media alike. However, to self-destruct on quite a scale as what we are seeing is childish, negligent and selfish. But Rule Britannia and all that crap.
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