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I'm well up for safe standing, it's just that it's nowhere near happening yet - if ever. http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/nov/30/bristol-city-safe-standing-british-football-grounds The problem is that to me this all looks about as well thought through as the overall plan to build...

Apology my arse. More bullshit plus a cheap dig that does nothing to help any possible negotiation. 'Staying out of the spotlight'?! In any other business in the country he'd be on the dole queue for mismanaging his company into administration and liquidation, to say nothing of reducing its...

I'll not have a word said against Jarni. Immaculate player, never put a foot wrong for us. ;) For younger viewers, check out my avatar.

Offering £4m is taking the piss, frankly. The widely quoted £6.4m was the worst-case value of the leaseholder, ACL, when under distress from the rent strike, and before they'd started to put together a post-CCFC plan. It's nothing to do with the value of the freehold and the land, and it's...

In your opinion. Have you a single bit of evidence for this? I don't doubt you're quite fond of your opinion, but it doesn't excuse your stating it as a fact. Again.

No evidence for that either. Just wishful thinking.

Maybe there are Cov fans who are also Cov taxpayers, and don't expect or want the club to be subsidised by the council when there are other more pressing needs on local finances. And maybe there are some others who think that SISU are such terrible owners that the best thing for the club would...

Maybe you could see that as a reflection of recovering part of the massive build cost, combined with the fact that the club didn't put much of anything in.

I can see your point, but actually I think making the offer through the FL is quite smart. Otium can't deny it's been made, and it makes the FL clearly aware that there's a reasonable offer on the table for the club to play in their home town. Personally, I think that puts both Otium and the...

I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever to suggest that the boycott isn't working. On a PR front it's clearly drawing national attention to our plight, and it's obviously hurting SISU financially whether they admit it or not. I would imagine the latest news regarding the zero rent deal will...

I blame SISU. Just kidding - I think whoever the owners are this kind of thing happens in football if you're a success, and the Academy is a success. I suspect he'll pop up at a 'bigger' club sometime soon. If he doesn't, then maybe there is room for speculation around the current issues, but...

Yep, that's as I understand it too. About 85% of these reviews fail. Where the review succeeds, about the same percentage fail when it gets to court. In other words, the odds of SISU winning are pretty long (based on a coarse statisitical analysis at least, plus the fact that the original...

From what I've seen kids tend to play reasonably fairly, when they're left to it. They don't tend to shout at their teachers when they're reffing games, but once out of that environment they start to see how certain adults behave towards referees. If even their coaches, who should know better...

C'mon Nick, you've given an single example of something you've witnessed, where a ref appears to be a manager's friend and you're suggesting that he's favoured the other team. The other is a story about a ref who's clearly a inconsiderate twat, and should be suspended. No refs punching players...

If you can see why a ref 'gets a slap', then I'm afraid you pretty much are condoning it. I played at a pretty crap level of football for around twenty years, and managed for a fair bit too. I even had to step in and referee sometimes, mostly because dickheads with no self-control had made the...

Fair point - I suspect you can get away with it in the lower divisions a bit more though. I don't want to dismiss it, I think there's a place for bumping it up quickly, especially if you've got a good target man and a bit of pace alongside and the opposition play a high line (e.g. Hucks/Dublin...

In truth I'd heard Bradford are a long-ball team, and I'm sure pre-game Pressley talked about them being 'direct' and having to cope with it. I'm a bit irked that we didn't, but then this is a young team and if it was simple to defend against this style of play then teams wouldn't bother...

Point taken. But honestly I still think that if the rent was paid, and/or a straightforward deal thrashed out, it wouldn't matter how much dislike there was for SISU, there's bugger all the Council/ACL could do about them. And on that I think I'd agree - assuming there is (or was) a deal to be...

That certainly is a presumption. If they did try to 'force' a change of ownership (via administration), wasn't it because the current owners weren't paying the rent, and indeed seemed determined to undermine ACL by that point (as has subsequently been demonstrated). That's the way I read it...