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Brooker and Orr down for 28 days ...

Partrdige down for two months ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/5225126.stm (that's the old story, new info hot off the press)

serves them right.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Ace.

They'll miss brooker

They'll miss no less than EIGHT games!

I hope they get bummed by some gaaaaaaasheads 8)

Any other club would SURELY sack them.

Surely they'll be suspended sentences??!!??

I hope not though, that'll be ace!!!

Nope. They're real, proper jail sentences:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/5306506.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/5306506.stm

Up to date link chaps !

Bah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beat me to it Chris

That's cos I'm sat opposite the person who wrote it ;-)

I think he misses the point a tad!

 :wanker:

Don't drop the soap boys. My advice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/wigan_athletic/5304238.stm

And they have just lost Cottrell to Wigan !!!

Going well for them isnt it !!!!!! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

yeah they have for £2M.

Forward thinking at it's finest.

Especially with Marcus Stewart and Grant Smith having also gone out on loan or being released.

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!

Cant spend it either till the new transfer window

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Emergency loans aren't allowed until next week either, right?

I'd say they got off lightly.....an example needs to made to Shitty players and ex players who think they can get pissed up and brawl without consequence.

Shit club, shit fans.....

...they get what their over inflated ego's deserve.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Bye City be sure to wave when we swap leagues  :beers:

It's only happened during one of the busiest months of the season too.

 :soapy tit wank:

Do you think some gypsy has put a curse on the turf of Ashton Gate??  I would hate to be associated with that club.

It was JC when we played there last season !!

(see what I done there !)

The deadline on loans doesn't apply to the football league. Only premiership clubs.

oh, brilliant  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Ah right, oh well.

lets all laugh at city! lets all laugh at city! la la la la! la la la la!

Good, they should have got longer sentences.

I'm slightly biased cos the bastards who broke my jaw 2 years ago got off scott free and it still angers me alot.

:D  Dear oh dear. Lets feel sorry for them guys........NOT. not after all the grief they gave us last season.

What makes me laugh is they are a big club and should be leagues above really with their money and fan base. But they do sod all.

 No  Sadie they are not a big club and never have been....they flirted with success for a couple of years before the 14/18 Great  War and have done nothing much since.

 We've played them in 44 seasons since joining the league in 1920, and we've been a traditional Div 3 side, as have Shitty.

I've been having this debate with a friend at work - who's a City fan.

My arguement is they, like Reg says, are not a big club.

His arguement is that because of their fanbase and the "potential for fans going to matches in the city if they do well" they should be in a higher league.

I keep saying to him promotion isn't deserved or bestowed upon anyone, but you have to earn it ... then you become a 'big club' over a period of time.

Dumb really. Luton are in a higher league but would you count them as a big club? Or even Wigan - spent their way to the top and can't even fill their piss poor stadium.

City get on my tits. So much belief they are 'big', so little effort or proof that they are ...

And flogging off starlets to Wigan, in my eyes, proove that they are little more than a feeder club now.

City are as big a club as Bristol Rovers, or Oxford.  

Where is this great "fan base" of theirs?

swindon have been up and down the leagues so i dont think were tridionally anything, only thing i would say is you cant argue were two big for this division (as 86 proved and 2007 is going to prove, we hope)

I don't buy this "we're too big" stuff. If we played our way into this division, as we did last year, then we deserve to be here.

Damn right, about time players get proper punishment for crimes they commit.

I'm with chris we were so bad last year, I think we're in danger of forgetting how bad we were.  we deserve to be in this league, let's just hope we get out of it sooner rather than later.

we are here for a reason, everyone is in the league they should be.

Apart from Reading   :wink:

oh and Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham...

:D

I think the argument that we are too big for this league is not necessarily saying we shouldn't be here. I think it is more a statement that the club has bigger support and is regarded higher than others in the division.

I honestly think City are bigger than us. However, they are in League 1 for a reason and unless they do something to sort out the current shambles the only way is down for them.

It does not mean I think they should be in a higher league than us, because they waste money on crap, talentless players and are simply not good enough on the pitch

and Berwick

in this country i would be suprised if they do a full jail sentence,probably a 1/3 to 1/2 of it will be served  :-))(

City as a big club is a complete myth created by City fans.

How can you be big based on potential, therefore something that hasn't even happened yet?

They've had 4 post-WWII top flight seasons - big deal. They've been in Tier 3 since 2000 now. Infact, since the Premiership began City have had 4 seasons in the "Championship" and 11 in "League One".

And they've not actually won a league since 1955!

Bristol is a big city and should have a big football club. It's not the case though.

11th biggest in the UK.

 :oops:  That last line was exactly what I was trying to say Rich.Spot on.
I'm crap with words.

And Darlington "Just a small town in Scotland" according to the geographically skileld Swindon fans

Also add Chester - Just a small town in Wales.

Irony eh!  :roll:

Bristol has to be one of, if not THE biggest city in England to not have a top flight club surely?

This is where i get proven horribly wrong I guess

isn't hull bigger?and leeds?and sheffield?

Sheffield has one.....

Accept your point about Leeds...and maybe Brdford too I guess...I haven't seen the list!

fair shout about sheff.had a few excuse me

I remember 2 seasons ago against Colchester - 2 teen chavs in the Town End (sat next to me) were singing "you sad Northern bastards" to their fans.

Colchester?!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Anyway it you want to get technical the government used to have the 7 Core Cities (outside of London)
They were: Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, and of course Bristol.

Out of those Bristol seems to have the lowest ranked teams, so maybe their argument has a point.

It went up to 8 when I was there, Nottingham being the 8th. Their two teams are in the same divisions as Bristol's so that means they are in the correct division(s) by the same argument.

Sorry I promised not to post anything else dull for a while....

I thought that was a perfectly valid contribtion to the argument myself!

You would also have to say that Forest are a bigger club than City, no question in my opinion

The top ten:

1     London     7,172,091     City
2    Birmingham    970,892    City
3    Glasgow    629,501    City
4    Liverpool    469,017    City
5    Leeds    443,247    City
6    Sheffield    439,866    City
7    Edinburgh    430,082    City
8    Bristol    420,556    City
9    Manchester    394,269    City
10    Leicester    330,574    City

I should add the Bristol one is boosted in this table by the fact this figure, I think, takes in the surrounding ex-Avon councils ... so it's so strictly the city itself.

City are a bigger club than us, don't delude ourselves.

Agreed. They just don't use it to their advantage which is why they are starting to rot in League 1 a bit

I have no doubt that this is the case. Makes it better when we beat them.

Nah. I just can't agree with that. What have they ever done in their history? Sod all, that's what. Even in the last decade we've done more than they have. They're a backwater of football only saved by obscurity because Rovers are more shit.