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Morning all Regularly read your forum to try and work out what is actually happening for you boys n girls. Boy you’ve had some s*** the last few seasons As Bristol City Fan middling years I have fond memories of various tussles with yourselves , and games over the years at all levels , including Wembley Great set of ‘proper’ football fans in all my experiences Also met many lads , and the odd lass, who were Wanderers , trapping the World following England All sound as a pound Wanted to say I have everything crossed for you , you fans , and that some light begins to emerge As for the rest of ‘The League laughing’ ....or indeed the Football World My advice is there will always be ***** , especially on Social Media who will laugh and goad - The Football World And Supporters of all sorts I’ve spoken to , or read are in fact extremely sympathetic , and hopeful that things will turn around , or at least stop sliding Please remember that - I know at this **** time it won’t help much , you want to see some sign of future , but please don’t concern yourselves with ***** who follow other Clubs The massive majority don’t laugh , they sympathise.... And the few who gloat ****** ******* Many Of you won’t recall , but we nigh on went to the wall in 1982 , I went to what was to be our final game at Newport, we survived , just but slid from Div 1 - 4 , ended up playing 16/17 year olds and a few freebies and fell to the bottom of Div Four Looking back the slow survival and then growth back (Ironically the Wembley game v you was probably a significant point) was one of the best and happiest periods of my 50 years of support, the hardcore fan base sticking by them and seeing a slow rebirth Hang in there Boys n Girls, everything crossed for you ’Wanderers Till You Die’ Always

I did every match home and away last time we were in division 4, I shall be doing the same in division 3 you bald cunt

Pretty much what I and many others voted for, nothing much to think about really. Simple decision.

It does beggar belief that some of our fellow supporters can threaten to throw the towel in on the club their, kids, brothers, fathers and grandparents support. I’m sorry, but I think we have a duty to fight on if we are fortunate enough to kick another football. When the HMS Sheffield and Sir Galahad got sunk in The Falklands our troops didn’t throw white flags up in the air, they fought on and got the job done. It’s not anybody’s fault who’s negotiating contracts at the club, so let’s have a bit of patience whilst there’s still lights on. Chill out, it’s not in our hands, but time will tell.

Saw Patrick Bateman on Sunday, Fengsui got married last week so congratulations, PB also shagged the maid of honour who'd flown in from the USA so congratuations to him too

Happy to overturn democracy? Yet another slur and assumption that all remainers are democracy deniers. You are wrong. I have not advocated a second referendum. In fact, I recall that I posted the exact opposite on this forum - that I didn’t think that a second referendum was the correct decision. However, if I voted remain, in your eyes I must automatically be a democracy denier. As has already been said above, I don’t know what you mean by millions died for our democracy. I think you’re confusing democracy (our system of government through elected members) with the national identity of this island (being under British rule). And in my opinion we don’t ship money to a black hole. We do contribute to the EU but the UK benefits through trade and other relationships which has helped us prosper. In my opinion (based on reasoned analysis from remainers, brexiteers and independent bodies) we will suffer economically by leaving the EU, especially with no deal. As such, I voted to remain because I believe (amongst other things) that will give us a higher GDP and more money to spend on our own people.

Indeed There was no constituency called "Scotland", fuckin Sturgeon, useless, lying, bint.

You have, unfortunately, misunderstood Winston Churchill. Yes, he was for a United States of Europe, but this was not to include Britain. https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1946-1963-elder-statesman/united-states-of-europe/ https://www.ft.com/content/3d6bbabc-7122-11e6-a0c9-1365ce54b926

You are happy to overturn democracy, something millions died for, happy to stay in the EU and keep shipping money to the black hole, when we could quite easily use the money being used to prop up the EU to improve things for our people improving hospitals and to pay for more doctors and nurses to look after our own people.

Boro and Coventry are 2 different scenarios You either want a club or you don't If you do, you turn up against coventry

I would have thought that was blindingly obvious to everyone - clearly not by Road Runner's reaction and your question? It's because James and EDT have been putting in the hard hours and millions of pounds trying to save BWFC from oblivion and the thanklessness and total lack of respect they get for doing so by a few self obsessed ultra fans is proclaim at public meetings that they are doing fuck all about saving the club and now wanting them cast aside for someone who hasn't even stated he's at all interested in the club and is only linked to it by esteemed journalist such as Alan (Bassini has bought the club) Nixon and Marc (Anderson holds first claim on the hotel) Iles. If I was James or EDT I'd seriously be wondering why I am even bothering to save the club at all for such supporters as these.

I think you know where you stand with me chief. In that I think your content is factual, unbiased and accurate but your delivery lacks incision and an appreciation that most folk dont do finance for a living. It's one o clock on a Sunday morning mate. For all the Forest fans say about Fawaz, he kept the lights on and spent some money. Whatever you think of him that would be progress from where we are now. Venkys made massive mistakes at Rovers but I'd take them tomorrow as per posts above. Don't mock your fellow supporters for caring mate, it's not a good look.

Mr Andrson who was a teacher said Widnes lets have a line, went into a bog with him and he put a full bag of chan on the cubile 'What do I do next' Widnes, 'you havent done this before have you' next thing he's being arrested for selling class A's to school children

£25m is only enough now we are in administration and are able to write off a chunk of the unsecured ‘months’ ago it was circa £40m and that figure was putting interested parties off Apparently

That sentence was a bit of a challenge. Ernest, have some of these ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Saying he against a No Deal He is anti-Brexit.

You do realise churchill has been dead nearly 60 years and the EU isn’t a united Europe it’s divided Europe and it’s developed nothing like churchill envisaged. A simple free trade deal is what it should be, no need for billions to be thrown into a bottomless pit to have a simple free trade deal, you cannot negotiate from within the Germans and french run the show for their own interest. As for your last comment, I’m not even gonna justify it by attempting to debate it with you.

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Cheers, much appreciated. We also had some dark days in the 80s, but our current plight is darker still. We'll be back one day!! I have fond memories of days/nights on the piss in Bris, i had mates from Yate + Fulton. Long since lost touch with the lads, but they were Bristol City fans and always up for a laugh and a jar or two!

Appreciate your response, thanks. ive always had a soft spot for ur team, my dad was born near the old cigarette factory near Ashton gate and was an apprentice at Bristol city, he supported them all his life and I took him down to Wembley when u whupped us. youve been around the lower leagues for as long as I can remember so you’re due a bit of success, hope it comes to both of us

Can't say I'm surprised it was KAs part of the deal that was dragging things out Hopefully that's the back of him now Cunt

Widnes, will you be at the Coventry match , if we still have a club ?

Reading that and thinking about it, maybe it's adults who've changed not children.

I might not be back from holiday for the Coventry game but hopefully I'll have paid for my season ticket before it and if we've not got to that point I will have bought a single ticket if they are available. I don't really buy into this idea of kids wanting to go to the Etihad rather than watching us, you take them early enough and regularly and they learn over time that by and large you take the experience as a whole and the result is meaningless but the belonging is the thing. If a kid is only watching MOTD and they're not sharing summat with u then of course the odds are they'll go for glamour, we're the parents and it's down to us to make them fans surely? My eldest daughter has been to the wanderers a handful of times and has talked about going to watch a few women's games but when ive mentioned BWFC ladies she's said they are wank and so i've not taken her to any ladies games. Lost my point somewhere along the line cos of Sunday arvo cider, but basically we have to buy tickets if we can because otherwise we might end up decorating at weekends.

Probably a proud American that had knocked it up and thought that was the national anthem.

I think it was Bolty who said it wasn't it?

Thank you for your unwarranted critique of my writing style and your other observations about myself. Fwiw I do try to explain financial things in a way that would be understandable to most people with some interest in what is happening in that respect and that's not easy to do in just a sentence or two. Is it some sort of a problem as to when I post? Am I not allowed to take the wife out on a Saturday night and have a quick catch up on here just before bed? What's your excuse for posting even later than me? I've answered above why I posted what I did. I stand by what I've said.

I'm no fan of iles but I think he's done a fair job recently I do agree there was an undercurrent of criticism of FV in Friday's piece I felt it unnecessary but I think he started playing to his crowd Everyone wants conclusion but there's nothing any of us can do and I'm pretty sure FV are doing all they can

If we put a team out against Coventry and you can attend but choose not to, you really are pushing it if you claim to be a fan of bwfc

Whether he chooses to answer your questions or not has no bearing on whether Sluffy's post lack incision. They either do or don't.

I loved blackadder

I doubt very much it will happen but would love many of our stay aways to realise how close to folding the club is - no more once in a blue moon glory away days, and do something about it like turn up at a few home games. Most clubs who have gone through this kind of shit come back with a galvanised fan base. We’ll have a majorly apathetic fan base

You believe project fear, I don’t, I believe we will get a deal that will ensure no reduction in GDP, the fact is the EU are taking our hard earned money NOW In ever increasing amounts to share with other countries who don’t contribute, while I believe that money would be better used on our country and our people, you should hang your head in shame.

I don't think that would be to anybody's benefit because at this stage he knows as many of the facts as you, Sluffy and everyone else do - i.e. none whatsoever.

Oh I know there’s a huge difference, my point was you can’t just give up and I honestly think most fans won’t, they’ll remember our last stay in this league and the days out and carry on supporting the club. The good and the bad have to be witnessed, they make the future glory days that much better and satisfying, that’s what I was putting over.

Well said mate. Don't bite though.....thats exactly what sluffy is looking for.

Putting aside the fact that it's the club's debt as opposed to his debt that he built up...opinion is divided as we still don't have access to the accounts or know what has gone on behind the scenes, but my view is that at best he was incompetent given that the club was losing money hand over fist so anyone with an ounce of intelligence should have seen the train coming from miles away - losing money year upon year can only lead to one possible outcome i.e.bankruptcy and he should have acted much, much earlier. Better still, he might not have got involved in the first place as the club would have gone into administration three years ago when it was a far better proposition to buy. It also looks likely that Anderson carefully avoided putting himself in front of the oncoming train as he remains a creditor so is likely to get away without much in the way of damage to his personal finances - certainly not compared to the damage to BWFC. And it's rumoured that in the early part of his tenure when things didn't look so bad, he turned down offers to buy the club because he wasn't getting enough personally out of the deal - remember all those "tyre - kickers" and billionaires who "couldn't provide proof of funds"? Too late now Ken. Obviously with his track record for asset-stripping companies, there could well be a more sinister side to all of this but as it stands we are all being kept in the dark so nobody knows for sure what he's done or what degree of responsibility - other than managerial incompetence - he has. And until the facts come out opinion will remain divided.

You need to be more specific in what you are asking. If you are asking has Anderson's personal debt (both secured and unsecured) he built up in the club, then you will need to look what would have happened if he hadn't. The secured money (irrespective of where it came from) paid off the BM debt. At the time they had a winder outstanding against us and were threatening to crystallise their debt and take ownership of the hotel. The unsecured debt was what I believe he put in to pay the wages one month to prevent a home game being cancelled (and whatever the penalty from the EFL would result in as a consequence). Seeing that the current Administrator is liquidising the company that owns the club when the FV sale comes fruition (or immediately if they walk away), then I suggest it was best for nearly all of us (obviously not the unsecured creditors), that this was done at the end of the season and not during it as we could have been thrown out of the league for being to all intents and purposes insolvent and having no time to achieve a sale to a 'newco' - look how long this sale to FV has been ongoing since we fell into Administration - the EFL certainly couldn't allow that to happen half way through a season with a club (officially) unable to financially itself to the end of the season and having to carry out an uncertain sale whilst the league was in progress. Ken Anderson may well have been able to turn a blind eye to the financial state of the club to get it to the end of the season but an official Administrator certainly could not. If you are asking if the clubs debts built up because of how Anderson ran the business (and had not caused it to fail by doing something illegal) then I refer you to the previous paragraph. Like it or not, whether Ken is the Devil or is not, the bottom line was that under Anderson's ownership the club managed just about to the end of the season (apart from the Brentford players strike that achieved nothing other than bring down possible additional and unwelcome sanctions against us that are still to be announced) before we collapsed and FV became the only purchaser to meet the Administrators conditions and they in effect managed to put us on life support pending a sale (which I believe will happen) before we died along with the company that owned us, Bolton Wanderers Football and Athletic Club, which will be liquidated once the club is sold on.

Lisbon, telling a one time poster that I'd fingered her mum then having to apologise as her sister threatened to throw my bag into the water which had about 10g of coke in it, taking young Ryan who was about 20 back to our hotel as he'd spent about £100 on MDMA or was that Munich, cant remember but he spent many days in mine and Mr H's room without being bummed

Guimareas, Deciding we were going with Happy Wanderer, 12 of us, then getting a PM off Big Toe 'Can I come with with your lot as i've no friends' nothing like that but he came, turned out to be a nice lad, sold 10 beach balls to Jules Darby when he had hair, Met the Totty lads in Lisbon but thats another story. Turismo in Braga 'Have you got any beer left' Owner 'We've got stout with lime' just give me the fucking bottles

No shit. There's not many who start a thread "Bands you'd never watch" and then tell the class about when you first saw them and then saw them another 19 times. 🤣

Great, let's all make supermarket puns in the midst of a dire plight awaiting a club like ours, and Bury's...

I was doubtful to buy a season ticket if Parky had been in charge for this coming season, but given our current perilous financial situation, this is now the time for us Bolton fans to show our support and back the club with purchasing season tickets, no time for jumping ship at this moment in time.

Are people really putting all what’s happing now solely down to Ken Anderson? fuck me sideways

Was with Smiffs in Portugal, Cheese got to much for him so he left, as did No Balls. Whitt is with her majesty in one of her hotels for his deviancy, he'll be back for Christmas

Looks like that woman Arnie emerged from in Total Recall