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ONE sloppy goal. The first was contender for a MOTD goal-of-the-month strike. You're deflated and I am too. That wasn't the last home game I wanted to see. Before and after the match it felt like we were sucking Burnley's collective c***, which I wasn't happy about. We gave a top team - albeit one cantering about with no real urgency - a decent game but there were many deflating aspects to this match: Pearson starting the side that hadn't bossed piss-poor Rotherham again. As if they were suddenly going to cope with Burnley! Alex Scott seemingly having left the stadium already. I get he doesn't want to injure himself, but c'mon. Leave on a high. Not be subbed off after a mistake that would've seen less regarded players booed for. Yet another shite ref overawed by the "PL" side. At the end of the game, I couldn't wait to leave the stadium and forget about it and this underwhelming finish to our home matches this season. I have no unshakable belief that Nigel Pearson will guide us to a higher finish next season. I'm afraid that match just left me feeling bleh!

Our 'checking measures' aren't very good. These murders were quite widely reported and Stone later drew more attention to himself - after he was released due to the Good Friday amnesty - by trying to get into Stormont (the NI assembly) with lots of weapons, intent on killing some more people. In his trial he claimed this was "performance art". This made him pretty famous. BCFC need more adult and clued-up people to filter things they pump out, or further embarrassment will definitely ensue.

The mum was not doing her son any favours there. My second cousin won a football scholarship to Millfield - probably the top UK public school for sports. Their coach was Jeff Butler, who had been South African national coach in the early 90s. Future Somerset cricketer James Hildreth was the captain. My relative was given various trials by professional clubs and played for Bournemouth very briefly on a non-contract basis, but was released and went on to have a non-league career which he still maintains, albeit at a much lower level than in the 2000s. The school, and this lad's parents, were very insistent on giving sports scholarship boys practical skills that will equip them for a fall-back career if they do not work in or play the sports they major in. In my relative's case, he was able to take up a very lucrative career in IT networking. I know City have the same mentality and ensure the kids going through their academy have academic and practical skills so they aren't on a scrap-heap in their teens. Parents wouldn't let their kids sign now, if this wasn't the case.

I've been to pubs with more customers than that.

That's what a transvestite is. A man dressed as a woman. If you meant transsexual, you should have said so.

Be hard-pressed to ask Chas these days. ?

Wasn't like Danny La Rue was ever on TV, not to mention Stanley Baxter and Dick Emery's numerous drag characters or Melvyn Hayes as Gloria in Ain't Half Hot Mum.

I felt Brighton, overall, had created the better chances, but as in many City matches, this can bite your arse when you don't finish them. When it came to pens, I knew United would spawn it. Still a nice back-and-forward game for the neutral and glad Adam buried his spot kick. Passed it to the side netting, just like I used to do in all mine. ?

When they do put the scores, or other info up, it's usually in white type on the red background. Very Bristol City of course, but anyone involved with graphics will tell you that this particular combination is among the hardest to read.

Josh Smith

Who wants Saudi Arabia Newcastle to win anything though.... ?

Dave "bad" Penney Hoping he'll turn up again like the proverbial, at the Gas

Got a hedge running down one side of their pitch. We could've planted one in 2013/14. Shed man would've been hedge man.

Torquay now pretty much confirmed as joining Yeovil in the National League South. I realise that Wrexham might "play the kids" for their last game, but still don't see the Gulls winning 7-0. ?

I blame John Noakes.

I've got one of those as well! Never realised I was supporting the slave trade.

My view as well. It was a push and if the ref didn't see it, he needed to consult his assistant in front of the Dolman, who got as good a look at it as you and I. Not the only thing Josh Smith bottled in that game. His is a name that I'd not noticed before, and I sincerely hope I never have to read again.

Unless they are Welsh speaking, which a lot of communities in that area are. WE will continue to call it the Brecon Beacons, locals won't, hence the policy. Still, got to love those Welsh signs. We had a holiday in the Cambrian Mountains last year and got so used to seeing signs saying Araf ("slow") that me and the missus now use it if we think one of us is driving too fast. You have to deliver the word in the style of a dog barking.

I know Stephanie, and she's not a bad person but what a ******* job title: "BBC senior head of content production, West and South West". "Content production" - this is how the corporation undervalues journalism and entertainment presentation. It's "content".

To be fair, the hills were always called Bannau Brycheiniog, so they haven't renamed it, they've simply decided, as with Snowdonia, that the national park will be officially given its original Welsh name, rather than its newer English one. The signs will still be bilingual and feature Brecon Beacons as the English name for the region.

Harry Weimann came on for him. ?

I'd have been embarrassed to miss that in a kickaround. In fact, it was difficult to see how he did. But there you go, it happens occasionally. He worked hard (as ever) that game and slipped through some good passes going forward, but I think if you asked the lumbering Rotherham defence, they'd say they found him probably the least threat of our forward players. I don't think in all faith, you could say he had a good game, merely an average one, like some of the rest of the squad. The Boro match remains the only time I've seen him have a really good game, so, as yet, I'm still on-the-fence as to whether he'll be a sound investment long-term. Too early to call this season. Some of those "Don't criticise the Cornick!" posters on here seem to adopt a doctrine of the infallible Nigel, but as we know, NP can and does make mistakes from time-to-time. Not least, taking too long to bring on subs when the entire stadium can see our initial line-up has gone a bit flat.

It doesn't help that the rules around granting asylum status are complex, open to interpretation and have developed ad hoc. As you say, a clearer "playbook" is needed to make assessment swifter. I don't think it's lawyers halting the process often - not much money to be made off coves on £40 a week or the charities working in the area - but simply lack of Home Office staff (reduced by 2/3rds in 15 years, despite claims about 'ramping up border security') and no real will to tackle the issue. People are making money, and political capital, out of it NOT being solved.

I agree, but the way around it is to have more staff processing those claims so migrants/refugees are quickly assessed and either returned or allowed to live where they want in the country and earn money and pay taxes. Very few are in "luxury" hotels, most are in run-down B&Bs in parts of the country where no one wants to go on holiday. They get £40 a week and are forbidden from working until their asylum claims are assessed. Just shorten the process from months to days or weeks, then prolonged stays that neither the migrants or the taxpayers want take place. Thing is, the government wants UK voters to be angry about this issue. They figure somehow their deliberate incompetence on immigration, combined with meaningless rhetoric - flights to Rwanda costing £240,000 per person - is somehow a vote winner for them.

Not really, pal. Weekends off, paid holidays, the NHS, non-landowners' right to vote, freedom from religious tythes, the right to join a union, the right to a fair trial, pensions, a representative democracy, contraception rights etc etc etc.... All things that you can enjoy, won by campaigns undertaken, at least initially, outside of Parliament.