Leveller

I’m willing to overlook the appalling spelling often seen in this forum but that spelling of inaccurate from a professional journalist can’t pass without comment. Makes me shiver 

I think Roberts will be a good signing for you, although he might be as a back up. He wants to be a CB, but I dont think thsts his best position. I think he is a player who is improving and will continue to improve.
Knight should cost you a lot of money, he has a big future and is someone I would rather not lose 

I went to your ground late last year to see the Bears.
It's a decent ground thats clearly had quite a bit of investment.
And ours is 25.years old, so something in what you say.

Nice. Thanks for the welcome.

Who me?
Just research. We’ve signed Hayden Roberts and are allegedly interested in Jason Knight. I’m not interested in conflict, sorry.

Can’t be doing with all the primary school playground name calling stuff myself. We’re all just adults who support different teams, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

We - Bristol City - also have a 2 year old £20M training centre. Probably on a par with yours. It’s best not to judge clubs on your vague memories from years ago. And our long term goals are no doubt just the same as yours. You may, or may not, get there first.

Well thanks! Haven’t been on here for a while, but popped along this time to research Haydon Roberts who seems to be joining us.
Mr Popodopoulos is actually extremely into various clubs’ financial analysis and very interesting reading (mostly on OTIB). I wouldn’t take it personally that he concentrated on your late unlamented scoundrel for a while. He’s pretty objective and has moved on to other projects now.

We - Bristol City - also have a 2 year old £20M training centre. Probably on a par with yours. It’s best not to judge clubs on your vague memories from years ago. And our long term goals are no doubt just the same as yours. You may, or may not, get there first.

Oh stop being such a melt☺️

I agree completely with David's approach to this. I think some debate and reasonable banter is perfectly OK and in fact think the forum would be poorer if away fans were blanket banned. Equally, lots of pointless confrontational and abusive posting just invites an immediate ban. No problem with that at all.
I do actually like to hear what reasonable, sensible fans of other teams think because they may for example have a different take on a player's performance than we do and as long as it isn't just trolling then it can add a different perspective and they may also for example add some honest assessment to a debate over the merits of one of their players that we are trying to sign.
I am also one of those folk who likes to browse opposition forums in the run up to and aftermath of our games to see how they view us and our likely threat and see whether they changes their opinion after the game or whether they were impressed with a particular player or felt that we deserved the win or whatever. I don't however hang about on other teams forums apart from that because frankly most of their postings are of zero interest.
I have on version rare occasions created an account on another forum where there is an ongoing subject between clubs or where the content is blocked unless you sign in with a valid account, so guests have very limited or non-existent access. Where I have done that I am always mindful about being fairly respectful because otherwise you'll waste a few posts and get banned anyway, plus I might be looking to get a genuine answer to a question. If you wade in and needlessly and deliberately try to antagonise people then no sensible exchange is going to happen which renders the whole thing pointless anyway and a ban will never be far away.

I do prefer if any posters from other teams are just up front about their allegiances though, either through user name or just being open and honest. I have been on a site where as part of registration you have to declare your team and you get a flag to that effect so people can choose to engage with you or not I guess.

Just a thought maybe he's doing us a favour, taking 80 grand a week of the wage bill (reportedly) 
You can sign a lot of league 1 players for that money and we need lots of players! 

I’m not one for the EFL referee conspiracy but this fella seems to be giving Bristol weak decisions that he isn’t giving Derby.

Well I'd rather have a Chairman like Steve Gibson than the one we've got. He's using this to take us out the picture, five years ago we were one of the key teams in this league, next year we may well not even be in it. I'd say Gibson would consider that mission accomplished. You might not like this tactics or focus on us but is has proved effective and if it was the other way round we'd all be cheering him for outing a club not wanting to play by the rules.

Guess while there is a microscope on us, everything will come out, and other clubs may well get away with it to an extent.
Or other clubs aren't chasing their debts as hard at the moment...

Suite Chinese people? Selling sofas?
Suited, perhaps?