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Last seasons kit was 'launched' on this date last year. Launch for this season's must be imminent?

Maybe tomorrow so as not to clash with todays fixture launch and maximise website hits?

2 hours ago, Stevie_J said:

Part-owned by Sports Direct.  Not quite a controlling share.

Must be why whenever I have dealt with their Rugby arm the products have been decent quality and there has been some form of customer service.

With the new kit and sponsor revealed as part of the Season Ticket announcement yesterday can we infer that all ties with SportsDirect are being cut, not just naming of the ground?

2 hours ago, Downender said:

His lad, Gary ran the Horse and Groom although his Dad did pop in from time to time 

Must have been a staffing thing when I went in. Alun was behind the bar, Gary was behind the counter in the shop next door. Quite surreal for one of my Dad's heroes to be pulling my pints and one of my heroes to be selling me Marlboro next door. 

I spent part of 1998 working in Bristol and found out that he ran a pub near the city centre called the Horse and Groom. Spent many an evening in there listening to his stories of playing alongside Jim Friz etc and watching the tail end of the 98 season on Sky. Lovely bloke. RIP.

I think that Paul Atkinson went on to be the Watford sub in their FA Cup final loss to Everton.

Didn't Mark Ward mention John Ryan as a fellow inmate when he was inside? Could be wrong.

Went to a Sportsmans Dinner where Big Joe was the speaker the other week and he mentioned that both 1990 Semi Finals were expertly refereed....by Bryan Robson.

 

 

good thanks...i saw you running the other day, lookin more lean these days.

Following the Lee Croft diet rather than the Mark Crossley food fest!!

I was, then I found out you were going! How's tricks Pete?

Ground regulation 5, as published in the season ticket book and around the ground, states "Unauthorised persons are not permitted to enter the field of play". If the letter of the law had been followed I believe the encroachers could have been arrested and banned for 3 years (that was certainly the punishment when I was a steward).

Bottom line is, 10 pound season ticket holder or not, they should not have been on the pitch.

Johnson out?

Would fill the team with right wingers

Add it to the pile of glossy pictures of new unbuilt stadia that we have got excited about.

he did mate but it was '92

Damn my misreading Wikipedia!!

In all fairness I think naming a manager before the Everton game would seriously rock the boat, however, if we were to win.............then what?

Malcolm Crosby took Sunderland to the FA Cup final as caretaker in 1991!

Will we get a new manager before they announce the next Pope?

Maybe that is why the Pope is standing down. Jesus saves and all that!!

Which possible future manager do you expect to see in the Directors Box this afternoon?

I thought Quazimodo had a hunch?

As good as yesterday was, for me a more mature fan it has to be Arsenal in 1989. They had a full strength team, were defending League Champions and we made them look mediocre.

How did he get so many tickets. He's not a season ticket holder is he?

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