2 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

I admire your players taking the field in that kit! It made our worst ever home kit bearable to look at for eye relief.

It's iconic - genuinely popular. Mostly because its what we wore when we knocked Liverpool out of the Cup at Anfield in 1994.

On 07/02/2019 at 22:22, AllRoverAsia said:

That scandalous idea will never catch on here. We thrive on a good moan and the day wouldn't be the same without a few  COYB

Yeah. We keep winning one nil. It’s not good enough. Where’s the champagne football??

But seriously, we seem to have found the knack of keeping it tight and nicking a winner. One nil away wins seem to be our speciality recently.

8 hours ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

That's very late. We usually go a couple of days before. We have some tropes that need covering weekly  

OTIB is very active, but issues are dealt with in other threads before match day. People are currently trying to get used to the notion of not complaining. Much.

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On 05/02/2019 at 16:33, Bigdoggsteel said:

Very similar layout to this forum. Do ye remember Oxfords last year? You needed sunglasses to look at it 

Anyway, do they not just have a regular match thread? Pages of discussion about who is going to the game, but little discussion of the actual game 

OTIB matchday threads generally start ... on the day of the match.

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Chelsea employ ‘loan managers’, just to keep tabs on them all. How the other half live ay!

Mowbray in the LT:

’Joe Cole was down only 10 days ago and watching training and was talking about Kasey as one of their loan managers.

We discussed why he hasn’t played, why he has played, what he needs to work on, and all that sort of stuff. They employ people to keep an eye on their loan players.’

We - Bristol City - also have a full time loans manager (Brian Tinnion) who looks after the players we have out on loan. He regularly tweets updates on their doings, which is better than losing sight of them. You may have noticed Martin Keown recently recommending we get Antoine Semenyo back from Newport!