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What a belter that should of read. It was typical of your lot though wasn't it. When we were on our knees in 82 your board were circling like vultures to buy Ashton . When you were evicted from the dog track you tried to get bath to pay for improvements to make it good enough for league football. With Chernobyl you waited until Bristol were on their asses before whipping the rug from under them. I have it on very good authority that all rugby memorabilia was taken down and thrown out as well. Always had your begging bowl out as well , moaning that various councils wouldn't build you a ground. Vile vile club.

Not sure how many years I have left on the planet, but I would hope that in those left, I get to see one team in Bristol, I wouldn't normally wish the demise of a club as you need opposition, but in the case of the gas I make a very definite exception.

As Phantom suggested might happen (it wont let me quote for some reason), I did wonder on the way home last night if you would get Chelsea in the next round. Anyway, there is a lot of bitching/crowing from both sides about last night. I had a great night out at a ground I don't get to go to often, in a great atmosphere, and my team gave a decent account of themselves against what was a long, long way from being Chelsea reserves. Pretty much what fans of lower league clubs hope for in cup competitions. We took a lot of fans, and you would have taken the same. We 'took over' the pubs, and you would have done the same. You took 70 odd to Scunthorpe, and we would have taken a similar amount under the circumstances (although I will confess that I thought you would have broken the 100 mark with northern based supporters) Last night was Rovers turn, you (and pretty much every other league club) will have their turn soon enough.

Exaggerating again are we? Bolton... 9,169 75% of capacity Oxford 10,053 85% of capacity Cardiff 4,851 41% of capacity. So in conclusion you dont at all, talk about spin .

What's ridiculous S A G? You're struggling to sell out a game that's about 40 minutes away. This is a stone cold fact. http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/swindon-tickets-on-sale-until-11am-friday-3269784.aspx Always helps when you will have a "90 per cant" capacity when your capacity is about 5 white plastic chairs and one Chernobyl nuclear testing stand that holds 20 people.

Right now I feel Ashton Gate isn't really home because as you say it feels different. That will change in time as we all become familiar with it. I'm still checking I'm entering the right bogs until it becomes a habit which it will do. I'd respectfully go against you with regards to atmosphere. The jury is still out as we've not even had one game with a fully open stadium. The old EE was great(to those in there) outside of it you could hardly hear a thing as it trapped the sound in. Ashton Gate always has supporters inside ready to create a noise when the action excites. Against Wigan the atmosphere was really good. For what must be the first time ever all the stands now sing together at the same time. From my seat in the SS I can clearly hear all of the other stands sing and then it catches on into the other stands. I honestly think with the amphitheatre style of Ashton Gate now we are soon to have some memorable atmospheres. Aga

That's the bottom line. More Gasheads went to Stamford Bridge last night than could be bothered to show up at home against Cardiff City. All this does is highlight how many of them come out of the woodwork for a trip to a big Premier League ground, as Iron Man said, they still haven't sold out their game against Swindon. ...and they call us plastic

We would also have had more than 4K home fans for Cardiff aswell!

True gas logic there. Unless they are filling the ground every week (they aren't), then % capacity is irrelevant. As a true comparison of support I always use our most recent Wembley visits as the barometer. For a game against Walsall in the paint pot trophy, we took over 40k. For arguably the most important game in Rovers history, Rovers took less than 30k. No further questions your honour.

With a respectable performance from the team and an impressive turn out from the fans this was a good night for Rovers. And it must have been a wonderful occasion for Wael Al-Qadi as well Our side are desperately hoping he is not simply a football obsessive with a wealthy family behind him who is achieving his moment of fame now but without any real ability or resources to make Rovers a better club in the longer term. As we ride the roller coaster of this riveting Rovers-City rivalry let's make sure we have a lot of laughs along the way.

Yes

While you have a valid point , it would mean that every time 'they' did something else stupid or comical (and you just know they will) , the posts would be scattered all over the forum in new threads. Best thing to do is ignore the thread , but you will never know the outcome ....... * is Wael a billionaire ? * Will the UWE go ahead * Is their super striker really a loyal servant who loves the club. * Is Dopey Darrel really a tactical genius in a very good diguise All these questions and more may be answered in the next instalment of .......

You're right about that at the moment. Do you think you'll regularly sell 90% of your capacity in a 27k+ seater UWE Stadium then?

I fully understand why Chelsea would field a poor team tonight but I just don't get why Rovers are doing the same.

The first three questions are very good and need answers. The last is disrespectful. Call him Dopey if you want to be a forum favourite, but we all know he's done a great job at Rovers in the last two years. Leeds wanted him. He was sensible enough not to want them. His tactical changes at Chelski almost rescued the game against the big boys to the point where they had to bring on Hazard and Terry to keep it safe. And even then they were worried. DC is a great young manager with a great future, perhaps not with Rovers. This "Dopey" crap is just that. We might be ragbag Rovers, but we do not have a ragbag manager. He's the best thing to have happened to us for 20 years.

Another City reject........

Then get stuffed 5-0 and have the gloating blue few on here for weeks after rubbing it in how they are obviously better than us.

I'd like to think not. Is it not the sign of a small lower league club that they get so excited about visiting a 'big' club, at a 'big ground', in what at this stage is a nothing competition? Unlike Rovers, Bristol City have big games at big grounds almost every week, so I'd like to think our fanbase wouldn't get so feverish about an early round visit to Chelsea in the League Cup. I don't see it as anything to be proud of to suddenly take thousands to games like this, it really just reinforces what a usually insignificant club you are, and how paltry your support is for far more important away games.

We don't care what you think .. no chip on the shoulder .. step back and read what you've put .. very bitter man .. you don't even know me and calling me a tosser ..

I wouldn't say the Chelsea team was reserves. World cup winners, £33 million strikers, a couple of youths who are in and around the first team yes but still very strong.

I think it would have been. We've had terrible cup draws for years. Look at West Brom last year, not particularly exciting but we still sold out the away tie (although tickets were dirt cheap). I would love us to draw one of Arsenal/Chelsea/Liverpool/United later, especially away. Lots of people are bored of our systematically terrible draws and want a big team, failing that lets get one of the smaller teams left in and make a good go of the cup.

Dont agree with this. History says different we took that to coventry in the cup under johnson in league 1 didnt we ?

Of course we would've done, and more if we were offered more tickets. Tickets were well priced, we travel very well to London, we have lots of expats there and haven't had a game against one of the bigger sides for years, especially away.

Their mentality literally summed up in one tweet. They took 4000 fans to one of Europes biggest clubs, so what? They are struggling to sell out a game that's 45 minutes away..

Let's be honest here, each and everyone of the EFL clubs would take 4k to Chelsea surely? So no biggy at all.

You know after this plucky defeat, they'll be thinking L1 is in the bag now

Well the scoreline was an acceptable one and no doubt in the future we will be told how 10,000 rovers fans turned up, had the Chelsea hooligans on the run and their team battered Chelsea"s legendary team. The truth is Rovers benefitted from the bigger clubs indifference to the EFL Cup as they did against Cardiff and as Wycombe and Scunny nearly did against us. Still we are there in the chance to meet a big team again,( although i fully expect an away draw at Gillingham ). I hope the not quite sell out away crowd enjoyed their day. Now on to the glamour of Swindon, whilst we tackle Aston Villa as equals.

Got to laugh, "the only difference".. this is what they tell themselves every night slowly sobbing away. They got the club they fully deserve. Long may it continue.

Think it was for the Car Boot Sale which was recently cancelled. Regarding their tickets I go to watch City with someone who is married to a Gashead. She told me not only did he leave the house at 7am to go and queue for the Chelsea ticket, he had to produce a VOUCHER from his season ticket BOOKLET!!! How very quaint! We did laugh.

As desolate, as the saying goes, as a Jordanian's wallet.....

Is Santa's Grotto open?

He may be Rovers owner but there's no denying he is gent

so can we merge this with the Rovers thread now ?

And the last 20 minutes against Wigan I thought the atmosphere was good, the south stand got going and it was pretty loud

Really? When was the last time your mob had a 15,000 plus home gate even when you had the capacity. With the exception of the 1950s for a few seasons City have always commanded a much bigger support home and away. To suggest otherwise is simply arguing against all the available evidence.

Pretending to be a City fan as well. Its pathetic

You're absolutely right, ties against Scunthorpe and Chelsea are definitely comparable.

Who cares?

We took 70 to our match, which the club seems happy to publicise. We should look at our own support before mocking them lot

I mean - he had no idea what you were talking about. He's probably still grappling with the idea of League football.

I envy you. One of them, let's call him Mr Moron, asked me if I was a Chelsea fan. I told him (with no sense of being an arse) that I'm actually a city fan just waiting it out to go home. Cue Mr Moron and his troupe of cretins with "shithead, shithead". I told them this was the most wimsical of responses and it's a shame that Edinburgh fringe is over as the clearly have a routine to top them all. Mr Moron then comes back with "bet yer prowed of bein' a shit head en all" "Errrrr, yes. The Championship is great" *walk away to glazed, confused looks*

I know no one said Rovers fans were smart but was anyone listening to Radio 1 earlier? The presenters were talking about sick voices and a Rovers fan called in saying he was about to walk into his office and pull a sickie so he could go to the football today, having given his name and where he's from, saying 'I'm in the car right now practising my sick voice'..... Presenters seemed dumb struck that someone was on national radio announcing that not knowing who could be listening. What I found funny was later in the segment one of the radio presenters kept referring to the guy by his name deliberately while the other one was avoiding using it.

Whilst I agree that it's laughable that in the 21st Century they still can't handle online/phone ticketing, I don't like the fact that you can no longer walk down the Gate and buy a ticket in a person. Phone and online is fine, but would be nice to still be able to buy in person if your down/near the Gate too.

"I've had so many phone calls. I have so many connections with people at Chelsea..." Who did Chelsea loan Tammy to in order to gain match experience etc? Oh yeah.

1) Thought the Gas were bankrolled by a billionaire....that's what their smug fans tell us anyway. 2) Surely very few people 'opt' to support clubs like City or Rovers, most tend to be born into it. As far as I'm concerned Im one of the lucky ones.

The point you're missing is they don't think they are the smaller club. Their delusional levels of grandeur mean they think they are equal, or in the case of most, bigger than us.

I'm a firm believer in you get what you deserve. The fact that you can order tickets from a sun lounger in Majorca and the Sags have to queue makes my first point.

Don't know if it's been covered already but Rovers fans had to queue outside the ground for Chelsea tickets. For my colleague at work that meant taking half a day off and driving 20 miles to Bristol, to queue for a ticket with no guarantees of getting one. It's 2016! I couldn't help but tell him how I secured my Newcastle tickets from a sun lounger in Majorca. We moan about our ticketing system, often justifiably, but it could be a lot worse!

400,000*

Either which way if the OP is on a wind up or not....this interview is Gold. The owner of the Blue few admits he is a Chelsea fan, then goes on to say "it will be a tacticians battle" as he compares Antonio Conte with Darrell the Dope; that way around. No, seriously, he does.