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On the 7th of Sept we'll be celebrating 116 years of continuous football league membership. Not a particularly significant number you may think, unless you consider it's 114 years longer than the Sags.

I was walking pass Poundland and to my surprise Mr Alquadi walked out. We got chatting and I asked why would your son buy Bristol rovers ? He replied his son asked for a train set so I bought him a railway station in Jordan Next he asked for a circus and a Cowboys outfit I didn't have to think too long and hard, I went and bought him Bristol Rovers

Old Gas has never been the same since his brief encounter last season, at a railway station in London, with Stephen Hamster (Trevor Howard) and W A Qadi (Celia Johnson). As the action begins we discover that OG is an honest to goodness salt of the earth follower of a lower league West Country football team who likes nothing better on a Saturday night than to gather around the piano with his mates as Mrs Mills belts out old classics such as “comeandhaveagoatthetoteendaggro”. It is a simple yet satisfying life with the odd promotion or even odder cup run punctuated by countless Saturdays where the Green Un headline reads “Another City victory – Rovers unlucky again”. But OG is happy, because he knows in his heart that being part of a community of like minded souls and enjoying what he has, rather than pining for something which is perpetually out of reach, is the way he wants to live. Then the fateful day arrives when he climbs into a railway carriage and finds himself next to two glamorous figures and leading lights in the world of football about which he is so passionate. After picking the starstruck OG up off the floor Stephen Hamster sits him on his knee and proceeds to tell him what is in store for his football club and how it is going to be transformed into a powerhouse the like of which has not been seen since Caitlyn Jenner was a boy. Months pass and OG tramps the streets of Bristol but, try as he might, he cannot rediscover the low door in the wall which leads to an enchanted garden. He finds something similar on the corner of Queen Square but all they do now is spicy foreign food and sadly the days of his favourite prawn cocktail followed by rump steak are long gone. It dawns on him that he is living in a world where people make promises fully aware they are unlikely to ever be fulfilled and, to keep them quiet, children are offered treats which their elders know will probably never materialise. Even the leading lights who appear on TV and who you sometimes meet on trains turn out to be actors reciting completely meaningless lines.

The worst of it is, most of the bellends on their forum will believe this actually happened.

Complete windup, obviously. A Citroen Saxo would never make it to Windsor from Bristol.

Cor I didn't know Jay from Inbetweeners was a gashead

Article in the Post about the cheapest way for them to get to their away games . I haven't copied the text just a photo .

I believe your wife must be mistaken because records clearly show control to be in the hands of Mr Nominee-Shareholder1 and Mr Nominee-Shareholder2. These two esteemed gentlemen are passionate football fans and can frequently be found on the Gloucester Road mingling with supporters and kissing the badge on their quartered shirts. Their business methods are beyond reproach as is their track record of debt accumulation which, fortunately for us, has resulted in the Memorial Stadium being chosen from amongst a host of other assets to have a brand spanking new legal charge taken over it. This now sits proudly on the register at Companies House alongside those old and disreputable ones previously listed by Barclays Bank and MSP Capital. At a time when our national sport is plagued by owners with dubious motives and suspect sources of finance we should be grateful that we are safe and secure under the control of the saintly Nominee-Shareholder family.

So to cut a long story short, Wally's secured his debt against the stadium, a debt that he could have written off but instead transferred, a debt Rovers have no hope in paying back. Does this mean what I think it does? Is Bristol Rovers doomed?

Morgan saying for Overton to play Buttler would have had to miss out...eh? Plunkett, Jordan could both have easily missed a game, sorry Eoin you're chatting shit.

I think it sounds perfectly believable that SL spent "hours" chatting "about **** all" with a complete stranger, whilst out with his grand kids at an all day attraction. Mind you, the grand kids were clearly busy terrorising other patrons, as there is no way that SL would have stretched to priority queue jump tickets for them. Then he'd have obviously met back up with the aforementioned stranger to walk back to their cars together. Amazing really how they also happened to be parked close by. Then, on discovering the strangers alleigence to Rovers, the only rational think to do would be to slate his own investment and heap praise on pretty much the only sporting set up in Bristol that he doesn't support or follow. I'm sure we'd all have done that in his position. Then, after receiving such humble, self critical and generous appraisal, of course, the only reasonable response from the stranger would be to reply with an aggressive, confrontational retort, before running away. Actually, the last bit, I do believe..!

He's a dog wankerer, and he likes doggy dick.

Thought some of you might find this photo of a blue tit getting treated appropriately by a robin amusing.

Even more ridiculous that SL would go into a commoners car park. He would have used the chopper or the Lear jet.

Does anyone other than Eoin Morgan consider him an all-rounder in the mould of Stokes etc? My impression was that he's a bowler whose batting is respectable enough, ala Jordan, Willey etc rather than a genuine all-rounder.

Says the mob that obsessed and literally jacked off and went through a ton of Kleenex when Rickie Lambert got picked for England even though he was playing for Southampton at the time. They went out and bought England shirts with his name on the back and placed bets on him scoring and plastered it all over Facebook. Massive POT and KETTLE springs to mind. Stupid stupid Lady Gardens!

They should travel in numbers, after all its a trip they'll be familiar with... Dartford is only up the road.

steve lansdowns grandkids probably have enough lego to build their own legoland

So they can all be secretly reading OTIB instead of watching the game....

Absolutely. A helicopter to The Queen`s private helipad at Windsor Castle and a chauffeur driven Rolls to the executive entrance would be de rigeur for a man of his standing.

I find it amusing how the sags really will find the positives in everything they see. There can be nothing positive about having a charging order placed on your only asset.

Fingers crossed Mrs Peg, fingers crossed.

Great debut for Malan so far though, excellent knock.

They really are the weirdest fan base in football. I wonder where it comes from? Maybe they're all secretly massively embarrassed about they way their club turned out and this is how they hide it? Any ideas?

And then thanked rochdale and southampton when interviewed after the game

Bloody hell, think of the poor horses.

That's not an away trip. They're moving house.

No need, it would appear that some Saghead, who definitely, definitely didn't read it on here, started a thread about the situation a few hours after Bert Tann posted it in this thread. What a coincidence! Yeah, funny that! Considering how much he supposedly loves the Gas and how he's 'Gas fer life' he completely forgot about Rovers in that interview...although, I'm sure he did mention something about a 'Beetroot Factory'? Maybe that's his nickname for the Mem? That bloke is such a bitter little ******. ....and he's clearly 'obsessed' Spends most of his life trawling through OTIB like a stalker before writing angry essays on Slagchat about City. Its been said before and it clearly needs pointing out again, this thread wouldn't be so massive if they didn't give us so many things to laugh about. The fact it gets under their skin is a huge bonus.

"It was wonderful to find Bristol Rovers, but it would have been more wonderful to miss them" WAQ

Yep. The whole "City have an obsession" thing is one of the biggest ironies I have seen. There is a reason we have a huge thread dedicated to them and is started due to their obsession with us. We have the screenshots of their forums to prove it and did we ever have relegation parties? If you go on any of their forums we are mentioned in newrly every thread without fail.

Of course, we are over looking that Wally is a billionaire who bought HSBC, and it isn't the case they have a smallish share holding in a subsidiary that isn't performing very well.

I do look at Companies House info and am registered to be notified of any changes, but I didn't find the things which Port Said Red mentioned specifically, that's why I asked for a pointer! I have seen the charge taken out by Dwayne Sports, but it seems I have to take out a different registration to see the more detailed stuff - thanks to Port Said Red for the sensible, informative response!

DC does have a passing resemblance ...

Fair play to the young fellow looks better then the real thing

The latest gift I've seen on twitter . Actually printing t shirts about a friendly . It's like it's the first time they been on a plane or something

How long before Rovers have their mucky paws all over this?