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"The proposed 21,700 seater stadium, a joint venture with UWE, was granted planning permission on January 17 2013 with a five year expiration date set on the consent. That consent is due to expire on January 17 2018, meaning that work must begin by early next year at the latest if the club are to avoid having to reapply for planning permission." So as The Gap prepares to come of age in 2018 and gets ready to celebrate its 18th birthday .... their planning permission for UWE expires today!

To commemorate this 5 year anniversary, the 'NotYetihad'* is to be renamed the 'No Camp' with immediate effect. *Credit to whichever OTIBer originally came up with that nickname in years gone by.

In genuine sincerity, it was great to see Rovers fans appreciate all you guys applauding in the 9th minute for young Bailey Cooper. Genuine respect from some Rovers fans. On days like that, I am really glad that as humans, we can forget about Blue v Red, and show compassion and respect for a young life so tragically cut short. Well done to you all. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11466/day-seaside

Yes the Pipedream Arena never gonna happen now :laugh: always worth a look at this picture.

Craving a cottage? No home park? Left us Road?

With the amount of canvas surrounding their ground, the 'New Camp' also works.

Wembly Stadium ... they even have the t-shirts already printed

Nevertobecamp?

Completely agree. Also worth mentioning, Norwich fans joined in with the applause aswell.

Horfield (I'm guessing )

I'd say it was the period between 1986-1991 that the Sags had their most purple patch and they only picked up results against us by trying to break our players legs (Alexander v Smith) and spending 90 minutes hoofing it out of their box and ending up with luck like you wouldn't believe. 1987 Gary Smart for me was the most unbelievable one of them all. Instead of breathing a sigh of relief they had the gall to give it the big one like they were some footballing giant. Honestly, they were awful, the football was dire and non league and I don't know how they could pay money week in week out to watch that shite? But somehow they beat us and it was the cure for everything shit about their own pathetic existence. At Trumpton they were just as bad, yet they beat the shit and they were a massive club. Everything about their club is amateur and always has been. Infrastructure, facilities, team, set up, support, success. Tinpot, tinpot, tinpot. It turned in the 1990's and the luck ran out and they found their level. Still, the odd Gloucestershire Cup success and beating us in the Johnstone Paints somehow still managed to make up for everything. The ultimate goal of the fans is to beat the shit. Apart from that they are happy being a Ragass Ragbag Tinpot club and they get through years and years of watching downs league football with the hope that one day they will play the shit and fluke a win and then be a massive club again. How anyone can choose to support Rovers is beyond me? Potential fans are beginning to see the light these days though with the only new fans of Rovers being forced to support them by their obsessed and green-eyed parents. We know it's true and so do they.

Bellend Road?

Just as well they're not at The Racecourse Ground, would be carnage.

The downs

The Fetidhad

Nail on the head there Ska, the amount of times I’ve heard them bring this one up

Sorry. I am NOT taking one for the team.

1990 still gets to me. I have to admit. Beaten to the title by a bunch of misfits, non league players and journeymen. Bob Taylor injured at crucial time of the season, we'd been top all season, they beat us, stole the title, dressed up in City Div 3 Champions T-Shirts and rammed it down our throats for years (even though Martin Dobson famously came in and said "I'm gonna make Rovers into a footballing team" and promptly got relegated back to the 3rd tier emphatically). 2015 went some way to healing the wounds, but I for one will never forget how they went on and on and on and on and on about it. Which is why I now take delight at going on and on and on and on about "The Gift" in this massive thread. I can put up with them festering, but will be totally jubilant the day they go pop.

The 1000's locked out must be around the far side of the ground.

See the tail lights in the bottom right? That's from Bodin's car.

The Dean Windass Memorial Stadium

No Pride Park. Anyfield. Good it's on Park.

A work of genius sir. Well played. Well played indeed

The C***y Ground?

"Let's have a coffee"' - Ian Holloway Blackpool is missing an entire beach then?!!! According to them they came to Ashton Gate and took us in the KFC and we bricked it. Sorry Darrell, my hearing isn't too good....You did say you wanted to WALK my dog didn't you?

Made me laugh anyway!

don't think we have long to wait, cant see them being around in 5 years.

Yeh, Billy No Mates.

Donkey Rides took on a whole new meaning.....

That’s why they took 1100 to Blackpool. So they could bring some sand back. For there shit pitch

I think the truth is far closer to them being pathetic cuckold’s with shrivelled little dicks, sat back watching the far better looking and well endowed neighbour, smashing one into their gorgeous (in their eyes) Mrs, who’s actually just a bit of a fat, ugly slapper..!

The Sags are massive!!! Massive bell ends...

Talking of them beating us and therefore being a 'massive club', has anyone noticed that you never hear a City fan calling us 'massive' but the sad sags always accuse us of it? It's them that call us 'massive', not us. I have never heard a red say anything remotely similar as we know where we stand. More delusional bullsh1t from that lot I suppose.

The great thing about rivalry is that despite you being in a league cup semi final and having beaten one of the biggest teams in the world to get there, then very nearly getting a draw at a club that is probably currently one of the biggest teams in the world AND having a very decent chance of playing in the biggest league in the world next season, is that me mentioning the fact that we had you over a few times nearly 30 years ago still gets on yer nerves

This thread probably isn't for you then

£400k is the consensus figure; this gives them the cash required to see out the season without the owners having to put in any unsecured cash (everything to this point has been secured against the stadium via the £10m charge). The "going concern" note will be interesting when the accounts to 30 June 2017 are published at the end of March. The accounts to 30 June 2016 said "Mr H Al Qadi has confirmed his intnetion to maintain this support for a period of at least 12 months from the signing of these accounts." They were signed 30 March 2017 so this was to 30 March 2018; the approximate date I was expecting the drawings under the loan facility to hit the £10m charge. Bodin's sale has kicked this particular can down the road by 3 / 4 months so is there going to be another 12 months' support promised this time? My estimate is that the loss for the next season will be c. £1.4m (actual cash out) and £0.6m of interest accruing on the loan due to Dwane Sports but non-cash. So from where is that £1.4m of cash going to come? Share issue, new investor, sale of future season ticket income (I forget which club did this, not a good idea), sale and leaseback of the ground, or the whole lot goes up for sale in the summer. The whole going concern note is interesting to read (p4 of the accounts on the below link listing filings) as it only talks about 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons, caveats it by saying it assumes L1 status retained (okay, done that), but also refers to "expectations of future external finance as required". That last may purely be a reference to the now defunct UWE project but the whole does not make for good reading. And this was nearly a year ago when they'd just had two promotions on the bounce and the UWE project looked like it was going to happen. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04501223/filing-history

Half the fukkers went to visit their kids from previous holidays.....

These ******* are obsessed with tents.