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"Do something quickly?" Does Hugo not listen to Wael and Hamer? After three, one two three: IT TAKES TIME!

this one from hugo? Most parents I know are choosing The Franchise over us to take thier kids to their first game. 5 parents from HTYs football team have been to the Stadium of sh**e for their first ever match this year. We are so far behind now that we will be little more than an afterthought in a couple of generations unless we do something quickly.

Seems like an appropriate place to put this!

Just when you think they can’t get any thicker,up pops another belter.

Yeah, but.... um.... they take more away than us and, um..... if they had a 40,000 seater stadium they’d fill it regularly. We’ve only had better crowds than them recently. You know, over the last 50 years or so..!

belter of the week, No you thick lady garden we don't disperse it we laugh at it as its tiny compared to our core support you thick cock peterhooper57 First Team Posts: 538 Member is Online Posting Level Next Level in 462 posts 8 minutes ago Quote Post by peterhooper57 on 8 minutes ago We have a fantastic core support, it is the one thing we have which the S*** despise. Without our support there is no BRFC. I must admit when Waq & Nani rolled into town I thought the future would be rosy; unfortunately, what they meant by "slow evolution" is they would buy the club and its debt and then moth ball it until they can move it on at a profit, based on possible potential.

For me Bristol rovers are at a crossraod, one way will either allow us to progress to a sustainable club, or the other to our eventual extinction. I say this because we are, as much as people hate to admit it massively effected by our friends across the river. I talk in terms of future potential generations of fans. At the moment we are tinpot...yes I said it, but we do offset that by only being one league behind, plus if we had plans to build a new stadium, regardless of our league position we would capture the hearts of Bristol’s youth by having the underdog appeal. If we were in the championship but still at the Mem we would match their level thus also attracting future fans. Even if they got promoted to the prem and we stayed in league 1 but still had the prospect of a new state of the art ground, we would still recruit support.

wow some actual intelligence on that forum, its a Christmas miracle

I expect another factor in them choosing AG is that they get to spend time during their kids football match chatting to a Saghead on the touch line and they’ve probably thought “like **** am I letting my kids sit in a tent with you Sags on a Saturday afternoon”. We’ve got the best of both Worlds at AG, a fantastic stadium with over a century of history. With a lot of people a quirky kit and a nickname which could suggest to outsiders that you stink doesn’t really cut it. Keep up the good work Wally and co.

Indeed; you only have to look at their away following to see that actually they are the best supported club in Bristol and people only ever come to Ashton Gate after being locked out at The Memorial Ground. In actual fact I'm only posting on here because I have been banned by Gaschat. In other news Bristol Rovers' new club song has been announced:

One post jumped out. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11266/kid-quid-donny

Erm, aren't they the same place? I live close to BI, not in it, and there is one staunch gas boozer on the island suggesting the estate is predominantly blue. I would suggest it's one of the few blue areas left but in Barrs, next door, it's virtually ALL red and long may it continue! @Cheesleysmate lives near me so I would assume he agrees? Kingswood was pretty blue when I was a nipper with one shining 'bastion of red' boozer. While there's still a lot of older blues, I would suggest there are an awful lot more reds in BS15 than there used to be, maybe not parity yet but it's not far off!

I think it is high time to dispel this rubbish about "core support" with every gashead's nemesis - "facts" as opposed to #gaslogic I took some time to analyse the historical attendance data often linked in this thread to see exactly how core support stacked up over the years between the two clubs. Needless to say if that website's data is even partially correct (and there is no reason to particularly doubt it) it confirms what we all knew already. So how to read this graph..... It is based on the percentage difference in average attendances between the two clubs. A blue bar means the gas were better supported that year, a red bar City were better supported. The size of the bar indicates the percentage difference in attendance. For each year there is data (back to 1921, but none through WWII) I worked out the difference in attendance as a percentage of the lower of the two attendances - essentially what this figure tells you is how much the lower attended club would have needed to increase their own attendance to match the better supported club that year. As an example last year we averaged 19256 and the blue few averaged 9302 - the difference is 9954, and that equates to an extra 107% deluded half-wits they would have needed to find (and fit into their dump) to have matched us. Some observations.... Since England won the world cup just over 50 years ago rovers have had a higher average attendance once! Only on 6 occasions would we have needed a greater than 10% increase on our attendance in a season to match them There are 71 occasions where rovers would have needed a greater than 10% increase to match us City have never needed to make up 50% or more to reach rovers attendance On 21 occasions we have more than doubled their attendance (all figures >100% on the graph)

Shame that was only 6 rounds! Great stuff.

Assume it's something to do with our Swedish contingent, very impressive indeed. PS: I've run out of likes again. Anyone else having this problem all of a sudden?

(To the tune of "It's Over" by Roy Orbison) Sheikh Hani doesn't love you anymore....... Goodbye to the old Tote End There's no money left to spend The UWE isn't happening anymore Irene time for you to die See Gas Scum now the end is nigh Sheikh Hani doesn't want you anymore It's Over It's time for the blue few To drop into League Two But oh what will you do When Wael say's to you That Clarke is through, we're in the poo, the poo It's Over It's Over It's Over No more highlights shown on Sky When you kiss the league goodbye You won't be "coming for us" anymore Administration comes to call Al-Qadi's left you with sod all They sold your ground for houses after all It's Over, It's Over, It's Over, BRISTOL ROVERS.......

Personally, there are many things about the gas that I despise but their support pales into insignificance compared to ours so it's irrelevant! Even Sky said on the tele, during the 'Boro match (I watched it again, how sad am I), that our support is loud so why would we be jealous of 7,000 people getting wet watching hoofball on a quagmire, in a sh1t stadium when we regularly have over 20,000 enjoying Championship football, on a bowling green, in luxury?

and e mentions that to be fair, his point is about all the things that go with creating external revenue streams

Heaven knows they're miserable now. Panic.

I used to work with a gashead, who’s son got suspended from school. The teachers asked the kids what their dad likes to do in his spare time, so he stood up infront of the class and said “my dad likes to go up the downs, dressed in women’s lingerie, then he follows men into the bushes and pleasures them for money” The very unimpressed, shocked & concerned teacher ordered him straight from the classroom and, outside, asked if what he’d said was true..? “No Miss” said the young lad. “He’s a Bristol Rovers season ticket holder, but I was too embarrassed to tell the class that!”

I’ll raise you. Promises promises turned to dust Wedding bells just turned to rust Trust into untrust

Weird one, but am I imagining a large Swedish flag with "Ikea took the Tote End" on it that used to do the rounds? If not I need to get it made!

Yep, absolutely the most dispassionate hellhole of a stadium, lacks any sort of character.

Apart from the fact the MK ground’s possibly the most soul destroying place in the world, it makes Colchester’s look charismatic.

Essentially, £93M helped. There's the difference in a proper football club and the methane snorters up the road! They seem to have overlooked the financial aspect.

As for matching our level at the Mem? Yeah, right, of course they would!

Ennit funny how they call us a franchise though, I literally have no idea where thats come from.

Personally can't think of many youngsters attracted by the underdog appeal, they want to support winners, hence the Barca and Manchester shirts that proliferate. Also he seems to be stuck in the idea that kids only turn up for the football, the idea that they would choose to go to a ground with no facilities, over the gate is laughable. Maybe he hasn't seen it and has no idea how far ahead we are in standards?

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‘Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before’ for all the tick tockers.

I think ‘I know it’s over’ may be more appropriate. Edit: or maybe ‘I started something I couldn’t finish’

Don't forget the 40,000 they took to Wembley. You know. That 40,000 - the 40,000 who all travelled and attended a game with only about 30,000 in attendance.

That was indeed the one. However the Gashead here has overlooked the fact that 5 parents equal one child. And all 6 of them live in the same house as they're all related.

they have 5000 season ticket holders we have over 15000, ie the city ration must be 3-1 in favour of city

Lets not forget the barren landscape of old industrial Avonmouth; looking at Red Raw's posting of that brilliant map below we can safely say that those chemical complexes of Avonmouth are Gas lands. Literally and figuratively. They do like living up to their name it seems. I notice there is a Zinc Road, The Esso Terminal, a Household waste centre and even Portable Toilets Ltd off St Andrews Road so now we know. Not a single City season ticket holder in that wasteland; its all Gas.

I thought that’s what the blue M32 box was..!

That review is classic but AG doesn't rank at all well either, however the "latest photos" may explain the low score! https://www.footballgroundmap.com/ground/ashton-gate/bristol-city

live in Portishead and was sat opposite Matty with his partner in Costa on the Marina Saturday morning after Sheffield United game around 11.30am he was drinking a Americano, seemed very relaxed, told him he made a difference coming on last night and wished him all the best for the rest of the season, he smile and said thanks.

I’ll never tire at digging this visual out from the stadium planning docs of 2009......shows location of season ticket holders around Bristol. Quite clearly we are everywhere including massive numbers in the so say gas areas! Taking into account our season ticket numbers have gone up by about 40% since then, I’d confidently say the city is ours.

Facilities, there are no facilities ha ha ha ha ha

He’s gone from living in a flat in Portishead to living in a house near Congesbury. Hardly been hounded out by them. As you say, Tom, another lie from the blue few.

Better than being Redfield and definitely a Wh...

I hope they offer payment instalment plans..!

This is the particularly funny and ironic part of the interview. Credit to some of the Gas fans for flagging up his mistake on the gasheads.org forum. As PRESIDENT of Bristol Rovers, Wael Al-Qadi should know that that FFP does not apply to League 1 clubs. Instead, they (like other L1 clubs) adhere to the Salary Cost Management Protocol (SCMP). This is a Financial Fair Play framework but rather importantly, owners can invest as much money in their club as they choose. Such investment is not permitted by FFP in the Championship hence the reason Steve Lansdown is trying to build the turnover of BCFC with so much non-matchday activity. Basically, Al-Qadi is lying to the Rovers supporters when he says that FFP is at least part of the reason that the owners are not investing more in the playing squad. They could pour millions in if they wanted to. Played like a fiddle....

gas365 Youth Team Dec 7, 2017 at 9:54pm blueblood1883 and okebournegas like this Quote gashead1981 said: As bankers surely they were able to look at the profit and loss and see how much was underpinned by the previous directors? It’s business basics and totally bonkers that they would have to wait to run the club to notice that. They should also realise that the delaying of building/refurbing a stadium is also halting revenue and income streams. I think maybe we have been giving them too much credit all along. Their father set up the bank which would have been a good leg up into the banking world without having to make the hard yards that self made people do. I am unaware of what the owners of the club have achieved on their own merits outside of the family business- if someone wants to put me straight on that then I am genuinely happy to be corrected. As it is I can't help but think that where City got Lansdown (loathsome as he is), rag bag Rovers got the investment banking version of the Chuckle Brothers.

STATEMENT: TRAINING GROUND PLANNING PERMISSION APPLICATION NOT SUBMITTED Bristol Rovers Football Club can confirm it has not submitted a new planning permission application for its Almondsbury base. Crucially the look–at-the-state-of-it site will bring together the club’s first team and Academy players and staff plus enhance Rovers’ care pathway programme. Included in the old-look facility are a main rugby pitch plus two other rugby pitches and a cricket pavilion. The club has worked with Wael’s project managers to design a building that any part time rugby club would be proud of, encompassing a toilet, a changing hut, a first aid kit, rehab facilities and an MFI imitation teak home office set for the first team and Academy staff. 20th CENTURY FACILITIES “This will bring our training facilities into the 20th century and provide the football club’s Academy and first team with a place to hang out” Rovers chief executor Steve Hamster told brfc.coke.uk. “We’ve been pretending to work on the training ground project for the past year and, like the redevelopment of the Memorial Stadium, it’s a fantastic story to tell the fans.” “Our player development programme is supposed to underpin our ethos at Bristol Rovers Football Club and providing a second rate home for our first team and Academy setup is another demonstration of the Al-Qadi family’s level of commitment to the club and its young players.” Hamster added: “We have worked with so many consultants I’m beginning to lose count but when the current lot disappear and new ones are appointed we will keep supporters fully up to date every step of the way because they think it means something.”