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It was such a wonderful day! I was sat outside Severnshed with some mates following their desperate attempts to equalise on my phone, and as it became more apparent that it really might happen other City fans there came over after hearing our shouting. We went ******* tonto at the final whistle haha. We had a couple more celebratory beers before getting a taxi to Gloucester Road (I live in enemy territory!) and got in to find the driver was a beaming fellow City fan pissing himself at the whole affair too! Their shell shocked faces in the pubs in BS7 that night were a beautiful sight to behold, especially for someone like me who had been at Twerton on 02/05/90!

@TinMan's left peg https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2000/jan/20/newsstory.sport1 Enjoy!

True but Rovers will most likely release a statement about it anyway. The world’s stock markets always hang on Rovers’ response to a major political event.

I`ve said it before and I`ll say it again - I sometimes think that the club are a long term installation project by the KLF. However, I doubt that, even in the most twisted parts of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty`s imaginations, that they could dream up a stunt as convincing as BRFC. Ether that or it`s the most successful project they`ve ever undertaken and it`s now taken on such a life of it`s own that it won`t stop until the whole thing self -destructs.

Love this away day review I've just stumbled across. They literally have nothing going for them, I almost feel bad ?

NOOOO ! That would be like asking, " who's your favorite child " !

One of my favourites (there are so many) was the display at the UWE Fresher's Fair in which someone had depicted "da famus quarterz" by scribbling on a whiteboard. Tinpot doesn't do justice to their constant displays of ineptitude.

Open top bus tour was a classic,they still sweat at night thinking about it...spot the fan.com ?

The invisible Row M in their new temporary stand is also a contender.

Get relegated out of the football league, by a team who were wearing their own away kit! I win!

Losing to Mansfield is going to take some beating for top spot ???

I think it’s probably my favourite stupid thing they’ve done. Top 5 at least. Less distraction and more idiotic delusion that anyone would be remotely interested in what a 3rd tier, badly run football team would think about the referendum result. And the “statement” doesn’t even say anything, it’s a non-statement. We should have a vote on the funniest thing Rovers have done over the last 5 years.

Oh. I will very carefully sit corrected.

Kieran Maguire is excellent (perhaps most of the time- not always)- his blog the Price of Football is pretty comprehensive tbh.

Bristol Rovers host open-top bus parade to celebrate promotion, it did go well after all author imageJamie SandersonTuesday 26 May 2015 11:01 am Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2015/05/26/bristol-rovers-host-open-top-bus-parade-to-celebrate-promotion-it-didnt-really-go-that-well

You do that! And your witty reply even got a couple of laughs! Even so, I thought most City fans would have known that only the East End and Williams Stand were demolished during the rebuild....

Haha, I'd forgotten a few of those. Just need a title for this bestseller then, followedby the blockbuster movie. "The Sag's are Coming for us"

Relegated to division 5 as the fewers like to call it and being conned into thinking they’ve been taken over by a billionaire (with plenty of sags out there who actually still believe he is btw) are the 2 stand out ones for me. So many too name: The Cheesy chips. Clarke bawling his eyes out at FT Dags being chased off the pitch by horses Taylor won’t be sold for less than £10m Wallys tweets towards following Taylorgate Unreal amount more ?

Indeed. You need to be a special kind of special to manage that.

Oh my God!!

They really should have their own top 50 cock ups on one of those digital TV programmes

The Thatcher years, my dogs dead interview, comedy gold.

Obviously number one, i would also have Santa’s grotto & the disabled stand in the top five

Right. Got it. Now I see what you mean about two options. Any potential buyer either needs to find Wally's asking price plus have enough money to pay off the outstanding loan which cuts all ties to the AQ family or, the buyer pays the asking price for the club and has to agree a separate arrangement to make loan repayments to the loan holder. The second option is cheaper in the short term but the buyer needs to find the revenue to ensure the loan payments can be made. The second option also represents better profit for Wally and Co since they get back their initial investment plus a bit of profit and make profit on the interest from the loan. If anything, goes wrong for the new buyer the AQs would still have their investment protected against the Mem.

I think you have it there. The £12m that went into Dwane Sports may be Al Qadi family money or another bank loan that they're guaranteeing. We don't know that one.

That's better than my last lot of homebrew!

This thread needs some culture; from A Shropshire Lad: Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not. And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past: The mischief is that 'twill not last. Oh I have been to Ludlow fair And left my necktie God knows where, And carried half way home, or near, Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer: Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again. Then I saw the morning sky: Heigho, the tale was all a lie; The world, it was the old world yet, I was I, my things were wet, And nothing now remained to do But begin the game anew.

The Dolman wasn’t demolished though, just tarted up....

Someone on there is quoting big money investment into Dagenham and Leyton Orient as if to say that there is almost certainly an oligarch out there slavering at the prospect of acquiring the famous Roverz...

Was it the Dolman that used to give out clouds of concrete dust when people did the bounce around the ground? I'm very glad that was demolished and rebuilt. History shows us time and again that you compromise on safety at football grounds at your peril and I really hope that they haven't.

Yeah this graph I made a long while ago 100% backs up his point conclusively!! - I can very easily see where he came to the conclusion they would have been the bigger Bristol club had they remained at Eastville They left Eastville in 1986 - and he's right in the fact that since that time they have NEVER been the bigger club (and their grounds have been utter cack) BUT - In the 20 year period prior to that though they were the bigger club (average attendance wise) just once. And over the course of nearly 100 years of attendance data they have managed just 14 seasons with better average attendances than us; of those 14 seasons where they had higher average gates - 8 of them were actually seasons where the average attendance difference was quite close (i.e. were were behind Bristol rovers average attendance, but not drastically so) Compare to that to now - they are pulling 7-9K and we are managing 20K+ at every match. On some weekends recently we are getting close to triple their most recent home attendances.

According to their forum they are expecting to take around 4-500 for their trip to burton. I thought they were the bestest fans in the universe?

If @Mr Popodopolous is correct about Kieran Maguire's excellence then they have very much caught him on an off day; maybe he'd just woken up. This is a guess right? One delapidated stadium mortgaged to the hilt for its land value. Eh? Operating loss has pretty much quadrupled from £600k - £700k per year to £2.7m and then add £0.3m interest in 2017. I suppose you could call it "proper management" rather than a absolute shambles but you'd be in a minority with that view. My suggestion Kieran, next time you get a call from the Post about Bristol Rovers' finances, is that you say you will call them back when you have had a look rather than guessing and hoping that you successfully wing it; because you haven't.

DC has also stressed the importance of having all the players training in one place. "We've got the Under-21s training on the council patch and we've got the youth team training on a facility that's under water now. We've got to pull it all together."

Yes I am aware of the points system, what I am saying is the highlighted portion is bullshit IMO, a defeat is a defeat end of.

What on earth is that?! It looks like a trolley shelter!