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They are not really desperate to make some money ... but who wouldn't pay to wear the "famous quarters" on the hallowed turf? (I think Irene is included in the "Optional Extras*") Pitch Hire Packages Available at the Mem! Packages to play on the pitch at the Memorial Stadium are now open for bookings. We are pleased to be able to offer a unique opportunity for you to book pitch hire at the home of Bristol Rovers F.C, which includes the following extras; 90-Minute Game Use Of Home And Away Dressing Rooms &Dugouts Tunnel Line-Up Match Officials First Aid Services Car Parking Optional Extras* Food And Drink (including out-of-date crisps PLUS dodgy Fanta) Full Bristol Rovers Home And Away Kit Photography And Videographer 40,000 fans provided Open topped bus tour to the winning side All the horses you can punch Full use of Santa's Grotto Free raffle for one of Wally's watches Enhanced security to ensure no 'Teds can sneak in [Insert Additional OTIB Suggestions Here] Packages start at £1,250 (+VAT) per slot - with slots available between 9am-12noon, 1-4pm and 6-9pm. Please note these packages cater for 11-a-side & 7 substitutes (a maximum 18 players). ... and just in case you thought I made all of it up .... https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2019/february/memorial-stadium-pitch-hire/

Merv the Swerv, driver of Berts crazy bus from the Rising Sun, Backwell

He had his own (clean) version of the song; My old man said be a R*vers fan, I said no way father you're a fool! ?

Tony Harling

Steve Lansdown should buy all the perimeter advertising boards at the Mem and advertise City’s next home game on them. Even offer Rovers Season ticket holders 1 free ticket to come and experience Ashton Gate. Now THAT would be funny..!

In the vid I posted, you can hear someone echoing TH's "Come on you Reds". That was, I think, a guy we only ever knew as 'Jack' who regularly stood a few rows behind me at the back of the enclosure, by the wall of the Grandstand. He had a voice which would strip wallpaper and was used frequently to berate referees and in particular, Keith Fear! Another character I remember from those days stood in the Open End - a big muscled guy I knew as 'Mervyn'. He was a lovely, funny guy but I would never have wanted to cross him! You wouldn't phone a hotline to complain about him, that's for sure! Such characters seem to have disappeared from today's more sanitised football crowd.

You all must stay in Hanham on a Saturday by the looks of your crowds.

Amazing to me that having stolen Bristol Rugby's ground from them and then making it financially impossible for them to compete with other top-level rugby teams that a number of Rovers fans now describe Steve Lansdown's actions as 'relocating' the club to Ashton Gate. Once again, the Rovers owners of the day couldn't see the potential of doing anything more than lining their own pockets and focusing on the short term. The blue faithful then reinvent history to paint Bristol Sport as the villains for kidnapping the rugby team and trafficking them across Bristol. There wouldn't be a rugby club without SL.

Waterloo was the final conflict of the English civil war?

The Sag bellend also had the following tough question - "Cured with salt, the meat from which animal is used to make bacon?" Answer - "Cow". I spat my tea out...

If true, that's a bummer. Bloke was a right character.

I'm sure that I read that he'd gone North (Scotland), to look after his ageing mum?

Let's be honest, if you were a rovers fan you'd be trying to hide it as well as you could...

Hope I'm wrong but as he hasn't been seen (or HEARD,) in an eternity I fear the worst. Even the Harlingshire contingent haven't spotted him.

Wasps at home tonight, 5 locks out injured so Hawkins (who signed his first senior contract this week) comes in. Will Hurrell is also out for 6 months which is a great shame. Team below

Jeez thats like putting pirelli p zero asimetrico tyres on a Hillman Imp, ok I exagerate, maybe new set of Asda budget tyres.

I knew i had to leave Hanham for a reason....

Nice to see they've got money to spend on comfy seats for Wally and his cronies, while the away fans still stand out in the p!ssing rain

Bookings are for May.

They've decided that if they do it during the season, they may find someone who is better than the crap they currently pay, sign him for free, offer a smaller wage, and as they'll be unattached, can go straight into the first team. Clever really...

On his own from the Grandstand "Give me a Beeeee" The Eastend "Beeeeee" Could hear him all around the ground, great times.

The way things are going Villa could be out of the promotion/play off picture without the need for a FFP points deduction!

Yeah, it’s Horfield, on a matchday, that you don’t get many of them..!

Plenty of us left in Hanham :)

Used to be a guy who sat in the grandstand, who sang on his own consistently. He only used to sing come on you reds, but i swear he used to go on for about 5 minutes and you could hear him allover the ground.

If it was Henbury Gas he’d have claimed to have faught at the Battle of Waterloo.

Just when you thought they couldn't get any more stupid, they throw something like that at the nation. Bet he's going to make his other half squeal like a cow tonight....

Dozy Zak the Thick Sag gets every question wrong but one, and still manages to skulk away with £2,350. He may be dumb, but he's now twice as rich as Wally Wael. They have a new saviour. Will he buy them some more garden-chairs and another tent? Will that leave enough to sign another striker too?

There are not many of them left around here. We have been working hard for a few years getting the kids down the gate. A couple left in deepest, darkest Hanham, but that's it. I can see Ashton Gate from the house. Cheers me up no end getting up on a morning, pulling the curtains and seeing the stadium in the distance. Old girl opposite doesn't share my enthusiasm though and has complained to the police a couple of times, so I must remember to get dressed first.

Do Viz still have ‘Up the arse corner’?

“Fire doesn’t stop Gas” ? Cringe. I thought they were suspected of starting the fire at Eastville? As for having pictures of City pitch invasions and aggression, maybe they should include pictures of Rovers fans ‘aggression’ so their younger fans know the truth about their own club? There’s plenty of examples. They could also include newspaper cuttings about ‘boob cricket’, attacking animals, throwing missiles at opposition mini buses and even programme notes from their own management having to tell them to stop being racist. Above an urn containing the ashes of their own self respect they could have a mural saying “He’s headbutted the window, the sp*z”.

Jordan Crane has signed a contract extension. In other news, London Irish have signed Sean O'Brien for after the World Cup. That's a serious signing, hope he gets an injury free run to finish his career. If anyone deserves that it's him.

At a recent Merseyside derby, Jurgen Klopp goes into the Liverpool changing room to find all his players looking a bit glum. "What’s up?” he asks. “Well, we’re having trouble getting motivated for this game. We know it’s important but it’s only Everton and we can’t be bothered, we always beat them”. Jurgen looks at them and says, “Well, I reckon I can beat these by myself, you lads go down the pub.” So Jurgen goes out to play for the Reds by himself and the rest of the Liverpool team go off for a few beers. After a few pints they wonder how the game is going, so they get the landlord to put the television on. A big cheer goes up as the screen reads “Liverpool 1 - Everton 0 (Klopp 10 minutes).” He is beating Everton all by himself! Anyway, a few more pints later and the game is forgotten until someone remembers “It must be full time now, let’s see how he got on.” They put the teletext on. “Result from Anfield: Liverpool 1 (Klopp 10 minutes) - Everton 1 (Sigurdsson 89 minutes).” They can’t believe it; he has single-handedly gotten a draw!! They rush back to Anfield to congratulate him. They find him in the dressing room, still in his gear, sat with his head in his hands. He refuses to look at them. He says, “I’ve let you down, I’ve let you down.” “Don’t be daft, you got a draw, all by yourself. And they only scored at the very very end!” the players say. To which Jurgen replies: “No, No, I have, I’ve let you down… I got sent off after 12 minutes”