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So we're the franchise. And they are the quirky, historical club full of identity. Alright, hold my beer lads. We are playing in our spiritual home ground, where we've played for nearly 120 years. Rovers traditional home is now stocked with flat pack furniture, whilst the team have scrounged around rugby grounds, and venues in ANOTHER CITY ENTIRELY. Our owner is Steve Landsdown, a local businessman who loves the club, has owned us for nearly 20 years and will pass his legacy onto his son. Rovers owner is Dwayne Sports PLC, a bunch of foreign chancers with no affiliation to the club who only bought it on the off chance of relocating it to South Gloucestershire, but now regret their decision and are desperate to get rid of them like a turd that won't flush. Our club anthem(s) were written by a local band who are supporters of the club. Goodnight Irene has absolutely nothing to do with Bristol Rovers and was in fact stolen from Plymouth Argyle after they sang it as a piss take. Our nickname the Robins is indeed shared by two other football league clubs, but I do believe we've been around as the Robins for longer than either of them (I stand to be corrected on that one). Rovers nickname of "the gas" was in fact invented by us as an insult so you can thank your artificial and boring neighbours for your quirky and unique nickname. As for the Pirates? Yeah OK, granted. But the pirate on your badge looks like a cross dressing fanny. So there. Ashton Alf, the Bristol Babes, John Atyeo, Norman Hunter bites your legs, the Ashton Gate Eight, Super Bob Taylor, the team of 1976, super Jacki from another planet, Tom Thumb, Fatty Wedlock, Drink up ye Cider, the Walshie shuffle, Bounce around the ground, East End agro, 118 years in the football league. Bristol City FC is a football club oozing with history and tradition. Sure, we've had to modernise to keep up with the rest of the footballing world but we're still BCFC, we still play at Ashton Gate in red and white, we are still the Robins and we have the same supporters. Your "identity" however, just consists of being a rag bag bunch of tramps who scrape by day to day by doing everything on the cheap. And whilst you might think that makes you cool and unique, it really doesn't. It just makes you stand out like a sore thumb as being an absolute failure of a football club, on life support, desperately trying to cling on to the tail coats of your bigger and better city rivals. So shove that in your pipe and smoke it, you bunch of ****s!!

Ah but we aren’t as unique as them are we, just listen to this moron....... For me it just epitomises everything I hate about City. It’s a copy and paste job from Brentford or Walsall’s badge and just lacks any trace of originality. There are plenty of teams called City, plenty that wear red with a white trim and even a fair few that share the “robin” mascot. It’s all so artificial and boring. For all our faults, we are incredibly unique, there aren’t that many Rovers around, only one other team in the entire football league play in quarters, we have a quirky and original club anthem in Goodnight Irene and no other team is nicknamed either the pirates or the gas. I’d never trade that to be in the position that City are in, it's part of why I love the club so much.

1)?.....Let’s get that out of the way first.... 2) ???? What an absolute pillock! 3) There aren’t that many Rovers around when you think one of them is called “United” you absolute belter! Aside from that you have Blackburn and a little club from Nailsworth who aren’t a million miles away from leaving you lot in their shadow too! 4) And if you had your way by crying like babies to the FA there would have been one team playing in quarters. In 2015 there was only one team playing in quarters in the football league and it wasn’t the Sags as they were playing in a park league against the likes of Alfreton whilst being sponsored by a pub. 5) Goodnight Irene, a song about someone whose total success lasted a week, lives in the past, moves their place of residence regularly from the actual town to somewhere else and then back again and considers suicide on a regular basis because they can’t come to terms with the fact that the good old few days are gone forever. He is far too deluded to get over it and accept fact and as a result, remains in an eternal state of depression and misery. Yep, that pretty much sums Rovers to a tee! The song is so ‘unique’ that the Sags have actually played the whole thing out on the pitch and in the stands! ? Mazen!!! The other song they like to belt out is “Never Felt More Like Singing The Blues”, but they never sing the other verses...... ”I never felt more like crying all night, cuz everything’s wrong and nothing ain’t right....” and ” I never felt more like RUNNING AWAY...” 6) No other team are called the pirates and gas because no other club is a bunch of gypsy, squatting thieving ***** who are totally full of guff! 7) You would never trade all of that to be in City’s position? Ok, well good luck with all that then. Don’t forget to turn the lights out the next time you drop out of the Football League. 18 years. Mind The Gap!

Aww, what a sweet story. What those dick heads don’t like is that most of Bristol are clearly not interested in camp Pirates, a shit looking kit and suicidal ‘anthems’. Cringy little maggots.

Any truth that they'll now be playing this classic album over the PA at home games?

That's because you purchased an Italian knock off version. All the tracks probably were identical! I made the same mistake buying REM's Green on CD at an Egyptian market once. Started off as Green, but the last 4 tracks are Michael Bolton followed by a repeat of Pop Song 89 which cuts off after 2 minutes.

And sour grapes

He's obviously used to buying lemons

They want a stadium with a capacity of 27,001.

So a consortium taking over, how does that work ? Will they be carried down Gloucester Road as one or carried down individually, lots to think about for the sags, I would imagine they will be coming for us of course as that's all that seems to matter to most of them.

Everton 1884- 1886 (over 130 years ago) http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Everton/Everton.htm Shrewsbury 1907-1910 (over 100 years ago) http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Shrewsbury_Town/Shrewsbury_Town.htm If they want real unique, go back to 1895-1896 http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Bristol_Rovers/Bristol_Rovers.htm

"like a turd that won't flush" Da foinal turd.....?

So brace yourselves for a rousing rendition of..Good night Aubergine.

He must be bananas

Hearing that Somerset have been asked to bat James Hildreth at 3 with an eye to him going into that slot for the ashes series Already hit one decent knock of 158no albeit against Cardiff MCCU

Here we go. 40,000 Not 40,000

I'm sure we would be a right handful.

If they did that I might even go!

Presumably it will be an open top bus tour. They couldn`t get their deposit back on the one they booked for this coming Monday.

Not a problem, SL can buy a couple of plastic white chairs from B&Q and our capacity rises to 27002

Responding to another sag who suggested they should look at a 30,000+ stadium, another one suggested... "We could if we were ever run correctly and had someone to invest in our potential.Anything less than a 20-25k arena seems pointless building for a club like us." Where is this potential they talk of? What do they have that other clubs with c8,000 fans don't have? We average 20,000 and have been in the Championship for a number of years with a decent budget. Our stadium is plenty big enough for the foreseeable future. Their own potential is drastically affected by our own success. Overestimating your own worth and potential can prove a very costly mistake. They need a tidy 12,000 stadium like Bournemouth. One which they could fill once or twice a season if they win the odd FA Cup game or host a concert.

Saw Billy Joe Saunders mention he'd like to fight Callum Smith in an interview yesterday, seems ridiculous to me that they could be in a ring together, I always think of Billy Joe as way too small.

Well if either are true, then it’s great that we are even considered as an option for that level of player, although they must have been fairly ambitious efforts. Obviously not much help, if they don’t actually come off, but at least it would show that we were trying to get what we needed.

They seem to think they are buildiing a new stadium at the fruit market all the busineses from autochoice all down the road including ed wares scrapyard have been sold and student accomadation being built and stadium at the fruit market please dont shoot the messanger source comes from someone inside club just thought id share

Or spelling ?

Sure it is at the Mem? I would have thought they'd have advertised their Championship ready sprinklers.

That'll make them Shysters then . . .

He's handled plums before.

...is that a genuine W a n k s y ?

Wonder if they'll ever question why everything is so 'unique' there? I guess nobody has been able to break into the locked Gashchat to tell them that unique is not necessarily a good thing. Certainly not in their case. One of them has actually taken the time to draw a cock on our badge. They're a bit weird aren't they?

" I’d never trade that to be in the position that City are in" If this bit is true why did they rush every media outlet they could find to boast about how they were "considerably richer than da shit" and how they were going to "overtake us in 5 years"? Methinks thou do protest too much....

Talking of club badges I would have thought that a pantomime pirate with his weapon in one hand and other hand on hip was very 1970's carry on typecast and as out of touch with today's up to date looks. A bit like the rest of their club, stuck in the 70's

Still 3 years before they joined the Football League of course.

When was the Dwayne sports “franchise” formed then..?

My exact thoughts waking up today was what would the horse punching stealing racists think of our badge? No doubt they'll be once again accusing us of having no identity. I've been out of the loop for a while, has their foreign owner with no affiliation for the club bought them a new stadium outside Bristol yet?

Theres this, everyone in the top tier seems to have gone for a drink.

Where’s the Robin ?

Exactly Banbury. They were still talking about making the playoffs until about 3 games to go and what a pleasure it was watching their doom unfold on the best Soccer Saturday of all time....3rd May 2014. They were literally in the bottom 2 for minutes rather than weeks and it was ******* hilarious! I was so happy I went on an almighty session and ended up on the big white telephone to hugh and ralph, but it was worth it. Oh, to witness scenes like that again. It would be priceless!!!

Hidden posts?

Who isn’t? They are looking at it.

Because i'm not there and believe it or not I actually find this thread enjoyable, I've never had a problem with City fans, it's just banter. To be honest, a lot of the time I actually find this thread funnier and more enjoyable to read through than GasChat. It's actually fun to talk to City fans, well, minus the ones like you who use **** in every sentence or say they're 6 foot 4 of pure rage.

I think you maybe over reacting, pour yourself a beer and relax

I genuinely don’t know what to reply that accurately conveys the disgust I have for Cardiff City at the moment. ‘Once a bluebird...’ yeh right until we can weasel out of paying for the lad. *apologies for associating innocent weasels with Cardiff.