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But Rovers fans are pikeys, Your club is up shit creek, Without a pot to piss in, And less support each week. You made a corporate video, Included Ashton Gate, You thought that we’d be bothered, And might just get irate. We didn’t give a flying ****, In fact we took the piss, Increase your dwindling fan base, By shagging your own Sis. You edited our new badge, Predictably, like you do, By changing 1894, To 1982. Still longer than you’ve been a league club, And most GHS who are living, You really are pathetic Sags, This gift just keeps on giving.

Just been sent this...so I sent one back....

Jealous of the attention and not to be outdone, Rovers have announced their new badge....

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!!

@Miah Dennehy @bodin Will any of the few be brave enough to shout "sh!t head, sh!t head" from behind the dugout to Mick Harford tomorrow?

Oh my gourd .

mick harford back in town tomorrow what a player ! we were awful those years but he was a good player great in the air good luck mick destroy the gas !

I'll take that as a compliment. Your badge is quite unique, I'll admit. But not sure I'd want a character who steals from others adorning the club kit. Oh hang on....

136 years old this year. Happy 37th btw

Can I just say, your new badge is shite. Just wanted to get that off my chest

We want it off our chest too!

Or this classic rendering………...

Just registered Neymar to play for Holloway's team, complete with shed !

I'll take points wherever they come from, even nectar ones!

Next year your lot would have been 100 a football League club, but you left for a year didn't you. Still, gives you longer to plan something special

Congratulations Miah , it’s good that old folks like you keep up with social media.

Brilliant, I'm saving that one for later

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Sheffield_Wednesday/Sheffield_Wednesday.htm only shows halves, not quarters. 1886-1890 Cardiff 1899-1908

It is the 29th March ... has Wally announced his BR-exit yet?

To be fair, anytime a club does something like this, they are there to be shot at. It's a bold move for sure but it's mostly been well received. It's hardly an embarrassment and yet again we at least try to move forward if not perfectly so. How are things at your more traditional, 'quirky' club? Any longevity in that?

Angus from AC/DC I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same. Interview with Jim Farber (February 27, 2000).

A friend of mine that spends half his life in Taunton and the other in Bedminster. Usually spot on with his info (about cricket), he's still adamant Jos wants to come back South

You're forgetting our state of the art electronic turnstile system

Only ten years too late, but where did you hear that? Since posting, I have just checked the 'Grockles' thread: The word doing the Somerset rounds is that Hildreth is batting at No.3 in the current match, and will do so against Kent, at the request of the England selectors ahead of this summer`s Ashes. Is there still hope of that elusive England cap at the age of 34.

Brilliant! Let's name the competition after the match winner from the 1-0 down, 2-1 up FA Cup win at Eastville

Thats alot of tents!

Less of a pirate; more a dandy highwayman.

Naughty boy Miah, personally i’m delighted we’ve got the robin back, shame the suspension bridge is missing

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but it’s rather strange to comment about another club’s badge when your own club’s biggest change in recent years is to install Championship ready sprinklers and a new tent.

Hahaha Mundo would absolutely destroy BJS. I see his comeback fight is now in the boxing hot-spot of Stevenage! I don't t know what they've been putting in Pricey's cornflakes but he has the raging hump at Ali (very strong language) I'm quite looking forward to the card tomorrow, it's going to be dumb but fun!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ”a club like us” Havent averaged over 10k at home for 40+ years and currently only manage to shift around 5k STs a season. Yeah, they REALLY need 20-25k stadium... Deluded idiots. Must be terrible to have so little ammo take the piss out of your rivals that you quickly rack up 5 pages of bollocks, all cracking the same ‘jokes’ about a badge change and supposed lack of history. Over a century of League football and a stadium we’ve occupied for the entire time. That’s more history than they can ever dream of. Bristol Rovers....no real home, a kit, ground and anthem stolen from others.

I think the story is they played each other in 1950 and Plymouth went 1-0 up and as that was a popular song at the time they started to sing it as it was, or was close to, number 1 at the time following its release by the Weavers. Rovers equalised in the second half and sang the same song but replaced "Irene" with "Argyle." And was just a thing from there. In terms of song content I've never understood why we continued to sing it, but we do have a history of picking up large parts of our fan culture from rivals mocking us, like our own nickname. But is it THAT rare? I know Spurs do it with Yid army, which is perhaps even stranger.And in regards to Hudson-Odoi, I actually think it was Johnson who said it. Said at the beginning of the season was very close to a loan move until Sarri decided to keep him last minute. Having watched him in all honesty think he would have been leagues ahead of any other player in the Championship, and it amazes me Chelsea even considered loaning him to City, especially with very public interest of a loan from Redbull Leipzig in Germany.

I appreciate your reasonable reply. You make some good points. And I agree, no point in de-railing this thread - but you do seem to ‘like’ any post that is critical of me, and ‘eggplant’ lots of my posts...too often to be coincidence...dunno what I’ve done to make you do this really... Anyway, on this thread the vast majority of posts are critical of, and rude about, da gas....I really can’t understand how posters like yourself and @29AR seem to want to protect them....and Bodin came on here chucking insults about and ridiculing people to start with....he or she has calmed down now, but reactions to Bodin’s initial posts were fully justified in my opinion...anyway, cheers for the response, no need to fall out...have a good evening...

Won't get many of them to the pound ...

Are you really trying to keep up your imaginary feud with me? At least you haven't gone onto my profile to eggplant react to my posts, so that's a step forward... I'm here to laugh at our neighbours, I really couldn't care less about you tbh...

So Plymouth fans sang it in game against you and from then on you’ve sang it yourselves? Stolen then. Just because they only sang it for 45mins means nothing, weren’t you lot only in a relegation zone for 45mins before?

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.

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

When they say they’re quirky,they mean in a ‘Royston Vasey’ way,a local club for local people.

Or spelling ?

"The bloody good life"indeed.......chocolate button heads?? A highly 'articulate outburst indeed Sir- 'take a bow!

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