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Bristol city 1976 squad?

Rovers have only been a league club since 2015, of that counts..?!

Did Rovers actually lose their league status..? I know every other club that gets relegated from League 2 does, I’m sure that Rovers’ fans put us well and truly in our place and stopped our celebrations and mockery in their tracks, by clarifying that they’d actually only gone down to “level 5”

A case of if you pretend to build it they will pretend to come.

Crikey, I still remember them down the Muller Road before a match……...

You new here @chinapig? ?

Yes, four whole years as a League club. Well done them ? What are we on now? Something like 119 consecutive seasons as a football league club? Assuming they don’t hilariously drop out of the Football League again, they only have to wait 115 years to match our current tally. ?? I do love it when some d1ckhead gives me an excuse to point this out.

Well, the way some talk on here about 1894 v 1897 - perhaps it’s worth pointing out that the team called Bristol Rovers didn’t exist until 1899 ...

Ah the old 0-3-2 formation with dual keepers. Not seen that one in years.

Inside the peanut brain of the average Saghead it probably seems totally believable that a children’s party would be held inside a Wine Bar? I’ve got kids and I can think of better places for a 10th birthday party ? I wasn’t present but I thought it was the Forest fans who ran in there after realising they’d bitten off more than they could chew? Pretty sure no City fans were targeting kids, that’s more of a Gas thing to do.

they can only dream of glass houses - more like #peopleincrustyoldtents Vile club in every possible aspect

And now I feel totally excluded on OTIB, thanks for that…………..

Classic OTIB. From the plight of Bolton to 'what did we call a flexible goalkeeping arrangement' when we were kids in under 60 posts.

So rush goalies in the posh parts, and drop backs elsewhere! ?

Yep. That went well. Probably doesn’t see the irony of his posting. Why Sags should be kept well away from keyboards unless adults are around.

I grew up in Knowle West and we always called it drop back goalies.

Bristol City are an incredibly well run club. I think it is inevitable that- if Lansdown remains in charge- they will get to the Premier League one day. It might not be as quickly as some would like but I do think they will get there. I'm pinning my hopes on enough meatheads giving him enough stick, that he takes his money and goes home

The more football becomes about money , the more this will happen. I wouldn't blame the fans, but I suspect there were a fair amount of them demanding that the chairman 'splashed the cash' in order to keep up with the Joneses, it happens at every club. I guarantee you that during the course of the upcoming season there will be a fair few demanding that Lansdown gets his hand in his pocket, they would do well to remember 1982.

I wonder if Zac Clough’s dad is still laughing at us

Ahhh yes, ok future rather than ex captain Not bad though seven England captains ex or future in one side !

Well the growler in black n white on right is filming it on her phone ! ?

If she's anything like my wife, she will be wondering where she buys her underwear!!

Always had a racist element, back in the Eastville days many of the tote end mob had links to the National Front.

Don't forget all of the soft porn you can handle at the "family club" I am sure the few ladies and children who happen to be there & witness it appreciated the fithy, demeaning and sordid nature of what was on offer

In a nutshell correct.

5 down first ball after Tea but it doesn't sound like much is going on. @Super They do seem to have been. More than that I heard on commentary one of the days a suggestion that they may effectively give up- not in practice but give up in a meaningful sense, the Championship and focus largely on One Day and 20/20. Took a quick look and the 6 full seasons before this one, they've "won" the wooden spoon pretty often! Bottom of Division 2, 4 seasons out of 6. 6 down- into the tail now.

Hope that never happens, a bit of red is fine and the last two designs have been great and good respectively. Probably end up looking like Glaws. Would have been nice to have a red away kit and maybe a nod to Bris in City away kit but that was before rebrand and bears. Now I would love to tie the clubs together with the purple and lime kits, not exactly common in either sports.

Hartcliffe in the 70's, we called it "First one back"

‘Slow news day on the one team in bedminster. “ he’s just said something I don’t agree with, he must be a dirty gas head!” Sums them up really. Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing.’ Pot Kettle Black anyone?

Grew up in Southmead,drop back goalies for us too.

They don't have a Player Logistics Executive. Tinpot.

Division 5 wasn't it?

Hengrove/Whitchurch borders for me. We used same definition.

Whitchurch. Either Rush-Back (anyone could be the goalie) or Drop-Back (the goalie could play wherever they wanted but was the goalie nonetheless) Well. That's how I remember it anyway! Don't forget good old next goal wins too mind!

To be fair, Mark probably makes more money from his removals business than from playing for that lot.

And I don't think Marcus Browning did either! Vaughan Jones should have.

**** off back to gas works or whatever poxy name its called......

I'm going to use Gaslogic and state as fact, if we get to the premier league and we extend Ashton Gate we will get an average of 67200 (gaslogic 28000/10000 = 2.8 2.8 x 24000 = 67200)

That's what I really don't get. They claim to be the most loyal fans in the world, but at the same time they say that if they had a lovely new stadium, their support would suddenly treble. So basically, two thirds of their supporters will only watch them if they get a nice comfy seat... #gaslogic

Brian Parkin, didn't he go on to play for Man Utd? Then there was Carl Saunders, he hit the big time when he went on to play for England after his large transfer to Liverpool Of course Billy Clark was fantastic at Chelsea, didn't he lay on the ball for Di Matteo in the FA Cup final. Not like the sags to be factually incorrect is it. As for owning a "stadium" well I know someone who owns a "stadium" which runs stock car and demolition derbies, its a ramshackle dump but he still calls it a stadium. Unlike the sags, he owns it unlike some faceless offshore company hiding behind a veil of secrecy.

Ah but in fairness, we never play Barnet. If we played Barnet regularly then I’ve no doubt whatsoever that this same fan would prefer Rovers to us.

If @TomF has a few minutes to spare, he might care to read the last two pages of the Yorks/Somerset thread on Grockles, where his old friend AGOD is demonstrating a rare pessimism, even by his standards, about Somerset's chances of winning the Championship,

Here's another saggie on facebook, telling anyone who will listen, how special their support is. It's now 46,000 that went to the Millenium Stadium! Is it just me, or does that number creep up every year? How long before it's 50k? And how many went to Wembley for their non league final? Any official figures given anywhere, because I'm almost certain it was quite a bit less than 30k.

The good news is that the EFL Ffp rules will prevent clubs overspending and getting into this sort of mess.

I agree, hard to feel sorry for the kind of fans you describe. Those who have no interest in the financial health of the club then complain when chickens come home to roost. We have those who claim Steve uses FFP as an excuse not to spend what we don't have. Fortunately they seem to be in a minority.

Your owner has never even put his hand in his pocket!

I really hope there isn't any abuse re Sala when Cardiff visit AG. My god, I'd be so angry.