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Why the **** shall we praise Bristol Rovers. **** um

Spot on mate ... those clueless plonkers have even called me a ‘glory hunter’ for supporting ‘da shit’ - their faces look like a gurning competition between Peter Beardsley, Iain Dowie and Phil Jones when I calmly explain that growing up, by the age of 15 I had watched City in all four divisions ... we reached the heights then plummeted quickly to the depths - the ‘famous’ quarters were a division above us when we sank to the bottom of div 4 and were at our lowest ebb - yeh, what a glory hunter! Then Sir Terrence Cooper picked us up by the scruff of the neck and gave every ounce of everything he had to get us back! And when we dicked the squatting vultures 1-2 in the FA Cup in Dec ‘83 we were still a div below them - but how important was that result?! It gave us everything back - a smile on our faces, a bit of pride, a team that often moved me to tears with their spirit and sheer bloody determination and the knowledge that we’d just dumped the gloating northerners out of the cup on their own patch not long after they’d tried to steal dear old Ashton Gate when we were on our knees ... Glory hunter? My arse ...

Embarrassing to who exactly? They’re the ones who bang on about having massive, loyal support all the time. Don’t see how highlighting the fact that they clearly don’t is embarrassing? As for giving them praise, I’ll give them the same amount of praise they give us.

The state of this plonker......I’m sure the camel herder thought exactly the same gasheadontour said: Why would any non-fan buy Rovers and spend many years and many tens of millions on a new stadium, training ground, youth system and first team when they could buy a championship club? Squiffy Because the latent potential and possible future rewards are greater for a club in our division and geographic location than for a similar outfit where there is already market saturation. There is also the opportunity to fine tune a new stadium development to maximise revenue which could be more restrictive and relatively more expensive at an established Championship club. I bet the output of a comparative spreadsheet would put us very close to the top of a list of potential high return investments in football.

Why did their Father give them all the same middle name?

They won't be close when the season ends.

Christ calm down it’s October !! They ain’t Swindon you know...

No mate, this is a thread taking the piss out of the gas.....they scrabble a few results together usually with the aid of a penalty and or opponents sent off and you expect us to praise them.....pah, no thanks. the only embarrassing thing is their dwindling crowds on such a ‘fantastic’ run

7864 - 322 Dons, 7542 Dongs

I dislike the blue few as much as anyone but how people cannot praise them for what they are doing is beyond me! I can’t see it lasting for them, and really hope they don’t mount any serious challenge, but IF they were to promoted we would still be out of their league in so many ways. They will be just another Burton/Yeovil. But let them have their moment. They are doing well against the odds.

Can’t knock what the Gash are doing!! No money, no fans, s£/& ground and the list goes on, but they are a very well built side for league 1 and will be safely in the play offs this year.

I have mate, bloody lovely. Might have to buy it TBH.

You misspelt 'so knuckle chewingly awful I cringed myself inside out' mate! If Tyson was any more wooden a passer by would Cuprinol him.

Because, as with all R*Vers supporters, they are all related ?

You probably won't remember this Bert ?, but, one Autumn Sunday afternoon back in the late 1960s/very early 1970s, a year or two before you died if I remember correctly, together with a Rovers supporting friend of mine I went out collecting conkers in the fields near to your lovely house in Frenchay - obviously, I didn't know at that time you lived there. Unfortunately, my over-enthusiastic Rovers friend decided, somewhat unwisely as it turned out, to throw a rather large branch in to one of the conker trees, and when, unsurprisingly, the branch fell back down, it did so via his head, resulting in lots of blood and tears. We made our way to one of the afore-mentioned houses to seek assistance and the charming lady who answered the door to your house, said she would ask her husband to attend to us and called out to you to help. Fortunately, and despite me singing for this on many occasions, you had not gone to Vietnam, and drove my friend and I to the A&E ward of the nearby Frenchay hospital, from where you telephoned my friend's parents and waited until they arrived to take care of their son. I never really got the chance before, but should now like to thank you and apologise for spoiling your Sunday afternoon so many years ago.

Ended by Donowa!

I don’t miss the late ‘80s ! Gary Smart Devon ******* White (he was shit, yet we always managed to make him look like a world beater) ! Gary ******* Penrice Vaughan ******* Jones Ian ******* Alexander Ian ******* Holloway Aaaaaaarrrgggghhhhhh !!!!!! Nightmare days.

At the Madrid marathon it was an open start, save for the elites in the front pen. I had managed to work my way to the front. After the starting pistol the elites were off like cheetahs, and out of sight in no time. It is not just their pace, the sheer economy of movement and stride is something to behold.

For crowd support, London. For a brilliant race location, NYC. For a destination trip and the fellow runners, Antarctica.

Be nice if on the 40th anniversary, the finish in the top 2. The Coventry Automatics has a certain ring to it! ?

You’re on moderator preview (and have been for a couple of weeks now) because of the load of complaints we had about you after your recent comments amongst other things about your fellow fans. It’s easier for us mods and admin, who are all but one doing this on a voluntary basis, than dealing with piles of complaints. Prove you can post sensibly for a while and we’ll look at removing the restriction.

Is there any benefit to having them in the city? Detracts from City, Bears and Flyers who would likely benefit from them moving out of the city or going non-league permanently. Would be great for all of the above and Bristol Sport (and sport in Bristol), how about replacing them with rugby league or an American football team or speedway or something? Would have more than an air of karmic justice also.

Ask the gas hit squad,they are pros

They’re coming for us!!! That would be funny if we got promoted also - mind the gap!! Even if we didn’t and they did, they would be in for one hell of a culture shock In some perverse sort of way I would quite like to play them again in a league game, how many years is it now??

1963 was my first game

I kind of get this mate. If they were by some miracle get to the Championship they really would be the whipping boys (which would be funny) and really all they would care about is the two games against us. What would be hilarious though is they were to get promoted in the same season we did as well.

Much bigger crowd today % wise on previous weeks, presumably a few people getting mixed up and taking the "non League day challenge"

I guess there’s two sides to this: the companies house official accounts FFP submission for 1. All the accounting principles can be followed legally. for 2. It seems like there is quite a big grey area.

You are right of course, and I'm sorry about that, but I was extremely tickled by the connections to be made between the main players in Lavignac Securities Ltd, who seem to have come to the remarkable conclusion that Rovers would be a good fit for the Fruit Market Stadium, and the Marx Bros movie "At The Circus". I got a bit carried away. However, I would like to say how touching it has been to read the tributes on here to Stuart Taylor. The experiences which have been relayed of Stuart are clearly genuine and sincere which says a lot about our rivalry when a perception has grown up that the blue and red sides of town hate each other with a vengeance which is something I have never believed.

I like Rovers being in 4th place in the league. They are building up expectations for the 6,000 fans that will lead to disappointment when they fall way to mid table.

I was kind of alluding to the shitness of that time (early 80s)...fair play about your appetite for self torture....even more masochistic than me! Not as masochistic as following that rabble of snaggle toothed cesspit cleaners from Horfield.

Got that right. Probably highest position in the League since 1999 and they barely manage to get 7500 Gasheads at home. Embarrassing support at L1 level in a City this size.

If we are just talking about League football then he is probably right. Having only 90 clubs above you means your close to the top, right?

...and that, ladies and gents, is why their fans are loved and respected the World over. Before anyone suggests it, that opinion isn’t just the view of one oddball on a forum full of wrong uns...I’ve heard Gasheads in real life come out with the ‘they should be dead and buried’ line since Bolton started picking up points. The fact it’s Burton players, not Bolton, that have been called up for International duty only makes those raging Sags look even more thick.

Me neither, strange? It’s almost like, well, like it was yet more bullshit, but surely not?

I guess I missed the important announcement that was due to happen yesterday?

Without wishing to denigrate you and your profession, when one sees that certain businesses (e.g. Thomas Cook) were not actually overnight disasters, but had been building year on year on financial incompetency, one can’t but help look at who was signing off the books and why.

No you’re not going mad don’t worry! In order to make a 4th round of fixtures, they have a ‘derby weekend’ which includes crunching derbies like Bristol v Exeter, wasps v Worcester and sale v London Irish, hmmmm Those results then go towards the pool groups. For instance if Bristol and Quins both win tomorrow Bristol will go through as the best second ranked team, and in doing so will knock Exeter off their perch, despite being in different pools

I once nearly had a Bishops Finger, it was on sale at an off licence. I told my old friend "Father Michael" this and asked if he'd ever known anyone who'd had a Bishops Finger, he chastised me with a grin on his face and a chuckle.

Bloody attention seeking weirdos the lot of them. How many wives/girlfriend/partners go and watch their others halves do their jobs? I can only think of a couple, either the Royal lot or the Prime Minister. So what’s the fascination with who football players are with? I’ve never been at all interested in the Wags, I doubt having seen the pics they have the intelligence of a Pringle between the lot of them, and who even still reads that scummy rag of a paper anyway?

Taramasalata dip.

Remarkably... “Spence is awake and responding and is listed in stable condition,” his representatives said in a statement. “He didn’t sustain any broken bones or fractures but does have some facial lacerations. He is expected to make a full recovery.

A plan is coming together, just like the last one and the one before. The club still have a non league mentality and treat their dwindling fan base like mushrooms. Keep em in the dark and occasionally feed em s##t. It's been like that for years and I doubt it will get any better.

Very sad about Stuart, never heard a bad word about the man, even if he was a blue ?. He had been suffering from degenerative brain disease for several years and went down hill fast, ended up just a shadow of his former self. Never diagnosed as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (once known as punch drunk syndrome), but surely no coincidence given his occupation, playing style and the footballs of old, as the family of Jeff Astle are only too aware and of which Geoff Twentyman has highlighted, to his credit. The sooner that this condition is officially recognised the better, especially by the likes of the FA and Premier League, who need to financially and morally support the many ex pro’s and their families through what is a debilitating and often, fatal syndrome. RIP big man, from all sides of Bristol.

I was about 10 or 11 years old at the time and a mad keen City fan. The late Stuart Taylor used to provide some part-time coaching for our boys team, the majority of whom were Rovers fans, and, knowing I was a City fan, he used to tease me along the lines that he used to play for City, but left them because they were not very good and decided to join Rovers - cue laughter and more teasing from my teammates. Given my age at the time, coupled by the fact I was probably in awe of him, I am sure I would most likely have believed him had he told me that, not only did he play for City, but that he actually scored more goals than the late, great John Atyeo. The reason I mentioned the fact he used to play for City was simply that, reminiscing about the demise of a local sportsman, a wonderful gentleman and, from my personal experience, a man who gave up a lot of his free time to coach me and my young teammates, I recalled something he told me 50 years ago. I am sorry if I confused the true facts of his early playing career, but perhaps I had just a little tear in my eyes when I was posting.

Sad news - a proper centre half, daunting opponent and a great servant for the Rovers .... rest easy fella

Is this one of those tricky pub quiz questions where we will find out that Alan Brazil once went between the sticks when he played for Ipswich and someone who then went on to play for Rovers scored. Or did Neymar get a great price on a chicken hutch...

It's a sad indictment to today's society when a story like this makes national news headlines. Colleen Rooney is as shallow as they come, what normal wife would put up with their husband shagging prostitutes, caught drunk driving another woman's car to her place and taking another woman to his hotel room in another country and that's just what he's been caught doing. She's only stayed with him for the money and to stay in the limelight.

I thought I heard something on Sky earlier that this `consortium` were interested in Wycombe - no mention of the s*gs. That would make more sense - close to London, a decentish stadium and no competition nearby that are vastly superior. Hope it happens, they`d have another reason to hate the Chairboys!

Coventry , away , THAT game