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Congratulations to Cheltenham on gaining promotion and at the same time leap frogging the Tesco Bags in the West Country pecking order......................

We’ve got 2nd May coming up this Sunday when they will be posting their annual grainy YouTube video of 1990 and having mutual manual manipulations over it. Fortunately we can also post memories of 2nd May 2001 when they entered the Basement for the first of their ‘triple crown’ of relegations to it. Then the following day we can laugh louder than they could ever possibly imagine for it will be Sir Colin Daniel of Mansfield day. It’s like taunting us with a feather and being hit back with a wrecking ball. Still, they set themselves up nicely for it every single year. Bring on the grainy video. Can’t wait to respond with the big guns! ?

It's only a half-hour show!

I don’t even know where to start with this one. He’s taken an average crowd from 70 years ago, an average crowd from 46 years ago, thrown in the usual reference to us and calculated a 20k average! All without acknowledging they are starting in the basement division again next season with very little chance of championship football for many years. I’m not even sure they have 20 thousand fans in Bristol any more, their support base has dwindled to a few mouthy deluded idiots spouting bollocks on social media and radio phone ins. I’ll leave this here

I'm 100% convinced that if I had as much money as Steve Lansdown, I too would be a billionaire. I like this game; it's so easy to play.

I'm 100% convinced if I was Rudolph, I would have already slept with Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie and Stacey Penton and Mrs Hucker..........

I’m 100% convinced if I was Brad Pitt, I would already have slept with Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. You’re right @Rudolf Hucker, this IS fun.

Agreed. Plus, if you REALLY want to go THAT far back, why not go just a bit further? The Royal Engineers, by FAR the greatest team, the world has ever seen...

then you get bits like this 'Clubs like Reading and Brighton along with Hull and Swansea are all historically smaller clubs than us imo. We should be looking to emulate them all by getting to the Premier League, or at the very least Championship.' who is he trying to kid,in comparison,they are like a drop of rats piss compared to those and as for the prem, flip me 'arriet, does he mean the premiere non league league?? or does toolstation have a championship?

7 years ago today they were invading the pitch at Wycombe Wanderers, shouting about someone’s granny going to bed, hugging each other, destroying advertising hoardings and announcing loudly that the world had to believe them that they were staying in the football league. 6 fifths of them would sadly be disappointed the following week as they plunged into oblivion and they ended up blaming Ted’s and punching horses.

Your arse would likely talk more sense?

If they played on the street, nobody would be greatly surprised.

The problem with their fans is they live in some sort of deluded time warp -unfortunately for the sags we aren’t living in the mid 1990’s anymore and LONG gone are the days when Rovers could consider themselves even remotely the same size as Reading Hull or Brighton. Times have moved on and whilst the rest of the footballing world have been improving their infrastructures the sags have stood still playing in a decrepit old Rugby stadium struggling to average over 7 k a week. League 2 is honestly their natural level.

If work think they are getting anything useful out of me Friday they're having a laugh

Oh yeah but only if that pavement has a nice comfy seat, good views and one of those pop up posh food markets at half time with extra soft porn on the giant TV screens. Plastic pr1cks!

Whenever one of them says that the only reason we get higher crowds is because AG has better facilities, and claim they’d fill the Mem if it wasn’t a shithole, I love pointing out that their fans must be the most fickle, ‘part time’ fans on the Planet. ? Seriously, what ‘real’ football fan says “Im going to turn my back on my club because they expect me to stand on a terrace”? Or “I’m not going today because I want a nice comfy seat” ? Fickle, part time ‘can’t be arsed’, passionless fanbase who deserve L2.

These absolute mongs never fail to amaze me ????? we averaged 26,000 one season in the 50’s in what now is the championship, and over 13,000 in 1973/74 promotion season, if you think small you will remain small, I’m 100% convinced, supply a ground on the level of Ashton Gate, fund the team accordingly and we’d be averaging over 20,000 a season I’m sure.

And they wonder why we take the piss

That’s one of big talking points, they’d be drafting him as a guard, at least initially. Drafted Matt Peart in third (?) round last year, seem keen to give him every chance to make RT his own. Thomas at LT (no 4 overall last year). C and G are positions they’ll primarily target, C and move Gates, who is new to position, makes sense. Im not sure they could pass on Slater, Vera-Tucker is another to keep an eye on, especially if they trade back, but both would come in at guard. Love draft season, have been messing around with PFN draft simulator long before City last won a game..

His latest gem in the Blackpool Post match interview, talking about "pitch personality". He's got some crackers mind.

Give it time. Joey`s court case is coming up and the realisation will sink in that they aren`t going to buy their way out of league 2 with the ten quid Wally will chuck in the hat. No doubt there are massive ground improvements on the way in the summer too which will rival the investment of several premier league clubs. Tis always quietest before the storm.

Also Charlton have just conceded in the last minute!

Great to see AFC Wimbledon, Rochdale, Burton Albion, Shrewsbury all giving it a go in L1 whilst the S*gs went down without a fight...

And that's just today's list....

31 years ago. Most of their deluded social media posters weren’t even a seed in daddy’s sack when that happened, yet still post about it as if they were there, just like 1982. The only derby they remember is a tinpot paint pot trophy encounter....which we have lifted 3 times incidentally. Kept my Champions 1990 T-Shirt and changed it to 2015 to make it relevant....like adjusting their 1883 logo to 2015 to make that relevant! ?

It's certainly produced a reaction...

Probably just a matter of time.

Deluded. Must come naturally to them.

couldve included the tail to help out

Remember hearing this & drawing 2 conclusions; Hoskins is either a gashead or he’s completely utterly ******* deluded. Rovers will be in League Two next season whilst we are in the grip of a pandemic. There is very little chance that a club who get around 6500 watching them in the third division suddenly getting far, far more than that one division down. Also, back to that pandemic bit, for safety reasons I’d be amazed in a ramshackle ground where social distancing will be difficult I doubt they will be allowed to operate anywhere near full capacity. Still, in the spirit of false equivalence Hoskins also trots out the “Blue half of Bristol” myth from time to time, so my first comment stands.

He also talked about 40,000 Gasheads at Wembley. Even by their own admission loads of them are piss taking Ted's intent on starting trouble. The only time they don't see any Ted's is when they go to KFC.

More bullshit from the gAssholes. Their highest average was 24662 in 1954...67 years ago. Someone might want to break it to that fewer, that new ground or not, most of those fans are probably brown bread. http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/league/brir.htm

Still doing the rounds.... The gas in Joey? Just hot air!

The Gas haven't had a good attendance in nearly 50 years. I think when some of them see/read/say "the 70/80s" they're saying it with it being 15 years ago in mind.

The last time the delluded morons had a season average ABOVE 10K was over 40 years ago in 1976! The last time Reading had an average BELOW 10K was 2000 The last time Swansea had an average BELOW 10K was 2005 The last time Brighton had average BELOW 10K was 2011 The last time Hull had an average BELOW 10K was 2002 So in most cases its been nearly 20 years of these clubs being bigger - so I'd argue that in every instance they have been left far behind and history means very little. I'll acknowledge that in those previous 40 seasons there may have been cases that those clubs had lower attendances (especially when brighton were at a low ebb), but it's been a long time since that, and ALL of those clubs have far outperformed the gas attendance wise. How "historical" do they want to get? The other conclusion of course could be that they are actually bigger, but their fans are just shit and fans of other clubs are far more loyal and actually turn up to watch their team play.

It might be recommended that they concentrate their efforts on getting back to L1 1st.... Love to know their rating criteria for those clubs listed being 'historically smaller'.

Well Done Glos, and Thank You.

we are laughing not talking !

And the eight pages on here in the last 24 hours!!

Totally agree - I’ve posted on here many times that Bristol City fans just don’t do ‘toxic’ - we just don’t. I was in the away end at Maine Road when Man City wanted Peter Swales out of their club - good grief, the atmosphere that day was pure evil - Moss Side’s finest all turned out that day to vent their anger and frustration and it was frighteningly ‘toxic’ - light years away from the odd mumble and grumble towards the bench that you may witness at Ashton Gate. Newcastle fans do ‘toxic’ well too - eg when they wanted Pardew out - and there are countless further examples of fans of other clubs creating ‘toxic’ atmospheres around their clubs - but Bristol City fans don’t come close to that - our owners, board members, managers, players and staff get a relatively relaxed and comfortable time when they are involved with our club - they don’t get a hard time - they just get a fantastic City in which to live and work - unless you choose to live in Guernsey ... ??

Yes. Looking forward to the draft next week. I absolutely love the draft. I’m a Bengal and so all the talk re our pick at No.5 is whether we take the generational Tackle Penei Sewell, or the talented receiver who Burrow threw to at college Ja’Marr Chase. Judging from Bengal forums and Twitter the fan base is really split. For me, I’ll be delighted with either of them, but I can’t see us turning down Sewell. The arguments against Sewell have been that we have a need at both positions and the OT draft class is much deeper than the WR class and we can still get a very good OT in round 2. Can’t wait.

oh Vienna

Potentially, or potentially not. Strange how SL’s cheque book was found after he sacked SC wasn’t it. SC gave us fans the best season in decades, he deserved some loyalty from the owner imo.

He is so full of cr@p, how on earth could Lansdown have been so taken in by it. Probably because Ashton is also full of it!