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I'd be quite happy to see em disappear off the face of the earth tbh.

vile club hope they go bankrupt

Unfortunately Rovers are part of Bristol Football and always will be, I remember the old days when they played at Eastville and their end then was the tote end. I also recall some derby matches in the 70,s and the interaction and the battels on the pitch and off the pitch. They are a team and club that have always struggled and been second fiddle to the OTIB. And we know amongst us the the club that who is located at BS3 will always be known as the football club associated with the city of Bristol. I know this might seem a bit weird but they are now in League two and those of us old enough that means the old fourth division. they have been there before and dropped down to the Conference around 2013/14 and came good. I was impressed that they have just signed Harvey Soundess and Aaron C. it shows that they are still around and still fighting to maintain quality football in Bristol. They will always exist and we will always take the piss out of them. However not sure how we need to try and show them some resect or not on this forum. After all even though they are blue and dodgy pirates and originally called the black Arabs when they were formed its still good having them around to keep the banter live.

Not really fair play is it though when the team that finished 4th are declared the Champions

Aiden Flint can answer that

Signing a player from Hartlepool might be inspired. Brian Drysdale had ben playing for Hartlepool and was considering giving up the game as his career was going nowhere. Then out of the blue, City made a bid for him which he and Hartlepool jumped at. BD went on to be a regular fixture at left back and helped us into Div 1.

Quite easy to compartmentalize it...........Bristol won the league Quins won a cup .

Resolved.

There is thread of over a thousand pages long for that lot , but you needed to start another one

Melinda Messenger, Billie Piper & Mark Lamarr......... They deserve everything that's coming to them! Looks like @RedRaw types quicker than me!

Billie Piper, Melinda Messsenger, Mark Lamarr……..it’s a cultural hotbed

The type of player he is going for is a scoucer or northerner. That’s his thinking. Bloke is clueless but rovers fans can’t see pass that because he has a few Twitter followers and he’s Joey Barton who played in the premiership. Not Joey Barton who was shitter than the other two clowns they had. Then he publicly shamed everything that was wrong at Bristol Rovers to deflect the shit away from himself because he said he would definitely keep them up. He and rovers suit each other. Hope it ends in rovers tears

I saw them at Gold diggers in Chippenham donkeys years ago and remember them saying how good it was to be home. Maybe that's why I thought they were from Chippenham. Suddenly gone off XTC. Nigel can stick his plans right up his Seargent Rock.

XTC are all Swindon. But yes, as @Shaun Taylor says there is no basis for Swindon becoming a city.

XTC were from Chippenham I think. How can Swindon be a city when 1, they don't have a cathedral and 2, their town centre is a run down hovel?

The Swindon councillors are hoping that gaining city status will stop it being a soulless hell-hole. Unfortunately, it will take far more than that.

This was their year. Blew it

and their ground blows away

As far as I am concerned there is no rivalry. They are a nothing club with a dwindling fan base who continually revel in being ramshackle holding onto some obscure misguided view that they think it gives them a "family" feel. They are stuck in the 1970's and hark back to some cup run they had over 60 years ago. The only times they come up in conversation is usually to laugh at their inept tinpottidness which happens on a daily basis.

Stop it you're embarrassing me now! Kick that silly idea into touch now just like when it was mentioned in 2012. lots of green spaces parks etc, lots of new houses to choose from on the outside of the town, plenty of jobs irrespective if Honda closing, population close to a quarter of a million but a dump in and around the Town centre. City status no way but then again Newport has it so you never know.

Billie Piper, Julian Clary, Mark Lamarr......it gets worse?

You reckon?

Swindon to bid for city status under Platinum Jubilee plans - BBC News It`s not just the football club that have delusions of grandeur. Swindon a city? Really?

are you italian

One day clubs will learn .....

I am sure the EFL have the right to do so; but I doubt it will happen. It just gets too complicated too quickly. Personally I think that the slow death dance of DCFC will become a lesson in corporate greed. How a once great club went all out and failed. If the EFL are true to their word then DCFC should be on a hard transfer embargo at the end of the month, no one has come in yet. Despite all the press releases by the club they still haven’t stated that they meet the P&S loss limits for all seasons. So looks like a points deduction this season as well. Also heard that a couple of senior contracted players are negotiating moves away. So small squad, points deduction and Rooney as manager should mean an exciting season propping up the table.

Not really au fait with T20 (but I'll take it over the ****** 100 any day) How many go through to the knockout stages ?

I had a message from Bobby's dad last night to say Bobby is doing well post surgery, and his dad wanted to pass on his thanks for all the lovely messages ❤

Meanwhile, in other news Glos win again !

Please refer to previous Gilmartin threads, it's all there. In the context of this thread I was replying to a couple of posters who for some reason 'feel sorry for him'. I don't.

With the pre-season games being on Robins TV, now's his time to come back ?

I didn't want to post anything as they were doing the announcements one by one up there. Probably just waiting for Jemma to also re-sign with Liverpool & then you have the whole lot ?

They will never play Gillingham as many times in a season as we did.Another point to us.

It’s a stab in the dark, but I think it was Andy Morris