Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

Back in the 90s there was a late night sports related show on Channel 4 called “Under the Moon” hosted by Danny Kelly. They had JP on as a guest one week, as a teenager I’d never heard of him before as he wasn’t as well known as he is today and he was asked “who do you support?” His reply was “Bristol City man and boy” So I’m guessing he’s a lifelong City fan.

Oh well, **** them!

Don’t recall that? We beat them 4-0 during the beast from the east in 2018. Memorable to me for 3 reasons: 1) Tango man still had his shirt off in the away end despite the freezing temperatures. 2) The sudden appearance after 20 mins in the far end of the upper Lansdown of what looked like 50 or so Willem II ultras who spent the first half exchanging pleasantries with the Weds fans but were presumably prevented from going back in the 2nd half. 3) and the fact we didn’t blow a 3-0 half time lead like we had 5 weeks earlier.

I was in the Open End home section, never been so cold in my life. Mates left at half time and I didn’t blame them. 2nd half was like an endurance test and the game finished 1-1.

We played Sheffield Weds during ‘the Beast from the East’. I’d be amazed if tomorrows game is in doubt.

Yes.

Yeah I remember that, pretty sure it was the game that Pulis marched across the pitch at the start lapping up the hate. The poor bloke who passed away wasn’t even that old.

1) There are obviously individual players in L1 who are better than L1 hence why Championship clubs sign them ie Jason Knight, Mark Sykes. This isn’t just something we do. 2) We’re not “struggling” in the Championship, we’re 4 points off the Play Offs FFS. Rotherham are struggling, QPR are struggling. We’re standard mid table, unlikely to go up but with a decent gap between us and the bottom 3 (at the moment at least). The word you were looking for is ‘stagnating’. The real Gap between us and the Gas is huge, 23 years and counting. Good luck beating that slaggies.

Oh dear

Let’s be honest, Norwich aren’t going to bust a gut to earn the right to get spanked at Anfield, Liverpool away has been a regular League fixture for them over the years. It would be like us drawing Wolves away.

Appreciated. I predicted that someone would pull me up on the Geography hence why the post was edited.

The rest of the team were playing West Ham and Tommy was in East Ham.

Ahh, tomorrow I will be telling everyone about our fantastic 14000 fans at West Ham today. I mean for a club like us to take 15000 to West Ham for a 3rd cup match is just superb. Excellent effort from all 16000 of us.

They’ve been there once in 20 years. West Ham is certainly more attractive to us than Norwich but to them it’s a new ground for most and a big club away in the FA Cup (even if their own fans have compared Rovers to Norwich in size in the past ). Sorry but for a club who’s fans constantly brag about their supposedly amazing away support it’s a poor showing for their big day out. If they insist on talking the talk they need to back it up more often.

“He just gets us” they’d say… ”he understands what it means to be Gas” Heard that countless times. Imagine boasting about that when you’re talking about Joey Barton

All of my in-laws loved the bloke, really lapped up the ‘hard man’ image and supposed ‘straight talking, no nonsense’ bollocks that he would spout. Gas I work with either loved him or tolerated him because of promotion, ignoring the fact that he took them down in the first place. He seemed very popular with Gasheads on Social Media. No doubt some of them didn’t like him and a few were brave enough to voice their objections online but they seemed to be in the minority and were quickly set upon by lovestruck Sagheads desperate to defend their hero passionately.

I prefer our history of over 120+ years of uninterrupted league football, playing in our spiritual home having never left Bristol over their pathetic crowds, 9 years in the Football League playing in someone else’s ground surrounded by someone else’s history.

It was. FA Cup semi final day was also big with 2 live matches at neutral grounds on TV on the same Sunday. I don’t think I’ve watched an actual FA Cup final since Liverpool vs West Ham in 200? and I can’t even tell you who the current holders are?

Not sure about that? Our League form and performances leading up to Christmas was superb, helped I think by the run in the League Cup and the Man Utd game. The only game that may have been a distraction could have been the Man City semi final but even then we had big games against Wolves, Norwich and Villa around the same time. January that season was absolutely packed with games and I think a sudden run of defeats in the League, FA Cup and The League Cup semi just destroyed our confidence and our performances went downhill from that point on. Funny how it also coincided with LJ suddenly having more choice in the starting line up and the ability to tinker rather than make do with the options available as we had to before Christmas.

Yeah 2-0 up with 20 to go you’d usually be confident of at least a point but during that run of defeats it just felt like we were going to lose every game. Around the 70th minute I put money on Reading to win as insurance, I thought that if these useless bastards are going to throw it away my kids might as well have a nice holiday somewhere sunny.

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So much anticipation that season, signed the England keeper, Coppell in charge…seemed a formality that we’d be challenging for promotion but Millwall brought us right back down to Earth. Think Sam Vokes got taken off injured and never saw him again (scored against the slags today I notice). There was a rumour posted on here after the game that a Millwall fan had been killed and it turned out in the end that all that happened was fighting near the Pump House in Hotwells.

Millwall. Coppells first league game in charge.

I don’t think I remember Tomlins early chance but I do remember squirming whenever Glenn Murray and whoever else was up front with him was attacking our end. Ran us ragged in that first half. I think we were above them in the league going into that game but we were only a few weeks away from that 10 game (?) run of defeats that firmly dropped us in the shit.

Yeah 2-0 Crawley was Bonfire Night 2013. That result was a bit of an upset as well, only our second win of the season. **** me 2013 was shit.