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I think that was the point. No fancy stadium yet holding their own in the Premier League.

Quite the opposite! I like being cheered up. Just like a video of a cat doing silly things, a photo of a fat bloke in a Rovers shirt will always raise a smile. Still, I am not at the lowest ebb, when I need to look at the photo of the pitiful blue and white hut labelled 'Santa's Grotto". However, the juxtaposition of 'championship ready' and a record of 5 points in 30 did have its own dark humour.

Yes, it is possible to invest over £100m in a Championship club to get it "championship ready" ... and still only get 5 points from the last 30. Still, not to,worry, if I have a look at some comical pics of Rovers fans and a photo of a portacabin I am happy again and forget all my troubles.

We need to get this thread to 300 pages to prove just how little we care...

A 5-600 word essay about something that you have forgotten about and doesn't matter? Rovers fans don't have an attention span long enough to read something this long. This thread got self defeating a while ago. 'Forget' and over two hundred pages are a little contradictory.

Don't fall for it. Their promotion is just a ruse to get us to produce TWO HUNDRED pages saying um...how little we care about them.

The strange thing was, that listening to him...no big promises, build the academy,, 'right recruitment', no skipful of cash - the person he sounded most like was SL!

I watched Bolton lose 0-2 at Ipswich on Tuesday. They were very poor and should have lost by a few more. Presented very little threat and beaten to every 50:50 ball. Maybe not a must win game, but definitely a should win game today.

I live in Ipswich and I have watched 8 - 12 championship games a season at Ipswich for the last 12 ish seasons. I don't think it has got better since City were last relegated. For the last couple of seasons, I would say that there are fewer really good teams and fewer really poor teams which makes for a very competitive league but where any team that can string a few results together can do well ( the Ipswich team that made last year's play offs had some really poor periods) That said, to lose 4 games out of 4 (one against a L2 team even the gas could beat) and say that the team played well but just had bad luck is pushing it a bit

452 posts about a rubbish, soulless, 3 sided stadium on rented ground, in a "bizarre location" near a motorway, railway stations and growing population, that won't get built as they don't have the money. Hmm Rather playing into their hands I think.

Higgs has said the building is planned to take 62 weeks, which explains why they were so keen to avoid delays as unless they are started within the next couple of months, they won't make the start of the 2015/16 season. That would also be bad for Sainsburys. The league don't allow mid-season ground moves and so if they can't move in for August 2015, the supermarket construction start will be delayed by a year.

If the rumours are correct and this does turn out to be a challenge without any real substance, regardless of whether you see a new Rovers' ground as good or bad, every council tax payer should ask how we can have a system that lets a minority group waste a huge amount of time on a major project at significant expense to the council, when all along they are in a limited company that will just fold if they loose, leaving council tax payers to pick up the bill.

He could never manage City, just as Johnson could never have gone to Rovers. At the first sign of anything going wrong, the fans would be on his back. The other thing is, he is not just someone who was once associated with the gas. He supported them as a boy, played for them, managed them and used an open top bus tour to insult City. Oh, and at the moment only two-thirds of Bristol football fans hate him. Take the City job and all Bristol football fans would hate him, for different reasons.