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Joey said the previous managers at the swamp were negligent and if they were doctors they should be struck off How does he explain this? P W D L Win% Paul Tisdale 19 5 3 11 26.32 Ben Garner 33 6 8 19 18.18 Uncle "Jailbird" Joey 21 3 2 16 14.29 Just for clarity that is a win percentage more than 20% lower than the absolute legend that is Ben Garner. Things may be poor for us at the moment but at least we are a million miles away from their current situation.

That expression does not scream "proud to be a gashead" (or even prowed to be a gashead) More like fear of a career going down the drain

Its VERY easy for him to cover these losses - dont you know he is the 6th richest owner in football? "very rich indeed" "premier league in 5 years" "unlucky da shit" back in the real world ... he is clearly wealthy (multi-millionaire) but owning the sags must be bleeding him dry

a loan to Ryhope Colliery Welfare - the absolute stuff of dreams! Have the fewers started the "announce promotion" BS yet?

Do they need a specialist contractor to get rid of the bamboo pits?

I wonder if said belter realises that Barton is likely to be in court for at least a few days. Not just an "inconvenient" Friday before a game. I wonder if said belter realises that IF he is found guilty and IF he is given a custodial sentence he won't be picking a team, working on tactics, or taking training from HMP where-ever on a Friday (or any other day for that matter!) I fully exepect most of their in-bred morons to blame-shift like crazy if he is convicted (it is what they do!). In their deluded eyes it will be the fault of the governement, the criminal Justice system, the EFL, us "Gurt Teds", Steve Lansdown, Bristol Post, Barnsley, Wycombe Wanderers and anyone else not actually connected with the case. It definitely won't be the fault of their current manager, or anyone to do with Rovers even though their club has employed someone currently awaiting trial for such an offence.

Yep a mid season trial for their manager could be fun! It has the potential to de-rail a good season or plunge a bad season into utter disarray (again). Is the "genius" that took over on a temporary bassis during the season just gone still there? - i seem to recall his record was crap for the 2 or 3 games he was in charge. More of that would do very nicely.

They say that seeing is believing. I guess since they wont see many fans down the mem then their fan base really is unbelievable.

All free transfers - surely not the sort of thing the 6th richest club in the world do? Maybe Wally has spent all his money on the Stadium opening in August ?

Looked into Sam Finley background - Rovers are his 8th Club (including loans) at the age of 28 Played for giants like - Southport, Warrington, AFC Fylde, The New Saints (<---watch the saggies roll out "Champions League experience" there, conveiniently failing to acknowledge it was probably in a complete spanking on aggregrate in the first qualifying round!) The wikipedia article on him makes no mention of a transfer fee (at any time) just lots of "released" and "free transfer" Oh and I found this - not the most reliable source, but from wikipedia: In April 2020, Finley picked up an 8 match ban as a result of an investigation around a comment made to Rochdale's former Irish international Paul McShane, during a League One fixture on New Year's day 2020, regarding McShane's nationality.

Agent lightyear teleports into Horfield.....

If they continue at that level and the flyers get their arena could there be a case in the future where the gas would be ONLY the fourth best supported professional sports team in Bristol.

Nice! Of course The fewers honours include a watney cup and also being division 5 runners up - that's probably the equal of Blackburn's Premier league and Wigan's FA cup wins right?

I am afraid I went and did something rather mean!! I decided to look into the facts behind this utter delusional gas logic - as we know facts are possibly the only thing they fear more than soap! A bit of time on excel and https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/englandcontent.htm leads to a nice chart of 50 years of attendances up until lockdown in 2020 Green cells are the ones that would support their claim of being "bigger" for that season. They could possibly entertain having an argument with fans of Brentford, Wigan and Luton.... However, Brentford appear to be on a very upward trajectory and I doubt will fall to the level the saggies now find thesleves at for a long time. Luton have seen hard times in recent decades, but are on their way back and could well establish themselves as a championship outfit for a few seasons. Wigan (recent-ish Premier League team AND FA cup winners) have had problems and they may have attendances smaller than the gas when fans return but they will still be playing in the league above - ? The rest of the clubs mentioned are so far ahead of their tinpot outfit its bizzare they actually appear to believe this crap.

They were certainly ahead of the times - 6 years before the COVID pandemic and they were already practicing social distancing in much of that stand.

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.

Not sure why we need to bookmark it - Just in case you only checked the last posting date and the (misleading) thread title, the thread you linked was actually started in summer 2020 so was almost entirely about the season just finishing - apart from the final post in the thread. Yet again, an example of some gasheads being over-confident ("announce promotion", "hellooooo", "the gas are staying up!"", "we got our stadium" etc), though admittedly many on that thread point out their poor record garner had at the tail end of the 2019-2020 season and their lack of recruitment in midfield and up front. Isn't this just ANOTHER example of the gas showing poor numeracy dating back to 2020? in this case in relation to years of football seasons. Or has one of the Mods on their North Korean mentality forum just renamed it for the coming season and i have been wooshed? In which case they really do never learn.

Yeah because everything they have done this season (and the last five years!) suggests they will easily build a squad capable of promotion from league 2 to the championship for less money in transfer fees than people pay for a kit-kat.

Spent a little time in photoshop - Enjoy!!

I think he means 1999/2000 - they finished above us that season Shortly after that they slipped below us for "a while"

I read that on gaschat also and was struggling a bit: 51%/49% what? fans? - This is just a gaslogic number plucked out of thin air isn't it? it has no basis in fact or reality! Average Attendances that year (2001) City 10,369 - Fewers 7,275 so actually 58.8% to 41.2% Its not the chasm it is now but not really that close to 51/49 and a lot closer to 60/40

Let me brighten it some more by easing some of the worry they might get a spawny miracle.... I took a look at https://footystats.org/clubs/bristol-rovers-fc-244 While they are not yet 100% confirmed as relegated, and they have a "mathematical chance" (or in gas-logic an 8/5ths chance ?) of staying up, the last time the gas won 3 games in a row (which is the absolute minimum they now need) was Dec 2019. These were the last 3 games of Coughlan's management, before he jumped ship to a bigger/better club in Mansfield Town, who were in the division below at the time. Two of the teams they have to play in their next three games, Portsmouth and Blackpool, are involved in a desperately close fight for play-off places, with 3 pts separating four teams including the aforementioned pair. I doubt somehow either will lie down and let everyone's favourite second team take the points. Wigan, the only team they can possibly catch, have hit good form winning their last four games, and they have Swindon to play the final game of the season.

There are some gems. James: EIEIEIO up the football league we go. Daniel Sheppard: Going to be boring winning every game this season. Another great signing. Real intent this year. Jay Bear Jones: So three signing in three days all quality players, what has happened to rag bag Rovers? Dave Pike: Don’t know too much about this guy but he’s a winger and I know we need a few of them so... Caz: Promotion 2021, scream it at the top of your lungs baby.

This aged well https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/announce-promotion-bristol-rovers-fans-4351482