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4 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

It seems increasingly likely that many clubs will not be able to survive the current crisis and - sadly for me-  Rovers would appear to be one of those at serious risk.

What will become of this thread if we do go?  You need to start thinking of your exit strategy, would it become the 'Cardiff dustbin thread' or will you wait to see if a 'phoenix' Rovers starts up and start hating them instead?

Personally. I'm beginning to see the upside of this scenario. I can continue disliking City and laughing to myself when they fail without having Rovers ******* it all up for me by, well just by being Rovers really,

You’ve given us decades worth of material just in the last few years, so I think the thread would survive long after your demise.

8 hours ago, pillred said:

The Sun, do you mean the paper with the largest daily circulation in the UK (apart from one other which is free) why apologise, either people are lying about reading it (due to its circulation) or there are a lot of hypocrites that read it but pretend to be outraged about it,

It might have the largest circulation, but it now only sells just over 1 million. So around 1 in 60 people in the UK read it. People are not lying about reading it, it’s just the vast majority of people don’t read it.

2 minutes ago, hodge said:

Imagine telling Leeds fans they'd finish top of the table but not go up 

Liverpool not being champions and Leeds and Swindon missing out on promotion?

22 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

Had to bring this back up as I've been winding the daughter up with her Alexa, she now has the Damned and SLF on her spotify and is not pleased with me.

 

 

11 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

Does it say 'and leads them into a life of delusional shite for eternity' on the back?

To be fair to the 15ers they have been socially distancing at the Mem for a long time now.

1 hour ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Haha, no.

We've never been ‘them’ even before SL came along.

They often claim that the only difference between us and them is Steve Lansdown but it’s not, our mentality and ambition has always been on a different, much higher level than Rovers. That’s why we get the Dolmans and the Lansdowns and they get the Wallys.

 

The difference between us is that we want to be the best we can be. All they want is to be one place above us.

1 hour ago, Port Said Red said:

This new invention will allow lots of gas to be stored in a small space.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52328786

 

Perhaps they wont need a new stadium after all?

 

We already knew that Gas likes sponging.

8 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

Yet they still argue that because there is only 1 division between us that SL has basically wasted his money, such a short sighted argument

There’s only one division between us and Liverpool, so we are basically European champions.

On 15/04/2020 at 22:18, Ska Junkie said:

Found them...

Just like the new White hart lane innit? 

I genuinely saw that picture and thought it was a joke for a few seconds until I realised it was a real photo of their “stadium”.

Unbelievably tinpot. 

13 hours ago, reddoh said:

2115 to 2020 is 5 years So NO they have NO tradition. 

Interesting interview with a Premier League player on wages.

https://www.football365.com/news/feature-premier-league-player-wage-cut-matt-hancock
 

50 minutes ago, Delta said:

I love the sterotypes I read on here.  Nobody goes around living off 82 and they never have.  Likewise, Leeds - I never see them harping on about being a massive club either (although they are too big for the Championship.

As for being a yo-yo club. We've been relegated once since the PL started and that was due to an owner taking what money out of the club that he could.

You think just because you have a new little ground that it's any good?  Ask supporters across the land their favourite stadium.  Villa Park will be right up there whereas I doubt most will even know where Ashton Gate is.

 

Villa’s last major trophy: 1996

Birmingham’s last major trophy: 2011

Unlike us, you are living in your blue neighbour’s shadow.

14 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

In their case it would have to be "Da Roverz till I live"

It’d be called “Unlucky Da Shit!” and they’d be crowing about being on TV.

Then there’d only be one episode as they go bust before the first game of the season.

13 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

They are tearing each other to bits over there. Posters are offering others outside, the full works!

Who needs Amazon Prime when you`ve got asschat!

Can you imagine the hilarity if the 15ers had a series like “Sunderland ‘till I Die”?

Just imagine what goes on behind the scenes at that place.

15 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

More of a shite hawk than a Phoenix actually. 

The Gas phoenix 

I can’t see it ever happening. There’s nothing in it for City, we don’t need them.

And for Rovers? They would never want to support a club that plays at Ashton Gate owned by Steve Lansdown.

If the 15ers go bust, then they either disappear or a small phoenix club will be formed.

£24m? That’s nothing to Wael, he does have an expensive watch you know.

6 minutes ago, wood_red said:

I think the main point is that by driving somewhere unnecessary is then you have the risk (albeit tiny) of having an accident, which in turn then may require an Ambulance/Hospital adding more strain to the NHS.

True, I didn’t think of that. 

It’ll be interesting when this is over to see if there has been a big reduction in other things. Are norovirus cases down? Are car accidents down? Etc.

Although I guess those things will be balanced out with accidents in the home. My stepdad almost electrocuted himself while drilling a wall the other day.

23 hours ago, Redsi2 said:

Apparently according to Bristol live they have a £50 million pound player on their books!!!

They do, but that’s using the South Sudan Pound.

1 hour ago, LondonBristolian said:

2) At the moment, there are loads of unknowns. As you say, we don't know how many people have had COVID-19 without realising. We don't know exactly what the mortality rate is and we don't know why, even though older people and people with underlying heart conditions e are most at risk, the majority of those people nonetheless survive yet some people who don't seem to be at risk die.

You’re right that we don’t know the actual mortality rate.

But when it comes to risk, people (myself included!) make big mistakes. Making up some numbers, if 99% of “at risk” people die and 1% of “no risk” people die, then in a population of millions/billions you’ll still have lots of over 70s surviving and lots of under 30s dying.

I think a lot of us have assumed we’re safe and are just worrying about older loved ones. But we are not necessarily going to be personally ok, it’s just our age group that will be mostly ok.

47 minutes ago, ITK..... said:

Prince Charles now tested positive for COVID 19. 

Stay away from the queen !! 

39 minutes ago, oldstandrobin said:

Just had confirmation that it isn't the young that won't heed advice. Although retired I have a business selling pre-owned Mobility Scooters. Just had an elderly customer on the phone with a problem with his. Wanted to bring it up to me to look at. Told him couldn't see him due to the new rules. He hasn't been watching the TV and got quite irate about it !! Said the Golf Club was open yesterday but as I told him, that was yesterday. Then said he must get it sorted as he wants to get out and about and play golf. Incredible

No age group has a monopoly on stupidity/selfishness.

My grandmother is still adamant that she’ll go out whenever she wants. My mum and my uncle are trying to make her listen, but they’ve got no chance.

Yesterday I had to go out for milk. I saw a large group of teenagers playing basketball together.

People just don’t listen.

12 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

I totally agree. The UK seems to have lost its' spirit with people having the 'screw you, I'm alright' attitude which means this won't end well, sadly. 

Yeah. I think most people are decent and caring. But we have a very loud minority who just don’t care about anybody else.