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  1. Given attendance chat; it seems they've sold out their Derby allocation of 3100 tickets: Personally, I think the attendance number was decent; certainly not "embarrassing." Though as Peter said I think Exeter bringing 1200 is more impressive. Rovers are probably a 10th-13th best fanbase as ranked in L1 (note: maybe not this season because this season L1 is packed with a couple decently sized clubs); they'll give good attendances and good performances on big games, but the issue is it dips a lot on smaller games and we, as well as most other Championship clubs don't really do that. But if they ever do get their supposed stadium over the line it'll be interesting to see if the Mem was really that poor a group or if they've just reached their ceiling.
  2. Seems like there's more secretly undecover Rovers fans on this forum than actual City fans ?
  3. I don't usually take the time to respond to such obvious bullshit. Anyone can go back through the thread; but the narrative coming on this was very obviously "the only reason Rovers got promoted is because of their loan players Anderson, Taylor etc.; they are going up to a League with significant quality this season and they will really struggle and go down." In addition, the Coburn transfer was seen as a hilariously poor signing because of his injury; when I tried to say "he's injured but once his injury is gone he might be okay for that level" I was treated with a couple "uNdErCoVeR sAg" morons like yourself. Thankfully most people on the thread realise that having nuanced opinions on teams and players is perfectly normal. For example, Rovers seemed quite quiet during the game today; but for a club on their position and stature I thought that their following for a game late on a weekday was pretty good, and just in case this makes me an undercover sag. I'll refer you to obvious Sag Dom Howson, all these bloody sags; infiltrating football teams! As for the final comments. Personally, I haven't followed them too much this season since the transfer window ended, but they were on Sky tonight so I watched them. It seems a bit odd to know that they were on a 8 or 9 game run without a win, I had no idea of that; smells a bit like you're a Gas fan to me... If you want me to show comments, I can; but I'd suggest we save both of our times on that issue!
  4. 3 of them I think, both centre-halfs and Coburn. Number 17 seems quite a dominant force, decent replacement for Taylor
  5. Seems like very solid call for handball from one of the sag defenders after a clearance
  6. Sags looking quite good (Maybe I wasn't "utterly delusional" for thinking they weren't guaranteed 24th this season!). Been particularly impressed by their number 10, who apparently is top for G/A in L1. Coburn been very good too (maybe it wasn't the worst transfer decision). I imagine their 10 might get bought in January, but it'll be interesting to see how they do past that point; seems like they've got quite a few who are decent at scoring at that level.
  7. Clearly people do since me saying "it'll be interesting to see how their loan players do, could do well or could do badly" is such a controversial take
  8. I think seeing how football players do is an interesting thing to see; Anderson for instance was loaned out to them in League 2 and is now getting opportunities in the Newcastle first team. I find that interesting, I would like to apologise for finding a sport that I enjoy interesting though, clearly you just follow the results for City and know nothing about any of the other clubs in the world… I got it from quick google searches and seeing what the fans of the parent clubs had to say about these players, and the fact I checked out and remembered the loan players they signed from last season and details about them. It is not hard and it does not require extensive knowledge to find out Connor Taylor had almost no experience at that level before signing for them, you can find it on his Wikipedia. But alas, if you know almost anything about Rovers past “Rovers bad hur dur!!” and act like their fans do to us rather than not be stupid you are automatically a secret Rovers fan. It’s quite funny really, if I was one I’d just make an account on here, there’s multiple on here anyway; but it’s a lot more interesting and controversial I imagine to come up with a hypothetical that anyone who gives them credit and doesn’t just say “every player they sign must be dogshit otherwise they wouldn’t sign for them” and then turn around when a player with all of the signs that they were going to do well and look confused; because I’m not stupid. it’s funny, one of the most often pieces of banter and abuse I get from their side is the existence of this forum, more specifically, this thread, and I defend it; I don’t particularly care about it, but if I post on it, I’m not going to act and say stupid things, frankly, because that’s not me; so if you want to go “all players that sign for Rovers must be awful for their level” and then look like a moron when they do things like get the most wins of any of the 92 in 2022, go ahead, but I won’t be saying stupid things like that
  9. Notoriously “these loan players are unproven, it’s hard to know if they’ll be shit or good” is credit that necessarily makes you a Gashead, do you think before you speak? If not, maybe you’re the Sag…
  10. It'll be interesting to see; the Burnley lad seems to be pretty well rated, and the Fulham lad is described as "quick," whether that's just quick or quick and terrible it's hard to know. It's a chance for those players to prove themselves; Anderson for instance had zero league experience, whilst Connor Taylor's only league experience before Rovers was 1 game on loan in the Northern Premier League Premier Division and 3 games on loan at Chester in the National League North, now he's a first team regular. That's the point with these kinda players, hard to know how it'll turn out. Boro lad could end up being the worst or the best of the three. Injury seems a troublesome sign but then again from their perspective their guy Collins I think is one of the top goalscorers in League 1, then there's Marquis who although has fallen off on his day seems a good player, from their perspective I reckon they expect to hold out decently. I think they seem to lack a proper left-back and a player that drives forward, hard to know really where they'll finish largely because League One looks really tough this season, there's 8-10 really good teams for that standard and a big gap between them and the rest.
  11. Conway's finish was fantastic, thought we were excellent again today, so much intensity up top, pretty much everyone to a man was fantastic; Bentley with some excellent saves too.
  12. Well as I said I tend to use the other forum for largely City stuff; I mainly use this for the Dustbin thread. It's just I give them fair dues, it's not necessarily that I give them credit all of the time, it's just I treat them fairly. For example, the other day I went down to the pub to watch the football with one of my Gas mates to watch the Chelsea v Spurs game and he brought up that Rovers (I think) had the most wins out of any team in the 92 in 2022, I think I can say that's quite an impressive achievement. Now, you bring up a decent comparison in United and City, firstly you're not a City fan, the issue I have there is United and City are still far more competitive than Rovers and City are, in the 90s I didn't use to treat them like this cus we were a lot more equal. But at the end of the day we're just a far bigger club and a far better team, the gap in terms of league places is quite low at the moment compared to the past couple years; but in reality the infrastructure, the ownership, the club, the fanbase; we are just absolutely clear of them. City and United are still relatively similar in the grand scheme of things. So if there's ever a time where we play in the same league and are competitive again then I'll probably roll back. At the end of the day they have lower expectations than us, so I'll give them credit for things that if it were City I'd be furious if we didn't do, but that's because we have higher expectations than them. My older posts are a mix of similar posts and posts lambasting them (them using the term victimless crime was a disgrace).
  13. Because it's just stupid, and everytime I post in here someone accuses me of it and eventually it gets very irritating
  14. If the point of this thread is you're more likely to say that the gas paid off the opposition and the referee and all the officials to rig a game than you are to say "they probably won fairly" then that seems a bit silly to me. Like I said I give them credit when they deserve it (rarely) and don't when they don't (most of the time)
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