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This year’s must-have Hallowe’en costume.

Aye, that was the pranny in question. dA sHEEDS mAY oF tOOK 8,000 tO mANCHESTER bUT wE tOOK hALF tHAT nUMBER tO a mUCH cLOSER aWAY dAY!!!

Don’t forget before you go to bed this evening to put your clocks back to four past Belshaw. Thank you and goodnight.

Strange - according to that tool GasGoMarchingIn on the Man City forum after we took 8k to the Etihad they should have been allocated the whole of Stamford Bridge, such was the demand for tickets. ?

Wonder if Derby can match Lincoln’s tally at the Pisspoorial dump last month? Here’s hoping.

? I used to work for them as well. Still shaking off the PTSD as the corporate culture was akin to a cult although thankfully I wasn’t there for that particular circus…

For anyone wondering what went wrong after Tuesday let me take that one:- WBA are complete s**** and made us look decent.

24-carat pile of w**k, that. Klose bullied off the ball with embarrassing ease for their killer second. Another inept piece of defending from a set piece and at the other end any corner or set piece predictably comes to absolutely nothing. Giving away possession cheaply in a dangerous area costs us again. Reading’s confidence should have been on the floor after midweek but they dealt with us easily. Utter elephant dung.

First win since 1993 there but first time we’ve come away with even a point since 1999 (obviously we drew there under Cotts but that was FAC and we lost replay). That 2-2 draw in the Ward / Benny relegation season sticks in the memory if only because there were some pretty bad crowd disturbances that day - Baggies and City trading blows across the segregation if memory serves.

Seen a fair few “bRISTOL iS bLUE” comments in light of their recent run. The only things that are blue are your b@lls, you Gas incels.

Surprising and welcome result - richly deserved too. Doesn’t render the criticism of the last two Saturdays invalid and clearly a lot to be done but suggests the situation isn’t quite as desperate as many (myself included) might have believed on Saturday evening. More pertinent is the fact that on the day of our last two wins I’ve had my flu shot (Last Weds) and COVID booster (Today). Ergo I’m going to make sticking sharp objects into my upper arm part of the match day ritual (There’s no EFL rules against supporters taking performance-enhancing substances, are there? If so I’ll just stab meself with a knitting needle, rusty screw or summat)

Well done Chippenham and Taunton! Hopefully they can spring further shocks.

A gallon of scrumpy and a bag of Colombian marching powder, I’d wager. Young kids sometimes get a bit restless at games and most of us have been there, either as parents or sat in front of a bored child who decides to make their own entertainment. His behaviour sounds utterly irrational and completely unacceptable. Hopefully he is identified and the club tell him any repeat and he’s Barred of Avonmouth.

If Pearson did get the bullet would you trust the nitwits who run our club to bring in the right man to replace him? I wouldn’t. Wouldn't be surprised if they reasoned that appointing an experienced head didn’t work so they will revert to young up and coming managers a la LJ and the Fabulous Human. We’d probably end up with Curtis Fleming ad head coach! I’m not all aboard the NP Out train yet and barring an absolute walloping at the Hawthorns In the week I won’t be but his reign has clearly been a colossal story of under-delivery. It’s just that the problems at this club run so much deeper.

Definitely concerned at this juncture. No matter who the manager we seem to have these alternating runs of good and poor results, excellent and wretched performances. Spoke to Millwall fan in the week who said we’d crucify them because they are abysmal; well they handled City pretty effortlessly yesterday so that doesn’t say much about us. If I was a betting man I’d say we will be okay this season - just. But considering the impending fire sale of out-of-contract players the future looks a tad bleak. Could lose Conway and Scott in January too which would boost the coffers but dramatically weaken the squad. So much complacency, incompetence and arrogance at the very top of the club during the past several years is a big reason why we are where we are today.

“Pearson is doing good enough”. I suspect even he would baulk at that.

Balls. One superb half season and one very consistent full season where we were in the frame for the playoffs right up until the final day. Pearson has done absolutely nothing comparable. I had extremely high hopes for his reign and it’s been a massive letdown.

Utterly dreadful fare against a side who hadn’t won away previously and by all accounts were playing wretchedly - no justification for dropping Bents and O’Lordy has cost us today (and I don’t care that he saves a penalty, game was over anyway). Week in week out we are seeing the same sloppy mistakes, the same inept defending and struggling to have a shot on target - our strikers have stopped scoring. Where has that zip and verve gone from the eight-game unbeaten run? We look a completely different side. Should we sack the manager? Not convinced. Would it make a blind bit of ****ing difference considering the same clueless dipsticks who run the club would be recruiting the new man anyway? Three gaffers, same old problems. Only thing I know for certain is the domestic hiatus for the WC cannot come quickly enough at this point. Guaranteed hiding at the Hawthorns beckons in midweek.

Tonight - Nomadic, identity-stealing franchise with a handful of fans and that every right-thinking football supporter truly despises…take on MK Dons.

Friday marked 8,000 days of the Gap! (Sorry if it was mentioned on here but can’t be bothered scrolling back through a dozen pages of the Accrington defeat to find it…)

He really, really isn’t.

I’m sure it’s all Paul Tisdale’s fault!

With Barton in the dugout and his endless stream of scapegoats and sour grapes the Gash are creating lots of enemies. If they do make an immediate turn to L2 it won’t just be us Reds who are turning cartwheels. ”eVERYONE lOVES dA gAS” Yes, sure they do! ?

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As amusing as this all is, Sharton really needs to think on (if indeed he is capable of thought) before calling out a ballboy like that; you know how their cretinous fans hang on his every word - you can expect that poor lad to get the “Snakey” treatment at future home games. ?