myol'man Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 Under Rishi Sunak new scheme at the Memorial Ground; You give the man on disabled gate £10, he gives you back £3.33, he keeps £3.33, and then lets you in. When inside you find out that no spectators are allowed in and so you have to leave. You ask the nice man for your tenner back and he says go **** yourself. You realise that he actually kept £6.67 and you've been taken for a mug. Get home to listen to the boyz in blue lose 2-0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red7 Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 5 minutes ago, myol'man said: You realise that he actually kept £6.67 and you've been taken for a mug. I doubt they would even realise this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porto Red Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 9 hours ago, 77 punk said: "hate will make you blind " that sums up rovers fans 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 On 22/09/2020 at 22:43, Red_Alligator said: I see they're currently running a thread titled "Why we will never be successful" - methinks they may be on to something there. Plenty of mileage in that one. Are they seriously asking that question "Why we will never be successful" and nobody from the dwindling blue few can give an answer that doesn't involve dribbling. I mean, it's not like it's a difficult question, is it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyredredrobin Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 12 hours ago, Swede said: Are they seriously asking that question "Why we will never be successful" and nobody from the dwindling blue few can give an answer that doesn't involve dribbling. I mean, it's not like it's a difficult question, is it. The answer is the same as it has been for the last 100 years or more. No money, no fans and no ambition. Some things never change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatchers Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 They've also never had a ground that they have'nt had to pay rent on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S25loyal Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 11 minutes ago, fatchers said: They've also never had a ground that they have'nt had to pay rent on. Bristol city football club have to pay rent to play at Ashton gate. They have done for many many years, years before the rugby moved in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatchers Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 There is a big difference between us and the gas HAVING to rent to survive. They sold eastville because they were skint and ended up renting it . They rented Bath because they could'nt afford the rent increase at eastville. They left Bath to share then take over the Memorial Ground(thanks to dodgy board member) They pay rent to the fake sheik because he owns the ground as security till he builds houses on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) On 24/09/2020 at 07:19, 77 punk said: "hate will make you blind " that sums up rovers fans It's more the incessant stroking themselves. PS whoever put "Walking" in the swear filter, please undo it or just swap it for a starred version. Edited September 25, 2020 by Nibor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 4 hours ago, wendyredredrobin said: The answer is the same as it has been for the last 100 years or more. No money, no fans and no ambition. Some things never change. I beg to differ - they do have ambition, it`s to finish one place above us once in their lifetime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weepywall Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 45 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said: I beg to differ - they do have ambition, it`s to finish one place above us once in their lifetime. They would be more than happy to play in The Downs league as long as we were in the division below them, sums them up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 55 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said: I beg to differ - they do have ambition, it`s to finish one place above us once in their lifetime. I'm sure one of them voiced an ambition of LOSING games in the Championship. Nothing screams ambition more than wanting to lose game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 On 23/09/2020 at 17:03, Banned User said: Success for me would be playing in the same division as the S@@t and doing the double over them! Preferebly in a nice new ground with a Bristol born lad scoring the winner. Sorry; life is full of disappoitments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 On a slightly different subject... Must sting a bit that even our fringe players who can’t get anywhere near our first team would rather go all the way to Hull to get a game than pull on ‘Da famous Quarterz’ Poor old Slags, not as special as they think they are... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew me Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 Before my time, but my parents and grandparents often told me how they watched city one week and the gas the next. Apparently lots of people did it. Joking aside, were my family unique or was that more common place when football was the equivalent of £2 a ticket? I can't imagine any circumstance in modern football where that would happen. Perhaps the tribal rivalry wasn't as intense back then? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offside Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 Yes I have heard this too. I remember a kid at my primary school doing it, and that was in the 1980s when things between fans were already toxic. But it must have been common in the days before getting to away games was feasible. I’m intrigued to know how people who did this chose which side to support in a derby match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpexile Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 I used to do this often as a school kid as I didn't have the funds to go away games. My dad was a rovers fan & myself city but I always preferred city & obviously still do 60yrs on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dastardly and Muttley Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 Yep, seems to have been pretty common “back in the day”. I’m glad I got in to football at the time Rovers were in Bath, as I grew north of the river. My dad is an Argyle fan, so just took me to any team that was local. Could well have ended up on the other side of the fence if Rovers had still been playing in Bristol then. Jeez, I’m off for a wash, I feel dirty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew me Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 Just can't imagine it now. Even if we shared the city with a giant of the game, I'd still not see how I'd want to watch anyone apart from city Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 46 minutes ago, Matthew me said: Joking aside, were my family unique or was that more common place when football was the equivalent of £2 a ticket? I can remember paying £2.50 to stand on the East End in 1990ish. Open end was £3.00 for some reason? If I remember the atmosphere inside football grounds at that time correctly, I imagine there weren’t too many people visiting Ashton Gate one week and then going to Trumpton the following week unless your name is Roger Malone. I believe it used to be a reasonably common occurrence in the 50’s and 60’s. Then we got promoted to the top flight in the 70s and the ‘Gas’ who would watch us one week and their own shower the next suddenly forgot where Eastville was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew me Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 24 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said: I can remember paying £2.50 to stand on the East End in 1990ish. Open end was £3.00 for some reason? If I remember the atmosphere inside football grounds at that time correctly, I imagine there weren’t too many people visiting Ashton Gate one week and then going to Trumpton the following week unless your name is Roger Malone. I believe it used to be a reasonably common occurrence in the 50’s and 60’s. Then we got promoted to the top flight in the 70s and the ‘Gas’ who would watch us one week and their own shower the next suddenly forgot where Eastville was. My word.... £2.50! It's amazing how prices have increased about inflation. Arsenal being £90. A pound a minute for a game of football Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Fred Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 7 hours ago, Matthew me said: My word.... £2.50! It's amazing how prices have increased about inflation. Arsenal being £90. A pound a minute for a game of football I remember when it was 50p...... People say it's relative but Im sure that would be cheeper in 'real terms'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, Matthew me said: Before my time, but my parents and grandparents often told me how they watched city one week and the gas the next. Apparently lots of people did it. Joking aside, were my family unique or was that more common place when football was the equivalent of £2 a ticket? I can't imagine any circumstance in modern football where that would happen. Perhaps the tribal rivalry wasn't as intense back then? My Dad did that and actually met my mum at a Rovers match when City’s away game was called off him and his mates went to watch Rovers, would have been early/mid 70’s as I’m 41 Edited September 26, 2020 by Tinmans Love Child 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew me Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 6 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said: My Dad did that and actually met my mum at a Rovers match when City’s away game was called off him and his mates went to watch Rovers, would have been early/mid 70’s as I’m 41 Amazing isn't it. Hard to imagine you could watch both teams. But it looks like plenty of people did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 I used to occasionally watch Rovers when I was at school in the 60s. Living closer to Eastville than Ashton Gate it was relatively easy to get there (children used to actually walk long distances to places in those days). A lot of things were different including a lack of live football on TV and hardly any highlights. So if you wanted to watch a match when the team you supported wasn’t playing you had to go to watch another team. There was rivalry between the two sets of supporters then, but not the hatred you get now, so it didn’t seem strange for City supporters to occasionally watch Rovers and vice versa. Of course, when I went to Eastville I always supported the opposition 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeble Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 10 hours ago, Matthew me said: Before my time, but my parents and grandparents often told me how they watched city one week and the gas the next. Apparently lots of people did it. Joking aside, were my family unique or was that more common place when football was the equivalent of £2 a ticket? I can't imagine any circumstance in modern football where that would happen. Perhaps the tribal rivalry wasn't as intense back then? The shared experience of the war years produced a lot of social cohesion that persisted probably into the sixties. The pathe news footage of Rovers v City games in the fifties doesn’t seem to show any fan segregation and games passed without trouble. I remember speaking to some people at Eastville who watched Rovers one week and City the next, something I can’t imagine doing. While rivalry/banter between teams is part of being a football fan, the illogical vitriol that can be found on any of the football forums, towards people who enjoy the same sport and come from the same city, I have to say I find rather saddening. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, pongo88 said: I used to occasionally watch Rovers when I was at school in the 60s. Living closer to Eastville than Ashton Gate it was relatively easy to get there (children used to actually walk long distances to places in those days). A lot of things were different including a lack of live football on TV and hardly any highlights. So if you wanted to watch a match when the team you supported wasn’t playing you had to go to watch another team. There was rivalry between the two sets of supporters then, but not the hatred you get now, so it didn’t seem strange for City supporters to occasionally watch Rovers and vice versa. Of course, when I went to Eastville I always supported the opposition Just to confirm other posters my mum and dad used to watch both team right through the 50's, but were always City first. You have to remember that travelling away was more of a one off special than an every week event. When I started going to watch City in the mid sixties, if we weren't home we would go to the reserves games, Rovers if they played anyone of note (I remember games against Chelsea, Southampton and Sunderland) or Bath City. My mother was disabled so we rarely travelled away and if we did the furthest I think we went was Birmingham. Edited September 26, 2020 by Port Said Red Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 It`s the mighty Doncaster United away for them today I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Fred Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 11 hours ago, Matthew me said: Before my time, but my parents and grandparents often told me how they watched city one week and the gas the next. Apparently lots of people did it. Joking aside, were my family unique or was that more common place when football was the equivalent of £2 a ticket? I can't imagine any circumstance in modern football where that would happen. Perhaps the tribal rivalry wasn't as intense back then? Quite a common occurrence then.. My father was what you might call "open minded" and of course at Ashton to watch his reds with me one week,,,the next we'd be at eastville meeting his rovers supporting pal - a great guy,,won an MM in WW2....a very unassuming man as such people often are.. Seemed a normal thing for us to do at the time..very happy memories. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmans Love Child Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 1 hour ago, Matthew me said: Amazing isn't it. Hard to imagine you could watch both teams. But it looks like plenty of people did! The thing is in the 70’s there were no games on Tv in the pub to watch or anything like that, so if you wanted to watch football and your team was not playing then it was the logical thing to do, from speaking to my Dad about it He was always a City fan but also a fan of football 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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