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I don't know when, but I do know how, it will all end in tears. Sorrow for them and tears of laughter for us.

You have to feel for Accrington Stanley, their fans in the background of the sky sports updates looked a mixture of devastation, suicidal and shell shocked. You wouldn't want to put your mortgage on them making it up through the play offs (although I hope they do).

Ground capacity will be 27,000 next season. I am assuming that 'football capacity' will be more like 25,000 due to segregation. There are loads of variables like night games, atrocious weather, poor form etc but all things being equal we should attract 25,000 gates for Cardiff, Newcastle, Aston Villa and possibly QPR, Derby and Forest. Not sure we'll reach 25,000 for the mighty Burton Albion.

I thought it was interesting that Points West did a feature on Rovers and what a great season they are having. There was also a comment like 'it is a great time to be a Gashead'. Maybe someone should politely remind them that they are in the Fourth Division! In the history of Bristol Rovers, wherever they finish this season will be one of their lowest league finishes in their history. The Rovers teams who have been competitive in the second tier must be wondering what all the fuss is about. Still if they want to get excited about beating Accrington and Dagenham good luck to them. The Gasheads of the 70s and 80s would have seen matches against them in the fourth tier as the stuff of nightmares.

I know Havanatopia is very much tounge in cheek but I would see Cardiff as the bigger and more successful of the South Wales clubs (though Swansea are challenging that in the last 6-7 years). As for low gates, Cardiff have always been capable of getting a big attendance for the glamorous fixtures. I believe we have a bigger support than Cardiff but there is not a huge amount in it.

It was traditional for Jimmy to check what you had on under your kilt.

I played for Longwell Green but we had a decent team at my age group. Always were the best of the rest with Warmley, Avon Athletic and later Whitchurch taking Avon's place as being the dominate top two.

I lived on Banjo Island for a short while as did Ian Holloway (just to clarify I didn't live with him, he's not my type!)

Of course they have lots of money....in assets. Matty Taylor, who the majority labeled a non league striker who they wanted out of the club 2 months ago, is now worth 10m and is the new Jamie Vardy. Well, until he goes 5 games without scoring and then he'll go back to being s*it again.

We could let them share Ashton Gate with us if it all goes wrong for them, we shouldn't forget how much they tried to help us in 1982 when we were in trouble.....

Like ciderup I think living in Gas territory adds to the dislike of them. However in the past 16 years it has been mostly laughter.

Does it go to extra time or straight to penalties in the event of a draw?

Bang on, if you don't know why we take the p*ss out of Rovers you are either too young to remember when they hand the upper hand in the derbies or you are so old you remember going to Ashton one week and Eastville the next. I went to school in East Bristol in the mid 80s to early 90s and it was relentless until the tide started to turn.

Chopra was playing for part time Alloa Athletic last season and he looked slow and overweight. Not sure he'd be the man to try and narrow the 'gap'.

Are they also going to boycott the Independent? They'd better boycott Wembley as well because they reported 26,000 Gas fans present and not the inflated figure of 33,000.

I've missed a handful of home games in the last fifteen years and booked a holiday so that I would be back on Friday in time for the match, I am an Ashton Alf but this has seriously pissed me off. Can the club reconsider and move to the original date? I am yet to hear from anyone who can now make the fixture but there are lots who are now unable to attend.

Mandela striding out into a crowd of tens of thousands of Afrikaans wearing a Springbok shirt, an iconic image and surely one of the political master strokes of the last century. His achievements cannot be underestimated, the word great man is bandied about too readily but Mandela is most deserving of the title. How many of us would be prepared to die for our beliefs? How many of us would be willing to spend years in prison?

Unbelievable really that your lot were singing about the stadium at the derby match when the plump female had yet to even clear her throat. Must have been some Sags that night thinking why oh why.

I take on board what you are saying, I'm just not convinced they have the financial structures in place to be able to cope with long delays.

Did I hear the City fans at Tranmere singing - 'Judicial review, judicial review You took the piss Gas Now you got one too' Great song, I've had months and months of how great their stadium will be, how we missed out on ours through our own incompetence etc etc, and the best of all this little beauty 'when we get our new ground we will be top dogs in Bristol'. Time to get back in the shadow, :laugh:

If you think that it is deluded to think that you 're are not deluded then you sir are deluded.

My sides they are a splitting

I can't post on their site, but please someone do it, that needs bumping up to the top, :laugh:

I couldn't resist a quick peep at the Sags forum, :laugh:, they slaughtered the OP saying that we were just jealous and their would be no challenge, whoops, :laugh:.

To me it sounds like a pop at City and also a pop at Cardiff about their kit and badge change (which is fair play of course). Funny he didn't mention the attitude of Bristol Rovers players. Bookies second favourites to be promoted and one of the largest budgets in the division and yet they are in the bottom half having spent most of the season in the bottom two.