CiderJar

9 hours ago, Banned User said:

Just in case you missed it ladies and gentleman.. or if you didn't, have a look again!

 

Perhaps worth noting that AFC Wimbledon play Northampton on Saturday, they can't both lose.

It could be mind the gap to Wimbledon....

Back in the days when they averaged 18 k, cough.
 

That is just about where I stood as Martyn Hirst slotted the winner in 1983. I ended up somewhere completely different mind. Best game ever.

1 minute ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

The trouble is, while most of us are well up the tree of life, they are still struggling to crawl out of the primordial slime.

Whilst it's true, I have no trouble with it.

5 hours ago, magunn said:

Geological 

It's true, evolution not revolution

8 hours ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

I first read this without my glasses, and thought that said 'Grifters'.....

Ahh the Grifter, the poor man's .....

43 minutes ago, GreedyHarry said:

Shouldn’t it have the Whatno Cup win listed for them? Just so we don’t get accused of inaccuracy.

Yes it should. I was danger of boring myself back to sleep. I could also have said about the fact that two English sides contested the 1934 Welsh Cup Final, ourselves and Tranmere.

1920 to 1952 though? Their formative years and all of them in the basement. What a side. What a bunch of Arabs.

18 minutes ago, downendcity said:

No. I think he's saying that has the oldest cock, but Ben Dover has been in the football league longer. 

Yes. That would make sense. Ben Dover is a hill near Dover right?

1 hour ago, JamesBCFC said:

No one was comparing them or saying they were better in any way.

 

Again, someone not understanding what I wrote when it really isn't difficult.

 

WE HAVE BEEN IN THE LEAGUE LONGER.

ROVERS ARE THE OLDEST CLUB IN BRISTOL THAT PLAY LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

 

"oldest league club" refers to the second of those.

We are the longest serving league club in Bristol, continuously and overall.

 

Not difficult.

Not at all difficult James, which is why I was confirming what you said 

.... but the pedantic follow up point I was making was that the "name" Bristol Rovers did not exist until 1899 but the "name" Bristol City existed in 1897.

3 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

I think we're talking at cross purposes. 

Of the Bristol clubs in league football, they are the oldest.

We joined the football league the earliest. 

 

As the older club of the two, Rovers are the oldest league club in Bristol. But they have been a league club the least amount of time

 

We have been in the league longer and are therefore the oldest league club. The Black Arabs was just a boy band back in the day.

An education for the saggy ones....

Bedminster FC were formed in 1887. Bristol South End were formed in 1894 and became Bristol City in 1897. They merged with Bedminster FC in April 1900 and joined the league in 1901 beating Blackpool 2-0 at Bloomfield Road in their first game. The club's highest-ever league finish was second in the top flight in 1906-07. They were FA Cup runners-up in 1909, and won the Welsh Cup in 1934. The club have also won the second tier title once, the third tier title four times, the Anglo-Scottish cup once, and the Football League Trophy a record three times.

The Black Arabs were founded in 1883 and entered the Bristol & District league as Eastville Rovers in 1892. The club moved into the Birmingham & District league in 1897 and then switched to the Southern League as Bristol Rovers in 1899. They were not admitted into the football league until 1920. They were placed in the Third Division South and remained there until 1952–53. They recorded their highest finishing positions in 1956 and 1959, a sixth-place finish in the second division. They had to apply for reelection to the football league twice before finally being relegated from it in 2015 having finished 23rd the season before, a year before it became a relegation place.

1 hour ago, joe jordans teeth said:

It’s very much like Ben Dover complaining that his cock is bigger than Ron Jeremys,nobody gives a **** who is the oldest club or who has the biggest cock,but the answers are Bristol Rovers and me 

...so are you saying you have the oldest club and Rovers are big knobs?

I fear that their boycott of Mansion Bet is going to have the same impact as their boycott of Sainsbury's. 

15 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

I would laugh my cock off if they stuck one of those posters outside a Sainsbury’s.  

That's a great image @Red Army 75 . Let's all sit back and imagine someone laughing their cock off.

Where did @bert tann go? He promised updates from 4pm onwards. He's showing almost the same level of commitment as Wael al-Qadi.

40 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

50% 

Indeed  Half? That's a laugh.

These FEWERS really are a bit simple.

and here, presumably, are a FEW others.....

... and the prolific Tom Nicholls scores again for Crawley 

.... unlucky da shit

Two late goals for Ipswich. Such a shame.

Tom Nicholls who famously hardly ever scored for Rag Arse Rovers scored on his debut for Crawley Town today  

6 hours ago, Barry Sheene said:

123456789 Tottenham!

I mentioned that to one and he mentioned our biggest defeat; a 9-0 home defeat to Coventry in ...... 1934.

Of course I had to then mention Luton Town 12 Bristol Rovers 0 from 1936

They never learn, sit down, shut up.

10 minutes ago, phantom said:

I missed this story about Dom Bess leaving

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-8671637/amp/Dom-Bess-agrees-long-term-deal-join-Yorkshire-rejecting-new-contract-Somerset.html?__twitter_impression=true

Yeah, it's unfortunately the only way players get a consistent chance in the England side.

4 minutes ago, Banjo Island said:

They must be loosing money hand over fist

I take it back. I have just been informed that the shoes in question are indeed official merchandise and that 20p went directly to tarmac the car park

1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

Well, that's a multi-thousand-lira cottage industry down the swanny!

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2020/august/brand-protection/

 

Things like this must be costing the club a fortune...

12 minutes ago, RedYoshi said:

Oi.

I really meant step brother (but Jason is really annoying)

2 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Oh look, it’s the Gashead who pretends to be a City fan.

If the recent Non League Sags can take the piss after being below us for 20 years whilst still playing in front of tents with tiny crowds then I don’t see why we can’t take the piss now.

 

Yes it's kind of like multi-tasking. The ability to achieve more than one thing at once. Being a little annoyed by "vigorous process at the football cloob" to taking the mickey out of your annoying little half brother. All things are achievable, if you just try. People say now is not the right time for it, I say now is exactly the right time. Rovers, Cardiff, Aston Villa, Leeds... all of them *****.