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This seems like a bloke playing championship manager for real. Get a lowly club, improve in all areas season by season, develop the stadium. Develop the commercial side (it couldn't be worse) and progress slowly until you are naturally able to actually buy and afford those elite players. Let's hope he doesn't get bored and swap clubs!

Reality strikes! http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11387/bodins-replacement How can you replace a player like BBB?we ain't got the money or the ambition to attract players. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11387/bodins-replacement?page=2 Why would Kennedy Leave pompey and join us? they are a big club who are looking to be back in Championship soon. We are a club who sold our best striker to the Shi* and now sold our best midfielder for peanuts Reported £400k to a mid table championship side. And by bodins comments he couldnt wait to get out!

They're in blue & white; is this the first gas trip to Europe?

Not quite true. Their dream is for City to drop to THEIR level.

True, but one of their poster on gaschat reckons they'll then pick up new fans attracted by the underdog tag. he didn't explain why those new fans haven't turned up yet.

Are Rovers the only team with a congested fixture list?

As I've posted before; as a football fan I do not want any club to die. However as a City fan, I'll be content with Rovers becoming a mid table Western League side. PERMANENTLY!

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11301/doncaster-score-predictions Our last meeting against Doncaster was a 1 nil loss at the Mem in March 2008 when Paul Trollope was our manager in the 07/08 season.

Their "ever loyal" fans are speaking up and some are facing reality. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11315/rovers-donny-official-thread-sponsored?page=3 Sad days for BRFC.We are in decline both on and off the field.See you at Walsall.We won't be any worse than we were there last year.Can't see us making enough changes in Jan to arrest the mediocrity on the pitch.Can't see any announcement either regarding a new stadium.Think I'll emigrate or it will be visiting Conference grounds again at this rate. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11315/rovers-donny-official-thread-sponsored?page=4 Awful - can’t keep dragging myself up for it atm - feel so flat and disillusioned- think I need a break from it even tho I have a ST - Good luck gas you need it! http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11315/rovers-donny-official-thread-sponsored?page=5 Difficult to know where we go from here, it's not that a few changes to the team from the current squad will make much difference, the players have just lost their way and their confidence to play football has gone. The team needs fresh blood but no one is going to release anyone in January at prices our owners are likely to pay. The squad when playing to their potential is good enough to stay up but it only seems to click for a game or two then it back to square one. The let-downs of the pitch have played their part and whilst DC puts a brave face on it, he knows he's battling against the odds and so do the players. It's likely that BB will be off in January at a knock down price so we won't have money to replace him let alone improve the squad. Loans are hit and miss, you might strike lucky but loans not best option for a relegation battle. Just to think I was fool enough to believe 'em when they said new stadium, top class training facilities and a top 6 budget...all has proved to be lies. It's hard to dig deep in such circumstances but I'll keep supporting them but do now hope the Al Qadis sell up as there is clearly no future with them or Hamer as Chair. If it's a low budget future then at least we need owners with a vision and plan for the way forward who can work with a manager who knows the position. Trouble is who would pay the £12 milion loan back to them.

And so it came to pass;

Hang on; one of the tabloids stated that City are after a PNE player. Perhaps it's all a ruse and City will actually sign Bodin!

May 1982 City's last game before dropping into Div 4 was home to Chester with an attendance of 3,200. City v York October 1983. Over 10,000 turned up at AG for a midweek Div 4 game. Last day of that season City had to send some of their own Stewards to Chester to help marshal the large crowd of travelling City fans.

"would a girl half your age snog you". How old are you? if you're 20 do you really want to be seen kissing a ten year old. If you are thirty, why the interest in a 15 year old? If you are forty or older; dream on mate!

Yet that stadium obviously appeals to some. Remember when England was bidding to host the World Cup? MK was placed in the South West group of grounds that would be considered as match venues. At a guess IF England had bribed more, sorry had been selected to host the World Cup, MK being in the South West would have been preferred to AG (perhaps cuz it's closer to London)

For me Bristol rovers are at a crossraod, one way will either allow us to progress to a sustainable club, or the other to our eventual extinction. I say this because we are, as much as people hate to admit it massively effected by our friends across the river. I talk in terms of future potential generations of fans. At the moment we are tinpot...yes I said it, but we do offset that by only being one league behind, plus if we had plans to build a new stadium, regardless of our league position we would capture the hearts of Bristol’s youth by having the underdog appeal. If we were in the championship but still at the Mem we would match their level thus also attracting future fans. Even if they got promoted to the prem and we stayed in league 1 but still had the prospect of a new state of the art ground, we would still recruit support.

"The proposed extension to its base includes a 500-seat floodlit show pitch, That could be just the thing Rovers need

I didn't realise FFP only applied to the gas. I thought it affected all clubs.

I've looked back just one year and had to laugh at their selective memory loss. Apart from the Matt Taylor threads, they were also convinced City were going down and they were going up at the end of the season. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8600/matty-sold-over-10m "I'd take £6 million and a loan back until the end of the season". "He lacks the attributes to go for anything more than £2m in my opinion". Then when Matt Taylor did join City they conveniently forgot this thread; http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8642/matty-leave-on-cheap Bristol Rovers hot-shot Matty Taylor will spark a January transfer war. Brighton, Cardiff, Wolves, QPR and Glasgow Rangers have all come in for Taylor who has scored 15 in 22 games this season and a total of 60 goals in the past two and a half seasons. Taylor is valued in the £1million bracket but has a cut-price clause in his contract which allows him to go on the cheap with Rovers bracing themselves for a battle to keep him. The 26-year-old signed a new deal last July despite interest from other League One and Championship clubs but Rovers will now struggle to keep him after his prolific form. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8960/matty-quarters Matty T is still being linked with a transfer to multiple Championship clubs. The club have said he's not for sale.

Today at Anfield, Everton had fought back through a penalty and the score was 1-1 with ten minutes left. They took off Rooney, put on a defender and switched to 5-4-1 to hold on for a draw.

I've waited 24 hours to consider my thoughts. For the 2nd game in a week, City and their opponents played attractive football with both teams trying to win. Sheff didn't even try holding out for a draw after the sending off. As both games were televised, hopefully the message may start getting through there is good football played outside the Prem.

FOURT goals scored by City at Eastville Christmas seventy FOUR.

When will the club shop start selling toilet paper with a blue & white quarter design on each sheet? The toilet seat in the picture is mainly two shades of blue. Is that to remind the gasheads of WYCOMBE's shirt design?

and City's game was being televised live!