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http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/10298/liking-odds-bookies-giving optimism still flowing well.

6-1 for promotion www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/promotion4-1 for play offs www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/to-make-the-playoffs

sh** odds,would rather do Blackpool 33's Gary bowyer good manager and stupid odds

if we can bring in those 4 quality players then I'd like our chance a bit more. bit light atm.

Then came two voices of reason!

20/1 is a fair price but realistically are we THAT much stronger than last season right now if at all? The league is more competitive too. At the moment we will finish similar to last season I feel but these next few signings could push us on.

"if we can bring in those 4 quality players then I'd like our chance a bit more. bit light atm". - In our dreams. The clueless one seems to be struggling with recruitment.

13 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

In fairness, Rovers' new championship ready sprinklers are far above those on offer from the Subuteo accessories store. They do come out on top when it comes to sprinklers. 

I always said they were a right shower.

I assume FGR won yesterday's game as there is no "Official FGR v Bristol Rovers" thread. Instead one complaining about treatment of fans and another complaining about the catering. 

However, gasp, shock, horror, the 2nd post on page 5 of the "Vegan Rovers" thread is a post calling for debate rather than abuse! http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/10284/vegan-rovers-gas?page=5

I see they've signed Sweeney & Godden. I immediately thought of City's Gerry Sweeney and Godden the WBA keeper. Both retired from playing over 30 years ago, but would be right for the gas. But no, it's a pair of current players with illustrious surnames.

3 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Is it me or is it generally more common place these days, cup shocks ain't what they used to be!

Correct. Just like in Athletics etc, the best can only get to be so good. All those below them gradually catch up. This leads to records rarely being broken and upsets no longer being upsets.

On 15/07/2017 at 09:24, Coombsy said:

As August is a few weeks away why are they looking at land at seven beach ?

 

Because it's the holiday season! 

13 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Instead he choose FGR over them?

Wouldn't you?

6 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

That's what happened last season, isn't it..? 

I'm sure I remember hearing numerous times around last Christmas, that that's exactly what was going to happen. 

Is it true about the gashead with his four way accumulator? Rovers promoted, City relegated, UWE being ready for the 2017-18 season & Barcelona playing the first game there.

1 hour ago, bs3 said:

What IF we are relegated and they go up, surely that is the worst case scenario.

Agreed, but they'd still have to wait for the first week of the 2018-19 season to be above us.

16 hours ago, miser said:

Looking forward to 6666 days and 66 minutes - evil moment 

If in August 2018 they were above City after the first game of the season, that's 386 days away, so worst case scenario, 6,486 is the minimum number of days they will be behind City.

5 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Very elaborate. 

Sags have been telling us that Pie in the Sky is their limit. 

Sam Slocombe on a free? For the older members of this forum remember Mrs Slocombe and her colleague stating "I'm free"?

On gaschat some pos(t)ers hope that Rovers sign Ricky Lambert. On Sky Sports news this lunchtime; "Ricky Lambert has left Cardiff". City aren't signing him are they just to piss off annoy the Rovers faithful?

A voice of reason (Kingswood Polak) and then comes the put downs (Icegas and Harvey Specter);  http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/10152/bigger-club-bristol-city?page=5 a thread about will they ever be bigger than City.

3 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Literally the 1st reply is "must be an 82er". No counter argument, no reasoning. Incredible.

That happens EVERY time someone posts a reasoned and thought out opinion.

Not one, but two goalies for the gas. Just scroll through these two links to see the proof. 

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/10151/signing-joe-lumley He's recently been on tour with QPR in Portugal, they return today. Therefore, I'm guessing there would have been talks with DC & his agent while he's been training? That's usually the case when a player's away..maybe now Joe's coming back to England, he could be in Bristol the coming days to sign that elusive contract...?

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/10150/trialist-confirmed "It's one week, and I will be offered a contract should I play well."
"My goalkeeper coach from my Nike Academy got in contact with Rovers." and what says it all; "I dont know much about the club, no players, staff, or history. I hope to learn everything very quickly."

OK, which of you has been posting on there? http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/10141/trust-wael

Its the best policy for genuine rovers fans.
Trust him to deliver the top 6 budget promised.
Trust him to develope the training ground.
Trust him to secure UWE if its in the best interests of the football club or start from scratch on an alternative project.
We will have a good idea of the playing budget by september 1st and the other projects in the reasonably near future so at the moment the only real option is trust.
The tweets of the peterbro chairman have given us all an incite into the difficulties of the transfer market and its such a short period until we know whats going to happen on these big issues in my view.
So it might be corny but im going down the trust in wael route and hope others feel the same?

22 hours ago, SimonR said:

Just looked on sagchat, Wow they are Bitter! the few half sensible posts drowned out by bile and vitriol.

There was one post starting "City fan here in peace" and some of their regulars were demanding the post removed as it's from a City fan.

So the gas have friendlies against Yate and Melksham on the same day.

It becomes amusing when one of the blue few complains a non league team has a £7 million pound stadium and then another realises there's several non league teams with better grounds than the Mem.

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/9989/friendly-melksham

Then for a real laugh and delusion; http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/9974/bournemouth

So many similarities not least of all the managers style. Together anything is possible.

I just realised something watching this, it doesn't matter how much money you have in football, it is about the togetherness and that is what DC is achieving with us, team spirit, two promotions in two seasons, top ten finish, players proud to wear the shirt, good attacking football, playing for each other, a young up and coming manager with bright ideas. A proud football club. That is something they don't have over the dark side of Bristol and that's why they are so obsessed with us, it strikes me that they are envious and jealous of what DC is doing here. So we have to believe that we can do the same as Bournemouth, get behind the lads, even when it's not going right and we can succeed, pass them and be better than them. FTG

Linking this to discussing the gas; more spectators at these events?

1 hour ago, Reigate Red said:

Sorry to go off gas topic but WTF is going on in Bristol these days - a naked bike ride . What is that about?

The World Naked Bike Ride takes place every year in cities around the world. In Britain we have them in Brighton, London and Bristol. Cambridge stopped having them because plenty were prepared to ride, but no one wanted the bother of organising it.

The event is / was an anti fossil fuel event, but many participants these days do it for the fun / thrill  and aren't bothered with politics.

Thinking about it, Gary Johnson could have taken part when he threatened to bare his backside in a shop window if a certain player scored for City.

http://www.efl.com/global/appendix1.aspx

1.4    Each Championship Club shall with effect from the start of Season 2012/13 (or with effect from the start of its fourth Season in the Championship if later) only admit spectators to seated accommodation, and there shall be no standing terraces. So IF the gas were to be promoted, they'd have to upgrade the Mem or move / ground share. Both options would cost them money.

7.1    Seats should be individual seats with tip up bottoms and include backrests. Alternatively, other than the Directors Box, the seats can be of the plastic moulded type complete with back rests or other types of seats provided they have back rests. 
 

On ‎5‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 17:41, Robbored said:

The nature of that result will be thoroughly investigated for sure......

Some of the games in the IPL make me wonder about betting syndicates. In the last week, one game I was watching the score was 127/2. I popped downstairs for a drink, came back to find the score was now 130/7! In another game the team which batted first scored at ten an over. The second side promptly scored at 12 an over to secure a comfortable win. Yesterday one team was 111/0 after 11.5 overs. Their first wicket then went down and it was 154 all out. In another game one side, bear in mind these are T20 games, was all out for 49. Their batting line up featured Dhoni, AP deVilliers and another top batsman. None of the three managed to break into double figures.

Wow! I read to the end of that Wikipedia article. It describes how Goodnight Irene became their anthem.

The song which is synonymous with Rovers is "Goodnight, Irene", which was written by Lead Belly.Opinions differ as to how this came about but it is thought to have become popular in the 1950s when a version of the song was in the British charts—the line "sometimes I have a great notion to jump in the river and drown"—seemed to be particularly apt when Rovers lost as the Bristol Frome flows alongside the old Eastville ground.^[

They were certainly nomadic in their early years; "During World War II, some friendly matches were played in Kingswood, and in their early history some games were played at Parson Street, Bedminster"

25 minutes ago, Malago said:

That was always a lie.  They were a southern league club when we finished second in first division of the football league and runners up of the FA cup.

Quite right sir! During City's first stint in Division One, they were two promotions away from City.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Rovers_F.C

In 1899 Bristol Rovers joined the newly formed Southern League, where they remained until 1920.