Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

6 hours ago, Malago said:

Just noticed that the Sags have already lost 16 league games this season, only Bury and Northampton have lost more.  Can't remember how many we lost in 14/15, was it 5 or 6?.  

5. 

Swindon (a)

Preston (h)

Crewe (a)

Colchester (a)

Sheff Utd (h).

I remember after the Sheff Utd defeat Sagheads joyfully telling me the “wheels had come off”. We didnt lose again in the remaining 3 months of the season.

Another great prediction that they got wrong. Here’s some more:

”this time next year shitheads...”

”a new era is coming...”

”Lansdown is gonna pull the plug...”

“We’re going to be  biggest and richest club in Bristol”

”Taylor will never go to da shit”

and 

“WEVE GOT OUR STADIIIUUUMMM”

3 hours ago, Red Right Hand said:

Don`t worry, they still have their most important game of the weekend to come on Sky tomorrow afternoon.

I expect most Gasheads probably didnt even realise they were playing today as they were so busy running around ASDA this afternoon picking up supplies of Fosters, Pringles and tissues.

39 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Just watched dopeys after game interview. He comes across a rude arrogant sulky little shit . Horrible bloke 

That's because he IS a rude, arrogant, sulky little shit.

...and a cock.

Dear oh dear.

Only one week after they were wildly celebrating a last minute goal against us and only a few days after I heard my first “this toime next year SSSHHHIT ED....” of the season, this happens.

25 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:

Markred isn't exactly James Bond with his rather transparent undercover job is he!? Hope we've answered your questions pal!

Clearly not.

18 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

We had something like a 98% attendance when compared to our capacity and only 3-4 clubs sold out the away end...

Correct. 

The following season we had on average the most ‘full’ ground % wise outside of the Premiership.

6 hours ago, Markred said:

What was our attendances like when we were mid table league one? Was a while back I know but does anyone have a link? 

Hi Newbie.

We haven’t had a year where we have spent most of the season mid table League 1 for ages.

In 2013/14 we’d been relegated back to League 1 after one of the most depressing seasons in my memory. We sold approx 8.5k STs that year iirc (unlike the Gas who only managed to shift 5k after promotion). We spent the first 6 months of that season in the bottom 4, even finding ourselves bottom at Christmas and we averaged 12k. 

6 hours ago, Markred said:

Okay so In the season 2014/15 season we were champions of league 1 and averaged 12k, that’s not that much more than they are averaging to be fair, and if you take into account the awful facilities available to sag fans, where as we have always had a pretty decent stadium. Let’s not sugar coat things to much, they like us do have a big fan base.

Yes, we had a reduced capacity that season of around 12.5k/13k including whatever allocation away fans were given. Basically the home sections of AG were pretty much full for most of the season. I’m surprised you don’t remember this?

Neither us or Rovers have a big fan base considering the size of a City like Bristol. Looking at the historical attendances of the two clubs however you have to conclude that either more Bristolians are City fans or City fans in general are more loyal and more willing to put money into our club than Rovers fans do. 

I don’t buy the facilities argument. The old Ashton Gate was hardly an example of modern day luxury. Rovers fans bang on about how they’re ‘real’ fans whilst we are ‘plastic’....it’s bollocks. When push comes to shove the whole facilities thing is just excuses not to go and watch the team they say they love on a Saturday afternoon. 

Lets not forget all the ‘if they play on the road we’ll watch from the pavements’ nonsense they were spouting when the UWE went down the bog. If ‘loyal’ Gasheads won’t show up unless they’ve got a nice comfy seat to sit in Ive got to say that sounds pretty ‘plastic’ to me.

5 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

You've gotta love them...

http://gaschat.co.uk/post/368999/thread

What a bunch of absolute belters.

”envied away followings” 

Take a day off you deluded Sag idiots.

Same club that takes barely 300 to Gillingham, Rochdale and Bradford and even less to Scunthorpe...all on Saturday afternoons. Yeah I expect fans of clubs up and down the country dream of travelling in such huge numbers 

Sleeping Giants? Haha, brilliant! 

Average crowds of around 9k last year, which was their highest for FOUR DECADES, bang average away support for a mid table L1 club and the worst ground in the League yet they think they’re massive. They’ve actually got the nerve to call us deluded.

1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said:

As I remember it, he was invited to show proof of this disabled red, supposedly attacked by our supporters in the stadium, and didn't, it was denied by both the football club AND Avon and Somerset police, wasn't seen by anyone in the 20,000+ crowd  and was proven to be bullshit! IIRC, wasn't there talk of a libel suit against Henbury numbnuts for blatant lies? 

If that's 'proving us wrong', I would love to know what the weather is like on his / her / it's planet?

What a bell end! 

You’re right, he bottled any opportunity to show us proof and even changed the story about what happened several times. Didn’t stop the other gullible morons on Slagchat lapping it up.

If I remember correctly they even deleted the thread, presumably because the mods on there finally realised that they had been taken for a ride by a total bullshitter....

again.

5 hours ago, Cider red said:

Okay I'll say it....anyone else have a niggly thought in the back of their mind that it would be good for bristol football if they snuck up through the playoffs?

It’ll be good for ‘Bristol football’ if City get promoted to the Premiership but there won’t be any Gasheads rooting for that.

Personally I don’t care about Bristol football, I only care about Bristol City who IMO are the only club in this City who have ever shown any real ambition anyway. 

As we’ve seen this season we are perfectly capable of providing a good impression of football in this area on our own. The longer they stay in our shadows the better.

Having them in the Championship is like putting Holloway on TV....does very little to improve the tinpot, bumpkin image many outsiders have of our wonderful City.

48 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

2nd best supported team in the West country......fact

On Slagchat they’re patting themselves on the back in that w@nky way they always do because they are averaging nearly 8900 this season despite not having been higher than 11th.

Plymouth average higher than Rovers even though they were bottom of L1 as recently as December. 

Even MK Dons (currently 3rd from bottom btw) average higher home crowds. You need to be a particularly deluded set of fans to be chuffed about the size of your support despite having smaller attendances than a club that didn’t even exist 20 years ago.

5 minutes ago, Tomarse said:

They'd also have 3 seasons to go all seater.. 

Can you imagine supporting a different Championship side, visiting Ashton Gate one week then that squalid dump a few weeks later?

Still, at least if they play us they might fill their ground for once.

13 minutes ago, Sergio Georgini said:

On a great run, confidence high, couple wins and they're in the play offs.. a sell out tonight in Pikey Haven I'm sure..

Of course.

School Holidays, kid a quid...supposedly the greatest most loyal supporters on the Planet, it’ll be a sell out.

No excuse not to really.

4 hours ago, The Truth said:

Well, they havnt had a book published by a hooligan or failed to beat the bottom two clubs in their division.  Let's no get too cocky just yet.

Yes, both of those things you mention are far more embarrassing than dropping out of the entire League and spending nearly 2 decades below your City rivals.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. 

Piss off Sag.

I won’t quote the whole survey however someone on here accurately described the Chesham win against Rovers as a ‘minnow killing’...not a ‘giant killing’.

15 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

You're probably right, I'm fairly sure the figure was somewhere between 40000- 45000, which I'm quite sure City would more than match if given the opportunity.

Quite why we took so few to the Conference play off final I have no idea. (BTW there really was a City fan in the other end at that one!)

Yeah I saw the pictures of the City fan in the Grimsby end with a City shirt on, standing out like a sore thumb. Each to their own I suppose but you’re just asking to have your nose rubbed in it if the winning penalty is banged in right in front of you.

57 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I seem to remember being reported that we had sold the most tickets ever at Wembley for one club (yes really!)

Our 'record' if indeed it was one was apparently beaten by Millwall a few years later.

So yes, I think we really honestly may have taken 45000 to Wembley (Not including those locked out)

Sorry Miah, I don’t believe that’s true. You did have the highest number of ticket sales of the 6 teams competing in the Play Off Finals that year but you didn’t have the record for most fans for one club at Wembley. For a start Millwall had 47000 fans attend a game at the old Wembley in 1999.

The record at the ‘new’ Wembley set by Millwall was 45000. I think this has since been beaten by Southampton. In 2007 you sold out your allocation of 35,000 and received a further 5000 (according to your website), probably due to Shrewsbury returning tickets, as you said.

It always seems quite difficult to get accurate information for ticket sales at Wembley. At the time it was stated that you had around 40000 for that match which seems about right when you consider the middle tier wasn’t open and your support encroached into the Shrewsbury ‘end’. 

Nothing wrong with 40k of course...buts it’s not 45k, 48k or even 50k as some Gasheads claim.

1 hour ago, Bar BS3 said:

Well, Shrewsbury did sell 15k+ for their play off final in 2009, so there is every likelihood that they sold that amount in 2007. 

Edit: I don’t know how many they sold in 2007, but Shrewsbury’s allocation was 25,000 tickets. 

I love how suddenly every neutral, corporate & club Wembley (approx 5-10k, I’d guess) attendee must have been supporting the Gas. How convenient..! 

They had about 40,000 there.

They had an initial allocation of 35,000 that was increased by another 5000 tickets when it became apparent Shrewsbury didn’t need their full allocation. 

Like other City fans I’ve heard ridiculous claims of 48k, 49k and even 50k from Gasheads....I know it’s not like Sagheads to bend the truth but the middle tier wasn’t even open.

Incidentally, they call us ‘plastic’ but isn’t it funny how a day out at Wembley attracts a whopping extra 33000 ‘loyal’ Gasheads who couldn’t be arsed to go to their home games that season?

5 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

Quote from gAsschat:I always slag them off doesn’t matter if their on a good run or a bad one there’s always plenty of ammo.
If they get promotion to the Prem I’ll do the same.

This is all kinds of pathetic, sums them up really. If we did reach the Prem they would have just lost at home to Hartlepool or someone, but they’d be celebration us losing to ManU. Odd bunch.

Always plenty of ammo? 

Yeah I suppose with our 27,000 all seater stadium, wealthy Bristolian owner, well over double their home crowds, better average away crowds every season, 3 times the number of STs, better history, over a century of League Football, the lack of tents for stands, beating Man Utd in a match televised across the Globe, giving Man City a run for their money, all the praise we’ve received in the Media, never dropped into Non League, 17 years above them...

We really are the gift that keeps on giving aren’t we? 

Sag idiots.

21 minutes ago, Rich said:

They've done it before. I believe their grounds man was filmed watering the already wet area in the corner, prior to a match with Stockport County. It was a midday KO and the Stockport fans had already travelled down. The match was called off allowing BRFC players an extra days rest, before playing us in the LDV, Johnstone's Paint or whatever it was called on a really boggy pitch. IT worked, they won. They also "allegedly" cut the water mains at Twerton, prior to a new years match against us, when they had a few players out with injury and we were flying. The rescheduled match was played at the end of the season, when we were suffering the loss of Super Bob and it worked again.

Ifa kin ate thoze bus terds.

I'm not sure about watering the pitch but they definitely made no efforts to get the game against a very 'in form' Stockport County played. Previous matches that winter they had called upon people to come in and help get the pitch up to scratch to keep the game on (according to the EP).

If I remember correctly Jim Gannon (Stockport boss) had words to say about it at the time, the response from the blue few was typical from them, they played the innocent victim and Gannon became a bit of a hate figure at the Mem. Meanwhile on the same day we were away to Blackpool.

I think Rovers won the rearranged fixture*, they crept into the Play Offs on the last day and got promoted. Stockport failed to make the top 7 (L2) in the end.

Cheating bastards.

*Edit: they did win the rearranged match according to their head 2 head page with Stockport. 

9 hours ago, Jarman said:

Blackburn and Wigan coming up .... tough opponents for City in the Championship next season especially with some pretty decent teams coming down with their parachutes!  Unlike the rest of you, I went to the Mem today.  Brilliant atmosphere ... old fashioned terrace .. unlike the now sanitised Ashton Gate as my son said.  And those who talk about the 45,000 whatever.  Remember the ground up in Whorefield is always 95% full.  

I don’t know why you lot keep doing this to yourselves? Its never 95% full.

As Sergio said, such a small stadium used by a club who constantly bang on about how amazing their support is should be 100% full each game. We were getting 11/12k for home games during the worst 7 months of supporting City in my personal memory (Aug 2013-Feb 2014, bottom of L1)....you’ve got no excuses.

Ashton Gate is no different to the Mem or most other grounds in terms of atmosphere. Sometimes it’s dull, sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s incredible. Depends on many factors.

Don't pretend it’s any different at Rovers.

Despite a poor run of one win in 9 games we’ll still have 20k+ on Saturday against Sunderland. Mind the gap.

17 minutes ago, Sergio Georgini said:

A mere 8,680 caravan dwellers against the mighty Shrews. But please remember it's our support that's shite. 

Before today they hadn’t lost since before Christmas. 

You’d think their ‘massive’ fan base would make more of an effort to go and watch their team when they’re on a good run like that?

42 minutes ago, st andrews gas said:

Call me what you want..but 'dimwit'?  You chose the easier option of the red red wobbins... and your 'billionaire owner once used to watch Rovers on the terraces but then you and your brain-dead associates choose to ignore that. Funny owners we do have, sick of them...'his son is a life-long Bristol City fan'- your owner, like ours are not lifelong supporters of either Bristol club...you are hardly the smartest light on the xmas tree are you...

 

I didn’t choose to be a Bristol City fan, I was born into a family of Bristol City fans...thank God.

Our owner did watch Rovers on the terraces, yet he was quite happy to take his own son to Ashton Gate and eventually plough millions into City. Doesn’t say much about Rovers does it? 

His son wanted to watch City from an early age, that pretty much makes him a lifelong City fan. He’s also heir to his dads fortune.

Im not the smartest light in the Christmas Tree, that’s correct. However I do know how to quote people correctly on this site, I know the difference between ‘siblings’ and ‘children’ and I don’t go on a rival fans forum and make myself look like a dick.

Dimwit.

43 minutes ago, st andrews gas said:

Hopefully my siblings will see you lot 'go into administration'-  they certainly won't see you in the premier league next season, though you may manage a Wembley play-off heartbreak...

Why would that happen dimwit?

Our owner is a billionaire who has proven he’s in it for the long haul. His son is a lifelong Bristol City fan.

You’ve got some foreign bankers who look and act like they really don’t want to put any serious money into your funny little club.

I’d worry about your own affairs if I was you Saghead.

1 hour ago, Steve Watts said:

"We shouldn't think that this will always be the case. If AFC Bournemouth, or Swansea or even Huddersfield Town wanted one of 82's best players they would be able to get them. If not now at the end of the season when and if they stay up and the sh** don't go up.

Bristol Rovers have a bigger fan base than all of those clubs and have the potential to do equally as well provided that one day we have owners capable and willing to invest."

 

I thought they did have owners willing and capable to invest? That's what they were all bragging about around this time 2 years ago.

Its laughable to suggest they have a bigger fan base than Swansea and Huddersfield. MK Dons are getting bigger crowds than the Sags. If they were genuinely loyal they'd fill their tiny ground every home match instead of barely scraping 8k home fans in L1.

....and they call us deluded?

43 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

Was just thinking, given we know about the dog botherers different shopping lists, what supermarket do you go to to lose your most valuable possession?

39 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Sainsburys

Beautiful.

ZiderEyed with the perfect cross to set up Hucker with a great finish.

2 hours ago, Xiled said:

Let's face it, their only issue is that we paid £300k for Matty Taylor.  If we had paid £3M for him, they would be telling us how brilliant they were at finding and profiting from players.

They cocked-up with a publicised release clause and we needed a new striker.  Business is business.  100% sour grapes from Rovers fans.

Absolutely agree, he’d scored 14 goals for the Gas last season before we’d signed him, our options up front were a bit limited and we were heading for trouble. Thanks to their desperation to keep him the previous summer he was also very cheap...something that was such common knowledge that newspapers were reporting his release fee months before the transfer window opened. Absolute no brainer to sign him and, contrary to what their ridiculous fans think, had **** all to do with derailing their season. That was just a happy bonus.

1 hour ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Looks like they have managed to welcome their new player by getting white plastic chairs in the photo ...

Nice tent.