Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

42 minutes ago, DancinDannyD said:

As someone else said earlier, if someone went regularly onto a Gas forum claiming to be a City fan and constantly sneered and made digs at their own club (City), the board and Bristol Sport and not once showed ANY form of positivity about any promotion or any changes / improvements would you *really* believe (s)he was a City fan? Really!? 

I have no problem with people offering constructive criticism of the club but a "supporter" that still cannot see that some things have improved significantly since Mansfield?  We could have done a Stockport easily.  

A true supporter would be able to identify and acknowledge both the positives AND negatives and offer a balanced objective perspective.  Not Bert though.  Constant one way criticism. 

I said a while ago I first thought old Bert was a casualty of either the Boardroom or Supporters Club split a few years ago - but nothing has changed since regime change.

So either I'm right and (s)he's no Gashead or if (s)he is then I really do pity them for being so bitter and twisted and unable to see absolutely any positives.  Talk about glass half empty and, as I said before, what a miserable existence not to be able to ever get any enjoyment out of watching the team you say you support. 

But sometimes you can misinterpret the written word and my offer of a friendly pint or two, at my expense, still stands.  I'd genuinely be happy to have a decent conversation about what can be done to facilitate change and also positively support our club or if that's a bit heavy, just reminiscing about all of the good times 

At least Bert has never pretended to be a City fan on here...what about you Danny?

9 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Yep that's exactly what is happening!

Convenient.

Nah, I don't believe it. 

Come on super fans, how many are you going to get next week? We know how important attendances are for you...

46 minutes ago, Northern Cider Ed said:

How many will they get at Home to Reading in the EFL Trophy on Tuesday, or is that going to be a "boycott"

Nope, there's no changing of the goalposts for that game. As far as they're concerned in their black and white World, we took about 160 to Scunthorpe which is shameful because we're a Championship club. Their game next week is at home in a competition they must be desperate to win, especially as they've been in it more times than us and we've managed to win it 3 times compared to their zilch..

They're a League 1 club now, their fans aren't 'plastic' according to them so let's see how many they get at home on Tuesday when the opponents aren't someone like Chelsea.

10,000 I reckon.

22 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

These really are genuine questions to any posters who wish to consider them reasonably.

If someone like the equivalent of Bert Tann posted regularly on Gaschat, taking the position of being a City fan, assuming of course they were allowed to do that, and consistently criticised Bristol City, having special bile for Bristol Sport and without ever a word of praise for anything positive like a promotion or a new manager, how would you feel about it?

As on here, no doubt "Alan Dicks" or whatever he might call himself, would get loads of likes from Rovers fans, and congratulations for seeing the truth about how rotten the club really are, or at least as he portrays the club. 

You would read this on Gaschat and come to the conclusion that the bloke is a total shyster, wouldn't you?  You wouldn't take a word he says about being a City fan with any credibility, would you? 

Would you?

1) 99% of City fans are banned instantly on Gaschat, presumably because despite all the shit promises about how we should be really worried about Rovers you are the ones that feel threatened because you know that you have nothing on us apart from a quirky kit...as if that's really important. 

2) Most City fans would be asking the same questions of our club that Bert is asking of his. Maybe that's one of the reasons why we've never suffered the humiliation of falling out of the entire league. 

1 hour ago, DancinDannyD said:

So I'm calling BULLS**T on him/her being a Rovers fan.  Either that or a wholly miserable individual that finds absolutely no joy in anything - and what a depressing existence THAT must be 

I thought you Gasheads were supposed to have a good sense of humour whilst not taking yourselves too seriously, you and the d1ckheads on Slagchat sound like a right bunch of precious crybabies moaning about a bit of self deprecating humour from one of your own.

It's better than cringing at the lame banter and 'ticktocking' from prats like Weasel who didn't even have the guts to say he was a Gashead when he started posting.

Who did you pretend to support when you started Danny?

Edit: I've just noticed that Philgas has actually signed up to Gaschat to plead with his fellow Gasheads to believe him when he says that he's not a City fan...what ******* paranoid idiots you really are 

32 minutes ago, RedRaw said:

Ark at this belter posting in a thread on slagchat about the city v Newcastle agro video......these freaks really do believe their own hype....the last paragraph is beyond belief.....

"Sad scenes and so different to Rovers experiences with other fans, 'always had a soft spot for you,I love those shirts' 'when you all sing that Irene song at Wembley when Rovers won the play offs I was so happy' 'we always watch out for your results,you are such great fans' 'we were gutted when you went out of the league' I have heard other fans say.
In fact when Rovers lost to Mansfield I think that many proper football fans were traumatised,one of those moments that people will remember forever,like when JFK was shot.

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8006/nice-friendly-bristol-welcome

**** me! If he's actually serious then he's a deluded moron. All the comments I saw on social media at the time they went down (especially from fans of clubs they play regularly) were laughing at them.

As for all the 'lovely' comments he's heard from opposition fans...sounds like the sort of stuff you'd say to a needy prat in the pub just to get rid of them. For a club that are apparently so loved by everyone else it's strange that in the Bristol area most people prefer to follow City. Clearly not as special as they think are....

26 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Looking back it was an odd situation City found themselves in. If, like a lot of fans, you think cup games are all about getting to go to the glamorous clubs and grounds, then Chelsea was the plum tie for any club, if you had to pick the worst possible draw, it would probably be Scunthorpe away.

Anyway, I'm sure it will come back to haunt us if you progress further.

It was very odd Miah, with respect to them, a trip to Scunthorpe in the 2nd round of the EFL Cup is a pretty shit draw anyway but to also have the knowledge that it could've been a trip to Chelsea instead made it even more of a shit draw (in many supporters eyes). 

It's a bit like "Let's have a look at what you could've won"

I'm impressed we took as many as we did all things considered 

As you didn't get d1cked, scored a couple and made a decent amount from the gate receipts it's got to go down as a pretty good night for Rovers. 

1 hour ago, Philgas said:

You just don't get it do you ... Chelsea away was an amazing tie for us .. and you don't have to go to every game to be a proper fan ... Cardiff City wasn't really as special as a visit to Stamford Bridge  .. These digs about our attendance all the time are crap...

Hi Phil, you make a very good point here and it's something a lot of your fans either choose not to grasp or are too thick to understand.

Your game against Cardiff wasn't so special, very low gate

Chelsea away, very special....sell out quickly.

We took about 160 to Scunthorpe because the game just wasn't that attractive to the average travelling fan and as Miah correctly points out, had the Gas been in a similar situation the attendance would've also been low.

The more your cabbage brain element try and call our support in general shit based on the away following at a League Cup 2nd round match in Scunthorpe...the more some of us will point out that you managed about 3.5k at home in a morgue-like atmosphere against a supposed local rival. Some of us might even throw in a dig about the fact that our home and away attendances have always been better than Rovers. Your lot do tend to start it mate...it really puzzles me tbh. 

1 hour ago, Smaller than a flea said:

The first three questions are very good and need answers.

The last is disrespectful. Call him Dopey if you want 

I think the bloke is a ******* anus...but 'Anus Darrell' isn't as catchy as 'Dopey Darrell...

So I'm afraid he's stuck with 'Dopey'

That's just the way it is fella.

49 minutes ago, st andrews gas said:

we can and will sell 90 per cant of our capacity for every home game...you, in your shiny 'new' stadium will not.....

You're right about that at the moment.

Do you think you'll regularly sell 90% of your capacity in a 27k+ seater UWE Stadium then? 

4 hours ago, Rob k said:

We would also have had more than 4K home fans for Cardiff aswell! 

 

That's the bottom line.

More Gasheads went to Stamford Bridge last night than could be bothered to show up at home against Cardiff City. All this does is highlight how many of them come out of the woodwork for a trip to a big Premier League ground, as Iron Man said, they still haven't sold out their game against Swindon.

...and they call us plastic 

2 minutes ago, Lord Spandex said:

^^^^^^^^ Troll.

Pretending to be a City fan as well.

Its pathetic 

13 minutes ago, oldrosie said:

"we easily beat them on home attendances"

Pretty obvious why ... but I suspect if you look at % of capacity they'd easily beat us ... 

No actually, certainly not last season when we had the best % attendance to capacity in the Championship.

Anyway, as we're from the same City of around half a million people and they're always keen to tell us how well supported they are, maybe they can enlighten us as to why they rarely sell out their much smaller ground...even when they're doing well.

Or why we've had better home attendances on average for 50 of the last 51 years? You could even give us your theory 'Oldrosie'.

Over to you...

6 minutes ago, Aipearcey said:

Read my post above

Fair enough, I shouldn't have called you stupid. Although there is no comparison between a trip to Stamford Bridge and a trip to Glandford Park...with all due respect to Scunthorpe.

Thing is, we take 5000 to West Brom and loads of them accuse us of being 'plastic'. I wonder how many they had at Southend on Saturday and I believe they haven't even sold out Swindon yet 

27 minutes ago, Aipearcey said:

We took 70 to our match, which the club seems happy to publicise. We should look at our own support before mocking them lot 

You sound as stupid as the Gasheads bleating about attendances on social media.

Its not unusual for lower league clubs to pack out the away end of a Premiership ground for a 'glamour' cup tie. Chelsea is hardly difficult to get to either. 

Fair play and all that for taking 4K to Chelsea, we'd have done the same. In the league which is both clubs 'bread and butter' we easily beat them on home attendances and on average take more away than them every year that I can remember, so no, I don't think we need to look at our own support based on how many we took to Scunthorpe on a Tuesday night, 2nd round league cup match.

22 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

So, loyal football fans of relatively small club queue for tickets for a plum cup match.  Meanwhile across the city, smug fans of a club bankrolled by billionaire

Am I the only here who rather admires fans who opt for the smaller club in a two-club city?

1) Thought the Gas were bankrolled by a billionaire....that's what their smug fans tell us anyway.

2) Surely very few people 'opt' to support clubs like City or Rovers, most tend to be born into it. As far as I'm concerned Im one of the lucky ones.

2 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

LIAR! 

How dare you suggest that Rovers haven't sold out their initial allocation! 

Don't you know who they are..?! 

Mutants on Slagchat and various other Social Media sites were confidently predicting that they would easily sell the initial allocation and they would definitely need at least 6000 tickets for this one. 

Turns out that was lies then?

Who'd have thought it. 

4 minutes ago, Philgas said:

Rubbish don't believe it ... I've got a cubicle for tonight's game .. 

You got the runs Phil?

8 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

I am totally bored with all this obsession, much of it nasty, about Rovers.

I come on to Otib to learn and comment about all things City.

Is someone pointing a machine gun at you and making you open this thread?

1 hour ago, Iron Man said:

Please spare a thought for this sag who'd rather spend money on a ticket going to Ashton Gate then go to Southend away.

A few of them in the away end yesterday apparently, funny really....you'd have thought if they were going to watch a football match they'd go to Southend and support their own team.

Plastic *****, either that or just desperate for the experience of sitting in the away end at Ashton Gate. 

12 hours ago, BRFC_Gas said:

...and yet you find yourselves a massive one division ahead of us, well done!

The gap now is comfortably shorter than the one between Scott Murray's teeth, saying that even when we were in the Bananarama the gap was probably still smaller than that.

 

....and this is what many of your fanbase have become, getting boners because you've made it to within one division of us. Well done, have a ******* cookie  

I remember when you used to play us twice every season, not for a long time though. The 'gap' is certainly no smaller than it was in August 2001 when you started life in the basement. In fact, looking at our respective Stadiums and crowds plus actual investment by our owners, it's clear the 'gap' is far bigger now. Bolton fans will know this after their visit to Chernobyl last night, Villa fans who came to the Mem pre season will realise it next week when they come to AG. 

If you're just going to focus on the League table then Fleetwood and Bury are closer to us than you. You've got the club you deserve...

'Tick tock' mind

Bonehead idiots.

9 minutes ago, WestfieldRed said:

If you want to get under their skin surely the best way is completely ignore the club even exists, since they're totally irrelevant to everything except a cup game or 2....

Not in my experience...the type of Gasheads I like to annoy absolutely ******* hate it when we laugh at them.

44 minutes ago, NeilS said:

but at least some might think just how futile stupid, and childish all this is. 

Ahh, that's the tribal nature of football fans everywhere. This isn't unique to City and Rovers believe it or not.

We take the piss out of them any way we can (and they give us plenty of ammo), they take the piss out of us. None of us stop and think "hang on a minute, I can't take the piss out of Rovers fans sitting in a ******* tent provided by their trillionnaire owner because City aren't in the Premier League yet"

Anyway, I hope you've got it all off your chest.

1 hour ago, Philgas said:

and it was the evil post that called him a billionaire etc ..

we don't matter to you so why get rattled about it

Phil, it WAS your fans that started it, not all of them...but a large number. Gasheads like Miah, In the Net and Bert Tann who clearly have more brains were pretty level headed when Wael came along but Slagchat and Facebook were awash with your mob telling us how Rovers are now biggest and wealthiest club in Bristol. No wonder we laugh at the unveiling of a new tent whilst our supposedly poorer owner has financed a superb 27k redevelopment. 

If your lot didn't constantly go off in your pants way too early and gloat about things that haven't happened yet there wouldn't be so much for us to take the piss out of. 

....and we're not 'rattled' Phil, we're grateful for the constant gifts. 

2 hours ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Obsessed much?

Who do you support then little fella?