Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan
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3 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
Refer back to my earlier comments. I have made it clear that I dislike big money and that I especially dislike people who brag about having lots of money. Unfortunately the loadsamoney mentality has permeated football, to the point where people see big finances as something to boast about.
This is what Bristol Rovers fans plaster all over Social Media whenever they think they’ve found a sugar daddy.
Oh dear oh dear.
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2 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
I used to get the impression your team was beaten before they stepped out onto the pitch at Twerton...
You had a reasonably good team back then, that’s the reason our record against you was not the best.
Its nothing to do with the laughable suggestion that Twerton park was some kind of mini version of the Ali Sami Yen, a frightening place to visit or the feeble atmosphere created by the 4-5k blue few that could be bothered to travel down the road from East Bristol and honk the word “shithead” every time one of ours touched the ball.
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3 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
One of the reasons your lot repeatedly folded at Trumpton was because they couldn't handle the atmosphere and the novelty of playing in an environment where the fans get behind their team.
Who Gasheads?
Plenty of evidence available to the contrary.
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2 minutes ago, Dredd said:
So what equates to 'character and authenticity? An appalling ramshackle stadium which is falling to pieces? A manager whose morals have repeatedly shown to missing? Being so badly managed you actually dropped into non league football?
You might think from the inside you are authentic and plucky little Bristol Rovers but you wouldn't turn down our position in a million years. Are we soulless because we have a roof and actual seats? Someone willing to put their hand in the pocket so we don't turn into an embarrassment? Or are you just horrendously jealous.
Enjoy your 'authenticity' I hope the roof doesn't blow off your tent.You just need to look at their reaction when Al Qadi arrived and they thought they had a billionaire on their hands.
Bragging about being the biggest and wealthiest club in Bristol, suggesting they all wave fivers at Morecombe fans in the next match.
The mask really slipped.
As the Man City fan said to the Gashead, we are everything they want to be. They’ll never have their spiritual home back though.
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6 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
I don't want to stir things up further, but opposition managers have commented on our ability to create an atmosphere and get behind our team. Both Steve Evans and Derek Adams have said this, along with others.
Even at Twerton, we created an atmosphere, got behind the team and turned it into an intimidating place to play.
In contrast, I remember Gary Johnson attempting to create an atmosphere at your ground by encouraging your fans to 'bounce around the ground'. Happily, none of our managers ever needed to resort to such desperate and frankly embarrassing measures.
I dunno, piping crowd noise through the speakers seems pretty desperate to me?
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9 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
I'm actually touched - you all appear almost as interested in my own club as your own.
Not our fault Rovers are hilarious. This thread would’ve died years ago if didn’t keep handing us the ammo.
9 minutes ago, Hot Air said:It is very entertaining, and this is in large part because we haven't morphed into a soulless corporate entity, unlike a certain club I could touch with a very short stick.
You’re just a laughing stock.
Sitting in your funny little ground surrounded by someone else’s history
Got to pay a subscription to the manager to get ‘breaking news’ about YOUR club
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From Ashton Gate to this
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9 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
Welcome to Bristol Jack...Ashton Gate looks a lot better from a long distance, doesn't it?
Ashton Gate looks a lot better than the Mem from any angle although you’re right, from a distance it’s still beautiful. A stadium with real history.
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“******* SMILE!!!!!!”
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“Experience Bristol like never before”
Basically welcome to this shithole, it’ll be pretty disappointing compared to what you’re used to.
“At the home of Bristolian football August 19th”
Can’t be Rovers, they’re away.
Thick bastards
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The season where we could have relegated them, the week before that final game Villa dropped us in it by losing to Blackburn (with Villa fans celebrating the loss) leaving us in danger of relegation ourselves. Fortunately we pulled off an unlikely win at Brighton in the evening meaning only Blackburn, Forest and Brum were in danger on the final day.
Under the circumstances I wasn’t devastated that they stayed up but our performance was woeful. I think everyone was more focused on giving Tammy Abraham a good send off.
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7 minutes ago, TheReds said:
Aren't you forgetting something, it must surely be finished by then....
Yeah, just one minor issue…..
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5 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:
you lot on the other hand just put your heads in the sand & say , it’s not my fault or what can we do . You just put up with any old crap they say. As a fanbase your weak & cowards .
This.
In other words ‘bend over’ and take whatever nonsense gets dished up by whoever is the owner of their club at the time, and this cretin has actually got the nerve to criticise us..…
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1 minute ago, Hot Air said:
Even before this, he was renowned as a gobsh*te who would say the first thing that came into his head.
Just like Barton then
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6 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
You could conceivably go even further and emulate your successive relegations of 1976-80.
Can’t get anything right can you?
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Just now, Open End Numb Legs said:
That was the new Spurs ground, right? We were told they invested the same as them.
2 stands were finished in Bristol in the Summer of 2016.
I wonder which one most people would consider ‘tinpot’?
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7 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
Its interesting - Rovers have often adopted their 'small-time' (or 'tinpot') aspects in the same way that Wimbledon did in the 1980s, with the 'Crazy Gang' mentality - Steve Hamer, a former chairman, even directly drew this comparison. You'll recall that we actually embraced this at Twerton.
In contrast, it is City's attempt to make the leap into a genuine contender that invariably amuses. Watching you try and then fall flat on your face, as in the 2008 play-off final, is a continual source of amusement. You try so hard to be 'massive' but never quite make it.
Deluded Clowns
Just can’t get anything right can you?
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3 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
Its interesting - Rovers have often adopted their 'small-time' (or 'tinpot') aspects in the same way that Wimbledon did in the 1980s, with the 'Crazy Gang' mentality - Steve Hamer, a former chairman, even directly drew this comparison. You'll recall that we actually embraced this at Twerton.
In contrast, it is City's attempt to make the leap into a genuine contender that invariably amuses. Watching you try and then fall flat on your face, as in the 2008 play-off final, is a continual source of amusement. You try so hard to be 'massive' but never quite make it.
Wimbledon were actually good.
Having ambition is not a bad thing or something to be embarrassed about, you should try it sometime.
The only people who ever talk about being ‘massive’ is Gasheads, which makes it even more amusing when you boast about being the 6th richest club in the country before your owner gives you this
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On 15/08/2023 at 22:19, Porto Red said:
I feel suitably embarrassed now
You shouldn’t.
Asking for help is not only very brave but absolutely the right thing to do.
You’ll find that many people on here have struggled with physical or mental health and if there’s anything you need to talk over there’s plenty of us on here willing to listen.
Just don’t ever bottle it up pal.
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Just now, LilRascal said:
I'm horrified to learn that people outside our fanbase know that our ex-chairman was a session musician approx. 35 years, how has this information leaked out?? I feel so ashamed.
Imagine how Hot Air feels…he was actually “embarrassed” by it
Even BROS fans don’t know who Scott Davidson is.
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13 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:
Sorry @Hot Air you still haven't responded to the fact our average attendance is thousands higher than Charltons and despite various evidence online and all of us making you silly you still haven't responded on it.
Oh no, he did.
In amongst all the ******* rubbish about 90s boy bands and Steve Lansdown he says he actually meant that 2 seasons ago Charlton Athletic had 2 games where their attendances were higher than our highest attendances.
Hes actually gone away and researched that thinking it’s something that can be used as a stick to beat US with
Nobody knows why he felt the need to go to the trouble of looking this up or mention it on here?
Imagine talking about attendances when your own team haven’t averaged over 10k for 45 years and struggle to fill the tiny ground they have.
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28 minutes ago, Hot Air said:
That's a very polite way of saying that you agree that BROS were sh*te. I like it - unusually classy for a City fan.
Unless you were a teenage girl in the early 90s there’s an overwhelming likelihood that you’d think BROS was shite
Ive never once heard a City fan claiming it as a badge of honour that our owner for a short time in that decade used to play keyboards for them (not drummer as you wrongly stated).
I’ve also never met a City fan that gives a shit who he played keyboards with
You’re utterly bizarre.
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5 minutes ago, BrightCiderLife said:
So in summary @Hot Air:
Charlton are bigger than Millwall - probably agreed but not relevant.
Jordan/Bahrain aren’t as bad as Saudi - not sure either way but not relevant.
SL should be criticised morally for being resident in Guernsey - doesn’t really get you anywhere as he’s a self-made billionaire whose using a similar ‘tax efficient’ arrangement as Wael using Jersey.
You say we’re tinpot because of a mascot fight on the pitch in the late 90s - that was a wolf and three pigs (who had nothing to do with us) having a scrap which didn’t seem to reflect back on the club, but yes we’re a lot more professional now.
You say we as a fan base cannot criticise your club for decisions it has made in 2023 because of a decision taken by our club 20 years ago - times have moved on. Compare our fans’ reaction to signing Danny Simpson with how your lot reacted to signing Brown. There’s been some discussion about morality and ethics on here. Hiring convicted criminals falls into that. In a fair and liberal society, once someone has served the sentence given to them by law, are they not free to renter society as they were (with only some restrictions)? There’s no legal bar to convicted footballers earning a living. It’s a moral question. It seems a lot of football fans (Man Utd fans over Greenwood, Sheff Utd with Ched Evans etc) would say the publicity and fortune that come with it make it inappropriate or at least don’t want their club associated with certain behaviours. Your owner made himself look hypocritical with the comments about JB before his trial and then signing Brown and your fans have not protested in great numbers against that.
BCFC aren’t as slick/professional as we should be - most on here would agree, did you see the complaints about the digital tickets, the 5-transfer limit, the collars on the home shirts, the lack of away shirt, the changed crest on the yellow kit? Here’s the crucial bit though, as a fan base we tell the club when they get it wrong and expect better from them, we don’t complain that Ted posties and green counsellors are to blame for us demolishing our own stand before we could have hoped to get planning permission.
You say 1982 was (or should be) embarrassing for us but is now a source of pride - our unwanted record of going from the first division to the fourth is embarrassing for any fan base, there is no pride in the ‘Eight Men had a Dream’ chant. It’s gratitude. They tore their contracts up so we could go on. Without them doing that, there’d be no City. Like you saying without Dunford there’d be no R*vers. (Though note that the AG8 saved the club by not taking out money they were legally entitled to.)
That you have to go back 20-40 years to say we’re tinpot says it all. In the last 20-40 days you’ve started the season without a stand (and still don’t seem any closer to getting planning even though you’re the ones who knocked the other one) and have our name printed on your shirts.
It was very good of you to come on here and give us another laugh!
You must have posted this as I was writing my summary
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So what did we learn yesterday…
Charlton are bigger than Millwall. In fairness we all know that but still have no idea why the Slaghead brought it up?
City are tinpot because….
We used to have a Chairman who was a reasonably talented musician.
2 groups of mascots (WWFC and Coldseal) had a fight on our pitch.
We got relegated a few times.
We once got into a spot of financial difficulty from which we survived.
Well thanks for that Hot Air, that really told us
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rail strike days announced when we play swansea(AWAY)
in Football Chat
Posted · Edited by Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan
An ASLEF strike on the Saturday would’ve been curtains for train travel to Swansea even with Transport for Wales unaffected. Trains to Cardiff should still run (reduced in number) then it’ll likely be TfW from there. Luckily an early kick off for our game means trains should still be running on the way back (services usually stop earlier on RMT strike days)…just don’t hang around in Swansea too long afterwards.
That’s my guess.