Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

2 hours ago, mattjb said:

It amazes me, you wrack your brains thinking surely there is nothing new left in the Gas comedy gift giving tank and then they come out with a beauty like this one! 

Exactly my thoughts.

Every time you think “they’ve done everything now, surely there’s nothing else ridiculous they can do?…”

and then BANG!….another gift out of the blue (literally).

You couldn’t make it up 

For all slagheads and Gas sympathisers on here THIS IS WHY THIS THREAD EXISTS.

7 hours ago, mattjb said:

Accademy? Sounds a bit of a gamble to me.

Bristol rovers ,a renowned name in football

“renowned name in football” 

43 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

If they want to be that petty and unhappy then fine. I'm not going to go down to that level though. 

…and that’s totally fair enough.

I may have some sympathy with individual Gasheads who aren’t constantly revelling in our financial problems in the past, but I can’t fake sympathy for the bastards who openly and often say they wish our club had died. 
 

43 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Do I want an institution that is important to (a few) people to cease to exist because of the whims and failures of outsiders for whom those failures will have no consequence. No.

Well, they seemed quite happy when those outsiders arrived, some more “unlucky tha shit” nonsense. But like I say…no evidence whatsoever that they are about to cease to exist. Im certainly not going to believe anything that comes from their cretinous, paranoid fans.

1 minute ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Well yes and it's pretty much what my post said, it doesn't matter who you support, c****s are c***s. I was pointing out however, that despite all the accusations thrown at Rovers regarding 1982, some of your own fans own behaviour was despicable.

Yes, fair enough, I see the point you were making now. 
 

1 minute ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Whatiffery.

 

That’s fine, I already knew the answer.

1 minute ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Some of whom no  doubt, still watch City and applaud the buy into the reinvented myth of the Ashton Gate 8, conveniently forgetting that they issued death threats to several genuine City legends.

You don't have to be a Rovers fan , a City fan or whatever to be a ****. This thread has been known to push the boundaries of pisstake , lets not forget just how despicably some of your own fans behaved in 1982.

Ok, we’re aware of all this.

Would Gasheads have been any different under the circumstances? 

2 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

Living local to the Mem, I can assure you that 'most Gas live local' isn't true.

You see more kids wearing City shirts walking around Gloucester Road than you do kids in Fewer shirts.

Having also lived near the Mem I agree, it was great to see other City fans on Gainsborough Square waiting for the bus to the Gate and I never saw too many Gas shirts around.

When I said ‘local’ though I meant Bristol in general, ie they didn’t have to drive up the Motorway or worry about the last train south being cancelled due to weather related issues.

40 minutes ago, BetterRedthanBlue said:

I will give credit to the fans that went last night given the conditions (and Exeter seemed to bring a fair few).

But for "the best fans in bristol" to get sub 7k is absolutely laughable. The cowshed was meant to bring fans not turn them away.

Give credit to the Exeter fans, absolutely…but most of the Gas live local.

I’ll wait until officially announced before laughing but if that’s the true figures it’s pathetic from a club who bang on and on about their supposedly huge, loyal fanbase.

Its ok though, I’m sure Oxford will fill their new stand for them.

1 minute ago, Natchfever said:

What was the gate for WHU, do we lose c1500 seats due to the Atyeo netting,?

Either way, I was making the point that our average gates would fill their expanded shithole twice over.

I think it was 25,500 for WHU, it’ll be similar for Forest. Football attendances are affected by segregation so even against Man Utd and Man City we didn’t have 27k…but all tickets were sold out…you can’t sell more than the number allowed. So yes, we can ‘fill’ Ashton Gate.

6 minutes ago, Natchfever said:

Correct

It’s not correct….2 sell outs in 11 days with 23k+ for Watford in between (no excuses from our fans about lots of home games in the same month). 

We seem to sell out our decent sized stadium more often than they sell out their crappy little ground.

8 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

Someone might want to educate this one...

"The Teds have a much better ground, play in the championship... but guess what, they can't fill Trashton either."

Ok, I’ll do it…

Sold out Ashton Gate twice in 11 days with a 23k+ crowd in the middle.

Its like Sagheads enjoy looking stupid. 

47 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Interesting to know how they measure the crowd for a test event. The weather forecast is very grim tonight and might put off some of their faithful from going. Do they measure tickets sold or actual people through the gates?

They’re talking about giving Oxford more blocks on Saturday just so they can fill the stand….the stand THEY said they needed to accommodate THEIR ‘huge’ fanbase 

The gift.

55 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

They've had to slash prices for tomorrow too in order to meet the 75% requirement for a test event...

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/20242/january/10-tickets-v-exeter/

Incredible 

No wonder their new owners don’t want to spend money on a proper stadium if they’re having to slash prices just to fill 75% of their brand new stand. By this time tomorrow night Wally might have to walk up Filton Ave knocking on doors asking for volunteers.

Potential new excuse as well, they’ve used rain before but now…

Edit: DOUBLE new excuse klaxon! 

1) Windy

2) There are other home games coming up.

25 minutes ago, WessexPest said:

8,013.

Less than 8k slags.

So let me get this straight….

They’ve now got the higher capacity that their fans have been saying they’ve needed desperately for years to accommodate their ‘massive’ ‘loyal’ support and their attendance has gone DOWN? 

Idiots.

41 minutes ago, Boring Sag said:

This is insane, as is the photo. If it is the same person it’s odd because I’m sure he got criticism before, so is he doing this to own the lefties if so?

He got a shitload of criticism from all angles, which isn’t surprising considering he posted the picture of himself wearing a Rovers top holding a Rovers flag next to the Auschwitz sign on Twitter with the caption “Auschwitz Gas”. This however appears to be a different person.

I don’t know what goes through some peoples heads to be honest? 

37 minutes ago, RedRoss said:

I thought that's why there was many mentions of 'Ted' but I thought they couldn't be that sad surely..

Yeah they could.

Dont forget they were in the same division a few years ago, which meant they were visited by the needy bastards who no doubt spent hours before the game telling them how evil us ‘teds’ are (use of the term ‘teds’ being the giveaway). 

Its utterly pathetic but it’s what they do.

How much did losing their bottle cost them last night then?
 

Obviously not just the chance to flood social media with claims that taking 9k away is just ‘what they do’  but financially….a televised match at Anfield must have been worth a few quid? 

14 minutes ago, myol'man said:

A&S Police obviously don't see it as a risk anymore 

This seemed to start when they got relegated to non league. Suddenly us and them playing at home (or even if they were playing the Pied Horse or some other Bristol pub away) it didn’t matter. Police just thought “ahh it’ll be ok, concentrate most of our resources on the proper club and send a couple of bobbies to the Netham to look after the Gas”.

So anyway 

19 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Their ‘impressive’ new stand

Genuinely though, that’s hilarious 

I had no idea it was so flimsy, but then I should’ve known really.

This is ‘the gift’ we’re talking about.

3 minutes ago, YorkshireSection said:

theyve got straw on the floor and freshly squeezed milk, what a weird bunch. 

 

That’s not milk.

Babestation on in the clubhouse again.

7 minutes ago, BrightCiderLife said:

Inbreds 1 - 3 Inbreds 

 No more reactions allowed today but this made me howl with laughter 

3 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Just trawling gaschat to see the heartbreak. How tinpot must you be to call on the “Spirit of Oxford” to win a game?

I did have a look earlier after they went 1 up to see that they were talking about us whilst their game was being played and they were winning.

******* weirdos.

Obviously I’m gutted to come back an hour an a half later to find out that they’ve ballsed it all up as per usual