Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

18 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Just stayed over to Gaschat....

I am staggered at the confidence of their fanbase as to how their game against a Championship side is likely to go. Granted there are a few realists, but most of them seem to have this as some sort of formality.

Obviously, no idea how the game will go, what sort of sides either club will put out, but the Fewers seem convinced that this game doesn't mean much to Norwich.

How they've arrived at that conclusion is still something of a mystery. 

Norwich are 2 points off the play offs in the Championship, the prize of winning tonight’s game is a trip to a ground they already visit every few years where they normally get beat.

I think anyone expecting Norwich to bust a gut tonight in an effort to clog up their own fixture list after they’ve got themselves back into Championship PO contention is going to be very disappointed.

This has got ‘upset’ written all over it, if Rovers don’t go through I’ll eat my own nuts.

1 minute ago, bcfc01 said:

15 points off the play off places..

No problem.

Once the 15 point gap has been reached they automatically become ‘Promotion hopeful Bristol Rovers’.

Once they’re back within 15 points they can return to ‘chasing’ with a large dollop of “something speshul is happening ere”.

16 minutes ago, Dr Balls said:

Maybe we have just been included on the back of last night’s result, but interesting that ahead of Saturday’s game against Watford, the two clubs are the only non-Premier League ones amongst those highlighted. And strangely no mention of Bournemouth!

https://sportsunlimitednews.com/united-states-global/sport/who-are-the-biggest-english-clubs-not-to-win-a-major-trophy/

Quite surprised by a couple of those. Thought Fulham and Crystal Palace had won something but clearly not.

1 hour ago, Murraysrightplum said:

Apparently an Argyle fan but grew up in Bristol and watched us hence the knowledge. Can anyone confirm that? 

Back in the 90s there was a late night sports related show on Channel 4 called “Under the Moon” hosted by Danny Kelly.

They had JP on as a guest one week, as a teenager I’d never heard of him before as he wasn’t as well known as he is today and he was asked “who do you support?”

His reply was “Bristol City man and boy”

So I’m guessing he’s a lifelong City fan.

1 hour ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Gaschat not happy that JP got the gig.

I think they might write to the BBC to complain.

I hope they enjoyed seeing a fine stadium under lights.

Oh well, **** them! 

49 minutes ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

I am pretty sure there was an even more recent game against Wednesday, Saturday afternoon in the snow, when we lost 4 or 5-1?

Don’t recall that?

We beat them 4-0 during the beast from the east in 2018. Memorable to me for 3 reasons:

1) Tango man still had his shirt off in the away end despite the freezing temperatures.

2) The sudden appearance after 20 mins in the far end of the upper Lansdown of what looked like 50 or so Willem II ultras who spent the first half exchanging pleasantries with the Weds fans but were presumably prevented from going back in the 2nd half. 
 

3) and the fact we didn’t blow a 3-0 half time lead like we had 5 weeks earlier.

2 hours ago, Mike Stone said:

Sheffield Wednesday was still the best all those years ago. Apparently they were bringing their usual big following which became impossible due to heavy snow. Those that made it to a absolute freezing old Park end section were told at half time that the M5 and M1 motorways were now shut.

On top of that one of our lot in the Park end home section only had a football shirt on.

 

I was in the Open End home section, never been so cold in my life. Mates left at half time and I didn’t blame them. 2nd half was like an endurance test and the game finished 1-1.

We played Sheffield Weds during ‘the Beast from the East’.

I’d be amazed if tomorrows game is in doubt.

9 minutes ago, redkev said:

Was he the big lad , and I mean big as in tall and circumference ( no slur meant or intended ) was only about 30 if I got the right chap / game 

Yes.

1 hour ago, Iron Acton Red said:

I remember going down the gate against Stoke in our 1st season back in championship under GJ, which we won 1 nil, a screamer from Marv. We were sat near top of Dolman and a poor guy had a heart attack, got taken away and unfortunately died.

Yeah I remember that, pretty sure it was the game that Pulis marched across the pitch at the start lapping up the hate. The poor bloke who passed away wasn’t even that old.

10 hours ago, marmite said:

I keep hearing this but if the gap is so big, why do we recruit players (and coaches) from the lower leagues. Is this the reason we are struggling in the  Championship?

1) There are obviously individual players in L1 who are better than L1 hence why Championship clubs sign them ie Jason Knight, Mark Sykes. This isn’t just something we do.

2) We’re not “struggling” in the Championship, we’re 4 points off the Play Offs FFS.  

Rotherham are struggling, QPR are struggling. We’re standard mid table, unlikely to go up but with a decent gap between us and the bottom 3 (at the moment at least). The word you were looking for is ‘stagnating’.

The real Gap between us and the Gas is huge, 23 years and counting. Good luck beating that slaggies.

Oh dear 

3 hours ago, fanjita said:

Looking at their forum it would seem most of them think that playing Liverpool is already a done deal, not withholding the fact that they have to play Norwich first.

 

Let’s be honest, Norwich aren’t going to bust a gut to earn the right to get spanked at Anfield, Liverpool away has been a regular League fixture for them over the years. It would be like us drawing Wolves away.

55 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

West Ham weren’t even in West Ham and neither were we! That far offside!

Appreciated.

I predicted that someone would pull me up on the Geography hence why the post was edited.

1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

I am liking that I went for the next pitch and you went for the next county. I’d like to see other forum users continue the pattern on this thread and see how far away from onside we can get Tommy to be by the end of it.

The rest of the team were playing West Ham and Tommy was in East Ham.

13 minutes ago, sticks 1969 said:

Not bad considering how far it is and just after Christmas . Yes I know we have shifted 9000 tomorrow but closer and a more attractive tie 

They’ve been there once in 20 years.

West Ham is certainly more attractive to us than Norwich but to them it’s a new ground for most and a big club away in the FA Cup (even if their own fans have compared Rovers to Norwich in size in the past ).

Sorry but for a club who’s fans constantly brag about their supposedly amazing away support it’s a poor showing for their big day out. If they insist on talking the talk they need to back it up more often.

9 minutes ago, petehinton said:

He suited them perfectly. Two vile outfits. 

“He just gets us” they’d say…

”he understands what it means to be Gas”

Heard that countless times. Imagine boasting about that when you’re talking about Joey Barton 

25 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

How do you know that? I personally know four gasheads who refused to attend games whilst Joey was in charge - they went to watch Yate Town or Mangotsfield instead - but I wouldn’t pretend to know what the “majority of gasheads thought” - you obviously know better ... 

All of my in-laws loved the bloke, really lapped up the ‘hard man’ image and supposed ‘straight talking, no nonsense’ bollocks that he would spout. Gas I work with either loved him or tolerated him because of promotion, ignoring the fact that he took them down in the first place.

He seemed very popular with Gasheads on Social Media. No doubt some of them didn’t like him and a few were brave enough to voice their objections online but they seemed to be in the minority and were quickly set upon by lovestruck Sagheads desperate to defend their hero passionately.

12 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

"How many of us would prefer to be in Bristol Sports 1982 Ltd position, all under 1 company no history and an owner who's more interested in the Rugby, I don't mean the league because of course we like to be in the Championship but the rest of it, I know I wouldn't"

How's that for backtracking the thick ####er

I prefer our history of over 120+ years of uninterrupted league football, playing in our spiritual home having never left Bristol over their pathetic crowds, 9 years in the Football League playing in someone else’s ground surrounded by someone else’s history. 

1 minute ago, Calculus said:

All sadly true. FA Cup day was a full special day when I was a kid.

It was.

FA Cup semi final day was also big with 2 live matches at neutral grounds on TV on the same Sunday. 
I don’t think I’ve watched an actual FA Cup final since Liverpool vs West Ham in 200? and I can’t even tell you who the current holders are? 

28 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Going back to the days of LJ and the League cup run. Whilst that was enjoyable it kinda took priority over the Championship fixtures with players not wanting (subconsciously) to want to risk injury and that had to effect performances in games that really mattered - the Championship games.

Not sure about that?

Our League form and performances leading up to Christmas was superb, helped I think by the run in the League Cup and the Man Utd game. The only game that may have been a distraction could have been the Man City semi final but even then we had big games against Wolves, Norwich and Villa around the same time.

January that season was absolutely packed with games and I think a sudden run of defeats in the League, FA Cup and The League Cup semi just destroyed our confidence and our performances went downhill from that point on. Funny how it also coincided with LJ suddenly having more choice in the starting line up and the ability to tinker rather than make do with the options available as we had to before Christmas.

2 hours ago, Wanderingred said:

I raise you a cold wet New Year’s Day against Reading, a few years ago under Lee Johnson. Zero atmosphere, everybody hung over and downbeat after a poor run. Our only game plan was to stifle Reading, and it totally killed the game as a spectacle but a fortunate penalty and scrappy Tammy goal somehow saw us 2-0 up.

Despite the score line, it was clear that nobody believed in us and expected us to throw it away. As soon as they scored their first, everyone was resigned to defeat which happened in the most spineless gutless fashion to lose 3-2. Awful. I took a friend, he hated it. I’d never felt so close to packing in football as I did that day. Perhaps not the dullest game or most inept performance ever but certainly the worst experience overall, especially given that I really can’t stand Reading.

Yeah 2-0 up with 20 to go you’d usually be confident of at least a point but during that run of defeats it just felt like we were going to lose every game.

Around the 70th minute I put money on Reading to win as insurance, I thought that if these useless bastards are going to throw it away my kids might as well have a nice holiday somewhere sunny.

6 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Losing 0-7 at AG to Cardiff - the most embarrassing performance I’ve ever seen at AG.

7?

2 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

We had a dejavu the following year, 3-0 loss at home v Ipswich but the Millwall game had a lot of hope and anticipation iirc which made it all the worse..

So much anticipation that season, signed the England keeper, Coppell in charge…seemed a formality that we’d be challenging for promotion but Millwall brought us right back down to Earth.

Think Sam Vokes got taken off injured and never saw him again (scored against the slags today I notice).

There was a rumour posted on here after the game that a Millwall fan had been killed and it turned out in the end that all that happened was fighting near the Pump House in Hotwells.