Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

In our defence, that game at Derby was on a Friday night, televised on Sky and was our 4th away match in 19 days right after Christmas. In the previous 3 away matches we took 1500 to Watford to watch our under 21s (a ground we’d visited 5 months earlier), sold out our Villa allocation and took 7800 to Man City. The season before we took 900 around the end of the worst run of results in the club’s history. The Sags probably would’ve taken about 300 under the circumstances if their recent efforts are anything to go by, and that’s being generous. I doubt we’ll take near a thousand this season though, 3 days before Christmas.

Of course...but then we dont go around making a big deal about how many we take to away matches. It’s a shame we had QPR and West Brom in midweek as well as a lower allocation for Reading.

Their average away attendance this season is a massive(?) 581. I know they love to compare away support with ours on the odd occasion they take a decent following somewhere so for the record....our average so far is over 1200. Travelling in huge numbers “it’s just what they do” apparently. Funny how they disappear after they lose a few games...

So bitter ?? SL is clearly here to stay, bad luck Saggies. Wonder if the Al Qadis are as committed to them? Crowds of 5000 is more their historical level, not ours. They struggle to shift that many STs in LEAGUE ONE let alone the 'fourth division'. Their attendances are already heading that way this season because they've lost a few games, fickle weirdos.

In 82 we averaged 4700. It’s worth pointing out that at the time they only averaged a few hundred more than us in the division above and that’s without the traumatic off field events that were going on at AG (plus having just suffered 3 straight relegations). Football attendances we’re also down all over the country at the time. Its the only time in 116 years that we have averaged below 5k. City have had just as many if not more individuals who have sacrificed so much to keep the club going, off the pitch and on the pitch. We’ve experienced financial problems that they can’t even imagine, yet we survived. I genuinely think that if they’d been in our shoes in 1982 they’d have disappeared altogether. Look how quickly their home crowds are falling this year and they’re not even in the L1 relegation zone. Their crowds in Non League were only 6.5k because they were winning most weeks. Funny fickle little fan base ? They only had 3500 turn up for the last ever match at their spiritual home FFS ?

Boring idiots, they come out with the same shit every year. First it was “Lansdown is going to pull the plug any day now” Now it’s “he cares more about the Rugby and he’ll stop putting money into the Football Club” Every single year. Every year he proves them wrong. If they had any brains they’d stop predicting financial ruin for us (without any evidence) and concentrate on their own future. Those Arab owners of theirs couldn’t seem less interested if they tried...that embarrassing new tent proves that.

Its the future I’d be worried about if I was one of them.

? Absolute morons. So loyal yet at the first sign of trouble their already pitiful home support quickly drops below 7000....in League 1! So loyal yet they haven’t averaged over 10k in 40 years. Yet if they were to get the UWE all of a sudden their plastic fan base will apparently show an interest? If the Gas were so special more Bristolians would support them instead of us. If City fans feel we haven’t come out so well from that article it’s because IT WAS WRITTEN BY A GASHEAD ? What was our average attendance during our lowest point? 4700 Their last attendances at their spiritual home? 3000 As for supposedly being more passionate...that clearly couldn’t be further from the truth and their owners know it. They really have got nothing... Still, carry on Sagheads, your delusion gives us more to laugh at. ?

I meant all the clubs you mentioned have been more successful than us, which they have. I agreed that we would’ve had more success if Bristol had remained a one club City.

Crying ? Well done sir.

Looks to me like he’s riding an imaginary horse down the touchline whilst shouting “giddy-up”. That’ll provoke the fans.

Totally agree with all of this apart from the bit in bold, ALL of them have been more successful than us. Before they showed up in the League 20 years behind us (first time around) we had already finished runners up in the top flight and been FA Cup finalists. Since then... This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.

? Its so predictable. ”well done Stefan you berk, you’ve set them off again. It’s ok though...we’ll tell them they’re great and that’ll keep them happy” Dopey seems a bit confused, “great numbers” in one sentence but only “good numbers” in the next. Whichever one he meant he’s wrong anyway...or possibly just very easily impressed.

‘Special’ eh? ?

We have got some gullible fans who are taken in by the Gas bullshit they hear in the pub or at work. The facts speak for themselves. Interesting stats about how many times we’ve visited Oakwell compared to them. Makes you wonder how many they’d have taken if it was a ground they’d visited regularly?

We also took over a thousand more to Burton than they did. Its almost as if our away support is actually far better than theirs despite what they tell everyone. That’s a surprise, isn’t it?

18 years. How does it feel Sagheads?

I have yet to meet a single Gashead who can explain to me how a fan base can be ‘loyal and true’, ‘real fans’ and non ‘plastic’ yet clearly so afraid of watching their team from a good old fashioned terrace? As I’ve suggested before, if thousands of them are choosing to stay away because they haven’t got a nice comfy seat to sit in that suggests their support is pretty ‘plastic’ and far from ‘loyal’. ...but as someone else has said, they’re only good at filling stadiums that don’t exsist.

Great predictions from this belter a couple of years ago. UWE Stadium? Home crowds under 7k Mind the Gap Sagheads...

Loyal and true......to Man U

Umm...what?? Maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m as thick as shit, but what has the Champions League got to do with whether you go and support YOUR team when they’re playing at home on the same night? Poor excuse.

Perhaps a better comparison would be from just over 5 years ago. Tuesday 22nd October 2013....the night of O'Driscolls "stupid question" interview. We were at home to high flying Brentford in League 1. We were bottom of the table, expected to lose (and we did), no win all season...infact no win for about 7 months. We had over 10,000 in the Gate that night. Who's the real loyal fans in this City? Certainly not the Gas.

Includes 268 Wimbledon fans. Under 7k Gasheads there tonight. Pathetic support....'it's just what they do'.

Daft question. It’ll be a full house of course, they are after all the superior football supporters in Bristol, far more loyal than us....that’s what they said anyway.

Against teams like Fleetwood and Rochdale, Sunderland (a genuinely well supported club you deluded Sags) are getting 29k attendances. Pompey are getting 18k crowds, Bradford 16k. Coventry, Charlton and Barnsley are getting around 11k. Plymouth and Luton also have higher attendances that the Worlds most ‘loyal’ football fans from BS7. So yeah, I can really see why the FA would be desperate to send referees to tent City as a training exercise in dealing with huge crowds.