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It would have been shite in 1972, believe me!

Are there any girls in the audience with any Irish in them? are there any girls in the audience who’d like a bit more Irish in them? it goes...

All children can be troublesome at times.....???

This whole thing has a ring of Oxford UTD and Kassam about it. It will end with a multi plex, hotel and disaster! new ground The Grotto

So popular that they have now dropped to 19th in the league one away attendance chart! (Total fans in ground, not just the Gas Hordes)

Ah, the Sunderland effect! so the Gas drop a place then ?

Interesting to see Pompey so low, that makes me wonder about the accuracy of this table!

I know, but given their constant boasts one might think the impact over the season would have lifted the average by a few hundred more. One might also think that the draw of such a “massive” club would also have catapulted the attendances over those of Fleetwood and Wycombe! all good fun???

Interesting to note that their “massive away support” has enabled the gas to reach the heady heights of 17th in the average away match attendance table, behind The likes of Fleetwood, Walsall and Wycombe!

Is that Luke Ayling trying to put out the fire?

The tent pitching capacity is huge, does away with the restrictions of Horefield. The flagpoles offer a simple “big screen mounting solution” - tie it on with baler twine! Good Severnside/welsh hills site solution!

They're behind you!!!! Oh no they're not......oh yes they are etc.......

Interesting read of the Football Ground Guide.....Top review of Family Club Central ‘Camp Poo’ (as refereed to by my young son) Bristol Rovers v Oxford United League One Saturday 20th October 2018, 3pm Jon Brown (Oxford United) Why were you looking forward to this game and visiting the Memorial Stadium? Bristol's always a good city to visit, with loads of great pubs, and this is one of my nearer away trips as I'm exiled in Cornwall. How easy was your journey/finding the ground/car parking? The Memorial Ground is a pain to get to by public transport, but we got the train from Temple Meads to Montpelier Station and broke the 30 minute walk along Gloucester Road with a few pub stops. What you did before the game pub/chippy etc, and were the home fans friendly? Walking from Montpelier Station up towards the ground, we stopped at the Prince of Wales, Annexe Inn and Drapers Arms - all excellent pubs with a great range of ales, and all reasonably friendly to away fans. What you thought on seeing the ground, first impressions of away end then other sides of the Memorial Stadium? I'd been to the ground several times before, and it's all pretty old-school - from the intimidating groups of Rovers fans patrolling Gloucester Road to the appalling views on the uncovered away terrace tucked in the corner. Still, I'll take that over an identikit plastic-seated ground on an out-of-town leisure park any day! In previous years we've got soaked in the rain, but this time we were staring into a low sun on a glorious autumn day. Comment on the game itself, atmosphere, stewards, pies, facilities etc.. 0-0. Enough said. It's impossible to make any atmosphere in the away end, and the home fans were quieter than normal - probably because their team (like ours) is having a very poor season. Comment on getting away from the ground after the game: I don't know whether it's just when Oxford are in town, but there always seems to be a bit of a threatening atmosphere on the way out of the Memorial Ground, in this case, accompanied by running battles between fans down Gloucester Road and dozens of police with dogs and riot vans trying to keep the peace. Once we'd avoided all that silliness we made it back to Temple Meads in time for a couple of pints in the Barley Mow, another excellent pub in a city that is full of them. Summary of overall thoughts of the day out: A visit to the Mem is a bit of a throwback to the 1990's, but worth it for the excellent pubs. Not necessarily a ground to bring the kids to though!

To think that some lucky kids have spent their whole childhood looking at the gas in their rear view mirrors, let’s all wish them the same view for their remaining 70+ years!

Amazing really since the club were sold down the river in the 90’s by the local council, glad to see this change, but still sorry that they lost the Frome Rd ground via some very “interesting” circumstances to a big property development company!

Surely it’s a mistake, AG is not big enough to hold the “Blue Many” Could they bring the Wally’s Wealth and upgrade AG into a 60k stadium with parking and santa’s Grotto! As their part of the deal!!!!! (White seats, corrigated plastic and a bit of 4x2)

Meanwhile on Tenerife, a group of Mancs and Southampton fans, all from the south, hold sway. Me and a Wolves Fan are attempting all sorts of bribery to get the tv flicked over. The Hotel Manager is a Manc from Santander!!!! Are there any from Manchester?

To quote Mr Hitler..., One People, One State, One Leader/guide (translated from..."Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer) This can be further interpreted in the Rovers Context as: League One People, League One state (although Camp Site is more Tool Station Premier), League one Leader/guide He also went on to construct his Lebensraum expression whilst in a meths induced stupor in the corner of the Tote End. He proposed that there was not enough space for the 1,000,000's of gas heads in Eastville and that Stapleton and St Werburghs should be earmarked for invasion to provide space for the hoards. The expression was taken up by the 32 fans present on the Tote that day. Indeed his premonition was not far of the mark as a mere 41 years after the end of WW2 Rovers fan base became too big for Bristol so they relocated to the city of Bath. This exile, interestingly, caused a further, unprecedented growth in Gasheads, who then populated the vast plains between Bath and Bristol in their hundreds of thousands. Due too traffic congestion it was though better to move away from the narrow Georgian streets of Bath to the Wide boulevards of Bristol. The board led the tribe back into Bristol and found a green space in Horfield, there they pitched their tents and there they remain.

Oh no, just slipped off page one....

perhaps they'll change Irene for Go west!

What a bad show from the Scunthorpe fans, only a couple of hundred of them....The Gaz took the other three sides, every game is a home game for them..Probably explains why they've lost so many!!!!!

It's not just Dads and sons that get involved, mum and sissy can join in too......family club (for hitting horses with?) Camp Site Family facilities include: Family enclosure, a place where all the family can hit tethered horses. Family Stand, where families can stand and fight! Family Fun Day...A day when more members of the family are created!!!!

Great review of Camp Site from the Football Ground Guide ”The away end is covered, but by a plastic tent thing, which seemed quite temporary. The seats were right by the home Family Stand. Early in the first half a drain pipe on our stand was hit by a wayward shot from a Bristol Rovers player and it crashed to the floor. Luckily no one was hurt. The rest of the Memorial Stadium looked impressive.” Given the last sentence one might have to question the writer’s sanity. A Port Vale fan, so he is used to much better!

Struggling to save the goal posts here!

They would be, but the Ryan Air flight cancellation means they can’t get their 90,000 out of Bristol airport!!