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12 hours ago, myol'man said:

Nice to see Points West showing the new improved Memorial Ground tonight.

Is that tent wearing a skirt?

Strange times!

7 hours ago, WhistleHappy said:

I wish they'd make up their minds,  they've been going on and on about the fruit market for ages, now it seems they wanna corner the day-tripper market instead... ffs, I bet they end up with neither! 

Let us not forget that the normal weekly and, indeed, aggregate largest attendance at Eastville was the day-tripper fuelled Eastville Market.....back to their roots! Lots of tents there too if I recall!

8 minutes ago, myol'man said:

"If we had kept Eastville it would now be an ideal site for a 50,000 all seater stadium"

One of the quotes from Ass Works reminiscing about Eastville 

Which would, of course, have upheld the tradition of folly building in Bristol!

46 minutes ago, Up The City! said:

Wasnt their issues at the turnstiles or something? Causing our fans to miss like 20 mins of the game?

And Brooker's 2 minute goal, the only goal of the match!

We had to line up at the ticket office, that only had one window open before going to the turnstile, and I think it was round the other side of the ground!!!!

8 hours ago, edada said:

WTF is this?

Is the gent on the right playing Boob Cricket?

4 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

Nope...... We lost 2 nil and Preston were on the pitch cus they were champions

Remember it well, met a few Preston fans on the pitch and had a few drinks in town with them after. We still meet up when PNE play city.

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

 

How can you possibly forget that da gas won a major trophy in 1972? Shame on you for not recognising their triumph on penalties in the final of The Watney Mann Invitation Cup .... a pre-season tournament that included only eight teams (the highest scorers in the four divisions) and lasted a whopping four seasons before axed in 1973 .... I remember a great quote from the huge sag centre half at the time, Stuart Taylor: “Yeh, those were the days when we’d score 80 goals in a season, but let in 120 at our end..”

I was referring to the Camp Site, even based against 1970 stadia it is still shite...Camp Shite

7 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

But apparently they don't want a real stadium as that would make them a "franchise" or some such nonsense, their ground invokes the spirit of "real football" where it's still 1972 and the passion of that era. I don't understand why more people don't turn up for that real experience.... 

It would have been shite in 1972, believe me!

2 minutes ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

Indeed. Something along the lines of:

Are there any Irish girls here?

Any girls with a bit of Irish in them?

Any girls want a bit of Irish in them?

 

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... 

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

You think we’ve adopted ‘the shit’ ??!!

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

7 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

You’re right there must be an error here ..... “unique club” - “massive away following”  - “everyone’s second favourite team” - etc etc etc etc 

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)

9 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Pompey still have to play away at the Stadium of Light which will correct the apparent anomaly in this table. 

Ah, the Sunderland effect!

so the Gas drop a place then

2 hours ago, elhombrecito said:

 

The only thing I can find that backs this up, is a list of average overall attendances for each team's away games. So this shows that the 15ers are not exactly an attractive proposition for home fans deciding which game to attend, but doesn't necessarily show they have poor away support... 

https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league-one/attendances/away

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

2 hours ago, elhombrecito said:

 

The only thing I can find that backs this up, is a list of average overall attendances for each team's away games. So this shows that the 15ers are not exactly an attractive proposition for home fans deciding which game to attend, but doesn't necessarily show they have poor away support... 

https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league-one/attendances/away

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!

17 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

The saddest thing of all is that, beside the sags losing all their new seating, after the factory burnt down, it still looks in a better state than the Mem ...

Is that Luke Ayling trying to put out the fire?

17 hours ago, 22A said:

 A new ground idea for accommodating the gas hordes;

Should they ever climb higher than their current status;

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!

11 hours ago, JBFC II said:

Let's play a game of 'spot the gashead'

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)

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!

4 hours ago, Born and Red in 82 said:

Yea there have been a few stories over the years of possible developments.... I shouldn't of been so biased in my negativity towards the local council as over time new councillors come in and have different views and opinions and things change. The council of Old seemed less interested.

As you say this story was over a year ago and all I get when talking to other locals is that things seem to be at a stand still again. These locals may not necessarily be in the know as such so I will just remain hopeful for the sake of the Town and Supporters.

 

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?

5 hours ago, Malago said:

I've told you all before Hitler slept in blue and white quarter pyjamas and called his favourite Labrador Rover.

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.