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

Bournemouth haven't got a 'fancy stadium'

I think that was the point.  No fancy stadium yet holding their own in the Premier League.  

2 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

You had a sense of humour bypass? 

 

Quite the opposite!  I like being cheered up.  Just like a video of a cat doing silly things, a photo of a fat bloke in a Rovers shirt will always raise a smile.    Still, I am not at the lowest ebb, when I need to look at the photo of the pitiful blue and white hut labelled 'Santa's Grotto".   However,  the juxtaposition of 'championship ready' and a record of 5 points in 30 did have its own dark humour.    

2 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

championship ready

Yes, it is possible to invest over £100m in a Championship club to get it "championship ready" ... and still only get 5 points from the last 30.  Still, not to,worry, if I have a look at some comical pics of Rovers fans and a photo of a portacabin I am happy again and forget all my troubles.    

 

We need to get this thread to 300 pages to prove just how little we care...

19 hours ago, Jack Dawe said:

Hi. City fan here. 

Rovers do matter, because we live cheek by jowl, in this small city. We cannot avoid each other. That's it, really. We try to make out that you are not relevant, and, on the pitch, you are not relevant to us, and have not been so for some years now. Because you are not in the same league as us. But you are relevant, or more precisely, your fans are relevant to us, not your team, because we live and work and socialise cheek by jowl in this small city and whenever you get the smallest opportunity you bend our ear with prowed boasts and big promises and stuff about Lansdown and so on, so you lot won't let indifference take hold south of the river. You sing things like "are you watching Ashton Gate" the reverse of which is never sung at AG. When you were in the Conference, your scores were not read out at AG because your team did not matter to us. If the roles had been reversed, it is difficult to believe our non-league scores would not have been read out. You dream of more Bristol derbies, whereas for us, the Bristol derby means failure, going backwards, godawful football. Everything to lose, little to gain. Our dreams are different. Our managers never refer to you or your team because you and your team do not matter to him or us, because you are not in our league.

The teams that matter to us are Aston Villa, Leeds Utd, Derby County, Sheffield Wednesday, Nottm Forest, Wolves, Cardiff. Teams like that. Teams newly promoted to L1 do not matter to us, not while we are a cut above that level. We have enough to contend with there, without watching what is going on in lower league football.

But we do not live cheek by jowl to the fans of teams like Aston Villa, Leeds Utd, Derby County etc, we live and work and socialise next door to and alongside the fans of a team newly promoted to L1, fans who noisily ensure we cannot ignore them and forget them, like we have their team.

Your team matters no more to us than do the teams of Northampton and Oxford. On the pitch, you do not matter. Your goal highlights come after ours, on a separate programme, for lower league football. We turn off before your goals come on because your team and its goals do not matter to us. Your fans, we cannot avoid, and are relevant but only because we share this great city and you are in our ear with your little bro' jibes. 

The day we sing, "are you watching Memorial Ground?" is the day I'm ready to pack up and do something else. Appalling thought. Singing that is "obsession." That must never be sung here.

 

(Not everyone feels like this. Some seem to long for the "passion" of the Bristol derby. But many of us are happy to have moved on and want to see us compete at the top of the Championship. This is a great league. What about both of us in this league? We don't need that, there is more than enough excitement for us in this league for now. Give me wins over Leeds or Derby or Villa, not scuffy games v Rovers. No thanks).

 

A 5-600 word essay about something that you have forgotten about and doesn't matter?    Rovers fans don't have an attention span long enough to read something this long.   This thread got self defeating a while ago.  'Forget' and over two hundred pages are a little contradictory.

Don't fall for it.  Their promotion is just a ruse to get us to produce TWO HUNDRED pages saying um...how little we care about them. 

28 minutes ago, Just Red said:

Everybody needs to listen to this, and maybe then expectations will be managed. He offers absolutely no promises, says cash will not be thrown at them etc etc. There is no Billions, not even millions. His comment that the debt would be paid off over time says an awful lot.

My personal belief is , it's a very strange time for Higgs to sell up, what with a potential 30 million windfall coming in.

I believe these people have invested because Higgs said give me 8 million and within weeks you can turn that into 30 million (if the court case goes well) or 20 million by selling the land. They will then walk away with a nice profit leaving Rovers, still in debt and homeless.

The strange thing was, that listening to him...no big promises, build the academy,, 'right recruitment', no skipful of cash - the person he sounded most like was SL! 

I watched Bolton lose 0-2 at Ipswich on Tuesday.  They were very poor and should have lost by a few more.  Presented very little threat and beaten to every 50:50 ball.  Maybe not a must win game, but definitely a should win game today.

I live in Ipswich and I have watched 8 - 12 championship games a season at Ipswich for the last 12 ish seasons. I don't think it has got better since City were last relegated. For the last couple of seasons, I would say that there are fewer really good teams and fewer really poor teams which makes for a very competitive league but where any team that can string a few results together can do well ( the Ipswich team that made last year's play offs had some really poor periods) That said, to lose 4 games out of 4 (one against a L2 team even the gas could beat) and say that the team played well but just had bad luck is pushing it a bit

Good luck with Laycock, isn't that the guy for us who chose Pulis over Moyes? His time at City was rather forgetable. Level playing field are you having a laugh? We will still be miles ahead of you on and off the pitch. Your ground is rubbish and in the most bizzare location there is. Enjoy your pre match pints at Holiday Inn wont you.

452 posts about a rubbish, soulless, 3 sided stadium on rented ground, in a "bizarre location" near a motorway, railway stations and growing population, that won't get built as they don't have the money. Hmm Rather playing into their hands I think.

I actually agree with the Sag. And I think a proper memorial garden will be better than probably the worst 'football league' (if you can call it that) ground in the country. Im a bit gutted that rovers actually got their stadium and we for some reason couldn't (but hey we had a top back up plan), everything they have done has been above board and legal, or they wouldn't have got away with it. From what I've seen in the post they will build the ground as quickly as they can, and all the trimmings may not be finished but they will have enough done for people to watch football in it. Cookie am I right in that your ground will only take a year to build? or is It two?

Higgs has said the building is planned to take 62 weeks, which explains why they were so keen to avoid delays as unless they are started within the next couple of months, they won't make the start of the 2015/16 season. That would also be bad for Sainsburys. The league don't allow mid-season ground moves and so if they can't move in for August 2015, the supermarket construction start will be delayed by a year.

If the rumours are correct and this does turn out to be a challenge without any real substance, regardless of whether you see a new Rovers' ground as good or bad, every council tax payer should ask how we can have a system that lets a minority group waste a huge amount of time on a major project at significant expense to the council, when all along they are in a limited company that will just fold if they loose, leaving council tax payers to pick up the bill.

He could never manage City, just as Johnson could never have gone to Rovers.  At the first sign of anything going wrong, the fans would be on his back.  The other thing is, he is not just someone who was once associated with the gas.  He supported them as a boy, played for them, managed them and used an open top bus tour to insult City.  Oh, and at the moment only two-thirds of Bristol football fans hate him.  Take the City job and all Bristol football fans would hate him, for different reasons.