Porto Red

10 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Surely you have seen the designs and the bulldozers heading to the Fruit Market?

Well no actually, although I'm rather a long way from those parts! I follow this thread and thought that the fruit market was still just speculation...?

9 hours ago, BS3 Ark at Ee said:

Fair play, they’ve got a new training ground and looking a lot healthier than they did 6 months ago, but in typical Rovers fashion they’re now claiming they’re gonna take league one by storm and win the league! If they do then fair enough.  A new ground will bulk their attendances(even a few sell outs so people can see the new ground). They’re saying how Swansea, Brighton, Hull, Reading etc use to get similar crowds to them, then built a new stadium and got/get 20,000+ weekly.....yep that’s true  but they’re one team Cities. None of those teams have an inner City rival that’s already pulling 21,000 plus crowds!! 

Have I missed something? New ground? 

On 13/05/2020 at 14:23, The Gasbuster said:

Let’s hope an asshead didn’t eat his mate’s bat ears, thus starting this pandemic  

Covid 19, Bristol Rovers nil

13 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Here’s the thing I don’t understand from Rodmans audio. Per him, they won’t be playing in front of a crowd until January.

How the **** would the playing squad of the gas know the difference???

After the transfer window, perhaps?

3 hours ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

Just to put that April '76 26,000 Bristol derby game crowd at Eastville in some sort of context, Rovers played some other "glittering" league fixtures at the home around that time, including:

Man Utd, March 75: 19,000

Tottenham, 78 (the "second leg," they were 0-9 down on agg): 17,700.

Villa, 74: 14,000

Chelsea 76: 13,000 (played Chelsea four or five times around then, 16k in 75 being the largest).

West Ham, 79: 12,400. 

 

So, nothing came close to us playing there, in the league, in 1976. Which suggests a considerable visiting support! Same as when they played Man Utd, who would take 10,000 everywhere back then.

To get a crowd at Eastville to match or better that league derby match in '76, in the 70s, you have to look at cup games.

In '78, they had 26,000 v Southampton, with10k Saints fans, from what I can find. This suggests the Muller held at least 10k back then. Meaning at least 10k of us in '76, and at most 16 of them.

Prior to this you go back to '72 and a league cup visit from Best and Charlton, and 33,900! at a Bristol Rovers home game (you see! They are huge, massive. In 1972. With a visit from two of the greatest this country has ever seen).

They managed two, losing, league cup quarter finals in 70 and 71, pulling in 33,000 for those. Thirty three thousand* - blimey! Long time ago, mind. Half a century. What might've been.

 

My search has not been exhaustive but I believe the '76 game v us was the last home league crowd of 20,000 plus at theirs, and possibly the only 20k plus crowd for a non-cup tie since the days of record crowds everywhere and their one and only half-decent team of the late 50s, early 60s (not sure if they had a "bumper" turn out for promotion in '74?). And it was only so many because there were thousands of us.

Like many, many poxy clubs (and not unlike ourselves, in truth), Rovers could/can get a big crowd once or twice a season, for a knockout game or the visit of some all-time greats, or a family day out to Wemberlee, drawing in many neutrals, day-trippers and casual observers, few if any of whom will ever be interested in their run of the mill, mundane league games that make up the majority of a season.

The mistake, or perhaps intentionally misleading or deluding conclusion, they come to, is to read far too much into the big one-off occasion and envisage from that the potential of many, many thousands trudging through the wind and the rain, and the grey (and the boob cricket, and the horse interfering) to witness league fixtures against the same old bloody dross week after week, year after year. Lord knows I have made the same error and deluded myself similarly about us.

 

 

 

*Many of these "loyal and true/once-in-blue-moon" diehards from 50 years ago in 1971 would be waiting to go again regularly, should they get a ground/take the Prem by storm/overtake us again, were it not for the sad fact that they are now dead. And the "faith" has not lived on through the generations.

 

 

 

 

@Moments of Pleasure can I please take a "moment" to congratulate you on what must be one of the finest posts ever seen on this venerable and esteemed forum. Bravo sir.

42 minutes ago, Bazooka Joe said:

Looks like an advert for LIDL.

49 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Leaked: Rovers’ latest transfer targets.. 

 

You've got the wrong Nikki Wells there mate... more Babestation

On 11/01/2020 at 21:09, Lanterne Rouge said:

Let`s hope the s*gs are on the Last Train To Transcentral or they`re heading for Destination Eschaton

Don't know about that but I'm all for Immanentizing the (gas) Eschaton - and if you don't know what I'm on about but you want to know where the KLF got their other name and background story from, you really have to read this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

Loyal and few, as recognised by the media

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/3-obvious-reasons-why-bristol-rovers-fans-are-right-to-stay-away-from-games/amp/

55 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

They really will believe anything they're fed by Wally & Co won't they...

Marshy Gas      Posts: 7,868   Posting Level

about an hour ago via mobile chewbacca likes this Quote   Post by Marshy on about an hour ago I just don’t get this thread?  The Al Quidi’s have told us that finance is not a problem, what’s wrong with everyone?

@marshy

There's yer answer

A random thought from today: the current state of the (non-) rivalry between the two clubs is neatly encapsulated in the fact that they lose their tiny minds over the Snake's move to City, whereas we are mostly indifferent, to even wishing him well, about Mark Little going the other way.

5 hours ago, BCFC11 said:

Yeah right let’s see how long they last. If they are as tinpot as their last ticket scanners then Fred will be back in work pushing his pedal to let the morons in.

Actually it was a "peddle", if you've been following this thread. From the now obsolete "peddler", a "hawker" or pikey clothes peg/lucky heather vendor. Appropriately.

7 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

 

I dug out 8 Legged Groove Machine this week for the first time in years, great album

3 hours ago, Sniper said:

So this nobber thinks that it's possible that we could get relegated, and they get promoted with their team of tinpot rejects, do not drink Special Brew for breakfast people. Inserting BRISTOL ROVERS into the BBC Sport Website Championship Table and hitting the Update button would crash the whole ******* website, and then send out another WANNA CRY (WITH LAUGHTER) virus.

15 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Good luck with that, me and @Bristol Rob are still waiting for our food vouchers.....

Entitling you to great savings on out of date crisps and not-Fanta

4 hours ago, Mattyisared said:

Completely agree. Not sure they have the money to, have seen they hold a lot of interest in 3 players who I suppose would be considered marquee by their standards; Nicky Maynard, Danny Mayor and Ched Evans. Ched Evans has got to be completely unachievable. Even if they did have the money, a player who scores 17 goals in their league last season won't be wanting to play for a club that finished worse than the team he was playing for. I think though, that the lack of money may not be as relevant as you may think for those two considering they play for Bury and the complete fiasco that is going on there financially. May be great news for the sags. They'll have a lot of interest in them for sure from League 1, but I actually think either are achievable. Potentially both. But even if they did sign both I honestly think Maynard would completely flop but Mayor would do well. 

Edit: Saw the sags had a transfer rumours page and Mayor is out of contract. Pirate (one of the few fans on that shit website I actually respect who is surprisingly knowledgeable on players who don't play for the sags has him as his top target. Not been linked with almost any League 1 club. Seems actually pretty realistic for a lot of Sag rumours. Albeit some of them did suggest Leon Clarke, which is well...

You are Coughlan and I claim my £5.00

4 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Quote from his Radio Bristol interview.

Coughlan said "I have had conversations with some fairly big name players. Finances will dictate what I can and can't do," Coughlan said. "I'm in for one or two, what people would call marquee signings, big players, big names. My fingers are crossed. I hope to use the old Irish patter, the Irish blarney on them. I've given them the pitch so fingers crossed."

Do you think the blarney consists of taking them around BCFC's facilities and telling to ignore the signs put up by those City Scallies? Either that or a blindfold and a folder full of artist impression sketches.

I can't believe he actually used the phrase "marquee signing". Must have been reading this thread. He goes on to say he's "given them the pitch". Genius level piss-taking.

8 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

I think you'll find it's either.

Sorry Slarti but it's definitely not. @CiderJar is correct: the phrase is "marquee signing"; a "marque" is a brand and pronounced the same as "mark".

55 minutes ago, myol'man said:

As seen at today's England match 

"No quarter given... except maybe the ones we play in... we're rather partial to lending those to our opponents so they can beat us while wearing our own kit..."

41 minutes ago, zippycar said:

Looks like it replaces an advertising "whore"ding

 

... which was clearly erected out of pure spite and desperation to block the view of the pitch from the house opposite (thereby inadvertently adding thousands to its value) and force the occupants to buy tickets should they inexplicably want to see the shitfest being served up on the other side.

13 hours ago, Lew-T said:

Kin hell, they’ve woken up..

The best thing about this is that they have capitalised the letter "C" in city, thus making it an inadvertent reference to us; or to put it another way, subconsciously acknowledging that the city is ours.

40 minutes ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Whoever made the video for their new ladies football team has got one hell of a sense of humour .... apart from the opening shot at Ashton Gate ....

 

 

 

WTAF?!

Ashton Gate, the suspension bridge (again!), then the Banksy mural, IKEA... IKEA!!... followed by a tour around Bristol's shooting galleries... I have no words

6 minutes ago, Stortz said:

Absolute dogshit from DeGale. Pathetic performance.

Eubank Jnr is going nowhere either, he'll get totally found out at any higher level.

Agreed, DG nowhere near his best and nothing on show we didn't already know from CE. A stinker unfortunately.

On 19/05/2018 at 21:50, Super said:

 

Is it just me or is George a "friend of Kalle"?

What a shot from Whyte. One for future YouTube "best of" reels.