semblar

If they do not go up, it is valid for a minimum of 11 years (1 yr in the championship, plus 10 if they went up), so they should recognise 1/11 of the price in the books. Each year they should repeat this, using 1/11 of the balance carried forwards from the previous year. This would continue until (if) they went up, at which point you would spread the remaining amount over 10 years 

2 hours ago, Natchfever said:

Where would they go in Bristol if the ground was sold? League can't stop the ground sale. 

To their moral/spiritual home - Eastville park. Even WAQ could afford to put a rope around the pitch and to pay BCC a rental fee 

Love the way an update to the swear filter has transformed the last few posts

21 hours ago, BCFC11 said:

How could I forget that every other week they hold their own competition at Chernobyl (although extremely exaggerated) on how many dribbling morons you can fit into one stadium car park. They are light years ahead of everyone in that department. Very unique indeed.

FTFY

6 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Not going to argue, but I've seen it written in papers concerning signings with the single "E".

which proves what everybody has been saying about the quality of journalism today

@phantom That explains why I was treated to a revisitation of page 56

8 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

I've got another one.

When they said they've a Billion

300 grand means 10 Million

That's the rovers

Strangely enough, that's about the same ratio as their perception of WAQ's wealth and what he really had available...

9 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Here is the 2018 version....

 

I hope you're making sure you are going to get all your change, assuming that this is an offer to buy the "club" from that very nice man (or at least the family who let him play with it...)

1 hour ago, reddoh said:

Sorry Major, I think I must be to young but have they ever owned a ground apart from the Mem?

They originally owned eastville Ikea but then sold it when they were skint

42 minutes ago, 54-46 said:

Could make a joke about the Gas always being rent boys but that would be rude 

It would indeed. Besides, they're more Tent boys these days....

19 minutes ago, JBFC II said:

That's true, one of their main strikers has just been linked with a 70k move to the mighty Salford City as well, God they are massive

At least Salford City feel able to pay transfer fees....unlike the rich ones (rich with humour for us, at least)

2 hours ago, wendyredredrobin said:

But where will they get all the fertilizer they will need from?

isn't the quality of their football - ahem - "fertiliser"??

18 hours ago, Welcome To The Jungle said:

He told me off for making that joke a few days ago. I'm thinking of composing a song on here to cheer him up. 

Wouldn't it be amusing if he actually heard it at AG

1 hour ago, wendyredredrobin said:

Yeah, but when did we last have new curtains and have the carpets cleaned?

I'm guessing the answer is "whenever we need to, but it is routine so we don't feel the need to proclaim it to the world as if it was a new signing"

19 minutes ago, Fiale said:

remember that tfr fees are usually paid in instalments, when your losing money and struggling to cover everyday running costs due to no income streams the tfr money from Bodin etc probably gets eaten up in the day to day running of the club.

Fixed

Like @CliftonCliff , I have not recovered sufficiently I'm afraid. Whilst far inferior to the reality, I will be taking a similar approach. COYR, shout loud enough to cover the sufferers amongst us!

15 minutes ago, Leveller said:

I expect we’re to blame for the state of the Mem too. Did we demolish a couple of fine stands?

Why would we want to improve the place for them?

1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

I can’t see where they had larger attendances than us for 6 consecutive years on that graph?! Leave the exaggerating to that lot!

They didn't have larger attendances though - both  were zero  for six years due to WW2 (so omitted in the graph). My apologies for not applying the seemingly obligatory #Gaslogic at the end of the comment  

7 hours ago, cityal said:

I think it is high time to dispel this rubbish about "core support" with every gashead's nemesis - "facts" as opposed to #gaslogic

I took some time to analyse the historical attendance data often linked in this thread to see exactly how core support stacked up over the years between the two clubs. Needless to say if that website's data is even partially correct (and there is no reason to particularly doubt it) it confirms what we all knew already.

 

So how to read this graph.....

It is based on the percentage difference in average attendances between the two clubs.  A blue bar means the gas were better supported that year, a red bar City were better supported. The size of the bar indicates the percentage difference in attendance.

For each year there is data (back to 1921, but none through WWII) I worked out the difference in attendance as a percentage of the lower of the two attendances - essentially what this figure tells you is how much the lower attended club would have needed to increase their own attendance to match the better supported club that year.

As an example last year we averaged 19256 and the blue few averaged 9302 - the difference is 9954, and that equates to an extra 107% deluded half-wits they would have needed to find (and fit into their dump) to have matched us.

 

Some observations....

Since England won the world cup just over 50 years ago rovers have had a higher average attendance once! 

Only on 6 occasions would we have needed a greater than 10% increase on our attendance in a season to match them 

There are 71 occasions where rovers would have needed a greater than 10% increase to match us

City have never needed to make up 50% or more to reach rovers attendance

On 21 occasions we have more than doubled their attendance (all figures >100% on the graph)

 

 

 

 

6

So they could technically claim that there were 6 consecutive years where we didn't have larger attendances than them? Darn it, der Gas are just the hugest club and we have no hope of bettering them.....

1 hour ago, Cheesleysmate said:

Wouldn't that be marvellous? Let all the Sags in in their cars and then when they are ready for Love Actually the gates get locked and on comes City v Man Utd. There would be the usual  Ted shouts followed by lots of horn beeping, then fans would try to drive out. It will end up like a demolition derby at the Minimal. 

Can  somebody please explain to me how encouraging them to improve the place is a good idea...?

1 hour ago, WTFiGO!?! said:

Ah man, just to clarify.....

I mistakenly claimed that despite their progress "for quite some while now" (they finished 10th in the third flight), we haven't done as badly as that for 21 years (since 1996) when we finished 13th in the third flight.

I was wrong as we in fact came 12th in the third flight in 13/14 (so two places lower than them last season).

Bed time me thinks!

So long as they don't manage to better our performance the year after, I'll live with that.....

3 hours ago, Super said:

Prob the same morons that went to that trophy game the other week.

More likely that it's the small percentage of those who are so sick of being shut out for every match that their desperation to actually get in overwhelmed their disgust at Swindon's double-charging decision....the other 999999 would have stayed in the car park like normal 

Perhaps @Tomarse would be able to work some magic handwavium with the forum and give people a profile setting to not allow them to see this thread? Saves them moaning, allows the rest of us to continue with the pisstaking  

16 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

LIAR! 

How dare you suggest that Rovers haven't sold out their initial allocation! 

Don't you know who they are..?! 

It was obvious of course... he referred to a 'Lucid Gashead'.....

26 minutes ago, Tall King Blox said:

I can only see this as the first points dropped, hopefully only 1, but my heart says 3, sorry

Could you please explain again how we can drop 1 point?