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How is this still a thing in 2021?

Haven't we lived through enough in the last 20 months to realise that there's more to life than posturing and throwing punches?

As if the football hasn't been bad enough, some pricks are just intent on further ruining the day for other fans.

My main concern is that he felt the two Leicester players would improve us.

Poor judgement of the level both are now capable of playing, not cheap wages and signed during a summer when our limited buying needed to spot on.

Piefall.

I celebrated the day Pulis left our club and felt exactly the same when Tomlin signed for Cardiff. Two genuine highlights in my City supporting lifetime.

This would be useful when we're a goal down just before added time:

Our very own real life midfield pairing of Matty Bryant and Andy May from the early 90s.

(I think I heard this coincidence in TV commentary, I wasn't sharp enough to pick up on it by myself)

Phase 2/3 of the Oxford vaccine will be reported during September. Hopefully successful at preventing disease spread and reducing the impact of the disease even if it doesn't eliminate it. Volume production will already be underway such that priority groups will start receiving jabs through autumn into winter.

Early 2021 will see vaccine availability for everyone in the UK (who wants it). Normal social interactions will resume around February. Packed Ashton Gate for the last four months of the season but until then season ticket rotation with groups of upto 4 marked seats for friends to sit together.

End of the 2020/21 season will see us win promotion with Chris Hughton at the helm.

Covid-19 becomes the fifth coronavirus in general circulation. Innate immunity around the world means that within a few years it offers no more health risk than our existing cold viruses.

Come back to me in May 2021 if I've got any of the above wrong.

25 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

There is no reason, it was a hypothetical question, and Lansdown would be acting purely out of a desire to reunite people.

True, but like I said, it was purely hypothetical.

I hope it doesn't come to this point purely because if the economy crashed so badly that clubs just disappeared (quite possible) then there would be far greater problems facing us than worrying about football and the plight of our two teams.

We have to hope that life returns to some degree of normality on a global scale to provide a base on which luxury activities like football can still be part of our lives.

As hypothetical as your question is, I don't want to consider it for these reasons. By default, I actually want Rovers to survive this episode and for you to still have your club - that would be a measure of us coming out of this terrifying time relatively unscathed.

18 minutes ago, cityal said:

That has got to be quite worrying for Rovers "security" team surely?

Monday 23rd March they could find half their "stands" have disappeared as the fairground people thought they were part of the fair and just packed them up with the rest of their stuff by mistake.

I can see it now. The Evening Post headline:

Bristol Rovers Stadium
Stolen by Travelling Funfair
Bristol City probably to blame

Another kick in the balls for the special relationship between Bristol Rovers and UWE:

https://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWENews/news.aspx?id=4001

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UWE Bristol Vice-Chancellor, Professor Steve West said: “It's fantastic to start 2020 with the announcement of our new and exciting partnership with Bristol Sport, an organisation we are very proud to have worked with for several years. Our core purpose is about transforming futures and inspiring people, which are values that also align with the Bristol Sport vision and the community engagement that both our organisations take great pride in.

I added the bold text for emphasis 

Similarly I can't help thinking that when 23,078 turned up to watch Bristol Bears play Wasps that there must be someone at the Memorial Ground who regrets stealing their ground and evicting the rugby club. Look who has the second highest overall attendance figures in English rugby....

"These things take time" unless you're doing your best to destroy relationships with the non-football community then it's amazing what can be achieved in just a few years.

Sometimes they just can't help punching a gift horse in the mouth.

32 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-49345186

Possible Carbon monoxide poisoning as a cause of the crash?

That sounds highly significant. From memory, the weather was really awful that night so the pilot and passenger probably kept ventilation to a minimum.

Any death is a tragedy but if the evidence identifies a problem that was avoidable, it must be even more heartbreaking for both families.

11 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I did actually- I think the figure was updated to 1300 and there is pay on the day, but it was quiet in town last night.

@Miah Dennehy Not trying to make any cheap shots here but as a Rovers fan, how does it feel to see City sell two players for a total of around £40M in one summer? It's madness to me and I'm not sure how it helps the aspirations of teams below the Championship. In some ways, I don't even think it helps us as it proves that every player has a price - a crazy figure that even Bournemouth and Brighton can now reach.

38 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Tell me something I don't know.

Putting your hand in your pocket takes time.

23 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Bristol City are an incredibly well run club. I think it is inevitable that- if Lansdown remains in charge-  they will get to the Premier League one day. It might not be as quickly as some would like but I do think they will get there.

I'm pinning my hopes on enough meatheads giving him enough stick, that he takes his money and goes home

I think we've had the meathead phase already during Lansdown's ownership. Probably around the time we were struggling towards the bottom of League 1. At the time, nearly everything at the club was shambolic and the stick Lansdown was getting was pretty grim. Situations like Bolton and Coventry have shown our meatheads how bad it could be.

Jealous of the attention and not to be outdone, Rovers have announced their new badge....

Graham Coughlan: "Wembley is not a priority"

Translation: "We know we're going to lose"

On 13/02/2019 at 09:05, Fiale said:

Amazing to me that having stolen Bristol Rugby's ground from them and then making it financially impossible for them to compete with other top-level rugby teams that a number of Rovers fans now describe Steve Lansdown's actions as 'relocating' the club to Ashton Gate.

Once again, the Rovers owners of the day couldn't see the potential of doing anything more than lining their own pockets and focusing on the short term.  The blue faithful then reinvent history to paint Bristol Sport as the villains for kidnapping the rugby team and trafficking them across Bristol.  There wouldn't be a rugby club without SL.

10 hours ago, GlastonburyRed said:

Fairplay to this Gashead, an amazing innings - RIP. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46768687

A really incredible age to be attending games so recently.

Really interesting topic and even with allowances for the uncertainty of recent accounts, it backs up the feeling that teams like Villa are in a perilous place without promotion this season.

One of the problems that I see is that without comprehensive penalties being applied to the FFP flouting clubs, the Championship will continue to be a 'death zone'. Clubs cannot exist sustainably at this level. If Preston and Rotherham can't do it, none of us can with the level of footballing talent that exists in this division.

If FFP is applied properly and parachute payments cease to be the enormous incentive that they have been to date then clubs will have to bring their overall squad value down in line with the money that is actually available to them without year on year multimillion pound losses.

In reality, that's never going to happen because enough club owners will continue to flout the rules or gamble on coping with FFP penalties.

So, for a club like City there's a choice. Push for promotion and then exist within our means in the Premiership. Or be the big fish in a small League 1 pond.

Talk of sustainability in the Championship is a non-starter.

3 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

As for the new stadium comment , I assume you are taking the piss

Wael al-Qadi got there first.

2 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I think the post is somewhat tongue in cheek.

Relative to recent "successes", maybe it does deserve a celebration?

I'm trying to think of something more worthy that's happened to Rovers since 1958....nah, can't think of anything....

From listening to Wael yesterday (and I don't make a habit of it) the family are withdrawing support, they have no plans to work on their taining ground (and will move to another temporary playing field), they will not be developing the Memorial Ground and they have no new stadium options but to keep people guessing he said they had to keep them secret.

Basically he's stitching the fans up with vague promises that will ultimately deliver nothing. Exactly the same as the Nick Higgs stitch-up when he promised the Al-Qadi family that the new stadium was a done deal.

Bolton forum comment:

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It was a good point even from being 2-0 up

A good performance ? you are either having a laugh or you watched with your eyes closed - we were poor, very poor at times....we played long ball yet again far too much, and Magennis couldn't win much, their two CB handled him well, but we had no one within 30 yards of him at times - we made Bristol City look like Barcelona, they passed the ball around us & through us for fun - the 1st 45 mins I don't think we put two passes together it was a dreadful 1st half from us.

Either we were shit or they were absolutely outstanding....they gave us a football lesson IMO, they out passed us, out fought us, looked fitter, and a yard quicker (our players looked like they had lead in the boots, or running through treacle), they were far more creative, far more attacking with 4 or 5 attackers at times 2nd half. A few of our players played ok, I can't think of one BWFC player who I thought had a good game & I haven't got a clue why we play Vela he does more pointing than running.

Tactically Parkinson didn't have a clue tactically how to stop them - he's just far too defensive, even at home we sat back all game, we didn't press them and generally let a far better team just have the ball, and the Noone substitution was baffling to say the least - he did not need to bring Le Fondre at all at that stage.

All told a very good point & 4 points from the 1st 2 games is excellent....Bristol City could push for the play offs based on that performance today - but seriously we were poor today & on that performance 4th bottom is the best that we can expect.

https://the-wanderer.co.uk/boards/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=26819&start=80#p1060387

8 minutes ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Ok obsession was the wrong word,sad was more appropriate 

It's actually quite entertaining if it's slow news day for City. Or Robbored is in full troll mode.

Anyway, aren't you reading and replying to a forum thread about R*vers? Is there really much difference? We can have a laugh at our observations of them or have a laugh at their observations of themselves. Either way, it's pretty bloody funny.

4 minutes ago, myol'man said:

I very much doubt that they will ever have another player we'd want to sign. Maybe they'll find some superkid in a non-league youth team but it's unlikely;

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11589/lee-johnson-sign-players-gas

 

Let's face it, their only issue is that we paid £300k for Matty Taylor.  If we had paid £3M for him, they would be telling us how brilliant they were at finding and profiting from players.

They cocked-up with a publicised release clause and we needed a new striker.  Business is business.  100% sour grapes from Rovers fans.

This entire thread summed up by just two posts.

Luke Steele did extremely well. Earned us that point as did Flinty in the first half.

Less respect for Gary Rowett after watching his second place team falling over so readily.