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Maybe just a small one

This says they need to begin work by October.... http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/bristol-rovers-news-club-hoping-break-ground/story-28971619-detail/story.html "There is a requirement to start work on a car park on that site by October and that is our next target. UWE have 30,000 students and because they are building in other areas they are losing car parking space. That is the next definitive target and would really be the first smoke signal of real progress on the project." Have they started now and I missed that news or is this still valid?

Exciting times for the famous quarters

I thought they weren't starting the car park until October? Maybe......possibly......with a fair following wind.....

This blog(?) makes interesting reading on the memorial status and appears to take a sensible view towards the gates, especially towards the bottom... https://memorialgroundbristol.wordpress.com/

Any City fan that has ever bought a ticket for a derby at Eastville Twerton The Memorial Ground has actually put MORE into buying them players than Wally.

28K - just a random figure and not at all picked because it's just above our post-development 27K. And they say we're the obsessed?

Slow day at work..... I notice on gaschat that there is a thread about a rumour that Oxford are after one of their players. It's full of talk about how it would be a backward step for the player and then descends to the level of claiming Oxford couldn't afford any of their players as they are owned by a billionaire. Deluded lot indeed it would seem, on both counts.

I'm not even believing the car park until they actually start it. Even that has only been empty promises for the few so far.

And despite being a generic stock photo you've chosen, it really is Weston. Good work!

He's indoors, it's just dodgy 70s wallpaper he's sat in front of

If you mean Clive Thompson, he went to school in Clifton so very possible, but I believe he was also the owner of Farepack when they went bust so possibly not quite so rich any more.

It didn't connect until I saw the picture, but I worked with Paul about twenty years ago at BAe at Filton. he was indeed a lovely bloke and huge Gashead. It was just unfortunate for me that I worked with him during a period that the gas were slightly better than us, meaning I had to endure hours of pisstaking as the only City fan in our particular section! RIP Paul.

i think in past years, back in the day when there was never more than a division between us etc then this kind of reporting by the media did indeed do the gas a lot of good and created a lot of latent support for them in the city. I like to think that the larger gulf between us of the past few years has seen the gas sympathisers as an aging bunch and the younger generation increasingly more drawn towards City. In Weston at least, you see a lot more City attire being worn than you did even four or five years ago, especially by kids at school where the only English club I see represented these days is City, although RM & Barca still have their adherents. Anything rovers is only ever worn by people over 50 and it always looks a little weatherbeaten to say the least! A few more years of the gap and it could well become a difference in support that would be insurmountable for a generation at least. Fortunately for the gas the takeover has happened just in time and, should they begin to close the distance, then things will return to what they were. Fingers crossed it all goes tits up Finally, as a bit of a straw poll I was at Slimbridge on Good Friday, and the football clothing count in my head that day was City 4, Manchester City 1, Arsenal 1, the rest 0 so not too bad a result

If they're not even starting on a car park until October, how can anyone take them seriously when they are saying the new ground will be open in two years time?

That really is a cracking goal, just a shame it was scored against us when it was. I hope rovers enjoy their Chamionship Play-Off Final as much as we did......

Nice of the Post to keep reminding us. If you say it often enough it becomes truth.

Big call to put Vyner straight in - don't know much about him - anybody care to illuminate?

2-2 & penalties is my guess

He most definitely is, just not ours!

Yes it happened, and I've never denied it, but it's made out to be as if it was the only thing going on at the football when it was a sideshow at best. The fact that people enjoyed it really doesn't make it acceptable, and it amazes me that people are so proud of having been involved rather than realising now what fools they were and being quite embarrassed about it.

But you sound like a bunch of ten year old arguing over who's the hardest. It doesn't matter a jot. And it's only history in that it's in the past, it doesn't need rewriting either way and certainly doesn't need defending. The history of our club is what's happened on the pitch, people fighting on the terraces is really a bit of an embarrassing chapter and should be forgotten if at all possible.

It really wasn't that bad, it's being glorified beyond belief on this thread at the moment. Yes, there was more trouble in the 70s and 80s than now but it was still perfectly avoidable if you didn't want to be involved. All that's happening here right now is a few old men's egos being polished up a bit.

Seems strange that Sainsburys would make a document like that publicly accessible?