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3 minutes ago, Super said:

Every time they are behind in games they always seem to come back, credit where it's due that never say die spirit is a good thing to have.

Got to say, Dopey did the same at Salisbury City a few years ago. Make the side fitter than everyone else (easy when you are the only full time team in the division as Salisbury were) and throw the kitchen sink at teams in the last 15 minutes. Not very pretty and comes unstuck now and again (0-6 at home once) but gets points.

Better teams find you out though and there is no plan B. They are already massively over achieving and have a dependence on one striker banging in loads of goals (just like Salisbury did).

Ithink that Dopey is one of those managers who will always do well in League 2 with a meagre budget but will struggle long term in better leagues and, oddly, with better budgets.

1 hour ago, Bar BS3 said:

Couldn't the movements of the tents generate some kind of wind farm..?

I thought the Atyeo arse raspberry blower was aiming for that.

24 minutes ago, phantom said:

@SalisburyRed The Lansdown Stand does have them on, you quoted an artists impression of the ground

www.evoenergy.co.uk/case-studies/ashton-gate-stadium/

 

Thanks, as I typed I thought I'd seen them in real life. It's a hobby horse of mine, whenever I see the roof of a sports stadium, warehouse or the like I think of generation. Guess we have 25% of what we could have - pretty sure there are none on the South Stand.

Rough calculation - we have about 600 sq m of cells on the roof. Even in Bristol on a moderatly sunny day we'll be getting 500w per m. That's a decent amount of power. 

Doesn't work on tents though.

17 hours ago, Doozerchris said:

Look at what you could've won..

Serious point this, if the roofs had been covered with PV cells how much electricity could the club generate?

6 minutes ago, Super said:

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/chef-threatens-to-poison-bristol-rovers-fans-at-the-memorial-stadium/story-29815403-detail/story.html

What a complete TW@

15 minutes ago, East End Old Boy said:

What's this 100 years shit?

They only joined the league last year.

2 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

I don't think we'll get promoted this season. We've been lucky coming from a goal behind too many times for the trend to continue.

But it's all going well so far. One point off the playoffs. Who knows?

Here's a genuine question for you.

If City don't get promotion, would you possibly like the prospect that Rovers could go up, and next year look forward to two of the biggest clashes we've had in 100 years, or do you just want them to stay in the lower league and frick off?

....frick off, preferably to the Toolstation League

On 09/10/2016 at 13:11, Rudolf Hucker said:

Welsh for "bus" is "bws"; "ambulance" is "ambiwlans"; "video" is "fideo"; "digital" is "digidol".  It's all made up! 

Welsh for Bristol Rovers is Shyttytwmlyngbwstwrdswppwrtrs

15 minutes ago, harrys said:

I remember when we both in the second tier back in the 70's and even then their crowds were well below ours, the fact is they will always be in our shadow, always have been and always will be particularly when they move out of Bristol and into South Glos' when they ground share with Yate Town

Fixed that for you

57 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

And those figures are well over inflated. 

You'd probably (if sold out be looking more at something like...

20k less 10% away allocation

18k less 15% kept for POTD. 

15,300. 8k adult at £400. 4k concession at £300. 3.3k child at £100

Matchday revenue excluding corporate, away and POTD of less than £4million a season. 

Yes, but the TV revenues for screening the most popular team in the galaxy will be vast.

53 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Just had a quick look at gaschat.

Apparently their supporters share trust is being wound up.

I don't knows the ins and outs of the set up they have, but won't that make the new owner far less accountable?

Assume that Wally has a majority holding in the club so could easily bin off any fans representation at a senior level. 

Would make asset stripping a lot easier. New stadium saddled with external debt, Wally gets to sell the Mem and keep the money offshore and then..'Adios!..'

But of course, he won't do that. He once got carried down Gloucester Road. Being a proper Chelsea, sorry, Gillingham no, apologies err, Gas something. He would never do that.

Nearly right, the NeaderthalStadion will be asset stripped but there will be no new ground to secure debrs against.

2 hours ago, ollywhyte said:

Look's like they've got a wael to wait before they get their hands on a new stadium

Dear me....

9 hours ago, Smaller than a flea said:

Apparently the UWE build starts in March. No idea if it's true or not, but I thought some of you photographers might want to record the event, and  you might need some notice to book a day or two off.

 

So here's a thing. UWE are clearly paying the builders to build a CAR PARK. 

THEY lose THEIR planinng permission if they hadn't got on with it.

YOU are not paying anyone to build anything, even a new tent.

Dopey's new training drill was a bit of a failure to be honest. He placed 11 dustbins on the pitch for he sags to dribble around. After a quarter of an hour the bins were 2-0 up. Then Taylor dived and got one sent off.

Dopey got a call from Plod at 2:30 am the other day as there was a suspected break in at the CH4 Dome.

"The cups, the cups, did they get the cups" asked a very distressed Dopey.

"It's ok sir, the kitchen hasn't been touched".

1 hour ago, Robert the bruce said:

Thanks.. boring day at work-made me smile!..

It is a very old joke to be honest. First time i heard it the characters were Ferguson, Wenger, Bergcamp, Beckham and Nevile.

Still works though

25 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I wasn't far out, 2117, although Bath City must have a bumper crowd because Chris Spittles said that "loads" of Rovers and Yeovil fans had "gone to Twerton instead because it's a proper competition" 

Bath had 465, for perspective Salisbury had 443 tonight for a Southern League cup tie (and beat Dorchester 10-0)

3 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Btw I'm boycotting the gas v Yeovil match in the Checkatrade Trophy match tonight. Anyone else joining me?

Yep, Salisbury vs Dorchester in a proper cup match.

21 minutes ago, Dark Wood Covert said:

I guess a fan of such a small club rarely experiences going to places like the 'City Ground' and so on....

I bet its nice for you to look at pics mind... dream the dream, oh wait your sole dream is to be above your far superior neighbours, right?

I'll probably watch a Wessex League game tomorrow. The facilities will be better than The SagField or whatever it's called. Doubt I'll see a tent.

44 minutes ago, Loon plage said:

This was 75 easter ? "Battle of Bristol" in the national press as I recall. Someone should be able to get hold of that. Dont want to get into an old hooligan debate because certain types will pounce on that but I was definitely in the know back then and Rovers had a very fine mob in 74/75.

1976

Gates were already falling rapidly at Eastville by then. I think they only topped 10000 a couple of times that season. On the day we went to Arsenal that August they had about 4,000 at home in opening day.

54 minutes ago, Purple Paul said:

75% Your having a laugh. City had the whole of the Muller road ( say 6 to 7000 ) the rest was virtually all Rovers. And City fans think Rovers fans exaggerate.

I was there, evidently you weren't but since when did sags understand reality. Without that game you averaged 8000 at home that year yet suddenly 20,000 plus turned out...... probably 3.5 million in the car park too.

2 hours ago, Purple Paul said:

Both ends were rammed that day. Remember at end of game City fans invading pitch first then Rovers came on and chased them all the way up the Muller Road terracing.Mind you apart from one or two who left on stretchers. A certain Bob D was in his heyday that game.

1 hour ago, slartibartfast said:

Don't remember THAT .

Nor me, more sag delusion. About 75% of the crowd was red, the Tote was invaded several times and several hundred City fans were escorted around the back of the South Stand back to the Muller Bank.

Poor game though. Remember City needed three points from three games to go up and all of the games were in Bristol.

58 minutes ago, stawey said:

when you think of the money from villa for the bloke with the wrist you could buy all their players and the robbed stadium not forgetting the white plastic chairs

Are Bristol Sport starting car boot sales? Didn't see the press release.

1 hour ago, Bar BS3 said:

Burton also have a stadium that the gas can only dream of..! 

Weston Super Mare have a stadium that the sags can only dream of!