Miah Dennehy

59 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said:

4-1, talk about throwing away a lead

yep, just stuck in traffic heading back to Bristol now, always disappointing to throw away a lead isn't it?

5 hours ago, Star of a gunner said:

Was that the last time you beat us in the league seems like it

League games  from that day read 8 wins, 8 draws and 8 defeats.

1 hour ago, BanburyRed said:

Horrible game, remember it well....totally one sided for 87mins then complete wonder strike to win it....sickening feeling. 

I liked it! I don't think unless you were there, you could really explain just how one sided a game it was. At almost any point, if you had offered me a 2 or 3 goal defeat I'd have taken it!

Anyway, happy new year to everyone, and just to make you feel really old, it was 30 years ago today that one of the most one side derbies I have ever been to ever took place. You absolutely battered us for 89 minutes  

9 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

The best part is that while waiting for my bus towards AG t'other day I looked at the list of busses it had going to each stadium.

There was 1/2 going to AG, and about 6 that go to the Mem.

So as with most other gas claims, it is utter nonsense.

**** me, there's nothing like taking a look at a post , interpreting it in whichever way you fancy it- and then running off in the other direction with it.

I said that while chatting with mates - and were I live I would say support is fairly evenly split- that a few of the City ones ended up following City because travellingon a bus there was easier than Eastville.. There are all sorts of reasons why people follow football teams, and all sorts of factors can have an effect on it. Success, travel, family , whatever it maybe, something will influence an individuals choice.

So, as with most other claims that claim to be gas claims, your claim is utter nonsense

12 minutes ago, Jack Dawe said:

No, you also dipped into your imagination with some other stuff - apparently, you missed out on a "generation" while in Bath. You were in Bath 10 years I think, while a "generation" is generally agreed to be 25 years. In those 10 years, you were promoted - generally an opportunity to gain or regain fans - and then relegated - generally a good way of losing support. So you "missed out" on a fairly neutral experience there, I'd say.

Unless we buy into the Rovers fantasy of loyal support (which if true back then, would have coped easily with going from East Bristol to Eastville, to going from East Bristol to west Bath. A difference of how many miles?)

Rovers had lost "generations" of support long before leaving Eastville, as your final attendance there suggests (about as many of you then as there were Eastenders in the East End for the East End's last game in 2014). In some ways, leaving Eastville - a ground too big for you - and moving to an equally sh1t mess of a place, but a more fitting capacity for you back then, Trumpton, was a good thing, for your club. After all, you owned neither of them.

 

In my view, City are better supported because of two poor football clubs (or sh1t clubs, let's be plain), Rovers are clearly, evidently poorer than City. Or more sh1t. The facts, the stats and the old league tables show us who is more sh1t, not my imagination. 

And the irony of you lot referring to us as "the sh1t"! It is irony, right - or have I imagined that?

I think there are lots of different reasons why people choose a team in a two team city, one team being better than the other being such a bleedin' obvious one I didn't think it needed pointing out! However, if you think that is the sole reason, then we will have to agree to differ.

12 minutes ago, Jack Dawe said:

So, to sum up, City are better supported than Rovers because it's easier to get a bus to Ashton? From places like Fishponds?

 

 

Are you Alastair Campbell?

To sum up, that is not what I wrote at all.

5 hours ago, 8menhadadream said:

Spot on South Glos. 

As a youngster growing up in Kingswood in the 70's, I rarely saw a City shirt although the football special buses from Kingswood park to Ashton Gate were always packed. We were very much in the miinority in those days by a vast number. Nowadays, all I see is kids in City shirts. An example, my road in Barrs Court, has loads of kids under 14 and every single one is a City fan and I mean every single one of them.

My post about 50/50 was probably a tad optimistic but it's nowhere near the 99% gas our methane snorting chum has mentioned. Go in Hanham Wetherspoons on a Saturday night and there are loads of City fans in there. The Flowerpot and the Lamb are staunch gas pubs but the rest are pretty even TBH.

 

I was brought up in Fishponds which was solidly Gas when I was there, and have pretty much lived in St.George/Hanham most of my adult life, and it's fair to say there has always been a fairly even split in those two areas, I have discussed this with a few City mates brought up in the area, and the general concensus as that while Eastville may have been geographically closer, bus routes made it easier to get to Ashton. I do think it's a fair point that if you asked the entire population of Bristol to express a preference, it may come out evenish, but what really matters of course is getting people to games, which- certainly in my lifetime- City have always had the upper hand in,

I think we did miss out on a whole generation while we were in Bath, and that has certainly changed the traditional north/south split for the foreseeable future (especially while you remain in higher divisions). Bizzarely, I think Rovers biggest hope of being 'top dog' in this aspect won't lie in any new stadium (which btw I will believe when I'm sat in it), but more in people turning their backs on the ridiculous pricing and increasingly sterile atmosphere in the top two divisions, and look for a cheaper/more nostalgic way to watch football.

Anyway, anyone walking down my lane in a City shirt runs a very real risk of me shouting out 'Sheeethead' from the safety of my living room

10 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

You may have to give me an hour or so to count up my Rovers v City tally!

It's a bit of a guesstimate, and it isn't counting Glos Cup games, which I must have seen nearly of from 74 onwards, but I reckon I'm on 14 wins, 14 draws and 14 defeats!

6 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

Ive seen city beat rovers 6 times and lose once 

You may have to give me an hour or so to count up my Rovers v City tally!

On ‎27‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 08:09, Cheesleysmate said:

but you know that you would probably lose to North Ferriby because losing to non league garbage is a given for Rovers, whereas we have beaten Chelsea.

I've seen Rovers beat Chelsea three times

11 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

I`ll let you have that one for now Miah, I`m sure it won`t be too long before your lot redress the balance in their own inimitable fashion though so we can afford to be patient.

Probably next Saturday, but that's all part of the fun isn't it

1 hour ago, BCFC Grim said:

Saw the goals today. I've seen better defending at my local park. Was laughable. Were gifted three of the goals. 

You should have seen Huddersfield's second yesterday, that really was laughable

8 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

It's the nearest thing to experiencing childbirth for us men .

I work with a woman, who would prefer to go through childbirth again, than have kidney stones again. The pain really is pretty grim- drink more water!

1 hour ago, Aizoon said:

Is it safe in Horfield?

I only drink beer when in Horfield

21 minutes ago, Busterrimes said:

I've been there and by there I don't mean anything about Rovers

Then you will know the pain of kidney stones!

Drink more water everyone

14 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

Not there then mate?  You ok ?

I had surgery yesterday- home now though. Who would have thought having a camera shoved up your urethra into your kidneys was slightly less painful than watching Rovers, sounds like I had a lucky escape.

They're missing me, I always get em singing.

I will take a draw

9 hours ago, Barrs Court Red said:

Best news the season!

Definitely. With a Rovers fan at the helm, maybe they can get rid of that red creeping into the shirt.

23 minutes ago, harrys said:

Great logic Miah, can't deny your team are having an excellent season so far all be it a bit fortuitously at times, what's the latest on the new ground?

My stance on the new ground is the same as it has been for a good number of years. I will believe it when I am sat watching a game in it.

15 hours ago, alexukhc said:

I've had it all in my ear from sags saying "we kept a clean sheet against Cardiff, we beat them in the cup this year, we must be better than you" like please fork off

Could I just point out that Chelsea beat the current Premier League champions 3-0 yesterday, and we only lost 3-2 to Chelsea, ergo, Rovers really are -as the song goes- the greatest football team

31 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Not sure about that, I thought the word Welsh derived from a Saxon term to describe anyone not Saxon?

Don't let facts get in the way of posts on football forums please.

1 hour ago, NOTBLUE said:

As surely as night follows day,it won't be long.

We're coming for you

8 hours ago, redfred said:

Following recent jibes from Rovers' fans about our support, tonight just goes to show the true attendance gap between our two clubs: the last Football League Trophy game we played there were 72,000 there, compared to Rovers' attendance tonight of 1,418.....

 

I am disappointed there were as many as that, I was hoping for considerably less than 1000,, I actually hope we lose every game in this competition.