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5 minutes ago, GreedyHarry said:

What is this ####ing idiot saying. I can’t be bothered to translate it. That is a hell of a long season

oldie Reserve Team 19 minutes ago Gashead73 NSOB likes this

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99/20 we had a far better team than them.
But our stadium was crap, we had no proper training facilities and no money.

I think he means 1999/2000 - they finished above us that season

Shortly after that they slipped below us for "a while"

Just now, Banned User said:

It's very obvious as you correctly stated, but sadly they are light years ahead of us in every comparison, that was my true thoughts' and it hurts the hell out of me when only 20 years ago it was only 51%/49% in their favour.

I read that on gaschat also and was struggling a bit:  51%/49% what? fans?   -  This is just a gaslogic number plucked out of thin air isn't it? it has no basis in fact or reality!

Average Attendances that year (2001)

City 10,369 - Fewers 7,275 so actually 58.8% to 41.2%

Its not the chasm it is now but not really that close to 51/49 and a lot closer to 60/40

27 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

What a beautiful morning!

Let me brighten it some more by easing some of the worry they might get a spawny miracle....

I took a look at https://footystats.org/clubs/bristol-rovers-fc-244

While they are not yet 100% confirmed as relegated, and they have a "mathematical chance" (or in gas-logic an 8/5ths chance ) of staying up, the last time the gas won 3 games in a row (which is the absolute minimum they now need) was Dec 2019. These were the last 3 games of Coughlan's management, before he jumped ship to a bigger/better club in Mansfield Town, who were in the division below at the time.

Two of the teams they have to play in their next three games, Portsmouth and Blackpool, are involved in a desperately close fight for play-off places, with 3 pts separating four teams including the aforementioned pair. I doubt somehow either will lie down and let everyone's favourite second team take the points.

Wigan, the only team they can possibly catch, have hit good form winning their last four games, and they have Swindon to play the final game of the season.

5 minutes ago, milo1111 said:

Just reading the comments on that article has had me chuckling. So deluded it’s brilliant. Anyone would of thought they’d signed Harry Kane 

There are some gems.

James: EIEIEIO up the football league we go.

Daniel Sheppard: Going to be boring winning every game this season. Another great signing. Real intent this year.

Jay Bear Jones: So three signing in three days all quality players, what has happened to rag bag Rovers?

Dave Pike: Don’t know too much about this guy but he’s a winger and I know we need a few of them so...

Caz: Promotion 2021, scream it at the top of your lungs baby.

This aged well

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/announce-promotion-bristol-rovers-fans-4351482

2 minutes ago, glos old boy said:

With Pompey, Crewe and Blackpool left tonight could be the last chance to steel a win

If swindon do hold on to get points, or a point, tonight - you can bet pompey will be looking to bounce back saturday

2 hours ago, NOTBLUE said:

I did actually mention this to a SAG in work,he didn’t see the funny side and went on a rant about how both sides are crap and are both lucky to be in the football league,the mind boggles

I hope you retorted that you would bow to his superior first-hand knowledge of life outside the football league!

1 minute ago, BCFC Grim said:

Complaint going into the FA as we speak. Has to be a fix.

Wycombe's lawyers are on standby!

3 minutes ago, woodsy62 said:

Fair play to Joey a week on the training ground and he's taught them a few of his old tricks

I didn't see upson with a cigar in that clip

12 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

but i would not mind betting that take away Cities 5 game winning opening to season and substituting the points average from the rest of the season instead then they would be in, or very close to a relegation place!

WTAF? Is this utter nonsense supposed to be 100% unique to our situation?

I would imagine taking the best 5 game run of ANY mid table team and replacing it with "season average form ignoring that run" would put every one of them into relegation trouble regardless of what league they were in, and it probably applies to any league in the world.

Mid table teams are very often inconsistent, the fact is we had a good start and got better results than most other teams in Septmeber / October.

This saggies whole hypothesis seems to be based around the fact he's not envious but the entire post seems to read like

3 hours ago, Super said:

Reminder - Brand Protection - News - Bristol Rovers

Le us not forget the same company that is harping on about brand protection now was responsible for the whiteboard at the centre of this atrocity

I hope Blackburn Rovers take them to the cleaners with the BRFC thing

4 hours ago, Banned User said:

Wael has been allowed to paint his own plates 

 

4 hours ago, Red_Alligator said:

I presume these - no doubt limited edition pieces - will be available to purchase from the club shop?............

Yes unfortunately they are limited, as shortly after these were "designed", the artist ate the crayons.

1 minute ago, TheReds said:

Joey in for the ref.... Who'd have thought it

I was going to ask who is next under Barton 4017654's bus ?

Seems like the ref will follow their captain and former managers under it tonight

8 hours ago, bristolmoose said:

Top notch under-bus throwing there, mind.

6 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

Speaking about Rovers' (now ex)-Captain:

The Rovers boss has crossed paths with Ehmer before. The Germany-born defender came through the ranks at Queens Park Rangers, where Barton was captain.

"For me, it’s a common theme," the manager said. "Don’t forget I’ve known Max from when I was at QPR. He was training with us when he was 20 and the observations of him then haven’t changed much to the observations of the player I’ve found now.

"That is worrying in that period of time, seven, eight or nine years, if you’re still making the same mistakes.

Barton believes Ehmer was not the appropriate choice to wear the armband – though the manager says he is committed to "building him back up".

"Captain when we came in, and I just don’t understand that," Barton said.

"How can that be the leader, the person you set out as the head of your organisation, as the head of your troops?

"He’s got a lot of work to do, the boy. We’ve got to build him back up and it’s not straightforward, and, as I say, I can only help people who want to help themselves.

"I’m here to do the fans proud, to do the owner proud, to do the city proud, and unfortunately there’s going to be collateral damage along the way.

"If you don’t help yourself, you’re not going to be staying on this ship long. You’re going to be getting thrown overboard.

That's not just throwing him under the bus, that is then loading it up and hopping in the driver seat to drive over him repeatedly!

One would suggest that the player in question is likely to be sold* come the summer and has probably (luckily for him) played his last game for them.

*I doubt very much there will be a fee involved for a player deemed not good enough for them though.

1 hour ago, pongo88 said:

Some interesting photos. I particularly liked this one from 1965. Basically Rovers had plans to develop Eastville into a super stadium.  Amazingly nothing happened and now, after a series of false starts they’re going to build a super stadium at the fruit market 

The words that stand out for me here are  "DELAY" "SENSIBLE" "STATEMENT"

How very apt!!  - They have been delaying sensible statements on building a stadium since 1965. 

When talking of a stadium everyone involved at that hopelessly needy club seems to prefer to spout crap - actually even in this report the directors couldn't help themselves from resorting to ridiculous hyperbole - "They have bold ideas for developing the stadium as the biggest sports centre in the south west", "I feel sure we could get the backing of some top business people in the area - this thing could mushroom straight away"

The common thread in all of their stadium plans for the last 55 years seems to be that "someone else pays" - the reason that "someone else pays" is because they are broke, the reason they are broke is mainly because their fans cant be arsed to turn up. They are far from the most loyal, special fans in the country/world/universe unless you count the level of North Korean like fanta - sy. 
 

Still the fruit market is nearly ready right? Since its opening in late 2021 they must be doing final fit and finish stuff? Anyone got pictures or drone Footage like the Brentford fans had?

Interesting to see the total lifetime aggregate attendance figures between

http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/league/brir.htm - 19,682,341 <- Fewers

and 

http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/league/bric.htm - 31,006,882 <- City

Their average seasonal aggregate over the last 5 years is around 207K fans - if we stopped attending it would take them 54 (FIFTY FOUR!) seasons to catch up

You can really see why they think they are our equals in fanbase terms,

40 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

Anyone here understand what this numpty is saying?

Anyone else have the feeling he actually "baits" players (and keepers) when closing them down?

To me it feels like when closing down a player he leaves a bit of pace "in reserve" for a final burst.

The Swansea keeper today I think got caught out by this as he pretty half turned away from Semenyo so couldn't see him accelerate.

34 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

so which of their recent managers is your favourite?? Tisdale was doing great but i think may have been found out what his mission was. my favourite was the irishman, doing a job and getting paid,then dropping them in it as soon as a better one came along.wardy maybe second,retired at a crucial stage of the season to save his cv

No question - Ben Garner!

Apart from the stunning run of "form", by most accounts he rebuilt their squad with utter dross. Tisdale could not recover from it, and here's hoping that Jailbird Joey does not either.

21 minutes ago, WessexPest said:

Dear Joey convict 6721098, about this...

Bristol rovers fans like to lie about their attendances (especially away), getting a stadium built, their owner's financial worth, how many they took to Wembley, how many fans are locked out of matches, non-league being called division 5 and not sniffing their sister's undewear. Here's a handy graph to explain which club is really biggest in the West Country

12 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

What was Garner’s figures for his first 18 games?

I think it is as follows (so worse than Tisdale)

P18 W2 D5 L11

interestingly the time between his appointment and 2020 lockdown covered 18 games. In saying that he had a couple of games during that period of compassionate leave where I guess he could say he technically was not in charge.

data this time from https://www.transfermarkt.us/ben-garner/leistungsdatenDetail/trainer/33915/plus/1?saison_id=2019&verein_id=2455&liga=&wettbewerb_id=&trainer_id=

3 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

I can’t believe they’ve employed a manager much worse to succeed the worst manager they’ve ever had.......in the same season...

That takes some doing

That's not precisely true - Tisdale's record at the Gas is truly shocking, and getting hillariously worse with each week it seems, but he has a way to go to dethrone "The King"

Ben Garner    P33     W6     D8     L19     Win % - 18.18
Paul Tisdale   P18     W5     D2     L11     Win % - 27.8

data sourced from wikipedia which ofc may not be the best source, I think it includes cup games too.

10 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

Has Tisdale been given the vote of confidence yet?

I have every confidence in the splendid job he is doing currently!

6 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

Oh yes. I do like it when history repeats itself. 

Won't somebody think of the horses?