cityal

15 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

They need to slag off our under 23's as our kids are much closer to their level, so it's easier for them to compare with.

TBH, if we put out our full u23 team, I think they would probably beat the Sags first team anyway.

The gates to watch our U23's are probably more comparable to their home gates too. 

Possibly the source of their over inflated view of themselves as fans if they compare themselves to our U23 team? 

21 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Just when we start to think they’ve not given us something to laugh about, then this...........

Very good week so far with Rovers beating a top team in League 1 4-0.

But Bristol City just fielded a team that included the snake, Kasey Palmer, O'Leary, Eliasson, Smith, Baker, Watkins and Adelakun in their U23s and managed to lose 4-3 to Nottingham Forest U23s.

Unlucky da sh** x

They have nothing on us so resort to taking the piss out of our u23’s losing

So "a top team" = 10th place Blackpool, who are a mere 27 points behind the league one leaders  - BTW In our division QPR languishing down in 18th place are that far behind the leaders. 

Some facts on that U23 game based on twitter: 

Taylor and Palmer played only the first 60 minutes
The Smith he refers to is actually Harvey Smith (not Korey) so is not a regular first team player as implied
O'leary is our 3rd choice keeper and normally plays those fixtures
That was the first game our U23's lost at home since October

Just for a bit of balance the Forest team actually included:
João Carvalho who cost Forest £13M
Judilson Tuncará Gomes, who is on loan from Monaco - (his last full transfer was €10M!)
Molla wague who has played 30 times for Mali 
Karim Ansarifarad who has played 73 times for Iran

Its nice that the gashead concerned takes such a keen interest in our development side - However we all know these are players that cannot currently tie down a starting place in our first 11 and we all also know the gas would be creaming themselves if they signed any one of those players. To me it shows our strength in depth that we are having to give players like this game time in U23 to keep them sharp - As regarding the fact the U23 lost when you look in a bit more detail at what Forest put it out it puts a narrow 4-3 defeat in context, it wasn't like we were playing schoolkids.

10 hours ago, myol'man said:

Nice to see they've got money to spend on comfy seats for Wally and his cronies, while the away fans still stand out in the p!ssing rain 

Also.... they should have perhaps told their seat installer to use one of these?

either that or there is some weird optical illusion to do with the level of the seat backs in the picture?

4 hours ago, cityal said:

I wonder how many points they have won against 11 men for 90 minutes this season - seems like they always need help from the referee.

I thought I would answer my own question from earlier.....

This stuff is based on data from - https://www.flashscores.co.uk/team/bristol-rovers/GILi6JC9/results/   and the league one tables on bbc sport (Sorry any gas reading for using facts)

League One matches where a Bristol Rovers opponent has been reduced to 10 men:

Rochdale (A) Draw

Gillingham (H) Win

Fleetwood (H) Win

Shrewsbury (H) Draw

So 8 points gained against sides with 10 men across 4 matches

They have  played a total of 31 league one matches this season "amassing" (sic) 33 points 

Their ppg against 10 men = 8pts / 4 matches  = 2 ppg

Their ppg against 11 men = 25pts  / 27 matches  = 0.92 ppg

You would usually expect a higher ppg in games against 10 men of course, but the difference for the gas feels huge - maybe someone with more knowledge than myself could say if that is really the case? 
My conclusion is if they play against 11 for the rest of the season, and don't improve their form things could look very bleak for them 

Interestingly despite us feeling they get "lucky" in this regard the following site - http://www.footcharts.co.uk/index.cfm?task=basics_cards contains a tool to look at a league table of for/against cards - pompey have had many matches where opponents are at 10 men. (this site still needs updating for this weekends games)

7 minutes ago, Unan said:

Rovers playing against 10 men again, surprise

I wonder how many points they have won against 11 men for 90 minutes this season - seems like they always need help from the referee.

26 minutes ago, Unan said:

 

I can see why Tinner was gloating..... Belter!

vs

2 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Let's wait for the "Gas are on their way to Wembly" scarves.

Since we are not involved in the FL trophy anymore (hooray!) I must admit I have not followed the competition too closely in recent years.
Of course I know they now have prem youth/reserve teams in it - which is an utter farce! and fair play to all the fans (incl gas) that stay away in protest.

From comments here though it seems like Pompey are still in the competition as are the Gas (and Sunderland? plus one other team right?).

So is the competition still regional? - Is it the case it will be a Pompey vs Gas regional final over two legs (home and away)?

If so I cannot help thinking any thoughts the fewers have over even getting to "Wembly" at this stage are premature at best. I am sure they will all be saying that Oxford beat Pompey at the weekend, but nothing in their respective league form suggests that they will definitely come out on top against Pompey over a two-legged regional final. The comments posted on here from gaschat seem to suggest that a few of the gas fans think they are guaranteed a spot at the final

23 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

You mean that we were the straw that broke Wael Al Qadi's camel?

Kind of, yes

I think if it does transpire in future that the Taylor transfer was the straw that broke the camels back then Steve Lansdown should be given a Knighthood for services to football and the Bristol community 

32 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

All they think that they have to do is buy a Championship quality striker for around £300K and we know that there are loads of those to be found. Well we found one ...

Rudolf - That is a £10M/ "silly money" striker - Darrell Clarke and the fewers said so!

BTW does anyone else feel that until they day we bought him they may not have been "coming for us" but did seem to be on an somewhat upward trajectory (generally speaking). Since that day though they have sold many of their assets for a pittance and without investment they seem to be headed for relegation and potentially admin.

2 hours ago, 22A said:

Well done Rovers! By preventing the mighty Burton Albion from scoring, the point from today's game keeps you out of from returning to the bottom four,

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/13612/bristol-rovers-burton-match-thread?page=7  Take a scrappy point, remember the clean sheet and the unbeaten run, dust ourselves down and go again.....

Is Dopey Darrell now posting on their forum?  or is this just typical "gas echo chamber" shite spouted by some fewer with a lower IQ than rovers have points.

Isn't this phrase exactly what DC said used to say after their many defeats of recent times along with some other crap like "my fans have been brilliant"

2 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

198 of the crowd went for a Burton, making just 8,962 loyal and few. Like sardines, they were.

Yeah brilliant!

4 minutes ago, 42nite said:

 

Have they set the grotto up yet?

 

These things take time!  

50 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink

14/1

Tim Sherwood

14/1

Craig Bellamy

20/1

Harry Redknapp

20/

Any of these would be great. Just think about it.

Harry Redknapp would have the entering admin in no time. With Darrel gone he'd be safe to bring his own accountant too.

8 minutes ago, Fiale said:

"Assistant manager Marcus Stewart has asked to be released from his contract and the club have reluctantly agreed"

2 minutes ago, ForeverRed said:

Sad Sag on Radio Bristol just said he wouldn't want Cotts……… "his management record isn't good enough for us"

Deluded!!!! 

Not good enough clearly!-  the issue being this was done with a clear strategy of buying some of the best league one players and assembling a small but none the less high quality squad, that takes a proper budget something he would never get at "ragass rovers"

1 minute ago, BS2 Red said:

I hope Cotts doesn't go there, he might actually turn them around a little bit.

I could see them tempting Gary Johnson.

Lee has always helped out his dad with loan players

I think Gary being there and that situation continuing would be "unpopular" to say the least

2 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Sweeping up the stands.

Or in charge of sniffer dog team?

5 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Gas Chat is going to be hilarious for the next few days.

Just watch the sags on gaschat suggest some totally unrealistic options - their famous over optimism about the state of their "club" will come to the fore guaranteed. I am half expecting comments along the lines of "we could get Copello for sure! - we are da sixth richest club in world - unlucky da shit!" etc etc,  

I am fully expecting them to suggest a whole host premier/championship managers way out of their league (literally).

The truth is they haven't got a pot to piss in, and I genuinely expect they will struggle to find a decent league manager* - anyone worth their salt will surely take a look at what has gone before, they will see Dopey's recent interviews about them being destitute and start to ask serious questions  

* just for clarity for any sags reading this the league is four divisions not five!  

41 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

We do. For a club who brought over 40,000 fans to Wembley for a 5th tier play of final shows the amount of potential there is being a big city club,

Relentless bullshit . As Danny Baker said pathological liars 

 

I have posted a few times the actual "gas attendance" for that match was most likely in the region of 32K. This was based on earlier tickets sales that were reported in local papers about 1 week prior to the fixture. I have no idea why there are no more sales figures announced just before the game in either the Bristol or Grimsby press or by the clubs involved. 

However by perpetuating this myth rovers are in fact debunking one of their other favourite myths e.g. the one that "they are the most loyal fans" in Bristol/Engalnd/World.

So some approximate figures

Our average attendance (20K) based as a percentage of 40K fans at Wembley = 50% ish

Their average attendance (8K) based as a percentage of 40K (mythical) fans at Wembley = 20% ish

Seems to me the "loyalty thing" is very much a lie

3 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Haha which part?

I get the impression the board are not at all happy with this, told whoever to ‘chop’ it and although I only said earlier that they won’t sack him due to finances they might not have much choice, Wally came out not long ago say how things are progressing in the background, we know it’s bullshit and it wasn’t ever happening anyway, now Clarke has come out and said the complete opposite to what his boss has said, clearly not a good move in any business, and if that wasn’t enough he’s basically told the masses that the club are skint! He’s getting more and more pissy each week with the owners in his press conferences, to me he’s been trying to get the sack for the last couple of months. He’s gave them a decision to make for sure. I still believe he’ll be gone within the next few days, shame as he’s doing well.

from - http://www.expatarrivals.com/middle-east/jordan/doing-business-jordan

" values like respect, friendship and trust are paramount in business dealings and personal matters alike. "

basically it sounds like DC is throwing the owners under the bus, that might not go down well.

2 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

They had to take one of them off because he decided he had enough............  sorry, suffered a "back spasm".   They goals did go "into my net" though, in front of "his fans",  an interesting turn of phrase for someone tasked with creating a team spirit. 

You too would have a bad back if you had been carrying all 10 outfield players all season. My understanding is he had been MotM quite a few times, probably more than his fair share.

Still he is probably back in London getting treated by his parent club. Given how "professional" the fewers are in everything they do, I would expect Brentford were probably less than enthusiastic at letting rovers (no doubt "championship ready") medical team loose on one of their young players.

1 hour ago, BS2 Red said:

19 years!!!!

I am still angry about that game. 

Which aspects? The free kick taken with a moving ball from the wrong place? Or something else?

7 minutes ago, Scrumpty said:

You won't be saying that this time next year (by which time he'll have scored another). Probably.

At that kind of prolific rate he could be up to enough goals to count on the fingers of one hand - assuming his contract is at least 3 or 3.5 years.

Six if you are a gashead - five for the rest of us

This is brilliant from gaschat on a thread about their "prolific" £300K+ striker

Whisper it quietly because it offends people but he is in good form. Like it or not.

4 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

I thought there might have been a shock result in this game tonight. 

Then the non league team beat Bristol Rovers in the cup, and prove me wrong..! 

The gas are just a non-league team "in training"

(I hope!)

3 minutes ago, RumRed said:

Bloody hell, there were more at the Crawley game last night that I went to.

 

But I guess Crawley have better fans

Fixed that for you

Hello visiting saggies - how does it feel that you are now below Crawley in the pecking order!

Coming for us still?