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1 minute ago, Ska Junkie said:

2740!

WTF is that? Loyal and true???? 

Surely even with closing down half their tents tonight that is the kind of numbers that makes a loss?

43 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

 Coming for us mind!

I think we need to get some more of our promising youngsters out on loan in January

Maybe we should send a few more to plymouth?

They have always done good for our lads in the past, and seem to have developed a few of them very well - ofc there would be no ulterior motive in helping out one of the gas relegation rivals 

32 minutes ago, BobBobSuperBob said:

How many Sags would you think would have two mates ......

Even less likely that they would have two that admit to it as well

8 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

This must surely be up the most pointless of groups ever known to man....

http://gasheads.org/thread/7797/bristol-rovers-history-group

Would only need 1 member for a start, could fit their whole history in a single paragraph, would take literally 5mins if that to complete and half of it would be taken up by listing all the the times they’ve packed up their caravans and moved grounds, cos they haven’t ever won **** all.

Lets see....

Only full time professional club in Bristol to have played in Non-league

Only full time professional club in Bristol not to have played in the top division

Only full time professional club in Bristol to have been "runners-up" in League cup qualifying

I am sure there are more...

3 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

They are missing a trick up the Mem.

The number of tents, sheds and portacabins they have, they could probably stage a really good nativity play.

Granted, finding 3 wise men and a virgin could be a challenge, but no shortage of donkeys.

No room at the Inn? No problem. Gasheads will be able to empathise with the story and will welcome little baby Jeebus to their development squad (as long as he buys his own kit).

Joseph and Mary had mistakenly bought tickets for row M

1 hour ago, Alan Dicks said:

Anyone else like me never heard of this Payne bloke before ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Payne

The gas are his 14th club in around 9 years - Actually I would think the word "journeyman" is completely inadequate to describe his career.  

3 minutes ago, BrightCiderLife said:

If anyone wants to play ‘Loyal and Few’ bingo with this press release you’re odds on to get a full house: https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2018/october/stefan-payne-statement/ 

In a classic of the ‘Deluded Gappers’ genre, look out for the repeated references to ‘great fanbase’, ‘travelled in great numbers’, ‘great following’, and ‘good number’. There are so many ‘great’s in there it seems like Tony the Tiger has written it! 

Just to confirm, the official attendance was 446. Great. 

446 is a great number in their view since most of them have to take their socks off to count above 10 12

4 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

We could do with a back up keeper......just saying.

I have heard players at the gas can be had for around 3% of their valuation. Unfortunately in this case we would dealing with Brentford rather than the gas.

12 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Will they take a few or are they boycotting this cup competition as well?

I think you will find they are boycotting all competitions

32 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Deluded idiots. They genuinely think the outside World marvels at their 7/8k attendances 

Some on Slagchat are predicting a sub 7k crowd on Tuesday night. I expect the FA are frantically trying to decide who they can send to officiate a game in that cauldron of noise and intimidation.

 

Atletico used to play at the Vincente Calderon. The gas play at the mem-tenty Cauldron.

6 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

921 from Oxford so 7585 from the 15ers

 

Staying at home in huge numbers - its just what they do

34 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

Today's big number......8506

Including or excluding oxford fans?

9 minutes ago, Stortz said:

Haha maybe mate.

I did have to chuckle, I was in the Hobgoblin and there must have been 100/150 Oxford lads there, with no sign of the ob. The main Oxford kiddy was on the phone to those kings of tunnelling the GHS, only to be told that they 'weren't organised' to meet up as planned. A bit like their defence, stadium planners, grotto arrangers and tent providers then haha.

Their police escort wasn't ready?

Also don't forget their game will undoubtedly be a sell out, as on their forum they were trying to drum up support to show us which club has the best supporters.

1 hour ago, richwwtk said:

Does it cost that much to take down a few tents?

Maybe not, but the site will need fumigating, or some sort of deep clean at the very least. I know students are not reknowned for being fussy, but even students are likely to turn up their noses at being housed on land previously used by the fewers and their collection of tents, portacabins and portaloos.

8 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:

"Lowly Burton" have in fact finished above them every season for the last 8 years.

You had to bring facts into it. They are incompatible with gas logic.

3 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

I’m serious though... have they missed the “e” off of his name..?

The photo is crap but I saved it to my phone and messed around in Photoshop express. It looks like there is an e there. It's poorly written (which is hardly surprising given their past sign writing "expertise") but I don't think even they'd manage to spell his name wrong tbf.

1 hour ago, Red Right Hand said:

It can`t be just me who, when I see this thread has leapt forward five or six pages in a fairly short period of time, settles down with a cup of tea and a packet of digestives before opening it in eager anticipation of what the latest disaster to have befallen them is.

It rarely disappoints.

The huge risk in doing that is snorting whatever drink you have chosen through uncontrolable laughter. Its happened to me more than once reading this thread

On 09/10/2018 at 13:40, 22A said:

Today's giggle; http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/13036/new-stands?page=19 ipgas posted

It is for me because I have watched 50 years of mediocraty. I have seen Rovers in the Championship, Div 1, and 2 and non league, but mostly half way up Division One, or div 3 as it was. I want something better, I want us to have crowds of 20k+ like we did when I was a kid. If we had not have sold Eastville, I have no doubt that we would be the bigger of the 2 Bristol clubs. But that is history, and since then every ground we have been at has been crap, and the Mem is no different. I want to be a gashead watching a reasonable team in the Championship, not floundering around in the lower half of league one, because our sh**ty ground can only provide funds enough to do that. Meanwhile even some non league clubs have better grounds. Bloody angry to think some of you have no ambition for the club

Yeah this graph I made a long while ago 100% backs up his point conclusively!! - I can very easily see where he came to the conclusion they would have been the bigger Bristol club had they remained at Eastville   

They left Eastville in 1986 - and he's right in the fact that since that time they have NEVER been the bigger club (and their grounds have been utter cack)

BUT - In the 20 year period prior to that though they were the bigger club (average attendance wise) just once.
And over the course of nearly 100 years of attendance data they have managed just 14 seasons with better average attendances than us; of those 14 seasons  where they had higher average gates - 8 of them were actually seasons where the average attendance difference was quite close (i.e. were were behind Bristol rovers average attendance, but not drastically so)  

Compare to that to now - they are pulling 7-9K and we are managing 20K+ at every match. On some weekends recently we are getting close to triple their most recent home attendances.

1 hour ago, Sergio Georgini said:

Looks like we've had a shout out from the overrated, outdated dog lover.. (It won't allow me to say the N word, no not THAT one!).

I know our costs are (a lot) higher than theirs (because we have proper players) but with the sales / purchases we made in the summer won't we make a smaller loss than them this financial year?

5 hours ago, redcityman said:

When filling in the documents for PP do brfc use a template from a five year old writing a letter to Father Christmas by any chance!

Unfortunately the planning forms say "PLEASE FILL IN USING BLOCK CAPITALS AND BLACK INK ONLY" - sadly they are not allowed pens, and they had already eaten their black crayon. 

42 minutes ago, Carey 6 said:

Not sure if I've missed this on an earlier page. 

'Baffled bosses at Bristol Rovers have been told by council planners to close down their two new stands at the Memorial Stadium - because they don't have planning permission.'

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-rovers-stands-planning-permission-2068979

Does this include row M?

2 hours ago, Unan said:

Is the front being held down by string?

In camping parlence I believe they are called guy ropes!

I wonder if these guy ropes are "championship ready"

13 minutes ago, Unan said:

 

Post by lpgas on 4 hours ago

I think we has about 21,000 and City about 24,000. It's just that they can get them in to their ground

WTAF!?! 21k? So the formula for the gas is to multiply their average attendance by 2.5 ish and for us just add a couple of thousand - yeah that works ipgas!

How come the collective of fans on gaschat contain such a high proportion of people with such idiotic thinking. I am beginning to think it's actually worthy of psychological research it's got to be waaay higher than national average.

2 hours ago, Red Right Hand said:

So, to recap today, we are 3rd in the Championship behind only Leeds by a point & Brentford on GD whereas they are third from bottom in the league below above only Oxford on GD & with Plymouth two points below them.

#Mindthegap

Amazing to think they are "the richer club" and "bigger and better than we'll ever be"