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If you are a gashead you can count them on the fingers of one hand

2nd post on that gaschat thread about the new tent deluded half-wit!! https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/bristol-rovers/attendances The gas getting more than 9500 happened just 6 times last season, and 4 of those were clubs with what I assume was a pretty good away following (Plymouth, Pompey, Blackburn, Oxford) - The other two were their first and last home league games of the season. EXACTLY NONE OF THESE were midweek/night games - but lets never let FACT get in the way of more gas bullshit about attendances. If they actually had more of their own fans turn up instead of relying on good away support - worrying about 9500 capacity might be worth doing.

That would be, how do you say??? - a major mistake

Surely doing it "properly" (by their implication - without an owner willing to spend money) would mean them growing their horrible little club "organically" and for them to increase attendances year on year to a level that allows them to exist on just club revenue alone. Given so few ever turn up to watch them I doubt we have anything to worry about if that is the route they wish to take

The Bristol Rovers "legal team" are already preparing a case against Wycombe for having the outright audacity to be in the same division as them again - apparently this new case against Wycombe will be 100% watertight.

I expect Sunderland to regroup in league 1. With a few, dare I say it, bigger teams than them not looking likely to get out this season the gap could keep on growing. It is more likely to end by us cocking up and getting related than them getting promoted.

I'd strongly advise checking the sell by date on the jar before consumption.

With crowds like that they surely need a 20/30K/75K stadium

That could also read "it just seemed gross to me" both are true. Certainly I could not bring myself to click "download pictures" in my email client. Surely someone should stop the gas from doing this. I dread to think what may happen if it was picked up by minors.

Happened to me too. I am a little concerned how they have my email. If it persists I may resort to pursuing a case under GDPR regulations. Is seems to me a gross breach of privacy.

They obviously just feel their greatest chance of their "dream cup final" (in a league game at Ashton Gate) was if we were to be relegated rather than getting themselves promoted -- Inclined to agree

I think you should be talking in the past tense there calculus - as they word resolution in ITN's original post implies it was resolved I am guessing to resolve the security around the "mem allotments" they must have put up a fence - the relevant question is, has it been paid for yet?

Premium seating?

Time to debunk another Gas Wembley attendance MYTH - this time the myth of 46K in the 2007 Playoff final vs Shrewsbury! I feel like I have been here before! What I did find for the 2007 final was the following links: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/may/26/newsstory.bristolrovers https://www.shropshirestar.com/shrewsbury-town-fc/2007/05/23/shrews-fc-shop-open-for-regalia/ Both suggest a few days before the final that Shrewsbury were due to take "around 25,000" - lets be generous to the gas and call it only 23,500, you would assume if was more than a few thousand out they would say 22K instead of "around 25K" The Guardian report also suggested that rovers quickly sold out their initial 35,000 allocation and got another 5,000 tickets - This would seem correct, but I can find no evidence of them selling all of this extra 5k allocation and then getting even more tickets. Given 1) the official attendance is 61,589 2) the fact reports say Shrewsbury were taking around 25K 3) that rovers had been reported to have sold between 35 and 40K it would seem likely rovers took somewhere between 38 and 40K - and this kind of backs up the wording in the following guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/may/28/match.bristolrovers 46K it is NOT! BTW - I'd be delighted if anyone can confirm (with evidence/links) either the 46K or the Shrewsbury returned 10K tickets MYTHS that surround this match, but I'm not going to hold my breath good luck finding such evidence saggies reading this!

The ignorance of facts by the Blue few is astonishing - surely no-one can be as stupid as the moron you have just quoted. There is absolutely no way their "fan base" is bigger than ANY of the clubs mentioned. To prove this I made the image above, which uses data taken from the attendance figures website often linked on here, and which I have linked before. I stuffed the last 20 years of attendance data for the four teams into a spreadsheet and created a line graph plot. Each club is then plotted onto the graph in their own home colours* In the data shown the gas have NEVER had support to match Huddersfield who have consistently averaged 10-15K in the last 20 years, and have jumped to 20K last year It is however true that back in the period 1998 - 2003 ish The Swans, Bournemouth and Bristol rovers had similar attendances, and sometimes (even often) Bristol rovers were higher than the other two. However since 2005 Swansea have had greater avg attendances than Bristol rovers, and since 2006 you'd argue they were far greater. The gas attendances have stayed close to Bournemouth's from 1998 until around 2014, but In recent seasons even Bournemouth have had considerably larger numbers than Rovers (by >20% or so). Bournemouth are basically showing that if you actually manage to sell out even a small ground regularly you can keep a respectable average up (as did another Bristol club when we had a reduced capacity) *Note: Unfortunately Huddersfield play in blue white like the Gas so I choose an alternate colour scheme for Bristol Rovers. I opted for a nice "yellow and black" scheme for the "fewers" data - That colour scheme stuck in my mind as the colours of an away kit they once had - No idea why!!

Because even a year later it is still funny as hell and continues to boil the piss of the sags? I'd love for Taylor to come on as sub in our final game of the season against Sheffield and score the winner to get us promoted - would send asschat into utter meltdown.

Beautiful. ZiderEyed with the perfect cross to set up Hucker with a great finish. Fixed!

As i have said before a fool and his Job Seekers Allowance are easily parted.

Surely the self styled "6th richest club in the country" is in the 3rd round of the cup?

from the 'yesterday' thread on sagchat: http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/11404/yesterday So (ignoring the obvious spelling mistakes!)..... You want owners like City have with the Lansdowns? I know they like to mock us for being a "franchise" and "tax dodgers" etc. But the truth of the matter is the sags would give anything to have an owner and vice-chairman like ours who are both wealthy and fully behind the club. Coincidentally that thread is worth a read, sounds like some of the fewers are about to give up on their tinpot club - "Prowed and loyal" to the end

I know it was childish what people got Garita to retweet but I thought it was funny at the time! The thing is the gas already have a comedy squad

Were these the "luxury" still in date variety? or the normal "out of date, not fit for human consumption" variety sold down their dump?

Given that they were rumoured on here (and sagchat) to be unable to pay various contractors late last year, I think it would be reasonable to assume they don't have any of the Taylor money from Jan 2017 left. So its is probably not too far from the truth to assume they have a maximum budget of £400k plus whatever the owners chuck in from their own pocket (yeah i know that seems unlikely!) for improving the team via transfers. I am not sure £400K is going to buy much these days in terms of quality league one players.

I cannot believe a club is run as badly as the Gas - but it sure is funny its them!! Bodin's points contribution this season http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/bristol-rovers/scores-fixtures/2017-08 2 goals in a 3-2 away win at Bury Aug 19th = so without him -3pts 1 goal in a 2-1 home win against Plymouth Sep 30th = -2pts 1 goal in a 1-1 away draw against Oldham Dec 30th = -1pt So a total of -6pts if they were actually without him. Taking 6pts of their current total makes nice reading http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/bristol-rovers Is Wael actually trying to take them down to League 2?

They have lost 50% more matches in their last ten games (all comps) than we have lost all season. It does seem very much like Wolves last minute winner against us was their best result of the season.