cityal

7 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

This new 'stand' of theirs is going to maaahhhhhooosssive!

It has 7 rows.

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

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Does that mean that on night games when most kids can't go, our capacity will be cut to about 9500?

  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.

1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said:

It would appear the ex chief methane snorter Skeletor has been sacked by QPR and replaced by Schteeve McClaren.

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

3 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Only 'plastic' clubs like 'da shit' (and practically every other club in the top two divisions) spend money on transfers, wages and Stadiums. They want to do it properly, whatever TF that means?

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  

40 minutes ago, 22A said:

Next season, following today's promotion, Wycombe get to play Rovers again.

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.

43 minutes ago, myol'man said:

With todays defeat I'm guessing the 18 years gap is guaranteed? MTG

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.

17 minutes ago, CotswoldRed said:

Maybe they are coming for us after all. 

Non-matchday revenue will rocket, especially if your friend buys a coffee. 

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

1 hour ago, myol'man said:

6,351?  Surely a typo

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

1 minute ago, cityal said:

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.

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.

59 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

I have a 'disposable' email address which I have used over the years only to receive any and all communications BCFC related. This includes season tickets, OTIB etc. I've had this same email address for well over ten years.

Today at 12.28pm, for the very first time ever, I received an email to that address containing the Bristol Rovers Weekly Newsletter. Am I alone in suddenly receiving this? Suddenly, I don't want to look in my inbox because I feel that its integrity has been defiled.

Has Bristol Sport been hacked? Is it WikiLeaks? Is it Russia? Is it the Jordanian Secret Service? Is it Henbury Gas? We need answers ...

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.

1 hour ago, JBFC II said:

There's a thread on sag chat about what they want to see next season, the most liked post is about us going down, ahead of them going up, getting a new ground etc. 

Sad really.... 

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

17 minutes ago, In the Net said:

"Resolution of allotment of securities"  - this document has been filed at Companies House, but is not yet available to view. Can any of the accountancy experts on here please explain what this may entail?

4 minutes ago, Calculus said:

They're thinking about allowing people to grow carrots and cabbages on the Memorial Stadium 'pitch' and were worried that someone might break in.

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? 

27 minutes ago, Super said:

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!

6 hours ago, Steve Watts said:

"We shouldn't think that this will always be the case. If AFC Bournemouth, or Swansea or even Huddersfield Town wanted one of 82's best players they would be able to get them. If not now at the end of the season when and if they stay up and the sh** don't go up.

Bristol Rovers have a bigger fan base than all of those clubs and have the potential to do equally as well provided that one day we have owners capable and willing to invest."

 

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!!   

1 hour ago, Vincent Vega said:

Didn't he once say ' Why pay 300 for something,  when you can have it for free '

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.

3 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

48 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

Was just thinking, given we know about the dog botherers different shopping lists, what supermarket do you go to to lose your most valuable possession pipe dream?

 

43 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Sainsburys

Beautiful.

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

Fixed!

On 1/7/2018 at 19:27, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Yeah, just forget about all the money and fantastic publicity that City have earned with our run in the League Cup this season. They’ll finally get the chance to ‘finish themselves off’ on Tuesday night.

When was the last time your team made it this far in a cup competition you massively thick ****? 

 

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

3 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

Just had a quick look to see who the Sag's were playing today.  Had forgotten that they had already been dumped out of the FA cup as well

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

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I would love the club to be run by people who r gas though and though one problem you know any with spare few millions to spend? I don’t do you ?

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

4 hours ago, Cheesleysmate said:

£400k will get you 8 Arnold Garitas. Brilliant for re-tweeting shocking statements too...

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

1 minute ago, weepywall said:

I heard today from someone that works at Millets who supply the canvas to the gas that Bodins 4 contract offers were

Just under minimum wage

Minimum wage

Just over minimum wage 

Just over minimum wage with free crisps and Mars bars, 2 camels and the use of a very nice watch on a matchday

Were these the "luxury" still in date variety?

or the normal "out of date, not fit for human consumption" variety sold down their dump?

37 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

So with their 2 best players gone (for a pittance), where do they see themselves going now?  They were making a pretty good job of sliding down the table whilst they still had them.

I have a hunch that Harrison could be gone soon as well.

How much of the (supposed) £750k will dopey be allowed to spend and how much will end up being used to pay the bills?

Even if he had the entire £750k (which I doubt), you don't get a lot for that money these days.

I can't understand why Dopey doesn't just say "enough is enough" and walk as there is no way he can stave off relegation now.

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?

25 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

They're having a great season,  we've lost 4 times 

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.