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I would guess Scott will be going to a side A LOT better than WBA currently are. He will surely be looking at top half of premier league?

Its super early days for Bell in his career, but he has something about him. His timing of forward runs for through balls looks good. He looks pretty good dribbling the ball (he seems a bit 2 footed?) His finishing though, it is just ?. The goal against swansea, the disallowed goal against blackburn, both goals today are all very good finishes - as was pointed out earlier, the second finish day would have pundits puyrring if it was some superstar doing it. I hope he gets more chances.

Long ago I made this post regarding their alleged attendance at the playoff final for finishing non-league as runners up below Barnet Using some local news sources and ticket sales up until a week before the match (and then extrapolating) you get to a figure closer to 32-33k

Is there any more to this? or did you have to stop mid word to think or eat?

"To be fair" you are in 9th Place in league one having played more games than all of those around you. It is statistically unlikely (and they may have to play each other) but if Exeter, Port Vale, Charlton, Oxford, Shrewsbury and Portsmouth win their games in hand you could find yourselves 15th - So yeah definitely rubbing shoulders with the top 6! Despite this one of your lot decides to lump your poxy club in the league one playoff picture with the likes of Ipswich and Derby by using phrases like "the other big six clubs" and then compound his/her needy fantacism by spouting shit about 12k attendances. According to https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/bristol-rovers/attendances this is something you have not had since 2016, when, being generous, you got 11750 for millwall at home. For an actual 12K attendance you need to go back to West Brom in March 2008! Notice also that depsite you trying to cast shade on us, no poster from the red side suggested we were bigger than the three clubs at the top of the attendance list that was posted - those clubs have been in the premier league and are well supported and often attracts gates in excess of ours BUT we certainly have a far stronger case for calling them "our peers" having spent far longer in the same division as these clubs/the championship in the last 2 decades than the gas. Peopl;e ask why this thread exists - this exactly why - your fanbase is filled with cretinous needy morons who desperately cling to any sliver of hope that they are in soime way as good or better than us. If your fanbase were more realistic or humble, half the ammo that is used to load the gun of this thread disappears.

"The other big six" ? Trying to assume there is parity with clubs like Derby, Ipswich, Wednesday etc. They are MILES ahead of that sad tinpot outfit inhabiting a fetid tented dump!

Anyone know of a way to report potentially harmful and dangerous electronic communications ? ???

I cannot find footage of it. I think it was Dec 30th 2021 looking at youtube. City 1 QPR 2. The game that Andy King was sent off... From what i remember the challenge was hard to describe as a genuine attempt to play the ball, and therefore one might suggest it was a straight red as well as a penalty. Dunne must have been very worried at first, and then laughing as he clearly got away with a bad challenge. Interestingly this is a lot of what I think is behind the "anomaly": Dunne, a former "name", playing for a former PL club, barges into a young player few outside of Bristol had heard much of... The referee's may not be consciously biased, and there may be no conspiracy, but the unconscious bias approach is to wave away appeals from little old Bristol City in favour of the "famous people".Over time if this unconscious bias happens often enough you get a stat like we have now. This is also only perpetuated by sky commentary which quite frankly can border on patronising for the smaller club in any contest. I think this (Dunne did the same and no pen) was the point king made to the ref for his first booking. His challenge while clumsy, and a penalty, was at least an attempt to get the ball (just a "bambi on ice" version).

Beat me to it. There was the one ( against QPR was it?) where he was pretty much shoulder charged in the head from behind when running into the box clear through on goal. In Stone Wall terms it dwarfs the great Wall of china. I think if the guy had finished scott off by bludgeoning him to death with a blunt implement, the ref would still have waived our appeals away.

VAR at the ready to rulw out the penalty ?

Embarassing goalkeeping

With scope to expand to 50K

I guess most people having a nibble in the queue are not (to quote blackadder) "tackle out" ?

In other news... Head & Shoulders sales should be brisk today in the Birmigham area with those three playing. Joking aside three very good young players.

I have been meaning to debunk this crap for a while So less than 1/10th as "famous" as a second / third kit we have worn for a few seasons Maybe only "famous" if you are one of the fewers

Are there any flights between Reading and Bristol - asking for a friend

The rovers players switching off for a quick corner - only one thing to blame - COACHING leave the ball boy alone you despicable excuse for a human being

If that was "a thing" - I'd be donating every week!

What they meant to say "Today we got schooled by a quick corner routine after being rinsed 6-3 last week."

A couple of further points here. The ballboy is quick to return it (arguably as he should be), and the corner is taken quickly, but the first contact on the corner is STILL from a rovers defender and he has the byline around 3-4 yards away - you'd imagine that most professionals would realise their team are ill-prepared and just roll (or welly) it out for another corner and get properly setup. NOT our "intrepid" sag he tries to... well actually I dont know what TF he thought he was going to do, and i very much doubt he did either. He stops the ball overruns it and giftwraps for a stanley player to cross, compounding his error by slipping when he tries to recover. Meanwhile when the corner is actually taken a stanley player is on his knees in the box (he was the player that made the long run and took the shot that resulted in the corner) he looks shagged. He is in the box suroounded by six gas heads not one of them gets close to him and they give him the freedom of the membley turf to nod it in. Clearly all the fault of the gurt ted ballboy

"Support them from the pavements"

from https://footystats.org/england/efl-league-one/form-table I think at this stage it is very ealry days for a website to predict, or even foreeshadow, relegation - but their form is terrible at this moment in time. They have played all the teams below them already (Burton, Forest Green and Morecambe) They have won games against Burton (10 men from 2nd minute) and Oxford (who are firmly bottom half) The only team in the top half they have taken points from are Shrewsbury (and they are 12th!) Every decent team they have played (Barnsley, Pompey, Ipswich and Lincoln) have comfortably beat them Heres hoping the sags keep hold of Joey

I hope not, as much as its easy to dislike the odious cretin he is comedy gold.