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  2. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    21 hours ago, richwwtk said:

    This guy certainly seems to not have a lot in terms of experience or qualifications for an in depth role at a football club.

    He went into Fleetwood as a 'consultant' and somehow bagged the DoF role while there. And is now just hanging around in the background for the fewers.

    https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/eddy-jennings-joey-barton-bristol-7107802?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

    Not many people have seen 'Ed', but apparently he is part of the furniture at Tinpot Town so that sort of gave it away for me.

    Anyway, I've tracked down a photo of Ed 'part of the furniture' Jennings, here he is unveiled....

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  3. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    16 minutes ago, Porto Red said:

    Quite apart from the points you make, what on earth do those deluded weirdos base their undying optimism on? It really is hard to fathom.

    They have to focus on the greatness of the Gas (6th richest club in this country), otherwise thoughts turn to 'Da Shit' at which point they have a total meltdown and want to fight everyone in a raged rabid frenzy of 'small club' syndrome.

  5. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    Posted · Edited by Gert Mare

    On 03/06/2023 at 12:19, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

    This could carry on…

    Most loyal fans in the World but rarely sell out their tiny stadium

    Much better away support than City but average lower away than us every season

    Unique and original in every way but have stolen (or had given to them by others) their kit, ‘anthem’, nickname and stadium

    Loved and respected around the World but nobody gives a shit about them outside a few areas in North and East Bristol

    The self proclaimed ‘Peoples’ club of Bristol that most actual Bristolians avoid like the plague.

     

    Invaded the Wycombe pitch breaking hoardings in the process whilst proclaiming to the world that the Gas were staying up, only to be relegated out of the football league the very next week by a player wearing a Rovers away strip.

    Self proclaimed ‘family club’ who attack horses, their own stewards, have been rapped on the knuckles for racism, headbutt windows, punch opposing players in the back of a net, had the most football banning orders in the country in 2014. What sort of a family club is it then? The ******* Kray family?

    6th richest club that begged their retired supporters who were tradespeople to come and help upgrade their shithole for free.

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  7. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    12 hours ago, BS13 Robin said:

    They really dont know when to shut up do they?Not too deluded then are they!

    Rovers in a nutshell

    The amount of fans that believe that a new ground will solve all of their problems is staggering.

    They think they've got 20-30k of fans waiting in the wings who are going to come flooding back to watch them. Totally and utterly deluded.

    The reality is that they'd end up in a soulless bowl which always looks empty and lacks atmosphere. 

    They're skint and don't have a pot to piss in. A freebie new stadium won't undo years of dying a slow and painful death.

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  8. Be careful what you wish for

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    Posted · Edited by Gert Mare

    In terms of staying in the top flight some clubs might need to be realistic. The mass culling of mangers that seems to happen these days won't fix a squad blighted by injuries or who have no strength in depth. 

    You look at clubs like Stoke and Charlton as two examples who decided they needed to 'push on' to the next level and quickly found out that the next level would end up actually being the Championship and League One respectively.

    A lot of different factors (including luck) need to align to win a championship and unless the gulf is insane like it is in Scottish football then there is always the chance that another team might get the ingredients right to mount a title challenge from inside of the pack. The problem is that once that team wins the league inevitably the more financially powerful clubs quickly move in to poach the better players and break it up, so fewer clubs could ever potentially dominate like Leeds, Liverpool, Man Utd and Man City now appear to be doing.

    As supporters though, if we didn't dream of the possibility of getting to the Premier League or winning something now and again then there wouldn't really be much point to it. Let's hope that we never see the "Superleague" and a closed shop because that really would destroy the game for supporters of clubs like ours who live for the dream.

  9. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    Posted · Edited by Gert Mare

    2 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

    He's put it on Facebook Marketplace

    Let's all send the standard "Is this still available?" messages

    And then say "Sorry, too far away" 

    Or just fail to send any other response like most time wasters do on Facebook Marketplace

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  10. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    16 hours ago, Bris Red said:

    Nice to see it in black and white.. I’m guessing the 8 k figure doesn’t include the 30 k they have locked out every week..!

     


     

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    So the blue 'HALF' of Bristol and the 6th richest club in the country gets lower attendance figures than Peterborough?

    Oh I love this! I'm gonna dine out on this one for a long time to come...

    The GIFT! ?

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  13. Ivan Toney

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    On 17/03/2023 at 07:56, Robbored said:

    Toney is in good form and Southgate selects strikers who are scoring goals the same names, regardless of current form - whatever is going on outside of football in his life should not get in the way.

    Fixed that for you ? ?

  15. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    2 hours ago, ralphindevon said:

    So Joey Barton says he and Nige wanted a pre season friendly but the police said no.

    What do we think? Good decision or would it have been a bit of fun?

    Let ‘em go to ‘Sabadawl’ as they call it so they can monkey spank over another club in blue and white quarters and think somehow it makes them special and loved.

    **** me. They could always arrange a friendly with a Jockey if the quarters mean so much to them.

    Knob jockeys!

  20. What are your immediate end of season thoughts?

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    35 minutes ago, CHIPLEY RED said:

    I’m not comparing the squad to what LJ assembled and I know finances are very different. 
    I’m just not over the moon with a season where we were awful at times and finished in the lower half the league again

    Could have been worse? We could have failed to get our finances in order and ended up in League One like Reading.

    What we have achieved this season cannot be underestimated.

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  24. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    16 hours ago, cider hoss rules said:

    The BBC knows.......

     

    Reading are 'playing for pride and the fans'

    Reading head into their final game of the season away to Huddersfield on Monday with a dark cloud of uncertainty looming over them as they prepare for League One.

    Williams says the Royals cannot underestimate what lies ahead.

    "Some people might be saying we're going down to bounce back up, but you can be in League One for a very long time, and big clubs have been," he warned.

    "Look at the league and you'll see you are going to Cheltenham, Exeter and Bristol Rovers and you may be being a little bit disrespectful.

    "But then look elsewhere and there is Derby, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Bolton, Charlton - all big clubs historically.

    "This season has been disaster after disaster for Reading and it hurts me to say that.

    So I take it that going to the Slumorial won’t be Reading’s Cup Final next year?

    45,000 to Wembley and the 6th richest club in this country!

     

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  25. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    48 minutes ago, redkev said:

    I think you will find it was 40k ????

    They went higher. 45k according to one deluded fan on that fateful day in 2014.

    You also need to factor in the sheer amount of fans unfairly locked out which is somewhere in the region of 20k.

    They are the next Darlington in waiting should they ever get that free ground that they are trying to scab.

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