Gert Mare

We definitely need to be better in the middle of the park. If you win those battles you dictate the game.

As much as I like Alex Scott he is a luxury player who likes to be further up and draw fowls. He jogs about and isn’t aggressive to get stuck in and help out the two in the middle.

When you are struggling to get hold of the game you need other players to come in and break up play.

20 hours ago, Purple Paul said:

Surprising there's  no taking the piss of Rovers result today.  

No. You’re coming for us again, singing the blues.

What is even more surprising is that you haven’t arranged an open top bus tour of Kingswood after spoiling Burton’s Cup Final and that you haven’t mentioned the numbers that went today because it’s what you do?!

Massengo might be a headless chicken who doesn’t know how to shoot, but a real positive is that he has massive hair. I think we should sing about it?

A positive I took from yesterday was that Massengo has massive hair.

6 hours ago, HitchinRed said:

Bristol Rovers fined £16,500 by FA for crowd trouble in Scunthorpe promotion game. 

I’m not sure that this will provide much of a deterrent for one of the richest clubs in the country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62392726

I know every club has them, but my god it seems like every week something like this happens with the gappers.

They really need to think seriously about disassociating themselves with the words ‘family club’ unless of course they are referring to the ******* Kray’s!

They could always sit on the white plastic chairs for £23 and enjoy a fake Fanta and a packet of out of date crisps?

Then they’ve got the converted portaloo Santa’s Grotto and the condemned toilet block. What more do they want?!

Um, because you are a little Tinpot club? Small club playing a team from a village and getting battered. It’s not a surprise that you lost. All your loanees have ****** off back to their parent clubs leaving you with a team full of no marks in your little tented shit pit.

Cruel luck and poor refereeing decision. A game we should not have lost, but apart from Weimann’s goal we didn’t create much. Atkinson should have had a penalty. I haven’t seen a takedown like that since Swindon against Flint.

Should have been 3 points today but we let Hull back into the game after we had started and kept possession so well.

45 games to go, but we should come away with something against teams like Hull.

I remember a Gentleman's Evening with Stoney.

His opening line "What's your name son?". I can't say any more as people are offended too easily these days.

What a laugh that day was!!!

Legend!

Zak Vyner in my opinion is a liability.

Flat footed, casual / lazy, ball watches, switches off, plays too many long balls which squanders possession.

Mistakes have been made and then are repeated over and over again.

Just not good enough. Would be a liability if given ANY game time.

Vyner in no man’s land with a half hearted ball watching jump….We’ve seen that numerous times now. Never learns

9 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

………….and they wonder why we take the piss out of them. If they didn’t get ahead of themselves proclaiming HMS Piss League 1 (they didn’t even piss the 4th Division) losing a meaningless pre-season friendly at Bath could brushed off in 30 seconds.

True. They always set themselves up for it and then throw their teddies out of the pram when it goes tits up!

On 13/07/2022 at 16:33, Trojandog said:

Okay, fair one, it was me. Don't worry, this isn't a Gashead infiltrating, just a Gashead who has signed up to set the record straight. Born in Eastville, then joined the Army in '77 and met a Sussex lass. Now support The Gas and Lewes FC where I volunteer on the SC Committee, do stewarding and maintenance.

At the end of last season the match board was still showing the final game so I was asked to clear it. The temptation was too great.  No offence intended, just a bit of banter. I never expected it to be seen outside of Lewes. In fact, being on a no-through-road, it was only likely to be seen by people on their way to the council tip. It's come down now. As it happened, a lass from your women's team was coming for a look round and diplomacy prevailed. 

On the back wall of the main stand are just over 70 scarves from around the world. Rovers and City are represented. Rovers prominently, City maybe less so, but that's what happens when a Gashead puts the scarves up .

Anyway, good luck for the season. Please don't get relegated, then we can have a couple of derbys when we come up for the 23/24 season.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/XdCzFr8rYjnohLJb8

 

Fair play

A Gashead that can own up and take the banter like a proper bloke. 

10 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

Textbook Sags. 25% decent, reasonable fans you can talk football with properly, the rest a deluded bunch of idiots with an off the scale inferiority complex (which includes the journo that writes for them hence Bristol Rovers XI losing to a National League side)…..

The Sag had spent half an hour trying to convince the ‘Ted that Jaily Barton had put out a stronger XI against Chippenham.  The Sag was clearly one of the ‘Tote End Era’

Brilliant. Last night I overheard a Sag saying that the loss against Bath City was only a friendly and Rovers had most of their second string out. I heard someone else say that it wasn’t what they had heard, it was most of their first team at Bath. The Sag denied that this was the case and referred to the other chap as a ‘Shithead ***’. 
 

Then about 40 minutes later another Sag turned up (who had actually been to Trumpton) and said it was a poor game considering how many of the first team Rovers had out.

The bloke that had piped up earlier (The gurt ‘Ted) said “Yep that’s exactly what I had heard”

Then the original Sag started losing his shit saying “Well it was only a friendly and you can stop ******* smirking you Shithead ***!”

Love it! Deluded Sag brought crashing back down to earth by one of their own.
 

The gift

28,000 capacity.......1k more than City. You just know that would be the one and only reason.

They'll struggle to get a decent new stadium, and even if they did it would be less capacity than Ashton Gate.

Build any bigger and they'll end up being the new Darlington.

Mind you, if they did end up as the new Darlington it would be funny, so I would like it to happen. 

On 04/07/2022 at 21:07, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

“We nEed nEw Staydeeyum”

”besT sporters in wurld”

”un luky dA shiT”

 

Which one is Windass?

Code anyone?

On 28/06/2022 at 00:31, bcfc01 said:

Yeah.

And we're gonna play four, four, ****** two.

Ooh yes! Jumpers for goalposts

Just now, chinapig said:

You do realise that clubs do still scout players as well? Especially a club like Brentford who people seem to think rely solely on data.

Jurgen Klopp speaks highly of Liverpool's recruitment analysts as it happens but I'll get on to him to let him know he's wrong.

Now, where did I put his phone number?

Yep. It’s just that data doesn’t really work well where humans are concerned.

I bet the data showed that Nahki Wells would score every couple of games before he joined City? That stat soon went out of the window.

2 hours ago, Simon bristol said:

I suspect lee johnson went too far the other way with stats, and didnt have the man management part of the game to back up his love of stats and analysis, but these days, with the level of wages, and social media etc etc, its easy to see why pro clubs use any means necessary to help identify players etc etc…. How we have got it so badly wrong with most of our signings over the last few years i dont know, but i guess we have had people in positions who decide on our signings who have just been pathetic at their jobs!

Lee Johnson went way too far with the theory and bamboozled players (and the supporters).

3 hours ago, chinapig said:

Shall I tell every major club in the world to sack their analysts or will you?

I’m happy to do it.

A good old fashioned scouting network will trump data analysis any day of the week.

Personally the only stats worth anything are the ones on the scoreboard and everything else is just utter tosh and I’ll state my reasons why:-

Footballers are humans, not machines and therefore are prone to loss in confidence, illness, other issues such as whether they get on with certain players in a team or the manager.

What about other player’s trust? They might not fancy passing to someone too much who might be a liability?

Regardless of however many blades of grass a players covers if you don’t score goals the stats are worthless.

Brian Clough had it right. Get in players heads, let them relax and rest at times, tell them that they are better players than they are, keep it simple.

Football is such a simple game, score more goals than the opposition, but start from having a solid defence. Aim to keep the ball in the opposition’s half.

The rest of the things you need you can see with a good eye.

Stats just waste hours of someone’s life that they will never get back to produce pictures that are confusing to those trying to get any meaning from it….plus it ain’t winning you any more matches!

Blimey, the BBC actually reporting something factual for a change!

20 hours ago, Marcus Aurelius said:

Right, that’s it, no more love-ins!

They’ll be booking a weekend in Nottingham instead for a little trip to Derby where they can reminisce about their massive following when Nathan Ellington wowed the Derby fans and Derby adopted Rovers as their second club.