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Nichols is on, so they are trying to defend their loss for the last few minutes.

What is the attendance?.........Not the ground mind, the car park?

He won’t because as we all know he can’t stand “the shit”

These things take time. They employed the same project management team they used on the hugely successful Colony project. The “Game changer” ? #thegift

Unlucky da shit! ?

Sometimes they have a great notion, to jump in the river and drown.......

Let me guess?.....For some supporters they penny has dropped that Hani says ‘No’, Wally is a really nice bloke but has no other answer than “These things take (until the end of) time”, Hamer is just a PR puppet dumped in front of the TV to give cryptic messages with no substance, but the rest of the deluded 40+ thousand fans locked out have turned against the enlightened ones?

They don’t require a power supply for the montage of Tom Nichols goals! ?

What? Trying to fit ‘Male-To-Male’ I suspect?......which leads us back to this again.....

And you could pop down the road to Fleetwood for a pre-match pint and some bum fun like your fellow locked out thousands did last season....?

Chelsea want to loan their players out to teams who can give them the proper footballing experience, not to hoofball clubs who just try to continuously kick the ball into outer space for 90 minutes.

Agree. He doesn’t come across as your average Sag like the ones who come looking for bants but then get all defensive and aggressive culminating in them wanting to meet up to re-arrange your shithead face ?.

And then blame ‘the shit’

Maybe when it comes to painting the picture ? but certain topics that I have discussed with Gasheads over the years have led to bizarre and aggressive reactions. This has even been when I have mentioned something about City which has no connection to Rovers in any way. I would imagine by the like count of my post that a number of City fans can relate to a lot of what I said. So I guess they have experienced some of the same? There is banter for a laugh and banter through gritted teeth and most Rovers fans I know fit squarely into the latter category.

He can’t. They can’t. It’s all they have left.

Thanks for filling in the historical gaps @Moments of Pleasure ??? It’s like a mental condition with them. Rather than accepting their own problems and enjoying their own successes they would rather shift the blame onto City. When they do bad it’s City’s fault When City do well they feel that it is some sort of negative reflection on them and City fans are labelled as ‘arrogant shitheads’ which entitles them to jizz in their pants with excitement when they are successful and hammer it home to those arrogant shitheads. Just like 1990, all you heard about was City (not surprising as they were top of the third division for long spells during that season and beat First Division Chelsea 3-1 in the FA Cup). If Rovers had been top for most of the season then no doubt the media spotlight would have been on them, but oh no, to them it was and had always been about a perceived bias towards City and I go back to my point about City getting all of the attention with Rovers ending up ‘forgotten about’. So when it comes to beating City and winning the title they feel ‘justified’ in rubbing the shitheads faces in it. Pathetically wearing “Bristol City 1990 - Third Division Champions” T-shirts during their open top bus tour of Kingswood. This somewhat skewed view of reality is then further compounded by Ian Holloway announcing that they have “had to put up with crap from shitheads recently” and following it up by saying “Let’s all play a game tonight if you can? It’s called ‘Find the City Fan’”. This is the mentality of life as a Rovers supporter for many (not all). They will argue until they are blue in the face that they don’t give a **** about Shitheads and that it is us who is obsessed with them, but they are having a ******* bubble if they think any City fan buys that for one second? This is the reason we celebrated their relegation to Non-League football (because they wanted us to cease to exist in 1982) and why we have this massive thread today (combination of 1982 and 1990) and the odd ‘City Relegation Party’ thread. All that they have ever banged on about has come back to bite them on the arse....and then they have gone even further The ‘Gift that keeps on giving’. They will argue that City ceased to exist in 1982. The fact is (and the records show) that a Bristol City club has continued the n the football league, but I certainly cannot see any record of Bristol Rovers being in any of the 4 divisions during 2015.....just checked again....nope, no sign of Rovers. So really, banging on about 1982 when they dropped out of the football league altogether is laughable.

Just one more point.....It is my belief that prior to the 70’s the rivalry between City and Rovers was a lot less bitter than it became. I know a few old timers who would go to City one week and go to Rovers the next quite happily. And certainly even during the 1970’s after the games the City and Rovers players had been known to socialise together off the pitch. It was competitive on the pitch but certainly not as ugly as it was off the pitch. I know that because I have heard it first hand from a Rovers player who was part of the 73/74 promotion winning side under Don Megson and from a City player who played an integral part in City’s promotion winning team of 75/76.

The way Gasheads look at it is that Bristol City F.C died taking with it our history and ALL past achievements, thus (in their minds) erasing the painful and bitter memories of Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester United etc playing competitively at Ashton Gate and having to hear about their rivals every week and read about them in the national papers (which is part and parcel of playing top flight football) whilst they (again in their minds) were ‘forgotten about’. It promised to be the beginning of an exciting period for Gasheads in the early 70’s, winning the pointless Watney Cup in a dire 0 - 0 draw and decided by the lottery of a sudden death penalty and then following on from that success by thrashing Brian Clough’s Brighton team 8 - 2 with the legendary ‘Smash and Grab’ firing them back to the Second Division. For a short time they were back on a level playing field with Bristol City, but City had to go and spoil it by going up to the First Division, whilst Rovers started to struggle in the Second. So imagine seeing the momentum at your club disappear and at the same time hearing about your rivals not only going up but staying up on the last day in a game that has been often described as a ‘fix’ (obviously discounting beating Liverpool and Leeds and drawing with Man Utd to give us any hope in the first place). They must have felt like it was all a big conspiracy against them because as we all know they are always the victim. The rage must have been incredible. Then in 1977 they became record breakers by being the losing team in the biggest ever televised Match of The Day thrashing (9-0 at the hands of Tottenham), and then being unfairly robbed of beating Ipswich Town when Bobby Gould’s legitimate goal was ruled out for offside. As things weren’t working out on the pitch for them and City seemingly being unfairly kept in the top flight (in their minds) they saw an opportunity of getting some attention and media limelight finally......unfortunately it was for all the wrong reasons competing with Millwall, Aston Villa etc in the Hooliganism league table (as glorified in a book). Seething, jealous, hard done by, cast aside and forgotten about in favour of ‘The Shit’. Then in 1980 City are relegated from the top flight and start their own downward trajectory. The following season both Bristol clubs are shit and are both relegated back to the third tier. It’s bad for Rovers that their time in the Second Division came to an end, but it was fine and dandy because ‘The Shit’ went down with them. So imagine then when City ended up in financial difficulty? As a Rovers fan this was their moment to not only be on an equal footing but they could actually end up as Bristol’s top team, emerging from the shadows. Having had to endure being ‘forgotten about’ that is what they wanted for Bristol City, they wanted Bristol City to be forgotten and they delighted in it, revelled in it, laughed at the ‘Support Bristol City Now Or Never’ campaign. After all, it was Bristol City who had stamped all over their early 70’s success by going up to the First Division. Their own demise had been Bristol City’s ‘fault’ for going one better. So when the dust settled they were able to say that this was a new club, this wasn’t Bristol City, and they could block out the pain and suffering they felt in the late 70’s. City was gone, it was all a dream, Rovers are top dogs, the 82ers are in the basement (so bragging rights about Rovers never being in the bottom division ended up a regular taunt until ‘2nd May’ - a Gasheads favourite day). This is my view of why Rovers bang on about 1982. The fact that we have been far more successful than them since 1982 is somehow lost on them, as is anything pre-1982. It’s their own little way of convincing themselves that Bristol is 50/50.

They don’t like facts to get in the way of a good story as you know, and if they bothered to do a bit of investigation they would realise that the Bristol City 1982 company finished in 1996.

Well the way Rovers fans go on about it you’d think it was?! I don’t know any City fan who is bothered about 1982. It was a struggle for power within the boardroom that put the club in financial difficulty. It happens. If I was you Miah I would be very concerned about glaring issues surrounding Rovers immediate future. It doesn’t look too promising does it? 1982 is in the past, just like Rovers fans. What goes around comes around, and for all those Gasheads who laughed and rubbed their hands with glee at the thought of City going bust having had to hear about them week in week out playing in the top flight when the only mention Rovers got was for hooliganism.....tick tock time is almost up.

This was stuff that went on behind the scenes. It had nothing to do with the fans. Some fans were shameful when it came to their opinion of the players, but there was a lot of rumours which were untrue flying around at the time. Fans don’t want to see their club die. Rovers fans were no different when the snake signed for City. I’d be interested to see what happens if the fake sheikh can’t find a buyer for Rovers. I could see them pulling their money out and sending Rovers right down the swanee. Would be very interesting to see the actions of the so called family club then. Rovers wanted to see City go bust and then steal the ground. Nice ?

That doesn’t surprise me at all. I can recall at least 3 40 plus year old Sags saying something similar to me around the age of 12. I was stunned. Proper venomous too. Never known anything like it. Find me a Rovers fan who say’s they are not jealous of City and I’d bet my house on it that the are lying. If the shoe was on the other foot I would be envious of a Rovers being in a decent stadium, playing football in the Championship with crowds of 20k+ seeing players of quality being bought and sold for millions with the slight glimmer of hope of reaching the premier league still a possibility. But they just can’t bring themselves to admit it. They won’t go to ‘Trashton Gate’ even to watch a rugby game. They can’t wear anything with red in it and can never take any friendly banter. Some can take it in small doses but it doesn’t take long before they start seething. I don’t even bother mentioning it anymore to some of the people that I know because it just isn’t worth falling out over. Their wish is to finish one place above City and they are as happy as you like. Shot away.

At the time for me it really hurt. It was the fact that we had thrown the title away when it was in our hands, and fair play Rovers took advantage and won the title, but what followed really made me despise Rovers. My first recollection of something distasteful about Rovers was after a defeat at Ashton Gate (which was commonplace in the mid 80’s). I was leaving the ground in complete disbelief how we had lost a match to our closest rivals after literally battering them for 90 minutes. I was walking past the Rovers team coach and looked up and Ian Holloway was sat there laughing like a child and pointing at us. He was clearly loving it and was taunting us as we walked past. I thought ‘what an absolute ******* *****’. Fast forward to 1990 and Rovers beat City convincingly at Trumpton to effectively take the title at the very last moment after City had been at the top for the majority of the season. Not content with just winning the Championship the people I know (just like Holloway) couldn’t wait to gloat and taunt us. Rather than enjoy it for what it was it was all about ******* City and that was the moment I went from not being to bothered about Rovers to absolutely detesting them, and my feelings have never changed. I still see the same reaction whenever misfortune of some kind happens to City, and if it’s Rovers who inflict the damage then it’s 10 fold. I’m not bothered about 1990 any more as we won the League One title without breaking a sweat in 2015 and that truly put that to bed, with the icing on the cake being the previous season watching Rovers fall through the trap door (that one exorcised the ‘taunting’ demons of 1990 and that one will hurt your lot forever). 1982 means nothing either as we have moved on. Rovers however are stuck in the past. That is all you have got. 1982, 2nd May, Dean Windass, Tote End......all dead and buried like your clubs hopes for the future. Nothing personal Miah as I think you are a decent poster and I know quite a few decent Rovers lads, but nothing would please me more than to see your poxy club go under because of the mentality of your fans base and their “City’s losing” monkey spanking antics.

T’is true. One kiddie understood the punching of the horse bit, but they were all in the dark when it came to Come On Eileen. The more me and my mates encouraged them the louder and ’proweder’ they sang it. If the groom had said his missus to be was called Irene I think it would have topped it off.

It was a blow up horse costume. They were in fancy dress. They gave it the old “Sheed’ead” when they saw my mate had a City polo shirt on, but when Dexy’s came on and they started belting it out.......?????