On 15/04/2019 at 19:07, Coppello said:

They say that they have had the stadium independently valued by experts which is interesting. I'd struggle to see how the stadium valuation of £80m has been ascertained using the depreciated replacement cost method given that it's not brand new and it's in Derby, not the most expensive area of the country. I'm currently working on a stadium valuation at the moment in a more affluent area of the country and I'd be amazed if it comes out at 75% of the fee. I do wonder if we will see a wave of Championship and Premier League clubs following this method which would be absolutely ridiculous. It throws FFP rules into complete disrepute. The fact that it has been audited is a bit of an embarrassment to Smith Cooper (their audit firm) who has signed this off.

As a side note, it is commonly stated that the football club do not own the stadium which is a little misleading. Yes, it's not held in the same legal entity as the footballing activity but it is held in a company that Bristol City Holdings Ltd own 100% of. It doesn't really change things in the grand scheme of things because if it was held in Bristol City Football Club Ltd, Lansdown could still asset strip the football club and sell off Ashton Gate. It's just slightly easier now it's in a separate entity as he could effectively sell shares in it but the Bristol City group still 100% own the stadium. 

 Someone must be telling lies. Everybody knows we are Bristol City (1982) plc Ltd as the faithful and true continually try to remind us. 82.

1 hour ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Taking on board feedback from the fanbase, Season Tickets will go back on sale for another three week window.

Over 4,000 Season Tickets have been sold for the new season, with supporters now having an extended opportunity to buy for the new campaign, as well as taking advantage of the finance option offered by Premium Credit. 

If you are a first-time Season Ticket holder or have switched your Season Ticket to a different section of the ground (or changed seat row/number), you will be issued with a new Season Ticket card.

Supporters who have renewed Season Tickets in the same area of the stadium will have the new season loaded on to their existing card. 

Prices have been frozen from the last sales window for Season Tickets - with the various prices listed below.

The deadline for 2019/20 Season Tickets will be 5pm on Friday, 19th July (midnight online) – with the deadline for finance applications falling slightly earlier, on Friday, 12^th July. 

£2.17 per game for an under-11 to be subjected to 90 minutes of hoofing the ball up in the air whilst freezing to death under a tarpaulin is absolutely outrageous.

Child abuse.

9 hours ago, alexukhc said:

Trying to nick our promotion team I see

It’s what the Gypos do best. 

1 hour ago, bcfc01 said:

Mark Little signs for them.

Bit surprised at that.

Must want to be back in the area as there are much better options for him I would have thought.

17 hours ago, JBFC II said:

Good to see they’ve now started the holier than thou rubbish...

Yes it’s a stupid, embarrassing act and I’m not condoning it but they’ve decided to tarnish our whole fan base with it, a bit stupid when you consider the racist abuse and physical abuse of opposition players that they’ve come out with over the last few years...

Hopefully the idiots that did this will be found out and dealt with accordingly but the over the top reaction it has got from them lot is ridiculous 

Holier than thou.....of course they are....with very short memories. Always the victim!

Whoever does this sort of thing is a ********. They can be found at all clubs....Rovers definitely included.

On Sagchat one of their posters refers to City as the “Family Club”....umm no mate. That’s like us calling Gasheads “ ‘Teds”

7 hours ago, View from the Dolman said:

It's just what they do...

 

Surely this article was written by a ‘Gert Ted’ because most Sags I know would distance themselves completely from this utterly deluded drivel.....apart from taking 40k to Wembley. One fan almost tried to have a punch up with me when I corrected him on the official stats.

6 hours ago, hail gus cesaer said:

“We took 39,000 thousand to wembley and Grimsby took 15,000????”

 

how does that add up to 44,000 the official Wembley attendance that day? 

They took 39,000 ‘to Wembley’. They didn’t all have tickets to ‘enter’ Wembley. There were plenty locked out and no doubt the only thing they ‘entered’ that day was each other.

On 17/05/2019 at 14:17, Mattyisared said:

Something I've found quite comedic that hasn't been mentioned on this thread whatsoever is Rovers and Coventry.

 

Last summer, Rovers signed the Coventry head of recruitment Tommy Widdrington. In that summer they also brought in his son Theo Widdrington after he was released by Portsmouth.

 

On deadline day in January, Rovers signed two Coventry cast-offs. One that was not wanted anymore in Jonson Clarke-Harris and the other who had been released by Coventry, Abu Ogogo. Although to be fair to them they seem to have been decent signings, Clarke-Harris especially.

 

They're now linked to two Coventry centre-backs, and apparently want both. Both not wanted at Coventry anymore; Jack Grimmer and Tom Davies.

 

Considering Coventry are a team that Rovers didn't even lose to this season, it seems hilarious they're signing their cast-offs. And so many of them!

Don’t go there when we constantly try to rape Barnsley!

On 26/05/2019 at 10:08, Port Said Red said:

True but sometimes customers want to meet face to face, my wife goes to London roughly once a month for this. We can all see why Wael of Fortune would prefer to meet people in a London office, rather than the Mem.

Did someone say “Wael of Fortune”?.......

On 27/05/2019 at 18:10, Rudolf Hucker said:

Gastonbury. 

Tentstock 

1 hour ago, LastManStanding said:

 

 

Please god.....I’ve got Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman “Time to say Goodbye” lined up ready......

And yet they get all shirty when we go on about Colin Daniel.......

19 hours ago, BCFC11 said:

Well you would of thought so, but according to a Fewer.......

It's almost worth suffering these years below them just knowing we'll always have this over them.

Such a weird fanbase, there really is no-one like them 

But we’ll always have Colin Daniel putting them out of the football league altogether. It’s beyond clutching at straws with that mob. Same with 1982. They have nothing of note over us for 29 years. They had their Tote End reunion yesterday with Rickie Lambert where they probably all asked him to relive “That Goal” before having a little tug. They won nothing and went on to lose the final, a a final which we have won more than any other club. They are fan base who is stuck in the past because they have no future. 

Sad *****!

4 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

Regarding 1990 it still hurts like hell 

and though I hate to say it , it is the one thing they will always have over us 

magic season with a tragic ending.....

It took the shine off what was a great season. It wasn’t a tragedy because we went up and then Fruity Mullet fcucked off and along came Agent Dobson who promised to turn Rovers into a “Footballing Side” rather than a bunch of hoofballers looking for “Big Dev”. He succeeded in turning them into relegation fodder and they banged back down to the 3rd tier in style. Superb. 

3 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Still less than £300 on the Blackthorn End.

 Bit pricey for a plastic chair, a portaloo Santa’s Grotto and an out of date packet of crisps from the condemned pasty shack!

5 hours ago, archie andrews said:

Well Mike... What are you thinking? 

We’ve been poor all season mind Geoff an’it?

1 hour ago, PhilC said:

 If Spurs have "The Game is about Glory" writ large at their ground, what would the Rovers equivalent be?

 

"How did them sheedheads get on?"

Yep, I was gonna say “City losing”

3 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Thanks for the reminder .... talking of anniversaries .... 5 YEARS TOMORROW!

Pirates are sent down

Colin Daniel's first-half goal condemned Bristol Rovers to relegation out of the Football League as Mansfield secured a 1-0 win.

Colin Daniel's first-half goal condemned Bristol Rovers to relegation out of the Football League as Mansfield secured a 1-0 win.

Some ugly scenes after the final whistle saw police horses come on the pitch to deal with angry Rovers supporters, who vented their fury at relegation.

 

 

HAPPY DAYS!

The 3rd May. The day that the 2nd May paled into total insignificance. Anyone who still celebrates 2nd of May are just asking for a 3rd May bonanza!!!!

4 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Happy anniversary all of you xx

2nd May....”Let’s all play find the City fan”

3rd May....”I’ve been frew two divorces.” “There are City fans waiting for us outside”

P.S. Happy 2nd May to you too....

#Theyrenotobsessed

2 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

I hope they've arranged the full gas experience for the lad:

8am Breakfast and Beer in the Spoons Kingswood

9am Wander down Two Mile Hill to the Roversport shop to find it’s closed down as a member of staff was fiddling the tills.

9:01 catch a lift outside The Essex in some beat up old banger with already lashed up 50 something bald Tote Enders without a full set of teeth between them.

9:05 listen to stories about the 70’s and how they done everyone whilst drinking Natch and singing the odd song or 50 about “da shit”.

9:18 Drive past IKEA but say nothing.

10:10 Park up and assault the first person that comes into view wearing anything red whilst shouting “Sheed’ead”

11am Boob cricket on Gloucester Road

12pm More drinks

12:30 pop in the bookies and put an accumulator on with Rovers down as a guaranteed win and Da Shit to lose 4-0

1pm Horse punching

2pm More drinks

2:15 seek affection from some Barnsley fans and try to get them to adopt The Gas as their second club whilst begging them to hate Da Shit:

2:30 Attack anyone with a slightly northern accent including Gloucester.

2.45pm Go to the Mem, he asks "Is the ground behind this training pitch?" Told that this actually is the ground.

2:50 Purchase some out of date crisps and visit the club portacabin to buy a framed picture of Eastville.

3pm Start singing songs about Da Shit for a couple of hours; pausing at appropriate moments to boo the Rovers' players and shout “Sheed’ead” every time Cauley Woodrow comes within 20 yards of the ball. Burn a City shirt. Talk about how da shit ****** up going up and pat each other on the back continuously.

5pm Leave ground disappointed; get mugged by pikeys

5:30 attack Barnsley fans for not allowing the family club to win.

5:45 Headbutt a minibus

6pm More drinks

6:15 seek out the same Barnsley fans that were befriended earlier in the day and give them a shoeing.

6:45 get arrested

A week later get a banning order

Updated a bit more...

2 minutes ago, Jim Davey said:

tiny Rovers that's actually a good name for them bunch of weirdos.

Tiny Tinpot Rovers....The “Tiny Tins”

4 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

One of those ***** says. ‘ let’s put a rovers badge on some and give them to kids to show the difference in class between us  

where do you start with this . Well , 500,000 kids a year have their lives enhanced by the community trust. How many over the Easter holidays at the football camps ? 

Meanwhile they have a thunder box as a Santa’s grotto , sell fake Fanta and out of date crisp and mars bars. you stay classy 15ers

I can't believe how supporters who have put their own stewards in hospital, pelted an injured player whilst being stretchered off, punched a horse (twice), started a riot and then blamed someone else, who have been pulled up on numerous occasions for being racist, let their kids go in a filthy old portaloo to see Santa dressed in blue and who punch the opposition players in the back of a net can possibly claim to have more 'class' than Bristol City fans?

I suspect they get the £9.50 Sun holiday vouchers and book a week at Pontins Brean too.

Their delusion is in another stratosphere.

Watch Babestation with glee

Whilst spanking the monkey

That's the Rovers

Go to the Colony

But there's **** all to see

That's the Rovers

If you're on crack and dense

And you phone Twentypence

That's the Rovers

I spoke to some Sags yesterday afternoon and let them know about their new TV being purchased from Steve Lansdown. A frantic search of Stadia Solutions on Google took place insinuating that I was a WUM Shithead Lady Garden, but when it was confirmed to be true the look on their faces was absolutely priceless. Heads were in hands. The best was when one lad said “We’re a ******* joke!”.....Yep, a massive one too

The gift has given again.

Oh, and they were ‘Singing The Blues’ again come 5 o’clock.

Franchise TV club!

When you buy a TV

From Lansdown’s family 

That’s the Rovers

1 hour ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Brilliant!

Just cutting and pasting the whole article in case it disappears:

Big Screen Update

Bristol Rovers are disappointed to announce that there has been a further delay to the installation of the big screen at the Memorial Stadium, meaning it will not be in operation for tomorrow’s game or the next one....and probably the one after that too.

As previously stated the club purchased the new 30sqm screen in July last year from Stadia Solutions, a leading international sports and entertainment agency that specialises in fully managed technology and media platforms, with the aim of having the screen installed next to the Brunel sponsored Tent by the end of 2018, but these things take time you seeeeee.

Although the screen was delivered on time in October, due to its size a special bespoke support structure was required to attach the screen to the current tent at the stadium. Unfortunately, the unique nature of the tent  led to various complications with Stadia Solutions’ sub-contractor as they couldn’t fit it without the wind blowing bringing the whole tent down, resulting in subsequent delays with installation.

Work started this week , ahead of the new proposed completion date of this weekend. However, the contractors have experienced further unforeseen issues on site, in other words they haven’t been paid which has delayed installation slightly. The team has been working tirelessly to fix the problems encountered but unfortunately the screen will not be installed and operational in time for tomorrow’s game as it requires time to evolve. Work will continue next week and completed as soon as Wally pays the frigging bill.

We apologise for the further inconvenience and would like to thank all supporters and screen sponsor Babestationfor their continued patience. 

Fans can claim a free out of date packet of crisps from the condemned pasty shack for any inconvenience this might cause.

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2019/april/12.4.19-screen-statement/

When your local’s The Lamb

And you lose to Chesham

That’s the Rovers

When you can’t have a laugh

And you’ve squatted in Bath

That’s the Rovers

When your old England shirt

On the back says “Lambert”

That’s the Rovers

When you take more away

And all bum Holloway 

That’s The Rovers