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  1. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    11 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

    Ok ,own up. Which one of you is "Tote End Tony" in the EP letters. Brilliant piss-take of a gapper. 45 k at Wembley, 50k seat UWE, priceless...and the EP have been well and truely fished in !:P:P:P

    Whatever happened to Prancing Fanny?

  4. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    14 minutes ago, Jack Dawe said:

    A reasonable point you make but I think you are making the mistake of attributing the habits of what - 40 to 50? 60 to 70? Shall we say 80? - 80 City obsessives and "nutters" on here posting on this thread, the same ones mostly, over and over, and maybe a couple of hundred - shall we say 500? - checking and reading but not posting anything, mostly out of habit and boredom at work, you are attributing their habits to the rest of our support (some 14 to 15 thousand every week, currently). That's a minority, even if you double the 500 browsing this thread to 1000. 

    It's the same few people posting over and over. Most City fans I know barely give the Rovers team a second thought (and would struggle to name two of their team), their historic and memorable relegation two years ago being an exception. That momentous own-goal was hard to ignore and seemed to inspire most of this thread - and as others have said, purely the opportunity to mock and ridicule them, having taken so much grief from Wembley 08.

    Years ago, it was all Holloway this, or Randall that, or Penrice, or Alexander, or Lambert etc. In other words, players we knew about because they had hurt us on the pitch and could do so again. Not so anymore, not for years. I could name every one of their team years back, now there's Taylor that scores goals and ? What's he ever done to us?

    Very few people sing anything about Rovers at AG, or join in with others singing stuff about them, the Atyeo lot being the exception. When they do, it's not even half-hearted. There's no feeling in it. Because the Rovers team are irrelevant to us, they can't hurt us. They don't matter. Maybe they will in the future, but they don't now and have not for many years.

    Meanwhile, at the Memorial Ground, so I read, it is another story, with "are you watching Ashton Gate" belting out and other rather pitiful, "don't ignore us" type songs being sung. The equivalent songs of which you just don't ever hear at AG. And then we get gas sorts coming on here insisting they do matter to us, which I get rather tired of, so I thought I would take the trouble to point out to one how I see things.

    So, like I said, Rovers fans we cannot escape. The Rovers team generally only enters our awareness (the majority), outside of final score on matchdays, when the inescapable Few bend our ears at work or in the pub and come on here insisting they still matter to us. To my mind there is no obsession with Rovers, there's little in the way of that sort of "passion" at AG anymore and if you think there is, you're spending too much time on here.

    Have they still got that bearded tramp?

     

  5. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    11 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

    I'm confused by this thread. Nottingham Forest, having just won the European Cup, were laughing at their little neighbours Notts County way back when.  Fair enough.

    But no. We have just been promoted to a league you last saw in.....let me check....ah yes...2014-15. One which, the season before, you were at one point in being danger of being relegated from under O'Dismal.

    So we are now playing the same teams you played all of 12 months ago.

    Yet a vast gulf exists. You only think of us when you see a blue shirt in Bristol. Other than that, we do not register. You are in a different league, not just literally, but metaphorically. Apparently.

    I'm making no claims about Rovers being a big club in any sense, but some on here (not all by any means) honestly need to get a sense of perspective.  Bristol City are perceived by the big boys in the Championship as being about on a par with Millwall or Rotherham. You might improve and creep up the Championship, but we are talking now, not some golden time in the future.

     

    Yes, but last season you were using jumpers for goalposts. For all our shortcomings (and they are legion), we have never had that embarrassment.

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    42 minutes ago, cityexile said:

    You assume he was using it as a mathematical symbol, rather than just a rather more exciting 'dash'...and even then it is KS2..

    Please map out, as currently stands, FGR < Bristol Rovers < Bristol City.

    Happier?

    Gas<FGR<Mighty Reds...more like it.

  17. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    23 minutes ago, Malago said:

    I would prefer that they go up automatically.  Imagine if they go up by the playoffs, we'll never hear the end of two Wembley final wins in a row.  Plus we'll  have to put up with all their Barry in the lead up to the play off final about attendances etc,

    if they don't go up they'll almost certainly dominate league 2 next year.  If they do go up the pressures on Wally to spend big, which will call his bluff.  I think they'll struggle in League 1, which in the longer term will be more fun for us.

    Yes, but how utterly spunktastic it would be if they lost at Wembley....preferably to injury time og.

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  18. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    1 minute ago, Red Right Hand said:

    Of course. We obviously bought all the tickets we could and didn`t go to the game just so their loyal and true superfans couldn`t get any and were consequently locked out. It all fits. Gurt dirty teds aren`t we?

    Utter glory hunting bastards

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