Smaller than a flea

I enjoy bantering with you lot.

Some of the replies are quite witty and not too many are hostile.

I know you hate me though.

2 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

You are going back 34 years to try and win an argument?  Oh dear

Just trying comparisons from when your club was first founded.

2 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

You've got to be seriously taking the michael. Pembo pisses all over that joker.

Oh and 10k crowds ? We will never be in the conference or league 2 again so pointless bringing that one up. 

I thought you had 3k in Division 4?

Sorry if I'm wrong.

2 minutes ago, Sergio Georgini said:

I know you're trying to take the piss because we have more "posher" facilities than some gazebo, tent, white plastic chairs and 2 portoloos with shit and piss stains all over them but aren't you and your fellow horse hitters desperate for a move to South Gloucestershire to try and get rid of the Ragbag Rovers tag? Slightly hypocritical, no?

 

Not at all. The Gloucester Road is a great place to be, and far better in my opinion than your location, but we have no room to expand there and the nimbys will not allow it.

So we have to move half a mile north of ye olde Bristol border into to the as-yet unexplored jungles of South Gloucestershire to find some space. 

It's going to be difficult getting there, if we ever do, since it is about 2 miles from where we are now.

6 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Exactly. When was the last time they had 13000 at home . There so desperate to have something better than us . They just make up bullshit and slap each other on the back . Seriously Gasheads who post on here . Give me 1 genuine thing that you're club has that we would desire. Be truthful 

Darrell Clarke manager.

Matty Taylor striker.

Marcus Stewart assistant.

10,000 crowds even in the dark days of the Conference.

Our pasties.

4 minutes ago, Son Of Nob said:

Just your normal... incognito

Can we park at the ground or should I just pay some urchin to protect my car for three hours?

2 minutes ago, Doozerchris said:

Mr Bitters back .

Do we pay on the day at Ashton Gate next season or would it be best to phone up first and check?

23 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Or 'Wembly' as they once mis-spelled it on merchandise when they got there....you cannot choreograph comedy like that - they constantly cheer me up!

I think you might find it's actually "misspelled ", not "mis-spelled".

Best to get your own house in order before trashing others.

On a slightly off-topic observation, why is it that when using Chrome on my iPad, the little logo on the OTIB tab at the top of the screen is in a pale blue shade and not red?

1 minute ago, Super said:

Haven't swansea just appointed a manager?

I didn't say he was going to be manager. Just passing on meaningless rumours.

4 minutes ago, Super said:

Who's joining swansea?

DC, taking Matty with him. Rumours. 

Wael will stop it happening, I'm sure.

This is banter on very thin ice here. You can criticise the fans, the stadium, the lack of wealth of the new owner, and the players, but slagging off the man who has totally transformed our club in two years is never going to work.

I hate to think where we might be if Nick Higgs hadn't turned to him in desperation and said "Well, all the other overpaid buggers have failed miserably, so it's on your shoulders now, lad."

He's joining Swansea soon, apparently.

5 minutes ago, East End Old Boy said:

What's this 100 years shit?

So aggressive. 

Dont you think the matches would be massive? You in your shiny new stadium facing the minnows in the dump in the Championship? The biggest ever crowds at both stadiums as they are now? 

Hmm. Not going well so far then.

I don't think we'll get promoted this season. We've been lucky coming from a goal behind too many times for the trend to continue.

But it's all going well so far. One point off the playoffs. Who knows?

Here's a genuine question for you.

If City don't get promotion, would you possibly like the prospect that Rovers could go up, and next year look forward to two of the biggest clashes we've had in 100 years, or do you just want them to stay in the lower league and frick off?

23 minutes ago, pride of the west said:

Has your sources told you who's paying for it and what the repayment plan is going to be? Serious question. Not looking to argue

No. I have no idea, but presumably the investors, who may or may not include Wael's family, think it's viable.  I'm assuming getting into the Championship is a vital part of the plan. If we don't, then who knows what will happen.

11 hours ago, Super said:

Apparently from last nights q&a there was no news on the stadium from the last meeting. Not sure where the flea man got his info.

I have my sources. No love lost between the Supporters' Club and the new owners, so they were never going to announce it at the Q&A for SC members only.

Apparently the UWE build starts in March. No idea if it's true or not, but I thought some of you photographers might want to record the event, and  you might need some notice to book a day or two off.

12 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

I'm a genuine fan and I'm annoyed by you but I can tolerate you not being banned even though, unlike Bert, you add absolutely zero value, humour or interest  to OTIB. Unlike some other team forums, it's not our style to ban supporters of rivals willy nilly.

I've had you.

2 minutes ago, Dark Wood Covert said:

He is taking the p1ss out of the Gas, whether he is City or not.. this is the lets laugh at the Gas thread anyway.

Bert is probably genuine but because he disagrees with yours and Prancers views on how apparently mighty the Gas is he is automatically a 'Ted. In relative terms you've done nothing as a club except skank 2 promotions so far and in all fairness his criticism is probably justified in recent years

Well if you're talking about the last fifteen years then fair play to comment on the farce that we have had to endure.

If we're talking about the last two years then maybe not.

11 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

I would say spending an hour writing something. Is better than waiting and checking a rivals forum for a couple of weeks to see if Bert has posted . Does it really irritate you that much . 

I don't wait for Bert. I read this forum often. I am interested in what you lot have to say about our rivals in Bristol. I read Gaschat much more often, but I do keep up with this one.  Just interested. Especially about what you say about us.  As many others on here do also, meaning they read Slagchat.

1 minute ago, Dark Wood Covert said:

If we ban him, can we ban you?

I would settle for that. Get rid of someone who spends his time on here as a supposed Rovers fan, who does nothing but criticise his club, and also lose a genuine fan who is annoyed by the other one.

It's your forum. Ban us both. 

Or maybe just "Bert".  

Since I am real and respectful of your forum and he is just taking the p@ss out of it.

4 minutes ago, reddoh said:

nope

Oh well.

Did you find his long, long obscure post as hysterically funny as he thought it was when he wrote it?

Or like me, did you think it was a bit of a waste of time?

32 minutes ago, bert tann said:

In the summer of 1968 I took a group of Rovers’ academy coaches to visit the training centre at leading Czech side FC Vim. These days every other village team seems to arrange such low cost weekend jollies but at that time it was a pioneering and extremely expensive venture. Luckily MFI  agreed to sponsor us and sent two of their chaps along to investigate the prospects of selling self assembly furniture to Czechoslovakian sports clubs and military installations. 

 

As the Fokker surged down the runway at Lulsgate I felt no Miss Givings because I had left her behind at Eastville licking stamps. Yet, despite this lack of secretarial assistance, the flight passed uneventfully and in what seemed like only three hours we were descending quickly through the white powdery clouds into Vim. 

 

Security was tight, which is how I like it, and though strip searched twice by a busty blonde border guard nothing came up and I was soon leading our party towards the Lubyanka Travel Lodge.  Surprisingly the roads were clogged with traffic and, using the splattering of Czech picked up through listening to the BBC World Service, I was able to ascertain that an army of people from CSKA Moscow were also in town and doubtless planning their own reconnaissance of the FC Vim training methods. 

 

Next morning it is only fair to say the cleanliness of the Vim training centre exceeded our expectations and I can quite understand how 99% of household germs do indeed perish in such an environment. In fact on the day of our visit we were told it was the cleanest clean it’s ever been. Forced to remain on the bleachers we could hardly make out what the players were doing on the pitch about 100 yards away but the souvenir shop was very good. And outside the ground we were given a demonstration of how the Czech authorities dealt with hooligans which was so life like you could actually believe they really were being lined up against a wall and shot !

Back at the hotel the CSKA Moscow club President, Mr Al-Molotov was hosting a cocktail party and in the spirit of maintaining cordial international sporting relations we raised our glasses to heroes from both countries including Bobby Charlton, Valentin Ivanov, Bobby Moore, Lev Yashin and Burgess  Maclean. 

 

On the following day, as we began our journey back to blighty, I reflected that we had actually learned nothing at all of value in footballing terms but, at least for a week or so, the publicity surrounding the trip would divert our supporters’ attention away from constantly thinking about car parks. 

 

We never did find out what happened to the lads from MFI.

 

 

 

 

To be continued …

 

 

 

 

                       

Be honest lads.

I know you love Bert, but is it a good idea to spend an hour of your life composing that latest pile of over-wordy nonsense? What does any of the implied irony or sarcasm actually mean except that he hates Bristol Rovers then and now?

If any of it was worth writing, or had some humour, I might laugh sardonically, but sadly I am not looking forward to part 2.

Can you ban him?

29 minutes ago, lenred said:

No. I'm not sensitive. You're just a complete and utter nause who contributes absolutely nothing on here other than telling us about your 'massive achievements' all the time. It's boring.  Really boring. So please, as I said F off back to Sagland and dream about your run to the play offs (and it is a dream) 

The whole point of this thread is to put us down. Fair enough. But unless or until I'm banned, I'm free to post another view. I don't criticise City or individual posters. I just celebrate the small but growing bits of success Rovers have these days after years of sh*te.

It would be boring without the occasional deluded horse punching sag head sticking up for the tent dwelling losers.