Smaller than a flea

To be more precise: Beaten by Scunthorpe, who were on the verge of the playoffs last season. Beaten by Bolton, who were two divisions above us in May. Beat Oxford, who finished above us and were tipped to do well in L1. Beat Cardiff. Your rivals, who do better than you. Not brilliant, but not bad. And as for calling 9,000 in League 1 "pathetic", the vast majority of clubs in that league would bite your hand off for an attendance like that. I'm not trying to big us up, but just hoping that some more reasonable posters on here might see that what we have achieved in the past two years is actually pretty impressive. We're not going to storm League 1 as you did, but to be where we are now compared to May 2014 is something to be a little "prowed" of.

But we now wear Macron. And we have a new tent. It's all looking good.

It will be tough. Oxford were better than us last year but now Kemar Roofe has joined Leeds and Matty T decided not to leave us for Oxford, we stand a good chance of turning them over in the West Country/South Midlands localish derby. How do you describe where Oxford actually is in the country?

That's the one. Crystal Palace wear it too. They used to be in the same league as you, but times move on.

Just like you will be playing Man U next season after two matches. You might, of course, if they are relegated.

It's a virtual sellout tomorrow. Oxford have taken their 1,200 and over 9,000 have been sold in advance. POTD will soak up the rest. Darryl's strange new hairstyle is firmly gelled in place. Matty is wearing his lucky scoring pants. And our stunning new Macron kit is ready for its League debut.

I think we all know that if this fixture happened, we would beat you with a disputed 94th minute scrambled toe-punt from Matty Taylor, against the run of play. One empty seat in the Dolman would be proof that City can never fill Ashton Gate, and a police dog barking at someone wearing a blue and white shirt would be proof that the whole animal kingdom support the poor horses.

Well, since we're playing Cardiff on Thursday, I expect you'll be standing in the away section telling everyone how Matty Taylor is never going to cut it in League 1. I'm sure they'll also all agree with you.

I know you get a lot of likes on this forum by, in written form, wearily shaking your hand and bemoaning how lame Rovers are, but it's a slightly odd thing for a Rovers "fan" to do, isn't it?

OK, we got an early goal and you've replied with a lucky deflection.

Bristol Rovers Facebook. Likes 100,335. Bristol City Facebook. Likes 99,301. The horse punching tent dwelling minnows are liked by more people than the one team in Bristol.

So the dinosaurs didn't die out after all then. I can't believe that a few Rovers and City fans still harp on about "firms" and violence. It nearly ruined football than, and stains it today. On the rare occasions that City and Rovers meet, it would be great if it could be more like a Liverpool v Everton celebration rather than a nasty violent tense stand-off.

Great signing for you and good money for us. https://mobile.twitter.com/FL92Transfer/status/759080348978413569

It's a classic kit which everyone admires. Except on here. Rovers get two mentions in this link. Can't see City anywhere there. http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Articles/Classics.htm

Wael's bunged him a few dinars to keep him afloat but time is running out. Time to decide.

He's either signing for Celtic, Reading, Brentford, Hibs, or us. All the others have offered him £7k a week and we've offered him £3.5k plus bonuses. This is the gossip. He is taking a long time to make up his mind, and he's now out of contract since the end of June and not being paid. Perfect signing for City really. Best to jump in quick. Top scorer in the Football League last season. Go for it.

I think this was from icegas, who I previously (wrongly) suggested had just joined gaschat as one of you lot on there to stir things up. Now I'm wondering about him again. The views expressed in that post are not necessarily representative of the views of all fans of the up and coming club north of the river.

Hopefully it'll be raining and the thugs will get a good soaking in our luxurious "you're not welcome" roofless away enclosure. They were up to their usual antics today chasing Barnsley fans in the upper tier at Wembley.

I must admit they don't seem to be throwing money around, but they did say it was evolution, not revolution. Darrell Clarke has done all we could have hoped for, and more. If we're to be a success in L1 and push on to the Championship then a lot of money will have to be produced.

It does make sense. A bank wanting to fund a project might need £50m. They might be getting say 7% return by investing that £50m in the stock market. They could borrow the money at 5% if the loan is mega-safe, such as a rich Jordanian banking family. So why would they spend £50m of their cash and lose the 7% interest when they could borrow it and only pay 5%? This of course does not apply to mere mortals like us who pay huge interest rates for loans, but that's why the rich always do well.

Well that's a load of nonsense. Bankers look for outside investors because the return they get on their investments is higher than the interest they pay for loans for the investment, so long as that loan is secured on a safe source, ie the Al-Qadi family. In other words, it's cheaper for them to borrow the money than to use their own cash to fund the stadium.

Because I think he lost the plot at Palace and Millwall and the stress of it all seemed to do him in. Also the old adage of 'never go back' applies in spades here. He lost it in 2000 when we bottled the playoffs and admitted managing Rovers as a fan and ex-player was a bit too much to take. Still, he, and we, don't have to speculate about that now. Just as well Reading sacked their manager today and not last week. That would have been a much more tempting offer for DC.

I don't know if DC did it because he thought he wouldn't be able to work with the maniac at Leeds, or the new contract offer was too good to turn down, or he's simply loyal to the club and keeping his promise to get Rovers to top 10 in L1. Whatever the reason, it's a huge relief he's signed. The names Gary Johnson and Ian Holloway had already been mentioned as replacements. Both, especially the second, would have been a catastrophe.

You're all just secretly jealous that you haven't got a manager that Leeds United want to poach.

We are going up!