Tinmans Love Child

5 hours ago, KegCity said:

You'll be hard pressed to find anyone genuinely working class in the post-punk scene at the moment, with the exception of Sleaford Mods. Nothing wrong with it mind, Joe Strummer was privately educated and grew up in middle class surroundings.

I’ve played in the same band (now called Levi Valentino) since 1997, and I think it’s probably a rich mans game now playing in bands, the equipments expensive, the practicing is expensive, you get next to no money from gigs (in comparison to the time you spend getting there, setting up, playing, packing up) you get no money from streaming.  If you were genuinely from a poor working class background, the last thing you’d do (or be able to do) is form a band, much better going solo or doing more electronic stuff 

8 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

I`m not having that - it shows them getting eight more points. That`s crazy talk!

True!  They have 34 points from 38 games so 0.89 ppg so 7 more points if they keep that form going, so will end with 41.  I think even increasing that ppg to 1 to end on 46 points would mean 12 points from final 8 so 4 wins, never happening with the team they have, and even if it did would 46 be enough, not sure if would although some equally terrible teams down there

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/league-one/

Not sure how this predictor works, but I’ll take it!

3 hours ago, Red_Alligator said:

GasChat is a must Grubby. I have no qualms about making regular visits. Fantastic entertainment. Truly the gift that keeps giving!

My fave thing on Gaschat is if they are talking about a keeper they say ‘Goalie’, don’t know why but it amuses me greatly

5 hours ago, petehinton said:

Is there anything more embarrassing than sacking a manager only to hire him again ?

Yes when that manager comes back and takes the club that he previously got relegated to non league back down to league 2 thus losing his “legend” status!!

2 hours ago, BanburyRed said:

Looks like a late Oxford winner will keep them above the line....for now. Their luck from other teams is sure to run out....just like the sendings off and red cards.

Any 4 from 7 it looks like to me, will go down to the wire I think

You could get Pep or Jose in at Rovers and they wouldn’t do anything, they don’t have any strikers end of story!  If Holloway goes in and takes them down, that would be something!

On 06/02/2021 at 20:32, cheese said:

Little Johnny is asked in class by teacher "what does your daddy do"

"Well miss he works in a gay bar, he dances for gay men wearing a thong and accepts

tips tucked in his thong for lap dances off old men"

After class the teacher asks him to stay back.

"Is that true about your dad?" she's asks still shocked.

"Nah miss he plays in defence for Bristol Rovers but imagine the shit

i would get off my mates if they found that out..."

Your time machine is ready to take you back to the 70’s

22 hours ago, Slacker said:

Are the beverages on offer to the offices actually in date by any chance?

That stand reminds me of the meat machine lorry that drives around selling sausages!

20 minutes ago, myol'man said:

Freedom of the City for Mr. Tisdale?

The bloke is a genius 

 

Accrington Stanley, who are they?

And I thought Ben Garner was brilliant!

6 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

If Northampton get something, Swindon or Wigan take 3 points from their fixture and Rovers lose, yes. 

Happy to leave that until last game of the season though. 

The problem is Swindon, Northampton and Wigan are all terrible as well.  They are defo in trouble though Rovers, and always were after losing JCH and not replacing him adequately.  I don’t know if those other teams around them have strengthened or not but will go to the wire I think.  It doesn’t matter who the manager is if the players are not good enough

12 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

We had 1000's of home fans locked out Admittedly we were playing them so all those City ST holders that didn't get in were obviously gasheads but we did have home fans locked out.

Actually, going back to the 70's we had lockouts a few time IIRC.

Was that when people were sat on the steps of the dolman?  I remember it being total carnage, and the club were lucky nothing bad happened to be fair

Funny how they never talk of how many get locked out at home games!  I mean even if you took it as fact that they have amazing away support, and take 40k to Wembley etc etc surely that just highlights how incredibly poor the home support is, so why boast about it?

Classic Rovers on Twitter today, I wonder how the ‘300 more were locked out’ figure was arrived at?  Did they do a head count?  Did they multiply the actual number by 10, then add 100, then round up to the nearest 100?
 

1 hour ago, Top Robin said:

The piss take of Rovers is all very amusing but the fact is...if we played them right now they would probably beat us. 

Wash your mouth out

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2020/december/final-mug-launch/

insert your own jokes:

Bristol will probs be in Tier 3 anyway so unfortunately won’t be applicable for our games to start with anyway 

22 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

Ahhhhhh .......the old ‘Alex Ferguson one’...

 

Manager loses first game ................compare to Sir Alex Ferguson......

Yep that’s it .........

The same Sir Alex who had won the Cup Winners cup with Aberdeen before taking on the Man Utd role, ridiculous comparison!

27 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Latest news from the Post 

Ben Garner breaks his silence with classy statement after being sacked by Bristol Rovers

To save you all the time of reading the article . 

They are easily impressed on Gaschat, BG was one of their worst ever managers which is saying something in itself, and not  slagging them off when he leaves is ‘classy’,  nobody slags their last club off when getting sacked, especially with his record

I think they will carry on for now as measures now in place and have been for a while, however the longer this goes on m, and therefore the further away from fans returning, it’s going to kill off so many clubs in the pyramid I fear

1 hour ago, Matthew me said:

Amazing isn't it. Hard to imagine you could watch both teams. But it looks like plenty of people did!

The thing is in the 70’s there were no games on Tv in the pub to watch or anything like that, so if you wanted to watch football and your team was not playing then it was the logical thing to do, from speaking to my Dad about it He was always a City fan but also a fan of football

9 hours ago, Matthew me said:

Before my time, but my parents and grandparents often told me how they watched city one week and the gas the next. Apparently lots of people did it. 

Joking aside, were my family unique or was that more common place when football was the equivalent of £2 a ticket?

I can't imagine any circumstance in modern football where that would happen. 

Perhaps the tribal rivalry wasn't as intense back then?

My Dad did that and actually met my mum at a Rovers match when City’s away game was called off him and his mates went to watch Rovers, would have been early/mid 70’s as I’m 41