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A winner born out of the very worst of Lee Johnson's instructions. My blood is boiling. Ball in midfield in our possession with space to move if we are quick - chose to pass sideways, then back and back, for Flint to punt forward for a 50-50 header, which we lose and they break and score. How does this bullsh*t promote possession? Why pass up the quick move to keep possession if all you're going to do is setup a punt at two lines of opposition? The players have worked hard today to a man but they have been throttled out of attacking instincts by this manager.

Bit of a freak goal for me - clearance from a corner, lots of players trying to win the second ball inside the halfway line, handballs by both teams, think a few expected a whistle and then it spins clear of our midfield to their left wing to cross. If anything we over committed for the second ball.

At Portman Road. This shape is SO much better. Game is being played further into their half, we have 4-5 players in their half whenever we get the ball. Amazing the self belief when you play a competitive formation.

2 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Where is Barrow..?!

Carlisle ish.

And yet the horse punchers couldn't even make it a couple of hundred yards from HMP Horfield.

5 hours ago, SalisburyRed said:

capitulated to what my mate refers to as a "cr@p Millwall side".

They certainly weren't anything special, and very lacking in confidence bar woeful Rovers defending. I assume that your mate is being self-depreciating and somewhat humorous when he says 'cr@p', but I was amazed at the number of Millwall fans who actually ridicule their own team and routinely abuse their own players even at 4-0 up. It makes the idea AG is full of moaners seem very misplaced. One Cockney must have referred to every one of his own team as a "C".

More seriously one player we might want to look at (and logic says probably are) is Mahlon Romeo, a young right back, he might be Mark Little MKII but gets forward well, makes the right decisions to give and go, wants to get crosses in, and in defence is persistent in chasing down and closing down the opposite number out on the flank. Someone in my local said West Ham are considering a £2m bid for him. Would be one for the future and a replacement for Matthews.

5 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Nice to hear from Millwall fans that they were as quiet away from home as they are at the Mem. That's another one of their myths busted.

• 15:00 "Goodnight Irene"
• 15:01 "All hate Bristol City" (largely inaudible, Gas lot look miffed that Millwall haven't joined in)
• 15:02 Millwall started singing their largely forgettable Miiiiiillll nonsense (plus the usual Wales / tractor things), didn't hear the Gas again

I get that it was a poor performance for them with little to cheer (I was at Colchester in the promotion season and know how flat an away end can go when you're being stuffed) but it said a lot that their second song was already about us, and that they had nothing after that. Even at 10 men their team played some decent stuff on the break through Boateng, but there wasn't any group in their away crowd trying to get anything going. Very quiet and definitely not special*.

*Well, not in that way.

Not wanting to bust any other myths, but the family club had teenager in glasses who spent the final 15 minutes on his feet gesticulating at the rowdy Millwall fans in the Dockers stand and bizarrely offering them outside (half heartedly accompanied by an overweight mate behind him, who didn't look quite as certain that was the right thing to be doing). He looked more like a kid (Millwall fans called him "Harry Potter") so to be honest I actually felt quite sorry for him.

Regarding this 1,000 away attendance, I didn't expect it to be such a source of debate, and I don't really care as either way it looked like a pretty poor following to me, but for the avoidance of doubt, Rovers did have late comers who then used a third block to the right of those in my picture, but that block was less than 50% as much full as the others, which I took into account when I estimated around 600 of them in total. I certainly did not ever see 1000 in that stand.

3 minutes ago, Kim_il_sung said:

Seriously, that picture HAD to have been taken well before kickoff?? Surely?

Have a timestamp.

11 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

The City is theirs?

Thanks for the assist.

4 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Thank you that's my hand.

15 minutes ago, DANWRENBCFC4LIFE said:

1000 away fans for a London game in their position is no excuse either.

It was 600 at an absolute max. I'm really not interested in the Gas but the Den is a few minutes walk for me and the lads in my local keep telling me to come down. 

I've never seen a Dopey Darrell era team and not sure what the fuss is about. They have one class act in the lad in midfield on loan from Palace, but the rest is awful and Taylor did absolutely F all up front.

To be fair to them they looked like with 11 they could play some decent direct stuff on the break via the Palace lad but the defence was awful, slow and useless on the ball, makes me realise how good we are playing out of the back.

My biggest takeaway about the Gas is the fella with the beard and wurzel gummidge hair is an absolutely obscene diver. Really doesn't matter that he's Gas, I'd say it if he played for my team, he is an absolute embarrassment, I thought I'd seen some things in football, but never a player who dives IN HIS OWN HALF four or five times rather than defend, proper cynical.

Make sure you see Millwall's fourth goal, a belter of a back pass from the Gas. Their fans had one round of Irene, one round of 'All hate Bristol City' (yes, that was their second song of the day) and then deadly quiet being abused by the Millwall lot for the rest of it. No one was locked outside but quite a small number made it inside. Must have been some kind of hold up in the concourse that lasted all 90 minutes.

1 hour ago, Cotham Brow Red said:

I'd sack him if he worked for me.

I don't think he works to be fair, just look at him. Day out for him, day off for his carer.

5 minutes ago, Philgas said:

Give us some credit .. jeez 

It was a fantastic strike to win any match and if only you could hold more than just  4000 without additional tent pegs, more Gasheads would have seen it. 

I reckon you need a new venue, ideally  one with all satellite TV channels available, no horses, and room for the floating 20,000 Indonesians on Facebook.

BTW Wael has been asking for credit for weeks. All the banks have refused so far. 

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

I thought at one point the commentator said "rovers had an average crowd

He could have just stopped there

17 minutes ago, kevthered said:

I bet they don't rush back there with their sky cameras

How do you mount a TV studio on top of a tent anyway?

Not tin pot at all. This is the FIRST thing you see, full screen, if you visit the official Bristol Rovers website today (www.bristolrovers.co.uk)

Why are they all standing like ******* Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?

11 minutes ago, In the Net said:

Clarke had stated that he needed a total break from football

Didn't that start when he took over at Bristol Rovers?

Are they planning on opening a canine sperm bank in Leeds?

4 hours ago, Charliesboots said:

Caption competition....

 Dog spotted on roof of stand 

13 hours ago, BCFC11 said:

Take a look at some of these belters, beyond laughable.....

 

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/6579/35-000?page=4

Didn't get any further than the sag whose excited sign off was:

Boom boom boom everyone sing Wael, Wael!

I can't work out if it's a joke on their part or not, but either way my mouth hit the floor. Is Boom boom boom really the most appropriate way to celebrate a new Middle Eastern owner?

By the way, for those of you who aren't still listening to teen-market nineties Europop anymore and can't make the connection, I believe it's from Mad Stuntman "I like to move it move it".

"I like to move in" would be more appropriate for squatters. Bath City FC. Bristol RFC. UWE.

On 31 March 2016 at 12:02, Iron Man said:

Well their Wembley tickets were about £10 more expensive than ours. Explains why we took 18,000 more fans than them

7 hours ago, glynriley said:

See they had 8250 up the swamp today.

Nothing like proving to your new owners you need a bigger stadium when you're doing well, is there...?!!

The difference between these and their predictions are that as always, Bristol Rovers are much better at filling stadiums that haven't been built but not ones that have.

Commentator made that even worse by not having a clue what was going on

This commentator is so irritating 

3 minutes ago, ChillyTrav said:

"Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank"

"If you don't do it, Sky will"