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  2. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    4 hours ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

    Got a feeling it was Tom Ritchie with the goal right in front of us but what a memorable trip to York that was.

    I always remember the first City fan to jump off the train started running and shouting 'BRISSSSSSSSSSSSTOLLLLLLLLLLL' and was immediately jumped on by the waiting police and dragged off.

    All that way and arrested within seconds of arriving.

    Beryl - putting on trains, keeping us all in line, making the cheese and onion rolls - those were the days. If you are now aged 45 to 60 odd. If I owned Bristol City now, I would be putting on trains to selected away games (I can't think why SL doesn't do/feel the same :whistle:) I'd even make the cheese and onion rolls (although I might soften the onion a little first).

  3. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    26 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

    We do, of course, play them the week before they do and I suspect will take less to Molineux than they will sadly.

    Cue six months of them crowing about how they`re somehow bigger than us.

    The tickets for their game will be half the price we pay to go there, probably less than half. They have very little to crow about generally, let them crow about irrelevant stuff like this if they want

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  4. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    2 hours ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

    Gas logic is afoot on social media. Saw a tweet about how little we take there. 

    Maybe they will work out why we took over 5k to WBA in the cup but don't travel well to a place we always get dicked.

     

     

    Rovers have lost one in their last 10 games v Wolves, winning three times at Molineux in their last 5 visits. Lots of good memories for them up there, and no doubt plenty of their older fans will go. Amazingly, the two of them have only played each other 14 times (couldn't believe this. Can this be right?), including one Watney Cup game, of course. So, good memories, good omens, and novelty - they last met in 1993, almost of a quarter of a century ago - a new ground for their younger ones to tick off, and for the ones locked out in the 80s and early 90s.

    In contrast, we are sick of the sight of them (Wolves. Well, both). We have met 65 times, and have been there nine times since Rovers last went to Molineux, losing eight and drawing one. I think we last won there in 1931. There has also been a lot of trouble between their mob and ours, which puts a fair few "normal" fans off, once you've ticked Molineux off. I doubt there has been similar levels of trouble between Rovers and Wolves; unlikely the g4s sh1t squad have been there and "had a go." Or ever will do. Hope they are careful up there though, remembering that 40 year old Watford fan kicked to **** a couple of years back. Nasty place.

    Plus, they are going for a one-off cup game, and as you say, we sold out West Brom and could've taken more than we did. It's not a like-for-like comparison. 

    Interestingly, Cardiff took 1500 to Molineux last weekend, and some of ours on here were upset that we only managed 1900 at Brum.

    I wonder when we will next visit a ground we haven't been to for 24 years, for a one-off cup game, a ground that Rovers have visited nine times in those 24 years, winning none. I reckon we would take a bigger following too. Woopee.

  6. The Official Newcastle United v Bristol City Match Day Thread

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    9 minutes ago, old_eastender said:

    Great point, but yet again LJ shows he has no idea about game management... how many times have we let slip winning by 2 goals now?

    The "game management" was in the first half energy and hussling, which helped us get 2 ahead. I think, in the circumstances, that is pretty good going for LJ, and to his credit. We need to see more of it, though, against the lesser sides, and then good things might happen more often

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  15. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    34 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

    Are you Alastair Campbell?

    To sum up, that is not what I wrote at all.

    No, you also dipped into your imagination with some other stuff - apparently, you missed out on a "generation" while in Bath. You were in Bath 10 years I think, while a "generation" is generally agreed to be 25 years. In those 10 years, you were promoted - generally an opportunity to gain or regain fans - and then relegated - generally a good way of losing support. So you "missed out" on a fairly neutral experience there, I'd say.

    Unless we buy into the Rovers fantasy of loyal support (which if true back then, would have coped easily with going from East Bristol to Eastville, to going from East Bristol to west Bath. A difference of how many miles?)

    Rovers had lost "generations" of support long before leaving Eastville, as your final attendance there suggests (about as many of you then as there were Eastenders in the East End for the East End's last game in 2014). In some ways, leaving Eastville - a ground too big for you - and moving to an equally sh1t mess of a place, but a more fitting capacity for you back then, Trumpton, was a good thing, for your club. After all, you owned neither of them.

     

    In my view, City are better supported because of two poor football clubs (or sh1t clubs, let's be plain), Rovers are clearly, evidently poorer than City. Or more sh1t. The facts, the stats and the old league tables show us who is more sh1t, not my imagination. 

    And the irony of you lot referring to us as "the sh1t"! It is irony, right - or have I imagined that?

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  16. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    12 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

    I was brought up in Fishponds which was solidly Gas when I was there, and have pretty much lived in St.George/Hanham most of my adult life, and it's fair to say there has always been a fairly even split in those two areas, I have discussed this with a few City mates brought up in the area, and the general concensus as that while Eastville may have been geographically closer, bus routes made it easier to get to Ashton. I do think it's a fair point that if you asked the entire population of Bristol to express a preference, it may come out evenish, but what really matters of course is getting people to games, which- certainly in my lifetime- City have always had the upper hand in,

    I think we did miss out on a whole generation while we were in Bath, and that has certainly changed the traditional north/south split for the foreseeable future (especially while you remain in higher divisions). Bizzarely, I think Rovers biggest hope of being 'top dog' in this aspect won't lie in any new stadium (which btw I will believe when I'm sat in it), but more in people turning their backs on the ridiculous pricing and increasingly sterile atmosphere in the top two divisions, and look for a cheaper/more nostalgic way to watch football.

    Anyway, anyone walking down my lane in a City shirt runs a very real risk of me shouting out 'Sheeethead' from the safety of my living room :)

     

    So, to sum up, City are better supported than Rovers because it's easier to get a bus to Ashton? From places like Fishponds?

     

     

  17. The Official Bristol City v Leeds United Match Day Thread

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    5 minutes ago, harrys said:

    Tomlin in my opinion is the most talented player we've had at AG in the last 50 years

    He's better than Jacki. For us, at least. Can't see LT scoring 4 in a game in Europe, or playing in a WC. It might take a thousand off the crowd Saturday, Tommo not playing.

    People want to get themselves down AG and see Lee Tomlin and this team. This is good stuff

  19. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    3 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

    Really? I imagine it will be the source of at least another 2 pages worth of comment on gullible ones.

    What they seem to forget is that he personally has probably paid more in tax etc in his life, before he moved, than many of us will earn in a lifetime. Also he continues to pay tax and create jobs through Hargreaves Lansdown and Bristol Sport, in fact he must be one of Bristol's largest employers. What a bloodsucker!

    Like I said, they're just full of sh1t and easily dismissed. Mike Ashley anyone?

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    Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    1 hour ago, View from the Dolman said:

    Some G*s fans banging on about Steve Lansdown and his Guernsey residency...

    Might want to look at their owner...

    Dwane Sports Limited. Registered in Jersey.

    That company being owned by Aramis Investments and Aramis Services.

    Those companies being owned by Equiom (Jersey). https://www.equiomgroup.com/en/locations/jersey/

    Maximum obfuscation.

    Their one and only beef with SL is that he pumps millions into us, not them. That's it.

    This bitterness is compounded by the fact they have never had anyone willing or able to back them to the same degree (when they so desperately need it). Until now, of course. What they could do, with someone like SL...

    But to throw mud at SL simply because he is red, not blue would leave them wide open to ridicule, too easily dismissed, so they pretend to be outraged by his non-dom status.

    Of course, if they were geniunely affronted by football club owners not doing their bit for their country or for being questionable characters, they would be "banging on" about the owner of Sports Direct, or the one running Villa into the ground until recently, or the ones borrowing hundreds of millions to buy Man Utd and lumbering the club with the debt, or the goon at Cardiff/Fulham/Forest (take your pick), not the one employing local people at the going rate along Anchor Road and ploughing millions into the local economy in south Bristol (and rescuing long established local sporting clubs, rather than taking advantage of them at their most vulnerable). 

    But they don't give a f*** about any of that. What pisses them off is that he is spending millions on us, not on them. It's hypocrisy laced with decades of bitter, bitter envy. A toxic combination.

     

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  22. The Official Bristol City v Aston Villa Match Day Thread

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    3 minutes ago, redfieldred said:

    When we were in L1. We lost twice to Crewe at cresty rd. I never once said crewe were rubbish, despite the fact they were in relegation position because on both occasions they were resilient and managed to win. 

    I gave them credit. Admittedly jet was terrible in the first game and smith was not fit for the second. Villa suffering from the same disease as Leeds, Forrest and others that recently being in the  premiership gives you the right to beat decent championship sides. 

    Ok, ok. That's just me, then, not "us." I am arrogant and disrespectful, when we are in L1 playing tinpot sh1te like Crawley and Fleetwood

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