Natchfever

I get you Phil. Nice one.

2 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36656300

Today's news about the elevation of certain war memorials around the country, whilst not affecting the Memorial Ground yet, may perhaps cause them issues sometime in the future if Historic England turn its attentions in its direction?

I believe if enough Bristolians make their feelings known about the plans of Bristol Rovers towards a war memorial then perhaps the Ministry will take notice.

18 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

"believed to have finally moved a step closer."

 

Poor journalism. Surely should read....Finally got the go-ahead, or

Moved one step closer.

You can't FINALLY move one step closer !

 

You can in the Bristol Post FACT.....

3 hours ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

They could say the same about us calling them gas back in the day. Loved it so much they adopted it.

Bearing in mind they had a gurt big gasworks next door and were breathing it in all the time I thought Gasheads was very creative...

1 hour ago, Gazred said:

A feeder club? What are they feeding exactly? Pasties?

No Gazred it means they have given up on the UWE Maracana and will from next season play their home matches on the Feeder playing fields..

49 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

No doubt "hero" status will be bestowed upon those two wanchors.

I don't know Holtby but Julian Low is a great bloke with a very finely tuned sense of humour. His best mate is 100% City and he gives and takes a lot of stick on the subject and he certainly knows AG isn't a shit ground !.

He was also one of the three gasheads invited to Divvy's "farewell" at the Assembly so he isn't considered a wanchor by everyone.

Just saying like .

1 hour ago, slartibartfast said:

Sorry, I mis-read your post, I thought you were on about hoolies in general ending in 77 .

See what you mean !

10 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

And the rest.

Like when ?

They most definitely were very competitive during our promotion season and despite what anyone might say only about 30 of them came into the East End that season and it took the OB to get them out.

People like to debunk that but of course of lot of them weren't anywhere near it.

So far as I was concerned it was pretty much 50-50 through the early to mid 70's and i'm talking about everywhere of course not just the matches.From 76/77 onwards they have been second fiddle to this day.

28 minutes ago, bs3 said:

I have know the Chaplin since the 1980s, back then City had one of the most violent element in the country, Rovers had a half decent mob but the  gas wasn't in our leauge , ask the chaplin and he will tell you the same. 

The gas had a small nasty element who drove around North and East Bristol looking for young City fans wearing colours to attack.

Absolutely right bs3. The book in question was about the 1970s which was very different certainly until 77.

2 hours ago, Jack Dawe said:

Our memories are unreliable though, notoriously so, how we remember things is invariably little to do with the reality of events. Did Chris Brown keep a diary? Did he get home from a hard day's "aggro" on the Tote and Stapleton Road and an evening down the Bamboo Club, sit down and then make careful notes of the day's events? Even at that distance, about five hours, his memory would've been highly selective and inaccurate ; sitting down to write after 25 years or more would involve a considerable amount of imagination. Most of what he's written will be how he wants to remember those days, rather than accurately portraying events. We all sit with a perfect view and watch Marlon Pack in midfield but you don't get one opinion on how he's played. We see things as we are (in his case, gas) not as they are, as someone once noted. All the time I watch replays of goals or moments in matches and it is never quite as I remembered it in my mind, always a little different.

Not disputing your recollection of their "larger men" and them having a mob back then, but the book, like all these books, is a work of fiction and imagination, put together from tiny fragments of memory and with a strong desire to maintain some pride and reputation. Even in their 50s, there's still a lot of the little boy in the playground in blokes when it comes to football. As we see on this thread all the time!

@Jack Firstly Chris Brown DID keep a diary and I know that for a fact. The book IS therefore based upon real events but like Henry V said pre Agincourt participants will embellish those facts. I would say therefore that we are looking at five hours rather than 25 years. Indeed I also know for a fact that he researched "incidents" with former foes on our side of the fence to ensure he got the "who hit whom when" correct.I don't know if you have read the book Jack but despite bunging up the Rovers on occasion it is undoubtedly one of the best of it's type offering a snapshot of life for a teenage lad throughout the 70's in terms of agro (of course) clothes music non football hellraising and relationships.

Regarding earlier comments about their chaplain I have met Dave J in his current "form" and you will be hard pressed to find a better person and certainly someone who became very close to our man Divvy in his latter days .

As for the large men I could name them for you and people of a certain age will know exactly who I am talking about - and they were certainly large if you were a 16/17 year old in different colours !

1 hour ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

Chris Brown did embellish the merits of his little lot in that book and tried to explain away why they shat themselves on a regular basis from around 1977 onwards.to the extent that they simply could not come into the city centre any longer However it is a fact that in 1973/74 they had a mob of older larger men in their twenties and on a one to one basis they were a handful.

2 hours ago, Eazy said:

In my 20s. Question is, are you brave enough to just meet one on one?

 

UTG

Sorry saw he's been banned !

LJ appears to have little substance. If he says the squad doesnt need a few new faces right now he is either out of his depth or being SLs yes man. I do not believe Mr Lansdown is as committed as he once was and I dont believe what he says. That defeat is shattering because unlike Brighton we were woeful and wolves were shit. Momentum is with others and id put our survival chances at 50 -50. 

If we do survive I think SC sales will be slow until the club shows proper intent.

1 hour ago, Cotham Brow Red said:

Honestlty the type of comment that if we produced would be classed as arrogant but because it's them it gets them gluey eyed with pride. They are as a unique and special club as Chipping Sodbury Golf Club. Utter twaddle. Guess the new owners equally share the same blind delusion as there idiot supporters. 

Much better facilities at Sodbury mind..

37 minutes ago, 29AR said:

A billionaire Dane rumoured to be looking at Notts County. Wonder if he's a real one? Wonder if Notts County remember what happened last time? Wonder if Rovers are not to be the 'richest' club in League Two.... if so, 'Pop'.

 

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League One?

Rovers owner can only dream of buying a club with a stadium like Meadow Lane.

1 hour ago, Major Isewater said:

Give it time , it's building up nicely .

I see in the comments section he's referred to as a "breath of fresh air" - that'll be Sheik n Vac then.. i'll get me coat......

I do smile at deluded gasheads crowing about the supposed wealth of their new owner. I also smile when our own bang on about SL's billions. The fact is its not about net wealth of the individual its how much that individual is prepared to spend. If Al Qaeda commits even 10 million he will get them in the championship. We will laugh but they could operate out of the Mem on gates of 11000. They might only stay there one season but who's to say we are going to do better ? I really wish he hadn't shown up and they folded but its just possible that whilst they wont have a shiny stadium and state of the art academy they could be playing (and beating ) us next season.

2 hours ago, Thatch35 said:

You lot still discussing Rover's take over, get a grip.

Probably best not to lower yourself by commenting on the thread then.

14 hours ago, bert tann said:

Many a true word etc etc

The priority for Nicholas was to get out and this option enabled him to do that.

But the big question remaining unanswered is the commitment to the future because Nicholas had repeatedly said he would only sell to someone who could show they had a plan to take Rovers forward and prove they had the funds to implement that plan.

Where is the plan ?  

The other interested party are said to have had a plan which included building the UWE Stadium to it's full specification and injecting substantial cash into the football club to help elevate the team up the leagues.

But perhaps they were not prepared to be so generous to Nicholas and Co so he turned a blind ear to them ?

Whatever us City fans think of Higgs Bert he is/was definitely a Rovers fan but isn't wealthy in football club ownership terms and I doubt if he got out what he put in so I can understand if his decision was based upon how much he would recoup.

I understand the logic of a high profile manager but one of those usually expects a high profile budget and I do not believe that the club will provide that. Certainly not with a couple of weeks to go in the silly season.

Colin for me short term.If we stay up then the owner needs to look at the club top to bottom if he's really serious about the prem.