GreedyHarry

1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

As I mentioned before, apparently they are going to have a Twitter poll to gauge opinion on it.

Most of them hate the idea, so I will vote in favour of it.

Yes, it is very important to uphold democracy and take every opportunity to vote. I'll be joining you when the poll opens.

Oh, my days! An idea to have a prize draw for away fans ONLY to fund a roof at Chernobyl.

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3 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

Also,

Frankie Fieldings on the campsite...

Doesn't scan that well.

What about. 'Frankie Fielding's in the teepee'

1 hour ago, steviestevieneville said:

Looks like the bulldog , Filton  Avenue 

Top spot. I'd put money on it being the bulldog. Note the one stood at the back on his phone and not where he says he is.

Could it be @bodin

57 minutes ago, bodin said:

Did I mention Rovers being a bigger or better club anywhere? 

Yeah sorry. Gas Translate sometimes gets things a bit wrong like Google Translate. Glad to see that you don't deny making up a story though. 

Now why would you make up that story?

2 minutes ago, bodin said:

But I didn't make this a discussion about Rovers at all. I claimed Darrell might have been there because him or Stewart might have been interested in a possible unknown upcoming vacancy on Johnson's management team. Rudolf Hucker discussed his campaign in League 1 which switched the topic onto that.

Gas Translate:

"I made up a completely unfounded story. To make me and my club look biggerer and betterer than wot we is."

2 minutes ago, bodin said:

It was the pinnacle of his career as a manager. 

Copy and pasted his name. 

Ah got ya. So not the pinnacle of his career. Thanks.

2 minutes ago, bodin said:

It took me 2 minutes, genuinely. Look at the timing of the posts. Or are you assuming that I spent countless hours of quoting City fans, a thing I did to prove what I said. 

7 minutes between posts. Not 2.

2 minutes ago, bodin said:

The pinnacle of Holden's career was 3 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses and getting sacked for Oldham? That's worse? The point is he was still hired to be the assistant coach to a 2nd tier club with that level of experience. And I really don't think coaches and managers are oxymorons, managers coach and coaches manage a lot of the time. The only difference is the manager starts the lineup and has a lot more influence. Jurgen Klopp described his assistant manager Željko Buvač as his footballing brain.

In whose opinion is that the pinnacle of Holden's career. Is that what he has said?

4 minutes ago, bodin said:

Is this not the case? 

I'll take this thread as an example:

"Isn't he the one everybody on here wanted us to sign a year or 2 ago..?" - Bar BS3

"Yeh I seem to remember people mentioning him. He had two good seasons in League Two with Exeter but didn't quite cut it in his first year with Peterborough in League One. Wouldn't surprise me if he did a job at Rovers though." - WRERE

"yep and I'm sure some couldn't believe peterborough beat us too him too" - Monkeh

"Fair to say The dog botherer is not a bad judge of a player" - Vincent Vega

"Not wishing to praise them at all, but Tom Nicholls will be a bloody decent signing for them. Must admit, I'm surprised." - Harry

"I hope for their sakes he doesn't turn out to be Dandy Nicholls!" - Swede

 

 

Mate, go and have a **** or something and get it out your system. And if that doesn't work, and you still have too much time on your hands, at least quote people properly. Thanks for your time.

1 hour ago, bodin said:

Dean Holden's experience of management is what exactly? Clarke managed a 10th place finish despite losing his best player mid-season and having a striker who scored 0 goals up front with the core of a Conference team. He's a better manager than Dean Holden obviously. 

Don't be a ***. Clark signed the asswipe that scores an average of less than one goal a season. He managed 10th in the 3rd tier once, and is currently unemployed because that is the pinnacle of his career. Dean Holden is not a manager. He is an assistant coach at a 2nd tier club. Go and crawl back under your rock and leave us alone.

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

“We take massive numbers away, it’s what we do....”

Unless their a bit short on time or energy, or there's a bike race, or its raining too hard, etc.......

1 minute ago, GreedyHarry said:

How's that whole, "Our vastly superior goal difference is like an extra point" argument going?

Knew I shouldn't have posted!!!!

How's that whole, "Our vastly superior goal difference is like an extra point" argument going?

8 minutes ago, Rich said:

Steady on with that sort of terminology, "their promotion video". The sad deluded support base will think they're playing in the championship next season.

Oh, I wish they were. The teams that get promoted on merit (including ourselves) find it a massive step up. God knows how it would feel to play at Championship level when your squad is contending for the 4th Division.

41 minutes ago, bodin said:

Average home attendance of Port Vale is 4,271, and they only look to be going down with their owner, have a mate who's a Port Vale fan and their owner's a lot worse than our's.

Did I say loyal and true? And probably long-term yes, the Mem is that bad. A shiny new stadium is bound to attract more fans than the tents.

I'm actually on the coach home from the match, Clarke-Harris scored a screamer. I went on this at halftime and i'm on it now. 

The post seems to be light-hearted, although I could be wrong but I think you're taking it too literally. So we never talk about you on our forum, but yet we're obsessed? Just seems ridiculously hypocritical. 

Give an example of a city the size of Bristol  or bigger then, a two-club city, where the club on the lower-end have as big a quality gap as Rovers and City do, and they get a lot more fans than Rovers at games? Excluding London of course. Also couldn't you use the exact same argument for saying your crowds should be bigger than they are? Especially considering your investment and media spotlight? Again, not a dig, a genuine question. And in case you go "yes but our crowds are better than yours," I've never said City aren't miles ahead of Rovers. In fact i've said it repeatedly and yet a lot of the fans in this thread are still trying to paint the picture I think all the things that the most stupid of the Rovers fanbase believe. 

**** me, any more rules and caveats? The question might as well be, name a club that isn't Da Mighty *** that play in Bristol that have bigger crowds than us, that isn't Bristol City.

35 minutes ago, bodin said:

Ipswich are going down and he'll likely play a lot more given he's a League One level striker, so we'll receive the bonuses then?

You're using a couple of FA Cup upsets to justify that our club should be much lower than it is, which makes no sense. Every club has FA Cup upsets, when Chelsea lost to Bradford did they deserve to be in League 1? The fact is FA Cup upsets occur because they're still professional footballers and with enough passion they can beat teams that field weakened sides. But consistently they can't, hence why they're so poor. Any team can lose to any team because it's 11 v 11. City lost to Wigan last season ffs

Do you field a weakened team to ensure an annual FA Cup upset every year then? 

12 minutes ago, Midlands Robin said:

Indeed, this was the Bards effort:

We blue few, we happy blue few, we band of boob cricketers;
For here to-day them "sheds" in the ground with me
Shall be my excuse; be they ever so vile,
This day shall bring no further points;
And gentlemen in Guernsey now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here to invest,
And hold their plastic franchise cheap whilst we are the famous blue and white and have family friendly fans
Who fought with us upon horse punching day.

Calling it out as fake on two counts:

1. Not written in iambic pentameter

2. I understand it.

Dear mgl (moaning gas loony with no capitals as per your email),

Hopefully this gets to you, as your address seems mostly to be stars. We have no idea what you are 'referring' to. Our apologies, but if you are inexperienced in writing in English, then please don't try to gain the experience by writing to us. And, and, and....

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to write to us. Unfortunately your claim for compensation has been rejected. This is due to a number of facts. Firstly, you play in La Liga, so we are not the correct authority. Secondly, you support the 6th richest club in the world, and they have a lot more money than us.

Lots of love,

EFL

27 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

I kid you not

"we got some big Championship games coming up. Thoi'll have to be on top of dere game for dem" 

Honest to ******* god. He's got them promoted mid season.

1 hour ago, Port Said Red said:

Battle of the shadows

On Sky billed as 'The Shadow Derby'

1 hour ago, Tyna said:

Open letter/ petition on Change.Org

https://www.change.org/p/wael-al-qadi-open-letter-to-the-board-of-bristol-rovers-football-club?recruiter=66015793&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive

We the fans of Bristol Rovers Football club are writing this letter to you; the board to try and mend our broken relationship.

It is now nearly 12 months since we were told that the club was about to submit a planning application for our training ground to South Gloucestershire council and it is not acceptable that the fans only discovered that plans had been shelved due to cost nearly a year later in a damage limitation interview by Steve Hamer in the wake of the Barnet defeat nearly a year later. We now have a plot of land in Almondsbury sitting doing nothing and our (now ex) manager saying he doesn't believe it will be built during his tenure. It's inconceivable that the owners appear to believe this doesn't warrant some kind of official statement underlining what they intend to do going forward to finally provide this club with fit-for-purpose training facilities.

The same is true for the stadium. Since the club pulled out of the UWE Stadium project, many feel that no adequate reason has ever been provided and are left bewildered that any deal could possibly be worse than an indefinite stay at the crumbling Memorial Stadium, with yet another tent thrown up haphazardly to improve spectator experience. We know many parents who are hesitant to bring their young children to the Mem because of the derelict conditions at our ground which puts us in serious danger of losing a generation of fans as the rest of the football world modernises around us. It is not unreasonable to expect updates on the owner's stated goal of redeveloping the Mem, unless of course the new tent is the extent of these plans.

Finally, whilst we understand that the owners can not be expected to come and and quash any and all rumours around the club, the strong and consistent rumours that the club is up for sale and there will be no more investment in the club until any takeover is completed are troubling and paired with the lack of progress in infrastructure or any meaningful communication from the board create a self-perpetuating atmosphere of unease around the club that we believe is beginning to have an effect on the pitch.

We are not writing to you to demand that you immediately progress on the training ground and stadium. The reasons there has not been progress may be complex and varied. What we are demanding is communication from the club on a regular basis on what is being worked on, what direction any future plans are going in and any delays that have come up.

We see this taking one or more of the following forms:

- A monthly fans forum where fans can ask questions directly to the board
- A monthly written statement from the board on the work it is doing
- Regular interviews on club channels on the work the board is doing
- Immediately putting out a statement if there is bad news to announce

We believe the above would stop the current cycle of radio silence and then bad news slipping out in BBC Radio interviews. This would also go some way to stopping wild rumours circling around the club and building trust between the board and the fans.

Bristol Rovers fans are used to having our backs against the wall and no one expects overnight success or massive unsustainable investment but we do demand is to be kept informed and whenever possible involved in the direction of a club many of us have supported for 50, 60 even 70 years of our lives. Let's work together to ensure there is a competitive, modern and sustainable Bristol Rovers football club for our children and grandchildren.

Yours sincerely

Gasheads everywhere

**** me! That's a lot of words for a Thursday night.

And the gifts keep on coming. 

A Take That tribute band, no less. WHAT. A. TREAT!

mftc Reserve Team about an hour ago Quote Rather than shell out a small fortune to see some people (who could be anyone) from a long way away, apart from on a TV screen at Trashton, why not pop along to the Helpline Christmas Party ( in November). You can actually see up close and personal a live act performing Take That covers. Do we have a good sense of humour, or could you really make it up! PS is the Rovers fan who was (is?) a guitarist and songwriter with band still with them? (Take That not the covers band).

I have no words currently for this...

stokegiffordgas Reserve Team about an hour ago

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