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46 minutes ago, Redinthehead said:

I didn’t think he was great - but he was necessary. Without his presence I think Cardiff’s approach may have been different.

I agree, even if it’s not going his way he keeps defenders bottled up. When fully fit we’ll need that to battle out wins on wet Tuesday nights 

1 hour ago, AppyDAZE said:

Can't spell "were" and got a girl's name. Oh, and he's a total scumbag!

Thankfully the mods have taken all of the images down. A very good move.

7 hours ago, RedRaw said:

“colony is on track owned by Dwane Colony which is an offshore company which means there are additional tax issues that they have been working through, expect to be all sorted by February”

 

ahhh.....I see, so all this SL tax dodger bullshit will stop now will it? I won’t hold my breath

I smell a large heap of BS. I’ve managed more commercial contracts with Offshore and Overseas companies than you can shake a stick at and ‘additional tax issues’ is just a nonsense. A week to sort out a few loose ends maybe but four months?

23 minutes ago, Red34 said:

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6 minutes ago Post by puregas on 6 minutes ago Just got back. Certainly won't be up there with the one of the great trips! To be losing 4-0 and having 'you're just embarrassing' sung to you by about 100 spotty teenagers with a drum, in a stadium that looks like it was contsructed out of corrugated plastic on a wet Sunday morning, was, quite frankly, humiliating. Quote

Can't believe they've got the cheek to take the p*ss out of someone else's stadium! 

Hilarious! I’ve been the the New Meadow a few times and it’s a decent, functional small stadium. It lacks the undoubted charm of the old ground but it’s more than ok and a quantum leap forward from the CH4drome.

56 minutes ago, Cheesleysmate said:

76-80 really got to Sags. They turned up at Ashton Gate to watch us get beat and every so often couldn't wait to get the hell out of the away end and take a week off sick rather than have it rammed down their throats from work colleagues, Roger Malone, the Big Match, Grandstand, BBC and ITV sports news, the national news papers.....week in, week out they were very very tortured souls, everyone everywhere was a Ted and they became  completely engulfed with envy and more often than not the envy would turn to rage resulting in displays of mindless violence from angry Sags who needed an outlet for their pain.

Remember, they experienced a bit of momentum themselves in the early 70's. They won the massive Watney Cup albeit on the lottery of a penalty shootout, beat Brian Clough's Brighton 8-2. Won promotion to the 2nd tier with 'Smash and Grab' and were "coming for City".....but then City went one better and their achievements were completely forgotten about. They stagnated in Division 2 and then started to go backwards, giving up on the football and turning to mindless terrace violence instead, eclipsing their 8-2 defeat of Brighton with getting totally hammered 9-0 by Tottenham in a game which John Motson described Rovers as "a VERY POOR SIDE", whilst over at BS3 Bristol City were putting European Champions Liverpool to the sword. 

Bristol was totally RED in the late 1970's and those of us who lived it can remember it well. Sags were generally quiet, unless of course they were on the lookout for trouble being the family club that they are.

Rovers fans believed that Bristol City won promotion to Division One simply to get one over on Bristol Rovers FC, not for City's ambitions of progressing as a football club.

So for Sags 1982 was like 'retribution' for the inflicted suffering and pain that they perceived was bestowed upon by Bristol City. Unbelievable pea brain mentality, but true all the same.

The difference with Rovers in 2015 is that no new club was formed so we can all simply forget about their single season in the Vanarama. They are prowed, faithful and true. FTG **** off Teds

 

I think you undersell it!. I was 16 when we went up and lived for a fair chunk of my formative years in ‘blue’ areas. My late mum and her parents came from Kingswood but luckily my grandfather saw the light and was dyed in the wool red.

I reckon I missed one home game in the Division 1 days and I think half the ‘trouble’ inside he ground was true away fans turning on sags who’d come to see us lose but were too spineless to come near the EE. It makes the ‘Teds in the away end thing’ all the more laughable.

About 15 years ago I was in a bar in Geneva after a Grenats (Servette) game. I was with some Swiss friends so probably not even speaking English  when some Neanderthal shouted ‘Shithead’ at me and started shouting ‘Roverzzzzzzz’ across the bar. Who gives these morons passports?

That club has alwas defined ‘success’ as ‘better than City’ whereas we seem to prefer ‘the best we can be’. Mind you, my sister defined 80/81 as a good season because we finished above the Sags - we were both relegated and we finished wih more points than goals but we were above them in the table.

I see a few parallels wih the early 1970s at the moment. We have backed a beleagued manager and he looks to be starting to come good. Sags have done reasonably well on the pitch but finances look to be dire. The important thing is that should we get promoted we manage it better this time, and compared with the 1970s the media coveage would be vast. That would tip our neighbours over the edge in so many ways.

4 minutes ago, Cheesleysmate said:

Yeah but it's 1982 remember? The year that the Bristol City who played for 4 years in the First Division (much to their enraged jealousy) died. 

Moving forward it was a totally new football club, Bristol City (1982) Ltd. Therefore the entire history and the 4 years of playing the country's finest teams (and beating some of them) could be blanked out as if it simply never happened and according to #Gaslogic that would put City 82 at the bottom and would elevate the Squatters to Bristol's Premier Football club.......but it never quite panned out for them. City 82 came back won promotion, beat Rovers even with students and week to week contract players, went to Wembley 5 times and won 3, and went on to spend more seasons in the 2nd tier, and were within 90 minutes of making it to the Premiership whilst the Rovers ship sprang holes and leaked all over the shop. Incidentally, Bristol City 1982 as a company name ceased on 20th December 1996, but the Sags continue to live in the past, which is hardly surprising really is it? Because let's face it......they have sweet FA to look forward to do they? 

We have played for nine seasons in the top league. The other five are conveniently forgotten by horse punchers as it was before they first became a league club. By that twist of #gaslogic nothing before 2015 should count now.

3 minutes ago, havanatopia said:

18,212 very good crowd. Well done fellow fans 

A doublesag (again)

6 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

In much the same way as we have a measure of currency by the Tilson, is it possible to have a similar measure of their away following by an easily recogniseable denominator?

Interesting that, we would have to define the ACTUAL away following, the REPORTED away following on  Pratchat  and the HISTORICAL away following in various moronic posts on the same.

It’ll be along the lines of buses, where the ACTUAL crowd is, say, 10 minibuses REPORTED as 10 double deckers with 10 more locked out, and HISTORICALLY and FACTUALLY* recorded as 10 trains full.

22 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

They'd just have to buy the land off Taylor Wimpey first.

First find the money to buy the land.

Second get planning permission and change of use for the land

Third find the money to build the stadium

Fourth survive long enough to reach step 1

Calling them “Deluded halfwits” is being unkind to the deluded, halfwits, and deluded halfwits.

39 minutes ago, Red34 said:

Really hope this is irony...

Henbury Gas Gas  2 minutes ago

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anghymhwysedd said:

"Are the Gas in financial trouble ? " ....No.

 

Are the sh!theads in financial trouble ? they most certainly are !

It’s a record-breaking thread in some respects as it reached the 6th page before it turned into an anti-City ant-Lansdown diatribe. The question should really be ‘are all football clubs in financial trouble?’ And, of course, without the largesse of benefactors  or extreme god fortune the vast majority would be.

All this ‘tax dodger’ nonsense borders on slander IMHO, Steve L made his money in the UK and doubtless paid more tax in a year than most pay in a lifetime..He elected to buy a property in Guernsey, which anyone can thanks to their ‘open market’ property market, and still invests heavily in UK companies - which pay taxes, etc...

We remain owned by a UK company whose major shareholder still lives in GB. They, on the other hand, are owned by an offshore (GB) company whose major shareholders live in Jordan. Perhaps someone should explain the basics of how an Islamic Bank (e.g. one from Jordan) operates too, but i fear that the collective IQ of the 2015ers’ ‘support’ is not up to it.

1 hour ago, Red Bill said:

Sitting here at arms length one takes stock of the situation and it is difficult to see how the Gas can finish the season in their current form.  Personally I do not wish them to go under - where else could we get this level of entertainment?  But one should also take a wider view - surely a city the size of Bristol deserves more than one decent team.  So, I hope they survive - as long as they are always below us (which seems likely).

Sorry no, Bristol is similar to Bradford and will end up with one league team (better than Bradford’s), a Conference (South) team and a top flight rugby club  ( different code).

In fact, nothing like Bradford then, and Bath City as the area’s second most senior team is fine isn’t it? 

7 minutes ago, Maltshoveller said:

Time to give the Gas some credit

When Wael took over gasheads told us how big they were going to be!!

Well just goes to show how right they were

This weekend the mighty gas had a bigger crowd than Barcelona !!!!

They are coming for us

So did Manor Farm,  even Oldland Abbotonians  had more for the visit of the mighty Warminster.

7 minutes ago, bert tann said:

 

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You won't be far wrong I suspect.

2 hours ago, Red Right Hand said:

Nice bit of racial stereotyping on that thread, some things never change.

 

天然氣破產

While it would be good sport to buy their first team and loan them out to various L2 and Conference clubs, is there (honestly) one Sag player who would even make our reserve / development squad?

2 hours ago, B block said:

Brand new Bentley 4x4 worth £150K+ in the car park so someone with plenty of money was visiting the Mem today!

the new new take over is on then for sure, what with a new car in the car park and all

Was it on bricks by half time?

2 hours ago, adamski said:

Great to see that the SAGs have installed a new shelter in the away end too!

For some reason I read that as "shitter"

35 minutes ago, RidgeRed said:

If you click on the brssc link you'll see those lawn sprinklers in one pic. So, lawn sprinklers, gazebos, garden furniture......they've become the Pirate Garden Centre. What next, bags of compost on the terraces? Oh, they're already there? In their many 10s? 

Sorry, there was a typo in your original post mate.

51 minutes ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Why are their supporters so famous up and down the land?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066560/Football-fan-gropes-mother-threes-breast-drunken-game-boob-cricket.html

I didn't realise that the sags once rose to the dizzy heights of playing Burton Albion. That truly was a cup final for them. I bet they took 15 or 20 million away for that.

12 minutes ago, AppyDAZE said:

There is a worse one, but I forget the name. Comes on most weeks, speaks monotonous drivel.

Darrell Clarke

3 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

Rather than relocate, they'd choose to move the stadium piece by piece then forget how it goes back together, ultimately selling it for scrap! Just about their level!!

The Colony Training Ground Scrap Yard anyone?

7 hours ago, JamesBCFC said:

But Forest Green  are getting their new stadium.

Wont be long until that gap develops either 

Further irony, The New Lawn replaced The Lawn in 2006. As a new stadium it's already in better shape than the Swamp and yet FGR intend to build a new one. 

Sags should rent The New Lawn when FGR relocate. They'd get to play in a proper stadium until they finally go bust and we'd be rid of them. Fixture clashes with Shortwood would hit their gates of course.

17 minutes ago, Welcome To The Jungle said:

Our blue chums have had many names over the years

1) The Black Arabs (racist) FC

2) Gas Sniffers Rovers FC

3) Bath Rovers FC

4) Bristol Rugby Club Rovers FC

5) We Screwed Over Bristol Rugby Club Rovers FC

6) Mind The Gap Rovers FC (2001-Present)

7) Non-League Bristol Rovers FC

8) 6th Richest Club Rovers FC

9) Not Quite So Rich Rovers FC

10) Anyone got a spare 6-man they're looking to sell that could double up as a football stand Rovers FC

Remembering the NLBR monicker, when they hit the buffers and go into administration will they be known as BRIAN?

Bristol Rovers In AdministartioN

11 minutes ago, Robin Goch said:

Well that was horrific. For those that couldn't make it count yourself lucky.

Terrible game, as soon as we meet a team with a bit of muscle it unravels.

25 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

They multiply it by the amount of banning orders they have and then divide it by the number of players they`ve racially abused.

And again by the number of months sentenced for boob cricket to the power of horses abused?