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1 hour ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Am I the only person who feels sorry for the bloke.  He was doing a great job for them and has been royally shafted by the club.  Didn’t he turn down Leeds to stay at the Mem?

I have a very small level of sympathy for him. He has clearly been shafted by the owners. He was made promises when they chucked him a new contract but maybe he was as deluded as the fans to believe it. 

Feels like last resort for him to try and get all the fans on side by diverting some of the blame to the owners, if they don't sack him or at very least come out and clear up after this it just proves that they either don't have the money to sack him or they simply don't care about the club enough/at all.

If this was happening at City I'd want Clarke out anyway. The guy looks broken. How can you possibly trust him to motivate anyone, especially the crap bunch of players he has at his disposal.

4 hours ago, BS3City said:

This epitomises everything about the Blue Few!

FAKE FANTA!!! Surely it doesn't get any more pathetic?

Also, how does this Sag know what ass tastes like?

Exactly what I thought when I read it - such a Rovers thing. I know it's cliche but you honestly couldn't make up some of the ridiculous stories that come from that club. 

Easy to see why their thread is so popular, especially with days like today. They make it too easy.  

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/13280/brfc-largest-group-banned-fans

2nd highest percentage of fans with banning orders relative to attendance. The figures are there for all to see but gas logic comes straight out:

They'll definitely use this to try and justify their shite away followings soon no doubt. 

14 minutes ago, Super said:

That is pathetic. You can understand it in the JPT but not the FA cup.

I know they'll like to speculate how many we'd get for a similar fixture to try and prove how loyal and true they are in comparison so I'll happily provide it. We had over 10,000 for our home game against Fleetwood the season before last in round 3. 

That was at the start of January and during a terrible run of form too I believe (shock). 

6 minutes ago, Tomarse said:

Everything but score? They had 4 shots on target in the entire match. FOUR. 

That's about 5 games worth of shots on target for them. They must have been astounded!

I love how they seemingly refuse to accept their current position also.

The word 'fellow' appears to be missing ahead of strugglers in the first line of their official match report:

4 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

I can still remember the queue of fans in the club shop wanting Stewart's name put on a shirt.

I was quite confident we would do great things with those two in the team. 

 

Massive buzz that transfer window - part of the 'Magnificent 7' 

9 minutes ago, harrys said:

Photo ?

Saw this on Twitter earlier..

6 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

It’s not possible to sum up how amusing they are in just one word. So here are a few words just to get started with....

Hitchin, Barrow, Chesham, Bath City..... !

Bath City knocking them out of the FA Trophy on their own patch was especially good with both a former City player and a City fan scoring past them..

That Bath team was full of former City lads/fans. 

Twitter peaking on Matty Taylor transfer day. Even the crap jokes about it were funny. 

29 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Given they sold tickets for these temporary stands before the season started, then forgot to get them installed and now they have to close them, if you were a Fewer you'd be pretty annoyed.

Have to wonder what they club will do to make up for it, a nice bit of hospitality maybe, a free signed shirt or they might go mad and offer them some free out of date crisps and priority queuing for the Grotto.

Surely a free call to Babestation for each inconvenienced fan would do the trick! 

22 minutes ago, CiderJar said:

I only counted 373, typical gas exaggeration....

 

If they spread out across the stand, gas logic recommends that they count all the spare seats between fans for the true attendance (in addition to those locked out). . 

5 minutes ago, Son Of Nob said:

 

What on earth is that?! It looks like a trolley shelter! 

45 minutes ago, Unan said:

Huge in comparison right now but unlike long established, genuinely big championship clubs like Derby, Forest, let along the recently ex Prem sides, they can be caught because of a fickle fanbase, sh** manager who will never get them up and is more likely to take them down, and when Lansdown senior pegs it, a vacuous  silver spoon social media hungry spoilt brat as an owner, who is quite likely to throw his toys out of his cot the minute he gets criticised.
Of course, we need a genuine injection of finance to enable a couple of seasons challenging at the right end of league One and then promotion. If Burton can do it on smaller gates than we get now then so can we.

 

 

 

ilst it does look nice, I wouldn’t ever want Rovers to lose their identity in the same way that City have with Bristol Sport. If we manage to build a decent stadium somewhere suddenly the gap between us starts to look smaller, they’ve never been able to shake us off and never will.

Desperately trying to convince themselves that there's not much between the clubs. They were shaken off the moment they dropped out of the football league, arguably long before.

6 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

 

That’s the “memorial gates” they can’t take them down or change them. 

They remain as a lasting reminder of who they stole the ground from. 

Worked out alright for the Rugby club in the end though..!

Oh wow, I must've been half asleep earlier. I thought 'Bristol Rugby' was on a sign behind the gates, not actually on them! 

13 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Laughed properly at that comment Slarti, fair play mate! 

 

Come on, own up!

 

Surely that's a old image if it's got Bristol Rugby on the sign behind? Or is that a part of the great development they haven't got to yet? 

EDIT: Great minds... @Bristol Rob

All them gert teds in the Plymouth end/tent....

Zak Vyner being one of them 

I don't really like all these corporate Twitter arguments but there's not going to be much going on over the international break so it's probably been posted just to get some sort of content out. 

I'm pretty happy If this is the only club related thing I can have a moan about.

23 minutes ago, Southport Red said:

It’s true. If they were t say “for a low-to-middling third-tier team, our support is decent”, there would be very little we could argue with. Trouble is, they cannot stop there and it morphs into “we could out sing the kop/have more fans than Real Madrid/are beloved everywhere we go”*. 

*Delete as appropriate. 

Exactly! 

Once they stop comparing themselves to far bigger clubs they *might* justifiably win some arguments. 

11 minutes ago, reddoh said:

unless I am much mistaken "Da Famous blue and white quarters" have gone unless the Blue quarter on his left shoulder shrank in the wash. 

It certainly looks more like a white kit with a little blue design than the world famous blue and white quarters we all know and hate. 

More Tranmere Rovers than Bristol Rovers. 

33 minutes ago, 22A said:

Humour is breaking out over there on the fourth post down; 

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12486/trespassing

 

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12480/new-stands-season-ticket-info

The new stands are to be installed at the beginning of August. The delay in this is due to planning consultation, although there appears to be no problem with planning. The stands are bespoke and are being constructed in France once imported into the country they will only take a few days to install. They are all made of a hard material with a hard roof, one is to replace the south west tent the other two are to go either side of the centenary stand. Season tickets are being printed they will go to the mailing centre to be sent out by the end of July. Info came direct from the club.

I'm interested to see what these stands are going to look like. I hope they don't look like the stand Eastleigh have at their ground, behind the goal, but then, beggars can't be choosers, and if they increase seated capacity and draw higher attendances, we can't complain too much in the short term. As long as they proceed with a firm plan to perform a full scale redevelopment or new-build, these temporary stands can't be a bad thing.

 

'Imagine what 13,000 at the Mem for a big game would be like!' 

Tailored or not (no pun intended), there's something quite funny about opening up the link to GasChat and seeing a 'Red shirts wanted' advertisement at the bottom of the page:

I saw something equally hilarious on Twitter last night. The gashead is clearly trying to insinuate that we are obsessed with them.

Look at the dates on these tweets, he has either: 

1. Had a City fans tweet saved on his phone for 5 years or,
2. Scrolled back 5 years through a City fans timeline to try and find some mention of their existence. 

If that's not obsession, I have absolutely no idea what is. 

1 hour ago, Maggersno1Fan said:

You have the link to that?

Here 'it is:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43784572