Jim Davey

2 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

Bless 'em. They are having a right ole problem getting their supporters to embrace they way of the world.

At some point, one of them will recognise that their club is serving up a crap product in an equally crap stadium.

Dare say it won't be long before they notice things like the Bears selling an increase in season ticket sales not too dissimilar to their drop in sales, or that the basketball seems to sell out every week as well.

We all laugh at Wally and his 2 year/takeover/fruit market plan, but if he doesn't get that club sold and new people in with genuine money to spend, they are only going in one direction; and that ain't up.

Just need Bristol Sport to get some shuttle busses from Gloucester Road to the Gate for the football like they have done for the rugby previously and kids with no allegiance will be flocking to BS3 and the Fewers will lose another generation of fans - just like when they went to Bath.

My nephews lived next door to that shit pit but I can assure you the only place they had any intention of going to was ashton gate shuttle or no shuttle

3 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

What's their third kit like...............or is that a silly question ?

Red

6 minutes ago, bristolmoose said:

Their away kit is blue?

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-rovers-kit-reveal-fans-3197648

wtf

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

As they say, they’ve ‘outgrown the Mem’

they didn't even outgrow twerton let alone the memorial ground ,******* bunch of *****

25 minutes ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

let me guess - they are already knocking one out on their forum on this 'news' - it must be a no-news day in the West Country as it was the main item on Points West earlier.

yep

17 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

Off to drown their sorrows in the Man Bar then....free entry i hear?!

rear entry

28 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Fewers in the "zone" already !

good ,vile stunts.

personally I quite like being reminded about 1982 ,although it was a dark time to be a city fan the few years that followed were my best years following city  Terry coopers red and white army ,1nil down 2.1 up and all that followed made me appreciate my club a lot more than when we were watching us play in the top division . coypal

52 minutes ago, Rich said:

When the groundsman was seen watering the pitch in the corner, to make sure it was called off. They received a warning from the FA over that. Like the time at Trumpton when the game was called off due to a flooded corner of the pitch, when the  watermain mysteriously burst just prior to our game, we were flying at the time and they had a couple of injuries. Just shows what a shithouse of a club they are.

vile club vile fans cant wait to see them go bust

14 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Come on...! I’m sure we’ve all been to away matches, pre-season or otherwise, at grounds with a mish mash of temporary, canvas roofed “stands”, joining up the gaps inbetween 2 very odd, random looking stands, with a bit of crumbing terracing behind one goal - where the refreshments were with fake or out of date, and where the home numbers of support only just topped those of the visiting team, and I’m sure that the overwhelming feeling of all of us on those occasions has been how impressive it all is and what a “proper” club they must be. 

Especially when compared to their City rivals, scraping by on their 20k+ attendances, in their rebuilt stadium that is the envy of many, building a reputation of producing their own big money talent and nurturing that of some of the top premier league clubs.

I can totally see where this guy is coming from and it sounds completely legit to me..!

 

yep august 2005 

2 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Excuse me 

vile

1 hour ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

Billingham Synthonia (admittedly, much bigger than the cesspit cleaners) seem to get their green/ white quarters fairly easily.

everton and shrewsbury managed to get their kits on time when they played in quarters and that was back when the spinning jenny was the latest bit of technology.

2 hours ago, Taz said:

Guess it depends if they play it when the opposition score. Wouldn't put it past them 

or when someone scores against us

3 hours ago, myol'man said:

Will he be wearing Colin's shirt?

that picture does make I laugh

28 minutes ago, Swede said:

Wally was told we need to put more bums on seats so that's exactly what the nice man has done reduced the capacity of the tip. Unfortunately for him one of the bum's has gone to Walsall

 itsmore than 1

18 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

It would appear so.

Absolutely mental.

Although in fairness they didn’t need that extra capacity anyway.

they could do with some extra  stands outside for all the lockouts though.

4 hours ago, Monkeh said:

Manor ground Oxford was much better

smashed my head in on a low rsj when I jumped up to celebrate Ian baird scoring , think that was his name .

6 minutes ago, myol'man said:

Ideal Father's Day gifts: 

 

 

 

vile

12 minutes ago, Swede said:

There is only one word, deluded.

The trouble is that all of his acne faced morons in their "Windyass 9" jester's top lap it up every time so much so that if you say it enough times then it must be true.

(Sag) 40,000 fans (reality) 4,000 season tickets

(Sag) if we had a 25k stadium we'd fill it (reality) they can't manage five figures (that's figures not fingers although they'd struggle with even that) at their dump.

(Sag) "family club, every one likes us" (reality) they've had more incidents of racist abuse, equine boxing & theft. Everyone thinks they're a laughing stock as one away fan put it "there's a tent, a cricket pavilion and a hut and that's just on one side of the ground.

(Sag) Our away support is massive like it's an extension of their manhood (reality) its just bang average at best. The most prominent part of their manhood sticks out of their foreheads.

(Sag) we have our own identity with our kit and song ( reality) Other clubs early in the last century wore that out dated design before they did. The dirge is an old Plymouth Argyle song reminiscing  about a prostitute, hardly original & hardly family club material.

(Sag) We should be pushing top half championship (reality) until they accept that they have to learn to compete with the likes of Shrewsbury, Fleetwood and Accrington both on and off the field and show them the same level of respect, they won't be going anywhere.

As I said, deluded.

It would be nice if a clever person posted the them and us pictures from Wembley on their forum ,along with their avererage home attendance for the the last forty years. 

12 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Should be a top half Championship club at least with their MASSIVE fanbase according to the terrified, about to be molested, Sunderland muppets they cornered in the Sportsman pub.

I can assure you that the sunderland fans that stayed at my hotel when they played rovers didn't think that ,their comments were something like what the **** was that .

28 minutes ago, Midlands Robin said:

Another issue the sags owners have to contend with is currency fluctuations. I presume the money that has been underwritten by the family is paid through Dibley sports from Jordan therefore it has to be converted from Dinar to Sterling in order to then go on and pay the bills. Every big movement in value can add or subtract thousands of pounds. 

camels to sterling

3 hours ago, Loon plage said:

You just know they will go cap in hand to marvelous Marvin.

is that knobhead a gas head

2 hours ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

To be fair to them, I don't think they actually started all this "tremendous support" fairytale Jackanory silliness.

As I remember it now, the E. Post initiated this when they left Eastville - because of not owning their own ground, which was a result of insufficient dosh, which was a result of having shite support (which was a result of having a shite team, which was a result of having shite support. Which was .... etc etc) - and trudged over to Bath - a journey of about 9 miles instead of about 4 from the Few "heartlands" to home games so a massive show of faith there (not exactly Brighton playing in Gillingham).

Because everything about Bristol Rovers in 1986 was shite and piss-poor, mundane and about as interesting as Bob Crampton's sex life, the Post felt sorry for them and with nothing good to say about them they came up with the idea that their supporters were in some way "special." 

"There's always been something special about Bristol Rovers" I seem to remember Peter Godsiff writing at the time*. The sort of thing you might say about one of your always overlooked, very ordinary children just to try and encourage them. But Godsiff failed to specify what it was, unsurprisingly, beyond the "homely" and friendly club it was (ie not successful, and not likely to be), and eventually he and the Post settled upon the support being "special," something they absorbed and came to believe themselves.

It's no use pointing out that their crowd was only just over 4k in the last year at Eastville, fewer than what we were getting in the 4th division when we were 92nd for a while. Or anything about their support that is at odds with the "special" narrative. The belief is firmly embedded, over decades now, and the confirmatory evidence is there to be cherry-picked, and the inconvenient facts, the mundane reality, to be firmly dismissed and ignored.

You are wasting your time arguing with believers over stuff like this. 

That going from Eastville to Trumpton was an upgrade - no joking here; Rovers 3k at cavernous Eastville or 3k in tight Trumpton? They could, almost, fill (well, one side) the latter, never the former - certainly no great humbling of once glamorous high-achievers accustomed to more grandiose surroundings, no great step-down, and was barely any different to go from East Bristol to this side of Bath, and they started showing up again when they had a winning team (like any crowd, so therefore: not special), didn't come in to it. Rovers were shite and leaving their shite ground that they didn't own and couldn't fill and it was sad, and they were pathetic, and they needed cheering up/encouraging, and the Post had papers to sell, so let's make something up: their fans are "special" (and please keep buying the Evening Post).

The "special" genie was out of the bottle. And the infatuated Few were not of a mind to attempt putting it back in. From this you get all the "thousands locked out" and "39000" at Wembley (when it was 27k tickets sold, according to Vanarama twitter) and "we'd take more than Arsenal and Chelsea combined" magical thinking.

But don't blame them: pity is more appropriate. Blame the Post, and Peter Godsiff. He did this out of pity; pity and keen journalistic business sense. So pity - and not pointing out facts - is the correct response to Fewers claiming "special" status. "Yes, yes mate: you are so special. So, so very special." "More than Chelsea and Arsenal, yes mate. You would." "Thousands locked out, I know. I remember." "3 thousand for the last game at Eastville....sorry! What am I saying? 44 thousand to Wembley, yes, pretty 'special' that" etc etc.

 

 

*at this point, mid 80s, Rovers had, I think, been promoted twice and relegated twice, in their league history. All between the 2nd and 3rd division. No top flight football, no 4th division football. No Cup semi final appearances. One England player, earning one cap. Poor crowds in a dismal ground, with dogs running around it. In other words: the epitome of nothing special. Dull, dull, dull. Probably explains the decision to go with the unusual/comedy kit: the only way anyone outside of Bristol would ever notice or remember them. Nothing they do on the pitch has or will achieve this.

Clearly, this is not a "special" football club, if we are to be adults about this and not children, and so the folly shifts to the idea that the tragic 3k with nothing better to do that now trudge to Bath instead of Eastville - any City fans travelling in from Weston travel twice as far - are themselves "special." And this is still with us today, and there's nothing we can do about it now. 

We'll just have to live with being the better club and team. With more people turning up for games. We'll never be "special" like them.

would be nice if a clever person could post this on assshat.

1 hour ago, Coombsy said:

Come on who works at the post office 

and have not delivered rovers letter 

Andy lewelyn

1 hour ago, Cider_boy said:

floppy disc more likely.

(Who'll explain what that is to the young ones here!)

a priest