Boring Sag

4 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I think the play offs may be beyond us now .

Shocking first 20 minutes Miah, could've been more than 3, but thought we did build into the game a lot and had good chances. Doncaster deserve the significant lead though. 

2 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

Odds for 3-3?

81-1 for 3-4 26-1 for 3-3

6 hours ago, Unan said:

Their new striker has 5 in 7 & they’re saying they should sell him for no less than 10m all because a clickbait BP article saying Championship clubs are looking at him.

It's pretty obvious they're joking

12 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

Gone by August 

I did say that he was too good for Rovers weeks ago and Championship clubs would come calling and have been proven right.

But I'm a bit shocked considering it's only been 2 months and it's his first goalscoring spree of his career. 

15 hours ago, Gazred said:

Hence the question. I reckon they would.

There's an argument to be made for the rehabilitation of people into society as he's served his time, and he may have served less had he not been a professional footballer. So I can kind of understand the argument for why to.

But there's many more reasons for why not. Football players are supposed to be role models, he's not one. The negative traction he would bring to the club would divide a club that has become together (so far) under Coughlan. And even from a footballing standpoint, he's been in prison for years, it'll take months for him to get back to full fitness, by which time it won't even be worth it. And frankly, wouldn't want someone who said whilst in prison he wished he'd have raped the girl ever to be a player I cheered on. 

15 hours ago, Gazred said:

Hence the question. I reckon they would.

There's an argument to be made for the rehabilitation of people into society as he's served his time, and he may have served less had he not been a professional footballer. So I can kind of understand the argument for why to.

But there's many more reasons for why not. Football players are supposed to be role models, he's not one. The negative traction he would bring to the club would divide a club that has become together (so far) under Coughlan. And even from a footballing standpoint, he's been in prison for years, it'll take months for him to get back to full fitness, by which time it won't even be worth it. 

6 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

I really don't Miah. 

You take this thread in the humour it's meant in but I really don't want it to turn into a gas news thread. 

Why would we give a shit what Argyle fans think of your coach or that one of your players cupped his ear to Plymouth supporters? I really don't give a monkeys and that's not what this thread is about. If, god forbid, I wanted to know what was happening at your hovel, I would read your forum and don't want it on here thanks.

"Sky did say in one of their reports that things had got interesting `on and off the pitch`. I think it was after Argyle went 2-1 up. I presume social media will advise us what happened in the fullness of time."

If the person who said this didn't care, they wouldn't be checking social media for it correct? Just wanted to inform them so they didn't have to look.

I'm sure this thread would've been all over it if Clarke or Coughlan were even remotely in the wrong, I mean it was after Taylor's celebration against Oxford. Where the thread deemed him as a "scummy player who was perfect for a scummy club." If only they could have known then they'd sign that scummy player.

I'm just surprised your fans haven't been all over the strong possibility that Adam Johnson could join Rovers. Was all over Gaschat. Rovers have one natural winger and have loaned out their second choice Sam Matthews as soon as Johnson is released, seems a bit too coincidental.

10 hours ago, Gert Mare said:

@bodin See below and my previous comments. I only speak the truth when it comes to your club. We don’t make shit up and then believe it. Seeing as you’re not coming for us anytime soon it looks like you lot are singing the other song constantly for 90 minutes! Deluded and obsessed Gasheads.                           

 

If that was true then maybe you'd have seen more than one comment about it than only one from "PAFC_James." And I wouldn't trust his opinion to be honest, openly admits in his tweets he follows 3 clubs, one of which is Bristol City, so of course he'd say that. 

If you can find a couple more comments all saying the same thing, whether on their forum or twitter or whatever, then I'll believe you. 

3 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

I think the description you were looking for was “club”

There's 1736 in the English football system from the Premier League to level 11. I meant top club. No matter if you're Manchester United in the Premier League, or James King Blisworth in the Northamptonshire Combination Football League. You're all technically clubs. Although the difference in infrastructure, fanbase and every aspect of the club is about the same as me with a pair of boxing gloves and Muhammad Ali

16 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

A regular at a top club? Jeez. Just **** off you deluded fraud. And you weren't at Home Park either.

33 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Fair play to Rovers on giving the homeless an opportunity though. I’m sorry but struggling to see how he’s ‘fulfilled his dream’ though, no one ever makes playing for you lot their life long ambition.

 

I meant the dream of being a professional footballer. Anyone but Rovers fans would never dream of playing for Rovers obviously. 

24 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

A regular “at a top club” !!

Priceless 

16 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

A regular at a top club? Jeez. Just **** off you deluded fraud. And you weren't at Home Park either.

Knew this was going to be misunderstood.

In the English football league system, from my counting. There are 1736 clubs (Had to use a calculator) (there's potentially hundreds more as the football league system is only defined to the 11th level of the pyramid).

Therefore, I would deem the top 92 of those clubs as "top clubs." Clubs that are able to provide full-time careers for players.

Maybe you thought I was calling Rovers a big club? They're not. I would also call the likes of Yeovil, Plymouth, Macclesfield, Lincoln, Morecambe etc. "top clubs." 

And no I didn't go to Home Park today. 

5 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Cool story bro, but I for one personally couldn’t care less why a Rovers player cupped his hands to his ears because some meanie from Plymouth wouldn’t give him his ball back, still makes a change as it’s usually that tramp of yours below who’s cupping his hands but begging for change outside Debenhams in Broadmead.

Stuart Sinclair is everything I love about football to be honest. Didn't even play in the Conference until he was 26 and now he's a regular at a top club (might be misunderstood, as in he's come a long way. Now a full-time footballer). Great mentality, absolute workhorse, gives his all every game. He's fulfilled his dream.

That being said wouldn't be too shocked if I saw a Stuart Sinclair doppelganger near Anchor Road. 

1 hour ago, Red Right Hand said:

Sky did say in one of their reports that things had got interesting `on and off the pitch`. I think it was after Argyle went 2-1 up. I presume social media will advise us what happened in the fullness of time. 

Near FT some Plymouth fans refused to give the ball back to Rovers player James Clarke. After Rovers' equalised, at FT, he went over and cupped his ears with his hands to the supporters. Derek Adams went mental at him and was trying to get the ref to take action, Coughlan got involved and the argument continued down the tunnel. 

What's rather interesting is despite Plymouth's second-half of the season resurgence, Adams is hated by a lot of Plymouth fans, the majority of which (as seen on their forum), believed that Clarke and Coughlan were in the right. Coughlan is regarded as one of their best ever players though, so it's hard to tell whether it was just because they were against Coughlan. 

I just think the situation was hypocritical, Adams did the exact same thing when Plymouth beat Rovers last season. He went 6 at the back and threw his toys out of the pram when the manager who changed things up to get a point got it.

8 hours ago, dave36 said:

Anyone know the release clause of their current goal machine? Harris is it? Could be that 2 up with taylor

Personally I would say after the whole Taylor fiasco I would assume the club wouldn't be that stupid. Especially since Taylor's circumstances were he refused to commit unless there was a release clause as he'd wanted to join Oxford. And Coughlan being a massive fan of his I can't see him having been okay with a release clause either, calling him one of the best strikers in the league when he signed (although both City and Rovers fans alike laughed he doesn't look wrong right now), and Clarke-Harris wouldn't have much need to demand one imo.

BUT. It's Rovers so you never know, and Lee Johnson was a massive fan of his when he was at Oldham. 

29 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

They are billionaires though, or so some of your lot still tell me anyway, they just don’t want to spend it apparently  seem to remember seeing somewhere that the whole family’s worth was around £70m? Not including their assets I know but they’ve as much chance as I do to become a billionaire.

The figure that was banded around a lot during the takeover was The Arab Jordan Investment Bank, which the Al Qadi family founded had £1.7 billion in total assets.Which created a HUGE misconception. They also have liabilities of £1.5 billion. So their business has approximately £200m in net assets with £197m being attributable to the bank's shareholders. Now take into consideration that the Al Qadi family only own around a 30% share in the business. Meaning we have the Al Qadi family at around £60m net wealth. They have investments in other businesses but the bank is their main source of wealth. 

15 minutes ago, Swede said:

They're just speculators taking advantage and your lot lapped it up. They thought they could finance the stadum using UWE's money. They had no intention of spending any of their own money and now even the "asset" that is the swamp has so much debt attached to it. You are now in a worse position than ever before. 

You weren't even their first choice FFS!

 

My opinion on it was they thought they could get UWE and that Rovers would shoot up in value, and as soon as they realised they couldn't they lost interest. 

But the issue, and the reason I was never too hopeful of "evolution not revolution" is because this very rarely happens. The whole billionaire invests in a small club bucket-loads of money has sold many teams the false dream of foreign owners. Has only happened to Wolves, Chelsea and Man City in this country. And even then all 3 were miles higher on the football pyramid than Rovers. The best comparison I can think of is the takeover of fifth-tier German side SSV Markranstädt, who were refounded as Redbull Leipzig with a change in colours and club name. They shot up the football pyramid and are now 3rd in the Bundesliga. But the question begs, would you want that to happen to your club? I wouldn't want Rovers to be rebranded as "Redbull Bristol." But even with that comparison there was huge potential as there were no big clubs from Leipzig and of course Redbull is miles richer than the Al Qadis could ever be. Wael's support of Prince Ali bin Hussein for FIFA president also showed to me that he wasn't going to be this owner we could only dream of, he was going to be someone who followed the rules at all cost. 

2 minutes ago, Swede said:

Looks like no new ground soon then.

So much for the sixth richest club blah blah

The gift that keeps on giving.

Only Rovers could get the only Middle Eastern owners who won't spend money. 

12 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

@bodin , care to offer an explanation  ?

To be honest I'd have even preferred the Creek to the Mem for that photo.

1 hour ago, steviestevieneville said:

you clown ffs mate you’re hard work. When I’m talking about you it’s meant as you as a fan base not you the individual belter

And i've already claimed they're idiots so what point are you trying to prove about a selected few of a fanbase (a mentality that exists for any fanbase).

1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said:

To prove you're not a typical bullshitting sag which you appear to be. I asked for a picture from you so you could prove to us that you were indeed 'faithful and true' and not full of crap. You decided to ignore the opportunity afforded you.  You weren't anywhere near Gillingham last night were you? More likely knocking one out into a sock in your bedroom.  

 

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Ah yes, I'll go back 20 hours to when I was on a coach just so I could take a picture to prove to the "Bristol Rovers dustin thread," on "One team in Bristol" to prove I was at a game that I was at. I've got so many replies of "you should be celebrating your win rather than be on our forum" when I debate City fans at half-time and on the coach home, but there's been very little said on the loyal City fans who were replying to me when their match was actually on. 

33 minutes ago, Rich said:

This is too many posts to reply to. You claim you've been in good form, but seem to think  that poor results should be ignored as you've got other good results. When it comes to form, it's only results that count. So as I said, hope that your form in the honeymoon period (December) and March keep up, as in between those months, January and February your form was poor. You seem to have found a scorer, where was he in Jan/Feb? Lets see how the next two months pan out with the special attention he'll now get.

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Because you account for your form as a whole, I can understand excluding the honeymoon period of the team in December (even though it's very unusual for a team to have such a drastic change in form because of the appointment of a new manager with 0 managerial experience). And anyway, a honeymoon period is when a new manager is hired and the players perform better for a very short amount of time before the normality of the pre-appointment form returns. You're essentially going "ignoring your good results, your team has been on bad form." And to answer your question, he was signed on January 31st. He had his first start against Portsmouth on the 19th of February, where he scored. He played against Sunderland and didn't score, and that takes us now to March, where he's scored 5 goals in 4 games.

3 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

 

No clause in a contract is optional. As I suspect you know, a contract is meant to be a watertight agreement which binds all parties. You wouldn't expect any football club, in this day and age, to enter into any contract which wasn't watertight, would you?

In contract law, a commonly used device is an exclusion clause: a contractual provision disclaiming liability for a particular eventuality. I will be very surprised if an exclusion clause does not appear in the contract pertaining to EVERY transfer transaction between EVERY club, stating that, for example, all agreed additional bonus payments will be null in the event of the purchasing club suffering relegation in the current season. Of course, it's for the selling club to negotiate a different outcome but, if they are desperate to pick up £750K for a player whom they know to be worth much less, I suspect that they'll accept it. 

Anyway, as neither you nor I have had sight of said contract, the point is moot so we must leave it there suffice to say that, it will be extremely imprudent for you to expect to receive any further payment from Ipswich in respect of the Ellis Harrison transfer, especially if your club used the services of its regular lawyer.

Hope you arrived home safely from, ahem, Gillingham.

 

Fair enough, can never really know. But I personally think Ipswich were high enough up in the table to expect not be relegated, although that has been the contrary, but who knows? And even if we did get the extra £250k, not like we'd spend it on anything worthwhile. And yes I did, ahem, thank you. 

16 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

Ffs you ain’t the brightest are you mate. It’s your lots mantra loyal and true

"Our lot's mantra." Your whole argument is "a couple Rovers fans think this so you must think it!!!"

16 hours ago, Homer Simpson said:

On the coach, ha ha ha. Belter. Look at the times of your comments. You must have left 20 minutes before the end. Still what more should we expect, gas logic. Or where you one of the 10000 locked out. Wum, belter. Still fair play for the amount of time your prepared to spend giving us a laugh.

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I got the train down to London in the morning and spent the day in London and then caught the train to Gillingham and then caught the coach back. I went on this forum at halftime and then left at the final whistle, took a couple of minutes to walk to the coach and went on it again. 

16 hours ago, JBFC II said:

Let me get this straight. 

You've travelled the width of the country on a Tuesday night to watch your side. You've seen your side win and yet you've spent time during the match posting on your rivals forum? 

Right... 

 

I went down to London in the day beforehand and then caught the coach back. 

16 hours ago, Sniper said:

Get the **** off our forum you ******* bell-end. You're a ******* embarrassment to Bristol.

The sooner you go into Administration and disappear up your own shite pipe the better.

If it wasn't for my Mrs, she's 5ft 2 (I'm 6ft 2 and 17st of rage) and just about keeps my temper in check I'd be in a lot of trouble. Whenever I see one of you sad pathetic ******* in that puke up shirt I just want to rip your face off. Lucky for the **** in B&Q the other day as he nearly had some decking

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It's a game of football mate, chill out mr "17st of rage."

16 hours ago, 54-46 said:

Of course you are mate. 

Are you the habitual bullshitter Henbury Gas?

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Nope.

16 hours ago, Cidered1986 said:

Being that it's probably only London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool that are bigger than Bristol and have two clubs, by the time we take your extra criteria of "the gap" into account (and exclude London), there are literally no clubs left. 

Contragulations to your support being the biggest of ONE candidate.

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A city smaller than Bristol then, where there's a larger proportion of fansize to the population.

16 hours ago, BanburyRed said:

@bodin

So let's just get this straight, you've travelled to Gillingham to watch your team on a windy, rainy Tues night with an open end and you've spent half time and immediately after full time, when your team has won and by your own admission exhibiting playoff form, on our forum, instead of celebrating a creditable away win?? With the thousands that have travelled with you, obviously.

You are an absolute belter and the EXACT reason why this thread continues, you continue to give us GIFTS and you don't even realise it.

 

It's on the coach mate I didn't have much else to do. My guess is now you will criticise all of Gert Mare steviestevieneville wood_red Vincent Vega h hills left shoe who all posted during the City game? Wouldn't want to be inconsistent would you? Or is it only okay if City fans post during games?

16 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

You've narrowed the field down to 3 other cities you berk. London out, Leeds 1 club city and Bristol is the 6th city.

Smaller than Bristol with a larger proportion of fanbase added into the mix then.

15 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

I'm calling bullshit that the sag is on a coach coming back from Gillingham. A picture with a few low life in their shitty unique kit on their minibus would suffice.

Don't have a picture because why would I take one?

15 hours ago, East End Old Boy said:

So, which bookmakers will shortly be going out of business, based to your profound knowledge of the betting markets?

None, the odds on the winning teams are low, and there's still millions of people who bet a lot of money and lose it on high-risk but high-reward bets

11 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

 

Not sure about Notts County’s average crowds but Nottingham itself has a population over 100k lower than Bristol. Let’s not forget that County are competing with a club who have not only spent many years in the top flight but have been League Champions and twice European Cup Winners. 

Stoke’s population is 200k lower than Bristol’s. Like Notts County, Port Vale are competing with a club who have a more impressive history than Bristol City.

There was recently a table produced on either Facebook or the BP website that showed that as a percentage of the local population, Rovers crowds are the worst in L1. Your ‘catchment’ area alone is huge compared to many other much bigger clubs.

Im not saying City are massively better (although traditionally we’ve have always had bigger crowds) and I’m not saying that you personally are bragging about Rovers crowds but undoubtedly many of your fellow fans think you have this huge support and they don’t shut up about it. The reality is that Rovers aren’t anywhere near as well supported as your fellow fans think.

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That's fair enough, I wish Rovers had more fans to be honest, we should. Guess it just feels a bit different at games to be honest, you're so focused on the team you don't really notice if 500 more people go or leave, especially since it's a standing area. I think we have good fans though, of course there's always some who are complete idiots but that's the same for every fanbase. I don't check the forum much but an example i'm going to use is Chelsea away from home, now, this may be a really common example given by Rovers fans that your fans have completely debunked, I don't know. But I thought we gave a really good showing that day, now of course you could make the argument that any club would do that, but that's not really the case. Hell, in the Chelsea fan-cams and twitter accounts after the game they were going on about the Rovers fans, and they get a lot of away fans from lower-league clubs. They don't do that for many fans. 

I don't think that's an argument specifically for Rovers to be honest, I just think fans from our general area of the country are passionate and give good support, even in low-numbers. Clubs like Rovers, Plymouth, Swindon, City I'd say. Although of the four City of course have the most.

11 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

You do, all the time.

...and I’m not even just talking about the ‘Oh Yes’ thread either.

When things start going bad for City you really ramp it up

*btw, for those of you who claim we are obsessed because we have a thread that has over 900 pages in 3 years....

1) You give us a ridiculous amount to laugh at on a regular basis. That’s your fault, not ours.

2) Given the amount of traffic on this forum, this thread is the equivalent of 2 mates spending a night in the pub and talking about/laughing at Rovers for about 5 minutes of the whole evening.

 

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Evidence from 3 years ago? When you were doing terribly in the Championship? The City forums were all about Rovers when we went down, lost Taylor, sacked Darrell etc. And no it's not, it's if those two fans went to the pub and talked about Rovers for 5 minutes every day for 3 and a half years.

7 hours ago, Gert Mare said:

As far as I am concerned it is always banter. Unfortunately, coming from a Sag stronghold (and you won’t get much stronger) I live amongst the obsessed. They start giving it whenever City lose, but as soon as you hit a nerve they want to have a scrap about it. I have learnt that it is a waste of time trying to have face to face banter with Sags as the small club syndrome takes over and they start getting really nasty about it. Don’t dish it if you can’t take it back, but Sags can’t help themselves, they just can’t.

After you were hilariously dumped out of the football league I heard with my own ears Sags making a pact not to mention City whilst they were non league because they simply couldn’t handle what they would be opening themselves up to. 

I always hear “How many did we take away?” before back slapping each other and going on about how fantastic their support is. I gave them a pat on the back too, with a sticker with Matty Taylor on it saying “Welcome To Bristol” which they proceeded to wear around the pub until they got all edgy and wanted a bit of good old Tote End Aggro.

I have lived with the Sag obsession and gloating of yesteryear and enjoy immensely being able to contribute for eternity to this thread as I find it a therapeutic release after the traumatic experience of being offered out by Neanderthal Sags twice my age when I was a kid simply for wearing a City shirt.

It is my opinion that Bristol has always been held back by being a two club City. Every time we try to move forward there have been protesting Sags coming out of the woodwork left right and centre, but we are the same in this respect. Our general mutual hatred of each other does nothing to help Bristol out on the map in terms of quality top level football. 

If we had disappeared in 1982 which is the only stick you continue to try and beat us with (which incidentally doesn’t bother any of us) then maybe your club would have taken advantage of it, and I believe the same would happen if your club was to disappear altogether. There will never be a United Bristol and an amalgamation of both clubs, so the only other option is for one of the clubs to fold and with the fake sheikhs in place it appears to be coming sooner than you are coming for City. It’s a sad state of affairs, but the truth is that we will never get on with each other. So long live this thread!

It’s actually “Faithful and true”....Their song goes ....We’re Rovers supporters, we’re faithful and true (snigger), we always follow the boys in blue AND WHITE (probably has some underlying racist connotation), we all made a promise that we’ll never part, goozzzz goozzzz zzzz zzzzmy dreams (this part is basically inaudible and sped up) IRENE GOODNIGHT IRENE etc etc (dull song with no relation to football whatsoever about someone’s nan).

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You say this about Rovers fans wanting to get in scraps, but it's clear the 6 foot 2 man mountain who commented earlier would be exactly the same for City. I've never been the fighting type when it comes to football, at the end of the day it's just a sport. Maybe it's because i've had to debate City fans all my life so I'm used to the bantering I get (the whole of my mum's side are City fans, and the majority of my Dad's fans are also City fans, but he supports Rovers because he went to the games with his granddad the same as I do now with him as much as possible). Ah yes, the Taylor debacle did hurt, but in all honesty I can't remember many Championship clubs being interested in him and I personally think the only reason City did it was because they were scared we might go up. I agree with the Bristol United comment and the mutual hatred for each other will always be there. But to be fair Bristol as a city has produced a lot of good young players over the years, in recent memory Joe Bryan, Tom Lockyer, Lloyd Kelly etc. I did see there's been more England internationals born outside of England then there has been from the north-west. Each set of fans seem to think that the Post is biased towards the other. But from my knowledge Rovers or City haven't produced any world-class talent since Bradford and Atyeo. As a fan I almost wish I could've supported Rovers in that era. Although our club is obviously more likely to fold than City's, I really don't think we're anywhere near that bad, and I don't think we're at risk of that. Hell even if our club did shoot down in the leagues I imagine it would be a similar situation than Hartlepool and Leyton Orient, although then again Wael is nowhere near as bad as the owners they had. 

7 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

No way @bodin was at Gillingham.....his or her posts on here last night prove that, unless he or she goes all that way to tap on a phone to continually post on a rival’s forum....

it took like 5 minutes at halftime pal.

5 hours ago, JBFC II said:

176 fans at Gillingham last night, they really are massive. 

Perhaps @bodin can point himself out to us, shouldn't be too hard... 

 

I'm near the back, but the photo quality is too poor to effectively point me out.

5 minutes ago, BanburyRed said:

Stoke and Port Vale

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.

7 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

But you lot are so loyal and true apparently. If you played in the street you watch from the pavement apparently . Prefer terracing compared to a soulless bowl the UWE was going to be apparently. 

So what you’re saying is . You only turn up in numbers if you had nice comfortable seats to sit in. 

It doesn’t matter how big your ground is, you still only get 8,000 . Loyal and true load of bollocks  

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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.

9 minutes ago, Homer Simpson said:

It's understandable that you haven't gone to Gillingham to support your shambles of a club, but you'd rather be on here instead of concentrating on your own match. Yep, A1 belter.

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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. 

11 minutes ago, Gert Mare said:

Oh don’t worry, there is plenty more gifts that I missed off. As I said, the list is endless.

You’re not allowed to discuss Teds on Sagchat as you pretend we don’t exist....well you did until we bought old Snakey from you....then you had a total meltdown.

Dean Windass - 2008

Colin Daniel - 2014

Again, only mocking what you lot started.

That’s the difference. We can dish it out and take it. Your mob can’t even bear to mention ‘The Shit’ without throwing your teddies out of the pram and start acting like victims begging other clubs to love you.

Long may you continue to give it the biggun to they gert sheeds, before delivering more belting gifts that enable us to mock you back ten fold.

Tick tock. You’re coming for us.....

 

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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. 

12 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

A city the size of Bristol ffs it’s not hard to work out. Although you haven’t been on the same level as us in 18 years , you haven’t averaged over 10,000 since the 1970’s . Therefore your fanbase has been historically poor 

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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. 

3 minutes ago, wood_red said:

I'M OUT. Make it up as you go along to suit whatever you want by the post.

Not at all, I even admitted I was wrong but can you not say Johnson's not had sustained periods of horrific form in the seasons 16/17 and 17/18 and it looks like it's happening again atm

3 minutes ago, wood_red said:

No, 8k is 8k in no matter what size stadium it is. May as well sell the Mem for a quid and get a 5k stadium and shout from the rooftops that you sell it out - and have loads locked out!! What a belter

I know I'd much rather see a stadium that was near-full than a stadium half empty. Of course the 5k stadium thing is too far but maybe i'd care less about the Mem if 1. it wasn't a shit stadium and 2. we had an owner who backed us. 

5 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

I would prefer 12k tickets sold in a 12k stadium like we did in 2014/15., only had the three stands. Using your logic what would be the point of you getting a new 20k stadium that was chased for years just for 8k of you to show up.

A nicer stadium for the possibility of attracting more fans, because let's be honest the Mem is a ******* shithole. 

7 minutes ago, wood_red said:

So the same as your man then after an under performing Clarke? Can we at least have stats from a certain date each season please? I said from Feb as we you stated we are on our usual LJ second half season downturn - and up  until then we were wining every week (this season). Are you now quoting periods when it  seems to suits your own little agenda???

February isn't halfway through the season mate, going off of the 2016-17 season, the halfway point is obviously when 23 league matches have been played. February begins on gameweek 29.

Yes Clarke was under-performing, he became frustrated that the team he had tried to build kept taking several hits. 

It seems we're in dispute over the 2016/17 season, as you've agreed the 2017/18 was a downturn in form from the halfway point, and I've agreed that the 2015/16 season is a counterexample to that, albeit the form of a new manager with a lot of underperforming players. 

From gameweek 24, you played 23 games, a maximum of 69 points. You received 27 from my count. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I counted 7 wins, 6 draws and 10 losses.

That's not too poor to be honest, maybe i'll reevaluate my theory, that City always have a long-lasting patch under Johnson of awful form every season.