RED4LIFE

6 hours ago, Rinkadink said:

 

What a legend.

Admitting that the last two times he cried was when Korey scored against United and tears of joy when the Gas got relegated. 

Joe, if I bump into you mate the next rounds on me.

I'm bemused how the TMO called the forward pass for Joyces (non given) try but missed the high tackle on Radradra literally 2 seconds before.

Been a good game between two evenly matched sides so far though

54 minutes ago, megansdad said:

any streams?

 

https://www.vipleague.lc/1-bristol-rc-vs-toulonnais-live-streaming

Shitload of pop ups to close but otherwise a good stream 

Ridiculous start. Cmon Bristol

2 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

So we've made it??

Yep, we can only finish 4th at worst.

Bath will probably get 4th as Sale have had 16 positive covid tests so will struggle to put a competitive side out against Worcester on Wednesday. 

5 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

before you try and ship a load more people in.

If the G*s are playing at home that won't be  concern.

1 minute ago, TomF said:

It's going to be portacabins next to the pitches, isn't it? 

More than likely, but wouldn't be surprised if all they could afford was a gazebo. 

10 hours ago, cityal said:

Their average attendance for last 10 years is 7334. Their average attendance this year 7397 - lower than Lincoln, MK Dons, Blackpool and Rotherham - marginally above peterborough

You mean the MK Dons that have only been in existence since 2004 from a town that has only been in existence since the late 60's?

Surely the R*vers who have been in existence since the late 1800's from a city that has been around since the 11th century would be able to garner a larger following than a club and a town that have next to no history? 

They do have da famuss quarterzz after all.

10 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

Remember it well. 

I was in the EastEnd for that one with a couple of mates from school. Went proper berserk when the goal went it.

Back when the EastEnd was a den of cigar smoke, noise and cider fuelled lunacy.

The day those backless seats went in, something about that stand died.

My all time favourite game and was in the East End that night too. Utter mayhem. 

The G*s fans chanting in the minutes silence for Les Kew(?). I've never known the Gate that hostile before or since.

Devon White diving for the penalty, Leaning saving it.

Donowa scoring at the open end with a few minutes to go to finally put to an end the hoodoo they had over us at the time. Utter scenes.

On 27/02/2020 at 15:33, Ska Junkie said:

I was a 'Linda' man myself, absolutely gorgeous. The puppies helped as well. 

Ahem, 'according to friends', she can be found doing things Beverley Goodway would've blushed at on certain websites

8 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

(So), somebody told me...

That they had a girlfriend, that looks like their sister......

On 17/09/2019 at 21:29, 29AR said:

Can’t agree with this any more.

I have been too and it’s  the most harrowing and sobering place you could imagine. I think it’s somewhere everyone should visit if they could, because the humility to gain from such a place is truly staggering. You can’t overstate how haunting it is. And it’s really tough, if you go early on your trip, you won’t enjoy the rest it will play on you for a while; if visited at the end, it’s a really sobering way to leave that will leave you in tears and detract from any enjoyment you had from a beautiful country. 

Even seeing that, and reminiscing of my visit, I won’t lie, it’s left me quite emotional sat on my sofa. How on earth can someone visit the place and not get it?!

I'm not sure how to word this as I would never try to belittle what happened there as it was utterly horrendous, but for me, Belsen shocked me more. 

I'm not going to try and use numbers as a reference as to why I think that as humans should never be referenced as just a number but Belsen was harrowing. Especially considering they never actually had gas chambers there (no matter what the Sex Pistols may have sang about)

I suppose it didn't help that my grandad was one of the first wave of troops that helped liberate Belsen. From listening to the people that knew him before that (especially my nan) they all say he was never the same afterwards.

As a kid growing up he would tell me loads of stories about certain parts of the war (he was a desert rat fighting Rommel through Africa/Egypt and Italy). He told me about scratching his name on the sphinx and how his best friend burned to death in a tank that he escaped from, but he absolutely refused to speak about Belsen and what he saw.

One of the great British reporters of the time Richard Dimbleby (father of David Dimbleby) said at the time

"Here over an acre of ground lay dead and dying people. You could not see which was which... The living lay with their heads against the corpses and around them moved the awful, ghostly procession of emaciated, aimless people, with nothing to do and with no hope of life, unable to move out of your way, unable to look at the terrible sights around them ... Babies had been born here, tiny wizened things that could not live ... A mother, driven mad, screamed at a British sentry to give her milk for her child, and thrust the tiny mite into his arms, then ran off, crying terribly. He opened the bundle and found the baby had been dead for days.

This day at Belsen was the most horrible of my life."

Every day of our lives we should be thankful that we have never had to see or live through the absolute horror that people of only two or three generations past had to live.

14 minutes ago, Charlie0016 said:

Ok thanks for that ... was just confused that’s all ! 

For me I probably hate Swindon more than the gas but that’s purely down the the 14/15 season 

1.Totally opposing Bristol City Councils offer of funding when we were close to going bust in 82, then having the audacity of trying to buy Ashton Gate for peanuts at the same time.

2. Chanting and booing during a minutes silence for our chairman wjo had unfortunately died in 1991.

3. Holloways comment of 'the only good City fan is a dead one'

4. Rovers fans opposing our bid for Ashton Gate/Vale to be used as a World cup stadium. 

5. Stealing the rugby ground with totally reprehensible behaviour.

6. Punching horses, punching players, stealing from the supporters club/changing rooms and racist abuse....

7. Ian Alexander

They are a stain on the underpants of Bristol and have been for over 40 years.

Yes, they haven't been relevant for your lifetime, but a lot of people have long memories and will never forgive or forget.

1 hour ago, Pheasant plucker said:

No but he used it as the basis of a "joke".

If you can't see that's crass, I'm afraid the issue is yours, not mine.

To quote Ricky Gervais

"Offence can only be taken, not given"

If all of your fans

Have six fingers per hand

Thats the Rovers

If you're in the mire

And two grounds have been on fire

Thats the Rovers

If you hate dem gurt teds

And punch horses in heads

Thats the Rovers

If you steal from your club

And sell out of date grub

Thats the Rovers

11 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

STill get a lot of city in the maypole but it’s mixed really . Think the landlords gas 

The landlady (Karen) isn't anything as far as I know but her fella is G*s but I dont think he watches them much (similar to the rest of that lot tbf). Always a few proper old school City in there (Russ, Neil etc) and a couple of fewers but for some strange reason it seems mostly Spurs, Everton and Man U.

Decent boozer though.

2 hours ago, walshys shuffle said:

Is the new boss getting a assistant? Or is it 2 jobs for 1 wage as is the usual state of affairs.TCO(the cheap option).

Is`nt that why Yates left?

Yep, Wally bought him an Amazon Echo in the January sales.

Alexa, why can't Nicholls hit a cow's arse with a banjo? Alexa, why have I got a tramp playing in midfield? Etc, etc.

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

Yeh, but Fuchs (currently at Leicester) wasn’t at France 98 - if he was he would have been 12 years old!

I don’t think there was a Fuchs at France 98 - although @RED4LIFE may know different as he or she posted it....

Admittedly, I was wrong. He played in Euro 96 not France 98. 

My fault as most of the 90's was a bit of a blur. 

Edit: in fact that is wrong too.  He actually played 1 u21 game at some point. It just backs up my point about the 90's.

I could swear I saw a billboard in Toulouse in 98 mentioning those players but I'm obviously totally wrong! 

4 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

Was that the tournament where Arce was playing for Paraguay ?

The commentators pronounced it as "Ah Say", of course ?

What about Minge (Min Gu) for Ukraine ?

I think you might be right there. It was a great tournament for innuendo no matter what. 

You could have De Koch Fuchs Arce and Suker Kuntz and Quim. Utterly wonderful word play. 

1 minute ago, Red Right Hand said:

Wasn`t Quim in the Portuguese squad too?

I damn well hope so.

43 minutes ago, Red7 said:

Or, as the Germans would say:

 

That's why France 98 was great, you had the following players there. ..

De Koch 

Suker

Fuchs 

Kuntz 

7" extra reach will win it for AJ tonight. Keep Povetkin on the outside.

1 minute ago, Swede said:

The majority that I know have their heads firmly in the sand.

One win and its play offs or the gas are marching into the Championship or we're coming for you blah blah.

They have little respect for teams in their own league and its laughable how they try to Lord it over clubs who are frankly far better than them on and off the pitch but "they should be beating teams like Accrington and Shrewsbury" 

Unbelievable.

Is it any wonder no one likes them.

The sooner they f..k off and die the better.

Strangely, the few (no pun intended) that I know either don't want to talk about it, or admit they are an embarrassment and can't see any light at the end of the tunnel.

Also strangely, they were happy to spout nonsense about them being super-rich, were coming for us etc, when Wally took over. I tried to explain that Wally and family aren't as wealthy as they think and was met by the response "Yeah he is, you've just read a load of bullshit on OTIB". 

Congratulations OTIB, not only is there OTIB, there is also OFIB (One Forum In Bristol)....

1 hour ago, Ivorguy said:

I just give up with the level of vitriol

Corinthian Spirit truly dead in Bristol then, save for some of us oldies who still remain true to the standards of the 40s and 50s.  Atyeo and Bradford must be spinning in their graves at the views expressed here, if you can call them that.

Makes me feel ashamed to be a City supporter in this age of hate.

 

Ivorguy, whilst I completely understand your point of view, it is one that fell out of fashion a very long time ago.

Yes, in a perfect world all football fans could sit side by side with no animosity. Unfortunately, your era was a very long time ago and there has been a lot of change since then, hence the majority of City fans will have been brought up to dislike the fewest and vice-versa.

Make no mistake, our backwards friends from Horfield hate us more than we hate them for the simple fact they know we have surpassed them in every way as club. Besides, the vast majority of us remember the 80's when they tried to steal our ground, as well as having the upper hand in the regular games between us (I will never forget them pipping us to the Div 3 title in 89/90).

Their time was then (and didn't they let us know it at any opportunity), ours is now and any City fan that doesn't enjoy it either hasn't ever had to experience those years, can remember when fans used to follow both clubs, or are indifferent to them because for whole generation they haven't been a threat.

Personally, I wouldn't wish them to go bust as I have a lot of good mates who are staunch R*vers but if they did go bust I would laugh my head off the same as I did when they were relegated to the Conference.

2 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Leagues superfans who’d ‘watch from the pavement

 

 

Yeah, through the window of Price Waterhouse Coopers offices if they're not careful.