Rich

I don't suppose it would be something along the lines of, "When the Red Red Robbored comes" etc, I'll get me coat.

Barcelona, ETC.

Yes.

They've done it before. I believe their grounds man was filmed watering the already wet area in the corner, prior to a match with Stockport County. It was a midday KO and the Stockport fans had already travelled down. The match was called off allowing BRFC players an extra days rest, before playing us in the LDV, Johnstone's Paint or whatever it was called on a really boggy pitch. IT worked, they won. They also "allegedly" cut the water mains at Twerton, prior to a new years match against us, when they had a few players out with injury and we were flying. The rescheduled match was played at the end of the season, when we were suffering the loss of Super Bob and it worked again. Ifa kin ate thoze bus terds.

I was in the company of one last night, who was bemoaning their bad luck over stadiums. He cited that they "lost the one at Mangotsfield because a bloke took out a court case to oppose it" ? It was in green belt with no access planned to and from the stadium. No application was ever submitted. "The planned one at severnside was due to pollution"? Again they blamed the council and not their own consultants, who carried out a feasibility study for them but, forgot to ask the council if there were any restrictions for the site, there were. No application was ever submitted. They were told a pie in the sky stadium on council owned land in Hengrove was a bad idea, as it was in the heartland of BCFC support, it was. No application was ever submitted. The only application submitted to Bristol, was for redeveloping the rugby ground, it was very dubiously approved after several of the planning committee were controversially removed the morning of the meeting. The councillors removed were thought to oppose the plans, they were replaced by councillors sympathetic to Rovers and the plans were approved that same evening. The only application for a new stadium, was in South Glos and it was approved. They haven't been unlucky in their search for a new ground, they've been tin pot and downright amateurish in their approach, without carrying out proper research, followed by the usual, blame everyone else but themselves. Booh fekin Hooo, nobody's willing to give us a new ground, it's so unfair!

Forgot to say, they unfortunately came up against a better team in the next round, drawing at home, followed by a defeat in the replay at Bellevue, to a better more famous "Rovers" in, Doncaster Rovers.

They have always been deluded. Every dog has his day and, every team has an off day. Fair play to them for seeing off MUFC on what was a quagmire of a pitch, sixty odd years ago. How they managed to play on that I don't know.

That's just one stand, Wael's favourite stand, "The Shed".

Don't know if it's been brought to anyone's attention but, a letter in tonight's Post, reminds us that Rovers actually beat the Busby Babes, when they were the best team that there has ever been.

Hopefully, he won't ever have to suffer at the mouths of gas heads, should they do the unusual and finish above, or beat us, as some of us older supporters have had to endure. As we know, they still try to proclaim themselves as the oldest, best, better supported club in Bristol, when all the facts, that's "all the facts" prove otherwise. Their biggest successes are actually our failures and celebrated as such.

Yes, he's willing to invest the figure of £300k. Don't know where he got that from.

We got lucky because Harry Dolman and Steve Lansdown both sampled the delights of BRFC before deciding to stay a while at Ashton Gate. Both evidently didn't go a bundle on your lot. I understand your luck has run out now, after the "billionaire" who got conned into getting involved with BRFC has been got at by the people who actually control the purse strings, perhaps even he has seen the light.

Remember it well. The thing is, none of their dodgy dealings have ever, I'll repeat, ever, been brought to light by the local media. On the flip side, front page news when Bristol City player gets done for driving without insurance. The stories which could have been brought to light, if only there were an impartial local press with proper journalists, it's still happening. If things had been happening south of the river, like those on the dark side, the "Bristol" Post would have been digging and delving like flies around a turd. The statement below was taken from Gasopedia club history. "During the 1981-82 season, with the lease on Eastville coming to an end, Rovers were offered deals to groundshare by both Bristol City and Bath City, however a five-year extension to their existing lease was agreed and Rovers would remain at Eastville until 1986. Before the lease was agreed, the Rovers chairman, Martin Flook, had made an offer of £450,000 to buy Ashton Gate Stadium from Bristol City, who were on the verge of bankruptcy at the time. However, when City reformed as Bristol City (1982) plc, this bid was rejected".

Long may their perceived apathy/stupidity continue.

He was a hero in Geoff Dunford's eyes. That's why he gave him the honour of vice president of the football club, for services to the football club, while "acting" as Chairman of the rugby club. He said so in his Obituary, which for some reason went into great detail about finances, rather than the man, which I for one, thought, rather a strange thing to do.

No need for a match with the South Glos Bowl, a "pipe" dream was the closest it got to smoking and fire.

See the tail lights in the bottom right? That's from Bodin's car.

No Pride Park. Anyfield. Good it's on Park.

Actually they beat us 6 times in the 90s inc 1 cup match. We beat them 9 times inc 1 cup match with three draws http://www.bristolrovers-mad.co.uk/head-to-head/bristol-city/vs/bristol-rovers/

That's the thing, isn't it. people like Miah (Rovers fans), as amiable as he is, make statements about how they quite liked the 90s. In reality, they were still the lower achievers of the two underachieving clubs of Bristol. That's their measure of success, beating us three times in a ten year period.

Note that they were dressing like clowns back in the fifties. The crowd are eagerly awaiting the rest of the court jesters appearance.

I said he was a big head.

They used to rent two shops on the Gloucester Rd. The directors complained that the supporters shops didn't contribute enough money for the football club. The supporters club claimed that they couldn't pay any more to the club because they were being charged something like £100k per year in rent, adjacent shops of similar size were available for £20k. Surprisingly, the shops were owned by a shifty character from only fools and horses, Boycey I think his name was, not sure if he was one of those directors.

Careful !

If I hadn't signed for PNE, I was going to tell them to do one anyway, as I'd had another offer from the Killers, as a stand in for Brandon.