Rich

9 hours ago, Welcome To The Jungle said:

He told me off for making that joke a few days ago. I'm thinking of composing a song on here to cheer him up. 

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

4 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Apparently.... Norwich, Huddersfield, Swansea.... us...!

Barcelona, ETC.

5 hours ago, TwoSheds said:

Is that the playoff final when the 15ers goalkeeper should have been sent of in the first half was it for a foul or handling outside of the area. If the 15ers had been down to 10 men for most of the match maybe they would still be in the banarama league

Yes.

6 hours ago, 22A said:

That is their secret plan to beat City when / if we ever have to go there for a competitive game

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!

4 hours ago, Rich said:

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.

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.

6 minutes ago, Southstandoriginal said:

A lot of older sags like to bang on about that 50s team  being the best ever in Bristol, totally ignoring our spells in the top flight of course.  #gaslogic

They have always been deluded. 

13 minutes ago, Jack Dawe said:

Almost. Duncan Edwards didn't play that day. But anyway, a fine effort from "the" Rovers, as Man Utd won the league that season. 

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.

2 minutes ago, Gazred said:

Didn't realise you could get football stadia on Gumtree. Well done Wael, very thrifty. Even picked it up himself.

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.

6 minutes ago, harrys said:

I was chatting with a 21 year old relative last night and he doesn’t understand the rivalry and dislike that his elderly relatives have for Rovers, his generation are 98% City fans and he doesn’t have a single mate who watches Rovers on a regular basis, he says the rivalry for his age group isn’t there and that they are a total irrelevant, how things have changed since I was his age!!

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.

2 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Hang on. Do you think Wally wants to throw his piggy bank in our direction?

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.

15 minutes ago, Loon plage said:

Hell of a coincidence wasnt it Rich. Ground stealing vermin tried to take AG too.

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".

3 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

The most shocking thing about the fewers is that they are so accepting of their 'rag' status they no longer challenge ANYTHING.

They just accept that they are a non entity and put up with it. There would be proper scenes South of the river if we were given so many false promises, lack of investment and generally treated they way they are.

But they seem to accept it. I really can't understand it. They don't seem to be remotely organised or speaking with a collective voice. They have strength of numbers (regardless of how we mock, they get good crowds), but they come at things from so many different angles they are viewed as a joke by a succession of owners.

They are largely responsible for the position they find themselves in.

Idiots.

Long may their perceived apathy/stupidity continue.

6 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Utter Bollocks

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.

17 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Looking at the traffic and crowd, must have been match day !

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

2 minutes ago, TwoSheds said:

Yes the Pipedream Arena never gonna happen now always worth a look at this picture.

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/

20 minutes ago, Wanderingred said:

Even in the 1990s, we finished above them seven times to their three, and beat them nine times to their five.

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. 

8 minutes ago, BobbyC said:

Fair play to them for the away following on Saturday.

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

2 minutes ago, BS3City said:

That's Gary Penrice pre-moustache...

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.

5 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

I presume that's the pasty "hut" that the queue for merges with the toilets queue and confusion reigns.....

Careful !

5 minutes ago, The Joker said:

OH never expected that

 

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.