CotswoldRed

5 minutes ago, Gert Mare said:

I have tried this on a number of occasions and it quickly deteriorates on their side, turning nasty and generally followed by “F.off you shithead lady garden”.

I also have to agree with a comment from another member of this forum who said that they wear their clown outfit shirts around all day long without any issue, but as soon as they see you in a City shirt there is always some mumbling of “shithead” from them, like you are wearing it just to purposely wind them up rather than show support for your team.

They truly are a bunch of absolute belters.

I've only ever managed to get one message on their forum, relating to my son s disability and our effort to raise cash. 

They were very gracious and were very generous in their help. 

Beyond that, I don't think I'd bother trying ever again. 

15 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Weirdly, I find it completely possible to watch a 90-minute game of football even if it falls amid a 5-day cricket match I'm interested in.

Maybe Gasheads just can't multi-task??  

Yep. Any other club's fans don't seem to suffer when the Ashes are on either. 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gasheads-gone-bristol-rovers-crowds-3297869

BP highlighting poor gas attendance. Are they breaking their own code? 

2 hours ago, BCFC11 said:

For a shite club such as them it generally isn’t too bad, but how they continue to tell everyone how amazing their fanbase is and how loyal they are, then it is absolutely piss poor. Summed up in a nutshell in @Silvio Dante‘s post.

Then in typical Sag fashion, make up complete bullshit as below:

If we are missing 2000, can always do what other teams over the river do, give loads away to bolster the attendance....but money's no object to some.

Read more:  http://gasheads.org/thread/8410/missing-2-000#ixzz5yx6JW8IP

So how many of the 15,000 season tickets were given away then?

28 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

personally id have thought 6500 was pretty good considering the facts that the ground is a dump,their players are shite and the nature of fellow supporters is truly atrocious.

who in their right mind would attend there to watch pub league football, risk getting your head punched and possibly end up in the bri with food poisoning.

That's as maybe. 

The key point is that 2000 fans have decided it's no longer for them, despite being in the same division with similar results etc. 

1 hour ago, sticks 1969 said:

Other then that everything is fine......

Its 30 years since their triumphant year. They have that to celebrate. 

Nothing to see here. 

Responding to the 10,000 break-even call, the Gas duly obliged with crowds of 6,500 when their team had won every home game. 

It's what they do. 

19 hours 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.

Assume your issue is with the timing alone? Don't tell me you'd get all offended if someone stated "this place looks like the Blitz"? 

4 hours ago, Pheasant plucker said:

With the greatest respect people died in that hurricane.

Tact obviously not your forte.

Yes, they did. 

He's not making fun of them or belittling their suffering. 

2 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Bristol City ladies could be the 2nd best supported club in Bristol. Let’s see if they get more than the rovers had against Cheltenham. 

That'll please them. 

At least they can say they have more fingers though. 

41 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

I just think the guy does sarcasm at a top level.

He must be laughing his head off that this made the ‘ paper ‘.

If Accrington turn up at Ashton Gate at 1.30pm we'll understand his mistake. 

4 hours ago, BS15_RED said:

I was at the Hartlepool game too, but I still think the noise for the JET goal was louder. 

I'll go for Trundle's goal. 

7 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Doesn’t time fly . Remember being all tangled up in the eastend when JET let fly . Hope we never play the squatters again. But what a feeling scoring against them 

Wouldn't mind playing them at Ashton Gate in the cup. Just to laugh at their comments after the match informing us how shit our stadium is. 

44 minutes ago, BS2 Red said:

A lad I grew up with kept "crossing the floor".

He started as Gas, switched to City, went back to the Gas, then back to City and ended up as a Man U fan.

I haven't seen him in over 20 years, but I would happily bet a lot of money that he supports Man City now.

You wouldn't see him. He's fat, sitting in a chair and getting his fix of football through his new OLED screen. 

6 hours ago, the red rules said:

Gas Logic=: The size of a club is decided by the ratio between their home and away fans. As their home crowds are pitiful but their away crowds are average that makes them massive.

 

Makes them far bigger than Man U then. 

4 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

One of them says that their average gates for the last two years is between 8 and 9k.

I would call that 8,500.

Any idea what the true number is?

40,000? 

8 minutes ago, Born and Red in 82 said:

Do you know what... they are good at brainwashing people! I’ve heard it so many times now that even I'm starting to believe they took 40,000 to Wembley 

Maybe they all had season tickets for Wembley and didn't turn up, being counted in the attendance?

Maybe they were all suffering from incontinence that day and half of them were in the toilet at any one time?

Or maybe they're just liars. 

5 minutes ago, phantom said:

They really are a special kind of stupid !!

Would that be on direct debit? Can't imagine most gas fans have a bank account. 

2 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

How can that be right if they are the 6th richest club in the world?

They were fibbing. 

On 29/08/2019 at 13:32, Yellow&Blue&Red said:

No - I agree it looks like a long shot! Certainly need more than just poor Bury going under for government to do anything about it. Looks like there have been periodic calls from government for better football governance for over 50 years!

But I think hoping that the EFL will come up with meaningful reforms is even more unlikely.

The government won't intervene. We've lost the vast majority of great pubs serving communities across the country. Arguably closer to the core of their communities than even football clubs are. 

The government did nothing to stop it, even perpetuated it. 

Our government are full of inhuman narcissists. Good luck. 

3 minutes ago, beaverface said:

Pretty much agree with this. 

I do wonder whether there should be something to put into law whereby you cannot be offended on someone elses behalf. Basically, it should be up to the person on the receiving end of the abuse that should report it.

I'm pretty sure this would reduce the number of complaints by a lot, and actually leave it up to the genuine victims to decide whether they're offended or not.

 

 

Not a bad idea. A bit like most physical acts of violence. The victim has to press charges? 

7 minutes ago, pillred said:

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the world today is a lot nearer George Orwell's 1984 than I would like.

I fully support the general idea that hate crime needs to be dealt with. How, exactly, is another conversation. But soon it will be a crime to be angry at someone. I can see the scenario - someone spills their pint over you. You impulsively call them an [expletive] idiot. You're in front of a magistrate. 

I say "how exactly" because I loathe the fact that we've decided to categorise some things as more important as others. Offend someone with reference to their race and your career, family life and everything else could be finished. Spout foul mouthed abuse at a disabled person with reference to their disability (I believe that to be even worse) and old bill won't be interested. That is disgusting in my view. 

This is no particular opinion on the homophobic chanting at the Mem, but I firmly feel we are but a few years away from almost everything being deemed offensive and therefore illegal. 

What was mildly annoying in 2000 will be a jail sentence for someone in 2030. There is no end to it. 

Chanting someone has a "slaphead" will be construed as offensive. Pointing out someone is a speccy-tw** will earn you a conviction for hate crime - a new law from 2028 which doesn't allow you to make any comment about someone's appearance.

You might think I'm talking crap, but you'd have said the same about current laws 15 years ago and the relentless influence of social media will see the shift continue. 

3 hours ago, Galway Red said:

Well the post have been sucking up to them again by describing it as 'amazing travelling support' 

I'm amazed. Amazed its so crap. 

7 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Transport for London (TfL) said it was up to advertisers to make sure any items featured were "high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS)-compliant".

Oh ffs.

Though as this is the thread dedicated to all things Rovers I will forebear from further discussion.

So you can't advertise butter, table salt or Tate and Lyle sugar then? 

The world is full of ridiculous contradictions and pointless PC exercises.  This week I was being lectured to by someone about the use of disposable plastic, after they'd just returned from their 4th holiday abroad of 2019.

Fat people will always find fat sugar and salt to eat wherever they are, adverts or no adverts. It's what they do. We've got the most PC approach to food advertising we've ever had and the fattest population to go with it. 

If any of them stayed at my place for a month and only ate what I ate they wouldn't be the same size afterwards. None will take me up on the offer to prove my point. Fair enough.