GrahamC

Indeed, the contrast between this poster's humorous and well thought out postings and the inane tripe of the other one who is always on this thread stands out a mile.

******* hell, how many more inane, pointless posts are you going to make on another club's forum?

Amazed. Does he not realise they've signed a player who got offer reduced terms by Port Vale and a 29 year old league two centre half?

Wow. Someone clearly did an amazing job persuading their Jordanian "billionaire" (who somehow doesn't appear in the Forbes rich list, where in contrast SL is named as one of the richest thousand people on the planet) to buy such a tinpot outfit...

They are now back to the level where historically they have usually been (so by the way, are we). Finishing above Accrington Stanley on goal difference really isn't the achievement their mates in the print and sound media will now spend all this summer making out that it is. They will now have to play Sheff U, Coventry, MK and the likes in a ramshackle non league standard ground, if they find the step up a struggle their home games on a winter night against Bury or Oldham will very soon revert to the usual 5000 suspects. As is said above, despite their claim to be "coming for us" in so many ways (as well as literally of course) we operate in a completely different league now. As for those who long for the return of the Bristol Derby, what sort of ambition is that? We want to challenge ourselves against teams like Boro, Burnley, Derby, etc, not Bristol's equivalent of Gillingham or Leyton Orient.

Not sure I entirely agree with all of that. Firstly you are right, we are not Villa, whoever comes down out of Newcastle or Sunderland (maybe both?) or one of the many clubs we play with parachute payments. However we aren't Rotherham, Preston, last Saturday's opponents Huddersfield or whoever finishes second or wins the playoffs from League One, either. This bit is boring (incremental progress is) but a sensible loosening of our wage structure, more signings like Kodjia, Flint and Pack and we then can start to look beyond our natural place in the scheme of things (which is about 14th) towards the top half. It really wasn't all that long ago that we achieved Championship top ten finishes 3 years running under the current head coach's father, despite the Mark Ashton bluster that is our realistic medium term aim.

An article in the Post bigging up their player whilst underrating ours, my how times have (not) changed...

Much as they are unpopular as a club I think you are miles wide of the mark. They are one of the better run clubs in the FL and although the Championship has proved to be too big a step up for them, they will be a force again in League One next year. No debt, an excellent ground, successful youth academy and a chairman with a very good track record of managerial appointments, they will do well even if Robinson moves on.

Agree. However the 8th May 1993 was the last time that they gained a point at the level we currently play at. Gas, know your place..

Pretty sure a Brentford draw would do it. We're safe.

Bit of a surprise to see Reid back on the bench. Ayling's return there might end the conspiracy theories..

Probably because it didn't happen.

Thought Wilbs might drop out but as he isn't on the bench either he must be unavailable anyway. Bit of a surprise in midfield to see both Reid and Freeman back, thought Golbourne was very poor midweek but as that was the first time also a bit of a turn up to see him rested/dropped.

Probably like when Clarke asked how that "mob up the road" got on and when told replied "happy days, eh"? He was managing a non league team at the time, I believe,,

Away defeat last week glyn, 2000 go missing as a result..

Yep. He may have turned it round on the pitch but in contrast to say, Trollope, is so devoid of class ("how did that mob up the road get on? Happy days") as to always be completely obnoxious.

So spot on. What their upturn in form has also done is allow the local media (Bristol Post & Radio Bristol) to start off yet another Rovers wankfest whilst singularly failing to point out the current pathetic level they play at. There genuinely was an article in the Post by their new sports reporter (an idiot by the name of Dan Newman) the week before last, comparing Clarke and Cotterill's win ratios over their time in Bristol and deducing in all seriousness that the former's was better, strangely failing to point out Cotterill was facing the likes of Burnley, Derby and Hull this season whereas Clarke's record included wins against footballing giants such as Telford and Braintree. On this basis those goals I scored in the school playground between 1975 and 1980 obviously demonstrated how much better a striker I was than Ian Rush.

Argyle fan I works with begs to differ, both their first choice central midfielders have been missing for the last six weeks, one injured, the other was recalled by Palace. Both are now back.

Usual gas mythology rules apply. Between the author (Chris Brown) and their chaplain who bangs on all the time about previously being in the National Front and a reformed hooligan, I reckon they could write about ten series of Jackanory without pausing for breath... As a fifty something who grew up a Red in an alleged Rovers area as a kid and is old enough to remember when football hooliganism was at its height, this allegation is just laughable.

There's a surprise. The ****wit's watertight contract wasn't watertight.

So a goal to decide who went to the Premiership or a goal scored by a team that forgot to bring their shirts, ate their pre match meal on the coach and then relegated you to into non league. No wonder we say "mind the gap" you sag loser.

Well, we will find out at the end of the season. The only thing that mattered this year was staying up, Rotherham looked out of it when he took over, seen the table now?

Some of those comments about Warnock will come back and bite a few on the arse, too. Three wins on the spin now..

Read 120 pages? As a sag he's much more likely to have coloured them in...

I have to say that for that length of journey from the North East for a night game to watch a side in the bottom three of the whole football league that is far, far more impressive than the 6500 who crawled out of Lockleaze and Southmead to attend.