GrahamC

1 minute ago, 8menhadadream said:

Where has the 'top 10 / above us' come from? We are in the play off zone of the Championship and that shower of s**t are in the L1 relegation zone. Am I missing something? 

The only comparison between the 2 clubs nowadays is the 'Bristol' in the respective names. Other than that we are eons ahead in every respect. R*vers are rarely sung about at the Gate anymore and apart from a quick look at the results screens on the way out, rarely mentioned.  A genuine question, can someone name 1 (that's ONE) thing they have or can do better than us apart from lose to Scunthorpe?

Create a myth?

1) apparently have the "best fans in the world"

2) apparently "have a billionaire owner"

3) claim to have taken more fans to Wembley than they actually (even Wael says this).

4) "loyal and true" just like their last Eastville crowd..

19 minutes ago, pride of the west said:

More bull by wally then with regards to cat 2 academy. But no doubt the blue few will lap it up. If he can't put his hand in his pocket for a transfer fee then how's he gonna fund 2 mil per annum to fund it let alone the initial cost of putting the infrastructure in place?

And of course Radio Bristol will report it completely uncritically, the same as the local media all do when they never question this "billionaire" horseshit.

Oh look, Andy Howard of Radio Bristol has now done just that, retweeting it without any comment at all on the almost impossibility of achieving the criterion that are required..

9 minutes ago, The Joker said:

I got a feeling somebody is on a wind up.. but if true

It is true.

I'll be ****** if I'll ever listen to that load of shite but there are several gas on Twitter saying just how cringeworthy the panel (including the gas girls?) are.. 

According to my maths they now have 6 players who are on loan, the three they brought in today, two earlier in the week (Roos and Roberts) and James from Peterborough.

They do realise that you can only include five of them in your squad, do they?

1 minute ago, Puckle_red said:

Where is the 70 odd figure coming from for Scunthorpe? Hardly a huge following but our actual following was over double "70 odd" (158).

That distance on a Tuesday for that competition and those opponents...not a bad effort.

Tickets purchased in advance.

Now being incorrectly repeated ad nauseam by the club with "the best fans in the world".

10 minutes ago, Rocky said:

I would be if I were them.

2 more cheap loan signings made in the last day.

Players who were on loan to Yeovil and AFC Wimbledon last season in League Two, they still haven't spend any money at all on transfers this summer, their 2 permanent signings being someone who is 30 and was out of contract at Plymouth (League Two, again) and someone that Port Vale had only offered reduced terms to stay.

That millionaire/billionaire stuff the media laps up about the Jordanian is looking pretty suspect, no?

14 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Radio Bristol, biased bastards said " Rovers stay 16th"...I think you'll find they're 17th !

Bet they mentioned that they haven't won a game yet this season over 90 minutes against 11 men..

What, they didn't?

1 minute ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Agard scores again, what have we done!

Sold a good League One player to a League One team?

30 minutes ago, BRISTOL86 said:

Be interesting to see who goes into the back 4 if either Flint or Magnusson get injured!

My guess would be one of the full backs on the bench would.

If Magnusson was injured I'd expect Golbourne to come on, if Flint did, I think we'd be buggered (!) but it would probably depend on the score, amount of time left etc, but expect Matthews would come on and Little go into the middle.

Few surprises there, especially Pack not starting, but it is always worth remembering which manager signed a player.

Looks a very attacking line up and as Burton score plenty and concede lots that probably means it will end 0-0..

7 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Last game of a wretched season?  (not the last ever match at A G )

Last but one, Millwall.

4 minutes ago, richwwtk said:

Please enlighten me, our crowds never dropped that low to the best of my knowledge. Not a million miles away for a couple of games maybe, but never below 3K.

He can't, because it is a lie.

We had ONE sub 3,000 crowd after we went bust in '82 (I was there) and even that was over 2500..

15 hours ago, Smaller than a flea said:

Well, since we're playing Cardiff on Thursday, I expect you'll be standing in the away section telling everyone how Matty Taylor is never going to cut it in League 1.  I'm sure they'll also all agree with you.

They are quite Stalinist in their approach to dissent North of the river, aren't they?

Off to the thought camp for any dissidents..

For the much older amongst you, this is almost "send Bert Tann to (North) Vietnam" territory...

32 minutes ago, RedRaw said:

Maybe he should have used this one......

 

 

That photo will never fail to be funny, just look at them in their North Bristol heartland..

5 minutes ago, Tomarse said:

I was at the flag day - nothing of sort happened. Why would a minibus end up there and why would the police who kept a low but visible presence around the pub let it happen? Complete gas fantasy once again 

Not like them and their "billionaire owner" to completely fabricate stories, is it?

1 hour ago, steve39 said:

Hope Wigan set off early as m5 is stacked right up into Gloucester I'm predicting a late ko.

Seeing as I saw 2 of their players in Milennium Sq last night about 5.30 I think it is safe to say they are here..

28 minutes ago, Iron Man said:

Wait.. Is that link a piss take at our situation? 

Think so.

Hilarious bunch of ground stealers, aren't they?

FTG.

1 hour ago, Barrs Court Red said:

#evolutionnotrevolution 

chuckle

#noevolutionmoreanotherpisstake

15 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

As do I 

sensible gas heads are always welcome here, we aren't petty children like those on your forum,

i said when the take over happened that this is a land grab by Hamer. I still believe this to be the case, 

 I generally think a stealth asset stripping will take place in around 6 months time, this is mainly because of Brexit which means land values have dropped and the property market currently in flux, which will explain the frankly bizarre statement from rovers on the day of the Brexit vote

 

 

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.

11 hours ago, Philgas said:

Very confusing but there ya go .. time will tell 

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

1 hour ago, Iron Man said:

Rejected their new contract a few minute ago.

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?

5 hours ago, Super said:

Season	Season ticket sales	Average attendances
2006/07	2623	5476
2007/08	3511	6850
2008/09	3203	7171
2009/10	3534	7043
2010/11	3082	6253
2011/12	2904	6035
2012/13	3130	6309
2013/14	3346	6421
2014/15	2896	6629
2015/16	3526	8096

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.

1 hour ago, spudski said:

I hope fans are also realistic...regardless of our Stadium, dreams, hopes, future plans, new manager, new scouts, new recruitment people etc, etc...however good they are...however much we plan to be better...we are still little ol' Bristol City...Un proven in this division. We are a small fish in a huge pond and trying to compete with other clubs is still going to be hard.

Players like Tomlin and Baker may come here on loan, to get first team football...but trying to sign them full time onto a 3 year contract is a completely different ball game...and that is regardless of who the manager is and his recruitment team.

We are who we are...an unfashionable club with no real history of achievement.

It's going to be hard.

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.

2 hours ago, Chris said:

I think you're correct. Wasn't there an article in the Post about Taylor betting he'd score more than Cole.  Also the time of the Cole not Gas t-shirts. 

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