Eddie Hitler

Gas Guzzler? I think they must have some sort of entrance test as it's a cut above the collection of semi-literate outbursts that is Gas Chat.

Time to move this into classics? We have officially taken on the mantle of being the biggest laughing stock in Bristol.

Indeed. Maybe a sarcasm tag before someone bites.

And in case this is a genuine post, welcome to Bristol and to the decent club. Derby games next season will be a scant consolation for getting relegated though!

People, or rather the ones posting on this forum, aren't "turning" on the players.

No. Not as first choice. No. We don't intend going there. Yes - you win!

That's a cracking question there Mr Army.

Seriously? A 5% charge is the standard for these sort of transactions.

And anybody that's neutral tends to prefer the smaller club: Stoke or Port Vale Notts Forest or Notts County Chelsea or Brentford et cetera

It's alright, we can put a lot of newspaper down first to stop them muddying it.

Bristol Derby, City victory. Sounds great, it's been far too long.

And the spelling, that's no mean feat getting that right first time with no crossings out.

We are (unfairly) a team of giants according to that Villa fan.

Yes absolutely. I'm not Ten Minutes of Rough telling people to stop it. Just that nothing of real interest to us is happening now so people are being drawn into the "count the away attendance" level of schoolboy point scoring. If it isn't worth a new thread then why descend to it on this one? I read the thread precisely to see if anything comes out about their Chairman and UWE but that's all buried in the trivia swamp. Could be worse I suppose, people might start making "hilarious" puns.

I'm not saying don't talk about them or pretend that there is no rivalry but this enormous thread came about because of some seriously funny stuff. If they start up again with the comic capers then huge thread time again but with this one always near the top of our board I feel that I know more about them than their own fans do; and I don't want to.

Time to move the thread into Classics now? There have been some hilarious moments but they've reverted to being a normal football club again. Comparing away attendances for cup games doesn't have the same laugh out loud factor as "I bin frew two divorces Geoff...".

Yes. To be fair you did give us enormous hilarity by losing first the "never been in top, never been in the bottom" boast (whilst we had famously been in Div 4) and then topping it with losing league status entirely. All garnished by horse pucnhing, wonga loans and the rubbish spouted by Higgs about watertight contracts. But since then you have achieved a lot in two seasons and can be prowed of that. Football is all ups and downs and without the lows as contrast you don't enjoy the highs; and you had the most spectacular down since Tranmere who I note are now rdiing top of the Conference.

I don't think you mean me Phil!

That's fine, there's no requirement for you to have any interest in them. I think you're making a big assumption in saying that people posting on here "want to get under their skin". Maybe some do but for the majority of posters it's that they have been really damn funny for the last few years and as our local rivals we have an obvious interest. As has been said many times they tried to take our ground in 1982; you don't forget that in a hurry. Anybody actually wanting to wind up Rovers fans are better off doing so on their own forums; Kaiser does it one one of them for instance. If I was a Rovers fan I wouldn't bother keeping an eye on this thread as it's for internal consumption of City fans.

You would prefer a new thread every time they do something comically entertatining? This thread is so big because it covers their descent into non-league, various riots, near bankruptcy, and rescue by a multi multi billionaire who seems strangely reluctant to put any of yer actual "money" into their club. If football forums were around in 81/82/83 I guarantee there would have been an equivalent huge thread on the gas forums. If they now settle intoDivision 3 medicority and stability as the Dunfords gave them then the interest level will dip as we will neither be competing with them nor laughing at them.

And will presumably be let in next home game along with her nut of a carer despite spoiling the game for those around her. Yet people get banning orders for just being exuberant and running onto the pitch spoiling the game for absolutely nobody. Wibble. Drifting further west Plymouth Argyle have a thug passionate fan called Pieface who was on Big Brother (no I didn't see it either) that the local paper are bizarrely enamoured with and even gave him his own column last season. Well at the last game he was caught ranting at one of their players after the game and was shamed into apologising; saying he didn't know that the player was with his family. Hmmmm...... http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/pie-face-apologises-to-argyle-s-miller-for-carlisle-rant/story-29623896-detail/story.html

Absolutely nuts from what I read. The sort of fans for whom terracing was invented as it allows everybody else to steadily edge away from them.

You mean, of course, similar to how Everton take absolutely no notice of Liverpool and Man City entirely ignore Man Utd as though they don't even exist. Like that then.