Eddie Hitler

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.

It's the same old nonsense but if it were not confined to this thread it would scatter across the board like a particularly nasty recurrent rash that makes you regret getting drunk that time in the Philippines upon each noxious gaseous belch of their misfiring organisation.

Gas Guzzler is more sensible as smaller forums often are. Gas Chat is an idiot babbling with many voices.

The other gasheads seem equally bemused by the OP!

I really like that mug tbh, I've spent many hours looking at teletext results and an equivalent one for City would be on my Christmas list.

"I'm in agony with these haemorrhoids, can somebody urgently get a sack truck and wheel me to A&E?"

Becoz it street and edgy innit. Anybody caught smiling gets fined a week's wages.

I was joking Philgas, a "starry eyed dreamer" would hardly be "dreaming" of 16th place in L1!

I'm sure that this would have been done thoroughly and correctly. What would be dubious would be the financial projections accompanying them. Higgs ran it on a shoestring and they ended up in the Conference when his "cross your fingers" strategy didn't work; so you are buying on a P&L that for the last two years reflects low spending and high incomes from two promotion seasons. Bump that spending up to moderate and achieve 16th place in L1 (as that starry-eyed dreamer Philgas is hoping for) and the losses will start to mount and Wael may get bored of his expensive plaything and buy a rugby club nearer London instead.

Maybe it's just a training scheme for young Wael. His family, despairing of him not having a proper job and just hanging around the house all day, asked him what he wanted to do and he said "I want to run Chelsea football team mummy". Well his family had a meeting at 7pm after he'd gone to bed with his milk and biscuits and decided that there was no way that they were going to risk a huge chunk of the family money by buying Chelsea and letting little Wael run it so they decided that they would instead buy him a pretend Chelsea for a few quid for him to play with and which would let him wear a suit to football dos and meet his Chelsea heroes. Young Wael was given the news the next day and was so excited he packed all of his Chelsea FC underpants into a suitcase and rushed off to Bristol.

Who needs Keith Chimp? I told you all months ago.

We got a signed Cheltenham card for someone at work. The only signature we could read was, to his credit, Nathan Tyson. There must be some rule about unreadable signatures in football clubs.

She's just the stewardess who took the picture at somebody else's request. She's nothing to do with the gas so I wish people would just leave off her.

Crikey, I think you may be right and we now look very very stupid indeed. I thought Chris Morris had been quiet but he's been running this massive comedy project for the last few years and we've all fallen for it. Come on Chris, game over now. But it has been brilliant. My particular highlight was your impersonating the "Rovers fan" on the phone-in programme: "Two divorces, the Thatcher years..". Chris you are a stone cold genius sir.

I think it was worth flagging up as Brexit may well affect Rovers' chances in the Champions' League in three seasons' time.

They would claim that they're a "family club", but given the frequency of violence at their games it does have a hollow ring to it. The nub of it seems to be that they are a smaller and less successful club which means that they are liked more by fans of other clubs. And this is true as smaller clubs are more popular with other fans: for example do you prefer Man Utd or Carlisle? The logical conclusion to this, if being "liked" is so important to them, is to go back to being non-league. If they were doing a Torquay and flirting with the Conference South then they would be very popular. You might even get a few City fans watching them as the rivalry would be non-existent at that point.

How dare you not follow what happens at B&Q. Call yourself a fan?

Oi steady, got to be two. I'm assuming that guy likes his own singing.