20 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

You can't change your team now..! 

Ha ha - set myself up a bit there!  

1 hour ago, Numero Uno said:

To be fair you get the opportunity to decide YOURSELF whether to come on here and be an online punchbag (slight over reaction imo). No such luxury for City fans on Gaschat……

Fair comment that I come on here of my own free will, I probably need to start making better life choices! 

1 hour ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Steve Cotterill condemns crowd abuse after Shrewsbury draw at Bristol Rovers

by CaseyAugust 27, 2022

Shrewsbury manager Steve Cotterill has condemned the Bristol Rovers fans who subjected him to a torrent of vile abuse following the 1-1 draw at Memorial Ground.

The former Bristol City manager was heading to the touchline for his post-match interview duties when home fans in the stands stopped him in his tracks and attacked him with a series of four-letter words.

A fan also yelled “I wish you were dead” at Cotterill, who had a brush with death during a lengthy battle with Covid-19 last season.

Cotterill was involved in a verbal confrontation with the small group of middle-aged men remaining in the stands before a fellow Rovers fan silenced them as children milled about on the ground.

“I came back here as a former Bristol city manager who has been successful and still has a home in the city,” said Cotterill.

“Such abuse is not acceptable, but I have a lot of good friends who are ardent Rovers fans.

“There are some people who decide that they want to have something to say, but I don’t know what you can do about it. You have to take it.

“They’re far enough away from you, but there are a lot of people who are brave when they’re 20 or 30 feet away.

“The administration was pretty good and another guy told them to shut up, but unfortunately this happens in football. Fortunately, it is an isolated incident.”

 

Pretty despicable - glad that somebody had the decency to shut them up. 

1 hour ago, steviestevieneville said:

It’s nothing personal . I’ve happily conversed with you plenty of times & you generally post sensible debate or banter. I just couldn’t get my head around why anybody especially a woman would back Barton . You’re more than welcome on here. Apologies if it came across angry or aggressive. It wasn’t my attention at all.

Fair enough - I appreciate that, online people sometimes read comments as coming across in a different way than the writer intended.  I was probably of guilty of doing that earlier, reading more into your post than you meant.  Have a good weekend. 

7 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

You as a fan base I mean or are you distancing yourself from the rest of your lot .

You quoted one of my posts, so it seemed very much as though you were referring to me personally.  You obviously have anger issues, and seem to have singled me out as your online punchbag, you never offer any sensible debate.  Life's too short for that sort of sh*t, just to clarify I was not one of the people who complained about your post - I would have left it as it was, so that everybody could see your true colours. 

4 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

That's a rather ironic comment - when you are deliberately choosing to be in very much the wrong place,  if you don't like derogatory comments about Rovers. 

 

It's a shame that the humour and witty responses seem to have disappeared from here lately. 

12 hours ago, elhombrecito said:

Then you are a very rare 15er indeed.

I like to think I'm unique! 

2 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

the only reason we talk about attendances is because of you’re bloody lies .you used to be a voice of gas reason on here to certain extent but you’re becoming more & more like the rest of them . STOP BLOODY LYING . You’re crowds are shit , you’re stolen ground is shit . Just because a woman beater tells you you’re a big club doesn’t make it fact. You haven’t been in the second tier in English football for THIRTY YEARS, but you were non league 7 years ago 

I can only assume that you've been on the cider, unless you'd like to quote some of my "bloody lies". 

6 hours ago, Numero Uno said:

I don’t know whether he’s a racist but vile human or not but his comment about your lot being pathological liars, when it comes to attendances, is spot on. How many did you take to Wembley again?

No idea - I'm interested in watching football, not monitoring attendance figures.  If you want to know about Rovers attendances, you're in the right place, as there seem to be a lot of experts on here. 

3 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

As a close neighbour I can attest that his kids are as decent and polite as they come, which is as odds as he's a hypocritical, curmudgeonly and rather objectionable tw*t of the first water. As for pathological lying, well he'd know a thing or two about that.

He was excellent on Radio 5, back in the day.  A fair few Millwall fans have seen through the facade now, and see him as you have described. 

4 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

He was right in your case though. Plus I wouldn’t be so quick to get on your high horse seeing you openly backed a wife beater

Still waiting for you to send me the link to the verdict of the Court case - or have you seen it in your crystal ball?

18 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

Blue few is my favourite. No matter how much you lot live in you’re own parallel universe where you got better support than us . planet earth knows it’s complete  bollocks. Now, what was it Danny baker said about you lot. Oh yes, Bristol rovers fans are pathological liars. And he’s a millwall fan

Ah, Danny Baker the racist - he's even disliked by Millwall fans these days. 

21 hours ago, 54-46 said:

So does that mean he “allegedly” roughed her up when she was pregnant?

Not unless she had a 15 month pregnancy! 

34 minutes ago, NcnsBcfc said:

Factor in that it was witnessed by Clint Hill's wife, who is being summonsed to Court (allegedly) to give evidence (as a hostile witness) for the prosecution.

That's why Mr Barton & Mr Hill had their lovely parting of the ways

This has been rumoured for a long time, although Mrs Hill wasn't present when the hearing started - maybe she has been summoned as a new witness?  It will be interesting to see who turns up on the re-arranged date.

1 hour ago, steviestevieneville said:

Am I right in thinking you’re a woman ? The cps thinks there was enough to take him to court . Typical gas backing a scum bag like Barton. If he’d got the job here , he would of been hounded out as soon as the rumours surfaced. No ******* morals you blue few 

The CPS obviously have some strong evidence, get it into Court, and get it sorted properly.

15 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

The bloke beats up women . That’s all you need to know . Scum 

 I must have missed the Court case.

41 minutes ago, Gazred said:

Personally was more about me predicting he would be straight on the officials. Take your point though, it's fair.

Both of them are right though - a lot of the refs are awful.

7 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Well I made a long 2nd post that I accidentally lost.

Latterly I decided that something was amiss here so I decided to do a bit of due diligence, which ironically I should have done in the first instance- I have done a research based role in the past, I am quite good at it.

Anyway what I discovered turned hurt to laughter and as I said to some friends in a WhatsApp chat 'I'm just laughing at this point'.

Turns out for one that her name wasn't quite as she said, albeit of the same first letter. Fine I get that, risky to put full details on some kinda site like that especially for a woman.

The second thing that I discovered was the laughter. Seems that she is engaged or similar?? Would explain a few things but it would kinda be nice to have known instead of wasting a number of months!?

I am unsure what she wanted on there, unsure she herself knows as she appears to be some combo of pansexual, yet within traditional marriage but at the same time bisexual. Her bio said 'open relationship' but some of the other bits made that less clear.

Not like I was particularly out of pocket- a taxi or 2 and a couple of cocktails each, paid for by me of course but I learnt two significant and valuable lessons..prep properly for meets, I'm miles better now and do some due-dilligence BEFORE a meet, which again I seek to do.

What struck me was how little I did before hand ie none whatsoever in this case. I must have been very taken with her to just disregard any kinda caution or small research to see if anything didn't stack up.

They work in different cities so I wonder how much HE knows about her profile on that dating site, certainly no photos link back to anywhere else. Outside possibility that the person I met was somehow spoofing the original too? All very strange.

If she's looking for friendship on there, it's good to meet new people why not but make it a little clearer both in actions and perhaps how you show up on the night. Maybe I'm well out of it!!

Linked to Part 1, there was a fair bit of self-flagellation, some mood swings- not a good place to be. Plenty of deep dive analysis too, I was beating myself up a bit over (metaphorically) my blunders etc. Although these revelations paint that in a different light.

Life eh, sometimes throws up scripts that would be rejected in fictional plays or whatever!! Lives that some people lead...

Definitely dodged a bullet there, the boyfriend might be an MMA expert - and it's all good prep for the next time.

Plus you have a funny "disasterous date" story to tell - it made me laugh (sorry, I do sympathise as well).  

Good luck. 

On 14/08/2022 at 07:21, Tafkarmlf said:

Slight update again. I've a new partner.<3

Friendship into relationship dealio.

Unexpected and no pressure, drama or expectations. If it works then yay, if it doesn't it doesn't.

They know everything about what's going on, gone on and what's happening with everything. 

Already very different, taking each day as it comes 

Start the next rounds of counselling and the rest this week too. 

This year definitely unbelievable. 

 

Best wishes for the new relationship - hopefully this is just the beginning of an upturn for you. 

44 minutes ago, oldstandrobin said:

cant remember us saying that about Trevor Jacobs or Donnie Gillies when they went to play for the Gas........Idiots

These days some people have no filter, and appear to think that anything goes. 

10 hours ago, Swede said:

I see your opposition played for 89 minutes today with ten men. So it's hardly surprising you won.

Actually, it is, we're usually awful against 10 men, very rarely take advantage of having an extra man. 

10 minutes ago, The Humble Realist said:

It really doesnt matter but my wider point is why cant we actually fill the ground?

It seems the club only sold 25500 tickets but could have sold 1800 more?

 

Are there health and safety restrictions for mac capacity for football?

Maybe the Safety Advisory Group have been in action?  No idea why, in a new build stadium, but they seem to work in mysterious ways. 

2 minutes ago, bert tann said:

Bond Barton bust-up being laid bare by beleaguered burghers of BS7

The first team coach expressing a different opinion hardly counts as a bust-up.

That's a great post, and would be enjoyed by football fans of any persuasion - you described your memories so vividly, took me right back to those days in the 1970's.

Condolences on the passing of your Dad, you obviously had a great relationship and those precious memories will live with you forever. x 

2 hours ago, TheReds said:

If it's a decent bit of business then maybe don't throw him under the bus after starting the first game of the season. Barton had no need to really name anyone. He could quite easily have said "we are struggling for players at the moment, and that wouldn't have been my first choice 11 if everyone was fit, and a couple of players aren't up to up to speed or full fitness yet", "we need to get some new faces in to improve the current crop of players we have available", etc etc etc. He has basically said that Clarke is not anywhere near first team material, and after giving him a 2/3 year contract a month ago. Terrible comments for the player, if that's man management then you are in trouble. I'm all for some tough love etc, but that was not needed whatsoever.

That's a fair comment.