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On 11 May 2016 at 12:59, Just Red said:

I would be happy for you if the majority of your fans didn't continually harp on about us and they concentrated on your own club. 

We have the whole Bristol Sport model. The stadium has been rebuilt, New training ground.

Fans in a two club city will always talk about their rivals and a 206 page thread on 'them' suggests we harp on about them too!

And have we got a new training ground? Thought it was still at Failand? What's new up there? Genuine question by the way JR, not saying you're wrong.

46 minutes ago, redapple said:

This ongoing rubbish on here makes the whole City fan-base look collectively arrogant and immature....

How can comments on a forum make the 'whole fan-base' look arrogant and immature?

Only a tiny, tiny percentage of our fanbase post on here, it is in no way whatsoever representative of the views of all City fans, and I think all visitors to these pages recognise that....

17 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

I'm confused by this thread. Nottingham Forest, having just won the European Cup, were laughing at their little neighbours Notts County way back when.  Fair enough.

But no. We have just been promoted to a league you last saw in.....let me check....ah yes...2014-15. One which, the season before, you were at one point in being danger of being relegated from under O'Dismal.

So we are now playing the same teams you played all of 12 months ago.

Yet a vast gulf exists. You only think of us when you see a blue shirt in Bristol. Other than that, we do not register. You are in a different league, not just literally, but metaphorically. Apparently.

I'm making no claims about Rovers being a big club in any sense, but some on here (not all by any means) honestly need to get a sense of perspective.  Bristol City are perceived by the big boys in the Championship as being about on a par with Millwall or Rotherham. You might improve and creep up the Championship, but we are talking now, not some golden time in the future.

 

Oh dear! You've only been a Football League club since 2015....

Incidentally, how do you know the views of the 'big boys in the championship...?' Would love to see your research...

13 minutes ago, 054123 said:

I take it that's Darren Clarke?

Nah, I think he's concentrating on his golf career - unless the gas like his ability to whack a ball a long way in the air so thought he'd be perfect to maintain their style of play as manager?

1 hour ago, ChippenhamRed said:

There is one thing I'm happy to admit I'm jealous of Rovers fans about. Twice now in two seasons, they've achieved something with effectively one kick of a football - their penalty in the play-off final last year, and their last-ditch goal yesterday. That must feel special. For all our superiority, I don't ever recall one single kick of a ball having quite such an impact for us during my lifetime (I'm 32). As a football fan you live for moments like that.

Happy to be corrected though!

The last gasp Colin Gordon goal against Donny Rovers in 1988 to get us into the play offs could be one of those moments....sheer ecstasy!

7 hours ago, Selred said:

I think any sensible player would pick us over Villa. That club is a shambles from top to bottom.

I really don't agree, if a player could sign for Aston Villa or Bristol City they'd be off to the Midlands...the only shambles is the way they've been relegated, they can still afford to pay wages that we can only dream about....

4 minutes ago, Big Brother said:

Martin Hirst and the gang ... 

December 10th 1983 - best game I've ever been at....and we were a basement team then....never forget...

3 hours ago, redfred said:

To all you gashead posters and lurkers: The day Bristol City are relying on a better result than Accrington Stanley to get promoted from the basement league is the day I hang up my footballing scarf and realise life has dealt me a cruel, cruel hand.

Now **** off.

 

Not sure I agree mate, I didn't hang up my scarf when we pipped Aldershot to the last promotion place from the basement division in 1983/84 - and loads more didn't either. We were right behind Terry and the boys.

You obviously weren't around when we were right down there....incidentally, in that same season the gas finished 5th in the division above us.

Never forget our history...it's what made us

Now this thread title is a great name for a Dr Feelgood tribute band....!

2 hours ago, sirscrumpton said:

Meanwhile on ass chat

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/7116/otib-watch

Apparently we've had a dull season. Admittedly we aren't going for promotion, but I would say it's been interesting for us in the CHAMPIONSHIP.

Our last 2 games have had nothing on them, but we are playing a team who have spent 3 of the 4 seasons in the Premier League, in our last game of the season.

I'd rather flirt with relegation in the Championship than push for top 3 in the basement myself. 

And they think that the whole world loves em and hates the 'teds' - I showed this thread and THAT You Tube video to fans of Bournemouth and Exeter today, they both laughed out loud, called em 'sad f*ckers' (amongst other things) and confirmed what most people think, that the gas are the annoyingly sad little club from Bristol who are just jealous and desperately hankering to be Bristol City.

They also noted the irony that sags call us 'the franchise' when they obviously don't know what that means and they derided us in the past for having a rich owner then go berserk when some Chelsea fan buys them....

I just can't wait for it all to come crashing down around them....and that ain't jealousy, just realism. We've got a Bristolian billionaire with our hopes in his hands who genuinely loves our club - they've got a chancer who couldn't afford Chelsea.

But it won't stop the blue few hypocrites calling SL the 'tax exile' when their guy's company is registered in Jersey for some strange, tax evading reason....

They'll never get it.....gas logic....I reckon that could make it into the dictionary....gas logic = 'we're always right cos we hate teds'

They are like an annoying little nephew at Xmas, you only tend to see them once a year but they remind you instantly why you hated them for the rest of the year.....

2 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

THAT should be their anthem......

Subterranean Homesick BLUES !

Now that's a good game! Their new anthem! 

This one?

Or this one?

25 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

'Gas logic'....

Quite possibly the best thing I've ever heard 

Oh 'Gas logic' is priceless mate  - best recent example on their forum was that we are 'only staying up because three teams are worse than us but they are going up because they are better than 20 other teams'

You cannot choreograph comedy quite like that!

1 hour ago, Red-Robbo said:

I suppose if anyone had them,  it would be Darryl Clarke.

I expect he spends his evening watching them,  followed by Howard Way, El Dorado and Triangle.

Triangle!!! Now THAT was a veritable feast of class!

4 minutes ago, BS2 Red said:

They got a little trophy for winning the play offs.  They then spent a good few years banging on about winning a trophy that season whereas we didn't get a trophy (as we went up automatically that year).  Like I said, #gaslogic. 

Blimey! They got a trophy for a div 4 play off win??!

Ha ha! Was that also the season they knocked us out the Mickey Mouse Football League Trophy and one of theirs described it as 'literally the best day of my life' on their forum?! Pity they lost the final to Donny Rovers tho!

On 25 April 2016 at 10:06, glynriley said:

Been there, done that....

We've won 'two Wembley finals in a row'? Have we?

32 minutes ago, BS2 Red said:

Oh god this!  They have only just stopped banging on about how they won a trophy in 2006/07 whereas we didn't.  

Never mind that we finished 2nd in a higher league when they scrapped 6th, they got a tinpot trophy and so they are better. #gaslogic

So which trophy did they win in 2006/07???

By my recollection they didn't win anything that year..

Below Rotherham as it stands....Come on City!!!

47 minutes ago, Thatch35 said:

Well, I remember it well. The cardiff fans were trying to bite through the two separating nets when it was sung.

Ok, we'll have to agree to disagree, I went to Ninian Park five times in the good old days and only heard it sung about twice...certainly not at the 'Scotty scores two' game...and on one occasion (another game) our fans voiced their disgust at the song and drowned it out...

5 hours ago, Thatch35 said:

 

 

It was sung quite frequently during the away game when Scotty scored those two goals and Lee Matthews rocked the goal.

I know it has been sung at games vs Cardiff but I was at that game and can't recall any Aberfan songs...

1 hour ago, Port Said Red said:

He is a ******* dinosaur, LJ will keep us no problem at all and we will have a young hungry manager in place for the start of the season. Who will Rotherham have and how much will it have cost them to pay into Colin's retirement plan and then recruit someone new and do it all over again?

Five wins and a draw out of six for the dinosaur now....

...and I do genuinely admire your confidence that we will stay up with 'no problem at all' - I don't think we are safe yet and I think it will go down to the wire. We've shown that we can get stuffed 0-4 and 4-0 just as easily as we can win 6-0...it's a crazy and unpredictable division so Rotherham's amazingly consistent recent run gives them a great chance of survival.

I'm not sure Rotherham are looking any further than the end of this season at the moment, they obviously just want to stay up. But also, how do you know they aren't already carefully looking properly for their next manager in the background whilst Warnock does his short term stuff?

We could well have a young and hungry manager in place for the start of next season...but in which division?

Having just shelled out over £500 for a season ticket for next season I just hope it's in the championship....

17 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

Bastard Rotherham 1 up

Yep, the 'dinosaur,' ridiculously widely-despised, apparently 'crap' manager Mr Warnock is currently beating Leeds.

His team has won four and drawn one of the last five before today - beating Ipswich, Sheff Wed, Middlesboro and Brentford and coming from three down to draw with Derby - and people on here didn't even want him at our club on a short term deal...clueless...

1 hour ago, Portland Bill said:

Regarding Somerset, your spot on, certainly Bridgwater has a large City following. Unfortunately not as big as Man U and Liverpool though. Sometimes I wonder if I live in the north fn west!

There's also a large pocket of Man U fans in Radstock as well for some reason...

4 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

They started in 3rd place on Monday.

Good grief, I apologise chief, I never realised they'd hit heights as dizzy as that!

I still laugh about the post on their forum which said they've got a better away following than Liverpool....

On 28 March 2016 at 17:55, Port Said Red said:

651 listening  to Radio Bristol, on an Easter Monday and as a percentage of their usual home gate it's pretty good. I would imagine all but one would not have made that journey if they werent in the top 3 though.  

Not that I really care but they haven't been in the top 3 at all this season have they?!

2 hours ago, Barrs Court Red said:

Just saw we took 1300 in our promotion year, so maybe not so great after all.

That can't be true because they have the most loyal fans in the country, they are a unique club, they've suffered hardships that no other club has ever experienced yet they still turn up in their thousands (usually only seven of those thousands at home though), they are 'world famous' now they are owned by a multi billionaire who 'owns his own bank,' the whole country loves them and despises us, they are the family club whereas we are just followed by thugs and villains, every time there is trouble at their shitey little camp they claim 'there were 'teds in the away end,' they are Bristol's only genuine club whereas SL has turned us into 'a franchise in a horrid stadium,' their kit is 'unique' so they are 'unique,' they are now  going to overtake us and leave us trailing in their wake yet their filthy rich owner doesn't seem to have spent much yet.......

Soooo, given all that, how could we have possibly taken almost double the number of fans to a game than they did?!

It's just not possible.....

I had a letter printed in the Bristol Evening Post in the early '80s when their chairman at the time was quoted thus: "...as Bristol's leading football club....(blah, blah, blah)"

He based his claim on the crowds at our respective games the week before, and they were a division above us at the time.

So I pointed out that if he'd subtracted the 3,000 free tickets they gave away to school kids for their game then we'd have had a bigger crowd despite being in div 4 at the time.

And it doesn't look like many of those 3,000 kids have stuck with them.

Also, for the record, at the time I thought that was good PR on their part and a wise move to try to attract the future life-long fans with free entry - but to then boast about their crowd on the back of that was classless...and the Evening Post seemed to agree by printing my rant - word for word...