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3 hours ago, firstdivision said:

We are crying out for a modern stadium,” al-Qadi says. “What we have now [the Memorial Stadium] is an old, dilapidated rugby stadium. Bristol Rovers are like the Boca Juniors of Bristol, the first club of Bristol — five generations of fans come to games and it’s truly great to have. This my passion, my love.”

Well, stick your hand in your f’ing pocket and get the stadium built if it’s your ‘passion’ and ‘love’ and stop whining about needing a new stadium when the facts clearly suggest the stadium is big enough to cater for the ‘five generations of fans’

You are no different to every other lower league club who wants a new stadium/better facilities….there are no handouts, you had your best chance at UWE and you blew it.

Bristol Rovers….Always the victim, always on the scrounge. 

14 hours ago, RedM said:

Stoke still give their fans free coach travel so I think they will bring a few.

Have popped in the cider press glos rd for some breakfast on the way to football…..told by the barman that 50 Stoke fans are due any minute. Coach just turned up, 50 knuckle-draggers have now swamped the place……will neck the brekki before I get a rendition of dalilah!

47 minutes ago, Rocky said:

I've seen him wandering around the downs before,

So is ‘nice’ bristol city going to send video clips and speak to EFL about what appears to be blatant mistakes by referees or are we just going to carry on moaning that we are hard done by…..not once during those two incidents were city players in the face of the referee. Time to start being ****s and being a bit more street wise

8 minutes ago, Andrew_V1 said:

This club is an absolute joke.

Fed up.

A slow painful deterioration until inevitable relegation to league 1 again beckons.

Owner has lost interest and frankly is incapable of leading a concurrent football strategy or good appointment to save his life

So sh*t at home for years now, embarrassing to hit this point with all the wasted millions on the Johnson jr vanity project

 

Hard to argue with that synopsis 

On 04/11/2022 at 21:52, RedLionLad said:

Spotted on Facebook

Let’s have your best captions 

The surge  of rovers support now reaches as far out as St Paul’s….

3 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Now go back 15 minutes and get a screen shot of the knee high, uncontrolled challenge on Williams 

Lots and lots, I mean lots of emergency services by bedminster bridge…. could be anything but if football related?

29 minutes ago, Robbored said:

If anyone has Sky Sports the gas are live from Hillsborough this evening. Me? I’ll be watching Liverpool in the Champion League

That’ll be a proper football match.

Aren’t you on coach duty?

4 hours ago, AppyDAZE said:

Nobody says cassn't anymore

That's not Bristolian, that's embarrassing

 

 

 

 

 

You’ve not met my father then

2 minutes ago, Dredd said:

Or

Kalas listens to the shout from the keeper, Max catches it and we have possession?

I don’t understand how Max gets the blame.  Yes it’s a long way to come but there isn’t a Millwall player even attempting to challenge him for the ball?! Therefore it’s a perfectly acceptable decision to come and collect, and he makes the call to make everyone is aware he’s doing so. Kalas is 100% to blame for that goal not Max. 

WTF. “Therefore it’s a perfectly acceptable decision to come and collect”

He didn’t, yet you blame kalas! Dear oh dear 

Max stays on his line and let his 3 defenders deal with the ball, it’s not a goal. Absolute howler from max

15 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Well he’s already said he’s staying but I wouldn’t say there was ‘no chance’ something like this could happen. People back themselves to move to a better paid job with more responsibility quite often 

And some people are just happy and content in the job they’re in, even though they know they have the ability to move up the ladder.

I would imagine tinnion feels his current position ticks every career and life box…..that means a lot to some people. 

Fully on Pearson this one. Persevering with a system that has been found out and to the extent he plays fking Andy king at centre back.

doesn’t appear to be able or willing to play any other way

1 minute ago, Countryfile said:

Did I hear correctly that the site is to be sold with outline permission to fund the sports development?

Yes, SL will sell the land with outline permission so he gets the funds in place to start  on the sporting quarter. The new owners of longmoor will then have to get a detailed reserved matters application through planning to be able to start on site 

59 minutes ago, Bat Fastard said:

Was the complainant someone called A. Newt?

No it was A. Cu..

3 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

He thought about packing in after the Euros.

Well, he should stop thinking and start acting

34 minutes ago, Robbored said:

It’s our Finals weekend at my bowls club so I’ll be heading off there. I’m not in any unfortunately, got knocked out in three semi finals……………..

That’s because you were playing against ‘proper’ bowls players

“I felt if we’d taken the lead we’d have won the game”

Yea joey-bag, and if me auntie had a c0ck……

1 minute ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

But then what impact does his contract running down have upon his value? 

Plus we can't hide away from the fact that he does seem to pick up injuries. If he got injured at the world Cup then his value drops further. 

I'd be happy to not risk it and take 15 million plus add ons. 

I’m glad you’re not negotiating for us

6th now

1 hour ago, Bernard Lerring said:

With the number of nobheads that shine their phones torches at each other between the Lansdown and the Dolman, we'll probably be covered

Wow, probably another ‘south stander’ that doesn’t see or chooses to ignore the fact people in that stand do it as well.

20 minutes ago, spudski said:

I gave the reasons to my thinking in my previous posts. As to why being offensive works. Especially when our Achilles heal is letting teams onto us later in games.

I wouldn't have subbed Wells, Conway , Scott or Weimann.

I would have brought one of our RBs on and dropped Scott deeper. 

Yes we won...but like your Scenario...if we had conceded two...fans would be questioning why we let them onto us again.

I believe in playing to our strengths not weaknesses.

He obviously believed tightening up with 10 men against a pretty toothless Luton was the right call. Considering the last 20 we surrendered some possession (as you would with 10 men) but they didn’t create any real chances would suggest it’s the right call.

I agree that we should play to our strengths when you can and 11v11 he may well have been more offensive but this front foot / pressing / passing game we have witnessed more this season is only in its infancy and maybe with 10 men and a 2-0 lead with 20 to go, discretion was the better part of valour 

2 minutes ago, spudski said:

What makes you think the substitutions would have been different against another side. There is no evidence of that!

So you think against a more ' competent' side he would have stayed more offensive?

Even when we have had 11 on the pitch, we go deep later in games. It's been a fault for seasons.

Why invite that scenario again, when we found a formula of pace, movement and angles so affective.

Bringing defensive minded players on, to defend...defend. Inviting the team onto you. 

Keep the ball with movement and angles, pace. We had that. 

We invited them into our box. 

You can defend a lead by being offensive and on the front foot and keeping the ball. 

So if he would have made 3 offensive changes, continued on the front foot and then went onto to draw/lose, you would have said ‘fair play, that’s the best way to play’

he can’t win either way

Just to remind you we were down to 10 men  so clearly would have had an impact on his decision making as regardless of trying to be offensive, Luton we’re always going to get more of the ball/get at us.

the fact they didn’t really get at us or have many clear cut chances would suggest the substitutions ‘in this scenario’ worked well. 

25 minutes ago, Harry said:

Yep. We won. And I’m happy about that. I’m just not convinced about how that actually happened and how that wouldn’t have worked against a competent opponent. 

So nige gets battered when he makes substitutions and we surrender a win/draw and now gets criticised / critiqued when he makes subs and we successfully see the game out.

he made the subs based on the games status and opponents. If we were playing a more ‘competent’ side, those substitution’s would no doubt have been different.