Say what you will about Ollie..

[TETBURY MASSIVE]

['Orns]

I like him.  I said something bad in the 90's too. Get over it.

Maybe I'm weird, but seeing grown men get so upset because someone said something mean about his football club is amazingly sad.  

Says the bloke who wanted to fight someone on here not so long back.....**** me

 

[REDOXO]

Says the bloke who wanted to fight someone on here not so long back.....**** me

 

Really No Shit! Badger that's not good!

As for Holloway, he didn't say something bad in the 90's, he repeated statements at every available opportunity about this club and its supporters until he grew up and realised that people are actually on the other side of their televisions watching him and he can make a nice roll of extra cash by not being a graceless ****....

 

 

[BRISTOL86]

He can pay lip service all he damn well wants we all ought to be cynical that there are other agendas at play here.

You don't go slagging off a Championship club to appease the fans of an at-this-time-last-season non-league club. That's just plain simple.

You might also want to appear as neutral as possible. Obviously if you were interviewing at a club when you once managed a rival of course you'd bring along a cut out of said interview 'see.... I can be impartial'.

He's Rovers through and through and I don't believe for one minute he has any positive feelings for us. As a 30 year old he didn't and I don't think that age is junior enough to say he has mellowed so much over time.

My problem with Holloway however is not so much his Rovers affiliation, not so much what I still believe is a dislike towards this club, it is that I think he represents this fine city very badly. He lives up to the buffoon, plays off the Bristolian link and he only serves to compound the 'Country Bumpkin' sterotype. He might be successful, he might be Bristolian, but I think he also acts up as inarticulate as possible because 'characters' sell. That's quite calculated and clever, I'll give him that, but putting Bristol on the map in a positive way, does he [....!]

 

Nail on the head, couldn't (and won't try to) put it better myself. 

[Nogbad the Bad]

Anyone who despises BCFC, ....so what.

When it comes to the man, the person, his family life etc, he (and many others we 'hate') are normally as good/nice as the rest of us.

Given what he's been through I am happy to cut the man a lot of slack (not necessarily relevant, I agree) and, while I am happy to give him some edgy, noisy banter, he loves his football club as we do.

I've a few more serious things to get really upset about.

I'm sure we all have Cotswold, and doubtful any of us dwell on it.

However it's good for our collective well being to give Hollowhead copious amounts of well deserved abuse every time his name crops up on here.

No doubt we all feel better after a few moments spent berating Skeletor, then we can get on with our day happily refreshed.

The obnoxious little gashead ****.

Ah, what a lovely day.

[TheCulturalBomb]

This hasn't been a very positive thread with tonight's match looming, and our incoming 3 points!! However.. I might be able to find a positive quote from Colin or Paul Trollope to tie you guys over till kick-off 

[Septic Peg]

Not again - how many times do we go through this . . . .. anyone that saw him play against City must surely despise him

I just about remember the complete ****er playing for the Gas when he was into the twilight of his career and player/manager for the Tesco baggers.

Some of the stuff he comes out with is quite funny and he obviously doesn't give a toss about being portrayed as a 'bumbling idiot' for which I'll say fair play (even though some of the general public tar with the same brush so all Bristolians are bumbling idiots). But I've seen what other people have said about his deaf kids and that's just plain vile. Say what you like about him but not his defenceless kids who didn't ask for vitriol. 

As for him saying City will come good, I think it's reverse psychology. He hates City. We hate him. We ain't gonna do what he says. Wish he'd go back to slating us so then we can start giving out a hiding to teams and we can shove that down his throat. 

[archie andrews]

He's a right tosser

very thorough tins

very thorough

[WTFiGO!?!]

To be fair to old Hollowhead, he does nothing but praise us these days.

I never thought I'd change my opinion on this man - especially considering that I am old enough to remember his City hating days all too well - but he comes across as a genuinely decent sort these days who does nothing to provoke City fans.

Maybe him being away from the City has softened his dislike of us? I'm sure it will always be there, just like my serious dislike of the deluded ones north of the river will never leave me, but he has clearly mellowed with age.

I have to say that he is to be admired for the way that he has moved through his life without  ever mentioning his three deaf daughters in anything other than a positive light, never as an excuse, and also that his wife battled cancer whilst he managed in the pressure-cooker of the Premier League.

It feels very strange that I should be writing anything less than vitriol towards Holloway, but it just doesn't feel right anymore.

Which one of you has hacked redfred's account then?

I agree with the reverse psychology theory btw, bloke always did talk bollocks.