Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

[bcfc01]

43 minutes ago, Jim Davey said:

one of the most funniest days in my life ,mind the gap you bunch of fcu.king weirdos

Yep, wonderful day and the following season was quite funny as well.

I wasn't planning on going out that night but thought I'd go to a couple of pubs to do a bit of Gas baiting but the buggers were nowhere to be seen 

They don't like it up 'em.

[Jim Davey]

16 minutes ago, TomF said:

The folks who wrote it fell out massively with the hierarchy at the club to the point where they stopped supporting the club. Now support AFC Wimbledon. 

 

21 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Yep, wonderful day and the following season was quite funny as well.

I wasn't planning on going out that night but thought I'd go to a couple of pubs to do a bit of Gas baiting but the buggers were nowhere to be seen 

They don't like it up 'em.

ha ha funnily enough I saw loads out pre match with  their stupid old retro  everton tops on ,and yet just a few hours later hey presto they all disappeared .

[The Gasbuster]

On 01/05/2019 at 15:46, NOTBLUE said:

They’re joining the Gloucestershire County ladies league FFS.

The Gas Gash will probably be relegated from that, in their first season !

[Bristol Rob]

1 hour ago, TomF said:

The folks who wrote it fell out massively with the hierarchy at the club to the point where they stopped supporting the club. Now support AFC Wimbledon. 

Loyal and True!

Is that really the case, I'm guessing that you have to be a pretty committed fan to produce a fanzine, so to not just scrap your comic, but to support someone else.... wow.

[Rudolf Hucker]

1 hour ago, TomF said:

The folks who wrote it fell out massively with the hierarchy at the club to the point where they stopped supporting the club. Now support AFC Wimbledon. 

If they play in the street, we’ll watch them on Quest. 

[slartibartfast]

2 minutes ago, TomF said:

They're actually quite nice folks, met them number of times at cricket.  No idea of the story but yeah must of been heck of a fall out. 

The girl (Hazel ?) used to write a column for the Evil one, back in the day .

Edited May 2, 2019 by slartibartfast

[Miah Dennehy]

8 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

Did Rovers not scrap their “2nd May” fanzine title, after it became the date that you were relegated to the basement for the first time..? 

Congratulations on Finishing above us, 29 years ago though..!  

No. I used to write bits for that fanzine and it had already pretty much finished by then. It was actually originally called 91/2 Months, but the title was changed to honour our finest hour

As has been stated elsewhere on this thread Ian & Hazel did fall out with Dunford (I think) and do follow Wimbledon these days, although they have lived in London for years now so that may well have also been an influence.

Oh, and thank you for the congratulations. It's nice to see that the game still causes enough angst amongst City fans to raise so many responses

Edited May 2, 2019 by Miah Dennehy

[Busterrimes]

1 hour ago, TomF said:

The folks who wrote it fell out massively with the hierarchy at the club to the point where they stopped supporting the club. Now support AFC Wimbledon. 

Hazel Potter, she used to write a column in the EP back in the day. Horrible woman

[BS2 Red]

3 minutes ago, Busterrimes said:

Hazel Potter, she used to write a column in the EP back in the day. Horrible woman

Was she just bitter about her successful wizard brother? 

[wendyredredrobin]

Seems like Cock Man is favourite for the Pilgrims job.  Having just saved the numpties from Div 4 football this year, who would be willing to take on that pile of shite for next season?

He would go up in my estimation if he did toddle off down the M5 to manage a much more ambitious outfit though. He's been with yhe Sagslong enough to realise that Wally's promises are all hot air and never amount to anything.

[Miah Dennehy]

22 minutes ago, Busterrimes said:

Hazel Potter, she used to write a column in the EP back in the day. Horrible woman

Well you're half right. She did write for the EP, but she's lovely.

[Busterrimes]

6 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Well you're half right. She did write for the EP, but she's lovely.

Just like our football teams we shall have to disagree

[richwwtk]

13 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

Seems like Cock Man is favourite for the Pilgrims job.  Having just saved the numpties from Div 4 football this year, who would be willing to take on that pile of shite for next season?

He would go up in my estimation if he did toddle off down the M5 to manage a much more ambitious outfit though. He's been with yhe Sagslong enough to realise that Wally's promises are all hot air and never amount to anything.

There seems to be quite a debate (well, a few posts but that's loads for their forum) on Gaschat about the respective sizes of Plymouth and the gas as football clubs. In an absurd jump of gaslogic they seem to think they are similar in both stature and potential!

[BCFC11]

The Galleries know the score.......

[ExiledAjax]

On 01/05/2019 at 09:10, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Have we ever used the Mem in any of our marketing videos?

Dont think so, don’t think we need to.

Needy Gas stalkers, I wonder what they’re going to use our stadium as advertising for next? 

 

I think it has featured in some of the videos from our charitable arm, the Community Trust. They do an awful lot to help out struggling lower tier football in the city.

7 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

The Galleries know the score.......

Good to see Freddie Hinds has found a job as well.

[WessexPest]

42 minutes ago, Busterrimes said:

Hazel Potter, she used to write a column in the EP back in the day. Horrible woman

I know her personally and she is far from “horrible”. She’s a very genuine, nice person. Even when she followed the Gas I considered her a friend.

[pillred]

3 hours ago, Jim Davey said:

one of the most funniest days in my life ,mind the gap you bunch of fcu.king weirdos

Not ashamed even at my age danced a little jig around the front room that day!

[Rudolf Hucker]

28 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

Seems like Cock Man is favourite for the Pilgrims job.  Having just saved the numpties from Div 4 football this year, who would be willing to take on that pile of shite for next season?

He would go up in my estimation if he did toddle off down the M5 to manage a much more ambitious outfit though. He's been with yhe Sagslong enough to realise that Wally's promises are all hot air and never amount to anything.

It’ll certainly be interesting if he gives Plymouth “da tumbs up”.

[Bristol Rob]

12 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

The Galleries know the score.......

That'll upset the Fewers...

'I ain't goin' down there again, I'll be gettin' all me best gear from Primark now. I ain't goin' near The Officers Club* whilst thats up.'

*haven't been down there for years, it was a discount store.

[steviestevieneville]

2 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

No. I used to write bits for that fanzine and it had already pretty much finished by then. It was actually originally called 91/2 Months, but the title was changed to honour our finest hour

As has been stated elsewhere on this thread Ian & Hazel did fall out with Dunford (I think) and do follow Wimbledon these days, although they have lived in London for years now so that may well have also been an influence.

Oh, and thank you for the congratulations. It's nice to see that the game still causes enough angst amongst City fans to raise so many responses

I got a few gas mates Miah and none of them ever mention 1990. They do about 82 though. Strange, all the years we’ve ripped the piss out of you lot but they never bring up the one thing you got over us. 

[BCFC11]

1 hour ago, steviestevieneville said:

I got a few gas mates Miah and none of them ever mention 1990. They do about 82 though. Strange, all the years we’ve ripped the piss out of you lot but they never bring up the one thing you got over us. 

That’s easy - Gaslogic. Rather see us fail before anything else.

[BCFC11]

The Sags are in for a very exciting summer if Cockman’s latest comments are anything to go by. The rest of the division will be shaking with fear no doubt.

‘Graham Coughlan reveals Bristol Rovers summer recruitment plans’............

'I've got a nose for a League One player'

You keep aiming for the top, ya Cock.

 

[bcfc01]

3 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

The Sags are in for a very exciting summer if Cockman’s latest comments are anything to go by. The rest of the division will be shaking with fear no doubt.

‘Graham Coughlan reveals Bristol Rovers summer recruitment plans’............

'I've got a nose for a League One player'

You keep aiming for the top, ya Cock.

 

He'll need more than that as a signing on fee.

Still, not to be sniffed at I suppose.

[Bristol Rob]

56 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

 

‘Graham Coughlan reveals.

'I've got a nose'

 

As you were.

[PolskRed]

4 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

No. I used to write bits for that fanzine and it had already pretty much finished by then. It was actually originally called 91/2 Months, but the title was changed to honour our finest hour

As has been stated elsewhere on this thread Ian & Hazel did fall out with Dunford (I think) and do follow Wimbledon these days, although they have lived in London for years now so that may well have also been an influence.

Oh, and thank you for the congratulations. It's nice to see that the game still causes enough angst amongst City fans to raise so many responses

How can you stop supporting your team and follow another? Does she cheer when they score against the gas? Don’t get It?

Lived in London over 20 years, would never cross my mind to follow another club.

[BS4 on Tour...]

......and never forget 18 years ago today - 2nd May 2001 - Bristol Roverzzzzz 1 Wycombe Wanderers 2 - a result which relegated the sags to the basement division! And it also meant they had to change the name of their fanzine - and yes, they were relegated by Wycombe...WYCOMBE - their old friends!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/1306803.stm

[Port Said Red]

45 minutes ago, PolskRed said:

How can you stop supporting your team and follow another? Does she cheer when they score against the gas? Don’t get It?

Lived in London over 20 years, would never cross my mind to follow another club.

Tony Harling did years ago, and didn’t the writer of Ipswich’s history clear off to Norwich over a row, or the other way around?

[BS4 on Tour...]

11 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Tony Harling did years ago, and didn’t the writer of Ipswich’s history clear off to Norwich over a row, or the other way around?

This is the ultimate betrayal - Delia Smith wearing an Ipswich Town rosette!!

 

[42nite]

5 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

That'll upset the Fewers...

'I ain't goin' down there again, I'll be gettin' all me best gear from Primark now. I ain't goin' near The Officers Club* whilst thats up.'

*haven't been down there for years, it was a discount store.

 

Greggs now I think?

 

[SimonR]

A very happy Saint Daniel's day everybody. Raise a glass to a Bristol football hero.

[Miah Dennehy]

9 hours ago, PolskRed said:

How can you stop supporting your team and follow another? Does she cheer when they score against the gas? Don’t get It?

Lived in London over 20 years, would never cross my mind to follow another club.

I don't know, you would have to ask her. Or well known serial team switcher Tony Robinson :)

[Bristol Rob]

19 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I don't know, you would have to ask her. Or well known serial team switcher Tony Robinson

Still, at least Wally has remained committed to his first love, Chelsea.

An inspiration to us all.

[Bristol Oil Services]

12 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

I got a few gas mates Miah and none of them ever mention 1990. They do about 82 though. Strange, all the years we’ve ripped the piss out of you lot but they never bring up the one thing you got over us. 

Thing is, they went up, and we went up. Promotion was what we desired in August 1989, not being "Third Division Champions." A big deal for them, no doubt, but third tier "honours" don't exactly float our boat. I would prefer to forget every season we have played at that level (no-one outside of Bristol takes any notice of us at that level). Rightly or wrongly, deluded maybe, we see ourselves as a bit above that piss-poor division (having more often than them, literally, been above that) 

It didn't do them any long term good, going up that year, anyway.

[Mike Hunt-Hertz]

On 02/05/2019 at 06:40, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Thanks for the reminder .... talking of anniversaries .... 5 YEARS TOMORROW!

Pirates are sent down

Colin Daniel's first-half goal condemned Bristol Rovers to relegation out of the Football League as Mansfield secured a 1-0 win.

Colin Daniel's first-half goal condemned Bristol Rovers to relegation out of the Football League as Mansfield secured a 1-0 win.

Some ugly scenes after the final whistle saw police horses come on the pitch to deal with angry Rovers supporters, who vented their fury at relegation.

 

 

HAPPY DAYS!

The fact that the midden dwelling retards battered Mansfield without scoring, makes it far more hilarious...tragic bastards.

[Miah Dennehy]

2 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

Thing is, they went up, and we went up. Promotion was what we desired in August 1989, not being "Third Division Champions." A big deal for them, no doubt, but third tier "honours" don't exactly float our boat. I would prefer to forget every season we have played at that level (no-one outside of Bristol takes any notice of us at that level). Rightly or wrongly, deluded maybe, we see ourselves as a bit above that piss-poor division (having more often than them, literally, been above that) 

It didn't do them any long term good, going up that year, anyway.

Well that's open to debate. However, it's nights like that , that make football magical. That night it went for us, and there were other - what some may consider insignificant- days and nights that went for you. If you discount games like, off the top of my head, when you beat Hartlepool in the play offs and when you got past Hereford (I think) to get to Wembley for the first time, then you are missing out on a huge fun part of the game.

[bcfc01]

6 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

Thing is, they went up, and we went up. Promotion was what we desired in August 1989, not being "Third Division Champions." A big deal for them, no doubt, but third tier "honours" don't exactly float our boat. I would prefer to forget every season we have played at that level (no-one outside of Bristol takes any notice of us at that level). Rightly or wrongly, deluded maybe, we see ourselves as a bit above that piss-poor division (having more often than them, literally, been above that) 

It didn't do them any long term good, going up that year, anyway.

It didn't do them much good short term either.

They averaged 6,209 in the promotion year

Then in each of the 3 seasons they were in the 2nd tier they averaged under 6k.

http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm

 

 

 

[Miah Dennehy]

2 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

It didn't do them much good short term either.

They averaged 6,209 in the promotion year

Then in each of the 3 seasons they were in the 2nd tier they averaged under 6k.

http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm

 

 

 

Attendances at the time were not what they are today. I have no idea what City's average was back then, but I would guess less than 14000.

[bcfc01]

1 minute ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Attendances at the time were not what they are today. I have no idea what City's average was back then, but I would guess less than 14000.

Usually, when a team is promoted (especially to the 2nd tier) the attendances go up...

[Miah Dennehy]

2 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Usually, when a team is promoted (especially to the 2nd tier) the attendances go up...

Ah sorry. I missed the point a bit there!

[Rudolf Hucker]

54 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Still, at least Wally has remained committed to his first love, Chelsea.

An inspiration to us all.

The icon known here as Skeletor, when asked which he wanted to win - his first love or his true love - showed that his heart now lies elsewhere, and that’s not with the 15ers. 

I guess some legends move on while others remain and become kit man. 

[supercidered]

51 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Attendances at the time were not what they are today. I have no idea what City's average was back then, but I would guess less than 14000.

Hmmm only more than double then babber.

[supercidered]

2 hours ago, SimonR said:

A very happy Saint Daniel's day everybody. Raise a glass to a Bristol football hero.

What a magical photo that is. Made even more so with Sir Daniel in full Sag kit. F@ckin :laugh:

[Bristol Oil Services]

3 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Well that's open to debate. However, it's nights like that , that make football magical. That night it went for us, and there were other - what some may consider insignificant- days and nights that went for you. If you discount games like, off the top of my head, when you beat Hartlepool in the play offs and when you got past Hereford (I think) to get to Wembley for the first time, then you are missing out on a huge fun part of the game.

So speaks a fan of a mundane, lower league club. "Hartlepool" and "Hereford," mate; you've said it all there. And you can throw "Bristol Rovers" in with those two. Pitiful.

Hasn't it ever been thus in Bristol - the low/zero ambition/appetite for challenge, we-know-our-place blue few consumed with derision and bitter resentment for the ambitious/deluded, ever-dreaming-big upstart south of the river (but secretly wishing for some of what we have achieved, and continue to strive for), never quite accepting our "place"?

If Spurs have "The Game is about Glory" writ large at their ground, what would the Rovers equivalent be? The Game is about ..... ?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 3, 2019 by Moments of Pleasure

[I'm Sparti-Bob]

2 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

If Spurs have "The Game is about Glory" writ large at their ground, what would the Rovers equivalent be? The Game is about ..... ?

 

 

 

 

 

Just to be clear, is the game in question  football or boob cricket? 

[TETBURY MASSIVE]

4 hours ago, SimonR said:

A very happy Saint Daniel's day everybody. Raise a glass to a Bristol football hero.

I do believe we were at Creepy FC away that day...... can still see the local plod looking at thinking weirdos as the whole of the away end celebrating about 3 mins after our game finished...... they really had no clue what was going on......!!

[RumRed]

1 hour ago, TETBURY MASSIVE said:

I do believe we were at Creepy FC away that day...... can still see the local plod looking at thinking weirdos as the whole of the away end celebrating about 3 mins after our game finished...... they really had no clue what was going on......!!

We were indeed, neither the plod nor the Crawley fans had a clue.  Bloody hilarious, we must have looked right nutters.

[archie andrews]

I almost crashed me car listening on radio when full time whistle went..... Happy Saint Colin day fellow reds

[archie andrews]

Well Mike... What are you thinking? 

[Major Isewater]

21 hours ago, TomF said:

The folks who wrote it fell out massively with the hierarchy at the club to the point where they stopped supporting the club. Now support AFC Wimbledon. 

Rovers ,

AFC Wimbledon til I die ...

[Red Army 75]

Ha ha what a day . 

Radio presenter . While are you still here in the ground a hour after the game 

Sagheads . We heard there is city fans outside. 

Ha Ha Ha . What a bunch of clusterfucks 

[Swede]

On ‎02‎/‎05‎/‎2019 at 06:19, Miah Dennehy said:

Happy anniversary all of you xx

Getting a bit "grainy" and shabby at the edges now isn't it, much like that dump you call home. While you're at it why don't you post your old 8mm reel to reel cine tape of the Watney Cup Final success!

[Lanterne Rouge]

41 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

I almost crashed me car listening on radio when full time whistle went..... Happy Saint Colin day fellow reds

Same here. I was bombing down the A303 and had to pull into a layby I was laughing so much.

Happy days!

[WessexPest]

Happy Sir Colin Daniel Day, dearly beloved brethren.

I can’t decide how to celebrate:

Was going to crack open the knock-off Fanta but then remembered the real stuff has links with Nazi Germany so might be more appropriate after all.

Was going to make for Braintree for the day and act like an obnoxious turd but then thought maybe going to Mansfield and accusing all the locals of being Bristol City supporters.

Was going to enjoy a soak in the tub - you can’t beat a Bath - but then thought I should fire up my useless Gas shower instead.

So I decided just to ring Radio Bristol instead and sob uncontrollably down the phone about the local election results and my divorce instead.

 

[BS4 on Tour...]

16 hours ago, PolskRed said:

How can you stop supporting your team and follow another? Does she cheer when they score against the gas? Don’t get It?

Lived in London over 20 years, would never cross my mind to follow another club.

You’re not from Poland then? 

[TV Tom]

6 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Well that's open to debate. However, it's nights like that , that make football magical. That night it went for us, and there were other - what some may consider insignificant- days and nights that went for you. If you discount games like, off the top of my head, when you beat Hartlepool in the play offs and when you got past Hereford (I think) to get to Wembley for the first time, then you are missing out on a huge fun part of the game.

That season was my favourite ever following City all over the Country, we were magnificent to watch with with some great memorable away days but i’m not going to lie, it hurt like hell losing out the Championship to Rovers.

[NOTBLUE]

1 hour ago, Red Right Hand said:

Same here. I was bombing down the A303 and had to pull into a layby I was laughing so much.

Happy days!

I was driving home listening to Radio Bristol,and was so caught up in the developing situation that I just kept driving,straight past my turning,and drove around until the game was over.I then couldn’t resist driving down Gloucester rd,the look on the sags faces was a sight to behold,in contrast to the beaming smile on my face.My passenger,the wife,wasn’t so impressed,telling me to stop smirking before one of the few clocked me and realised I was a red.

[WessexPest]

1990 was tough to take at the time but in retrospect it really didn’t amount to much - we went up too, had the satisfaction of effectively relegating the Rent Boys in ‘93, and from then on their bragging rights over us became fewer and farther between - finished above us and won a couple of games in our dreadful seasons of 95/96 and 99/00, but where we’d couldnt buy a win at Twerton we won three times in a calendar year at their current dump and they’ve pretty much been in the wilderness ever since.

You could make a case that they had a hold over us until we won a promotion with a title in 2015, but then even that advantage vanished - while we finished runner up to them and went up in 1990, 25 years later we were promoted as champions and they went up as runners up two leagues down - having fortuitously come through the lottery of penalties.

1990 is an irrelevance now.

Edited May 3, 2019 by WessexPest

[BCFC11]

8 minutes ago, WessexPest said:

1990 was tough to take at the time but in retrospect it really didn’t amount to much - we went up too, had the satisfaction of effectively relegating the Rent Boys in ‘93, and from then on their bragging rights over us became fewer and farther between - finished above us and won a couple of games in our dreadful seasons of 95/96 and 99/00, but where we’d couldnt buy a win at Twerton we won three times in a calendar year at their current dump and they’ve pretty much been in the wilderness ever since.

You could make a case that they had a hold over us until we won a promotion with a title in 2015, but then even that advantage vanished - while we finished runner up to them and went up in 1990, 25 years later we were promoted as champions and they went up as runners up two leagues down - having fortuitously come through the lottery of penalties.

1990 is an irrelevance now

Well you would of thought so, but according to a Fewer.......

It's almost worth suffering these years below them just knowing we'll always have this over them.

Such a weird fanbase, there really is no-one like them 

[Jim Davey]

52 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Well you would of thought so, but according to a Fewer.......

It's almost worth suffering these years below them just knowing we'll always have this over them.

Such a weird fanbase, there really is no-one like them 

strange bunch

[Taz]

54 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Well you would of thought so, but according to a Fewer.......

It's almost worth suffering these years below them just knowing we'll always have this over them.

Such a weird fanbase, there really is no-one like them 

So in other words, we (Gas) never want to be as successful as they are, because at least then we (Gas) can't ever finish as runners up to them (us).

Special is the word that comes to mind.

[Mike Hunt-Hertz]

5 minutes ago, Jim Davey said:

strange bunch

They should be melted down.

[cityal]

1 hour ago, NOTBLUE said:

I was driving home listening to Radio Bristol,and was so caught up in the developing situation that I just kept driving,straight past my turning,and drove around until the game was over.I then couldn’t resist driving down Gloucester rd,the look on the sags faces was a sight to behold,in contrast to the beaming smile on my face.My passenger,the wife,wasn’t so impressed,telling me to stop smirking before one of the few clocked me and realised I was a red.

She was right! - Clearasil is tough to get off the windows of a vehicle - just ask that minibus load of away fans.

[steviestevieneville]

5 hours ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

So speaks a fan of a mundane, lower league club. "Hartlepool" and "Hereford," mate; you've said it all there. And you can throw "Bristol Rovers" in with those two. Pitiful.

Hasn't it ever been thus in Bristol - the low/zero ambition/appetite for challenge, we-know-our-place blue few consumed with derision and bitter resentment for the ambitious/deluded, ever-dreaming-big upstart south of the river (but secretly wishing for some of what we have achieved, and continue to strive for), never quite accepting our "place"?

If Spurs have "The Game is about Glory" writ large at their ground, what would the Rovers equivalent be? The Game is about ..... ?

 

 

 

 

 

I agree with Miah tbh. It’s our history , like it or not. That was their day and of course we would of wanted to win the title, ridiculous to suggest other wise. You're coming across a bit arrogant in regards to our days in the third/ fourth division. It happened and some of my favourite days under terry cooper back then. That Hereford night will always live with me. Just four years after nearly being extinct to walk out at Wembley was amazing. Never forget your history. It’s what defines us as a club. 

Do I ever want to go back to league 1 , no chance , of course not but I’ve got a lot more respect for lower league fans than any plastic prem armchair fans. 

[22A]

5 hours ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

If Spurs have "The Game is about Glory" writ large at their ground, what would the Rovers equivalent be? The Game is about ..... ? To pass us by!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bristolmoose]

5 hours ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

So speaks a fan of a mundane, lower league club. "Hartlepool" and "Hereford," mate; you've said it all there. And you can throw "Bristol Rovers" in with those two. Pitiful.

Hasn't it ever been thus in Bristol - the low/zero ambition/appetite for challenge, we-know-our-place blue few consumed with derision and bitter resentment for the ambitious/deluded, ever-dreaming-big upstart south of the river (but secretly wishing for some of what we have achieved, and continue to strive for), never quite accepting our "place"?

If Spurs have "The Game is about Glory" writ large at their ground, what would the Rovers equivalent be? The Game is about ..... ?

 

 

 

 

 

90 minutes long and then the other team win.

[PhilC]

 If Spurs have "The Game is about Glory" writ large at their ground, what would the Rovers equivalent be?

 

"How did them sheedheads get on?"

[WessexPest]

With us not in action til Sunday I was thinking of going down the Mammary Saturday to see Barnsley try to clinch the League One title.

Think I’m right in saying that Bristol City supporters are given priority ticket purchasing opportunities for the away end for the Gash’s last home game of the campaign? That was the arrangement in place for the Mansfield game a few years ago if I recall rightly?

[Gert Mare]

5 hours ago, archie andrews said:

Well Mike... What are you thinking? 

We’ve been poor all season mind Geoff an’it?

1 hour ago, PhilC said:

 If Spurs have "The Game is about Glory" writ large at their ground, what would the Rovers equivalent be?

 

"How did them sheedheads get on?"

Yep, I was gonna say “City losing”

[Bar BS3]

9 hours ago, WessexPest said:

 

Was going to enjoy a soak in the tub - you can’t beat a Bath - but then thought I should fire up my useless Gas shower instead.

Wasn’t it the season afterwards, that they couldn’t beat Bath..?! 

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6 hours ago, steviestevieneville said:

I agree with Miah tbh. It’s our history , like it or not. That was their day and of course we would of wanted to win the title, ridiculous to suggest other wise. You're coming across a bit arrogant in regards to our days in the third/ fourth division. It happened and some of my favourite days under terry cooper back then. That Hereford night will always live with me. Just four years after nearly being extinct to walk out at Wembley was amazing. Never forget your history. It’s what defines us as a club. 

Do I ever want to go back to league 1 , no chance , of course not but I’ve got a lot more respect for lower league fans than any plastic prem armchair fans. 

I don’t think that @Moments of Pleasure Was being serious. I agree with you, it’s our history that makes us who we are and means we should enjoy being a top 8 Championship club, for now. 

The difference is... we look back fondly on those 3rd tier days. The Rovers strive for them..!

#mindthegap