These are the breaks!

😂. Obviously not been seeing the personal attacks then 

I don't see any need to censor the fifth and sixth letters of 'b'stard'. If the full version was good enough for Shakespeare (vide King John - 1st folio 1623) it should be good enough for Bristol Rovers fans as well as wide swathes of monastics in the Wiltshire Levels. Thomas Bowdler (1807) and all his successors are silly old tits.

There you go again.
Wherefore the need?

Your mind is playing tricks because I can distinctly remember you being wrong in 2017.  

It's so easy to deride those who want something better as negative or pursuing vendettas as Cheshire has explained in his post above. 

I'm still in touch with a few old Tote Enders from Eastville days as well as some (growl) old East Enders and and I'm afraid to say the consensus from fans who have endured Bristol football for sixty years or more is that Gasheads get the club we deserve. The problem is that we don't really know what we want and we just bend with the wind in whichever direction those in charge tell us it's blowing at any particular time.

Right now we have two glaring examples of this.

Four years ago we were told Coughlan style football was not the Rovers way and that's why we switched to Garnerball and then Joeyball. Anyone who rocked the boat by saying that winning games should take priority and pointed to our successes under Megson and Francis was shouted down. An incredible theory came about that it was better to play Championship style football in League 1 because then we wouldn't have to change anything when we got promoted. But when a poor old soul like myself pointed out that most of the players were either veterans or on loan so wouldn't be here in the Championship anyway the response was silence. And now the wind is changing direction again and we have discovered that actually a more direct style of football really is the Rovers way. So we are in the process of  persuading ourselves that Manganball and continuity is the future and soon we shall be convinced that this has nothing to do with cost considerations. 

Fourteen years ago we were told that increasing revenue streams by making use of a stadium for seven days a week was the only way forward for Rovers. The main debating point was whether this could be achieved on the site of the Mem or whether we needed a new site because in accepting the "revenue stream" principle Gasheads were , as Mrs Slocombe would say, " unanimous". But now our thinking has changed and the principles of new revenue streams and seven day use of the stadium have been completely forgotten about. We have persuaded ourselves that all we need to do is increase capacity with prefabricated grandstands plonked around the ground and success will follow.

Until we decide what we really want, and strive to achieve that, then all we'll get is mediocrity.

   

Wanting to take my three grandsons to watch Rovers play championship clubs is that too much to ask? Some longstanding fans like myself have for decades now under achieved and at times been an embarrassing experience

I'm getting on in age and saw Rovers in championship just want my grandkids to experience it too before I pass on.

Apologies! it’s certainly not easy in this current s**tfest of a world to stay level headed so I pleased you can do positive as well as negative - Best wishes to you.