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Post by gasguzzler on Dec 3, 2014 8:51:20 GMT
Hi guys. Been a Gashead for many years now, but live away from Bristol, so don't see so many games nowadays. Was at the Mem for the Mansfield game in May and was devestated, like all Gasheads, to see us go down. Went to watch a Premier League game last night (Yeah - I know, glory hunter, right?) at Swansea (they won 2-0 against QPR), and it just took my breath away at what they have achieved. Five years ago they were in League one. I can remember many games against them, when they had players like Lee Trundle. The whole experience last night was fabulous. Easy parking. Great chip shop (lets get the priorities right!), fabulous looking stadium on the outside. Walking up to our seat in the north stand, it was stunning to see the inside (about 35,00 fans, I think). Great atmosphere - though the Gas away support is louder than QPR's! The football itself, of course, was great to watch. Sweeping movement, one-two's, skilful players like Sigurdsson and Bony. Wow. My point is that they have achieved SO MUCH in such a short time, so despite our dire circumstances lets try not to get too despondent about it. What we can actually do ourselves is very limited, I know, but lets hope that someone comes in with the wit, vision and ability to change our destiny. This is not a board bashing post as that gets us nowhere, but change does come from the top. Apart from a mythical oil sheikh, we do need a vibrant board...and that is VITAL! We do at least have a young, keen manager, who despite being hamstrung by funds seems to be doing a worthy job. The players talents may be limited, but they are at least trying, and we are picking up wins without scoring many goals. We may not go up this season, but who knows? In five years time, or maybe ten, WE could be in the Premiership too??  UTG |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2014 9:12:01 GMT
and when our ten year plan fails, we can all blame TRASH for the Terrorism of Bristol Rovers
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Post by LJG on Dec 3, 2014 9:33:44 GMT
Oh good another Swansea comparison thread. Wonder what Lines, Pipe and O'Toole have had for breakfast this morning?
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Post by Nailsea Gas on Dec 3, 2014 10:14:04 GMT
Gasguzzler you should know better by now than to come on here with your positivity, there are countless people waiting to bash any post they don't like.Not happy unless they have something/someone to moan at. I mean the sheer audacity to compare BRFC to any team that has been at rock bottom and fought their way back up. Who the hell do you think you are.
Personally i'm with you, we can dream that one day we could be in that same situation but i don't know if it will happen in my lifetime.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2014 10:20:07 GMT
I've said it before we shouldn't look to Swansea any more we should look at little steps. Swansea, Hull and others were fortunate to have a council that built a stadium for them, we don't have that luxuary. Let's look at Burton as an example of a club we should be looking to emulate. They have a great little ground, perfect for their needs and post profits every year. Maybe when we get to the stage Burton are at we can start looking a bit higher up the pyramid but for now let's not look a Apple's business model when we're Gary's Keyboard Repair Hut.
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Post by LJG on Dec 3, 2014 10:22:20 GMT
Gasguzzler you should know better by now than to come on here with your positivity, there are countless people waiting to bash any post they don't like.Not happy unless they have something/someone to moan at. I mean the sheer audacity to compare BRFC to any team that has been at rock bottom and fought their way back up. Who the hell do you think you are. Personally i'm with you, we can dream that one day we could be in that same situation but i don't know if it will happen in my lifetime. Not so much the positivity, more the fact it's been repeated again and again ad infinitum on countless identical threads. |
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Post by crater on Dec 3, 2014 10:24:26 GMT
Clubs like Swansea and Hull show it is possible. Look at the Championship and see that Bournemouth and Brentford are clearly aiming high.
Daft as it may sound though I'm not sure if I would like to see BRFC in the top flight. Our club would totally change and probably not for the better.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2014 10:33:20 GMT
Clubs like Swansea and Hull show it is possible. Look at the Championship and see that Bournemouth and Brentford are clearly aiming high. Daft as it may sound though I'm not sure if I would like to see BRFC in the top flight. Our club would totally change and probably not for the better. Bournemouth & Brentford have people throwing money at them... Not really something we can aim to emulate... |
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Post by droitwichgas on Dec 3, 2014 11:14:28 GMT
It seems a pointless comparison to me as, at the moment, we haven't even sold the mem/built the UWE, the better comparison at the moment is Luton who look like they might be getting their second promotion in two seasons.
If we want to look at a club who've achived a lot on the back of a new staduim Rotherham seems a better comparison as they don't seem to have had £1m's given to them like Swansea, Brighton etc.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2014 11:17:47 GMT
Gasguzzler you should know better by now than to come on here with your positivity, there are countless people waiting to bash any post they don't like.Not happy unless they have something/someone to moan at. I mean the sheer audacity to compare BRFC to any team that has been at rock bottom and fought their way back up. Who the hell do you think you are. Personally i'm with you, we can dream that one day we could be in that same situation but i don't know if it will happen in my lifetime. Its all part of the Hidden Agenda on here  |
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Dec 3, 2014 14:39:56 GMT
Hi guys. Been a Gashead for many years now, but live away from Bristol, so don't see so many games nowadays. Was at the Mem for the Mansfield game in May and was devestated, like all Gasheads, to see us go down. Went to watch a Premier League game last night (Yeah - I know, glory hunter, right?) at Swansea (they won 2-0 against QPR), and it just took my breath away at what they have achieved. Five years ago they were in League one. I can remember many games against them, when they had players like Lee Trundle. The whole experience last night was fabulous. Easy parking. Great chip shop (lets get the priorities right!), fabulous looking stadium on the outside. Walking up to our seat in the north stand, it was stunning to see the inside (about 35,00 fans, I think). Great atmosphere - though the Gas away support is louder than QPR's! The football itself, of course, was great to watch. Sweeping movement, one-two's, skilful players like Sigurdsson and Bony. Wow. My point is that they have achieved SO MUCH in such a short time, so despite our dire circumstances lets try not to get too despondent about it. What we can actually do ourselves is very limited, I know, but lets hope that someone comes in with the wit, vision and ability to change our destiny. This is not a board bashing post as that gets us nowhere, but change does come from the top. Apart from a mythical oil sheikh, we do need a vibrant board...and that is VITAL! We do at least have a young, keen manager, who despite being hamstrung by funds seems to be doing a worthy job. The players talents may be limited, but they are at least trying, and we are picking up wins without scoring many goals. We may not go up this season, but who knows? In five years time, or maybe ten, WE could be in the Premiership too?? UTG The Liberty Stadium only holds 20,750, are you sure you were at the right ground?  |
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Post by gasguzzler on Dec 4, 2014 10:40:43 GMT
Hi guys. Been a Gashead for many years now, but live away from Bristol, so don't see so many games nowadays. Was at the Mem for the Mansfield game in May and was devestated, like all Gasheads, to see us go down. Went to watch a Premier League game last night (Yeah - I know, glory hunter, right?) at Swansea (they won 2-0 against QPR), and it just took my breath away at what they have achieved. Five years ago they were in League one. I can remember many games against them, when they had players like Lee Trundle. The whole experience last night was fabulous. Easy parking. Great chip shop (lets get the priorities right!), fabulous looking stadium on the outside. Walking up to our seat in the north stand, it was stunning to see the inside (about 35,00 fans, I think). Great atmosphere - though the Gas away support is louder than QPR's! The football itself, of course, was great to watch. Sweeping movement, one-two's, skilful players like Sigurdsson and Bony. Wow. My point is that they have achieved SO MUCH in such a short time, so despite our dire circumstances lets try not to get too despondent about it. What we can actually do ourselves is very limited, I know, but lets hope that someone comes in with the wit, vision and ability to change our destiny. This is not a board bashing post as that gets us nowhere, but change does come from the top. Apart from a mythical oil sheikh, we do need a vibrant board...and that is VITAL! We do at least have a young, keen manager, who despite being hamstrung by funds seems to be doing a worthy job. The players talents may be limited, but they are at least trying, and we are picking up wins without scoring many goals. We may not go up this season, but who knows? In five years time, or maybe ten, WE could be in the Premiership too?? UTG The Liberty Stadium only holds 20,750, are you sure you were at the right ground? Certainly was. Didn't know the capacity - just guessed. Certainly felt like more than 20,000. Sorry about that. Just to say, also, that I don't think we should be aspiring to be like Burton, Rotherham or many of the other suggestions posted here...I understand that some of these may be more realistic, but you need to aim as high as possible. Don't you? If we aim for a Swansea situation, but reach Bournmouth heights...then I'll be more than chuffed. I don't post very often on here because of the negativity, and this post certainly sums up why I don't bother much. OK, the comparison with Swansea has probably been done before. If so, sorry to have been so dull. Just want to look forward, not backwards. UTG |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2014 10:48:36 GMT
Why aren't we aiming to be Real Madrid then? Or Jupiter?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2014 10:55:26 GMT
Why aren't we aiming to be Real Madrid then? Or Jupiter? FC Saturn is probably what we should be looking at. |
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Post by LJG on Dec 4, 2014 11:07:17 GMT
Why aren't we aiming to be Real Madrid then? Or Jupiter? FC Saturn is probably what we should be looking at. Yeah - Riiiiiiiings!!!! F**k those sad s**thead Jupiter B**tards. |
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Dec 4, 2014 11:13:43 GMT
It doesn't matter where you're aiming if you don't have a gun.
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Post by PeterHooper57 on Dec 4, 2014 11:28:21 GMT
We all want Rovers to do well and will support the Club no matter what, or who is at the helm; however, we all know deep down, while the people running the club are gasheads through and through, they just do not have the ability, wealth and / or where with all to deliver a team / club above div 2 possibly div 1. I personally, have settled for that, and while not over the moon about our prospects will follow the gas home and away every game with realistic expectations. Today, Thursday morning, already looking forward to Welling, new ground, luv it, UTG
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Post by Nobbygas on Dec 4, 2014 11:31:31 GMT
We should be aiming to get to the point where Barcelona send a weakened team to play us in the Champs League, as they know they will get wupped anyway.
Anything less equals failure.
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Post by dido on Dec 4, 2014 11:31:46 GMT
Yeh. Sod the Barcelona of Division 2.
We should be aiming to be the Galácticos of the Vanaramal.
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Post by irishrover on Dec 4, 2014 12:17:05 GMT
It doesn't matter where you're aiming if you don't have a gun. No, no, no we've developed this really sophisticated super laser with an automated targetting system. We can't afford to build it though unless we sell our outdated Napoleonic era naval canon that was used as a back up at the Battle of Trafalgar but has deteriorated to the point where it can only be used to fire sporadic shots at our own feet. The problem is that the bottom has fallen out of the antique weaponary market and the dealers we sold it to are witholding their money because they claim we sold them a duff canon. There's also a bunch of people claiming that the canon was given to us in perpetuity so we shouldn't have the right to sell it and that the superlaser will destroy the whole fabric of the universe. I don't think we should copy anyone - all you do if you try and copy someone else's strategy is end up as a second rate version of them. We should develop our own approach. However, we should be trying to learn from everybody. Football world moves on very quickly - what was right for Swansea/Hull etc would probably not be right now. It strikes me looking at those clubs who have achieved relative success and some degree of financial stability from a low base is a decent starting point. |
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