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Post by Antonio Fargas on Aug 2, 2014 15:57:14 GMT
Sheed detector's getting a bit of a flicker. Just bring honest, is that a crime round here? Well, here's a thread where we have an open sheed posting for the first time giving a bit of mindless abuse, with nothing good to say about the club, then a supposed neutral turns up and posts for the first time with nothing good to say about the club, and then you're here posting for the first time with nothing good to say. It's not a crime, but then it's not a crime for me to report my sheed detector findings, either.
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Post by bristolian on Aug 2, 2014 16:13:08 GMT
Just bring honest, is that a crime round here? Well, here's a thread where we have an open sheed posting for the first time giving a bit of mindless abuse, with nothing good to say about the club, then a supposed neutral turns up and posts for the first time with nothing good to say about the club, and then you're here posting for the first time with nothing good to say. It's not a crime, but then it's not a crime for me to report my sheed detector findings, either. Posted for the first time? You should pay more attention. My original comment was that there are people on here that are more obsessed with talking about the number of supporters they are going to take away to the minnows in the conference when what is more important is getting people into the Memorial Stadium where attendances are nothing to boast about for a club of this size. Why can't someone be neutral? I've lived in Bristol all my life until last year when I went to Wessun with a new partner. I've watched matches at the Mem, Eastville, and Ashton Gate, also watched rugby at the Mem and cricket at the County Ground. You need to change the batteries in your sheed detector
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Aug 2, 2014 16:23:50 GMT
Well, here's a thread where we have an open sheed posting for the first time giving a bit of mindless abuse, with nothing good to say about the club, then a supposed neutral turns up and posts for the first time with nothing good to say about the club, and then you're here posting for the first time with nothing good to say. It's not a crime, but then it's not a crime for me to report my sheed detector findings, either. Posted for the first time? You should pay more attention. My original comment was that there are people on here that are more obsessed with talking about the number of supporters they are going to take away to the minnows in the conference when what is more important is getting people into the Memorial Stadium where attendances are nothing to boast about for a club of this size. Why can't someone be neutral? I've lived in Bristol all my life until last year when I went to Wessun with a new partner. I've watched matches at the Mem, Eastville, and Ashton Gate, also watched rugby at the Mem and cricket at the County Ground. You need to change the batteries in your sheed detector Well, I wasn't suggesting you were a sheed. I assumed you were a rugger bugger.
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Post by Roadman's chauffeur on Aug 2, 2014 22:09:55 GMT
Well I should be pleased, having provoked for me a record 42 replies,all on a simple comment about last night's attendance, alas it has degenerated into an insular City and Rovers argument.
The responses to me are both amusing and at the same time quite sad.
May I remind you all, we are the seventh city of the UK.We accommodate a severely under performing third division football club south of the river funded by an offshore billionaire,a fifth tier non-league football club,a second division rugby club and a second division county cricket team.
I pass the site at Filton to come to the Rovers home games and I see the once majestic pride of the skies Concorde rotting away on the runway.Can you imagine what the people of Liverpool would do if it was built there?? In no time it would be there in the Albert docks for all to see.
If any opposing fans seem to get some perverse satisfaction from our predicament think again you are shameful given your resources.
In the meantime the Concorde continues to rot
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Post by Phrench Phil on Aug 3, 2014 4:40:25 GMT
Can you blame them?!? We're non league are ground plans are in tatters... City are signing quality players at an alarming rate, are promotion favourites and have started the rebuild of trash ton.... We are in no fing position to take the piss out of city let me tell you :s I totally agree that its poor that a city the size of Bristol can only boast a club that is questionably " promotion favourites " from Division1 and that our other major team is non league. I dont think that any Rovers fan would disagree with that . It is poor that the "best" stadium in the city is old fashioned - literally smells of piss behind the stands and has mould growing up the walls. Building work has started to replace certain aspects of it but this will not alter the fact that the parking is very poor and the road network around it is congested at any type of event. I have had to attend a few conferences and dinners there and I can put my hand on my heart and say - without any Rovers bias - that I find myself ashamed that this is the best that Bristol can do when cities like Cardiff has 2 great stadiums and a modern concert venue . Thankfully a new stadium is being built and we can only hope Darren is building a team that will do it justice. Manchester supports 2 premiership teams as does Liverpool. In addition there are other top clubs in their catchment areas. Bristol should be able to support 2 successful clubs instead of 2 unsuccesful clubs . I agree, but to be fair, the Ashton Vale project seemed excellent and was only thwarted by a few do-called dog-walking NIMBY's. Similarly, UWE looks excellent and a certain Mr Carstairs aside appears to be proceeding without any complaints. Perhaps, in a few years time, Bristol will indeed have two great stadiums.
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Post by LincsBlue on Aug 3, 2014 5:51:50 GMT
No I wasn't taking the piss,it was a meaningless friendly and as I stated the gate would be the envy of most clubs in the fourth or fifth divisions. This comes from me,a supporter of sixty years standing who was privileged to watch the late great Tom Finney play at Eastville in front of 39,000 fans.Sadly it shows how much we have fallen. Relatively we are the envy of the minnows we rub shoulders with. You mean the other minnows we rub shoulders with, don't you? Sad fact, Rovers, City, FGR, Swindon, Yeovil, Exeter, Torquay, Plymouth, Oxford all minnows. Time to accept we are unlikely to ever regain the status of the glory years, modest though they were...and as for our potential, it's limited. What about Cheltenham and Newport??
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Post by LincsBlue on Aug 3, 2014 6:28:31 GMT
Manchester is a much larger city than Bristol, as is Liverpool if you include Merseyside. We are more on a par with Nottingham or Sheffield.......however, their 4 clubs have all had success including:
4 FA Cups, a top title and 60 yrs top flight football for The Blades
3 FA Cups, a League Cup, 3 top titles and 65 years top flight for The Owls,
2 FA Cups, 4 League Cups, 2 European Cups, a EUEFA Cup, a top title and 56 yrs top flight for Forest.
1 FA Cup and 30 years of top flight for County.
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Post by nickchippenhamgas on Aug 3, 2014 7:47:34 GMT
Most of the ted forum warriors are in denial. Give it all the patronising talk about not caring about us. It's actually quite funny. Crawl back onto your 100+ page thread on otib about the gas. Can you blame them?!? We're non league are ground plans are in tatters... City are signing quality players at an alarming rate, are promotion favourites and have started the rebuild of trash ton.... We are in no fing position to take the piss out of city let me tell you :s With respect, and having read the replies, I don't think they were taking the p*ss, just responding to some sheed stating the bleeding obvious! we know we've been s**t for a decade or more! we know we're non league! we know we've got to be umble we know we're going to be here for decades etc etc, so why the hell don't they stick to their web site and talk about us on there, after all it's a big enough section of their site dedicated to all things Gas!!!..
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Post by phillistine on Aug 3, 2014 8:39:58 GMT
Manchester is a much larger city than Bristol, as is Liverpool if you include Merseyside. We are more on a par with Nottingham or Sheffield.......however, their 4 clubs have all had success including: 4 FA Cups, a top title and 60 yrs top flight football for The Blades 3 FA Cups, a League Cup, 3 top titles and 65 years top flight for The Owls, 2 FA Cups, 4 League Cups, 2 European Cups, a EUEFA Cup, a top title and 56 yrs top flight for Forest. 1 FA Cup and 30 years of top flight for County. You are just taking into account the greater city areas but are forgetting the greater catchment that Bristol has. As someone pointed out - when you travel north on the M5 it is amazing how close all these teams are to each other - Manchester City, Manchester United, Wigan, Oldham, Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley , Liverpool, Everton and even Tranmere. Nottingham has Derby, Leicester, Mansfield, Chesterfield and even Sheffield in easy distance and easily accessible . We on the other hand have Bath, Yate, Clevedon, Nailsea, Portishead, Weston Super Mare all within a 20 mile radius and not one 1 league club amongst them. There is far more potential here than either Nottingham or Sheffield
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Post by beaver132 on Aug 3, 2014 10:24:54 GMT
Nice try Mr S Ted ... now off u pop back to OTIB to claim hero status as u infiltrated the gas forum... its not exactly like the taking of an 'end' in the 70s or 80s but it obviously works for you.... Nice that your still obsessed by us though .. toodle pip Being a neutral I do find it strange that there is an obsession with Gasheads about the number of supporters that they may or may not go a game, there has been less mention about the result and performance as there is about the number of supporters who came and the numbers that will go to various away venues and how that will come as a shock to the other "minnows". Sadly I think that reflects the status of the club in the football pyramid. No football to boast about so you resort to boasting about the number of supporters that follow the club, not even at home where there is nothing to boast about but more about the away support which in a perverse way actually benefits the opposition as they retain the gate and pie money. Can I just say, in the spirit of openness and free speech that this man is entitled to an opinion and entitled to voice it. Still makes him a knob though......
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Post by LincsBlue on Aug 3, 2014 10:41:15 GMT
Catchment area needs to have an interest in football first though!!!
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Post by GasHeadGaz on Aug 3, 2014 10:41:49 GMT
All our fans bang on about is how good our support is. Our average crowd wAs 6,000 last year and were a so called big city club, if anything our support is piss poor... I smell poo poo 6000 average for the 91st best team in England is quite good IMO!
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Post by LincsBlue on Aug 3, 2014 10:42:37 GMT
PS....All those clubs oop north are off of the M6 not the M5, which terminates at Birmingham
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