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7 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

I don't know if DC did it because he thought he wouldn't be able to work with the maniac at Leeds, or the new contract offer was too good to turn down, or he's simply loyal to the club and keeping his promise to get Rovers to top 10 in L1.

Whatever the reason, it's a huge relief he's signed. The names Gary Johnson and Ian Holloway had already been mentioned as replacements. Both, especially the second, would have been a catastrophe.

Out of interest why do you think Holloway would be a catastrophe for you. He would be for us but that's an entirely different story!

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38 minutes ago, City169 said:

You had unbelievable good fortune on the playoff final, when your goalkeeper deliberately handballed a shot that was heading in, when he was outside the area.

True, but anyone who gets promoted (or relegated) has some good luck (or bad luck) throughout the season. If you say Rovers were lucky to go up because of a decision going our way in the play off final, then by the same token you would have to acknowledge that we were unlucky to go down after we battered Mansfield and did everything but score in our last game. We got relegated because we deserved it, and we got promoted because we deserved it.

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44 minutes ago, Miahdennehy said:

True, but anyone who gets promoted (or relegated) has some good luck (or bad luck) throughout the season. If you say Rovers were lucky to go up because of a decision going our way in the play off final, then by the same token you would have to acknowledge that we were unlucky to go down after we battered Mansfield and did everything but score in our last game. We got relegated because we deserved it, and we got promoted because we deserved it.

 

While in some ways I think you are correct. The team that goes up, or down over a season deserves it, you focus on the last game/games as they are at the business end of the season , but the tone has been set by the previous 30+ games. A play off game is a one off so one bit of (mis)fortune can dictate your fate, a team that finishes 20 points ahead of another can lose a final to a deflected shot...... just thinking out loud .

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1 hour ago, Miahdennehy said:

True, but anyone who gets promoted (or relegated) has some good luck (or bad luck) throughout the season. If you say Rovers were lucky to go up because of a decision going our way in the play off final, then by the same token you would have to acknowledge that we were unlucky to go down after we battered Mansfield and did everything but score in our last game. We got relegated because we deserved it, and we got promoted because we deserved it.

Fair point; but if I were to play devil's advocate and retort when you went down you were relegated because over 46 games you didn't do enough - long enough for luck to even out; when you went up from the conference you went up in a lottery. You did as much as Grimsby to put yourselves in a shoot-out and lucked out on a single, winner takes all, event. 

By the same token I wouldn't suggest you were lucky Accrington didn't beat Stevenage. I wouldn't because they had 46 games and long enough for luck to even out to place themselves in front of you. Grimsby, however, you could reasonably argue got shafted over the course of one game; a singular event where luck doesn't even out. 

So anyone who goes up automatically, it's evened out, anyone who goes up in 90 (or pens) at Wembley.... The loser can bemoan luck. 

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16 minutes ago, City169 said:

Basically this is my point, but much better put. 

Had the correct decision been made, Rovers would have played over half the game a player down. That is a huge difference.

Well in that case had the referee given the foul on our keeper when Dover equalised in the last minute in our penultimate game, we would have gone up in first place instead of Barnet.

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4 minutes ago, Miahdennehy said:

Well in that case had the referee given the foul on our keeper when Dover equalised in the last minute in our penultimate game, we would have gone up in first place instead of Barnet.

Cheers Miah, that's really brightened up my night.

If I ever bemoan a last minute equaliser against Dover, could someone ship me off to Dignitas.

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4 minutes ago, Miahdennehy said:

Well in that case had the referee given the foul on our keeper when Dover equalised in the last minute in our penultimate game, we would have gone up in first place instead of Barnet.

You're missing the point... You had 46 games up until that point. For the one decision you didn't get at Dover you got one at Braintree (tongue in cheek).

But seriously, the point is over 46 90 minute events luck cannot really separate you and Barnet, you had 46x90mins to put yourselves ahead. If you didn't that's a failure, not luck.

In one single game however, someone on the end of a bad decision can feel aggrieved. Over the league you cannot look at one game in isolation (like Dover) you need to consider the 46 as a whole, In a playoff what went before is irrelevant - ask Wimbledon, ask Barnsely, ask Sheff Weds. It's what matters over 90 that counts: which in turn means luck over that 90 counts  

 

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4 hours ago, Southstandoriginal said:

Out of interest why do you think Holloway would be a catastrophe for you. He would be for us but that's an entirely different story!

Because I think he lost the plot at Palace and Millwall and the stress of it all seemed to do him in. Also the old adage of 'never go back' applies in spades here. He lost it in 2000 when we bottled the playoffs and admitted managing Rovers as a fan and ex-player was a bit too much to take.  

Still, he, and we, don't have to speculate about that now.

Just as well Reading sacked their manager today and not last week.  That would have been a much more tempting offer for DC.

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17 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

Because I think he lost the plot at Palace and Millwall and the stress of it all seemed to do him in. Also the old adage of 'never go back' applies in spades here. He lost it in 2000 when we bottled the playoffs and admitted managing Rovers as a fan and ex-player was a bit too much to take.  

Still, he, and we, don't have to speculate about that now.

Just as well Reading sacked their manager today and not last week.  That would have been a much more tempting offer for DC.

Agree. Which makes me wonder if DC was trigger happy. That could have been a good job for him and one he may have been a reasonable candidate for. On the flip side, a three year deal on the biggest ever managerial wages for someone who has only achieved promotion from the basement of the football league... That's gambling too. 

Ultimately I come down to no DC wasn't trigger happy; he just earned himself a fine pay off. 

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1 hour ago, Miahdennehy said:

Well in that case had the referee given the foul on our keeper when Dover equalised in the last minute in our penultimate game, we would have gone up in first place instead of Barnet.

Well if you weren't so shit, you wouldn't have been playing Dover in the first place.

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To suggest that Rovers were lucky with their two promotions ranks a bit of bitterness to be honest. I'm firmly of the belief that teams create their own luck and over 46 games the table doesn't lie. Regardless if they should have had a player sent off at wembley, Grimsby still had plenty of chances to win the game but blew those opportunities.

Just let them enjoy their limited success confined to the lower leagues.... and remember, neither of their recent promotions are a patch on how we absolutely steamrollered League 1 last year whilst picking up the paint pot along the way. :D
 

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5 hours ago, Kim_il_sung said:

To suggest that Rovers were lucky with their two promotions ranks a bit of bitterness to be honest. I'm firmly of the belief that teams create their own luck and over 46 games the table doesn't lie. Regardless if they should have had a player sent off at wembley, Grimsby still had plenty of chances to win the game but blew those opportunities.

Just let them enjoy their limited success confined to the lower leagues.... and remember, neither of their recent promotions are a patch on how we absolutely steamrollered League 1 last year whilst picking up the paint pot along the way. :D
 

I had to 'unlike' this after I read this bit :)

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2 hours ago, Philgas said:

We had to be shit in the first place to come back stronger 

I would agree with that and wish you luck for the future. Your new owner seems half decent and Daryl Clarke has made a good decision by staying with you.

I still hate The Gas though !

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It is difficult this perceived rise to power.....

I have a couple of gAss mates and I find it difficult not to bite or shoot them down. The latest is Dopey turned down Leeds which shows they are competing at that level, and the other mate piped up, live with it we are a big club now !!! 

 

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9 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

It is difficult this perceived rise to power.....

I have a couple of gAss mates and I find it difficult not to bite or shoot them down. The latest is Dopey turned down Leeds which shows they are competing at that level, and the other mate piped up, live with it we are a big club now !!! 

 

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:laugh: Love that. Reckon your mate renewed his season ticket to take the total figure up to a whopping 4300 ticket sales?

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If anyone fancies a laugh and are on Twitter check out the posts of @Gashead04mark...guy is called mark Watkins....Scotty Murray was having exchanged words with him last night by the looks of it. The guy is obsessed with us and continually refers to city as bristolscum

 

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1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

It is difficult this perceived rise to power.....

I have a couple of gAss mates and I find it difficult not to bite or shoot them down. The latest is Dopey turned down Leeds which shows they are competing at that level, and the other mate piped up, live with it we are a big club now !!! 

 

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Absolutely 

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5 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

If anyone fancies a laugh and are on Twitter check out the posts of @Gashead04mark...guy is called mark Watkins....Scotty Murray was having exchanged words with him last night by the looks of it. The guy is obsessed with us and continually refers to city as bristolscum

 

I've encountered this bloke on Facebook and I can confirm he is indeed a massive bell end.

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12 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

If anyone fancies a laugh and are on Twitter check out the posts of @Gashead04mark...guy is called mark Watkins....Scotty Murray was having exchanged words with him last night by the looks of it. The guy is obsessed with us and continually refers to city as bristolscum

 

Classy bloke ...

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City fans really don't like taking it. They like giving it out but turn the tables and they don't like it up em...#BRISTOLSCUM

 
 

#bristolscum......D.C agrees a 3 year deal. We're coming for you, We're coming for you. #bristolscum were coming for you.

 

 

Promotion for #bristolscrum and #bristolrovers....Who's missing? Oh yeah #bristolscum

 
 

Bristol Rugby#thescrum Bristol city#thescum.

 
 
 
 
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"@Scotty_Murray @ThatBloke0101 @StadiumUWE we did get one at Wembley last season. Oh and winning the title when #bristolscum came 2nd."

He's referring to getting a trophy the season we achieved automatic promotion when they sneaked up in the playoffs after finishing 7th in League Two. #gaslogic

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29 minutes ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

#bristolscum......D.C agrees a 3 year deal. We're coming for you, We're coming for you. #bristolscum were coming for you.

Were?

Given up already have they? Well I suppose after 16 years, they've had enough...

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3 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Classy bloke ...

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City fans really don't like taking it. They like giving it out but turn the tables and they don't like it up em...#BRISTOLSCUM

 
 

#bristolscum......D.C agrees a 3 year deal. We're coming for you, We're coming for you. #bristolscum were coming for you.

 

 

Promotion for #bristolscrum and #bristolrovers....Who's missing? Oh yeah #bristolscum

 
 

Bristol Rugby#thescrum Bristol city#thescum.

 
 
 
 

Do you reckon he still lives with his mum?

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4 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Classy bloke ...

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City fans really don't like taking it. They like giving it out but turn the tables and they don't like it up em...#BRISTOLSCUM

 
 

#bristolscum......D.C agrees a 3 year deal. We're coming for you, We're coming for you. #bristolscum were coming for you.

 

 

Promotion for #bristolscrum and #bristolrovers....Who's missing? Oh yeah #bristolscum

 
 

Bristol Rugby#thescrum Bristol city#thescum.

 
 
 
 

Embarrassing as it is I know this guy.....:facepalm:

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2 minutes ago, Cotham Brow Red said:

Playing a dangerous game there. Banter is fine but casually using terms like scum on social media with a photo of yourself he's either a complete bell piece or he's one chip short of a cod lot. 

He's put his own address on there before..

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5 minutes ago, Cotham Brow Red said:

Playing a dangerous game there. Banter is fine but casually using terms like scum on social media with a photo of yourself he's either a complete bell piece or he's one chip short of a cod lot. 

In this case both apply...

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1 hour ago, Cotham Brow Red said:

Playing a dangerous game there. Banter is fine but casually using terms like scum on social media with a photo of yourself he's either a complete bell piece or he's one chip short of a cod lot. 

I've seen the word 'scum' bandied about on here and  many other forums. Vile word used by people who don't think about what they are saying.

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3 minutes ago, Miahdennehy said:

I've seen the word 'scum' bandied about on here and  many other forums. Vile word used by people who don't think about what they are saying.

Yes I agree it is a vile word. However my point is using said terminology when everyone can see your face and full name. I couldn't walk down the street if that was me. Be looking over my shoulder all the time. 

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Just now, Weezord said:

Oh I probably do.

'Classy', 'pathetic loser', 'massive bellend', 'needs to seek help'.....just some of the comments from you lot about a Rovers fan giving it the biggun on the internet.

Then along comes archie andrews.

Pompey fan still spouting off then.

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Looks like the new stadium for the lock-out lads might take a bit longer than expected. 

Rumours that Wally is looked at tarting up the Mem as the offers to finance the new build aren't as plentiful as hoped. And for a billionaire he doesn't seem to want to pay for it himself. Which if this was the great investment you'd think he would be all over it. Maybe this explains the lack of investors interested.....

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29 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Looks like the new stadium for the lock-out lads might take a bit longer than expected. 

Rumours that Wally is looked at tarting up the Mem as the offers to finance the new build aren't as plentiful as hoped. And for a billionaire he doesn't seem to want to pay for it himself. Which if this was the great investment you'd think he would be all over it. Maybe this explains the lack of investors interested.....

Sounds like a time share!

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34 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Looks like the new stadium for the lock-out lads might take a bit longer than expected. 

Rumours that Wally is looked at tarting up the Mem as the offers to finance the new build aren't as plentiful as hoped. And for a billionaire he doesn't seem to want to pay for it himself. Which if this was the great investment you'd think he would be all over it. Maybe this explains the lack of investors interested.....

What you forget is that they will be able to buy a billion pound tent this time.

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34 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Looks like the new stadium for the lock-out lads might take a bit longer than expected. 

Rumours that Wally is looked at tarting up the Mem as the offers to finance the new build aren't as plentiful as hoped. And for a billionaire he doesn't seem to want to pay for it himself. Which if this was the great investment you'd think he would be all over it. Maybe this explains the lack of investors interested.....

Rumour has it, they are looking to increase the capacity at the swamp to 12700.

What with a mega rich owner, back to back promotions and now this..

It's only a matter of time!

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19 minutes ago, glynriley said:

Rumour has it, they are looking to increase the capacity at the swamp to 12700.

What with a mega rich owner, back to back promotions and now this..

It's only a matter of time!

Well I for one am shitting myself.

#WEREcomingforyou

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