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RED4LIFE

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10 hours ago, cityal said:

Their average attendance for last 10 years is 7334. Their average attendance this year 7397 - lower than Lincoln, MK Dons, Blackpool and Rotherham - marginally above peterborough

You mean the MK Dons that have only been in existence since 2004 from a town that has only been in existence since the late 60's?

Surely the R*vers who have been in existence since the late 1800's from a city that has been around since the 11th century would be able to garner a larger following than a club and a town that have next to no history? 

They do have da famuss quarterzz after all.

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4 hours ago, Red Army 75 said:

Who’s bigger . Rovers or Swindon 

That's like saying do you prefer piles or the clap.

Its definitely Swindon. They have actually achieved some success in their history and have won the League Cup. They have also played in the Premier League and at the time if they could have kept hold of Glenn Hoddle as a manager they would have achieved more success.

Obviously the sags' Watney Cup success runs that very close though.

 

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Read their site for the first time in a while. Saw a post that was interesting...

Gas Logic eh...love it! Granted it seems a pretty generous gesture tbh to the poster but let's look at a few facts:

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I’ve bought one for the new season for the first time in years, not because I’ll use it as I play on Saturdays, but because I’m financially in a position to do so and hope it helps securing our short term future.

Fair enough, altruism- but well I dunno what to say other than to laugh! It's a mixture of altruism and terrible business sense so far...

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However, the majority are not going to be like me with next to no responsibilities, so to ask people to spend hundreds of pounds on something they have no idea when they’ll be able to use it, may have been furloughed and As such are not being paid as much (if at all) is a massive ask for something that is not an essential in life. 

Not really selling the prospect to me so far if I'm wondering about what to do for the coming season...

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if anyone can’t afford a ST for the new season due to the burden corona has put on all of us, I’ve got an adult ST in the blackthorn end they can use every now and then when I’m playing so just give me a shout ??. 

Ha- again altruism yes, I get that- but if you're passing round the season ticket the club will benefit even less!! ?

That's before we even look at when people will even be able to attend games again- though I guess social distancing isn't an issue at their ground anyway- did they need to shut down from a spectators POV. :yes:

Gotta laugh really...part of me wonders if it's a club employee or mole looking to lure people in with this offer so they can find who has been passing around tickets/sharing tickets and ban them/recover some cash!

Because if it isn't, the basic premise- and yes thjere seems to be an element of altruism for sure, but the basic premise is:

  1. Buy season ticket
  2. That you- or nobody else- will be able to use thusfar due to Social Distancing measures that may last for months yet.
  3. That you won't be able to use due to football at amateur level (though much different to Rovers quality)?
  4. Lending out a season ticket is one less ticket or season ticket that someone else might by- so the club don't gain anything and probably lose if anything. Plus if one instead of two, less spent on a matchday!

Either a sting or GasLogic- Love it! ?

If it's the former, bet a few will fall for it too!

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Lanterne Rouge

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11 hours ago, RED4LIFE said:

You mean the MK Dons that have only been in existence since 2004 from a town that has only been in existence since the late 60's?

Surely the R*vers who have been in existence since the late 1800's from a city that has been around since the 11th century would be able to garner a larger following than a club and a town that have next to no history? 

They do have da famuss quarterzz after all.

R*overs have far less history than MK Dons - they`ve only been a league club since 2015 after all. MK Dons are steeped in tradition by comparison.

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48 minutes ago, TomF said:

I was kinda hoping he was going to send the Mem into space myself 

Perhaps they can use Methane as fuel, though with diminishing numbers, they might not get into orbit.

 

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32 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

look out if hes looking to employ local workforce,i wouldnt trust one of them to put a battery in my mouse the right way round let alone assemble electric cars

Oh no, Mr Al-Quidi has employed the well respected company MJ Abbott Ltd and so long as stage payments continue to be met the training ground will look something like the one the firm did for Stevenage FC . Opened in 2013, when “the Boro” finished 18th in League 1, this state of the art development has helped propel them to the National League.

 

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13 minutes ago, Bazooka Joe said:

Hey, we musn't forget they once won the What Knee? Cup. Surely, that makes them a massive club.

But just like Bristol, the barrel was red.

They're probably bitter about that too.

Their acheivements pale (ale) in comparison to many others in Leagues One and Two.

 

I would imagine they are probably very mildly pissed off about it as well.

 

'AVE IT!!!

 

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On 05/06/2020 at 12:14, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Ah yes, but let’s not forget that the Gas with their ‘massive’ fanbase...which is lower than Lincoln, Rotherham, Blackpool and MK Dons (FFS ?) are, apparently, bigger than many clubs in the Championship ??

I wonder who he means by ‘the enemies’? 
 

Deluded idiots...

 

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....and every team on that list has competed in the top tier of English football - and the sags haven’t, ever ... yep, they are bigger than all those clubs! And don’t forget they’ve also compared the size of their club and support to Norwich, Wolves, West Ham - and they’ve even claimed their away support matches Liverpool ... it’s simply an ongoing comedy ...

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On 05/06/2020 at 21:19, archie andrews said:

Swindon are a bigger club than rovers even without the history...…..remember we've never won a major trophy mind too 

I’m probably clutching at straws - but I count winning a division as champions as a major trophy - up for debate though ...

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1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

....and every team on that list has competed in the top tier of English football - and the sags haven’t, ever ... yep, they are bigger than all those clubs! And don’t forget they’ve also compared the size of their club and support to Norwich, Wolves, West Ham - and they’ve even claimed their away support matches Liverpool ... it’s simply an ongoing comedy ...

...but apparently we’re the deluded ones.

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20 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

 I've just read the original name for the old hospital on the colony site they've bought. Seems rather coincidental. ;)

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When he says "worked", does he mean "was a patient"....

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17 hours ago, bert tann said:

Oh no, Mr Al-Quidi has employed the well respected company MJ Abbott Ltd and so long as stage payments continue to be met the training ground will look something like the one the firm did for Stevenage FC . Opened in 2013, when “the Boro” finished 18th in League 1, this state of the art development has helped propel them to the National League.

 

Basically MJ Abott Ltd laid some turf. 

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2 hours ago, pongo88 said:

Basically MJ Abott Ltd laid some turf. 


Exactly.  Stevenage were fortunate in that the land had been properly prepared  before football pitches were laid out and in the 1960’s international teams even trained there. 

At the Colony one can imagine the experts from MJ Abbott recommending that Mr Al-Quidi have them make a proper survey of the pitch foundations laid by the rugby club and, if necessary, give him a quote for the installation of a suitable drainage system. And it can be predicted that the serial blundered would ignore the advice of the experts and his colleagues and, in a last desperate attempt to placate his Bristol Post led fan club,  tell MJ Abbott to “please, just go ahead and lay some turf”.

It will be some time before we discover if winter weather makes the pitches unplayable and training sessions are confined to a subbuteo table in the analysis suite.  But the chances are that Wendy is right, and we can  look forward to a soggy reincarnation of the M J Abbott madhouse.

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Ska Junkie

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5 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

....and every team on that list has competed in the top tier of English football - and the sags haven’t, ever ... yep, they are bigger than all those clubs! And don’t forget they’ve also compared the size of their club and support to Norwich, Wolves, West Ham - and they’ve even claimed their away support matches Liverpool ... it’s simply an ongoing comedy ...

You have got to be joking? Multi European Champions, trophy strewn history and premier league champions elect Liverpool or some pub side with the same name? 

All the rest are an absolute joke as well BTW.

We don't compare with many of the clubs they're 'bigger than' and we're on a totally different level to the methane snorters anyway.

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Popped onto Delusion Central and found this;

 Hortham was an "open" colony which specialised in training mentally defective offenders for resettlement in the community

Not a lot will change then. I am surprised they didn't find a donkey sanctuary

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2 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

You have got to be joking? Multi European Champions, trophy strewn history and premier league champions elect Liverpool or some pub side with the same name? 

All the rest are an absolute joke as well BTW.

We don't compare with many of the clubs they're 'bigger than' and we're on a totally different level to the methane snorters anyway.

They were saying on their ‘forum’ that their away support is basically the same as Liverpool’s because both of them “sell out their full allocations wherever they go...” - just try and take that in ... ???

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8 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

They were saying on their ‘forum’ that their away support is basically the same as Liverpool’s because both of them “sell out their full allocations wherever they go...” - just try and take that in ... ???

Well, Liverpool do.

Rovers manage to fully sell out an away allocation maybe twice a season.

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Bristol Rob

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Regarding The Colony, a brief history.

https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/hospitals-and-asylums/3413-hortham-idiot-colony-hospital-brief-history.html

Whilst I'm not comfortable with the use of 'idiot Colony' as a term for those with mental illness, it does seem like a far more appropriate name for the site today and going forward than the historical use of the name suggests.

Effectively, they will be developing a facility to train idiots.

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4 hours ago, Swede said:

Popped onto Delusion Central and found this;

 Hortham was an "open" colony which specialised in training mentally defective offenders for resettlement in the community

Not a lot will change then. I am surprised they didn't find a donkey sanctuary

They certainly have "defective DEfenders" nowadays..

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BCFC11

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1 hour ago, Steve Watts said:

Yeah, the club did....but even their "loyal and true" didn't though!

 

46 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Shame the fans didn't!

Hey, I'll have you know that the loyal and true turnt up in their droves, look..............................

 

 

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2 hours ago, TomF said:

Blimey things I'd never imagine ending up on this thread - links to derelict places and talk of a Colony. 

The terminology of 'idiot' comes from the Victorian era really.  You had your standard 'Lunatic Asylum' for those of poor mental health but then you also had Asylums for Mental Deficiency and also Idiot Asylums.  Most of the terminology faded away in the 1930's when in particular the 'Asylum' tag was dropped from institutions such as Glenside on the other side of what is now the M32 divide. Stoke Park was also termed a colony.  From 1930-1930 they'd all get referred to as mental hospitals but then the mental part was dropped too. 

The  'Colony' tag line is a reference to the layout of the site more than anything else. During the early years of the 20th century there was a dramatic shift in the design of mental hospitals, earlier institutions like Bristol’s existing mental hospital (Glenside) had been designed around an imposing complex of ward buildings linked together and, to service areas, by a network of corridors into a single large hospital complex. The practical benefits of this style of hospital where one part of the hospital could quickly and easily be reached from any other part of the hospital began to give way to the perceived therapeutic benefits of a dispersed layout. Where patients were treated in a complex of smaller separate villas clustered around the hospital site which was believed to give the patients a greater sense of community and privacy. 

Barrow Hospital is (well, was) another 'Colony' layout but never gets referred in the same manner. It's strange how it seemed to stick with some and not others.

Here ends today's irrelevant history just for @Eddie Hitler

Long story short.

Rovers have bought land historically used to train idiots.

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4 hours ago, TomF said:

Blimey things I'd never imagine ending up on this thread - links to derelict places and talk of a Colony. 

The terminology of 'idiot' comes from the Victorian era really.  You had your standard 'Lunatic Asylum' for those of poor mental health but then you also had Asylums for Mental Deficiency and also Idiot Asylums.  Most of the terminology faded away in the 1930's when in particular the 'Asylum' tag was dropped from institutions such as Glenside on the other side of what is now the M32 divide. Stoke Park was also termed a colony.  From 1930-1930 they'd all get referred to as mental hospitals but then the mental part was dropped too. 

The  'Colony' tag line is a reference to the layout of the site more than anything else. During the early years of the 20th century there was a dramatic shift in the design of mental hospitals, earlier institutions like Bristol’s existing mental hospital (Glenside) had been designed around an imposing complex of ward buildings linked together and, to service areas, by a network of corridors into a single large hospital complex. The practical benefits of this style of hospital where one part of the hospital could quickly and easily be reached from any other part of the hospital began to give way to the perceived therapeutic benefits of a dispersed layout. Where patients were treated in a complex of smaller separate villas clustered around the hospital site which was believed to give the patients a greater sense of community and privacy. 

Barrow Hospital is (well, was) another 'Colony' layout but never gets referred in the same manner. It's strange how it seemed to stick with some and not others.

Here ends today's irrelevant history just for @Eddie Hitler

Well I played against City teams at Farleigh "Hospital" which at different stages was an hospital of the two different types described above. My sister was a resident at the latter type and was very well looked after until it closed.

Think it may have been used for training purposes as well. But let's keep it quiet and not let the other lot know.

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2 hours ago, TomF said:

Pretty much! Incidentally if anyone is suffering from insomnia I can read you a few chapters.. 

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Leaving aside their purpose they were truly amazing buildings - I did a lot of work at Tone Vale and Sandhill Park near Taunton back in the seventies and eighties. They were like fully self contained communities with everything that was needed on site.

It`s interesting to see how inventively they have been converted into flats nowadays as well (I see quite a few in my job) - a bit like the old Napoleonic forts dotted around Plymouth. I was at one yesterday as it happens, Fort Picklecombe at Maker down on the Rame.

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6 hours ago, redysteadygo said:

Well I played against City teams at Farleigh "Hospital" which at different stages was an hospital of the two different types described above. My sister was a resident at the latter type and was very well looked after until it closed.

Think it may have been used for training purposes as well. But let's keep it quiet and not let the other lot know.

I used to play a charity game every New Year’s Day at Farleigh Hospital, always remember there used to be a bloke probably late 40’s standing on the gate with a cowboy hat and toy gun, he shot everyone that came through it. Sad really.

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57 minutes ago, BS3City said:

Wow! They are really pressing on at pace! Puts our more pedestrian progress into perspective...

(I have impressed myself with the number of "P" words I used there).

Pricks...

There’s a lot of pompous piffle poring from the pathetic rabble that provide piddling support for the Gas about the new grass at the colony. (Quite a few “P” words)

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1 hour ago, 22A said:

Local derbies next season for the gas.

Following this afternoon's League 2 meeting, Swindon & Plymouth are promoted.

And maybe another derby if Cheltenham or Exeter get through the play offs.

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Nothing on their forum about the season ending today, but a thoughtful thread about if next season had to be played behind closed doors.

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/16321/theoretically

Just wondering, if it were decided that next season’s games were to all be played behind closed doors ( or even if say there was a delayed start to the season followed by at least half the season behind closes doors), would we have to play the games at the Mem, or theoretically could we host competitive matches at The Colony?
If this were the case it would allow time for some renovations at The Mem or may even just be cheaper to operate than an empty stadium on match day. The only issue i see is it would be harder to keep fans out.

Surely if the 2metre rule is changed we could play games with a small crowd at a safe distance using just the seats available it would bring in some income ?

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43 minutes ago, 22A said:

Nothing on their forum about the season ending today, but a thoughtful thread about if next season had to be played behind closed doors.

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/16321/theoretically

Just wondering, if it were decided that next season’s games were to all be played behind closed doors ( or even if say there was a delayed start to the season followed by at least half the season behind closes doors), would we have to play the games at the Mem, or theoretically could we host competitive matches at The Colony?
If this were the case it would allow time for some renovations at The Mem or may even just be cheaper to operate than an empty stadium on match day. The only issue i see is it would be harder to keep fans out.

Surely if the 2metre rule is changed we could play games with a small crowd at a safe distance using just the seats available it would bring in some income ?

Its a field with a portakabin you TIT

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50 minutes ago, 22A said:

Nothing on their forum about the season ending today, but a thoughtful thread about if next season had to be played behind closed doors.

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/16321/theoretically

Just wondering, if it were decided that next season’s games were to all be played behind closed doors ( or even if say there was a delayed start to the season followed by at least half the season behind closes doors), would we have to play the games at the Mem, or theoretically could we host competitive matches at The Colony?
If this were the case it would allow time for some renovations at The Mem or may even just be cheaper to operate than an empty stadium on match day. The only issue i see is it would be harder to keep fans out.

Surely if the 2metre rule is changed we could play games with a small crowd at a safe distance using just the seats available it would bring in some income ?

This is just plain stupid. They've spent one day doing some digging and suddenly they're ready to host Sunderland in a field.

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21 hours ago, cidercity said:

I used to play a charity game every New Year’s Day at Farleigh Hospital, always remember there used to be a bloke probably late 40’s standing on the gate with a cowboy hat and toy gun, he shot everyone that came through it. Sad really.

you say that, i used to do some work for a nurse there on her car, one day a group of patients were on the grass on their hands and knees.  i asked her husband later why they were doing it and he said that today they were cows.very sad indeed but at least they were happy which was the main thing.

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3 minutes ago, redsquirrel said:

you say that, i used to do some work for a nurse there on her car, one day a group of patients were on the grass on their hands and knees.  i asked her husband later why they were doing it and he said that today they were cows.very sad indeed but at least they were happy which was the main thing.

They were waiting for the nurse to do the milking.

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1 hour ago, BCFC11 said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-rovers-ceo-martyn-starnes-4209287

 

Football is more screwed than what I originally thought when the Country's 6th richest club can't afford £500k to finish the season.

According to the sun they didn’t vote as they claimed they had internet issues

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