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21 minutes ago, bert tann said:

12 ft high I believe.

With the club dominated by Liverpudlians they are already calling it the Mersey Tunnel.

Those who’ve watched incredulously as Barton has gone unpunished despite his all too regular series of court trials may be calling it the Mercy Tunnel. 

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2 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Any Bemny/Southville blokes of a similar age may remember the Glaswegian barmaid in the Hen and Chicken, I would say around 85-87- her name may have been Ang, but I wouldn’t bet my house on it.

Her favourite phrase was “Why don’t you **** off and die” whenever I think of the Gas she comes back to me and I think how appropriate her phrase is to my feelings for the gas.

Mc ange 

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On 30/06/2023 at 17:10, Ska Junkie said:

'NOT MUCH IN FAN BASE SIZE'?

We average 20000+ while they average a lot less than half of that.

Magger, you're a deluded doughnut!

Don’t know you but if you read it correctly it’s not my post just copied from their shit forum . So go careful when calling people names 

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On 01/07/2023 at 14:34, elhombrecito said:

Just down in Cornwall for a few days. I've driven past AFC Falmouth on a number of occasions, and I have to say, the facilities look superior than the 15ers'.

I went to Uni down there in the 1990s, and I can confirm this was 100% accurate at the time. I’m sure it’s still the case.

Also, Floella Benjamin presented me with my degree, and Playschool was far too advanced for the average Sag to appreciate. :)

(Side note: it’s a miracle I got my qualification, as a certain football team’s siren song used to call me three and a half hours north on the train when I should have been studying).

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So Joe Low never got selected to go on the pre season training camp with City, despite being a full Wales international, albeit one who has struggled to get game time last season.

Their striker and apparently the player of the year last season can't get a Wales cap for love nor money.

This seems to suggest some sort of 'gap' between the two clubs, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

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29 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Blimey, drank the kool aid here ??

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He's right though isn't he, I mean they just wouldn't do that to us. Admittedly there are some dodgy ******* about, I even heard of one board who told their fans they were DEFINITELY moving to Cheltenham for a season and for a mere fiver were running coaches up there so we could pick our seats and they only cancelled the day before when they got rumbled. Oh... hang on...

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13 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

He's right though isn't he, I mean they just wouldn't do that to us. Admittedly there are some dodgy ******* about, I even heard of one board who told their fans they were DEFINITELY moving to Cheltenham for a season and for a mere fiver were running coaches up there so we could pick our seats and they only cancelled the day before when they got rumbled. Oh... hang on...

Just got to dot the i's and cross the t's on the uwe contract I heard......

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        Mayor survives five years trapped behind football ground

“I’m lucky to still be ere” said the Mayor after being rescued from the “living hell” of spending five years trapped behind a football stadium project.  

His journey had started out over a convivial gin & tonic with successful property magnet Craig Cheever-Loophole who was anxious to transform a run down urban area into a thriving commercial hub whilst eliminating another gaping eyesore which had tarnished the City’s landscape since 1998.  

But after stumbling over a statement concerning the configuration of a football club and it’s need for a sustainable future the Mayor became trapped face down in a pile of promises with his desperate cries for help going unheard.   

Fortunately, just as time was running out, he was rescued by the shareholders of a small plc who revolted and told their management to forget about engaging with eccentric minority groups and concentrate on making them money.

The Mayor has now fully recovered from his ordeal and says in future he will be careful to avoid dangerous hotspots such as the end of Alton Road.  

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On 30/06/2023 at 17:06, ExiledAjax said:

Illiteracy can be a terrible curse with unforeseen impact.

They now think their prices are much cheaper bearing in mind their shit facilities , their lower position in the league ( for last 23 years ) :laugh:

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6 minutes ago, Magger1 said:

They now think their prices are much cheaper bearing in mind their shit facilities , their lower position in the league ( for last 23 years ) :laugh:

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Couldn't agree more. £419 for their South Stand complete* with imaginary concourse and things called pillars, compared to £385 for our (permanent structure) South Stand. 

#GasLogic

 

*tbc

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12 minutes ago, Magger1 said:

They now think their prices are much cheaper bearing in mind their shit facilities , their lower position in the league ( for last 23 years ) :laugh:

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If they get to the Championship and have to start paying players triple the money just to have a shot at survival what do they think will happen to season ticket prices at the swamp?

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32 minutes ago, Magger1 said:

They now think their prices are much cheaper bearing in mind their shit facilities , their lower position in the league ( for last 23 years ) :laugh:

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Aren't our season tickets cheaper?

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1 hour ago, Numero Uno said:

If they get to the Championship and have to start paying players triple the money just to have a shot at survival what do they think will happen to season ticket prices at the swamp?

Sorry, I stopped reading when you said “if they get to the Championship” there was no point in carrying on after nonsense like that.

”If I start going out with Monica Bellucci”, see? Equally ridiculous..

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1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

Just seen that their loan signing from last season, Lewis Gibson, with whom they were far better in defence, has left Everton and signed for Plymouth.

Csnt wait to see Joeys reaction…

"Not in my plans for next season, the lad had a bad attitude, he didn't have the skill set for my vision of the future, and he refused to sing our anthem"

 

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4 hours ago, Magger1 said:

They now think their prices are much cheaper bearing in mind their shit facilities , their lower position in the league ( for last 23 years ) :laugh:

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He, she, it means that it will still cost him a £5 to Bob the gateman to let it in

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7 hours ago, petehinton said:

Blimey, drank the kool aid here ??

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Er. . . Yes. I don't know of any professional organisation that would start to clear a site using an artists impression before any proper planning consultation was conducted. Not go out to tender to see how much this will all cost. Not notify the local residents or submit any formal plans to the council for planning permission.

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8 hours ago, Swede said:

Er. . . Yes. I don't know of any professional organisation that would start to clear a site using an artists impression before any proper planning consultation was conducted. Not go out to tender to see how much this will all cost. Not notify the local residents or submit any formal plans to the council for planning permission.

There was no artist involved in that impression. Unless he’s a piss artist 

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Is a big if, but if he joins them then Christ they’re really pushing themselves close to the edge financially I’d imagine. They were over budget last year as it is, and the players they seem to want to bring in will be on far far more than most of last years squad. 
 

They’ve clearly thought fucknit let’s try and go for it, but with no real footballing brain behind them or structure in place it’s a hell of a risk if it doesn’t pay off (which inevitably, it probably won’t). Clubs have their own echo chambers of course, but their business/squad is still way off a fair few others in league one. 

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7 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Is a big if, but if he joins them then Christ they’re really pushing themselves close to the edge financially I’d imagine. They were over budget last year as it is, and the players they seem to want to bring in will be on far far more than most of last years squad. 
 

They’ve clearly thought fucknit let’s try and go for it, but with no real footballing brain behind them or structure in place it’s a hell of a risk if it doesn’t pay off (which inevitably, it probably won’t). Clubs have their own echo chambers of course, but their business/squad is still way off a fair few others in league one. 

 

Steve Lansdown however let himself be drawn into the hype surrounding Gary Johnson's promotion push and kept throwing money at it, culminating in losing to Hull in the play off final.

He admitted in interview to feeling "a bit silly" because he had blown £50m on this and it hadn't worked out. 

Sometimes owners lose the sense they were born with when they have a very persuasive manager of chief executive telling them that promotion's in the bag if they just spend "another few million".  And another few million.  And another few million.

The amount of money that Wael's shovelling towards Barton for players and employing his mates as staff (former taxi driver Peter Johnson should have been our "you're joking" moment) shows that Joey Barton seems to be Wael's cause for being "a bit silly".

I know that Wael is wealthy but I don't think that he's that wealthy, and promotion to the Championship just means that the annual loss jumps up rather than suddenly leaping into profit

I can them being up for sale again within five years.  Though I'm not saying that we won't be as well if the ITK people are correct. 

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2 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

The latest illusory gem from the Post.

the Gas are willing to match whatever he’s been offered by Gillingham but, crucially, can provide League One football and in a team that looks increasingly equipped for a promotion drive’

Just how are they? 
 

Indeed, baffling nonsense written by James Piercy, strangely lauded by some on here.

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55 minutes ago, David Brent said:

Joey Barton ? Old footballers 

I’m sure we were linked with George Friend…about 15 years ago

Friend is 36 in October.

He only started 2 games last season, he came on sub in another 4.

Looks exactly the sort of signing a “Championship ready” side makes to me.

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2 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

The latest illusory gem from the Post.

the Gas are willing to match whatever he’s been offered by Gillingham but, crucially, can provide League One football and in a team that looks increasingly equipped for a promotion drive’

Just how are they? 
 

 

I think we all know what it looks like when Rovers are equipped to go on a promotion drive ...

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1 hour ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Indeed, baffling nonsense written by James Piercy, strangely lauded by some on here.

He’s absolutely excellent tbf. And gets some brilliant stuff out of Nige, clearly has a lot of respect from him that no other journos seem to have. 

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4 minutes ago, petehinton said:

He’s absolutely excellent tbf. And gets some brilliant stuff out of Nige, clearly has a lot of respect from him that no other journos seem to have. 

He is really good on us.

I do wonder if in the interests of “balance” he has to be seen to be kind to the jailbird though? Can only explain some of the stuff that’s written about them.

Sign of the times for the media that the editor appears to be writing all the articles across the summer with both club’s reporters, Rich Forrester & Kim Jung Frost having left.

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4 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

He is really good on us.

I do wonder if in the interests of “balance” he has to be seen to be kind to the jailbird though? Can only explain some of the stuff that’s written about them.

Sign of the times for the media that the editor appears to be writing all the articles across the summer with both club’s reporters, Rich Forrester & Kim Jung Frost having left.

Yes he’s doing two jobs atm, essentially. Believe the plan next season is he is covering us full time, and Rovers having their own reporter again too. Rather than him overseeing both clubs but both clubs then also having their own dedicated reporter. 
 

As you say, an element of balance in what he’s writing atm for sure. 

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6 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

He is really good on us.

I do wonder if in the interests of “balance” he has to be seen to be kind to the jailbird though? Can only explain some of the stuff that’s written about them.

Sign of the times for the media that the editor appears to be writing all the articles across the summer with both club’s reporters, Rich Forrester & Kim Jung Frost having left.

Much better then gregor mcgregor and the drivel on bristolworld

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3 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

 

I think we all know what it looks like when Rovers are equipped to go on a promotion drive ...

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They should look at getting into public transport TBH. Plenty of room for parking double deckers at the south/west end of the ground, there won't be a stand smoking shelter there anytime soon.

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1 hour ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

They should look at getting into public transport TBH. Plenty of room for parking double deckers at the south/west end of the ground, there won't be a stand smoking shelter there anytime soon.

That could work! ... and so easy to relocate when they move to the Fruit Market or when they steal another ground ...

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9 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Friend is 36 in October.

He only started 2 games last season, he came on sub in another 4.

Looks exactly the sort of signing a “Championship ready” side makes to me.

Do they still have that 43 year old 92 cap Irish International maestro or is he now playing bingo and waiting for his soiled nappy to be changed

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