Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

[cityal]

4 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

As is so often the case, Rovers kept the information about how many actual tickets they sold for a Final close to their chest preferring instead to allow the vivid imagination of their supporters decide the final amount. 
In reality a couple of days before the final they had sold between 24k and 25k with over 42k tickets sold at that point.

It’s highly unlikely that no Grimsby fans bought tickets in those last couple of days so in reality they didn’t reach 30k and certainly nowhere near the 40k that many of their idiotic fans and management claim.

Judging by the empty seats in the top tier, 27k would be my guess.

 

I looked into this 40K myth a while back

Basiaclly we know these facts

Attendance was 47,029

Between one week and 4 days before teh match TWO seperate sources (including their own website) had said the gas had sold around 24-25K

We also know from the report on the Grimsby local paper that Grimsby Town had sold at least 10K

So clearly the rovers portion of the attendance was NOT 40K and in reality was probably below 35K

 

[Kodjias Wrist]

6 minutes ago, cityal said:

I looked into this 40K myth a while back

Basiaclly we know these facts

Attendance was 47,029

Between one week and 4 days before teh match TWO seperate sources (including their own website) had said the gas had sold around 24-25K

We also know from the report on the Grimsby local paper that Grimsby Town had sold at least 10K

So clearly the rovers portion of the attendance was NOT 40K and in reality was probably below 35K

 

I remember looking on their forum to bust this myth and the thread said at least 16k sold a few days before it. Even if they did take 30k its still a decent amount they just dont need to lie. What winds me up is some people believe them even some of our own.

[Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan]

3 hours ago, cityal said:

I looked into this 40K myth a while back

Basiaclly we know these facts

Attendance was 47,029

Between one week and 4 days before teh match TWO seperate sources (including their own website) had said the gas had sold around 24-25K

We also know from the report on the Grimsby local paper that Grimsby Town had sold at least 10K

So clearly the rovers portion of the attendance was NOT 40K and in reality was probably below 35K

 

If you look at the huge number of empty seats in the upper tier in the picture I posted, there’s no way they had 30k there, let alone 35k. In the other post below it said that 42500 had already been sold and Rovers had sold “over” 24k of those (so basically between 24k and 25k). So 30k is also highly unlikely as well

 

3 hours ago, IdliketoRogerMoore said:

I thought it was about 27k gas 14/15k Grimsby and the rest was given away and corporate! If I remember correctly!

That’s about right.

3 hours ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

Even if they did take 30k its still a decent amount they just dont need to lie.

Exactly.

We all know why they constantly lie about it, it’s because we took 42k a month earlier.

[Open End Numb Legs]

So they took 40k but only 25k watched the football. Always plenty to do in London. Presumably the missing 15k went to see the sights, take in a show etc, then met up with the bus after the game. All very plausible.

[Bristol Rob]

1 minute ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

So they took 40k but only 25k watched the football. Always plenty to do in London. Presumably the missing 15k went to see the sights, take in a show etc, then met up with the bus after the game. All very plausible.

There is a fairly sizeable coach park near by....

[glynriley]

13 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Aggregate score after 2 x 60 minute matches ...

Bluebirds  - 2

Jailbirds - 1

They seem happy to have only lost by one goal against “a decent championship side”. Who IF they’d have got 4 more points, they’d have only finished 2 place behind us. Although one of them gets it.

[Monkeh]

24 minutes ago, glynriley said:

They seem happy to have only lost by one goal against “a decent championship side”. Who IF they’d have got 4 more points, they’d have only finished 2 place behind us. Although one of them gets it.

My god when I thought they couldn't get any more thicker, we'd still of been 20 places above them 

Edited July 12, 2023 by Monkeh

[elhombrecito]

So, the fact that they lost by only one goal in a pre-season friendly, against a team that would have finished two points behind us, if they'd collected another four points, means that we're not light years ahead of them... 

Right you are.

[Bristol Rob]

4 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

So, the fact that they lost by only one goal in a pre-season friendly, against a team that would have finished two points behind us, if they'd collected another four points, means that we're not light years ahead of them... 

Right you are.

Amazingly, if we would have won every game last season, we would be reflecting on promotion, the FA Cup and the League Cup.

Bonkers what you can do when you just invent weird scenarios that didn't happen.

[Mike Hunt-Hertz]

26 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Amazingly, if we would have won every game last season, we would be reflecting on promotion, the FA Cup and the League Cup.

Bonkers what you can do when you just invent weird scenarios that didn't happen.

I remember us drawing with Liverpool in a PSF, when they were all conquering and we were Div 3. Friendlies mean jack shit.

[Open End Numb Legs]

But they beat Melksham didn't they? That must mean something surely? Must have set alarm bells ringing throughout L1.... or maybe that was the court house bells....

[HoldenBall]

12 hours ago, petehinton said:

Another big fee for a big player for us today. That makes 3 in one window.
 

Are they still trying to break their £300k transfer record 453 years later?

All their transfer budget is going on keeping their manager and players out of prison. 

[magunn]

Apparently they’re after div 1 most wanted player. Didnt bother to read any more info. 
Must seen him on this site

https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/most-wanted

[Miah Dennehy]

On 11/07/2023 at 08:12, steviestevieneville said:

Why would you need a question mark for a statement which a rhetorical question is . According to Brittanica dictionary anyway . 

I really don't know and it really doesn't matter. I mean we could open up a debate on whether rhetorical questions should have a question mark or not, but I think it was pretty clear from my post, that the questions were rhetorical.

[42nite]

3 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I really don't know and it really doesn't matter. I mean we could open up a debate on whether rhetorical questions should have a question mark or not, but I think it was pretty clear from my post, that the questions were rhetorical.

Getting boring now!

[BCFC11]

3 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I really don't know and it really doesn't matter. I mean we could open up a debate on whether rhetorical questions should have a question mark or not, but I think it was pretty clear from my post, that the questions were rhetorical.

Anyway, back to the thread... R*vers are shit.

[Miah Dennehy]

22 hours ago, The Gasbuster said:

Can you get this posted on ass-shat (somehow) ?

That would give those tossers something to get upset about

I'm refusing to watch it , it'll only raise my blood pressure.

[Miah Dennehy]

21 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

Convicts attendance was 29k.

Grimsby 18k.

I remember that it was under 30k we took that day. The occasion we took- I think it was 43k, but certainly over 40- was the 2007 play off v Shrewsbury. We were given extra tickets once Shrewsbury returned some of their allocation. It was actually widely reported at the time- by proper media outlets as well   that  it was the biggest following of any club at Wembley ( stop sniggering at the back) , the reason being obviously because of the extra allocation given. I'm  reasonably confident in saying that this record was broken , when Millwall were given something like 48k for a game against Wigan (FA Cup semi maybe?).

So yes, we really did take over 40k fans to Wembley once.

I have no figures on how many were locked outside though

[Miah Dennehy]

22 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

I actually think that we ought to embrace 1982 to the extent of having it as a second date on the club badge.

I wasn't old enough to really appreciate it at the time but the huge amount of work and cash put in by the rescue team and the supporters plus the actions of the Ashton Gate Eight should be celebrated IMO as 1982 was the year when the club could have died but through the actions of several incredibly hard working individuals, eight players ripping up their contracts, and many thousands of fans reaching into their pockets to buy shares and make donations it survived and has become the biggest and best club in the South West when it could so easily have folded.

Thank you all the people who in 1982 contributed to the rebirth of our club.

 

The players were given a fait accompli and were treated terribly- including by some City fans, don't take my word for it, ask people like Geoff Merrick, an absolute legend for your club There does seem to be a bit of a rewrite of history going on now, but at least the players are now being acknowledged.

 

[Miah Dennehy]

30 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Anyway, back to the thread... R*vers are shit.

Yet we are still everyone's favourite second team

Edited July 12, 2023 by Miah Dennehy

[bcfc01]

2 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

The players were given a fait accompli and were treated terribly- including by some City fans, don't take my word for it, ask people like Geoff Merrick, an absolute legend for your club There does seem to be a bit of a rewrite of history going on now, but at least the players are now being acknowledged.

 

Understatement.

Time is a great healer (at least for 7 of them) but they were treated extremely badly (another understatement).

[SirColinOfMansfield]

17 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Yet we are still everyone's favourite second team

Your manager certainly left an impression at QPR...

[Miah Dennehy]

19 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Understatement.

Time is a great healer (at least for 7 of them) but they were treated extremely badly (another understatement).

One can only imagine what those players would have gone through had social media been around at the time. If those individuals are still around I hope they are now ashamed of their actions. It happened at City, but it could have been at any club. There has been a fair bit of questioning of morals on this thread lately, but c***Ts are c***ts , no matter what team they support.

Anyway! I remember at the time thinking I didn't want you to go out of business and was looking forward to lording over you for the rest of my life.

It hasn't quite gone the way I was hoping!

[David Brent]

23 hours ago, downendcity said:

Just came across this.....

QED

Like the way he had to introduce a different category so it didn't look so bad for them!

It was problem one of them that requested the video…”we’re biggerer and betterer then them”

[bcfc01]

1 minute ago, Miah Dennehy said:

One can only imagine what those players would have gone through had social media been around at the time. If those individuals are still around I hope they are now ashamed of their actions. It happened at City, but it could have been at any club. There has been a fair bit of questioning of morals on this thread lately, but c***Ts are c***ts , no matter what team they support.

Anyway! I remember at the time thinking I didn't want you to go out of business and was looking forward to lording over you for the rest of my life.

It hasn't quite gone the way I was hoping!

Another understatement.

[David Brent]

1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I really don't know and it really doesn't matter. I mean we could open up a debate on whether rhetorical questions should have a question mark or not, but I think it was pretty clear from my post, that the questions were rhetorical.

We could…I think most would prefer we didn’t 

[phantom]

43 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Yet we are still everyone's favourite second team

Favourite is not the first word that I would have associated with Bristol Rovers 

[petehinton]

oh my god, supporting Andrew Tate now….all jokes aside this is genuinely absolutely awful. 

[steviestevieneville]

1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I remember that it was under 30k we took that day. The occasion we took- I think it was 43k, but certainly over 40- was the 2007 play off v Shrewsbury. We were given extra tickets once Shrewsbury returned some of their allocation. It was actually widely reported at the time- by proper media outlets as well   that  it was the biggest following of any club at Wembley ( stop sniggering at the back) , the reason being obviously because of the extra allocation given. I'm  reasonably confident in saying that this record was broken , when Millwall were given something like 48k for a game against Wigan (FA Cup semi maybe?).

So yes, we really did take over 40k fans to Wembley once.

I have no figures on how many were locked outside though

The thing is we all know at least 25k of those were day trippers & not actual gas heads . @Robbored drove a minibus full of your lot & went to the game . Similar for us as well, plenty of day trippers at Wembley , or as your t shirts had printed back in the day . Rovers trip to wembly

[David Brent]

“Food for thought” but the food is out of date crisps 

[Miah Dennehy]

15 minutes ago, petehinton said:

oh my god, supporting Andrew Tate now….all jokes aside this is genuinely absolutely awful. 

I had heard that. I'm going to try and be balanced about this. I haven't listened to the entire interview, so maybe I shouldn't be too judgmental, but normally after hearing Tate talk for 30 seconds I  feel the neeed to shout 'What a ***' very loudly. 

Deeply depressing stuff that there are people who give the utter *** the time of day.

[alexukhc]

24 minutes ago, petehinton said:

oh my god, supporting Andrew Tate now….all jokes aside this is genuinely absolutely awful. 

Genuinely one of the worst pieces of shit to walk the earth that Andrew Tate, disgusting waste of air

[BS3 Ark at Ee]

What’s Barton playing at? More bad attention for himself and Bristol Rovers.... Yet the majority of Gasheads think he’s great

[Silvio Dante]

10 minutes ago, alexukhc said:

Genuinely one of the worst pieces of shit to walk the earth shares an interview with the equally bad Andrew Tate, disgusting waste of air

Fixed that 

[Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan]

22 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Deeply depressing stuff that there are people who give the utter *** the time of day.

Fair enough.

What about Andrew Tate though? 

[Miah Dennehy]

3 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Fair enough.

What about Andrew Tate though? 

Teed you up nicely there 

[Unan]

 

No mention of Rovers in his bio (can you actually blame him?), has added England though.. with his 1 cap

[bcfc01]

16 minutes ago, BS3 Ark at Ee said:

What’s Barton playing at? More bad attention for himself and Bristol Rovers.... Yet the majority of Gasheads think he’s great

TBF, Barton is getting stick on their "forum".

[chinapig]

7 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

TBF, Barton is getting stick on their "forum".

The early posts suggested it was no big deal but yes the mood changed. This one struck me:

Tate is an evil bell end who needs locking up for a very long time. Hopefully this will happen in Romania.
Astounding that Barton wants to be associated with such a nause.

Though why anybody would be astounded I'm not sure, it's wholly in character 

[chinapig]

I spoke too soon, the backtracking begins:

As with all these things I guess it's where you draw the line with freedom of speech and whether you should treat it as what someone does or says in their own life outside of a job as someway impacting on the job they do. Do I think I would get on with Joey Barton if I knew him personally, probably not. He is a pretty decent manager though and looking at it football wise I'm glad we have him. There are going to be people you don't like and there are going to be people who don't like you. Maybe we should stop worrying so much about these things.

[Silvio Dante]

Just now, chinapig said:

I spoke too soon, the backtracking begins:

As with all these things I guess it's where you draw the line with freedom of speech and whether you should treat it as what someone does or says in their own life outside of a job as someway impacting on the job they do. Do I think I would get on with Joey Barton if I knew him personally, probably not. He is a pretty decent manager though and looking at it football wise I'm glad we have him. There are going to be people you don't like and there are going to be people who don't like you. Maybe we should stop worrying so much about these things.

Strong “Yeah Fred killed all those people but he can build a decent wall so I’ll give him the job” energy about that one.

[David Brent]

53 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I had heard that. I'm going to try and be balanced about this. I haven't listened to the entire interview, so maybe I shouldn't be too judgmental, but normally after hearing Tate talk for 30 seconds I  feel the neeed to shout 'What a ***' very loudly. 

Deeply depressing stuff that there are people who give the utter *** the time of day.

Especially the manager of a professional football club who are advocates of equality

Mr Barton can keep his opinions to himself 

[Ska Junkie]

3 hours ago, BCFC11 said:

Anyway, back to the thread... R*vers are shit.

Rhetorical question?

️

[Swede]

19 hours ago, downendcity said:

He was going to bring in the team with the most quarters on their shirts!

Pretty factual up to a point and then he has to ruin it by guessing at their non league final attendance, bizarre.

[phantom]

1 hour ago, Marcus Aurelius said:

 

No mention of Rovers in his bio (can you actually blame him?), has added England though.. with his 1 cap

The appearance that lasted 18 minutes !!

[bcfc01]

Blue Few  back slapping over 1400 tickets sold so far for their opening game at Portsmouth (2k allocation).

How many have we sold for our friendly down there so far ? 

 

[Betty Swallocks]

2 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Blue Few  back slapping over 1400 tickets sold so far for their opening game at Portsmouth (2k allocation).

How many have we sold for our friendly down there so far ? 

 

Around 1500 I think. With train strikes that weekend, I doubt we’ll have that many down there. 

[bcfc01]

3 minutes ago, Betty Swallocks said:

Around 1500 I think. With train strikes that weekend, I doubt we’ll have that many down there. 

Just checked 318 tickets left.

They won't be sold due to the rail strike.

Nearly 1700 not bad for a pre-season game, although there won't be that many there as you say.

[Kodjias Wrist]

11 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Blue Few  back slapping over 1400 tickets sold so far for their opening game at Portsmouth (2k allocation).

How many have we sold for our friendly down there so far ? 

 

Friendly v First game of the season. Rovers should definitely sell out in a few days no excuses.

[Betty Swallocks]

12 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Just checked 318 tickets left.

They won't be sold due to the rail strike.

Nearly 1700 not bad for a pre-season game, although there won't be that many there as you say.

Shame as it was looking like a decent day out. Half of my lot aren’t bothering now and have written off the £13 for the ticket. 

[bartolona]

Has the  Her game too lot mentioned the gas player since he was found guilty?

[RedRock]

1 hour ago, bartolona said:

Has the  Her game too lot mentioned the gas player since he was found guilty?

Thought they said they were going to issue a statement post court hearing. 

If they have sound principles, can’t think how they could say anything other than ‘terminating support’ for the Club. However, ‘sound principles’ and the Sags are not common bedfellows. 

[wendyredredrobin]

6 hours ago, Swede said:

Pretty factual up to a point and then he has to ruin it by guessing at their non league final attendance, bizarre.

Even worse, not only were there 40k sags in the stadium but also another 4 million locked out.

Back in the real world they have nowhere near 40k fans and I think they might struggle to cunjure up 10k with a bit of exaggeration.

[alexukhc]

Anyway my comment means I hate Bristol Rovers

[elhombrecito]

Let's stick to insulting the 15ers please, and not eachother. I've hidden a bunch of off topic posts. Thank you muchly!

[fanjita]

5 hours ago, bartolona said:

Has the  Her game too lot mentioned the gas player since he was found guilty?

In English?

[Wanderingred]

When Joey Barton retires from football, I can see him going down the far right conspiracy weirdo influencer path in an attempt to stay relevant. In fact I’d bet on it. He won’t want to go quietly.

[Bar BS3]

6 hours ago, Wanderingred said:

When Joey Barton retires from football, I can see him going down the far right conspiracy weirdo influencer path in an attempt to stay relevant. In fact I’d bet on it. He won’t want to go quietly.

That would explain many of his post match rants - getting experience in already.

[Open End Numb Legs]

There's not much worse than someone who thinks they are some wise sage who knows more about everything than everyone else and has philosophical powers that others can only dream of. My old boss for 10 years, also a scouser, was exactly the same. Pick any topic and he thought he knew it all. Usually total nonsense and it drove us all mad.

[SBB]

Bit of light entertainment. I won’t spoil the result.

 

[Wrongagain]

Wrong - we lost on one very important point - due to the traditions of the  fewers’ off shore ownership they have a bigger tent tally (probably a camel park too, hidden in the dunes)

[AppyDAZE]

Is this a serious question?

Edited July 13, 2023 by AppyDAZE

[richyy66]

Gas Heads not too happy with Joey Boy. Has been commenting on twitter regarding an interview with Andrew Tate. Barton thought it was interesting. 

 

Andrew Tate - the man who is up for sex trafficking and rape charges. The guy is the lowest of the low.  Barton finds him interesting.....Oh dear

[NcnsBcfc]

On 12/07/2023 at 15:13, bartolona said:

Has the  Her game too lot mentioned the gas player since he was found guilty?

The issue they have is that they are basically funded by Rovers

It essence it would be biting the hand that feeds them.

Incredible that they wouldn't have a press release ready to go out the moment the sentence was announced really.

[chinapig]

13 minutes ago, NcnsBcfc said:

The issue they have is that they are basically funded by Rovers

It essence it would be biting the hand that feeds them.

Incredible that they wouldn't have a press release ready to go out the moment the sentence was announced really.

You're right of course but if they take the club's side they lose all credibility so might as well not exist at all.

[Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan]

10 hours ago, richyy66 said:

Andrew Tate - the man who is up for sex trafficking and rape charges. The guy is the lowest of the low.  Barton finds him interesting.....Oh dear

Barton has probably already messaged him asking if he can play in midfield? 

[Unan]

Just after their new signing has been charged with two counts of assault on women, Barton quotes the Carlson Tate interview, is he actually looking for attention now? For context if you don’t know who Tate is.

”Tucker Carlson jetted off to Romania to join Andrew Tate for a sit-down chat at his home on the outskirts of Bucharest, where the influencer remains under house arrest. Last month, the 36-year-old king of toxic masculinity was charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women.”

Edited July 14, 2023 by Marcus Aurelius

[HitchinRed]

Absolutely incredible that Barton should be suggesting that anyone (especially young people following him on twitter) should pay any attention to what that animal has to say.

A new low for him, and the club that seems to support him so strongly.

Edited July 14, 2023 by HitchinRed

[Taz]

3 minutes ago, HitchinRed said:

Absolutely incredible that Barton should be suggesting that anyone (especially young people following him on twitter) should pay any attention to what that animal has to say.

A new low for him, and the club that seems to support him so strongly.

Said it before and I'll say it again - I'm sure he says and does stuff to try and get the sack! 

Knowing him, he'll have a watertight agreemeent in place (cleary not drafted by the Sags legal department) stating that in the event of being sacked, he'll get so many millions in compensation (probably). They don't have a pot to piss in, and Wally can't afford to sack him as a result, therefore he does and says what he wants knowing he's untouchable.

Meanwhile the morons continue to dribble over him and think he's the new messiah. Long live Scummy Barton.

[Bar BS3]

11 hours ago, richyy66 said:

Gas Heads not too happy with Joey Boy. Has been commenting on twitter regarding an interview with Andrew Tate. Barton thought it was interesting. 

 

Andrew Tate - the man who is up for sex trafficking and rape charges. The guy is the lowest of the low.  Barton finds him interesting.....Oh dear

I supposed he is going to find a role model & inspiration an Interesting kind of guy..!