Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I despair at some of the rubbish quoted on this forum regarding the Mem.
Sorry for the detail but it might enlighten a few.
In the Premier Division every club has 100% all seated stadiums. The vast majority have over 30000 capacity, the glaring odd one out being Bournemouth with 11360. The clubs that normally get relegated and then promoted back up a few seasons later almost every time are those with capacity of between 20000 and 30000.
In the Championship every club except one, being Brentford, has all seated stadiums. It is mandatory for the top two tiers of the league to be all seater. All seater stadiums are not a panacea for watching football or success on the field. Ask Sunderland fans! The fans sometimes are subjected to getting wet because the roof doesn't cover the seating and post holding the roof obstructs the view and some fans are squashed into corners with little view of the pitch.
Villa 42785 Birmingham 29409 Blackburn 31367 Bolton 28723 Brentford 12763 Bristol City 27000 Derby 335897 Hull 25586
Ipswich 30311 Leeds 37890 Middleboro 34742 Millwall 20146 Norwich 27244 Notts Forest 30445 Preston 23404 QPR 18439
Reading 24161 Rotherham 12061 Sheff Utd 32702 Sheff Weds 39732 Stoke 30089 Swansea 21088 West Brom 26850 Wigan 25138
From the above capacities you can clearly see which clubs that usually stay comfortably in the Championship and flit with promotion to the top tier and those that drop back down to level 3. It's interesting that our neighbours over the river even with a new stadium only have a capacity 11th from the bottom of the championship but not likely high enough to be sustainable in the top tier if they got there.
In Division 1 there are 16 clubs that have 100% all seater stadiums and 8 do not ranging from 40% to 75% seating, the Mem being one with 50%.
AFC Wimbledon 4850
Accrington 5057 Barnsley 23287 Blackpool 16750 Bradford 25136 Bristol Rovers 12300 Burton 6912
Charlton 27111 Coventry 32609 Doncaster R 15231 Fleetwood 5327 Gills 11582 Luton 10356 Oxford 12500 Peterboro 15314
Plymouth 16388 Portsmouth 21100 Rochdale 10000 Scunny 9088 Shrews 9875 Southend 12392 Sunderland 49000 Walsall 11300 Wycombe 10137
From the above capacities you can clearly see which clubs that usually stay comfortably in Division 1 and flit with promotion to the Championship and those that drop back down to level 4. Clearly this shows that the Gas are where traditionally we have usually played our football. Rovers sit 13th from the bottom capacity wise.
In Division 2 13 clubs have all seater stadiums, the rest range from 35% to 50%.
Bury 11840 Cambridge 8127 Carlisle 17949 Cheltenham 7066 Colchester 10105 Crawley 6134 Crewe 10153 Exeter 6087 Forest GR 4803
Grimsby 9052 Lincoln 10120 Macclesfield 9186 Mansfield 9186 MK Dons 30500 Northhampton 7798 Morecombe 6476
Newport 7850 Notts County 19841 Oldham 13512 Port Vale 19052 Stevenage 6722 Swindon 11547 Tranmere 16587 Yeovil 9562
From the above capacities you can clearly see which clubs that usually stay comfortably in Division 2 and flit with promotion to Division 1 and those that drop back down to level 5. Only 6 teams have a capacity greater than the gas.
The point I'm trying to make is that Rovers are roughly in the middle of the football league where their capacity says it should sustainably be located.
Having been to well over 120 stadiums watching Rovers over the years I can say first hand that the quality of the Men is roughly in the middle of all those grounds. The two worst that I recall were York and Atringham both of which made Twerton Park look regal. Those that state the Mem is one of the worst stadiums in the football league are IMO either frustrated, deluded or are glory hunters and have only attended those big capacity away big grounds