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Post by garystash on Nov 7, 2022 16:16:46 GMT
Maybe it's my age...but great though Second of May was, the Gashead fanzine was always the default for me. I honestly have no idea how long either of these fanzines ran for but I do remember going to Twerton with my Dad and one of us would always buy the Gashead and the other the match day program. I feel like it was around for years but this just be due to the fact it was around at the time when I went to the most games. My username was a charachter in the gashead fanzine. Think I've got a few copies in the loft somewhere.
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Post by garystash on Nov 7, 2022 16:15:23 GMT
I stand corrected and apologise for my error of judgement. It’s a little known fact and I shouldn’t really say but SwissGas is actually Roger Federer 🤫 A little known fact is that SwissGas grew up in Yatton. He once asked me in a PM to say hi to Clive for him (true stroy).
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Post by garystash on Oct 18, 2022 11:40:57 GMT
I know right. Wael's a d!ck for not sorting this simple issue out. Building and funding a new £40 mil Stadium is simple? Sorry Baggins, I was being sarcastic. I'm trying to point out how ridiculous the guy I quoted sounds.
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Post by garystash on Oct 18, 2022 11:25:24 GMT
Amazing the stadium he returns to is exactly the same as the day he left! I know right. Wael's a d!ck for not sorting this simple issue out.
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Post by garystash on Oct 7, 2022 14:38:05 GMT
Instead of worrying about a new stadium, people need to live in the here and now. Right now we are at the Mem, and if you genuinely don't enjoy it there then what are you doing on this forum? It has soul, history and can generate an amazing atmosphere! I have had some brilliant shared experiences with family at the Mem. I applaud the work that has been done to improve it since Wael came in. I have faith that a new stadium will be built, but who knows how long that will take? If you spend all your time yearning for something new, you risk missing the good things that are staring you in the face right now. Yes the Mem is quirky , as was Trumpton and Eastville . The sadness comes about for what we could of become as a club ( or still could ) if we had a decent stadium with a decent capacity. I’m convinced we could and would easily be on a par with the likes of Cardiff , Reading , Swansea etc if we’d of had a decent stadium . It’s the not fulfilling our potential which is the frustrating bit . Totally get what you're saying, but as I understand it we very nearly didn't have a club to support. Don't waste energy thining what could be when you can just enjoy what we have. Let Wael worry about getting a stadium and catching up with those other guys. He's the only one that can actually do something about it.
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Post by garystash on Oct 7, 2022 10:42:49 GMT
Instead of worrying about a new stadium, people need to live in the here and now. Right now we are at the Mem, and if you genuinely don't enjoy it there then what are you doing on this forum?
It has soul, history and can generate an amazing atmosphere! I have had some brilliant shared experiences with family at the Mem. I applaud the work that has been done to improve it since Wael came in.
I have faith that a new stadium will be built, but who knows how long that will take?
If you spend all your time yearning for something new, you risk missing the good things that are staring you in the face right now.
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Post by garystash on Sept 27, 2022 15:17:51 GMT
Do I think he'll ever come back? Maybe, but it would probably be a mistake.
What was his biggest mistake? Not replacing Matty Taylor
Would I swap him for Barton? Not in a million, and here's why...
Barton's contacts have enabled much better recruitment imo. The dross brought in by Clarke got worse as time went on.
The football under Clarke was never that exciting for me. Results were good for 2 seasons, obviously, but the football was slow and laborious.
The football under Barton last season is the best I have witnessed at Rovers, certainly in the last 20 years. I was regularly entertained.
Although we aren't there at the moment, you have to believe we can get back there again. Maybe not this season, but at some point in the near future.
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Post by garystash on Aug 25, 2022 18:14:22 GMT
If he got us to the Championship no doubt a bigger club would come knocking. Would he take it though? Probably, but he has said it's not about the money - he doesn't need it.
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Post by garystash on Aug 20, 2022 18:59:10 GMT
In the Pompey Bar after the game. Their fans were all saying our penalty claim was a stone-waller. Watch the replay of the penalty incident. You can clearly see the Rovers player's left leg deliberately kick into Rafferty's, Robert Pires style. That's why the ref didn't give it. As regards the alleged push there's nothing in it. Certainly not enough to make him fall over. He's about to shoot and the contact prevents him from doing it. I guess you'll see it how want though. Also, watch your defender - what sort of challenge is that?
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Post by garystash on Aug 16, 2022 21:18:10 GMT
I couldn't watch tonight as I was out and only got home with ~10 mins left. I see we had three yellows - Connolly, Finley, Coutts yet the BBC stats show us committing 8 fouls to Barnsley's 14 - and they didn't get any yellows. Barton effect, home team bias, or were the yellows warranted? I imagine Finley and Coutts were subbed because of the yellows - they both got booked at the same time? Finley's was very harsh imo. Coutts made a bad challenge but advantage was played. By the time the ref booked Coutts, Finley had made a foul and was going in the book too. It did seem a bit home team bias to me. Lots of little decisions going their way, ref not talking to their players when he would have a word with ours and not booking their player for stopping a counter attack. Bottom line is we weren't good enough though.
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Post by garystash on Aug 16, 2022 21:12:27 GMT
Personally didn't think Barnsley were that great. That is though the worse I have seen us play since the beginning of last season - a typical early season performance.
Only 4 games in and still a very long way to go. Keep our heads up and I'm sure we'll do well.
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Post by garystash on Aug 1, 2022 22:17:55 GMT
Love or Hate the Ted's, they have a fantastic Stadium...... What the F##k have we got. Sadly we look Non League to them. Sorry. I just had to get it off my chest. We need action and we need it now ffs, I can't afford it' but somewhere there is someone who can deliver. Just won't happen in my lifetime sadly We do look non league to them in terms of the stadium. However, we have more soul in one blade of grass than they have in the entire Lansdown stand. I think we will move on from the Mem soon, but we'll miss it. It'll be just like the song - you don't know what you got til it's gone.
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Post by garystash on Aug 1, 2022 22:01:17 GMT
USA women's world cup champions side played a under 17 college boys team in the US and lost 5-2, although it is great to see our women's team win something the gap between Women's and men's football is massive . You say that the England women would be the gas but that is very unlikely. But it is as good that girls and women's football is now recognised and they can make a profession out of it . I feel obligated to point out that was a 'scrimmage' which is American for a knock about And it was in 2017. Women's football has come on leaps and bounds since then I find these comparisons quite pointless. It's just not a level playing field. Elite male athletes will probably always be able to compete with more speed and power than their female counterparts. Football is however for everyone. The skill and dedication required to be at the top level is the same for all, and deserves equal respect from us fans. Maybe I'm biased as I have two daughters that are both keen footballers. I want them to have similar role models to the ones I had growing up. But I was at Wembley yesterday and I enjoyed every moment as much as I would have had it been the men's team - and that's the way I think it should be.
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Post by garystash on Aug 1, 2022 21:03:06 GMT
My 8 year old niece is a goalkeeper, she's been playing for about 18 months, and loves it. Great to see so many girls are now interested - for their generation it will be the norm to play football. How do we watch women's football in Bristol? Women's football fixtures normally take place on Sundays, same season as the men's game. Highest local team in the pyramid is Bristol City. They play at our neighbors training ground in Failand in the second tier of women's football. Bridgwater and Cheltenham are both in the third tier. If those are a bit far, Keynsham and Portishead are your next highest placed local teams as far as I know. Just one tier below are our own gas girls. They have a very professional setup in comparison to their rivals. Paid coaches, strength and conditioning coach, media team. Hey behind these guys and they can climb the echelons. They play home games at Lockleaze in the South West Regional Women's Football League Premier Division. I'm sure fixtures are published by the community trust. You can also find them on the fa full-time website. Next season's fixtures are not out yet though. Hope this helps.
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Post by garystash on Jul 9, 2022 12:32:16 GMT
A date of July 5th was set for the conygar announcement on whether they will proceed with the FM purchase , now everything has all gone quiet bit like UWE, when it eventually took a leek for supporters to find out the project had collapsed, is this going to happen again? hopefully not, but if if it does then the club need to act fast to improve the Mem so we can move forward as a club . Every delay in ground improvements is more revenue lost. I'm sure Wael is fully aware how much of his money it is costing to keep the club going in its current circumstances.
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Post by garystash on Jun 13, 2022 13:47:26 GMT
If he does go... I'll just be glad of the season we shared. Too much of football is spent being angry about things... Lee Brown's goal is a little tarnished because Matty hit the post beforehand. I'm not going to manufacturing frustration over Evans. When we needed him he delivered. Scoring 2 wonderful goals. I hope he resigns but I'm happy with the season he gave. I hope he doesn't resign, however I do hope he re-signs!
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Post by garystash on Jun 13, 2022 13:45:17 GMT
I would say the complete opposite - that he tried to appease the fans. The amount of moaning I heard about the style of football under Coughlan, even people staying away because they weren't going to pay money to watch that. Are you seriously saying the fans were happy? Because despite our league position that's not how I remember it. That’s fine, you can say the opposite it’s a forum full of different views. I didn’t mention the happiness of the fans but that wasn’t the point I was making. I was happy we were 4th in the table with a determined team who played to their strengths and ran through walls for each other. I was happy we looked to be making a real challenge at the top places in League 1, a situation that hadn’t happened since Holloway’s 99/00 season nearly 20 years before. Those challenges at the top end of Div 3/ League 1 were a normal season for us at one time. My point, and I suspect you know what it was, I was fairly clear, was that Wael decided for whatever reason to go a different way and embark upon a different project mid season when we were at the highest point, football wise we had been at for 20 years. I thought then, I think now that few fan bases would have put up with that without a lot of fan unrest, and that the decision to go completely different showed a complete lack of consideration for where we were at that time. He then got many plaudits because we then had the pandemic when Wael undoubtedly saved us with his support. Wycombe showed what could have been achieved that season. Now in my original post regarding this I accepted we may not have gained promotion nor even a play-off place but to have just given it up for the project was very poor, imo. And I hope most on here would know I have been a real supporter of Wael and his support for the club, I have always felt he was a good and supportive owner. But at that point in time it was a poor decision lacking ambition and awareness of where we were at that point. I accept that the style of football may not have been to your liking and I won’t make any assumptions whether you liked being 4th in the table or not, our highest position for such a long time. I don’t expect others to always agree with me but having supported us for 56 years and counting I was surprised that what happened for the remainder of that season seemed to be accepted. Sorry if you disagree. UTG! As always. Fair enough. I'm not disagreeing with your point that it was a poor decision by Wael - it clearly was. It's your comment that it showed "disdain for the fans". I don't think it did, I think he was genuinely trying to give the fans what he thought they wanted. We were flying high and that just didn't seem to be enough for a lot of people. Not me btw, I was enjoying the league position. However the people complaining perhaps got what they deserved when BG came in!
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Post by garystash on Jun 11, 2022 20:43:07 GMT
I’ve said we should move on and wish him luck and mean it. But what still irks me is the situation we found ourselves in during December ‘19. Whatever my thoughts abòut Coughlans style of football and how perhaps our position in the league, 4th, may have been difficult to maintain we were still 4th and until the last 10 minutes on Boxing Day when we were leading AFC Wimbledon before losing we were 2nd. It was the first time this century when we were in the promotion race in League 1. Eventually Wycombe went up via the play offs, something we could have challenged for with the right appointment. Now I’m not saying we would have gone up but we were in with a chance. That’s all you can say in December. That the owner decided mid season to change everything and appoint the complete opposite of GC showed a complete disdain for us the fans. To have gone so differently and the players who had a distinct style which was producing results were then messed about it took until the last match before lockdown against Sunderland before we won again. It was/is one of Wael’s biggest mistakes imo. He treated the fans very poorly in throwing away that opportunity. And of course it spread over into the next season. UTG! I would say the complete opposite - that he tried to appease the fans. The amount of moaning I heard about the style of football under Coughlan, even people staying away because they weren't going to pay money to watch that. Are you seriously saying the fans were happy? Because despite our league position that's not how I remember it.
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Post by garystash on May 31, 2022 9:47:41 GMT
Apparently we offered £100,000 for Ashton Gate but it was rejected by the receiver. I can understand that City fans might object to that - but when you don’t own your own ground and the chances of staying there look dubious, it seems reasonable to put in an offer for the one other football league standard ground in the city, if it becomes potentially available. No idea how we were supposed to help City (or indeed why). They did allow us to ground share for a very brief time. I am guessing this is the sort of thing they may have expected ? Well, maybe if we had bought Ashton then we could have arranged something. As it was we didn't own Eastville so had nothing of our own to share. As it happens, they've ended up in a far better position than us. Hopefully we can catch them one day but at the moment we seem miles behind.
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Post by garystash on May 30, 2022 19:06:19 GMT
Poor weather meant we could call off the original game, we weren't playing that well at the time iirc and took any excuse. Plenty of City fans in school accused us of doing just that. The burning down came later in the year and the following season. In city fan world that’s fair dos: You call off a game dubiously, we burn down your ground. You equalise in the last minute, we chase your players off the pitch and assault them. Score against us, we tear up hoardings and seats. I see on OTIB a lot of comments of their pathological hate for us, I really am scratching my head why. Other than being a rival, there’s nothing rovers fans have done which can hold a candle to the endless semi-terrorist acts their lot has - threatening players in their homes etc. Last time we came close even their chairman swooped in to keep it going. It does make you worry, if they are foot of champ next year and Barton has us up the league, what’s coming next? I wouldn’t put another stadium burning or pointless bench signing in Jan past them I think - although I'm not sure - they hate us because when they were on the bones of their ass in 1982, we tried to buy Ashton Gate instead of help them out the sh!t. I have no idea if we did try and buy it, or what we should've done to help.
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