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Post by Squiffy on Nov 8, 2021 15:57:35 GMT
We like to moan as Gasheads and yes, success is few and far between. However we’ve had a rich and varied history all things considered. Wouldn’t want to support any other club. Actually, I’m thinking of becoming a Man City fan . …not a Hammer?
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 8, 2021 14:37:58 GMT
Nobody interested in owning lower league football clubs though. It struck me too that there are an awful lot of wannabe Championship clubs who are going to have a hard time permanently displacing the traditional (pre 1982) well supported teams.
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 8, 2021 11:13:43 GMT
He was also part of THAT presentation for being Gibraltar’s all time top scorer. 😂
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 8, 2021 11:08:43 GMT
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 7, 2021 18:42:01 GMT
Get Richard Kone from Athletic Newham in on trial. Quite clearly playing below his natural level and knows where the back of the net is. Two footed, pacey, powerful and only 19-year-old so wouldn't count towards the squad size restrictions. A low level but 25 goals already this season is impressive. No harm in trialling the lad. Sounds like he could give us a lift or at escalate our goal threat. Recruiting him could be a sliding doors moment, and although I’m sure his career will have many ups and downs, as long as he pushes the right buttons he will eventually get to the top. 😂
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 7, 2021 1:36:29 GMT
Yes, i can see that both parties would want to draw a line under previous bones of contention and 50000 is a healthy amount to kick start a new project. It's also the money the FC allegedly demanded from the SC. (Money that I believe had been pledged?) If so it may be an indication that both parties are finally starting to build bridges. That said, I hope that once we finally get an SC rep back on board they will be able to operate in a way that at least makes the current board accountable. It's been a long time since we heard from Starnes, Widders, and the other person no one can remember on the board. And we still haven't heard from the invisible infantryman either. I'd like our rep to find out what the hell WAQ is paying these useless tossers for. Strictly speaking, as we didn’t have a game this Saturday, Tommy W was to be seen watching his championship winning son performing from the sidelines. Admittedly it was at Elstree Studios on BBC1, but at least Claudia Winkleman got him to “give us a wave”. 😂
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 6, 2021 17:00:14 GMT
With regards to this weekend’s matches I just wanted to congratulate 10 man Coventry City for their fantastic performance! 😉
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 4, 2021 15:08:51 GMT
It’s a compound word. When we first moved up to London my uncle bought us the Krek Waiters Peak Bristle book. (Correct way to speak Bristol). So we wouldn’t forget how to speak proper. We also got sent a load of evening posts/Green ‘uns every now and again to keep up with what was going on…one of those mentioned it was “typical Bristol Rovers weather” for a Tuesday night win at Eastville…my old man explained it was drizzle …where you didn’t think it was raining hard but you were still soaked by the end of the game … Brizzle is just Bristle incorporating the drizzle. Although must admit I have seen plenty of people refer to Brizzle who probably didn’t derive it the way we did. Thanks for the explanation. makes sense. BUT..... Non-Bristolians (as you refer to) using that word do my head in; a la Dick van Dyke Cockney! Ugh. …see also: theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/articles/17-words-and-phrases-that-only-make-sense-to-bristolians/I think that they missed out s**t h**d, but at least we get a mention! 👍
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 4, 2021 9:32:25 GMT
Not sure what it’s like in the UK now , but it’s virtually redundant here. infact if you pull it out in a shop, they recoil in horror. Literally can’t give the stuff away. Where's here? Cash will be a thing of the past soon! …until a coronal mass ejection from the sun fries all the world’s electronic infrastructure and then we will all be looking down the back of the sofa! 😂
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Post by Squiffy on Nov 3, 2021 7:23:09 GMT
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 29, 2021 13:26:59 GMT
Can set up a game of JB post match presser Bingo? Hopefully genocide doesn’t get a mention this week. ..and, given his esoteric dabbling, keep your fingers crossed that he isn’t wearing the Hindu symbol for prosperity and good fortune around his neck!
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 23, 2021 14:58:04 GMT
Squiffy was doing alright before you stepped in this morning 😉 We're gonna win 3-2. You heard it here first (and probably last 😂) I’m with you brother. It’s a long season and sometimes you need to rotate the personnel to keep it fresh. C’mon the Gas!
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 19, 2021 15:24:34 GMT
Yes but Tommy signed him at Coventry as well, you’d imagine a joint effort More likely whilst we were discussing signing Ogogo (& Davies?) Coventry asked us if we'd also be interested in signing JCH? Seeing as they are now fourth in the Championship they obviously knew what they were doing!
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 19, 2021 11:44:21 GMT
I assure you, we're no different to other fans. Every Club, from the Prem to the Conference have exactly the same. yeah you are probably right. …but so many visiting managers say that our fans are special…unless they mean deranged! 🤔
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 19, 2021 7:47:19 GMT
First we had a book of Ollieism's now Sqiffy is well on the way to compiling his/her own book of Sqiffyism's!, so good to read a matchday thread that leaves you with a smile on your face!, gives me so much confidence we will get a positive result that he/she can start composing the Newport one ! Come on Rovers! You are too kind, and for the record I’ve got balls.
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 19, 2021 6:00:39 GMT
I was able to sleep better last night, not just because the cough is abating but owing to another stroke of good fortune which eased my troubled mind. I confess that I was feeling the pressure; how to keep an unbeaten run going after the euphoria of the last two games.
I have been actively looking for another sign, but as yesterday drew to a close I became more and more despondent as none had been forthcoming. So, in desperation, I went into the garden with a torch in search of a four leafed clover, but as eve had departed it was a fruitless task. I briefly considered relieving next door’s rabbit of its left hind limb, but forcing the issue didn’t feel very lucky. So reluctantly I started to return to the house and then it happened. Fecal matter descended from the sky and hit me right on the shoulder. I was overjoyed!
So I needn’t have worried, and neither should the team. Anyway, Colchester’s defence has been suspect for quite some time; Claudius in 43, Boudicca in 61, Ivar the Boneless in 869 and Edward the Elder, King of Wessex in 917 with his Mercian allies (which probably included a few scousers). I am confident of another famous campaign victory tonight. UTG
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 16, 2021 3:31:59 GMT
I still haven’t shaken off this wretched cold and here I am again, in the early hours of the morning, preoccupied with phlegm and contemplating whether a phlegmatic approach by the team is required to counteract the potentially large home crowd.
But enough of science, what we really need, as last week, is some sort of sign. And on that front I have good news as a black cat genuinely ran across the road in front of me, from left to right, on the way home sometime around 5 o’clock. So, on the assumption that there is a 24 hour period of efficacy for this good luck, and as I didn’t win the top Euromillions prize, then I am convinced, to a Panglossian level, that it means we are going to win again.
I know Voltaire uses the character of Dr Pangloss to poke fun at the excessive optimism of G.W. Leibniz, but I don’t think that was very enlightened as he makes bloody good chocolate biscuits, and anyway Voltaire was French. UTG
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 15, 2021 21:29:00 GMT
Genuinely sounds like a decent night. I had no idea Love Actually would be such a cult movie amongst so many butch gaschatters. I thought was sentimental sh!t at the time, but I may have to give it another go now. In my opinion Love Actually is a vastly underrated film. It’s an exquisite balance of humour and pathos, politics and the human condition, national pride and self depreciation, and ultimately a plea to recognise that there is more harmony and love in the world than hate and division. Yes, there are some annoying tossers in the cast but look past that and there is a sincere message and optimism in humanity. …best watched with a selection of dim sum, especially some Char Siu buns. Yum!
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 14, 2021 16:16:09 GMT
I love that this forum operates on so many different levels, from soap opera to self help group, culinary critiques, history lesson and now philosophy…and sometimes football. Gaschat will be fabulous source material for future social anthropologists. 😂 Not sure what spiders have to do with anything. What short memories. Do you not remember Hugo’s suffering? Please refer to legendary thread section. 😉
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 14, 2021 9:54:58 GMT
I have never said that the scouse was working for Lansdown, read it on previous comments, I said that I think that Lansdown and Wael are in it together to get rid of us, THE PIRATES, as Lansdown quoted when we were relegated to the non league, people will be asking in about two years who was BRISTOL ROVERS, or have you a bad memory. You said Wael spend 20mill paying off debts and 5 mill on the quarters so what peanuts to Lansdown to get rid of us. UWE going ahead until Wael applied for extras, Hotel and retail outlets. Read what you see and not what you think you see. Hanlon's razor. I love that this forum operates on so many different levels, from soap opera to self help group, culinary critiques, history lesson and now philosophy…and sometimes football. Gaschat will be fabulous source material for future social anthropologists. 😂
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