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Post by slam on Apr 24, 2016 14:58:18 GMT
I mentioned the possibility of needing to become closet Wycombe supporters in a thread a few weeks ago. For the next two weeks, I am certainly not above adopting them as my 2nd team - c'mon you Wycs!
For those of you that can't stoop to my level - what about a halfway house - prey for them to keep two clean sheets!!!
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Post by slam on Apr 24, 2016 13:53:59 GMT
He is one of the leaders on the pitch, a winner and he sets a great example too. It was good to see him back alongside Lines yesterday. I was a little worried towards the end of the game, I thought I saw him waving to be taken off. I hope it wasn't a recurrence of his recent injury and I hope he is fit for the next two games.
Like everyone else, his was a great shift yesterday.
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Post by slam on Apr 24, 2016 11:28:10 GMT
Good grief - don't get me going on the Double Denim dilemma
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Post by slam on Apr 23, 2016 18:50:43 GMT
That was one of the best ALL ROUND performances I can ever remember from a Rovers side. Great game, great result.
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Post by slam on Apr 23, 2016 8:48:37 GMT
Part of the problem is that you can't get your heart monitor through the turnstiles. That has probably knocked 1,500 off of today's gate.
I have been lucky and have managed to get a spare ticket lined up for my carer.
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Post by slam on Apr 19, 2016 20:35:06 GMT
Twists and Turns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by slam on Apr 19, 2016 20:00:49 GMT
Every one think of the ball going into the Stevenage net - lets will it in
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 21:36:06 GMT
I wonder what Goodnight Irene sounds like on a pocket keyboard, a blade of grass, a Hairy Banjo and two triangles?
The missing spoon player could be vital.
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 19:20:04 GMT
We have the makings of a band here - we could be called the Blues Quarters Brothers
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 19:18:11 GMT
Can we bring a guitar and join in I play a mean triangle if anyone's interested ! I was trained to concert standard on the triangle - perhaps we should form a triangle ensemble and sell our services for pre match entertainment.
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 18:35:18 GMT
Can we bring a guitar and join in
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 15:16:51 GMT
Apologies to all you Gasheads - It is me and my Tourettes Syndrome.
I usually try to sit in the Dribuild Stand - but since the recent rise in popularity and ticket sales, I have had to sit, or more recently stand, where-ever I can get a ticket. I have become nomadic, so if I have offended anyone around me by shouting out inappropriate things at inappropriate times please accept my sincere apologies.
Maybe there are others like me too - I certainly can't take credit for all the shout outs I have seen on here - perhaps the new stadium should have a Tourettes enclosure.
Ohh - forgot to mention, I am still coming back this Saturday and I am coming to stand next to you.
Only Joking UTG
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 11:38:45 GMT
For the statistically minded, take a look at the experimental361 blog site: experimental361.com/2016/04/17/updated-probabilities-17-apr-2016/Some really good graphics based on an underlying statistical probability method to address the OP's question. Having said that, you could argue with the underlying E-ratings & expected goals model, particularly as he has Accrington probably just edging us out of the top 3. Take a look at the scatter plots which reveal a lot about how a team has played. Someone, possibly you, posted this chart a few weeks ago. Back then, I seem to remember that our statistical chances of reaching the automatics were 27%. We are now up to 50% so we have bucked those stats already - we are on the right track.
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 11:13:57 GMT
OK - Deep Breath, count to 10 (slowly) and......... relaxaaaaaaaaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
I have just had to sit down and give myself a stern talking to. Why am I letting our current position get to me. Why am I letting it stress me. Why am I letting it distract me to the point where I am looking in here every 5 seconds to pick up any snippet of new information.
What is the worst that could happen from our current position? I guess that it is that we dramatically lose every game for the remainder of the season and end up not even being in the play offs (Actually, probably the worst thing that could happen is that we lose the remainder of our games and still end up in the play-offs, and then lose the play off games - god, even now I am distracting myself and digressing).
Anyway, the point is that I could take either of those two worst case scenarios. At the beginning of the season I would have happily taken a high/mid-table finish and thought that we had over achieved.
But the truth is, we have massively over achieved. We have got a great squad that I have enjoyed watching play football throughout the season. We have new owners who appear to want everything that we, the supporters, want for the club, we appear to have a degree of financial stability, and we have the prospects of a new stadium. In short, we feel like a club heading in the right direction and it doesn't matter what the timescales are for that. It is a great time to be a Gashead.
So, in reality, I have no idea why this position should cause stress. I know that I can handle the worst case scenario that I have referred to above so why let the current situation cause pressure. I still won't vote in things like this poll though, and probably will still wear my lucky t-shirt to the next game - but that isn't stress, that is superstition - lol.
In the words of DC - "take it game by game and enjoy the moment". After all, we have waited long enough for times like these - Enjoy them.
I am sure that there is something else that I should be doing today - oh yes, WORK!!!!
UTG
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 10:02:15 GMT
I refuse to answer on the rounds that it might jinx us. That's why I put 6th!!! Ditto - But, I would have put 10th (I think that 10th is still a mathematical possibility???) - but for some reason you haven't put this as an option.
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Post by slam on Apr 18, 2016 8:23:07 GMT
I am praying that you are right. I am also praying that everything is sorted by the D&R game - not sure that the ticker will take the stress levels if everything comes down to the last game of the season.
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Post by slam on Apr 16, 2016 19:40:24 GMT
All I know is that I'm going to have to buy some more underpants as I'm really starting to get through them !!!! That was tough today. It isn't the underpants that worry me. It is the men in white coats who insist on putting me in a jacket with no holes in the sleeves
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Post by slam on Apr 15, 2016 15:00:59 GMT
It sort of makes you realise that what Wael Al Qadi said about buying the club was true. Yes, he did purchase a bit of land between Filton Road and Muller Road - but mainly what he bought was a history, tradition and US, the fans. Over all of the times that I have been following, this time seems the most cohesive time of all, when the team, the manager the owners and the fans are all pushing in the same direction. It is a great feeling (whatever the results of the next 5 games bring us).
And God - I can remember that Aston Villa game in the 70s. No idea what the score was but I do remember Andy Lochhead, Chico Hamilton and Brian Godfrey running rings around us. I remember thinking that Rovers had truly gone up in the world when Brian Godfrey subsequently joined us (can remember him scoring a screamer from the halfway line, going in off the underside of the crossbar).
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Post by slam on Apr 15, 2016 12:35:55 GMT
The Antique Broom and Bristol Rovers Following the death of Ronnie Corbett, I was recently watching one of those tribute shows on TV – basically re-running some of the old “Two Ronnies” sketches. Brilliant stuff - but one of the sketches made me think specifically of Bristol Rovers. The question I wondered about was:
What is it is that makes Bristol Rovers the club that it is, and that makes me follow them year on year?
The Sketch in question was a take-off of the Antiques Roadshow. In the sketch, Ronnie Corbett played an antiques expert and Ronnie Barker played a member of the public who had brought an antique broom to the show to be valued. The broom looked brand new but Ronnie Barker explained that it dated from the late 1500’s when a long dead relative worked as a cleaner in the court of Elizabeth 1st. It had been in constant use in his family ever since. Ronnie Corbett, examines the broom intensely and then questioned why it looked so new if, as Barker said, it dated from the 16th century.
Ronnie Barker looked perplexed for a moment before replying…… “well”, he says….. “it has had 15 new handles and 23 new broom-heads, but it has still been in the family for over 400 years!!!!!!!!”. Ronnie Corbett tells him to “eff off”.
The reason why the sketch made me wonder about Bristol Rovers was that I have been following the club since I was 7 years old (in the early 1960’s). A period of over 55 years. But, over that time, very few of the elements that made up the club had remained the same. So, what was it that I was a member of? I came up with a number of different elements that comprised the overall club we call Bristol Rovers – and I wondered which of those particularly affiliated me:
Was it the Stadium?: Admittedly, Eastville was the closest stadium to where I lived when I was 7. But since then, Rovers have moved to Twerton and then to the Memorial Ground. In addition, I have lived and worked all around the world and, during that time, have watched all sorts of different sports in all sorts of different stadia (the majority of which were much nicer than ours). Yet still I come back to the Rovers – So, NO, it wasn’t just the stadium that made me follow the Gas.
Was it the Owners of the Club?: I don’t know how many different owners of the club there have been since I started following but I have never had a specific affiliation with any of them – so, NO, it wasn’t the Owners that made me follow the Gas.
Was it the Players?: Since I started following the Gas I must have seen literally hundreds of players (some great, some good and some poor). I have my favourites from over the years, of course I do, but the players have come and gone and yet I still follow the Rovers – So, again NO, it wasn’t a specific affiliation to the players that made me follow the Gas. Was it the Manager?: Since I started following, I have counted 35 different managerial reigns – including some managers who did the job twice. Like the players, some managers have been great, some good and some poor. Again, I have my favourites from over the years, but the managers have also come and gone and yet I still follow the Rovers – So again, NO, it wasn’t the manager that made me follow the Gas.
As with the broom, none of the essential elements that make up Bristol Rovers Football Club have remained constant over the time I have followed. Until I realised that there was one element that has been ever-present:
The Fans and Supporters: who carry the full weight of history, tradition and pride on their shoulders. It is the fans and supporters that carry the same hopes and fears for the future of the club as I do. It is the “family” that share the same highs and lows as I do that makes Bristol Rovers the club that it is and keeps me coming back.
Good grief, it is you ugly load of @*@*@*@*s that keeps me coming back – I must be completely mad!!!!.
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Post by slam on Apr 15, 2016 12:28:52 GMT
Many thanks
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