Darrell Clarke FC or Bristol Rovers FC?

LOVE DC - HATE ROVERS

Or slogans to that effect. I suppose i have been guilty of what you put forward Roady. May be it is time I/we all moved on. GC and the lads will obviously have our support next year, you never know they may well surprise us and get off to a stormer. At least that is what i hope will happen if i approach a season negatively for a change.

Where has anyone even suggested they'd want Walsall to beat us? It's kind of a pointless question IMO.

I'll follow Walsalls results without a doubt, dare I say I'd put them as my 2nd team behind Rovers.

If I lived in Birmingham/Local to their away game and couldn't make the Rovers game, I'd be tempted to go - nothing wrong with that.

Whilst DC would want to beat us, as we would want to beat him - I bet you he wants us to win our games, is there a problem with that as well or is it just one way? 

I read it as sarcasm but I see your point

All sarcasm but I guess that’s much worse than hammering TG’s wage to cover the car parking increase. Much worse than having a pop at the club for using ball boys like a lot of other clubs, score boards, accounts and forgetting the mess we were left in December with Stefan Payne turning up to work on his skateboard (oops again sarcasm)

For the record I am sorry if the Puddy comment and Frisbee upset some, I will change it.

Puddy was clearly fouled ffs!

It's only become obsessional about DC for the past couple of days because it's the off season and there is a distinct lack of Rovers content to discuss. DC had a great 4 years in charge of us and I'm sure most of us will look back on them fondly. Marcus Stewart was a cracking player during his time at the gas and after and I'm glad he's returned to work, same goes for Stuart Sinclair, genuinely one of the nicest players to have played for the club. When Coughlan makes a few signings and Pre Season approaches and the football cycle begins again, I'm sure that DC and the departing players will quickly be forgotten apart from the odd post here or there but in the mean time when there's not much going on, there's no harm in discussing the exploits of ex players and managers, it's certainly not obsessional to do so in my opinion.

Also with your comment about this forum being "anti Bristol Rovers", yes there are threads and posts on here that are negative in nature, you'll find that in pretty much every social platform on the internet when discussing Rovers but actually there can also be some very balanced and thoughtful contributions on here too. All everyone wants is the best for BRFC at the end of the day.

I firmly believe it is possible to wish DC well, comment on the cost of the car parking, and joke about the ridiculous big screen, without being a Banned word, whatever that is, and also still support Bristol Rovers.

I can multitask...

Some of what you say I agree with, but it seems that you are disagreeing with any negative comments about the club? This is absolutely necessary in my opinion but I agree it has to be done in the right way and not just moaning for moaning's sake. I would welcome anybody to put me in my place by telling me where I'm going wrong if I bring about my concerns about certain aspects of the club. For example I think the notion of a big screen to increase revenue is a good one, I welcome that TG is thinking "outside the box" and I am glad we have him at our club. Do I think he's able to escape criticism? No not at all. The improvements at the Mem are welcome that's great, the pitch was given awards, which is fantastic. However, we are only normally fed positives by the club, and they stay very very quiet indeed whenever there are negatives. That's just not on and for me is basically censorship and it needn't be this way.

For example we were told there would be 3 new stands last summer. One simply never materialised and the SW Stand barely qualifies as new as it's to all intents and purposes the same as the previous one. I'm not that bothered by this, but it's just another example in a very long line of examples where the club has made an error and elected not to publish it in favour of sweeping it under the rug. The Colony was announced to great fanfare, after which we heard nothing, then we heard that Project Managers had been brought in to manage the Colony project. Then we heard nothing, and then nothing, and then nothing, and then Hamer said to G20Man it was on hold because the cost was more than expected, and then after a long period of silence, Wael said it was on hold "because it's linked to the stadium" but would not expand on that and rejected that it was on hold due to costs.

How does one expect anyone with 2 braincells or more to buy information coming out only when forced by a BBC Radio presenter on his own show, that doesn't even marry with information previous forced out of a different club spokesman?

I could go on and on, but my point is that when there is good and bad at a club, fans have a right to express both positivity and negativity. In the right way of course.

Each to their own. No one seriously thinks that these fans will switch to Walsall. The Pirate TV people are good solid Gasheads. I wouldn’t trust the current owners to deliver a letter, let alone a stadium but fully respect others who think they are working on plan B. As for GC. He will win people round if we continue with good form and the football improves but look at the Midget at City. He has achieved a fair bit but lose a couple and the great unwashed want him out.