Gas forum v the dark side forum

In English please???

What has GC got to do with my OP?

I did say don't shoot me down and I only looked on their forum after seeing a snippet from the bristol post. Why do you feel so angry towards a fellow gashead looking at another rivals forum? I was trying to point out the fact our fans have more loyalty and friendly fans in difficult times but you strike me as an immature tool after that post. Im guessing you think I'm a shithead now and not a loyal Gashead just for looking on their forum.

In fairness, quite a few on here were behaving in the same way as you describe when we were in 4th place prior to Christmas 2019.

Yawn - another pointless and tedious thread.

To be fair to them, if I was a shithead I too would not be a happy bunny.
Why?
Because every Manager they have had in recent years has been backed by Lansdown with money we could only dream of.
They could and should have at least managed the play offs on more than one occasion and have failed to do so in spite of 20k support and a stadium and training ground at Failand we can only dream about.
People on here have been saying to bring us success all we need is a decent trading ground and stadium and success will automatically arrive.
That has clearly not happened in their case because as you move up the pyramid expectations are raised and the graph has flattened in spite of the many players costing millions who they have bought and sold to achieve their goal.
Why is anyone's guess but in our case in spite of what we all desire we have remained as we always have been as ragbag Rovers and recent events appear to have curtailed our dreams for yet another season.

When discussing city I always like to take a step back from the “ dirty Sh1!heads, don’t go to the dark side” stereotypes that come with being a rovers fan because I am naturally biased and want them to fail. So I try to look at them as if I was some random joe bloggs just looking at their situation for the first time.

You can’t deny the facilities and the new training ground they’re building is premier league standard, the redevelopment plans of the area around Ashton gate do look state of the art and the rebranding and transformation of the rugby looks to have advanced them to one of the best teams in the world.

But if I was city fan, I think I’d find it pretty infuriating to have one of the richest owners in the country due to his unarguable brilliant business acumen, show his incompetence and lack of learning from his mistakes time and time again when it comes to the running of the football club.

Ever since the Steve coppell debacle he’s never appointed an experienced manager who could push them on the next level. Instead just appointed yes men who have to follow his vision pod where he thinks Bristol city should be and achieving. Compare that to the bears who appointed pat lam, one of the best coaches around and has pushed them to the best they’ve ever been.

Their CEO Mark Ashton IMO is an absolute slimeball. I remember listening to radio Bristol when they appointed Holden, he avoided every question and came across very defensive and arrogant. My mate told me the other day he called them ‘Bristol’. It’s bad enough when a nobody northerner calls both our teams Bristol, imagine your own CEO doing it!
Compare him to Bears CEO Chris Booy who’s been there and done it all, knows what it takes to operate a successful rugby club and has the knowledge and experience to help his decision making.

Must be pretty annoying seeing your best players sold year after year and expecting better results every single time, it’s just not plausible.

Whilst I do find the deluded self entitlement of some of their supporters unbearable at times, I also get it must be very frustrating for some of their supporters that just want the ambition shown off the pitch to replicate that on the pitch, just like the bears.

Message to o p....

The moral of the story is you don't know what you have until it's gone.

We shouldn't fall into the same trap after being humbled into non league. Most of us whom lived through that era would have sacrificed so much to be able to say what we're saying now...in the third division...not threatened by administration.

Be careful which hand you bite...

I myself must confess to looking at their forum now and again,usually after they have been well beaten,and often around may 2nd as the older element still suffer greatly from that humiliation,I've disliked the club since I was a kid with their sense of self entitlement and always hoping we would disappear and then they could actually be the only club in Bristol,that won't ever happen,actually the unhapper their fan base is the better,in my opinion they have never appreciated how lucky they are,far to quick to moan and if they had been gashead would have given up years ago,long may they stay average. UTG