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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 13:06:40 GMT
I'm talking about north and south of the river, is it a myth that north is Gas, and south is sh!t?
On another thread there are plenty of Gas saying they live in traditional city land, and up here in the north there are as many sh!t as there are Gas.
Has things got diluted over the years, its true or was it just a myth to begin with?
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Post by grayraydon on Jan 27, 2016 13:12:36 GMT
Always lived in the Knigswood/Warmley/Hanham area and even way back in the '80's when I was at school I would say there was a pretty even split around my age group, with the majority just about on our side, and now I would say it's even more closely matched.
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Post by therovers on Jan 27, 2016 13:18:10 GMT
Some sh!t eds started to earn a few quid and moved out to better areas (if only slightly better in some cases) and then started breeding. That's why East & North Bristol & South Glos now has a lot more of them than they did in the 70s and earlier
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Post by lulworthgas on Jan 27, 2016 13:28:19 GMT
My nephew won't wear his rovers shirt to school (st Stephens) as he gets the p ripped out of him. The school even get free tickets for the gas but seems like it's a city hot bed?
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Post by roverstillidie on Jan 27, 2016 13:40:19 GMT
Surprising how many 'Southern' communities 'out in the sticks' are as equally divided.
The Mid Norton/Paulton/Peasedown areas have always had a good contingent of Gas, but I'm sure there's equal measures of Teds in places like Radstock.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Jan 27, 2016 13:43:44 GMT
I have lived in Portishead and Clevedon and can safely say both very much sheed areas.
There are more sheeds in northern areas than gasheads in southern areas of Bristol IMO. I consider Kingswood the heartland of Rovers fans.
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Post by peterparker on Jan 27, 2016 13:46:52 GMT
I have lived in Portishead and Clevedon and can safely say both very much sheed areas. There are more sheeds in northern areas than gasheads in southern areas of Bristol IMO. I consider Kingswood the heartland of Rovers fans. I think the North/South thing was probably more relevant/prevalent many moons ago.
With he expansion of the Greater Bristol area and places like Bradley Stoke/Emersons Green etc people have moved to other/newer areas of the City for whatever reasons
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Post by garystash on Jan 27, 2016 14:04:12 GMT
I have lived in Portishead and Clevedon and can safely say both very much sheed areas. There are more sheeds in northern areas than gasheads in southern areas of Bristol IMO. I consider Kingswood the heartland of Rovers fans. My daughter recently started playing for N. Somerset juniors and was distraught at the first training session in Clevedon as she was the only Gas. We live in Yatton, but it's very much the same at school for her - she's one on her own! |
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Post by gasfred on Jan 27, 2016 14:13:14 GMT
Used to go to merrywood with the quarters painted on my haversack in the 70s. Still live in knowle so most people who matter know im gas. Knowle.stockwood.ashton.bemmy.and briz all make up the south bristol brigade who have clocked up many many miles on the road.
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Post by mariobalotelli on Jan 27, 2016 14:17:51 GMT
I live in the south.
When I was about 14 I had a chap come up to me and tell me to watch myself as I was in Bedminster in a Rovers top. School was very much a one man band thing with regards to city/rovers. Main thing to me though was that at our local football teams they were all 3rd/4th division players and I played in the 1st, even had a offer from city to go train with them for awhile which they all would have loved, but being gas my answer was straight up no! Looking back, even though it was the sh** I do regret not just going training.
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Post by Severncider on Jan 27, 2016 14:19:12 GMT
I have lived in Portishead and Clevedon and can safely say both very much sheed areas. There are more sheeds in northern areas than gasheads in southern areas of Bristol IMO. I consider Kingswood the heartland of Rovers fans. Weston-Super-Mare is definitely a sheed area.
That's why WSM fixtures at home clash with ours and not the "other" team.
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Post by mehewmagic on Jan 27, 2016 15:02:55 GMT
judging from the addresses I've seen when selling or sending out contributor copies of my Rovers books, I'd say there is definitely still a divide.
LOTS in east & North bristol, South Glouc, & Keynsham areas.
Quite a few around the mem area & PSJ / Mid norton / Radstock / Paulton. Also quite a few in Clevedon & WSM.
Not many at all south of the river. or in west bristol. Literally just a few out of 100's of copies.
I realise this is just 'positive' evidence of gas support, and I won't know the City support in the same areas.
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Post by pepsi on Jan 27, 2016 15:06:11 GMT
Used to go to merrywood with the quarters painted on my haversack in the 70s. Still live in knowle so most people who matter know im gas. Knowle.stockwood.ashton.bemmy.and briz all make up the south bristol brigade who have clocked up many many miles on the road. bedminster/ Sh1!heads but a few gas here and there.. similar story to you gasfred,, |
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Post by teignmouthgas on Jan 27, 2016 15:41:05 GMT
I have lived in Portishead and Clevedon and can safely say both very much sheed areas. There are more sheeds in northern areas than gasheads in southern areas of Bristol IMO. I consider Kingswood the heartland of Rovers fans. Weston-Super-Mare is definitely a sheed area.
That's why WSM fixtures at home clash with ours and not the "other" team.
. More people in WsM Rovers supporters club than watch Weston |
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Post by pirate49 on Jan 27, 2016 15:54:12 GMT
South of river born and bred....................and proud of it!
Have to be a bit careful when 'Rovers win and City lose'...happens quite often these days!
I've seen a few brave souls in Broadwalk with the quarters on.
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Post by therovers on Jan 27, 2016 16:00:39 GMT
South of river born and bred....................and proud of it if it was up to me you wouldn't be allowed in the home end at the Mem. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 16:15:46 GMT
I started watching Rovers at Eastville and our little gang was so big on match days that we often had a police escort from Muller Rd to the ground en route from Filton. The number of City fans at our school could be counted on one hand and I expect a few others kept their heads down. Now it is very much a fairly even split but City have infiltrated the area with there youth training ground. They would have been hounded out back in the day.
People move around more these days but City do appear to have attracted more new support over the last 20 years and that is sad. Success on the pitch and a proactive campaign to attract new supporters could help to reverse things but the longer that doesn't happen the more the gap will grow.
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Post by badengas on Jan 27, 2016 16:45:52 GMT
Born in Knowle to a season ticket holding ted family, lived in Bemmy Down and went to school with the sons of Alan Dicks and Don Mackay but still had the good sense to follow the Gas increases old enough to see the light.
Been living in the Rhondda for thirty years now and still amazed at how many people genuinely seem to love us and hate the Ted's, makes my day every time. It seems north of the Severn is a Gas area too.
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Post by zulugas on Jan 27, 2016 16:54:05 GMT
Although I live in Hanham now I lived in Stockwood up to the age of 16 (then left for 14 years in the RAF). There were plenty of Rovers fans in the 'wood in the 60's / 70's and a few of us still meet at the ground each home game. for a pint in the supporters club bar.
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Post by stapletongas on Jan 27, 2016 19:05:53 GMT
North and south divide is not really geographically correct, I see our hotbed as East or North East Bristol.
Growing up in Eastville in the 60's and 70's in particular, you didn't find too many City fans in school. That was then and I think the geographical divide is now no more to a reference to the stadium location than the area where fans reside.
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