The gas heads are back

took good support to wembly didn't quite sell out there end but they will be happy with there turn out .i bet Bristol City weren't happy .the gas heads have been in the lower divisions far to long know it's about time they started climbing there way up

took good support to wembly didn't quite sell out there end but they will be happy with there turn out .i bet Bristol City weren't happy .the gas heads have been in the lower divisions far to long know it's about time they started climbing there way up

Martyn and their Fans deserve it

If they can get up to the championship annis there support will be huge again

If they can get up to the championship annis there support will be huge again

Martyn, They took over 30,000 today and I believe they would get good crowds if they were a Championship Club.
They had record gates for Non League football this season

In the old days they were great rivals of ours

I remmber them well annis prefer them to Bristol City we had a few up and downers with them in the seventies a league cup tie at there place sticks out on a Wednesday night at there eastville ground .i think they have got plans for a new stadium things are looking up for them know

I remmber them well annis prefer them to Bristol City we had a few up and downers with them in the seventies a league cup tie at there place sticks out on a Wednesday night at there eastville ground .i think they have got plans for a new stadium things are looking up for them know

Martyn, I loved going to Eastville on the Old football Specials

I remember those days very well

They need a new stadium ASAP

I always thought they had just as much support as Bristol city, they always brought around the same over here. Having lived in north Bristol for a few years I always quite like them to do ok, they have just as much support within Bristol, the red lot just have more outside the city.

I always thought they had just as much support as Bristol city, they always brought around the same over here. Having lived in north Bristol for a few years I always quite like them to do ok, they have just as much support within Bristol, the red lot just have more outside the city.

They prob could have if they had their own ground etc

Memories of Stapleton Road and Eastville. Last time we played them was in the league cup, first season in our new stadium. They brought about 1,400 over midweek. Really pleased for them today. Well done the Gas!

Proper club, proper fans.

Goodnight Irene!

If they can get up to the championship annis there support will be huge again

Their support has never been huge, I don't know where people are getting this idea from?

I remember many visits to Eastville, mostly during the 70's. We'd usually bring 2,000+ ,mostly arriving on the soccer specials at Stapleton Rd; the average overall attendance would be between 8-10,000 (not including the promotion/Hemmerman season)
Bristol is not a big enough football city to support two sides successfully. Bristol City are the bigger of the two clubs, but you feel that Rovers are more of a close knit kind of club, with slightly less fickle fans than their red counterparts. Also, Rovers have always had a disproportionately good away following compared to their home gates.

If they can get up to the championship annis there support will be huge again

Their support has never been huge, I don't know where people are getting this idea from?

I remember many visits to Eastville, mostly during the 70's. We'd usually bring 2,000+ ,mostly arriving on the soccer specials at Stapleton Rd; the average overall attendance would be between 8-10,000 (not including the promotion/Hemmerman season)
Bristol is not a big enough football city to support two sides successfully. Bristol City are the bigger of the two clubs, but you feel that Rovers are more of a close knit kind of club, with slightly less fickle fans than their red counterparts. Also, Rovers have always had a disproportionately good away following compared to their home gates.

I don't disagree with what you are saying .but we are in a diffrent era know and there's always a new genration of fans coming through should rovers get a new ground which has been in the planning for a long time and it will be there own ground I think then there support will grow .but they must start climbing the leagues Bristol a big city can you imagine them to in the premier league

I like Rovers too. I've never met a Cardiff fan that prefers City to Rovers.

I remmber them well annis prefer them to Bristol City we had a few up and downers with them in the seventies a league cup tie at there place sticks out on a Wednesday night at there eastville ground .i think they have got plans for a new stadium things are looking up for them know

remember it well martin think you were with us remember a pub called the swan or something,jaws tonto hoppy and all the old port talbort boys

They should get good crowds in Div 2 having enjoyed an average of over 6600 in the Conference. A fairly solid support even in the year they went out of the league. Strong community club, but not with the same resources as their neighbours in red. I wouldnt be too unhappy if Swindon went up in the Play offs. Just a short trip down the M4.

Eastville is now an Ikea.My elder brother went to Fulham in the FA Cup a few years ago with the BR lads he had a ball

If they can get up to the championship annis there support will be huge again

Their support has never been huge, I don't know where people are getting this idea from?

I remember many visits to Eastville, mostly during the 70's. We'd usually bring 2,000+ ,mostly arriving on the soccer specials at Stapleton Rd; the average overall attendance would be between 8-10,000 (not including the promotion/Hemmerman season)
Bristol is not a big enough football city to support two sides successfully. Bristol City are the bigger of the two clubs, but you feel that Rovers are more of a close knit kind of club, with slightly less fickle fans than their red counterparts. Also, Rovers have always had a disproportionately good away following compared to their home gates.

Remember that trip well on the special and the walk to Eastville on a cracking sunny day

If they can get up to the championship annis there support will be huge again

Their support has never been huge, I don't know where people are getting this idea from?

I remember many visits to Eastville, mostly during the 70's. We'd usually bring 2,000+ ,mostly arriving on the soccer specials at Stapleton Rd; the average overall attendance would be between 8-10,000 (not including the promotion/Hemmerman season)
Bristol is not a big enough football city to support two sides successfully. Bristol City are the bigger of the two clubs, but you feel that Rovers are more of a close knit kind of club, with slightly less fickle fans than their red counterparts. Also, Rovers have always had a disproportionately good away following compared to their home gates.

Remember that trip well on the special and the walk to Eastville on a cracking sunny day

It was one of those days that as a football fan you live for ... short trip over the bridge, promotion already wrapped up, last game of the season, lovely sunny day!

Every previous time I had visited Eastville it had been on the soccer special, the police always had this game sewn up. However, given the sheer numbers of City fans that were inevitably going to travel to this game, the local police allowed for normal service train access to Bristol city centre. We arrived at Temple Meads and had a great morning/afternoon drinking.
Strangely, one thing that stuck in my mind from that day was a City fan wearing a Burberry jacket and Burberry Deerstalker hat. At that time, I don't think any of us had any concept of Burberry, this guy was obviously ahead of his time in the fashion stakes.
Anyway, I was outside sipping my beer with about 30-40 others, when out steps the Burberry sporting guy, who seemed like he was on the move elsewhere. A City fan (who I saw thrust a broken umbrella shaft in the mouth of a Bristol City fan on another separate occasion!) with a strong valley's accent, started to take the piss out of the way that Burberry lad was dressed ... Burberry lad then intimated with his hand in his pocket that he had a knife and if valley lad thought he was bluffing then take a step forward.
You could hear a pin drop - valley lad didn't quite know what to do and Burberry lad cooly made his exit with pride intact. None of us knew for sure if he did have a knife but he certainly looked calm - welcome to the dawn of casual culture!