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funny how the spite towards them doesn't exist in the same way it does toward Bristol City
Its not as if there hasn't been bother between the fans in the past ......the battle of Eastville in spring 83 when Jeff Hemmerman was injured for example
But generally I don't mind Rovers
Always found Bristol Rovers more game than Bristol city back in the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I often chat to Rovers fans and find them decent more down to earth whereas City fans seem up their own backsides and hate the welsh
I may be wrong but I always had rovers down as the working class club in BristolQuote:
Originally Posted by stan butler
Maybe its split regionally , I don't know
I know Bristol City is South West of City ?
Seldom played them in 20 years, I’m fairly agnostic about them. Have a few Rovers mates and acquaintances, all living in Wales now or were at the time, sound bunch when it comes to the football. Have never really met a Bristol City fan strangely, definitely dislike them more as a club.
They have been through some crap to be fair , Eastville, Twerton Park , playing at a rugby groundQuote:
Originally Posted by Kind of Blue
went down to twerton back in the day..we lost 2.1..and got ****ing soaked.
it was a cackholeQuote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
Rovers fans tend to come from the north of the city, nicer areas in my mind after living there, city to the south. It’s probably because they are seen as the smaller club that we never saw them as rivals but they always brought decent support and would take just as many away as city, particularly when they didn’t have a home ground in Bristol.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
st Paul's, Easton, are they rovers territory ?Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
Mate of mine was a student at Bristol Polytechnic , lived in Ashley Down , lot of rovers fans around there
They often brought more than Bristol City to Cardiff
I’ve lived in Bristol for 5 years and have been surprised at how little I notice that there are two football clubs in the city. When working in Cardiff I would see city shirts, coats and scarfs being displayed on a regular basis, even on non match days. I’ve genuinely seen more Welsh rugby shirts around Bristol than any local football ones. Even in my workplace in the city centre I can only think of one BC fan, with the rest all part of the Man Utd / Liverpool bandwagon.
They are both rough and in the north but are sort of inner city areas....st. Paul’s wasn’t so bad to be honest, as long as you didn’t deal on the streets you were fine. Easton reminds me of Riverside, lots of hookers and street stuff going down.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
redland, cotham, montpelier, St. Andrews, st werburghs, bishopston are all nice north off Gloucester rd which goes up through rovers territory traditionally. The south seems full of estates like knowle, knowle west, hartcliffe etc....
I noticed that when I lived there too...I think both clubs had a final at the mill stad when I was there, both took about 40,000 and some of the kids I taught at the time went to both clubs games....Quote:
Originally Posted by Grangenders
went to the tropic club in St Paul's, no hassle at allQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
I know a lot of posh sorts in Somerset follow city , seen as the more glamorous club
The rowdy bunch of Rovers i spoke to when on holidays were from some council estate not far from Weston Super mare if i remember right. I'm talking 80s i think Bournville Estate mostly skinheads and modsQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Weston super Mare , Brean Down , those were the daysQuote:
Originally Posted by stan butler
Spent a week in Brean sands around 1980 and most of my week was spent in weston watching Skinheads fighting near the beach or on the lawns by the seafront.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Great entertainment
Brean down is that the the big hill with a fort on top with something like a hundred big steps to climb?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Weston was very run down and looking in need of a paint job last time I wentQuote:
Originally Posted by stan butler
thats the one , very good fishing off thereQuote:
Originally Posted by stan butler
Same here Sludge, 3 years at Bristol Poly, 77-80 Easton, Ashley Down & Bishopston, all Gas territory. Some weeks I’d spend 4 evenings inside Eastville, Speedway, greyhounds & the Gas. With City & the Gas I had a double reason to dislike the red shite! They were also in the top division as well which made it worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
its called the University Of The West Of England nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
Its gone all posh
3 of my lads have gone to Uni and each of the 3 were ex Polys. In my opinion losing the Polys was wrong and undermines the validity of Universities. Oxford Brookes University, stop it, Oxford PolytechnicQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
it isQuote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
I did a post grad housing policy course at Oxford polytechnic .......which is shit by the way .....even back then it was full of wannabees saying they are studying at Oxford
I think apart from the cowley road , Oxford is crap for students
Pubs are expensive , very poor nightlife not really that much to do
To be fair to UWE ( at least the Frenchay site ) they have spent ALOT of money on the place, accommodation is decent :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
The sports Dept is crap though :frown: