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Bristol rovers are not a bad team.
They had something like 10 players injured at the start of the season.
If we can get a draw, I would take it now.

Are they expecting a bigger than usual crowd with the price reduction?

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I suspect the price reduction is because they feel the need to attract the good people of Brizzel.
Watched the highlights of their game against Newport and the waterlogged pitch played a big part in the game; looked very difficult for players to keep their balance and for defenders to time tackles. And there's been no let up on the rain today, with more forecast tomorrow.
Assuming the game is on, Mr. Bettenelli's and Stanley's CBs need to watch out for the long throw ins.

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Good news...the £10 concession also appears to apply to the covered and seated South Stand behind one of the goals, as well as the uncovered standing corner, which may be of interest those who don't have either duck DNA or an umbrella...
The bad news is that there's an update on the state of the pitch tomorrow...

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Think we may just nick this un, but would be delighted wi a draw. anyone know where the "Gas" comes from,cos i don't.

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Start here, Cashy:
THE GAS STORY - Gasopedia - Bristol Rovers Wiki

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Cheers Mike, was down yon a couple of times many years back n never heard of it until recent times.:)

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Doesn't sound too good:-

Pitch Update - Page 3 - Rovers Talk - Bristol Rovers Fans' Forum

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Pitch inspection 1.00 pm

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Inspection at 1-00 says on fishy.:) looks decidedly iffy to me.:eek:

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I'm in North Devon and it's hosing it down.

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Game on (for now)

Will be assessed further at 5pm

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Thats poor in my opinion fer anyone travelling down, or Stanley must do.:(

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Cashy; from the opening thread of the 2011 home game against them

"Bristol Rovers’ number 12 shirt, by the way, is dedicated to the “Gasheads” – their version of the Ultras, really; a derogatory reference by a Bristol City fan to the gas works which stood near their former ground at Eastville became their “core supporters’” nickname. Did you know that Rovers were formed in 1883 as “Black Arabs FC”? No, neither did I……….:o"

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Game is on! Bring home the points. Play 5 across the midfield and give moly a free role

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3 Pts tonight would be massive wi Torquay,Bury, Nhants,Mansfield,all postponed.would really put pressure on those clubs.

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Why is Craig Rodden not even named on the subs bench? What is the point of loaning us a player and him not even get in the 18.
On the other hand, as the game is on, bring back the 3 points please Stanley

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Is he fit enough ozzy?

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0-0 Half Time so far so good.

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How are we playing?

I presume the pitch is a bog?

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Molyneux on...

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Moly n Webber just come on 10 mins to go approx.

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come on,
lets win this

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3 Mins added.:eek:

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Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssss sssssss

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Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Murphy once more 1-0 webbers assist yezzzzzzzzz

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'stanley boys, stanley boys...'

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Murphy time :-)

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All oer great win reds.

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Massive 3 points.

It really is.

And it puts the Bristol rovers manager who at the start of the season talked about promotion and was given the funds to build a big squad under real pressure.

Well done Murphy!
Well done Beattie!

Massive.

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Agree 100% Davo. pressure now on those who didn't play tonight.

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And those that did and lost..........

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i better start saving up or chubbymans curry if Beattie keeps pulling these results out of the hat.

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Table looks a lot better now - Great Win.

Pity the game was off on Saturday - a win would have put us in the top half !!!

Very tight this season, Beattie keeping us ticking along nicely.

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From Bristol Rovers' Twitter:
'Peter Murphy seems to have snatched all three points for the visitors.'

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Massive result need to win at home and we will be ok well done lads.

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Sounds like Moly made a difference. Give him a bit more playing time next match please, James!

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Torquay's next 3 games - Portsmouth, Bury and Northampton - are HUGE

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That Peter Murphy really is hopeless, isn't he? :D:D:D

Fantastic result - happy happy happy!!! :):):)

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Could be level on points with Morecambe if we win on Saturday, plus our game in hand! Or am I tempting fate?

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WHAT A RESULT !!!!! m
MURPHY DOES IT AGAIN !!!!!
SUPER THREE POINTS !!!!!
:theband:

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bbbrriillliiaannnttooooo stanley will be down to see you soon:mosher::mosher::mosher:

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Murph has scored 1 more than Van Persie this season.:eek::D:D

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Just didn't fancy us tonight and once again been proven wrong!!.
I just worked out that were a decent team with a decent squad,so really I should be more confident :)
Hopefully we get a few match reports from people who went but a clean sheet is always a foundation to build on,keep it up lads

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I said we had a decent squad when we had made our abysmal start to season Football19, I honestly think were as good as anyone in a division were no outstanding sides are this season, only thing we lack is consistency i believe,;) Good audio from J.B.

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A great result for the Reds! :Banane35: 6067 there as well,what a good gate that is!:)

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Just think if we could have bagged a couple of wins in those first ten games,we would have been right in the mix :)

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A top half finish will be a great season,given our resources.;) how out thought wi a blank sheet RR?

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We're one point and two GD worse off than we were at this stage the year we went to the playoffs. We did then win six of the next eight though ........

On Stanley On !!

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Grand win and there goes Murphy again, what a club man, just super. Bring on Morcambe, I bet they're poopin their drawers.

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I must have been watching a different game,only two players performing doesn't add up to beating a team like that away.Bowerman got some great crosses over and Mingoia is that small you obviously didn't see him all over the field,down the left wing one minute and defending at right back the next.The stats look good for them but the shots on target were mostly rubbish and off target mostly abysmal I thought a draw would have been a fair result but the smash and grab in Beattie time was very welcome.When Webber and Molyneux came on the team came alive.STILL BUZZIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Another sleepless night, feeling nice and relaxed but steroids and chemo from my second session yesterday buzzing through my brain and bloodstream! Just thought I would give a big thank you to Dan for his great service on the live text thingy, where I just couldn't bring myself to see what the clacking noises were signifying inthe last few minutes. Instead I just watched the bbc live scores, and Mrs Red thought I was having a heart attack when she heard the strange sounds coming from deep in my throat when I saw 0-1 come up at the death. Couldn't believe it would be Super Peter Murphy again until I went back to see Dan's glorious news, coward that I am! Must try to get on the Crown on Saturday.I think there's a good chance!

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Just for RR and Chubbyman - to clear up a point on statistics:
BRFC had 54% of the game to ASFC 46%
Shots BFRC 19 ASFC 7
On target BRFC 2 ASFC 5
Corners BRFC 6 ASFC 2
Fouls BRFC 6 ASFC 8
Must thank the BBC for these stats.

If you can't get the shots on target then you aint going to win games, wasn't this the problem ASFC had in the first 10 games of Beattie's reign? 72% shots on target ratio that ASFC had last night shows that BRFC must have made more blocks or saves than Betinelli and the defence did for ASFC.

At the end of the day, all that matters is not how we play as a team, but scoring more goals than the opposition and preferably the opposition scoring nil. I will take a scrappy 1-0 win every match if it means we stay a football league team.
Bring on the Shrimps on Saturday and another 3 points.

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Wonderful,wonderful,WONDERFUL...By god I hate this daylight saving bizzo-I'm well and truly at work when these midweekers k/o. GREAT STUFF MEN IN RED. I love you.

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Putting things into perspective,Bristol had won their last four home league games and give Birmingham a right game in the cup.
Apparently They played some decent stuff despite the iffy surface,but it was all in front of us and rarely got behind us (hence the number of long shots not on target).
They threw the kitchen sink at us in the last quarter but we held firm (apparently ! ).
Looking forward to Saturday now !!!!

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'Out-murpheyed' - love that word, it should be in the oxford English dictionary ;)

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Fantastic result lads. As others have said with alot of rival games getting postponed it looks like a massive 3 points.

Roll on Saturday. Dare I say 3 points and into the top half??? That really would be remarkable considering our start.

Craig Roddan is injured aparently and has returned to Liverpool, which is a shame.

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Still recovering from one of the best birthday presents I've had.
If it had been a Hollywood film, or JB was a Premier league 'director of football', everyone could have understood that it was all meant to be that way. Stanley allow The Gas the free run of their pitch, concede every loose ball, etc, etc and then, with 10 minutes to go, bring on Messrs Molyneux and Webber, the former chips a ball into the box from the left to the latter, who 'sets up' the killer strike from the Murph!
The best trick was to erect the invisible force field around Mr. Bettenelli's goal. Only 17 shots from Bristol? Sorry Chubbymam, I was watching the same game as Revived Red and at times it was like a fairground shooting gallery for them. But, like at many fairgrounds, the gun sights were dodgy. Despite the long range barrage, I think Mr.Betenelli only had a couple of easy saves to make.
The pitch didn't help (it didn't look that bad but I think it was a bit tricky to keep your feet and/or control of the ball) and the Stanley players gave their all but none of them had a 'good' game. Mingoia did cover a lot of ground but in the first half he barely got a touch. Naismith was bottled up by their left back. Kayode was pushed and pulled as ever and was very lucky not to get another red card for throwing an elbow in frustration late on. Mr. Bowerman did a lot of running and hassling but little came of it. The back four certainly earned their corn, And Hunt and Wilson got forward a few times, with Wilson firing one dangerous low ball right across their goal in the second half. In the middle of the pitch Messrs Murphy and Joyce were simply outnumbered and swamped, and could do little about it.
But then, around 70 minutes, as the blue and white quartered onslaught reached fever pitch and the 6,000 Brizzle fans roared on their team, it all became clear that they were never going to score, that it was a cunning plan devised by JB and his team. All that was needed now was for the magician's Wand to be waved. So on came the subs and, as if to test the nerves of the Stanley Few, the final act in the greatest escape since Stalag Luft III was timed to perfection.
:)

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Some thoughts from the Bristol Rovers forum:

We dominated vast amounts of the game but credit to Accrington, as poor as they were, they really got their tactics spot on.

Lets all be honest. We have just lost to a team with probably half the resources we have if that.

Make no mistake, they were a dreadful team full of lacklustre pros, one of the worst I've ever seen at this level, we didn't force a single decent save from their keeper and they have taken 6 points off of us.

Accrington Stanley were possibly one of the worst teams I have seen.

Stanley were poor and offered nothing but what they did do was stick it in the net.

Accrington were laughable and we lost!

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I absolutely agree with their totally unbiased opinions.Correct me if I am wrong but did we not win and are we not higher in the league.who had the most shots on target?

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Plus I had a much more enjoyable journey home!

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I understand that Gloucestershire Police are offering Victim Support counselling services to any Gas fan. ;)

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Perhaps it would have been advisable for the Samaritans to be in attendance to pass their cards out as they did at Cheltenham.

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The team travelled down on the day of the game and believe me it makes it difficult,that's why I didn't fancy us.
Not knowing if the games on also has an effect,so that taken into consideration,the three points gained was a real bonus.
When you pay with two forwards and two wide men you run the risk of being dominated,but it seems to work for us,don't know why,but it does

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It seems to work fer Man City also that formation?;)

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Be nice, we won!! :D

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Reading the Bristol Forum,seems another teams fans want the Manager out,after Stanley have beaten em!!:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::

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Agree with lots of the above that we were poor last night, we didn't deserve to win but who cares, how many times did we play well at the beginning of the season and got ziltch out of the game.

I would maybe freshen the team up for Saturday mind I think there's a few players who deserve a 'rest'!! For the record IMO worst I've seen big Kay play, Bowerman non existent, Naismith put in his usual away performance, Mingoia huffed and puffed to no effect and Hunty was given the runaround.

Bring on Saturday for another undeserved/lucky 3 points haha

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Playing crap and winning is the sign of a good team :)

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Agree even Man U won a do last night.:D

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Stanley sparked the gas!!

Love it

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van Murphy eh ? sounds good to me ! :D

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They may say we are "dreadful" "awful" and "The worst team they have ever played" but maybe 'Gas' fans should look at their own team, beaten by "the worst team in the football league". I don't think so, that would be Northampton who are bottom by a margin. Just to enlighten 'Gas' Fans, when you have a team who have a shooting ratio of 1 in 9.5 shots on target compared with Stanley's 72% shots on target ratio, then you don't deserve to win, end of. Seems to me [although I wasn't there] that the defence and goalkeeper of Bristol Rovers were the busiest last night.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuwZxo_KUWc

Based on those highlights, marcus had a very quiet night. Bring on Morecambe.

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Peter Murphy a full back transformed into a striker maybe a hint of Malcolm Macdonald

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What a well worked goal,:)also well taken.;)

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This goal was scored by the worst team ever to visit Bristol,just imagine what the goals are like from the top teams!!!!!No wonder they're nicknamed the GAS!!!

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Gracious in defeat i see(!):rolleyes:

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He reminds me a bit more of Fred Pickering at t'Rovers who converted from full back and went on to play CF for Everton and England. Not as pacy as Macdonald, but deadly round the box.

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Seems like the whole of League 2 is awash with the juice from sour grapes AND the tears of disappointed and disgruntled fans from clubs who cannot quite appreciate the fighting qualities existing in our current squad !.
It also appears that there exists in RR 's part of the world that unsporting attitude which doesn't allow opposing fans to give a little credit to a team that has just taken three points off their side......a trait which is never apparent on our Forum !.
The Shrimps will be the next lot to moan , and THEY can do it !.
Looking forward in eager anticipation !....and Redraine..stay cool !...get well !.....and see you soon !.

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BRILLIANTCOVERAGE.
LAUGHED ME SOCKS OFF WHEN MURPH SMACKED IT IN THE NET!!!
HO HO HO !!!:jimbo:

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Moly > Webber > Murphy ( Moly & Webber both subs) , looks like an inspired change to me :)

Great goal.

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Would love to see those two start together on sat.

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Mole for sure..... as for Webber, my personal view he is far better coming off the bench.

We will see on Saturday I guess.

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I wouldn't put any money on that, but we'll see!