Rugby playoffs

Bristol lead Doncaster 9-3 on the night after 36 mins

 

Bristol Rugby lost tonight but had a big enough lead from the first game to complete the journey back to the premiership, like the gas they don't believe in making it easy on the supporters

 

So thats 2 Bristol teams that won promotion this season. Both in blue too

 

Yes but they won the first leg playing in red, they lost tonight playing in blue.

 

Away kit is red. They are a blue and white team

 

Bristol Rugby are back where they belong. Stupid playoff system, where there isn't much point in finishing top of the league. Only Exeter have made a proper go of the Premiership. London Welsh were an embarrassment and didn't even play in London! Hopefully Bristol will sign enough decent players to compete well in the Premiership. And hopeful they'll have lots of decent cup runs. Just imagine what a quagmire the Ashton Gate pitch could be by January!

 

Well they've been playing there for two years without any problems not sure why the promotion would affect the pitch. Heavier/Bigger players maybe?

 

Perhaps the building work has allowed more light on the pitch and a chance for the grass to recover. Or maybe there's all sorts of clever technology that means it's no longer a problem. I really hope Bristol compete this time and bring in a few decent players. Exciting times for rugby fans.

 

Ah that's probably it, More professional club with better facilities and technology.

 

Shame about the football club though hey Bristol Sport seems to have forgotten about the football

 

How long before it's...........'Oh, Ashton Gate; that's where Bristol Rugby play,
and they share the ground with Bristol City.'

 

16,000 last night, makes Bristol Rovers the third best supported team in Bristol

Got nervy near the end though, I thought it was going to happen again, thank goodness it didn't though

 

Ok, on that basis then, we took 40k to Wembley. I guess that makes us the top supported team in Bristol as City didnt even do that.

We sold out the home end at the Mem for Dag & Red a month in advance. If we had a bigger stadium, we would have easily got more than 16k that Bristol got last night.

Nice try though Tommy

As for the game itself last night, I thought Bristol was going to throw it away at the end

 

Not against Grimsby you didn't, Grimsby had 10,000 and it was 47,000, so you could only have taken 37,000

 

Didnt say Grimsby did I? Try the game what happened 9 years ago today

 

So what you are saying is you've lost thousands of fans in 9 years

 

No. 8 years. Do your sums again

As y0u know, relegation unfortunately means a loss of fanbase. Promotion gives you more fanbase. If we were going to Wembley now, we would get more than what we got last year