Bristol Post article sticking the boot into Notts County

[Joe Jones]

Today I stumbled on a Bristol Rovers fan article deep in the bowels of the Bristol Post, and my god does it put the boot into poor old Notts... just read some of it for yourself.

That poor sequence may still come back to haunt us, but at least Darrell Clarke stopped the rot, as he always seems to manage, with three comfortable wins, eight goals, and teams like Notts County suggesting there are some dire bottom feeders left to play.

Notts County could well be one of the rabble, shamelessly trading on their status as a founder member of the Football League in 1888, as if their history won't let them go down. Well, we certainly know all about that sort of attitude don't we? Excuse me if I have little sympathy for their puffed up club after the dirty battles of the late 80's / early 90's and the legendary 'ungentlemanly conduct' episode in September 2000, which although early in the season, could be seen as the stolen brace of points that eight months later saw us relegated, by a solitary point, to the Fourth Division for the first time in our history.

Karma has helped us to four wins out of five at Meadow Lane since that unsavoury episode, and last Saturday's win sounded like a pretty comfortable experience, which can hardly be said about Jamie Fullerton's managerial chair at the moment. There are times in life when unchecked 'ambition' fosters bad decision making, and given that Fullerton has had five football jobs in less than five years since joining Rovers in the summer of 2011 as Youth Team Coach (and leaving a year after), and has made some rather vocal critics in his playing and coaching career, this could well be one of those times.

Football fans apportion great credence to loyalty, and neither jumping from club to club, nor crossing the Trent from Forest to County, is much of a vote winner. Every manager in Britain knows there are certain poisonous jobs and boardroom dungeons that probably aren't worth striving for, at any salary, and the County hot seat must surely be up there alongside the rotten ducking stools at Villa Park, and that other tiding of self-important magpies in the North East.

It seems like the old superstition that a magpie is bad luck could be true, so instead of meeting a pica pica with the traditional greeting, "Good morning Mr. Magpie. How is your lady wife today?", healthier advice may be to run a country mile if 'Mike Ashley' or 'Ray Trew' ever pops up on a list of missed callers.

Bloody hell. Chip on their shoulder much?

Here's the full article (about half of it is devoted to ripping into Notts, the rest is Bristol Rovers stuff that doesn't concern us)

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-Rovers-BLOG-Good-morning-Mr-Magpie-play/story-28906058-detail/story.html

[Chris]

*Sigh

Funny Mike Ashley should be mentioned.

[Super_Danny_Allsopp]

Brizzle Rovers fans have more than a fair share of bell ends. Bad losers, and even worse winners.

Good luck to them. 

[liampie]

does he think brisol rovers are a big team?

i found it well written but a little off at times. i wonder if he supports city part time?