Full-time: Gillingham 4 Bristol Rovers 0

“old frank. Higgs aston runs on gas mostly his own making......”

“Tony up in Cheltenham... I'm sure Dick Puller would say your £10.83 per month pays the petrol to get Mr Higgs' Aston Martin to Lulsgate for one of his Italian trips. :)

You represent an army of Gasheads who perhaps no longer go to matches but want to do something to help the club. There are thousands of us who do go to matches and want to help the club but unfortunately the club don't want our help they just want us to shut up and keep paying.

It's a terrible feeling to know you are despised yet as a born and bred Gashead you have to go on. I stopped paying into the share scheme years ago and no one from the club even bothered to ask why. We must never lose hope but we are not being told what is truly happening at Rovers and that can only lead us to the conclusion they have something serious to hide.”

“On the doorstep is probably the only option, who wants to join 91st in the league, clunker Clarkson must be on suiside watch. Perhaps Rovers should nip over the road as I'm told HMP Horfield has a team who would love a couple of hours out on a Saturday.

Just think Tag team Rovers in the conference.....and the main criminals would be in the executive box drinking champaign.”

“It's all well and good talking about spending more on players but what's Rovers' Budget compared to say, Aldershot, Burton, The Daggers & Morecombe?

Being honest, if the Rovers were going to bid circa £200k for Constable, then they must have enough in the kitty to bring in loan players?

The first place I'd start looking is on the doorstep.

If City sign one or two defenders players like Nyatanga, Edwards, Wilson & Bryan could turn your season around.

At League Two level it's all about wheeling, dealing & cutting your cloth accordingly”

“I can't comment on the financial side but I think the board have genuinely tried to find the right manager over the last two seasons. Trouble is they ignored the maxim "don't choose someone who is patently on the way down or out in their profession which Penney and McGhee clearly were. You can smell the stench of failure on them from miles away. MM is truly hapless, hard to understand how he was ever a success in management but I guess skills decline over time. The latest "we have too many youngsters" is priceless. Fans have been telling him that before the season started, a distinct lack of leaders, experience and impact players. All his making and I have no trust in him to fix it. Rather he walked as I doubt the board will replace him quickly. As businessmen they must surely know though that you never hang on to a bad investment no matter how much you have paid for it as it will only continue to deteriorate and that is what MM will do to us. Football is a tough business, time to cut the losses on MM and ship him out before he does more damage.”

“Never have so few full stop. As fans stay away.

Hear comes the slump”

“Having read all your comments I shall resort to Churchillian language to summon up our present position...

'Never in the field of Bristol soccer has so much been expected from so few' ! (The Battle of Britain)

'Ah No ! This is not the end: this is not the beginning of the end. It is, however, the end of the beginning' (El Alamein)

.... but the beginning of what....?

Is it worth continuing to give the Supporters Club £10.83 per month to buy those shares ? I am having my doubts.....

Ancient - and now somewhat disillusioned but still hopeful - Pirate”

“It goes without saying,those blues who follow the club home and away opinion holds much more weight than my own that said here is mine.

MMc has not suddenly become a bad manager, it is the start of the season,not the middle,or nearing the end, if as some suggest you are doomed and they truly believe it, i suggest you hotfoot it to the bookies and bet on your team being relegated.

For me you are one win away from banishing the negativity ,and with it the most important element in sport as in life,will return confidence.At the start of the season i had you down for promotion, if at present you were top of tier 4 it would not guarantee that come May you would still be there, anymore than being in the bottom two at present means that is where you will finish come May.

Make no mistake if planing permission is granted for the Sainsburys at the mem, which would allow the building off the U.W.E. stadium, what a lift that will be for the supporters and the club.And when that scenario does unfold ,you blues will be on these pages singing like canaries.”

“The Dunford cartel, feel the greed...they are the 1% will we see Ocupy the Mem?”

“I saw it coming but I'm as sick as the rest of you about what is happening at Rovers.

There are many thousands of football fans in Bristol who are proud to class themselves as Rovers supporters but sadly they are being well and truly shafted by the board who do not care a jot about them. The arrogance shown by Mr Higgs in the way he treated fans who dared to protest last season and his running away to Italy with the message "I do what I want" showed then that he doesn't take the position of Chairman seriously.

Today in pubs and clubs and tomorrow in workplaces there will be many Gasheads anxiously discussing what is going on at Rovers. Everyone will have their own theory about who is to blame and what is to be done. Some will be thinking about going to Plymouth on Tuesday and others about the Fleetwood game on Saturday. There will be moans and groans but wry smiles as well because that is our culture. But the overriding feeling will be one of melancholy because we know something we care about is dying.

If we thought Mr Higgs and the board were suffering the same anguish as we do it would at least give some relief to our suffering. But the biggest scandal within this whole unhappy saga is that we know their focus is entirely on getting their money out as fast as they can and if the fans are trodden on along the way then TOO BAD.”