Bright gone.

I understand his middle name is "Not".

Well it looks as if hasn't taken Abdullatif long to recognise the club is been run like Fred Karno's circus. Gorringe can not be exempt from this, Bright surely wouldn't make any move or take decisions without Gorringe's full approval. Technically we now have two CEO'S, one under his watch has been a disaster but is a master of throwing people under a bus in a self survival exercise and the other is the new owners son. Who's standing in the departure lounge now do you think awaiting a flight to pursue new interests.

I'd say its more the ticket fiascos for the last 2 years, the sleeve sponsorship with Bristol City in it, there was an issue with an executive box over the summer caused by him and a couple of mis-truths surrounding it, away kit scraped through just in time and wasnt ready for the kit launch.

RE the stand, if he put his hand up to do it, over promised on it and messed it up, then he needs to own it.  Having said that, its a collective failure and we should have had someone who knows what they are doing on it right from the start.

Either way its a bit of a cluster isnt it.

Bristol Post:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/exclusive-bristol-rovers-set-part-8669237?fbclid=IwAR1KmRNoauAL5B4LQZg-R9dE_d7ggnvBQz5QvPX8rJaDWVLpH_qZDAdgFvI

Exclusive: Bristol Rovers set to part ways with senior club figure amid South Stand issues

Bristol Rovers are set to part ways with Head of Sales David Bright, Bristol Live understands, with staff members already told about the decision.

Bright, who had been in the role from December 2021, was heavily involved in the club's South Stand redevelopment alongside CEO Tom Gorringe, which, after hopes that it would be ready in time for the new season, has no set date for completion with planning permission yet to be obtained.

Rovers have planned to build a new structure in that area of the ground that would accommodate an extra 3,414 supporters and had dismantled the previous temporary "tents" at the end of last season. But the site remains flattened and fenced off, with the club still waiting to secure planning permission after their application was validated at the end of June.

Additionally, there have been delays in the planning process amid a backlog in the planning department at Bristol City Hall with at least a four-month wait to even be assigned a planning officer at Bristol City Council.

People living next to the stadium have also complained that Rovers have begun work before getting planning permission from Bristol City Council. The council has advised the club that no work should take place before permission is granted.

There was also a significant delay in the release of both this season's home and away kits with both made available within a week of the start of the new campaign. However, Bright played a role in the concept of the away kit and its launch around the message of inclusivity with the shirt embedded with the message: "Football brings us all together" in braille.

He was also a driver in the expansion of the club's partnership with Her Game Too with the Gas being one of the first football clubs in England to partner with the campaign back in July 2021, two months after its formation.

According to his LinkedIn profile, the role saw Bright look after sponsorship, ticketing, hospitality, retail, marketing and non-matchday. Bright had also been a prominent voice on Twitter but has recently deleted his profile.

The club were unable to comment when approached by Bristol Live.

Bright's departure follows former secretary Jack Tomlinson who left the club in March after just four months in the role for disciplinarily reasons, replacing the long-serving David Sams who had been at Rovers for 21 years.

Perhaps the questions should be aimed at irenestoyboy ?

Nobody can doubt his commitment to Rovers and it's great to hear his stories of taking his little boy to games as many of us have enjoyed doing with our own children in the past. He wants what's best for Rovers just like his Uncle Ed Ware whom I used to know quite well and with whom I spent many a happy hour discussing the Rovers "business". But why has it taken him so long to finally admit that the buck stops with the owner and that it's all been "a bit of a cluster" ?

My Rovers family pedigree is no different, stretching back to before the war, and when the chance came to try to help out the Dunfords I grabbed it with both hands. But that hasn't stopped me from having to endure dog's abuse on the forums and being accused of having all sorts of "agendas" just because I've put forward views on the way the business is run which, finally, a lot of Gasheads can now see were and are perfectly valid.

I consider David Bright, Tom Gorringe and many others who have been shown the door to be victims of unfair treatment by the club for reasons which I've explained many times in the past. It's just not right to let people loose in a business like this without them having adequate experience and especially when they are not even being supervised by anyone with such experience. The lack of any serious scrutiny by fans has led them on to believe they are invincible and so they continue making mistake after mistake which in David's case has now resulted in his demise.  

What matters now is the future so let's hope Hussain Al Saeed is willing to provide a realistic vision of that tomorrow.

    

It'll be interesting to see how long the seemingly good relationship lasts between the new owners and Wael, if the Al Saeed's are switched on businessmen.

Swiss and Bondi, is Gorringe-rhymes-with-orange Rovers toast now, or was this a typo?

Oh, that's very good...
In answer to your question - I think Tom would be lucky to make Halloween.
For the Times they are a-Changin'.

Bright's Out official

www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2023/august/Club-Statement-head-of-sales/