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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 13:47:17 GMT
If you have ever been to Stadium MK, you'll know you can practically smell the plastic before you even get in the car park, That will be Trashton Gate soon. No doubts about it. Bristol Sport LTD, Christ almighty... Indeed and the scary thing is they can't even see it. "franchise city fc" oh dear. If it gets them into the premier league playing the likes of Man U etc will they care and i'm sure if we are in the same position would we care ?
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Post by Mario Balotelli on Jan 27, 2015 13:58:16 GMT
This has to be my favourite post on their "Je Suis Ultra" thread.
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Jan 27, 2015 14:13:16 GMT
This has to be my favourite post on their "Je Suis Ultra" thread. Isn't the use of the "Je Suis ...." in this instance in pretty poor taste?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 14:36:07 GMT
This has to be my favourite post on their "Je Suis Ultra" thread. Isn't the use of the "Je Suis ...." in this instance in pretty poor taste? About as bad taste as the minge in the corner of thier shirt.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 16:13:51 GMT
Don't forget John Ward and Lenny!!!!
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Post by Peter Parker on Jan 27, 2015 17:17:05 GMT
All that was seen at Ashton Gate at the weekend was a professional marketing plan in action. Regardless of what the older fans think about free scarves, the youngsters would have loved it! They will return to fill the 27,000 seats! Just a look at Forest Green Rovers new stand & match day operation show's how far behind we are! We missed a trick when we were in the Championship years ago! That was the time to make a move - at the start of the Sky Sports revolution! We will do well to get to League One in the next 10 years, and the Premier League and Championship are a distant dream! I never understood why us, Bristol Rugby and Glos CCC couldn't put our heads together and work with each other to an extent for mutual benefit
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Post by mjhgas on Jan 27, 2015 17:19:45 GMT
All that was seen at Ashton Gate at the weekend was a professional marketing plan in action. Regardless of what the older fans think about free scarves, the youngsters would have loved it! They will return to fill the 27,000 seats! Just a look at Forest Green Rovers new stand & match day operation show's how far behind we are! We missed a trick when we were in the Championship years ago! That was the time to make a move - at the start of the Sky Sports revolution! We will do well to get to League One in the next 10 years, and the Premier League and Championship are a distant dream! I never understood why us, Bristol Rugby and Glos CCC couldn't put our heads together and work with each other to an extent for mutual benefit Gloucester Road Sports Ltd?
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jan 27, 2015 17:22:43 GMT
I said on a different thread sometime ago that this has always been the case and still is In the market for people's income it is about how you run a club - you can do this professionally whether small or large it is the ethos that needs to be correct for today's standards Guess we have all been to away clubs over say the past 10 years who although 'smaller' in terms of fan base appear to be run so differently to Rovers - the ground/ facilities / food / bars etc Whatever does or does not happen re UWE the club HAS to invest in 'rebranding' / updating the Mem significantly and the owners NEED to listen and implement supporter's suggestions or else there will be further decline As for City much as it pains me to say there are so far ahead now both on and off the field that any comparisons are worthless The infrastructure at that club was sorted by getting Adam Baker in and it is he who has worked tirelessly in the background to make sweeping and modernising change. They run a contemporary model football club whereas our bunch don't even want to interact with us plebs. It's a great shame
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 18:45:21 GMT
bristol city have been a shambles for about 4 years until coterill took over and used lansdowns endless supply of money properly so i think its a very strange thing to try to compare rovers to a club bankrolled by such a wealthy man.
there have been good signs this year that the board and manager are taking a sensible approach to recruitment and contracts etc and they can hardly be blamed for the rapid change towards small supermarkets which is making the new stadium appear unlikely.
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Post by clockendgas on Jan 27, 2015 19:15:23 GMT
One thing they have not got is their dignity in 1982 they owed a lot of people a lot of money which was never paid they even had to tear up players contracts telling them if they didn't accept a pittance they would get nothing.We will always have the moral high ground over those guttersnipes. oh my god dont mentiom 82 you will set the stalkers from bs3 off, always touches a nerve when their unpaid bills get mentioned on here, better dead than red.
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Post by irishrover on Jan 27, 2015 20:02:54 GMT
All that was seen at Ashton Gate at the weekend was a professional marketing plan in action. Regardless of what the older fans think about free scarves, the youngsters would have loved it! They will return to fill the 27,000 seats! Just a look at Forest Green Rovers new stand & match day operation show's how far behind we are! We missed a trick when we were in the Championship years ago! That was the time to make a move - at the start of the Sky Sports revolution! We will do well to get to League One in the next 10 years, and the Premier League and Championship are a distant dream! I never understood why us, Bristol Rugby and Glos CCC couldn't put our heads together and work with each other to an extent for mutual benefit I felt that seemed an obvious move for years. I even asked Geoff Dunford about it once on the official forum years ago and his reply kind of suggeted that it relied on the other 2 clubs making the first move. I was never sure why. Even if it had just been something simple like a BRFC season ticket got you 1 free ticket to the cricket and Rugby and vice versa that would have been something. I'm a fair weather Rugby fan who only really follows the internationals but if I'd gotten a free ticket to Bristol I might have gone and who knows the idea might then have lodged in my mind and I might have gone again etc etc. Maybe the argument was that we had less to gain from an arrangement like that than they did but that seems very short term thinking. It is on little things like this that I feel we've shot ourselves in the foot over the years more than anything else.
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Post by christianandersen on Jan 27, 2015 20:06:16 GMT
bristol city have been a shambles for about 4 years until coterill took over and used lansdowns endless supply of money properly so i think its a very strange thing to try to compare rovers to a club bankrolled by such a wealthy man. there have been good signs this year that the board and manager are taking a sensible approach to recruitment and contracts etc and they can hardly be blamed for the rapid change towards small supermarkets which is making the new stadium appear unlikely. I know they are b*st*rds but they had bad luck as well with dog walkers sabotaging Ashton Vale and stupid managers like Mcinnes and O'driscoll signing players who did not want to play for the shirt.
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Post by cobra1 on Jan 27, 2015 20:11:28 GMT
I could be wrong but didn't cotterell say that all the signings this year were funded by the sale of baldock so we can't even say it was all lansdowns money this year
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Post by creationblue on Jan 27, 2015 20:14:55 GMT
Anyone would thing your being forced to be a Rovers fan. It's quite simple don't bitch about it, go and support a team with a million/billionaire backer then you'll be happy.
The rest of us can get on supporting our team....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 20:18:25 GMT
The C**y. Watching the game on Sunday on TV, we are absolutely miles behind them in everything we do and have been for years. It will be a long, long time before we can ever be considered anywhere near them in infastructure or on the pitch. If ever. Sad. Well said that man. And you forgot to add the fans are a terrific, pleasant bunch of people too.
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 27, 2015 20:22:06 GMT
I could be wrong but didn't cotterell say that all the signings this year were funded by the sale of baldock so we can't even say it was all lansdowns money this year But it was Lansdown's money which bought Baldock in the first place? It seems when fans want to take the p out of the 82'ers they are only yo happy to point out the £50m he's blown on them, now he's suddenly doing a brilliant job just because they've lost an FA Cup game live on the TV.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 20:22:15 GMT
I could be wrong but didn't cotterell say that all the signings this year were funded by the sale of baldock so we can't even say it was all lansdowns money this year Thats absolutely correct. Agard was about 800k. Freeman was out of contract, Wilbrahams was free, Korey Smith, Mark Little, Ayling all out of contract. The freeing up for the highly paid Fontaine, Elliott, Pearson etc funded the wage increases and then Baldock went for the best part of 2m+ The transfer business was pretty much self funded through this summer.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2015 20:23:02 GMT
I could be wrong but didn't cotterell say that all the signings this year were funded by the sale of baldock so we can't even say it was all lansdowns money this year But it was Lansdown's money which bought Baldock in the first place? No, Baldock was part exchange in the deal that saw Maynard go to West Ham.
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Post by christianandersen on Jan 27, 2015 20:27:30 GMT
They got Lansdowns money but we got the money from MPS capital so we could afford to sign Easter
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Post by dagnogo on Jan 27, 2015 20:34:24 GMT
City's fortunes are just that - City's. I don't want us to emulate them or worry about them. I want more for our club because 6000 regulars turning up to watch us play Braintree shows that despite years of underachievement and total stagnation of various stadium projects, we are a bigger club than at least half of the lower two divisions of the Football League. Their 'back office's functions are professionally run and have been for a while. Ours, well, aren't. They behave like a business looking to expand a customer base while we are happy for things to be like it was at Twerton - well-intentioned volunteers trying their best but ultimately looking inferior. As for an on-pitch model - assuming they go up this year, we're talking 2 promotions and 1 relegation for a figure anywhere between £20 and £60 million - hardly brilliant success. Plus, for a club their size, mid table in the 2nd tier is what many would call their 'natural' level. Compare that with Rovers since 2006 - 1 promotion and 2 relegation, nowhere near Lansdown's spending but still more than pretty much all of League 2 bar Portsmouth. Both have failed, both are based on overspending and borrowing from wealthy individuals, but City started from a higher point than us. If Cotterill left tomorrow Lansdowne would have as much chance of picking another Tinnion as he would another Johnson. As for "Bristol Sport" - what a horrible idea. As much as Rovers or City, or both, should have had a partnership with Bristol 's other sport teams, Lansdown's policy of buying them up and sanitising them, removing any sense of identity, and, with rugby, financially doping to sign international players while they play in a league with part timers, is crass. I know City fans who find it cringeworthy. I was never a fan of either but the women's football team or the rugby team won't get a penny off me and I kinda think Rovers fans should unite on that. I don't see Bristol Sport as a threat to Rovers - if we get our house in order we can return to the Football League, run the club as a business, reconnect with the fan base, and build from there. If we don't Rogers will die, regardless of City. But Bristol Rugby and Bristol Academy are part of the Bristol City group, playing at Ashton Gate (in the Rugbys case all the time), playing in red, with Lansdown's logo on the shirt.
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