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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 20:43:45 GMT
Better than no league just a distant memory And if we're non league for more than one season it could well be no league and just a distant memory, which is why I find it hard to believe that you honestly think they are doing a 'very good job'. In some ways I actually hope that you are fishing for a reaction and that you don't really mean it... I think the board are doing something no other BRFC have ever done - procure us a stadium which (fingers crossed) will give us a future because if we stay in the flytrap we are in we will go the way of Hereford... I have to respect them for trying to achieve a stadium in very poor economic times under a lot of pressure from the various tree huggers. I'm not saying they have run the club to my liking, but at the end of the day they hold all the cards and there is sweet FA i can due to change that So this next season i going to try and enjoy the football knowing we have a manager that on the face of it likes to play football to my liking
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dinsdale
Andy Rammell
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Post by dinsdale on Jun 17, 2014 20:52:12 GMT
Hahahahahahaha 2 relegations, £7m of debt = done very well. Brilliant, I would say you couldn't make it up but you constantly do............. I think the board have done a very good job thanks, but know doubt you would like them to stand down ?? There are plenty of out of work directors with experience at clubs like Coventry, Portsmouth, Hereford or even overseas directors with experience with Salisbury Is that what you would like instead of people with Gas blood in there veins ?? - na thought not I want the board to urgently look for new investment and new directors. I would like them to remove any directors not pulling their weight and release an action plan of improvements they intend to make. I would particularly like Watola, Bradshaw and Dunford to stand down. Dunford because he doesnt contribute, Bradshaw because i believe the commercial side of the club is woeful and Watola because he is inept. Higgs and Jelf i would keep as long as Jelf is up for more hard work. Higgs can sort the stadium and hire someone else to run the football side. Off to bed, happy to provide more detail tmw.
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Post by jozer on Jun 17, 2014 20:58:42 GMT
Dinsdale- that all sounds well and good, except that tonight has shown that Higgs is just as poisonous as GoD.
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Post by markczgas on Jun 17, 2014 21:12:37 GMT
The manager knows what he is doing, unfortunately the board don't. The board set the budget & write the cheques, DC has a massive pair of handcuffs on him at the moment, not helped by a minority of fans who neither want him here or are moaning at everything he does. Judge the manager at Xmas, by that time we would have seen if his signings have been a success and if we are in a decent position in the league table, everything between now and then should be supported. I've been one of the biggest boo boys when it comes to managers, but this one feels right and although they are only words, he's the best talker I've heard in my 20 years as a supporter. If his actions and stuff on the pitch are only half as good then i think the good times will return next season.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 21:48:22 GMT
Hahahahahahaha 2 relegations, £7m of debt = done very well. Brilliant, I would say you couldn't make it up but you constantly do............. I think the board have done a very good job thanks, but know doubt you would like them to stand down ?? There are plenty of out of work directors with experience at clubs like Coventry, Portsmouth, Hereford or even overseas directors with experience with Salisbury Is that what you would like instead of people with Gas blood in there veins ?? - na thought not I've always thought the "gas" thing a load of old cobblers, infantile, contrived and crap but in this instance I assume you mean CO the deadly gas common in car exhaust fumes. Our BoD are a joke, they're winding us up about the mythical "new stadium", the squad that got us relegated last year will be significantly weaker for the Conference and I'm not even going to comment on the credentials of our manager. I don't know if there are any rules stopping someone owning a Conference club and a FL club but if there aren't it would be a good thing if SL bought us up and sorted out the mess.
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Jun 17, 2014 22:04:11 GMT
Henbury is right the board have done a fantastic job, Bradshaw and Dunford are entirely at the club for the benefit of the club and not themselves! As for the mythical white elephant stadium it is as good as built and we are not really a non-league side.
*Some facts may have been omitted or modified
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Post by 9b1gas on Jun 17, 2014 22:05:31 GMT
And if we're non league for more than one season it could well be no league and just a distant memory, which is why I find it hard to believe that you honestly think they are doing a 'very good job'. In some ways I actually hope that you are fishing for a reaction and that you don't really mean it... I think the board are doing something no other BRFC have ever done - procure us a stadium which (fingers crossed) will give us a future because if we stay in the flytrap we are in we will go the way of Hereford... I have to respect them for trying to achieve a stadium in very poor economic times under a lot of pressure from the various tree huggers. I'm not saying they have run the club to my liking, but at the end of the day they hold all the cards and there is sweet FA i can due to change that So this next season i going to try and enjoy the football knowing we have a manager that on the face of it likes to play football to my liking We have had loads of managers and players recently but like any business that has a huge turnover of staff people need to turn their attention to the people at the top, who in our case, don't have a scooby and not only that lie to the fans. The stadium will not be built while we are in the conference and as the days go by the signs show it won't be built at all. It is UWE's land and the majority of it is UWE's money so it is more their stadium than ours anyway. There are lots of people who seem quite content with abject failure just because Higgs supports the club. More than anything though he is a business man and looks after his money first and for most.
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Lazza
Rod Hull
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Post by Lazza on Jun 17, 2014 22:36:53 GMT
I Think the board have done very well considering the circumstances they work under You are Nick Higgs and I claim my £10 prize!
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LPGas
Stuart Taylor
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Post by LPGas on Jun 17, 2014 23:08:01 GMT
I think the board have done a very good job thanks, but know doubt you would like them to stand down ?? There are plenty of out of work directors with experience at clubs like Coventry, Portsmouth, Hereford or even overseas directors with experience with Salisbury Is that what you would like instead of people with Gas blood in there veins ?? - na thought not I want the board to urgently look for new investment and new directors. I would like them to remove any directors not pulling their weight and release an action plan of improvements they intend to make. I would particularly like Watola, Bradshaw and Dunford to stand down. Dunford because he doesnt contribute, Bradshaw because i believe the commercial side of the club is woeful and Watola because he is inept. Higgs and Jelf i would keep as long as Jelf is up for more hard work. Higgs can sort the stadium and hire someone else to run the football side. Off to bed, happy to provide more detail tmw. Have you any idea what you have said, the board to remove themselves? If you want to do that then you better have the cash to buy their shares. Have you got that? Didn't think so
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Captain Jayho
Andy Tillson
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Post by Captain Jayho on Jun 18, 2014 2:39:31 GMT
I want the board to urgently look for new investment and new directors. I would like them to remove any directors not pulling their weight and release an action plan of improvements they intend to make. I would particularly like Watola, Bradshaw and Dunford to stand down. Dunford because he doesnt contribute, Bradshaw because i believe the commercial side of the club is woeful and Watola because he is inept. Higgs and Jelf i would keep as long as Jelf is up for more hard work. Higgs can sort the stadium and hire someone else to run the football side. Off to bed, happy to provide more detail tmw. Have you any idea what you have said, the board to remove themselves? If you want to do that then you better have the cash to buy their shares. Have you got that? Didn't think so The problem is that the board refuse to sell shares to supporters at face value, preferring instead to inflate the cost by a factor of five to make their position totally impenetrable. Otherwise you'd have a fair point.
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Post by phoenix1 on Jun 18, 2014 7:04:38 GMT
I firmly believe that the manager is a man with a plan and has his own ideas on how he wants to shape the squad for the new season. Whether he is the right man to lead us back into the Football league, time will tell. It is easy to be populist and say what the fans what them to hear , actually backing it up with results is quite another thing. However, he needs to receive total backing from the Board and the fans whilst he is in the post. As for the Board, I think they have some serious questions to address. I have no wish to be a board-basher; I want what all true Rovers fans want -that is a successful club on and off the pitch. However, as has been shown elsewhere on this forum, the statistics since 2001 do not lie. Apart from a short period of 18 months-2 years, the Club have been a struggling badly during that time. Like many others, I find some of the comments attributed to the Board at last night's meeting deeply disturbing. Here was an ideal platform for the Chairman and the Board to build bridges with fans but it seems they have missed a trick and not admitted errors nor come up with a clear strategy for the Club to move forward again. If 9500 fans are required to break even, what steps do the Club intend to take to woe disgruntled fans back for another season? One minute we are told there would be a top to bottom review of the Club, the next we are told that there is no intention of doing this. A case of mixed messages and an example of the poor communication coming out of the Club. I am still waiting for a reply from the Chairman to a letter that I sent to him over 6 weeks ago but I am not holding my breath. The lack of courtesy displayed by the Chairman is disappointing. What is happening to the Club's scouting system? What is being done to address the lack of reserve team fixtures? What steps are going to be taken to improve communication and the Club's marketing and profile?
Not sure what the answer is really to be honest. There are a lot of people with a lot of good ideas but do not have the financial clout to make a difference to the Club. Oh how I wish we had someone like Dave Whelan in charge.
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Post by dmacca65 on Jun 18, 2014 7:19:16 GMT
I firmly believe that the manager is a man with a plan and has his own ideas on how he wants to shape the squad for the new season. Whether he is the right man to lead us back into the Football league, time will tell. It is easy to be populist and say what the fans what them to hear , actually backing it up with results is quite another thing. However, he needs to receive total backing from the Board and the fans whilst he is in the post. As for the Board, I think they have some serious questions to address. I have no wish to be a board-basher; I want what all true Rovers fans want -that is a successful club on and off the pitch. However, as has been shown elsewhere on this forum, the statistics since 2001 do not lie. Apart from a short period of 18 months-2 years, the Club have been a struggling badly during that time. Like many others, I find some of the comments attributed to the Board at last night's meeting deeply disturbing. Here was an ideal platform for the Chairman and the Board to build bridges with fans but it seems they have missed a trick and not admitted errors nor come up with a clear strategy for the Club to move forward again. If 9500 fans are required to break even, what steps do the Club intend to take to woe disgruntled fans back for another season? One minute we are told there would be a top to bottom review of the Club, the next we are told that there is no intention of doing this. A case of mixed messages and an example of the poor communication coming out of the Club. I am still waiting for a reply from the Chairman to a letter that I sent to him over 6 weeks ago but I am not holding my breath. The lack of courtesy displayed by the Chairman is disappointing. What is happening to the Club's scouting system? What is being done to address the lack of reserve team fixtures? What steps are going to be taken to improve communication and the Club's marketing and profile? Not sure what the answer is really to be honest. There are a lot of people with a lot of good ideas but do not have the financial clout to make a difference to the Club. Oh how I wish we had someone like Dave Whelan in charge. Good post here, I constantly hear that we are all one big Gas family (although I am not a fan of that nonsense) but with that in mind and the statement that keeps getting banded around that the board are all Bristol Rovers fans, it seem strange that they seem to constantly treat the fans of this club with contempt? As one big family you would think box 1 would be extended to a 5000 capacity, we should all be popping round to Nicks for a BBQ this weekend? It seems very different though does it not, its them and us? Very unhealthy, this club needs to be reunited and quick or I fear the worse.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jun 18, 2014 7:22:47 GMT
As recently as last week Darrell Clarke said on Rovers own website, "I am confident of having a good playing budget", now this on its own is concerning, if mid June he does not know and the directors have not signed off the budget this is another example of poor directors unable to "RUN A BATH" We have signed 2 additional strikers, to play alongside Brunt, Harrold, no midfield players but who will leave?. Only idiots would have agree a relegation clause in OTooles contract so we lost out there( although I do not believe he is a team player). Where is the revised , or a Business Plan, what have the directors done to give the fans a feeling that they have some ideas, none comes to mind, the fans need to see motivation in the actions of the players, management and directors, to date there is very little evidence, it seems that the board are not displaying good decisions and we the fans are paying for their poor decisions in the past. As a fan for over 60 years and a season ticket holder of 135 mile round trip I am entitled to state the poor drcisions of directors, not 1 has left? DirectorsI all gasheads deserve more, when will you start showing us? Maybe the only way O'Toole would sign for us was with the said clause? The majority of Rovers fans who I spoke to and on the old forum wanted him to sign, with out his goals we would have been relegated weeks earlier IMO. He was a top signing on a free, so we didn't really lose out. I learned last night that JJOT had a release clause if we DIDN'T GET PROMOTION not if we were relegated. He otherwise would not have signed. We were all happy when he signed and hindsight is wonderful to decide we should have done things differently. But I don't think Darrel Clarke will be impressed by players who start dictating like they don't really want to be here before they even sign. Clarke is a young and hungry manager with bags of energy looking to climb the ladder from the bottom and he is looking for young and hungry players looking to do just the same. This is something different than the way we have done things in recent years.
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Post by dmacca65 on Jun 18, 2014 7:34:25 GMT
Maybe the only way O'Toole would sign for us was with the said clause? The majority of Rovers fans who I spoke to and on the old forum wanted him to sign, with out his goals we would have been relegated weeks earlier IMO. He was a top signing on a free, so we didn't really lose out. I learned last night that JJOT had a release clause if we DIDN'T GET PROMOTION not if we were relegated. He otherwise would not have signed. We were all happy when he signed and hindsight is wonderful to decide we should have done things differently. But I don't think Darrel Clarke will be impressed by players who start dictating like they don't really want to be here before they even sign. Clarke is a young and hungry manager with bags of energy looking to climb the ladder from the bottom and he is looking for young and hungry players looking to do just the same. This is something different than the way we have done things in recent years. Re-freshing and a thread to hold on too, I wish DC all the best and hope more than ever that it comes of for him and us.
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Lindsay Parsons
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Post by brizzle on Jun 18, 2014 14:17:52 GMT
Have you any idea what you have said, the board to remove themselves? If you want to do that then you better have the cash to buy their shares. Have you got that? Didn't think so The problem is that the board refuse to sell shares to supporters at face value, preferring instead to inflate the cost by a factor of five to make their position totally impenetrable. Exactly what the Board did when Alan Sugar came calling a few years back. Just imagine where we might have been now with Sugar as the owner, and Gerry Francis running the day-to-day business of the club. We wouldn't be in the Conference, that's for sure. Was it greed, or just being short-sighted (again)?
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