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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 10:07:38 GMT
We get promoted and the build work on the UWE Stadium is almost complete, will your opinion of our esteemed BoD Change from what it is now ??
I would like to think favorably on our board, but i'm not so sure because the damage has been done
Over to you my fellow Gasheads !
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Post by RG2 Gas on Jun 18, 2014 10:13:12 GMT
If so, then I would recognise that a good job had been done in season 2014-5. We are where we are and a return to L2 and a new ground on the way and almost complete would be significant progress from where we are now.
I don't 'bash the board' just to be trendy or with the 'in crowd'. I bash the board because they've overseen a steady decline over a number of years, got us relegated to non-league football and we're still waiting for the first brick to be laid at the UWE. They take the plaudits when things go well (Play-offs 2007 etc) yet reject criticism when things don't go well.
So, if they DO get us up and we're a league club this time next season again, I will acknowledge that as a decent job done from our current base.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jun 18, 2014 10:13:41 GMT
It will certainly be easier for people to get back onside and perhaps forgive and forget to a degree, but as you say a lot of damage has been done. IMHO the Board have to take steps to get the fans back now as their actions and attitude is alienating the whole fanbase, and discouraging the next generation.
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Post by dinsdale on Jun 18, 2014 10:16:43 GMT
We get promoted and the build work on the UWE Stadium is almost complete, will your opinion of our esteemed BoD Change from what it is now ?? I would like to think favorably on our board, but i'm not so sure because the damage has been done Over to you my fellow Gasheads ! :england: :england: :england: You can only base your opinion on the present situation. If we go up and have a stadium i will think they have achieved success. Will that mean we will continue to succeed i dont yet know. |
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Post by Gashead on Jun 18, 2014 10:17:24 GMT
We get promoted and the build work on the UWE Stadium is almost complete, will your opinion of our esteemed BoD Change from what it is now ?? I would like to think favorably on our board, but i'm not so sure because the damage has been done Over to you my fellow Gasheads ! :england: :england: :england: I would have the utmost admiration for DC, that's for sure. IF the stadium is delivered, attracts new investors and - as promised - the BoD step aside having set the foundations for Rovers to become a successful, modern football club both on and off the pitch, then they have my respect. However, that all seems a hell of a long way away right now  I'm more worried about potentially struggling (and I mean struggling) in the Conference with no new stadium than I am optimistic about the above scenario. |
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Post by gassedup on Jun 18, 2014 10:22:37 GMT
We get promoted and the build work on the UWE Stadium is almost complete, will your opinion of our esteemed BoD Change from what it is now ?? I would like to think favorably on our board, but i'm not so sure because the damage has been done Over to you my fellow Gasheads ! :england: :england: :england: Quite frankly if Bristol Rovers Team do well (I do not expect miracles and would be happy with League One mediocrity) I don't give a damn what state the rest of the Club is in (as long as it can keep going in the long term). All I want is a half decent football team on the field of play, to have a sensible system to buy my ticket(s) and enjoy the match day experience. The Directors can, within the law, do what they like and put in as much money as they feel like putting in. I really don't care what happens within the Club - it should not really be my problem or my issue. I am really only interested in the Team.
If they can pull off a reasonable team from the debacle which is the Club I will have no problem at all. Excellent. Well done. All praise to the Board. I might perhaps be slightly aggrieved that we could in fact be doing better but...
I am not stupid enough to think that the two are separated. They are completely interlinked. Well run Club directly equals better Team on the field of play.
I just want to think favourably of the Team.
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Post by Peter Parker on Jun 18, 2014 10:25:31 GMT
If we got promoted and the UWE work is started it will go some way to repairing the problems they have helped create.
They will get praise as and when it is due. Of course we still don’t know how UWE is going to generate all this extra income and where it will go. This will obviously be in Toni Watola’s business plan no doubt. So nothing to worry about obviously, but would be nice to get some insight
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Post by lockleazer on Jun 18, 2014 10:31:49 GMT
We get promoted and the build work on the UWE Stadium is almost complete, will your opinion of our esteemed BoD Change from what it is now ?? I would like to think favorably on our board, but i'm not so sure because the damage has been done Over to you my fellow Gasheads ! :england: :england: :england: THe Board and NH will get rightfully get plenty of plaudits IF/WHEN UWE is built but they cannot hide from the fact that they have been incharge of the worst period of time this football club has ever had.... had they faced up to it and admitted there mistakes a bit more i'd have more respect for them but nights like last night just upheld my view that they couldnt give 2 5hites about the average fan of this football club and would infact love to ban every single one of us that dares to question them about the way the club is run and their record whilst in charge! |
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Post by basel on Jun 18, 2014 10:49:19 GMT
We get promoted and the build work on the UWE Stadium is almost complete, will your opinion of our esteemed BoD Change from what it is now ?? I would like to think favorably on our board, but i'm not so sure because the damage has been done Over to you my fellow Gasheads ! :england: :england: :england: Mine will change in that they (or Nick Higgs) would of delivered the UWE. Promotion from the 5th to the 4th is an achievement,but i suspect (i don't know Henbury,difficult to say) that i'll be impressed if/when we go from 4th to 3rd. The UWE impact and how we 'play this ace' will make a few minds up i think. |
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Post by mjhgas on Jun 18, 2014 11:04:19 GMT
If we get promoted, I'll return to watch league football and we'll still be in a division lower than where I expect the football club to be. When Paul Buckle announced we should lower our expectations, he should have been sacked on the spot! The board appeared to have taken that on board......................
If the ground is built, then I'll buy a season ticket. If it isn't, sell up and switch the lights off.
Until then, Rovers will have to prove that they have players in the team that want to play for the club and have a board that isn't a PR disaster!
After 37 years of support, there are better things to do with my money on the weekends than watch non-league football. Promotion to L2 should not been seen as a celebration (and neither should an FA Trophy cup run!!!).
Still can't see how any one can accept the position we are in!
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Post by dmacca65 on Jun 18, 2014 11:05:55 GMT
It would be great news thats for sure (as long as the club own it once the build is completed)
One thing you can guarantee 95% would have forgotten the present if that scenario comes off!.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 11:11:35 GMT
Promotion out of a division infested with part time clubs is an absolute minimum requirement. Every game should be like Mike Tyson Vs Ray Charles. L2 is unacceptable based on the tools at the disposal of the clowns running the show. Should we carry Higgs shoulder high around the bounds of Horfield if he can put together a team that beats Manor Farm Under 11s Girls?
UWE, no problems here or Higgs would be telling us, so it will be built, but no cause for back slapping untill we know who owns what and how the stadium will actually benefit the club.
Jaded and cynical, you bet, and last night was a new all time low. They had an opportunity to build bridges, all they have done is make people even angrier and created an even larger void between themselves and their customers.
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Post by Westcountry Gas on Jun 18, 2014 11:23:33 GMT
Promotion will be 100% down to DC and any manager who can get promotion working under our current BoD is a top manager, and if it does happen it will certainly be a case of goodbye Darrell next summer because there will be a host of League 1 & Championship clubs after a 37 year old gaffer who has proved he can talk the talk and walk the walk. That's all 'ifs' & maybes though, in the the short term (next 6 months), it's all about starting well in League & seeing if the UWE does actually happen. If the diggers roll into UWE then i think the majority will offer sincere praise to the BoD (especially Higgs) for delivering it, but the fact still remains that the project is still very much up in the air and if it doesn't go ahead i think there will be no hiding place for them anymore.
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Post by jozer on Jun 18, 2014 11:23:56 GMT
I would have to acknowledge that my core opinion of them had been wrong.
Back in the day, I had an...ahem...exchange of views with David Brain. I said that if we were in the re-developed Mem' by the time they were saying we would be, I would happily go on the pitch at half time in the first home game and be publicly humiliated for charity in a mannner of his choosing. I challenged him to make the same committment if we weren't playing in a re-developed 18,500 seater Mem' by that point. Never heard from him again. We all remember how that one worked out, don't we.
Quite happy to say that the offer still stands re- UWE, by the way.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 11:34:48 GMT
If the diggers roll into UWE then i think the majority will offer sincere praise to the BoD (especially Higgs) for delivering it, but the fact still remains that the project is still very much up in the air and if it doesn't go ahead i think there will be no hiding place for them anymore. And how will you feel if the stadium is owned by a different company with the football team as tenants and not benefiting from any of the additional revenue that the complex should generate? I'm not saying that's the case, just asking how you would feel if that's what happened? |
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Post by philbemmygas on Jun 18, 2014 11:45:28 GMT
Most stadia are owned by holding companies as insurance against financial troubles, so even if the "Bristol Stadium Company" or some other organisation have thee deeds it isn't that big a deal.
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Post by Thatslife on Jun 18, 2014 11:53:13 GMT
We get promoted and the build work on the UWE Stadium is almost complete, will your opinion of our esteemed BoD Change from what it is now ?? I would like to think favorably on our board, but i'm not so sure because the damage has been done Over to you my fellow Gasheads ! :england: :england: :england: Its all about FAITH = Belief without proof !! A lot of people go on and on about the BOD forgetting just how much work they must have put in to get the UWE project this far, despite the vindictive attention of some minority groups. I belive the UWE will happen, no amount of negative posts will change that, because I believe the BOD know what they are doing which is more than I can say for some posters on here!! :rant: :wallbang: |
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Post by Peter Parker on Jun 18, 2014 12:07:15 GMT
Most stadia are owned by holding companies as insurance against financial troubles, so even if the "Bristol Stadium Company" or some other organisation have thee deeds it isn't that big a deal. that depends on where the money generated goes and who or what invests in anything to help us complete it |
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Post by lockleazer on Jun 18, 2014 12:11:14 GMT
We get promoted and the build work on the UWE Stadium is almost complete, will your opinion of our esteemed BoD Change from what it is now ?? I would like to think favorably on our board, but i'm not so sure because the damage has been done Over to you my fellow Gasheads ! :england: :england: :england: Its all about FAITH = Belief without proof !! A lot of people go on and on about the BOD forgetting just how much work they must have put in to get the UWE project this far, despite the vindictive attention of some minority groups. I belive the UWE will happen, no amount of negative posts will change that, because I believe the BOD know what they are doing which is more than I can say for some posters on here!! :rant: :wallbang: TH board know what they are doing?? possibly with regards UWE but last nights revelations suggest they dont on anything else... 'Relagation was not considered as we were only in the bottom 2 for 70 mins' was the jist of a quote from last night... if thats knowing what you are doing then god help us!! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 12:11:29 GMT
Most stadia are owned by holding companies as insurance against financial troubles, so even if the "Bristol Stadium Company" or some other organisation have thee deeds it isn't that big a deal. But wouldn't you want to know who owned that company and who would benefit from additional income generated by the stadium? |
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I'm more worried about potentially struggling (and I mean struggling) in the Conference with no new stadium than I am optimistic about the above scenario.
