Good enough for others but not us.

Where's it from, KP?
You can't let it get to you mucker.
Things at BRFC disappointed us last year.
Things at BRFC are disappointing us this year.
You can bet your Polish backside,
As I will bet my duck's arse,
There'll be more to disappoint next year too.
We can only enjoy good matches, for they do happen, for Rovers back in their 'normal' third division.
I've noticed a lot of Gas Guzzlers are increasingly giving up on the business of BRFC, resigning themselves to enjoying third division professional football at the Memorial Ground for as long as it persists.
Until the next stadium idea is floated.
Good luck getting some of us to believe in it.

But it’s not those days and we live in times where information is easily found
I think it shows very poor form that the fans don’t get told anything but a group do
shoveler it was today I believe as I only just got it and from an internet search

You are correct but i only just found this part. Well, not strictly true. I was sent it

In the land of the blind and all that. Nice diversion though

We have no right to anything.

3rd division we were when I signed up.

3rd division we are now.

My entrance money and support entitles me to nothing. It doesn’t buy progress.

Otherwise, all those other clubs expect the same and we can’t have all 3rd div clubs in a 48 club championship.

We are not responsible as fans.

We just chose our colours and hope.

Ok another note, from what we have bought so far, we don’t look to be doing this season on the cheap.

I am "over" the UWE debacle and the pretend full redevelopment of the Mem.
I can see money being spent and the Club moving forward. What I don't understand is why Wael Al-Qadi seems unwilling to speak to us about the 'good things' that are happening.
If he's been hurt by criticism (which one would have to say he has largely brought upon himself) - then he needs to develop a thicker skin.
C'mon Wael - talk to us. We won't bite.
Right - back to the World Cup.
UTG. ICH.

he comes across to me as a very sad man.   My view is 'don't feed the troll'

It's a year this week since I made the "suspicious minds" post expressing my feeling that many fans were suspicious of what was going on at Rovers but didn't want to talk about it and preferred to sit back and enjoy the ride. I made the point that exactly the same thing had happened under Nick Higgs' leadership and if Rovers fans had been more militant then, and brought him to task, he may possibly have listened and changed course before we sank into non-league and the debts ran out of control.

Today I still feel uncomfortable being on the opposite side of the debate to posters like Oldie, Cheshire and Peter Parker. I understand the attraction of enjoying the ride, the pints with friends before the game and the laughs at the up's and down's we experience following Rovers. But we had all that under Nick Higgs and yet still some of us felt motivated to challenge Nick about his leadership style,lack of communication,commercial failings and apparent absence of any planning.

What has Wael done to merit the acquiescence which we did not give Nick ?

Acquiescence is giving tacit approval to something and not objecting.

If Nick Higgs had gone to a football conference in London and given a speech about why the UWE deal fell through, how Rovers handled it and what his alternative plans were, but then refused to share all this detail with fans, how would we have reacted ? Would we have remained silent and given our tacit approval ?

I think a huge majority of Rovers fans would have remained silent and given their tacit approval because, as always, they would be thinking "Nick knows best, he is a successful businessman who will not let us down and he will tell us when he is ready".

But you and I and a few others would certainly not have remained silent. We would have given Nick a hard time and tried to persuade other fans this was not a sensible approach to take and not in the best interests of the football club.  I do think Wael has shown false bravado since the day the UWE cancellation was announced as illustrated by his talk of the "dirty dozen stadium experts on our side" and then going to this conference and apparently telling the audience how he solved the problem of the UWE deal breaking down. To me this is exactly the same attitude that Nick Higgs took. He relied on the fact that the  majority thought he knew what he was doing and used endless bluster rather than taking the sensible course of confronting the truth and being straight with Rovers fans.

The other five point you make are fair to a degree but I'm still not sure whether these changes are exactly what they seem. Darrell Clarke is a realist and a good man for Rovers but I wonder if even he thinks his squad is stable. We did have a development squad in Nick Higgs' time under the management Darren Patterson and players like Ben Swallow did make the step up to the first team so how big an improvement we have now is unclear. The upgrading of the fans facilities is very good and well overdue. What is this management structure ? Judging by Monday's announcement it looks as though even Martyn Starnes is unsure of what his role is. And surely no one can be complacent about the huge mountain of debt no matter who it is owed to. Looking at what is financially visible about the AJIB and associated companies I cannot see the apparent 2 million per year  cost of owning Rovers being sustainable for the family.

So it really boils down to whether it is helpful to question and put forward constructive criticism or whether it is best to just sit back and enjoy the ride. My view is that we should treat Wael in exactly the same way as we treated Nick and for us that meant taking him to task when we saw things we felt weren't right and challenging him to do better.