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Post by fatherjackhackett on Oct 5, 2023 10:09:25 GMT
If we do have to name it after anyone (and I’m not entirely convinced) my nominations would be: Denis Dunford Micky Barrett Or in memory of Eastville, the Muller Road End.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Sept 24, 2023 8:25:22 GMT
For thise long standing gasheads reminded me of the Eastville hammering of Portsmouth 4 0 back in early 1980s When was last time we scored 4 St home ? Scunthorpe United 7 0 victory It was 5-1 v Pompey. Goals scored by numbers 6,7,8,9 and 10.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Apr 15, 2023 8:14:05 GMT
We’re as good as safe after a blinding Easter.
Just going to enjoy the game, win, lose or draw.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Apr 6, 2023 13:33:05 GMT
so is that announcement saying we are building a new stadium or that we are in the running to be included as the team in a potential new stadium? Looks like we've announced we'd like someone else to build a stadium. Is Tom Gorringe supposed to be a brickie to add to your job description of a CEO as well? We had a builder as chairman not so long ago. He was worse than useless, and a total c**t to boot.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Apr 5, 2023 12:26:58 GMT
Is that Tom Gorridge? What football decisions comes under his mantle? I mean you'd think being the CEO of a football club it would be quite a few. Instead he's answering emails about toilets and picking paint swatches for bars being redecorated. So what football decisions should he be making, given his background in commercial marketing? It’ll be like asking Joey B***** to take charge of corporate box sales.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Feb 28, 2023 21:48:32 GMT
Fair points ITB. The slight problem would appear to be building a new stadium and having a realistic chance of clawing back that initial investment (let alone actually make money for BRFC, or Dwane Sports if you prefer). So I guess we then have three groups of supporters. 1. People who trust Wael to deliver a new stadium. 2. People who don't believe a word of the 'working very hard behind the scenes to deliver a new stadium'. Because they've heard that for 7 years. 3. People who turn up, drink cider, have a laugh, watch the football and couldn't give a monkeys. All valid IMHO. It could be achieved, it just needs the right site, with the right opportunity. I dont think 3 exists, we all want a new stadium. I think the 3 couldnt give a monkeys about the politics and discussion about a new stadium, they just want to turn up when it’s built. Oh 3 exists, and always have done. I’d argue that they are the majority at Rovers, and have been since Eastville.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Feb 17, 2023 9:37:13 GMT
Hands up all those who have changed their minds since the start of this thread, or indeed the start of the B***** era?
Just me and the dear departed Dr F then? Both sides are so entrenched in their positions it’s just ridiculous. One person can get rid of B*****, and as he has been transfixed by JB it ain’t going to happen any time soon. So it’s all just Willy waving really.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Feb 5, 2023 23:23:51 GMT
We can’t compete with Rotherham over the last decade let alone Sheffield Wednesday. It’s not about competing,it’s about who we are and what we can achieve with the resources we have,forget about Wednesday,Rotherham etc we’re BRFC like it or not a league one club at best but probably league two if being honest. And you are happy with that and think it’s acceptable? Because I’m ruddy well not. The stench of stagnation permeates throughout the club on a matchday right now.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jan 29, 2023 12:17:03 GMT
When baptised in Natch on natchday, it hardly matters a hoot ! Bristol Rovers should always be more than just 90mins of football. Absolutely and this is what has disheartened me, a great deal. All of our local guys sacked or moved on, we have had a virtual takeover in my eyes with Wael giving over day to day responsibilities to B***** and his group. It would be very welcome to see Wael at a game and even report any updates or just to stay in touch. I find it disconcerting tbh as we could, potentially, be in big trouble if things go tits up as we seem to have put everything into JB and not factored in what could happen, if/when he leaves. His lofty ambition is nice, in a way but unrealistic in my view. As uncle Epping says, we are always listening to him and excuses, blaming the players for his team selection and tactics is poor, even by B***** standards. I feel something has happened, maybe prior to Thomas being recalled as we just do not even resemble the team who was a high press and decent to watch team. I really do get the feeling that we have a problem/s and that the players, maybe, are not playing for the gaffer but that is supposition on my part as i cannot explain just how bad we are, now. We are in terrible form, regardless of position. Over to you Joe We we’re, to paraphrase the League of Gentlemen, a local club for local people for 133 years of our existence. It got us precisely nowhere.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jan 29, 2023 12:15:27 GMT
When baptised in Natch on natchday, it hardly matters a hoot ! Bristol Rovers should always be more than just 90mins of football. And this, more than anything, is why the club will never achieve anything in our lifetimes. To supporters of most club, it is everything, a focal point of the town and community. For our fans, it’s just an excuse to go on the sauce. We might be passionate but do any of us actually care about Rovers progression?
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jan 27, 2023 14:03:43 GMT
The obsession with Elliot is getting stupid now.
He came for six months, did bloody well, and is now back at Newcastle.
He’s too good for Rovers and ain’t never coming back. Get the hell over it and move on.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jan 27, 2023 11:07:59 GMT
Just to be clear, I deleted my posts (not retracted them) because I could see where it was going and that the individual would be identified, well you don't need to be a rocket scientist do you, to know who that is now? Who has "won" from this, I really don't know? Those who thought it a good idea to air this in public should take a long hard look at themselves. To answer the question posed above, the shares are held in trust by an individual on behalf of the Supporters Club. If I was still an active member of the Supporters Club committee I would be advising them very strongly that this situation be changed as soon as possible to prevent it sliding back from the good work that has been done by David Thomas and the two new directors. Furthermore the Supporters Club constitution needs some urgent work doing to it to ensure that the committee is not put in a difficult position and can move forward unfettered by influences from the past. I still firmly believe that the club is in the right hands (as others have said mistakes have been made) based on my experience of attending AGM's over a period of 25 years. Those who hanker after the past (and one of them spoke at the AGM), and the conspiracy theorists who think the current owner doesn't know what he is doing or the people around him, may not like it, but I don't think he is going anywhere no matter what you do to try and destabilise him. Why the hell should he have sit in the same room as someone he feels has done him down when he has sunk so much money into the club? I wouldn't stand for it from the customers who use my business, and neither would most of you, all this posturing around a person's "rights" is just another excuse to throw mud. What about the right to run your own business and not have people conspiring against you from within your own boardroom and the main support organisation, that may well be why he took the decision he did on Friday. At the time I wrote my original response to the OP I had no idea this had happened and neither I suspect did anyone else in the room as Portishead Pirate explained. Take it to court, I am pretty certain that Wael will have a common law defence that he acted in a reasonable manner given the events of the last three years. I now try to enjoy the football and try to steer clear of the politics, my time is done but I WON'T ever duck something that I feel to be wrong, that's why I engaged with this thread and took an active part in the AGM because something was niggling me. I did challenge an item on the agenda as thoroughly as I possibly could and didn't hide behind a keyboard to do it. I definitely want to see the Supporters Club revive itself and become relevant to all supporters as well, and I wish them well in trying to achieve it. Once again I'm out of here, I've said enough. Kind regards John Malyckyj Just to be clear, is the SC independent or now in-house please because, as i understand it, the SC was taken in house You mean, as opposed to the ‘independent’ SC being loyal lapdogs to both Dunford and Higgs?
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jan 23, 2023 21:26:52 GMT
Just been given chapter and verse by someone was there last night and he confirmed no one was ejected. Someone wasn’t allowed in but that’s an entirely different set of events to the one that Swiss has played out. Re-reading Swiss post it seems the bee in the bonnet is that who told this certain person not to come in, rather than the fact he was asked not to attend. If you ask me, who delivers the message is irrelevant, the gaffer asked for someone not to attend and sent a minion down to deliver the message because he can’t stand the sight of the person involved and doesn’t want a direct ruckus. What a load of bollox. This is a very sad post. It is not factually correct because the shareholder had taken his seat in the meeting room when Chris Gibson asked if he could speak to him outside. Once outside Chris told him that he would not be allowed to attend or vote at the meeting. Chris then returned to where the shareholder had been sitting, collected the shareholder's coat and papers, returned to the shareholder who was waiting outside the room, handed him his belongings and escorted him to his car. If you had read my post in a calm way you would have understood I was pointing out that Rovers had acted improperly by excluding a shareholder from the AGM and suggested the club should apologise and rectify their mistake. The Memorandum & Articles of Association clearly state that a shareholder is entitled to attend and vote at an AGM and if those rights are unfairly prejudiced the shareholder can petition the court for remedy. It doesn't matter if the majority shareholder can't stand the sight of the minority shareholder that person still has rights which the court will uphold. You have just confirmed the legitimacy of my original post but your behaviour on this thread provides an insight into the bigger picture. How many times have we read on the forums that most Gasheads believe Wael is a good man with the best of intentions for Rovers but his problem is that he continually surrounds himself with the wrong kind of people. Here is a prime example of that. “what a catalyst you turned out be, Loaded the guns and run off home for your tea”. Shouldn’t you change your user name to The Riddler, as that’s all you ever talk in?
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jan 22, 2023 20:17:45 GMT
In view of the content of some of the posts on this thread I won't be responding for the moment. Similar claims were made on Gaschat in September 2021 but I let it go because I thought the perpetrators realised they had gone too far and would desist in future. Sorry, but not good enough. You don’t get away with rumour and conjecture against the owner and the boardroom, then sharing things privately that puts a good man in a bad situation, then run away having lit the fuse. Again.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jan 22, 2023 19:54:03 GMT
Simple solution to this absolute dumpster of a thread.
Swiss - either go public with your accusations, no riddles, or shut the heck up. It’s really that simple.
As for Wael, again it’s simple. Yes there have been improvements, but as I’ve said before it’s just putting lipstick on a pig. For Wael, as with Higgs, the Dunfords, Flook and Bradshaw, going back to the end of WW2, true success will be when Rovers are in a fit for purpose stadium they can call there own. Yo-Yoing between League One and the Championship, where we were between 1950 and 2000, wouldn’t go amiss either.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jan 9, 2023 12:32:59 GMT
Gut feeling… Is no. Too many big teams with big budgets and vastly superior stadia at this level. If we did it would be Yeovil-esqe for a season or two. Also as others have said, when B***** goes the whole structure will fall like a house of cards.
I cannot emphasise enough how much we are going to suffer mid to long term without that new stadium. It worked 30-35 years ago, but football has moved on and progressed. We’re still on the face of it completely tinpot, but more professionally tinpot compared to the Higgs and Dunford days.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Dec 31, 2022 20:26:37 GMT
Come back to look. More ill informed nonsense and supposition from the usual suspects. Most of whom don’t attend matches.
Either put up, support Bristol Rovers FC or shut the feck up. It’s just beyond tedium now. There is no conspiracy.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Dec 31, 2022 20:23:28 GMT
We did it last year too with the green and yellow kit. No problems there at all. Just saying.
The main cock up was playing in black and mint against Exeter’s away kit.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Dec 19, 2022 20:50:04 GMT
Above Phillips now for me, into 2nd best keeper I’ve seen at Rovers behind the peerless Nigel Martyn. What about Mr.glum aka Brian parkin he was a bit special and doing back Bernard Hall and dick sheppard Parkin couldn’t handle the back pass rule changes and as for Bernard Hall, I’m only 55.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Dec 19, 2022 17:21:44 GMT
He’s was absolutely brilliant again on Saturday, he’s the difference between losing and winning, relegation and Promotion. That man is our magnificent goal stopper, without whom Charlton would have been out of sight by HT. Its the strikers that always get the headlines, so I thought I would give him a little mention as to how valued and important he is to us. Thank You James Belshaw UTG Above Phillips now for me, into 2nd best keeper I’ve seen at Rovers behind the peerless Nigel Martyn.
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