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Post by fatherjackhackett on Feb 7, 2016 8:51:40 GMT
I thought I went to Portsmouth in the 70s but looking through my programmes the first one is from 83. I only have a couple of memories of that day,went on a special train and David Williams (think he was injured) was giving out letters from the club telling everyone to behave ( there had been trouble at Reading ). We stood at the Milton end,it was uncovered then and at full time a line of coppers stood across the pitch in front of us,all 6 foot at least...except one and he was fat,someone started singing "one little fat one,theres only one little fat one" and it seemed like all the Rovers lot joined in..he went bright red but he did end up giving us a wave. There was fighting going back to the station and windows got smashed when the train got stoned,but it was the same every away game then....sadly I cant remember the match at all,I looked it up and Rovers lost 1-0. The 'one little fat one' was started by John Kayes, as we were kept in for about 20 minutes after the match. Enough time for Pompey to organise their bricking parties!!! As a naive 15 year old wannabe this was everything you could ask for in an away day. Apart from Alan Biley, the original 'horse's arse', scoring the goal...
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Sept 3, 2015 6:16:07 GMT
Correct me if I am wrong but the Daffy Duck final was not his last game. It wasn't. It was relegating Bobby Gould's West Brom the following season.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Aug 24, 2015 7:27:31 GMT
You'll probably get someone like Nobby, backed by the board, publicly trying to bribe you to fold fairly early on (yes, that really did happen).
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Aug 2, 2015 12:35:24 GMT
And this is exactly why the Share Scheme was such a scam, the idiots at BRSC agreeing to put £1m in to prop up a complete failure of a Board - at that Board's request - and then agreeing to dilute their shareholding. If they hadn't done that then we'd now be in a position where the supporters could hold some real influence and hold the Board at a time her the very future of the club is at stake. Absolute mugs. That is a tad harsh.
BRSC was set up to support BRFC and they have never, now or previously, had any real influence on any major decisions.
They have bailed out the club on numerous occasions and no doubt are currently being asked to stump up more money to get over the clubs current difficulties.
Should they make a stand and refuse to provide assistance?
The Share Scheme was set up by the football club and supporters club to stop any 'outside' group such as a supporters trust (a tried and trusted model across English football) gaining any sort of influence on the fan base. And after a promising early start they made a right Horlicks of it.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 26, 2015 11:50:15 GMT
Astafjevs was always a luxury player in my eyes.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 25, 2015 7:07:29 GMT
Notable that our friends from the south have a supporters trust that works closely with their supporters club and is behind this. The merits of trying to rekindle our supporters trust has been discussed plenty on this forum recently. Clubs with a trust instead or in addition to a supporters club seem good at organising and making a stand that is harder to ignore Actually it's a merger between their Supporters Club (very different to ours, was little more than a drinking club and had around 300 members at most)) and Supporters Trust. All away travel, shops etc. have always been run by the club south of the river.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 18, 2015 22:13:31 GMT
If joining the SC is the answer you are asking the wrong question.
Nothing but unstinting support for the boardroom throughout my 39 years watching the club. And that includes selling our right to play at Eastville for peanuts.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 18, 2015 16:04:40 GMT
Not without letting feelings known first, enough is enough for me, can't wait to face Higgs about this and won't be alone either given the feelings building up now, time to face the fans Higgs, really looking forward to seeing how much bluster you have for this showdown. Do you think he cares about what you think ? Just a suggestion. Instead of talking in riddles, or throwing up smoke screens around non existent Hidden Agendas, why don't you for once in your pathetic little life just try talking straight? Seriously find it easier to believe Psychic Sally than interpret one of your postings.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 18, 2015 12:41:44 GMT
If think we can safely say that there is not, and never has been, a Plan B.
Or C, D, E, F...
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 18, 2015 12:25:36 GMT
Well if: a) the BoD were committed to the Supporters Club getting a 30% blocking shareholding; and b) you were part of the group raising the money they needed to survive Then yes I would expect them to accept a clause so that the Supporters Club holding wouldn't be diluted. I suppose as they didn't (or actually probably they were never asked to) there was a clue in this actually being just a donation scheme. Sadly the supporters that signed up to the scheme believing that it would actually do what it said were badly let down by those who agreed the scheme on their behalf. You are though completely correct that I wasn't involved at all in setting up the sharescheme. and to put it crudely but corrctly - the supporters were shafted by the BOD Wrong. The SC and Share Scam committee were shafted by the BOD. Some of us saw through it and opposed it from Day 1 (I fed Radio Bristol a lot of questions to put to Steve Burns, bless him), yet were chastised and ostracised by the masses for heresy.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 15, 2015 21:18:32 GMT
Remember being at the planning meeting when Kingswood council voted against the proposals for Mangotsfield in 1990. Just one councillor voted in favour. Incidentally the NIMBY leader was a ST holder at Ashton.
5 days later the Teds burnt the main stand at Twerton.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 15, 2015 7:55:00 GMT
Higgs and co think they have a divine right to run brfc, plenty of other clubs with much smaller support bases have been taken over in the last few years. We will never get rid of this shower of s***e, too many still blindly back them, they will get the football club they deserve, although in five years i doubt there'll be one. Agree, it's amazing what's been created at Crawley for instance with crowds lesser than ours...cracking little ground that exists whilst we've been chasing an always mythical 20000 plus all seater that neither our fan base nor potential event sub lets have ever justified...fools gold. Trust me, many questions have been asked about Crawley's funding. Loads of better examples out there.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 13, 2015 19:09:03 GMT
Swansea, Chester, Newport and Wrexham were all saved by the FANS, in the form of them getting off their backsides, realising the mythical billionaire wasn't going to save them, and getting active in the setting up of Supporters Trusts. That was their final option. How can the supporters just get up of their backsides and save Rovers when the person in charge/board of directors run the club? It doesn't happen just like that does it? If all the board resigned and left the Rovers sailing in the wind then that would be a different matter altogether. All this lazy supporter, do something about it s***e pisses me off. If those in charge don't want the help you cant do bugger all about. Simple. Shout your mouths off, protest and wave your banners as much as you like but if those in charge wont listen........
Or just type the usual trite platitudes from the comfort of your own keyboard. More keep calm and keep the faith bulls**t tbh.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 13, 2015 18:28:05 GMT
When do requests for loyalty turn into demands for blind obedience? I'm not ready to form up behind the flag and march on again. We did that after relegation, when we were told to wait for the club's inquest, which emerged 6 months later as a whitewash ("we didn't score enough goals") Now I'm sure there'll be another behind-closed-doors, need-to-know inquest into why we have blundered again down a path of self-destruction. Why did the board decide to take one of the UK's largest corporations to court when they knew all along that the contract was not watertight, there WAS a quit clause that could be activated, and that our only argument was based on supoosed bad faith? I'm guessing someone convinced Higgs there would be a deal on the courtroom steps - they were wrong. Horrific blunders piled onto unforgiveable errors, that now could have destroyed our most promising season in a decade before a ball has been kicked - and now you want us to just 'man up' & move on? Of course I'll still be going to rovers (see my previous thread - I've even bought a frikkin 350 season ticket ;0), of course we'll be backing the lads. Its not clarke or the players falut, and anyway we have no choice. But alongside that - enough is enough. We must be united and vocal in our rejection of Team Higgs on the board. Supporters reps should resign and a policy of non-compliance with the board shouldbe followed until a new owner is found. What I really want is people to stop saying "that's it... this is the end of Bristol Rovers". The fans will be around long after Mr Higgs and Co have gone. It's the emotional heart-tugging and the idea, promoted by our brilliant Finance Director Toni Watola in court, that this will be the death knell of the club which sticks in my craw. Swansea, Chester, Newport, Wrexham... stories abound of clubs who have fought back when all seemed lost and the directors let them down. Perhaps that's a story for next week though. I could hardly bear to read social media today because there were too many "end of the world is nigh" posts Swansea, Chester, Newport and Wrexham were all saved by the FANS, in the form of them getting off their backsides, realising the mythical billionaire wasn't going to save them, and getting active in the setting up of Supporters Trusts.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 13, 2015 17:24:06 GMT
Exactly. Move on, let go the `dream`. Rovers still have football league grants to utilise so revamp the Mem. Its the only option now. Just need to obtain the planning permission. Again...
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 13, 2015 12:10:03 GMT
If Geoff Dunford is the answer I think that you are asking the wrong question..:
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jul 12, 2015 8:42:09 GMT
Well today at Sailsbury when asked about Monday, Mr Higgs said to the guy next to me in the bar "Cannot say but suggest you enjoy your match today" we decided that he did not sound happy so it was going to be bad news.....typical Rovers fans. UTG will NH walk if it goes badly on Monday I suspect he will if it goes badly on Monday there may well not be much of a club left to walk from.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jun 23, 2015 6:14:09 GMT
Celtic for the same reasons as Henbury Gas, couldn't bring myself to use a red Subbuteo team.
Chelsea, probably as a result of the 'Chelsea / West Ham' chants you used to get on the Tote End.
Hertha Berlin, Roma & Bohemians (Dublin) after some cracking weekenders in those places.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jun 23, 2015 5:50:03 GMT
Would that be the case if the supporters club were a supporters trust and had the backing of supporters direct? The 82ers amongst others are set up in that way and it seems an effective model. Trust, what a great idea. We could launch it was a mass balloon release, and then an almighty p1ss up, followed by some more p1ss ups. Or actually put a lot of hard work in behind the scenes coming up with a number of ideas to raise money for the football club with a number of fund raising ideas, only to be torpedoed and sunk by the Football Club and Supporters Club with the Share Scam. Then, as bridges were built with Box 1 and the SC came the boardroom split in 2006. Some of us kept trying to communicate with the club, but were told then that the only supporter vehicle recognised by the club was the SC and we could only go through Messrs. Brain & Masters. We were told by Supporters Direct that no fledgling trust in the country had to put up with as much BS as we had to.
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Jun 19, 2015 10:02:59 GMT
Old Burnden Park, Bolton was a grim place to visit, with the Normid supermarket behind us.
As others have said, Burslem is a bit of a toilet tbh, and I'm not overly impressed with West Brom, though there used to be a decent pub that did amazing curries the other side of the M5 from the Hawthorns.
Kettering in the cup was a complete dump as well.
Pride of place though has to go to the Vetch Field. The only time my group have fallen for a variation of the 'got the time, mate' ruse, and on another occasion a mate who was at the back of our group got lamped heading back to the motor. As they say in Twin Town, a pretty Sh*tty city!!
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