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Post by badbloodash on Jun 2, 2019 19:46:03 GMT
The carcass has almost been picked dry the likes of hamer Staines Cunnah etc have all topped up their pension pots although I’ve changed my mind about Wael I had him down as a carpetbagger but looking how he’s been played I think there’s a village in Jordan missing an idiot luckily for him his other family members are much sharper they’ve let him have his plaything for the last few years let him think he is the big I am but soon they’ll pull it and for their troubles make a few million where as we will be be left with the bare bones to try to survive even in the worst eastville and twerton days I always thought I had my club but now I’m not so sure UTG Look forward to your report on here when you've told Wael to his face you think he's a village idiot. I’d take a selfie but I’m not a genie or some other minor celeb but are you insinuating I’d be scared to do it 🙁🙁
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Post by badbloodash on Jun 2, 2019 9:43:19 GMT
It's the lack of any coherent, believable strategy from Dwane Sports that gets me. Eppinggas,I will ask this astute and erudite point by putting it in the Suggestion Box which along with a 'Supporter's Survey' replaces any concept of a believable or coherent communication strategy.'Why do you travel all that way to that dreadful ground,when you could follow Stoke ,Wolves or Vale ?',I 'm often asked up here.' Well I have done for 60 years' I reply but even away to Alfreton,Nuneaton and Braintree ,I have to admit I have never been less enthusiastic about the future of the club I love. You are far from alone in your thinking. When chatting the others, at home games, there is a sense of gloom in the support. The atmosphere has been really poor also. This is the perfect time for the club to make a statement and a true leader/owner would do just that. It really doesn’t help when all we get is silence. The carcass has almost been picked dry the likes of hamer Staines Cunnah etc have all topped up their pension pots although I’ve changed my mind about Wael I had him down as a carpetbagger but looking how he’s been played I think there’s a village in Jordan missing an idiot luckily for him his other family members are much sharper they’ve let him have his plaything for the last few years let him think he is the big I am but soon they’ll pull it and for their troubles make a few million where as we will be be left with the bare bones to try to survive even in the worst eastville and twerton days I always thought I had my club but now I’m not so sure UTG
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Post by badbloodash on May 31, 2019 19:42:24 GMT
Dwane Sports are charging BRFC £454k interest? So does this correspond to around 4% on £11.1mil? I'll get me coat. I will refrain from posting til swissgas can take it all apart and tell us what we actually need and/or would like to know. Apologies for ramblings. Would be interesting for someone with a tax background to comment the debt is piling up on a British based company ( BRFC) but the interest is being paid to a jersey based company ?..is that correct
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Post by badbloodash on May 4, 2019 7:18:35 GMT
I don't go because although the name would suggest that it is a night for Tote End old boys in fact anyone can go,so why not call it 'Rovers fans end of season pi$$ up' ? Some of the pictures get put on FB and the other year I recognised Harold Jarman and Keysie ! There will be a Tote Enders reunion this weekend, there is one every season,in a pub before or after a match,funny thing is that I recognise everyone at those and they aren't the same people as at the Kingswood one. Spot on although I haven’t heard where the drinks will be as I’ve not been out and about much There’s one in Majorca in a couple of weeks
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Post by badbloodash on May 2, 2019 18:09:15 GMT
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 29, 2019 9:44:12 GMT
Hi jools as you know I’m one of the most pessimistic on here but am reliably told good news coming our week early may possibly after last game unfortunately I will be off sunning myself so won’t be there but good source so maybe have a few sangrias to celebrate chin up mate maybe times are a changing UTG Have a good holiday mate,lets hope for better times for the Rovers. Cheers mate I intend to few days abroad with the missus then home for a week and back off again on dale Dempseys sixtieth bash fo 5 days in Majorca with all the tote end veterans hope your well mate must catch up next season cheers 🍺🍺🍺
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 29, 2019 9:40:11 GMT
Equally, hope you have a spoon at hand, badblood. Course I have the amount of s**t stirring I do I use a shovel 🤣🤣
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 29, 2019 9:39:07 GMT
These owners don't do leaks.....hold on I seem to remember old Hamer doing a midnight interview after the UWE isn't happening leak ! Exactly, after the story boke, the leak didn't come from the owners. Hence the contradictory rubbish that Crazy Steve and Wael were talking in the immediate aftermath. Anyway, pop the kettle on and get comfy, Badbloodash says that I'm wrong and that's good enough for me, he's about to tell us who the next owners are. He's not going to wait until after the event and then pretend that he knew all along, he would just look daft doing that. I'm quite excited. Listen mate I was replying to kingswood polak post I’ve known him 40 years and he’s had a bad time over a long period health wise so I was trying to cheer him up I’m not going to divulge who told me or what they said but two different sources both well connected with previous for good info and this has not come from present owners but an external source I’m quite happy to wait without saying anything I’ve been waiting 50 years for some good news so a few more weeks won’t kill me anyway UTG
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 28, 2019 17:12:10 GMT
Hi jools as you know I’m one of the most pessimistic on here but am reliably told good news coming our week early may possibly after last game unfortunately I will be off sunning myself so won’t be there but good source so maybe have a few sangrias to celebrate chin up mate maybe times are a changing UTG If there's a rumour then it's made up, and the source is probably the same person who feeds Knowall. These owners don't do leaks. Anybody who has been paying any attention at all for the last 3 years should have worked that out by now. Hope you own a big spoon lots of humble pie to eat soon mucker
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 28, 2019 16:05:25 GMT
We went be as we increased our budget. Plus pay more staff on top and pay to look into other projects etc, for the long term. Personally I will believe it when I see it. We have already had enough of smoke & mirrors plus lots of other things that just do not add up. It’s all well & good talking of sustainability but we had several of these experts come and go and Cunnah left as he knew he would not be able to work to his remit. Can we be sustainable with ever increasing losses then ? i know you mean well but I just don’t buy it. Any faith I may have had, has been eroded and I am totally disabused the our current owners will bring us anything but struggle and, like DC said, be a yo-yo club between L1 and 2, as we currently are. My hope is that we do get bought out or that major investment is coming. After all, the family are investment bankers, so why not allow others to invest ? I know what I think is true & have major reservations about but we shall see. I obviously would love to be proved wrong as I am a supporter and want the club to thrive and not just become static. Hi jools as you know I’m one of the most pessimistic on here but am reliably told good news coming our week early may possibly after last game unfortunately I will be off sunning myself so won’t be there but good source so maybe have a few sangrias to celebrate chin up mate maybe times are a changing UTG
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 21, 2019 11:03:09 GMT
Wring side of the river though. Really don’t like that idea plus it’s a really congested area at busy times. Not ideal IMO I don't know anything about this rumour; is the talk about St. Phillips Marsh / The Fruit Market? This was one of the many sites plans were mooted for, back before we moved to The Mem. It would actually be on the right (north) side of the river - St. Phillips Marsh being an island, with the River Avon to the south and the Feeder Canal to the north. Not ideal for driving to, but 5 minutes walk from Temple Meads. And you could put a halt right outside any planned stadium, as a line passes from Avonmeads and then on over the River Avon and under the Bath Road. You could also have create a lovely riverside setting, with landscaping to rival Bath Rugby's plans for The Rec.
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 21, 2019 7:44:07 GMT
Anyone else heard the name Chivers with regards to a takeover supposedly happening within a few months? Who is or what are Chivers? I suppose there's always the chance any prospective new owner wants to know for certain which division we'll be playing in next season? Think it’s more to do with what Marvin will let be built there ,time will tell that’s what I heard through the grapevine😉😉
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 20, 2019 18:16:52 GMT
Anyone else heard the name Chivers with regards to a takeover supposedly happening within a few months? Anything to do with the fruit market . Perhaps some news to break after the seasons over
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Post by badbloodash on Apr 13, 2019 18:59:57 GMT
Tommy Smith of 1970s Liverpool also gone today. Another one who was reluctant to shirk a tackle I remember him playing for Swansea against Rovers at an FA cup night game at the Vetch,he kicked the young Rovers players when he could but Rovers won the game. Swansea were on the way to the top then under Toshack and it was a great atmosphere,probably one of my favourite Rovers games.
Remember it well a young martin Thomas man of the match a bit like the Alamo on and off the pitch remember on the way down talk of staying the night after the game couldn’t wait to get out the place one thing for sure tommy wouldn’t have played now he’d be permanently suspended but in his time he was outstanding sure they based some characters from boys from the black stuff on him ( one for the old gits on here )
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Post by badbloodash on Mar 11, 2019 14:40:14 GMT
How does a girl roll around? One of the things about the Women's game is that you don't get that pathetic pretending to be hurt. There's a solution of course. Referees should exercise their duty of care, when a player looks seriously hurt, which a grown Man would need to be to roll around or go down clutching his head, for his own protection, don't allow him to continue.
Yes, that might be a way to go. If it is a genuine injury or the player is genuinely hurt then that is what happens (usually a substitution). Were the refs to do that for players who deliberately act as if they are nearly dead and keep them off the pitch for a period of time it might stop players over reacting. But I guess in those circumstances the argument would be that the perpetrator’s side gets the man advantage for a period of time and the “injured” man’s side get a disadvantage for that time. The number of people getting into the pitch or its surrounds.over the past week has to be dealt with. Football is lucky that no one has sustained a bad injury from them. The current situation with stabbings, which are not football-related, has led to pundits and journalists putting the two together and wondering what might happen if one of the people did have a knife. Two things that football could do to make it better: 1. Players, managers to take responsibility for their actions. Managers should deal with it and give strong directions about what is not acceptable. They won’t do that. What Grealish did when he scored just made the matter worse. Did he get booked for it because I thought refs had been instructed to book players who act in a way that will incite fans? I understand why he did it and know that were a Rovers player to score what was going to be a winner at Ashton Gate they would do similar. All players in derbies would do that. Players and fans in one-Town-2-club matches do want to rub it in, incite, wind up the opposition. But if you seriously want to avoid situations like that then the players and managers need to take the heat out of the situations. It won’t happen and I doubt if many on here would agree with me but if you do what you’ve always done you get what you’ve always got. Unfortunately. 2. What were the stewards doing letting a fan get on the pitch. I go to enough matches to see that there are perimeter stewards who are continually watching the crowd and anyone getting near to climbing over or stepping over the fence should be seen before they get over. But I also know that stewards like talking and standing still, rarely have do I see stewards acting to stop the situation arising. I see lots of action from them when it kicks off it not much to avoid the situation escalating or happening. Here, I can only say what I’ve seen at recent matches. At Pompey it appeared well organised and the fans were segregated and we had stewards looking in our direction for most of the match, can’t say what was happening in the other parts of the ground. But I was also at Plymouth 3 years ago when a steward deliberately incited the fans and at Port Vale where the seating arrangements and stewards actions created the problems. Better stewarding could have avoided all these invasions recently. I know little about Scotland but the problems there appear to be religious and sectarian and might be different to what we have in England. I’m sure someone will put me right. UTG! ps. I’m sorry this post is a bit long but it is a serious issue which requires some thought not just a twitter length soundbite!😉 The problems in Scotland are exactly the same as in England wannabe hero’s high on coke and booze who can’t handle them giving it the bigun for the cameras society rather than footballs problem the only difference in Scotland is you can assault Neil Lennon in front of 1/2 million tv viewers and still get found not guilty 😎☺️
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Post by badbloodash on Feb 17, 2019 13:12:07 GMT
Thanks for that is the “we” Bristol rovers can’t see 9 million appearing from no where or is this more bulls*** from Hamer. how Can he get away saying things like this with no one questioning it The quote is from Ken Masters and yes he is clearly trying to imply that the "we" is Bristol Rovers. They get away with it because we allow them to. The entire interview was what my Mum used to call "flannel" which means (I looked it up) "to talk nonsense in a soothing plausible manner". If there is 9 million available for community trust who’s deciding where it’s spent and surely if ken masters company’s involved there would be a conflict of interest also why aren’t the club shouting about this from the roof tops after all the negative vibes about the club anybod6 got a link to ken masters email I’d like to ask him a couple of questions
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Post by badbloodash on Feb 16, 2019 20:04:20 GMT
Where are you hearing about community department in lockleaze if you don’t mind me asking just I heard something about this from elsewhere supposed to be all hush hush gas-cast.co.uk/blog/2019/02/06/tom-metcalfe-chats-to-steve-hamer-and-ken-masters/Listen at about 31 minutes in. “we have got this development at Lockleaze, there is a community sports facility that is being regenerated and rebuilt, we are looking to relocate Bristol Rovers Community Trust into that, it is a £9 million build, we are very close to raising the whole of money to build that, and that will be a Bristol Rovers Community Trust facility which will be second to none in the EFL." Thanks for that is the “we” Bristol rovers can’t see 9 million appearing from no where or is this more bulls**t from Hamer. how Can he get away saying things like this with no one questioning it
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Post by badbloodash on Feb 16, 2019 19:00:31 GMT
That was fairly typical behaviour for Ken. I struggle to work out what he's talking about most of the time, but if you try to press him on any points he unravels very quickly, to the point of shouting, waving his arms around and getting quite angry. As for the rest of it. Tommy did a good job of presenting the questions and allowed them to give their replies. The SC route was pretty obvious though. Tommy needs to be careful here, if he gets involved the SC will have him organising the entire thing if they can get away with it. No idea what happens next, there won't be any great appetite to go out of the way to attend a meeting to receive non-answers. Less so if Ken is there performing like that. Ref the bigger picture. I have no idea where we are going, but wouldn't be surprised to see new owners unveiled at literally any moment. If they can't find a buyer then we could be in serious trouble. I guess every club has fans like Ken but if they are in a position of influence (I hesitate to say power) it is another sign the club is going nowhere. After listening to the broadcast there will be some Gasheads who genuinely believe Rovers have raised £9 million to build a headquarters at Lockleaze for our community department. The majority are lost in the fog of deception and only a few of us are shaking our heads in disbelief that they keep getting away with it. Tom M represents the younger generation of Gasheads and it is important these fans don't get bogged down by the antics of Ken, Steve Hamer and others who are living in the past and clinging to something which doesn't exist any more. We can respect them for their old stories and eccentric analogies but if Rovers are to compete in the future with ambitious clubs like Salford City, Fylde and Solihull Moors we need the new generation of supporters to demand better leadership. Where are you hearing about community department in lockleaze if you don’t mind me asking just I heard something about this from elsewhere supposed to be all hush hush
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Post by badbloodash on Feb 12, 2019 5:53:23 GMT
You need to argue this with Policy Exchange, they seem pretty certain that there's a nett cost to the exchequer, even after adjustments for reduced life expectancy. Of course, if there was another couple of billion quid there would be plenty of competition for the money, so the NHS probably wouldn't get the £. Moats and duck houses have been under-funded for many years now.... Most estimates I’ve read put the cost of smoking 5-6 BN and the tax charge £10bn Ignoring the real cost millions of lives cut short by smoking and the impact this has had lost both my parents by the time I was 24 to smoking related illness changing my life forever
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Post by badbloodash on Feb 11, 2019 19:14:45 GMT
From what I’ve heard the new owner don’t need your winnings 😉😉 Is this the Winsor based man? Duke of Edinburgh. Im calling it Maybe you’ve heard the same as me time will tell prettygood info from two different sources perhaps Hani is just waiting for the right time to tell his sibling to find a new hobby 😊
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