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Post by badbloodash on Feb 11, 2019 14:18:41 GMT
If I won euro millions then I’d help many other people. I wouldn’t get involved with football. I would set up trusts that will benefit those who have nothing and are starving and would find ways to help those who truly need help. Given that I only got my treatment due to the just giving page and shaming the top dogs in the NHS, ironically their acronym is N.I.C.E or national institute for clinical excellence. I would place funds that would be available to those who, like me, were refused the only drug that works. The older I get, the less I need. I’d buy myself a singer Porsche and move out of Bristol. As my dear old dad used to say, you can only wear one pair of trousers. So many of his saying just don’t translate well into the English language. I’d maybe make a decent donation to helpline and the FFSC but I’d not give one single penny to our owners. I’ve lost trust and faith in them. From what I’ve heard the new owner don’t need your winnings 😉😉
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Post by badbloodash on Jan 31, 2019 16:48:41 GMT
I can’t forgive the lack of real ambition, after the second promotion. We were in Rovers heaven for a brief period. Just reminds me of Jim Bowen and what he used to say, to losing contestants. Look at what you could’ve won It’s enough to put lots of potential supporters off of coming to games. The only way that I see us surviving is if we get new owners, someone who knows about football and running a club well. Why this lot are hanging around just drives me crazy. You would think they wouldn’t want the reputational damage that will come with the way the club is being run into the ground right now. The owners have said time and time again that their club (it hasn’t been OUR club really since at least moving to the Mem) is not for sale. Why is that so difficult for some people to process? The club might not be but the assets might well be soon
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Post by badbloodash on Jan 31, 2019 11:00:01 GMT
tis IMO a good point johnjohn what might an interested person do to discover more I wonder? It certainly would give Lansdowns comment of, in years to come no one will speak of Bristol Rovers, more reason for looking into. We know he is a spiteful man by the buying of Taylor and the welcome to Bristol nonsense. Landsdown is a very successful business man if he could corner the market by eliminating his only rival he would not hesitate sure us diehard gas would never swap sides but Bristol’s growing at an alarming rate and we would be forgotten in a generation I know of a least a couple of posters on here whose sons have gone over to the dark side one even asked his dad for a half season ticket for the piggery for Xmas I still think the knockback landsdown got from dunford hurts him he would love to finish us if he could
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Post by badbloodash on Jan 27, 2019 16:02:32 GMT
Let’s hope the covenant states that it must be a sports ground forever🙁⚽️⚽️ I don't know, but no doubt you can find out quite easily if that interested. I was told this by somebody who uses facilities in the Clubhouse, he was saying something about not being able to build on it, but these things seem to count for nothing when developers get involved. Somehow a nearby Memorial sports facility that was left 'In perpetuity' had a planning application from a supermarket chain approved that diluted it down to Memorial gates and a couple of square meters of grass, and lots of Rovers' supporters were happy to support that. So it seems that pretty much anything goes as soon as self interest is involved. For what it’s worth someone I trust texted me today after my earlier pessimistic post that things might not be quite so bad and that the gates might be making a short journey while something happens at The Mem my source has previous for being right so let’s see what pans out over the next couple of months 👏if he’s right I’ll eat all the humble pie I can and I’ll carry Wael up glos road UTG
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Post by badbloodash on Jan 27, 2019 9:32:03 GMT
Only a handful of us seem to recognize the seriousness of the situation. In the 1980's I bought shares in Rovers which had belonged to Fred Ashmead, the Chairman who sold Eastville, and were bequeathed to his secretary Miss Krosik. She had held the shares for many years and before accepting my offer insisted on meeting me and quizzing me about my loyalty to and intentions for Rovers. I passed that test but during the meeting learned a great deal about the sale and how Fred Ashmead initially regretted it and tried to cancel the deal but Con Stevens insisted that they had shaken hands and it must go through. Later on I talked to Robin Perry about what we had discussed and he was of the opinion that at the time there was no alternative and if the club had run out of cash it would have folded. After Con Stevens and Co bought Eastville they ran it as a sporting venue for nearly fifty years and the leasehold income they received was satisfactory. But as land values increased the amount they needed Rovers to pay became unsustainable for the football club and, because no alternative plans had been made by our then owners, we found ourselves homeless. The parallels with today are concerning because, like Eastville, the Mem has become of too great a value as a development site and of of too little value as a football stadium. If our owners were long standing supporters, and did not need their investment back, one could envisage a situation where they sold the land and ploughed the money back into a new stadium. Likewise, if the stadium was of a good modern standard it is possible that completely new owners would pay the value of the land to gain control of the football club knowing they had somewhere sustainable to play and could invest additional cash to achieve their football ambitions. Neither of these things are likely to happen so it seems inevitable to me that it won't be long before the football club has to be separated from The Mem and will need to find a new place to play. But, like politics and religion, it appears that Rovers future is a subject which is not discussed in polite society. If I owned Rovers I would give very serious thought to getting PP on the existing site for a 20,000 capacity stadium and PP for the training ground and just pray that someone with vision was prepared to take the thing on. We can all guess what the site may be worth for residential development, but to give an idea, the top field adjacent to the Civil Service Club, including the land with the club house and the small car park is reported to have had a deal agreed @ £25m. But apparently there's now some dispute about a covenant on the land, so there may well be an eager but frustrated developer out there looking for somewhere to buy and build in the area. Glad to have brought this news, just to brighten the day a bit Let’s hope the covenant states that it must be a sports ground forever🙁⚽️⚽️
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Post by badbloodash on Jan 26, 2019 20:52:09 GMT
Will the owners lose any money though ? I have never liked or trusted them,the badge kissing and 'I felt like I was coming home as I came up Gloucester rd' bullsh1t was all I needed to see through them (oh and 'evolution not revolution') but are they "the worst owners in Rovers history" ? Although not an "owner" the tw@t who decided to sell Eastville must be in contention for a worst ever (even if there was a financial crisis there's always an alternative to selling up),again the decision to sell Hambrook was a poor one,Higgs and his UWE idea (dream) could be in contention. I am concerned that if this mob stay for much longer that things will go very wrong but I do think that Rovers will continue in some form.
The Rovers of Bristol FC anyone ? A while ago landsdown said in a few years no one will care about rovers or words to that effect if he planted someone to buy us and then run us into the ground he wouldn’t have done a better job .how long did he own the rugby club before it came public knowledge I feel that we are gradually being ground down the only thing we have going for us is our unbreakable support because we’ve been much lower than this I often wonder how many would the s**t had in non league football as they barely got 4 thousand in the bottom tier unfortunately our fan base is dwindling as it seems we have more older fans all my kids are gas heads but none go anymore I had a season ticket for the best part of thirty years but very rarely go now because of how this mob have deceived us it was better to have no hope than false hope I always be RTID
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Post by badbloodash on Jan 25, 2019 16:56:54 GMT
Booy left the Board of Governors a year before the collapse of the deal... In all intents and purposes the deal collapsed after Sainsburys pulled out
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Post by badbloodash on Jan 7, 2019 19:38:57 GMT
This thread has made me smile. Anyone who has been involved with anything remotely 'secret' for Government, the military or other agencies is hardly likely to shout about it whether or not they are still involved. PS Can't tell you how I know that! Exactly Cheshire, no one should be declaring any current (or past) clearances that they hold/have held, as they are not the owner of them. It is the agency that issued it that always remains the owner. Loose lips sink ships! Ok reg I won’t tell anyone about the shelf battalion
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Post by badbloodash on Dec 27, 2018 20:17:15 GMT
Surfing and came across this. Last match 1982/83 season when we were home to Cardiff City. Strange, as highlight from match filmed on traditionally the opposite side. As a kid, I remember them packing out away end, some in North Enclosure too. I thought (can't remember 100%) they tried to take the Tote pre match? Anyways, my m o m Brian Williams. Enjoy a trip down amnesia lane.... Remember it very well mental before and after got to say that was when the old bill started to get on top of it all there was a black copper on a motorbike who pulled us by eastville Park after the game said we’ve got your cards marked videoing fans for the first time knew our names where we drunk etc a few years later played pool against him still rembered me and what we got up to
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Post by badbloodash on Dec 23, 2018 21:28:59 GMT
Nail on the head mate treating people with contempt if this fabled place existed something would have got out surveyors / solicitors etc would have been involved can’t keep it all quiet just smoke and mirrors to hide the fact the owners are looking to get out if not they should explain without naming the site why it failed so at least we would know if it was because of cost or logistics or just bulls*** just a vague statement as I could say I’m not buying that mansion because I didn’t win the lottery last night Hamer and the sheik Need to understand we ain’t all so stupid Having read that ''sentence'', I'm not so sure. Plus, Wael is not a sheik. Maybe not but he is a fake
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Post by badbloodash on Dec 23, 2018 19:51:07 GMT
Maybe the statement has been made now to explain why (because of the 'considerable cost' of the fabled plan) there will be no money available for new players in January ? The part that I find hardest to believe is that there is some huge piece of land in the Bristol area that no one is speculating about. The next hardest thing is believing that if this piece of land did exist,was available and could get planning for a stadium that the owners could afford to buy it,let alone afford to build a stadium. Anyway what happened to 'plan b' redeveloping the present stadium ? is that now history too? or is the 'waq shaq' the redevelopment? Nail on the head mate treating people with contempt if this fabled place existed something would have got out surveyors / solicitors etc would have been involved can’t keep it all quiet just smoke and mirrors to hide the fact the owners are looking to get out if not they should explain without naming the site why it failed so at least we would know if it was because of cost or logistics or just bulls**t just a vague statement as I could say I’m not buying that mansion because I didn’t win the lottery last night Hamer and the sheik Need to understand we ain’t all so stupid
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Post by badbloodash on Dec 18, 2018 5:54:24 GMT
Gas v Pompey 1905.Eastville. Is that your dad or brother with you bottom left corner 😀
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Post by badbloodash on Dec 11, 2018 5:43:02 GMT
I see on the other forum you accused me of not answering your question first time I’ve been back on as we ve had a family bereavement but never mind you keyboard warriors can carry on I was told by someone who does contract work for the club he told me days before this mob took over it was happening he was told this amount by a senior figure at the club can you prove it’s not correct ? Somebody told you this so that makes it hearsay but comedy of comedy people are outraged that the owners want £25m for the club even though it turns out to be second hand information which may have some semblance of truth or may be utter rubbish! But can you prove it’s not true
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Post by badbloodash on Dec 10, 2018 17:35:03 GMT
Genuine question i understand Dwayne sports want 25million plus for the club is that for all the shares or just their 92% if so that makes the supporters club shares worth 2 million plus if so say new owners want complete control the supporters club cops 2 million do all members get a dividend ( just asking for a friend who might want him and 12 kids to join )💷💷💷💷⛓ "you understand dwayne sports want £25,000,000 plus for the club". Why do you think that? Is there any factual information on this? I see on the other forum you accused me of not answering your question first time I’ve been back on as we ve had a family bereavement but never mind you keyboard warriors can carry on I was told by someone who does contract work for the club he told me days before this mob took over it was happening he was told this amount by a senior figure at the club can you prove it’s not correct ?
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Post by badbloodash on Dec 7, 2018 6:16:28 GMT
Genuine question i understand Dwayne sports want 25million plus for the club is that for all the shares or just their 92% if so that makes the supporters club shares worth 2 million plus if so say new owners want complete control the supporters club cops 2 million do all members get a dividend ( just asking for a friend who might want him and 12 kids to join )💷💷💷💷⛓ Where's this gem of info come from as it's the first I've heard of it on the forums? Was told that the owners won’t sell for less than this
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Post by badbloodash on Dec 3, 2018 21:25:19 GMT
Given the amount of abuse on the internet is it any wonder they don't want to go, especially as they don't pick the team ect. I have often thought if I was the owner and got a lot of abuse, I would just walk away, and take the money with me What money? Genuine question i understand Dwayne sports want 25million plus for the club is that for all the shares or just their 92% if so that makes the supporters club shares worth 2 million plus if so say new owners want complete control the supporters club cops 2 million do all members get a dividend ( just asking for a friend who might want him and 12 kids to join )💷💷💷💷⛓
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Post by badbloodash on Nov 25, 2018 7:13:45 GMT
The welly real ale middle class gastro pub just saying that in the old days working class tote endera frequented more less trendy places Ah I got it. Pubs that didn't exist in the 60s and 70s? Inverted snobbery methinks? I think you’ll find the welly was there long before the 60s and anyone on here who knows me on here will tell you I’m no snob however think you are a bit of knob
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Post by badbloodash on Nov 24, 2018 20:39:01 GMT
What's with all this class related comments The welly real ale middle class gastro pub just saying that in the old days working class tote endera frequented more less trendy places
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Post by badbloodash on Nov 24, 2018 19:24:24 GMT
I would be up for this if it was at the Bulldog or maybe the Sportsmans,but the Wellie ? ffs that's the sort of place where a Spelling Bee should take place....ah I think I see. You’re far too working class for this lot mate pity we can’t go back in time have a meet up in the bk club stagger around to vaults pop into Ajax’s bar end up in the millionaires and get a lift home on the back of a milk float you’re are right though the welly is a s**thole
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Post by badbloodash on Nov 22, 2018 21:59:15 GMT
Bleak is the word. I don't think he dodged the questions. There has been no progress on anything off the field and isn't likely to be for the forseeable. No energy, no oomph, no vision. Hamer sounds as despondent as the rest of us and only only made token half hearted efforts to defend it. Don't know where we go from here. One man can save us from Armageddon if Marvin Rees let’s the owners know they won’t get planning permission for housing on the mem site completely alters what they can get for the club they are trying to sell but are asking for a ridiculous amount (25 million ?) I’m still waiting to hear from Hamers legal team for calling him out about previous bulls**t hope he hurry’s up my solicitor is retiring in five years
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