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Post by aghast on Feb 20, 2015 22:19:36 GMT
I vote Irishrover for Prime Minister following his last two posts Are you saying he's a hypocritical, power-hungry, lying weasel who wants to be adored but doesn't care who he shafts in the process?
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Post by aghast on Feb 20, 2015 14:59:45 GMT
I suspect you're posting that as a dig at some fans' resistance to change, but istm that would actually be a decent idea. 100% serious! I love the retro Rovers kits. Think Green and Buff halves could be unique up and down the football pyramid! Not sure about that - looks a bit army surplus to me, but each to their own.
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Post by aghast on Feb 19, 2015 22:23:54 GMT
Thank you Wikipedia.
Anyway, back to the point.
What?
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Post by aghast on Feb 19, 2015 22:15:00 GMT
OK, OK, I'll ask.
What?
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Post by aghast on Feb 16, 2015 22:39:08 GMT
Must get the away coaches to pull in to the nearest Sainsburys to where we are playing. Everyone gets off, picks up a basket, wanders around for 5 minutes the leaves empty handed. A bit of a national protest! As for me I haven't been in one for 2 years Not sure if I understand that one LP. We drive in, wander round a bit and drive off? How does that get them quaking in their boots?
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Post by aghast on Feb 16, 2015 22:33:26 GMT
I thought Roy Keane might make a good manager. Obnoxious, driven, intolerant but desperate for success.
He was crap.
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Post by aghast on Feb 15, 2015 0:10:16 GMT
i can only go on what an ex players now wife told me (used to work with her) at the time it was happening and the man was a Bully to the younger players and a bum kisser to the "in crowd"That player now has gone onto greater success at a much higher league It was good to watch at the time but now is the time to move on So that's why all our subsequent managers have failed so miserably........ If I ever met Mr Trollope in the street, I'd shake him by the hand for the glorious seasons we had with an FA Cup quarter final, a Wembley final, a promotion, and three seasons in League 1, and then throttle him by the neck for being the man responsible for Penney and Buckle, Ward being asked to stay on when he didn't want to, Clarke being told to take over a dying team 8 games from the end of the season, and the £1M spent on legal fees for a stadium we have been trying to build for so long that it now costs £5M more tha we planned. Bl**dy Trollope. You've ruined us. But still - good luck at Cardiff.
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Post by aghast on Feb 14, 2015 23:50:13 GMT
JJO'T would. He just kicked every Northampton fan in the b*llocks when he sent himself off today.
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Post by aghast on Feb 14, 2015 23:44:29 GMT
Can't help thinking after the judges decision & a great explanation by mjg that very early in the game it is one nil to rovers, with an own goal. It seems if Sainsburys legal team claim they need 10 months plus to get the onerous obligations together and the judge says no its 7 weeks that they couldn't be further apart in their views. Also going back to the previous Sainsburys thread I could never understand if Sainsburys had a cut & dried case to walk away, as many claimed, why they hadn't. Now I'm thinking the same again if Sainsburys are on safe legal ground why seek to delay the hearing until 2016? CGH Why do you keep persisting with this line that Sainsburys haven't walked away? THEY HAVE and so therefore we are grabbing them by the scruff of the neck and marching them to the high court. It's some sort of strange delusion that a few have. They walked away many months ago, as subsequent events have proved, not least the fact that we're suing them for walking away, but some people seem unable to accept it. I think the reassuring statements from the Board that the project is on track, and barring a few last formalities, we should be ready to start the build in a few months, might have sucked in a few. Whereas we all know now that NH was talking nonsense to the fans of the club. Presumably for legal/confidentiality issues. But it certainly sucked us all in. Or many of us, at least. Sorry to sound negative on a day when we had a great result today, and may be a giant step closer to getting back to the Football League, but these issues won't go away whether we go up or not.
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Post by aghast on Feb 13, 2015 23:11:06 GMT
Yeh but those are just local news sites. I doubt that Outraged of Surbiton reads them. We need THE DAILY MAIL! Most-read online newspaper in the world. Much as I hate 'em. Yes but that's mainly for all the celebrity sniping - but may there's an angle that involves Nick Higgs pouring his curves into an unflattering grey suit.... Phase 1 done. Now what?
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Post by aghast on Feb 13, 2015 22:32:00 GMT
Yeh but those are just local news sites. I doubt that Outraged of Surbiton reads them. We need THE DAILY MAIL! Most-read online newspaper in the world. Much as I hate 'em.
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Post by aghast on Feb 13, 2015 22:23:59 GMT
NH might not be aware of other interested parties but if he consulted fanatical he'd advise him of several. Remember your comment in June/July monster Be a devil and remind the rest of us.......
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Post by aghast on Feb 13, 2015 22:20:50 GMT
What exactly is a community space in an atrium? Sounds like a notice board in the foyer to me? The community garden I assume being the Memorial garden? Residential Home Zone with private gardens? Seriously? Building houses that they want to sell is a community benefit that helps existing residents? What's this community unit adjacent to the Memorial Square? I've followed this fairly closely and have no idea what that is or for whose use it would be intended? What do you expect? Free Thai massage for every Bishopston resident? But seeing as you have asked, and risking your further cynical scorn, I'll find out more about the community unit. My understanding is that it is a large room available to the community, just as a village hall would be. I would also emphasise that all the things I listed were changes made to the proposals following community consultan ion. Imagine a free Bishopston massage for every Thai resident. Can't see there being many takers.
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Post by aghast on Feb 13, 2015 22:10:38 GMT
It is things that Sainsbury's identified very early in the planning process that might cause them to want to pull out of the deal, if planning permission was granted but not in ways to their liking. They sign the contract two years ago (or whatever) but say there are certain "onerous conditions" that, if not met, might give them a reason to pull out. There were 3 or 4, I think, but one key one was allowing extended delivery hours. When planning was granted, Bristol City Council restricted the delivery hours. When Sainsburys decided they no longer wanted the store, they didn't bother to appeal about this onerous condition not being met until we did it ourselves, without any support from them. After which we issued a writ to recover costs for being forced to do it ourselves. The other onerous conditions were identified by Sainsburys but were set aside as not being deal-breakers. What they are, I do not know, but there is a possibility they could raise them again as further reasons not to buy the Mem.
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Post by aghast on Feb 13, 2015 19:06:15 GMT
I'm not surprised Sainsbury's tried to delay the hearing, but I am surprised they tried to take the widdle by saying they wouldn't be ready for almost a year. Perhaps if they'd gone for something more 'reasonable' - say 6 months - they might have been granted it.
What is interesting to me though is that the judge has ordered them to undertake an onerous disclosure exercise.
Many have wondered if the onerous issues they previously 'waived' were no longer valid, or merely parked until such time as they could resurrect them if required. What the judge has ordered from them would suggest he doesn't want or wouldn't tolerate any last-minute surprise onerous conditions being unveiled at the hearing.
Three cheers for the Judge.
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Post by aghast on Feb 12, 2015 22:26:37 GMT
Might be me not understanding business loans, but MSP couldn't just take the Mem if Rovers were unable to repay, could they? I mean, its worth way more than 2 million, so although they could repossess, the Mem would have to be sold and any profit after fees over the £2m returned to Rovers, wouldn't it? That's what happens with residential mortgage. Thank God someone else understands what a charge means. Have explained this a number of times but no-one wants to listen. So again MSP have a charge against the Mem. If we fail to pay interest on the loan or fail to repay the principle per the contract they would be able to force us into Administration at which point the Administrator would take control (not ownership) of all assets. As a secured creditor MSP would have to be paid out first from any income from the sale of those assets. Indeed as they have a charge over the Mem ownership of the Mem cannot change without their loan being repaid or with their agreement. To take ownership of the Mem MSP will have to submit a bid to the Administrator if we entered Administration. In practice this bid would have to be the market rate less what they are owed. Simple really but give it a day & two and some simpleton will be spouting that MSP will own the ground again Thank you CGH for explaining that to all the simpletons who use this forum. Some are a bit busy earning money for their families to be able to spend a lot of time studying financial regulations. Sometimes you have to be a bit patronising and insulting to fellow Rovers fans to knock the lesson into their stupid heads.
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Post by aghast on Feb 12, 2015 22:15:53 GMT
Don't forget with all this talk of offers from Sainbury's and whether we should accept or not, that we also have a contract with UWE. What if they said that by accepting we did not use all "reasonable endeavours" to complete that contract. And thus sued us. At the very least I imagine any settlement offer would also lead to a proportionate offer to UWE leaving even less money for Directors/MSP/ground improvements! Whatever happens now, The time will come when Sainsbury's find themselves in the press/media for all the wrong reasons. I mean they even had the support of the Prime Minister in parliament at a time when they either had or were thinking of pulling out of the deal. Surely that will only happen if the case goes against them, what if the Judge agrees they could walk away from the contract? Does anyone know if there is any right of appeal after the court makes their decision? So if Rovers win, can Sainsbury appeal and vice versa?? In English law everyone as the right to appeal, if they were so minded they could even go to the House of Lords & then the European Courts of Justice, but hopefully it won't come to that! It's not the House of Lords any more - it's now the Supreme Court. But I imagine they all drink in the same private clubs and know very little about Bristol Rovers. I can't see us being able to afford a Supreme Court appeal. Maybe one expensive court case too many. Sainsbo's of course, could just set aside one day's profit on pet food to afford it.
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Post by aghast on Feb 12, 2015 22:04:40 GMT
Let's face it - Trollope was sh*te. All he managed to achieve was one solitary promotion back to L1 and three dull years in that League without getting us into the Championship!!!!! And he then had the audacity to plummet us to a rather low position in L1. Not in a relegation position, but getting on for it.
Gawd knows where we'd be now if we hadn't sacked him.
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Post by aghast on Feb 8, 2015 22:14:36 GMT
I don't think they were generally perceived as a promotion rival. I think some just thought that because they're an ex-league club. I don't think the bookies fancied them and they haven't really launched a serious promotion bid since they were relegated from the Conference. I agree. Pre season we were looking at them in the eyes of circa 2006, with rose tinted glasses. I thought they would at least be a contender for play offs. Their away following belies their on field success, as not many will bring over 200 from such a distance in miles and status in the table. In a way, I'm sad to see their decline from a proud club and traditional city that heralded football and helped promote the likes of john ward. There again....... Very true. The fans of Lincoln City don't deserve to be be watching 4 years-worth of Conference footie. They must be gutted at how low they have fallen. The same applies to Grimsby fans. And Luton until last year. It's sh*t down here. For all the people saying (and they are - if not on here then on gaschat) - "Actually it's a good season. It's positive being at or near the top of the table for once. Our crowds have been fantastic, especially away. Fans are friendly, you can stand where you want, this is real football etc etc". All of this is true. But if we don't go up this season, and then start waiting to go up the season after, or perhaps the one after, then we we will become Lincoln City
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Post by aghast on Feb 8, 2015 14:09:39 GMT
Poor old Lincoln City. Marooned in the Conference for four years now and not much hope of getting out any time soon. A sombre reminder, if we needed one, that we must get promotion this season.
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