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Post by fatherjackhackett on Mar 25, 2022 11:36:34 GMT
Emails flying about to Family stand ST holders asking them to move to the South West tent for the remainder of the season.
Looks like it’s getting dismantled, and the East Terrace will be whole again. Should take our capacity way above 10k for the run in too.
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Post by toteend3 on Mar 25, 2022 13:56:25 GMT
I understand the club are holding a car boot sale on Saturday and they are hoping to get a fiver for it!
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Post by GasMacc1 on Mar 25, 2022 15:36:46 GMT
Emails flying about to Family stand ST holders asking them to move to the South West tent for the remainder of the season. Looks like it’s getting dismantled, and the East Terrace will be whole again. Should take our capacity way above 10k for the run in too. In my view, the Family Stand was a good idea to maximise revenue from the available area of the north-east part of the East enclosure. It showed that someone had done the sums and worked out that, by getting people to squeeze up together a bit, they could get the same revenue from the standing crowd whilst also making an extra stream - at a slightly higher rate for the seats - in the Family Stand. That model worked whilst the terracing area was only part-filled. Now there is a chance of packing more people in for the last four (or, possibly, five) home matches, the equation for maximising gate receipts is giving a different result. Good to see Rovers taking a sensible commercial action - which is only possible because of the temporary nature of the stand!
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Post by vaughan on Mar 25, 2022 15:45:22 GMT
Fantastic news.
It was an utter embarrassment.
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Post by swissgas on Mar 25, 2022 16:13:48 GMT
Fantastic news. It was an utter embarrassment. If you see a faded sign on the Gloucester Road that says Half a mile to the, WAQ SHACK, yeah yeah The WAQ SHACK is a little old place where We can get together WAQ SHACK baby A WAQ SHACK baby
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Post by vaughan on Mar 25, 2022 16:46:45 GMT
Fantastic news. It was an utter embarrassment. If you see a faded sign on the Gloucester Road that says Half a mile to the, WAQ SHACK, yeah yeah The WAQ SHACK is a little old place where We can get together WAQ SHACK baby A WAQ SHACK baby I was apoplectic with rage when I saw that erected after the collapse of UWE. I thought it was an insult, in context of what had happened before. The truth of the matter is that Hani refused to allow any money on ground improvements, so TG had to use sponsorship money from Bristol Energy (remember them??) to pay for it. 10k a year!!! DC said to me at a reserve game that he thought it was a fing joke when he first set eyes on it. So, I for one, am delighted.
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Post by swissgas on Mar 25, 2022 16:53:40 GMT
If you see a faded sign on the Gloucester Road that says Half a mile to the, WAQ SHACK, yeah yeah The WAQ SHACK is a little old place where We can get together WAQ SHACK baby A WAQ SHACK baby I was apoplectic with rage when I saw that erected after the collapse of UWE. I thought it was an insult, in context of what had happened before. The truth of the matter is that Hani refused to allow any money on ground improvements, so TG had to use sponsorship money from Bristol Energy (remember them??) to pay for it. 10k a year!!! DC said to me at a reserve game that he thought it was a fing joke when he first set eyes on it. So, I for one, am delighted. I still chuckle at your description of it and that B52's tune is back in my head again now.
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 25, 2022 18:27:20 GMT
Emails flying about to Family stand ST holders asking them to move to the South West tent for the remainder of the season. Looks like it’s getting dismantled, and the East Terrace will be whole again. Should take our capacity way above 10k for the run in too. In my view, the Family Stand was a good idea to maximise revenue from the available area of the north-east part of the East enclosure. It showed that someone had done the sums and worked out that, by getting people to squeeze up together a bit, they could get the same revenue from the standing crowd whilst also making an extra stream - at a slightly higher rate for the seats - in the Family Stand. That model worked whilst the terracing area was only part-filled. Now there is a chance of packing more people in for the last four (or, possibly, five) home matches, the equation for maximising gate receipts is giving a different result. Good to see Rovers taking a sensible commercial action - which is only possible because of the temporary nature of the stand! As well as that, perhaps it’s a good sign that the club made the decision relatively quickly once it became clear that such a decision would be a sensible commercial one. Would have been easy to wait until the end of the season (which would have been too late of course.) Dare I say that Tom G seems to be on top of his brief as CEO? I hope the ST holders who were in that stand are happy about the disruption to their viewing. UTG!
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Post by The Concept on Mar 25, 2022 18:41:19 GMT
It was a bit sh!t.
But it's also a bit sh!t if people have to move seats, before the end of the season, especially from side of pitch to behind goal.
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Post by syg on Mar 25, 2022 19:08:26 GMT
I believe it's from next season.
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Post by Colyton Gas. on Mar 25, 2022 19:44:42 GMT
Do you think the City will buy it or maybe Totterdown Athletic?
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Post by toteend3 on Mar 26, 2022 8:33:34 GMT
Emails flying about to Family stand ST holders asking them to move to the South West tent for the remainder of the season. Looks like it’s getting dismantled, and the East Terrace will be whole again. Should take our capacity way above 10k for the run in too. Well that won’t take long but conversion back to a milk float will…..
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Post by icegas on Mar 26, 2022 11:04:00 GMT
If you see a faded sign on the Gloucester Road that says Half a mile to the, WAQ SHACK, yeah yeah The WAQ SHACK is a little old place where We can get together WAQ SHACK baby A WAQ SHACK baby I was apoplectic with rage when I saw that erected after the collapse of UWE. I thought it was an insult, in context of what had happened before. The truth of the matter is that Hani refused to allow any money on ground improvements, so TG had to use sponsorship money from Bristol Energy (remember them??) to pay for it. 10k a year!!! DC said to me at a reserve game that he thought it was a fing joke when he first set eyes on it. So, I for one, am delighted. I'm sure that thing only went up the season before last so DC would have been long gone from our club by then, unless you mean he was just watching a reserve game of ours while at Walsall or Port Vale..?
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Post by vaughan on Mar 26, 2022 11:45:23 GMT
I was apoplectic with rage when I saw that erected after the collapse of UWE. I thought it was an insult, in context of what had happened before. The truth of the matter is that Hani refused to allow any money on ground improvements, so TG had to use sponsorship money from Bristol Energy (remember them??) to pay for it. 10k a year!!! DC said to me at a reserve game that he thought it was a fing joke when he first set eyes on it. So, I for one, am delighted. I'm sure that thing only went up the season before last so DC would have been long gone from our club by then, unless you mean he was just watching a reserve game of ours while at Walsall or Port Vale..? No, it went up in the season he left. I spoke to him at Lodge Road on a warm September afternoon. He turned down Leeds because of the promise of the infrastructure revolution that culminated in the Bristol Energy Family Stand. DC used the "infrastructure" word a lot, as I recall.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Mar 26, 2022 14:26:16 GMT
Family club my ar5e
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Post by Bath Gas on Mar 27, 2022 12:31:42 GMT
To be honest, I think that, sadly, family clubs only truely exist in non-league football these days.
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Post by trunky on Mar 29, 2022 10:13:34 GMT
Dont you understand this was plan B if the UWE fell through.
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 29, 2022 11:27:43 GMT
What is a “family club?” Serious question. I still consider us to be a family club but what defines one? It seems on here it is used with rose-tinted glasses about the past when we had no money so we can categorise ourselves as a family club. People use it nowadays on here to question our current owners or when things go wrong or when change is happening. I suspect it means different things to different people.
Do you have to be relatively “poor” or at least cash-strapped to be a family club? Can you not be a family club if you’re owned by foreign owners? Can you not be a family club if you are owned by a wealthy person /family? Does becoming a more efficient organisation with increasing commercial activity stop you being a family club? Is a family club one whose individual considerations trump commercial decisions?
Bath Gas says you only find family clubs in non league nowadays. It can’t be those because go to Everton, AFCB, Brighton, Wycombe, FGR, and many others and they still consider themselves to be “family” clubs, yet they have managed to change, improve yet still keep being a family club.
Loads of other questions I could pose but I suspect they wouldn’t help and would pose even more questions. It really comes over on here that being a family club is more about stopping change that some people don’t want. I’m sure it shouldn’t be that but that is what it comes over as. Yet we all know that to progress and have even a sniff at Championship football over the next 10 years we will need to change certain things about our club. It looks like change is happening in small incremental ways but when that happens accusations about not being a family club are thrown around.
Change is often difficult and few people like change but after little change to the infrastructure this century any change our owners try to make attracts accusations about us losing the “family club” feel.
Genuinely interested in what makes a family club.
UTG!
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Post by lockleazer on Mar 29, 2022 16:15:52 GMT
Just to add to this the whole South Stand is being turned into an away supporters area with the end of the east terrace (where away fans are now) being opened to home fans. the only accessible seats for those with limited mobility will now be the West Stand, unless they allow entrance to the south west stand from the front like they used to. also means very limited seating for home fans again but will raise home capacity
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Post by Bath Gas on Mar 29, 2022 16:45:56 GMT
Just to add to this the whole South Stand is being turned into an away supporters area with the end of the east terrace (where away fans are now) being opened to home fans. the only accessible seats for those with limited mobility will now be the West Stand, unless they allow entrance to the south west stand from the front like they used to. also means very limited seating for home fans again but will raise home capacity The allocation of the South Stand and the southerly part of the East Terrace will fluctuate, according to individual matches. This means that seating will be available in the South Stand for home fans, for some matches on an individual match basis. Not having Season Ticket holders in the South Stand gives the club the ability to be more flexible on a match to match basis. There are a small number of Season Ticket holders in the South Stand, and there are sufficient seats elsewher to re-locate them according to their needs.
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