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Post by Colyton Gas. on Jun 5, 2024 9:56:48 GMT
He did say on a rare interview when asked about a new stadium that he had paid for new hand driers in the toilets.I squirmed as we all thought something rather more substantial was going to be announced.
Seeing so many other clubs improve their infrastructure doesn't fill me with much hope.Best wishes MT.Our club lacks vision and leadership and rather like the current election debacle it is action not empty promises we yearn for.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jun 5, 2024 12:13:07 GMT
Not really, given whales background. He should have done his homework Wael failed at the very first hurdle in 2016 when he very obviously didn't do due diligence around UWE. Since then he's thrown some money at Rovers which has resulted in a half build Category 3 training facility which is still yet to be completed. And very, very little else. A benevolent fool. I'll never forgive him for hiring the thug, and the thugs mates. The sooner he is gone from Bristol Rovers FC the better. Absolutely. Certainly showed his true colours towards me. I’d love to have him come visit this afternoon when I am plugged up. A fool and his money are easily parted. His childish fascination with celebrities was a red flag , for me. I never thought we would end up as we are now. A fan base fragmented, few of our own players and new, majority owners who really know what’s gone on. Any fair minded and real thinker would be very concerned, me ? I seem not to care now. I am more upset at what he wrote about me. I am seriously considering going to see my solicitor. It is true defamation. Sometimes, even if unpopular, you have to do the right thing i hope this finds you and Shaun well no happy, ian |
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jun 5, 2024 12:14:09 GMT
He did say on a rare interview when asked about a new stadium that he had paid for new hand driers in the toilets.I squirmed as we all thought something rather more substantial was going to be announced. Seeing so many other clubs improve their infrastructure doesn't fill me with much hope.Best wishes MT.Our club lacks vision and leadership and rather like the current election debacle it is action not empty promises we yearn for. Well said Colyton. None of us expected glory but none of expected this, either |
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Post by bondigas on Jun 5, 2024 13:11:32 GMT
The future is a worry, you don't sell assets in a business, you go elsewhere
to source your investment to develop further. There is a stench attached to the club which needs to be disinfected otherwise we could be looking at another Bury.
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Post by eppinggas on Jun 5, 2024 15:59:21 GMT
Went with Richard Walker Sat to the Devon Cup Final on Sat.He is a major Sponsor of Beer Albion who won 3-1 at the Devon FA HQ at Newton Abbot.Crowd approx 450 but his enthusiasm at the final whistle was infectious.Of -course he played for us in finals at Wembley and the Millennium at Cardiff but the sheer joy he showed was something I have not experienced at the Gas for some time.Birmingham lad and looking forward to seeing us play Birmingham City this season. Extreme left in pic. View AttachmentNice write up here from Non-League Matters: www.nonleaguematters.co.uk/forums/threads/saturday-1st-june-2024.13442/#post-280680Top of the page. The soul of 'the football' is still out there... just further down the pyramid than it used to be... |
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Post by ltdgas on Jun 5, 2024 18:56:29 GMT
I’m missing it more than ever , I’ve just got that feeling it will be a really good season , the sooner the season starts the better
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Post by baselswh on Jun 5, 2024 21:53:22 GMT
I’m missing it more than ever , I’ve just got that feeling it will be a really good season , the sooner the season starts the better I hope you're right Ltd!👍 |
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jun 6, 2024 7:09:10 GMT
I’m missing it more than ever , I’ve just got that feeling it will be a really good season , the sooner the season starts the better I certainly hope so even if my love for the club is gone , you don’t write of 50 odd years of being a supporter. My gut says you are wrong though |
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Post by warehamgas on Jun 6, 2024 8:20:46 GMT
I’m missing it more than ever , I’ve just got that feeling it will be a really good season , the sooner the season starts the better Yes. Have to be optimistic as a gashead, it’s got to be our default position. It does depend on where you think we sit in the football firmament, in the last century we sat comfortably in the Championship/ League 1 area when even in League 1 we often put in a strong challenge at the top. This century, we have not kept our place and now are flip-flopping between the two lower leagues. But each summer optimism rules, in this household anyway, until I think more deeply about it and reality sinks in!! 🤔 As ever, UTG! |
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Post by rideintothesun on Jun 6, 2024 12:50:41 GMT
I’m missing it more than ever , I’ve just got that feeling it will be a really good season , the sooner the season starts the better I certainly hope so even if my love for the club is gone , you don’t write of 50 odd years of being a supporter. My gut says you are wrong though My head agrees with your gut, and it is saying next season has 'relegation struggle' written all over it. Chris Martin's stupidity means next season begins on a downer even before it has begun. The midfield is the only part of the team that is vaguely fit for purpose ATM, and if Evans goes then even it needs extensive work. |
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Post by alasitsgas on Jun 7, 2024 10:20:19 GMT
lost interest once this new bloke got installed.
But to increase the news flow I cut my toe nails last Tuesday and to increase tension
will weigh myself today!
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Post by swissgas on Jun 7, 2024 16:34:40 GMT
I’m hearing talk of Rovers moving to the Leckwith Stadium in Cardiff while new East and North stands are constructed at the Mem.
This has echoes of Brighton’s move to the Withdean Stadium in 1999.
If things don’t quite go to plan perhaps we’ll eventually find a John Bloom to build us a brand new twin tub stadium ?
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Post by The Concept on Jun 7, 2024 17:31:30 GMT
I’m hearing talk of Rovers moving to the Leckwith Stadium in Cardiff while new East and North stands are constructed at the Mem. This has echoes of Brighton’s move to the Withdean Stadium in 1999. If things don’t quite go to plan perhaps we’ll eventually find a John Bloom to build us a brand new twin tub stadium ? Oh wow! An athletics stadium! Wiki and their website say the capacity is just 4,953. I suppose we could put gurt big tents temporary stands on the track behind each goal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_International_Sports_Stadiumwww.welshathletics.org/en/facility/view/cardiff-international-sports-stadiumI read on the other forum that the plan was to move out for a year while the North and East Stands are built. That doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence with the quality of the build. I would have thought it would take longer than that. Perhaps we'll just get a wrap-around copy of the South Stand! It's very close to the Cardiff City Stadium. One advantage is you could use their car park. |
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Post by swissgas on Jun 7, 2024 17:43:48 GMT
I’m hearing talk of Rovers moving to the Leckwith Stadium in Cardiff while new East and North stands are constructed at the Mem. This has echoes of Brighton’s move to the Withdean Stadium in 1999. If things don’t quite go to plan perhaps we’ll eventually find a John Bloom to build us a brand new twin tub stadium ? Oh wow! An athletics stadium! Wiki and their website say the capacity is just 4,953. I suppose we could put gurt big tents temporary stands on the track behind each goal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_International_Sports_Stadiumwww.welshathletics.org/en/facility/view/cardiff-international-sports-stadiumI read on the other forum that the plan was to move out for a year while the North and East Stands are built. That doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence with the quality of the build. I would have thought it would take longer than that. Perhaps we'll just get a wrap-around copy of the South Stand! It's very close to the Cardiff City Stadium. One advantage is you could use their car park. The ground's freehold was sold by the club's board of directors, who were trying to clear the club's mounting debts in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy, although no alternative home ground had been arranged, and the fans were not consulted. The then-chairman, Bill Archer, aimed to profit from the sale of the lucrative development land on which the Goldstone stood. A proposed ground-share with Portsmouth – their nearest Football League neighbours – never materialised and the club eventually arranged a ground-share with Gillingham at their Priestfield Stadium, over 70 miles from Brighton. The Goldstone Retail Park, circa 2005, was built on the site of the former Goldstone Ground. After returning to the Brighton area in 1999 following two years in Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion played at the Withdean Stadium, an athletics stadium about two miles north of the city centre. By this stage, a site at Falmer had been identified as Brighton's preferred location for a new stadium. This was finally completed in 2011, when the American Express Stadium was opened on a site four miles north-east of the city centre. |
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Post by baselswh on Jun 7, 2024 19:17:36 GMT
I would choose Whaddon Road as a temporary home ,given a choice.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jun 7, 2024 19:32:40 GMT
I would choose Whaddon Road as a temporary home ,given a choice. Are you ready to choose your seat? |
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Post by baselswh on Jun 7, 2024 19:38:40 GMT
I would choose Whaddon Road as a temporary home ,given a choice. Are you ready to choose your seat? 🙂 Stand in the 'Paddock ' or sit in the newish stand opposite the dug outs for me BT. |
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Post by Colyton Gas. on Jun 8, 2024 14:26:41 GMT
When we were told before to choose our seats,I lived in Staffordshire so Cheltenham would have been a shorter journey.However when the Mem hadn't been demolished by July ready for the fantasy New Build,I smelt a rat.
'Players need to have somewhere to meet before games' Lennie Lawrence explained. I used to pay in to some sort of fund in those days but never really knew what I was contributing to.
Make good politicians our lot.Good at talking but not exactly doing!!!!!!!!!!! Think my new season will be mostly grass Roots in Devon.
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Post by Cheam Gas on Jun 8, 2024 17:39:05 GMT
When we were told before to choose our seats,I lived in Staffordshire so Cheltenham would have been a shorter journey.However when the Mem hadn't been demolished by July ready for the fantasy New Build,I smelt a rat. 'Players need to have somewhere to meet before games' Lennie Lawrence explained. I used to pay in to some sort of fund in those days but never really knew what I was contributing to. Make good politicians our lot.Good at talking but not exactly doing!!!!!!!!!!! Think my new season will be mostly grass Roots in Devon. I had already decided on the seat number I wanted at Cheltenham. However I did not fancy the trip from Cheam to Cheltenham so although still planning to get a season ticket I signed up for a two year contract (recession hitting here) to be a partner in our firm in India, based in Mumbai. Thought that at the end of the two years I would end up in a nice new stadium. Still had my season ticket at the Mem during that time flying back whenever I could to watch the games. At the end of the two years in Mumbai with no new stadium I transferred to Singapore for five years thinking that there must be a new stadium by then! Back in the UK since 2017 I just wish that I could get a seat in a big new East Stand (although very happy with my longterm seat) in an 18,000 all seater Mem. Think that I may die before it happens! |
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