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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 12:22:45 GMT
No point really going back over past history, we made our fair share of errors in managers and players in the last few years. It's been pretty dire watching us go down and then seeing us at the foot of this awful division but we're turning it around again. And to be honest, it hasn't really cost anything this time. The Baldock sale funded the purchases through the summer for the most part and the wages structure offered to the new players was enabled by the release of high earning players off the books.
So the 55m is a bit of a nonsense now. The club needs to start funding itself and with the creation of the Bristol Sport banner where the expenses can be taken off the books and put elsewhere allowing more room for wages of players and signings etc, it works quite well.
There's a lot following us now yes but I thought the attendances still were ok away last season when we were atrocious.
It does look like we're getting our acts together and will potentially get out of this poxy division at just the 2nd attempt. Here's hoping anyway, remember it is good for the whole city of Bristol to have a club in the top 2 divisions of the country.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 12:25:38 GMT
I seriously cannot wait for Ashton to be renamed the Bristol Sport Stadium with City rebranding to Bristol City Sport.
It's all moving that way, then it always does with an egomaniac tax dodger owning you.
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Post by Curly Wurly on Oct 16, 2014 12:32:05 GMT
Here's hoping anyway, remember it is good for the whole city of Bristol to have a club in the top 2 divisions of the country.No it isn't...It just makes half of us depressed!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 12:32:29 GMT
He's probably as far from an egomaniac as you can get.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 16, 2014 12:43:59 GMT
No point really going back over past history, we made our fair share of errors in managers and players in the last few years. It's been pretty dire watching us go down and then seeing us at the foot of this awful division but we're turning it around again. And to be honest, it hasn't really cost anything this time. The Baldock sale funded the purchases through the summer for the most part and the wages structure offered to the new players was enabled by the release of high earning players off the books. So the 55m is a bit of a nonsense now. The club needs to start funding itself and with the creation of the Bristol Sport banner where the expenses can be taken off the books and put elsewhere allowing more room for wages of players and signings etc, it works quite well. There's a lot following us now yes but I thought the attendances still were ok away last season when we were atrocious. It does look like we're getting our acts together and will potentially get out of this poxy division at just the 2nd attempt. Here's hoping anyway, remember it is good for the whole city of Bristol to have a club in the top 2 divisions of the country. Historically it has been the way that when one does well, the other seems to follow. I've never been a hater of the Red side, have got too many friends who support them. I'd like to see both doing well. We can all enjoy some banter and differences but I have never really understood the real hatred although the Knowlers and Hartcliffe lot can make it difficult sometimes.
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Post by rennesgas on Oct 16, 2014 12:51:29 GMT
Not all 'Knowlers' follow the dark side. My friends and myself were brought up in Knowle and have always supported the Rovers. Number 4 bus went direct from Knowle to Eastville, happy days.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 16, 2014 12:53:46 GMT
Not all 'Knowlers' follow the dark side. My friends and myself were brought up in Knowle and have always supported the Rovers. Number 4 bus went direct from Knowle to Eastville, happy days. Yes, I know a few and we have a great boxing prospect from there right now who is Rovers through & through and he boxes under the moniker of " the gasman" and wears the quarters on his shorts. I love it
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 13:02:19 GMT
The region view of the city is usually 80% right. But I grew up in Downend and my dads from Kingswood yet the only time I've watched Rovers was when they played us.
Both teams have a pretty unpleasant lot though at the moment you seem to be getting a shocking reputation for it...
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 16, 2014 13:08:09 GMT
The region view of the city is usually 80% right. But I grew up in Downend and my dads from Kingswood yet the only time I've watched Rovers was when they played us. Both teams have a pretty unpleasant lot though at the moment you seem to be getting a shocking reputation for it... Simply because your PR team, under Adam Baker, are very good at putting bad news stories to bed quickly and without a fuss. Our shoddy lot seem to enjoy adding to any bad stuff and even go so far as to add to it. The Reds have a very slick PR team, we make it look like Saatchi & Saatchi. Funny really as your lot punched the Cardiff Horse and beat up a pub and then all the stuff at the Derby game yet our lot are being made to look like we eat babies. Have to take my hat off to City on this. We could learn a great deal from them, we wiil not though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 13:08:37 GMT
He's probably as far from an egomaniac as you can get. Give over, he's bought up every Bristol sporting team bar two (one which he does want to get his mits on) and rebranded them in his own brand. The bloke is an egomaniac, it'll all come to fruition soon and I'll be sat here with my popcorn.
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Post by bs20gas on Oct 16, 2014 13:11:30 GMT
Thats because there seems to be some sort of witch hunt against the Rovers by the local media lately, in my eyes only the mansfield incident was newsworthy the rest was a storm in a teacup the Wycombe pitch incursion the Braintree "attack" and the "maltezer head" comment have all been blown out of proportion in my opinion,i know a lot of you have been outraged by recent events and im not suggesting that they werent wrong but i just feel that having been at all four "incidents"the only time the police should have been involved was for the steward being attacked thats just how i feel though.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 16, 2014 13:13:33 GMT
Thats because there seems to be some sort of witch hunt against the Rovers by the local media lately, in my eyes only the mansfield incident was newsworthy the rest was a storm in a teacup the Wycombe pitch incursion the Braintree "attack" and the "maltezer head" comment have all been blown out of proportion in my opinion,i know a lot of you have been outraged by recent events and im not suggesting that they werent wrong but i just feel that having been at all four "incidents"the only time the police should have been involved was for the steward being attacked thats just how i feel though. Agreed but when you have a chairman who keeps taking up appeals then you build up bad feeling. I think they are linked. We have lost much,if not all, if the goodwill we had
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 13:30:04 GMT
Thats because there seems to be some sort of witch hunt against the Rovers by the local media lately, in my eyes only the mansfield incident was newsworthy the rest was a storm in a teacup the Wycombe pitch incursion the Braintree "attack" and the "maltezer head" comment have all been blown out of proportion in my opinion,i know a lot of you have been outraged by recent events and im not suggesting that they werent wrong but i just feel that having been at all four "incidents"the only time the police should have been involved was for the steward being attacked thats just how i feel though. I agree on Wycombe and whatever that nonsense with the keeper was but Mansfield and Braintree were not good. I was in the Crawley Town supporters bar after the game watching on the big screen the TV "Violence as Bristol Rovers relegated from Football League". That's not local media. It's Sky - why would they give two sh"ts about anyone outside the Premiership!!! Then Braintree I saw a big bald bloke reach across and hit a football player. You simply can't defend that at all, Not saying it's unique to BRFC as it isn't but there's been more than their fair share lately and it's not the media most of the time. Also think the racism issue is just rubbish. That's more a society problem now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 14:56:29 GMT
Exciting times though no?
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Post by badbloodash on Oct 16, 2014 15:56:20 GMT
He's probably as far from an egomaniac as you can get. Give over, he's bought up every Bristol sporting team bar two (one which he does want to get his mits on) and rebranded them in his own brand. The bloke is an egomaniac, it'll all come to fruition soon and I'll be sat here with my popcorn. All landsdown needs to do is buy chasers and he will own all the s**t clubs in bristol and by the way don't go taking too many liberties in Coventry or you might come unstuck big time
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 16:00:42 GMT
Give over, he's bought up every Bristol sporting team bar two (one which he does want to get his mits on) and rebranded them in his own brand. The bloke is an egomaniac, it'll all come to fruition soon and I'll be sat here with my popcorn. All landsdown needs to do is buy chasers and he will own all the s*** clubs in bristol and by the way don't go taking too many liberties in Coventry or you might come unstuck big time A nice thought,but City and Coventry probably still feel a bit lovey after they cheated their survival in the 1st division that time...still that's a long time ago so lets hope for the worst.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 16, 2014 16:01:23 GMT
I know a fair few of your old boys are going. Hoping there are no major incidents as Bristol really doesn't need anymore bad press.
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Post by brizzle on Oct 16, 2014 16:49:35 GMT
Thats because there seems to be some sort of witch hunt against the Rovers by the local media lately, in my eyes only the mansfield incident was newsworthy the rest was a storm in a teacup the Wycombe pitch incursion the Braintree "attack" and the "maltezer head" comment have all been blown out of proportion in my opinion,i know a lot of you have been outraged by recent events and im not suggesting that they werent wrong but i just feel that having been at all four "incidents"the only time the police should have been involved was for the steward being attacked thats just how i feel though. But it isn't just the local media, is it bs20gas? The problem is that it has become a feeding frenzy, and the ''victim'' cannot affect the outcome in any way, shape or form. But as we appear to be continually digging our own grave, and have our own supply of hair shirts (and red cards, will the first 5,000 through the turnstile on Saturday qualify for a red card and a hair shirt do you think?), then what can we expect? Try being pro-active for a start, and a change. Otherwise tighten your safety belts and hang on tight. Returning briefly to the local media, then by and large they are a joke, and I think that all right-minded thinking people in the Greater Bristol area know that already. I have rarely encountered such slack journalism, whether spoken or written, as we have to endure in this part of the country. Perhaps it's one of the reasons why the Bristol Post appears to be in near terminal decline, and the BBC and HTV wouldn't be too far behind them if it wasn't for their sheer size and backing. One characteristic that they all have is to ''pick'' on the indefensible, I'm thinking here of the local bus companies, local hospitals and any other organisation or body that is easy to attack, and cannot adequately reply to their allegations. It could be that I'm almost talking about BRFC as well.
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Post by BS11Gas on Oct 16, 2014 17:28:18 GMT
Here's hoping anyway, remember it is good for the whole city of Bristol to have a club in the top 2 divisions of the country.No it isn't...It just makes half of us depressed! I never understand why the Teds come up with this line all the time. What benefit would there be to me if a team I don't support but is from the city in which I live is competing in the top 2 divisions?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 17:40:47 GMT
Is it not obvious? If the club is in a higher league, the city gets greater national coverage, there are much bigger games, there is additional revenue generated in the city through all service industries etc. It's good for the city and people to have at least one club in the upper reaches of the system. Better to have two even like Liverpool or Manchester but at least one.
To have the city of Bristol currently having a club in L1 and a few non league clubs is a disgrace. You know it as well as I. The city deserves better.
I mean for gods sake, last season the top club in the region was Yeovil Town!!!!!
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