SE5 Gas
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Post by SE5 Gas on Oct 30, 2014 20:35:00 GMT
thebristolcable.org/2014/10/going-out-in-style/Local journalist's take on the UWE and our new (ish) found non league status. Clearly not a fan of the UWE move. Any one agree with his reasons on wanting to stay at the mem? Article appears in new media co-op called The Bristol Cable. I've been to 5 home games this season and hadn't even noticed that Pirate Pete had gone!
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BS11Gas
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Post by BS11Gas on Oct 30, 2014 21:10:49 GMT
I don't think the author really knows a lot about Rovers to be honest. I don't believe we've had any redevelopment plans for the Mem rejected and who the hell is Pirate Pete?
As for UWE being a disaster in the making, If we'd made that push to the Championship in time for UWE's originally scheduled opening and been mildly successful, I see no reason why we couldn't have regularly attracted a 75% capacity. The article is written as if the UWE plans have only been announced the last year or so.
I can understand why people don't like the idea of moving away from the Mem from a geographical perspective, but the club simply cannot compete to the level desired given the limited revenue streams outside of matchdays.
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Post by warmleygas on Oct 30, 2014 21:36:01 GMT
I think pirate pete must be that dodgy looking bloke i see walking round Kingswood sometimes with a big hoop earring in one ear.
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SE5 Gas
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Post by SE5 Gas on Oct 30, 2014 21:37:55 GMT
Didn't Captain Gas used to be called Pirate Pete?
I looked up the author and he's also a Spurs fan which perhaps explains why he is happy for Rovers to stay a lower league team in a ramshackle stadium at the end of the Gloucester road.
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Post by dickgherkin on Oct 30, 2014 22:04:13 GMT
I've met him, he's a good man, his book "The Ball is Round" is good as well, altho a bit draggy at times...
I'm not a big fan of this article tho ..... I'm as Tinter'd as the next pillhead casualty, but the idea that things are more pure in the Conference, its more of a genuine experience ..... I would defy any Rovers fan to say they wouldn't rather be in League 2.
A second season in the conference would be a genuine nightmare - all the novelty gone, crowds dwindling, quality getting worse and worse ... knocked out in the playoffs three seasons in a row before we go up.... not a pleasant thought, I don't care how 'genuine' the experience .... if I want genuine I'll go down Twerton to watch Bath.
What I want for Rovers is a team that echoes the great teams of our past 130 year history, yoyo'ing between the Championship and League 1, and taking Premiership scalps in epic cup runs. That is not a crazy thing to ask, medium term, and for me it would be a lot more genuine than non-league.
The new stadium..... the way i feel now, if we could use a Sainsburys penalty payout to fund an improvement / expansion of the Mem I'd be a happy man. Especially if we could have Safe Standing ;0)
But, if the only option to get what i want, medium term, is to move to the UWE, then i haven't got a problem with that, we should do it, however much I agree with David Goldblatt - the location of the UWE sums up everything i don't like about modern grounds.
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Post by gasheadnaboo on Oct 30, 2014 22:08:00 GMT
Rovers may have finished 11th in division 3 when the planning ball started rolling, but the UWE was announced just after we were relegated to L2 and Buckle had been appointed. The author shouldn't worry their self too much though as it's pretty unlikely to happen whilst the big supermarket industry continues to slump.
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toteend
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Post by toteend on Oct 30, 2014 22:48:23 GMT
This guy might be a nice bloke but he knows nowt about Rovers.
If he got any more facts wrong he'd be committed to the local assizes for malicious incomprehensible crap.
We haven't spent the last few years trying to redevelop the Mem, we've been trying to get the UWE.
We didn't buy the land at UWE. We will have it on a 120 year renewable lease
He says it is badly sighted. I presume major bus routes and railway stations, together with the biggest car parking facilities in the country don't count.
Most successful independent shopping street in the country. Just how many others does he know of, and how many of the Gloucester Road shops accounts has he seen?
The move is on hold. No it's not it's going through the last stages of full planning clearance.
Luton and Cambridge took a decade to go back up. Check Wickipedia.
The PA has been turned down. Not in the Blackthorn or whatever we call it these days. I'm not sure of that one myself.
Who the hell is Pirate Pete? I've never known Captain Gas called that so does he mean someone else?
Presumably, if he was laying a road, he would have so many bumps in it, it would have come out even. Whoever he is he knows jack sh*t about our club and it's ongoing attempts to move to a new stadium. All this without even going into why we so desperately need the UWE to happen.
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So as far as I'm concerned I'll give it 1/10 for neat writing must do better.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 8:56:47 GMT
I've met him, he's a good man, his book "The Ball is Round" is good as well, altho a bit draggy at times... I'm not a big fan of this article tho ..... I'm as Tinter'd as the next pillhead casualty, but the idea that things are more pure in the Conference, its more of a genuine experience ..... I would defy any Rovers fan to say they wouldn't rather be in League 2. A second season in the conference would be a genuine nightmare - all the novelty gone, crowds dwindling, quality getting worse and worse ... knocked out in the playoffs three seasons in a row before we go up.... not a pleasant thought, I don't care how 'genuine' the experience .... if I want genuine I'll go down Twerton to watch Bath. What I want for Rovers is a team that echoes the great teams of our past 130 year history, yoyo'ing between the Championship and League 1, and taking Premiership scalps in epic cup runs. That is not a crazy thing to ask, medium term, and for me it would be a lot more genuine than non-league. The new stadium..... the way i feel now, if we could use a Sainsburys penalty payout to fund an improvement / expansion of the Mem I'd be a happy man. Especially if we could have Safe Standing ;0) But, if the only option to get what i want, medium term, is to move to the UWE, then i haven't got a problem with that, we should do it, however much I agree with David Goldblatt - the location of the UWE sums up everything i don't like about modern grounds. Word to that. The idea that things are more 'pure' in non-league is plain inverted snobbery, it's rubbish. I like watching football played as well as it can be - preferably by ourselves but I'd like the opposition to be of decent standard as well. The Conference doesn't give me that and the leagues lower than that are even worse. I want League football back asap |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 8:59:33 GMT
Oh, and he says the UWE's planned to be 'in Filton'. Does he know something we don't?
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LJG
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Post by LJG on Oct 31, 2014 9:27:08 GMT
This guy needs to shut his f**king mouth. He clearly knows precisely the square root of F**k all.
"After being refused planning permission on a number of earlier schemes"? Err ... we had PP for the Mem redevelopment - we lost the funding.
There are plenty of other glaring errors but he just needs to write something that most local people won't realise he doesn't know anything about.
And what kind of dog-sh1t paper does he buy that doesn't print the Conference Prem table?
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