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Post by badbloodash on Jul 10, 2018 20:54:24 GMT
UWE are building a small football and rugby ground on the old Filton Road.
Well it’s a lot better than what we haven’t got doesn’t seem that small to me 3 pitches plus clubhouse
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 10:59:43 GMT
UWE are building a small football and rugby ground on the old Filton Road.
Well it’s a lot better than what we haven’t got doesn’t seem that small to me 3 pitches plus clubhouse Small as in the capacity with be around 500, by the very nature of football and rugby pitches they're around the same size.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jul 12, 2018 19:47:52 GMT
any update on what you were told kP?
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Post by badbloodash on Jul 14, 2018 7:19:14 GMT
So where exactly are we training this season? Original question still remains un-answered. On the downs
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Post by a more piratey game on Jul 15, 2018 10:29:03 GMT
it all seems very rum to me. And maybe the arrival of Martyn Starnes last week has meant a few things are being shuffled around but it's still hardly the UWE, Avonmouth, Mangotsfield or Rodney's swinging balls in terms of scale I'm thinking..... - the Colony might be stalled because the Al Qadis are selling out (sellers often say they aren't open to sales, to drive the price up)
- the Colony might be stalled because the Al Qadis are doing some investment re-shuffling, or lining up some finance
- the Colony might be stalled because the Al Qadis haven't got the cash available, or don't want to make it available
- the Colony might be stalled because the Al Qadis struggle to make a decision about anything (there is a pattern of slowness, and maybe fog)
- the Colony might be stalled because, per paulrandallstash at the other place, 'a wealthy businessman has done a deal swapping the mem for the uwe land and we will get our new ground ,all will be revealed in the next two weeks. These were the exact words,my stepfather was told yesterday by an employee of brfc'
- the Colony might be stalled because we are doing a deal with Bath Rugby/Clifton Rugby Club/Dings/Gloucestershire CCC etc - maybe to share the Colony, maybe something else (buy Nevill Road?)
- the Colony might be stalled because of some very minor planning thing (which seems highly unlikely, for a posh shed in a field)
- the Colony might not be stalled at all - it's just that BRFC have over-promised on deadlines and dates as might have been known to happen in the past
can you help us out here panel?
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Post by harrybuckle on Jul 15, 2018 10:54:44 GMT
Buy the Civil Service Sports Ground in Filton Avenue to train at
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Post by droitwichgas on Jul 15, 2018 11:42:00 GMT
Buy the Civil Service Sports Ground in Filton Avenue to train at 1) Is it still closing/for sale? 2) Who is going to find the £m's required if it's ever sold as "development" land?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 11:45:44 GMT
Buy the Civil Service Sports Ground in Filton Avenue to train at They have already bought a site to build a training complex on. Do we need 2?
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Post by a more piratey game on Jul 15, 2018 12:10:40 GMT
Buy the Civil Service Sports Ground in Filton Avenue to train at They have already bought a site to build a training complex on. Do we need 2? the thing is, we don't seem to be very keen to do any training on the one that we've got
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 13:26:50 GMT
They have already bought a site to build a training complex on. Do we need 2? the thing is, we don't seem to be very keen to do any training on the one that we've got Kind of hard to train for football in a field with grass 4 foot tall. Didn't we have some kind of professional consultants who had scheduled work to start on the pitches? That should have begun by now I thought?
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jul 15, 2018 15:22:17 GMT
the thing is, we don't seem to be very keen to do any training on the one that we've got Kind of hard to train for football in a field with grass 4 foot tall. Didn't we have some kind of professional consultants who had scheduled work to start on the pitches? That should have begun by now I thought? Planning was due in around 4-6 weeks ago as per official news , from Steve Hamer. Still, many are happy to swallow the tents and a bar improvement so I guess we really do get the team we deserve
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Post by RiversGas on Jul 16, 2018 0:23:27 GMT
Kind of hard to train for football in a field with grass 4 foot tall. Didn't we have some kind of professional consultants who had scheduled work to start on the pitches? That should have begun by now I thought? Planning was due in around 4-6 weeks ago as per official news , from Steve Hamer. Still, many are happy to swallow the tents and a bar improvement so I guess we really do get the team we deserve KP, we actually get the team others own, control and upon which they spend what money they think it is sensible to invest. Yes we can complain all we want, but it will never make a difference.
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Post by Igitur on Jul 16, 2018 7:15:44 GMT
New CEO has been interviewed by the BP: if you can wade through the cr@p of the paper's site: www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-bristol-rovers-ceo-martyn-1781565essentially he says, unsurprisingly, little of interest. At least some money is being spent on the ground (not forgetting the pitch.) ... Widespread confusion reigns over the Bristol Rovers’ stadium plans following the collapse of their deal to build a new ground in partnership with UWE last August. However new Bristol Rovers CEO Martyn Starnes has gone some way to clarifying the club’s short-term strategy and how the recent renovations at the Memorial Stadium fit into the grand plan......With some of the most significant building projects for years currently underway at the Mem this summer, many questioned whether this was indeed the first step to that second option......However, Starnes has put the record straight about Bristol Rovers' plans. He explained: “The work going on at the Mem right now is not the discussed development of the stadium. “This is to try and improve what we have got while we try to develop a long-term plan...“We are investing in this stadium in the interim, in a relatively small way, to hopefully try and make some major improvements for fans. So it is a relatively small investment to get a good return in terms of match day experience......“We decided you can only wait so long before doing some basic maintenance and improvements and a decision was made prior to me joining, that now is the time to bite the bullet and certainly make some improvements. "The sort of things that we are doing now, to improve the shop, to improve the bar, there is a little more of that to do, a small stand, but there is nothing major at the moment."
I suppose the 43 architects who have designed 306 grounds are still cogitating, or perhaps sent to the colony.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jul 16, 2018 7:25:45 GMT
I suppose the 43 architects who have designed 306 grounds are still cogitating, or perhaps sent to the colony. I can't help thinking that Wael has made a rod for his own back with the talk of experts who have built lots of stadiums it raises expectations, which I think it was meant to (a bit of a knee-jerk response to the announcement a year ago, among other things), but then nothing visible is happening the same thing happened with Hamer's landing lights, and telling us that Colony plans were due to go in a few weeks ago etc I realise that they are damned if they do and damned if they don't, but the Colony was meant to be a smaller thing that they could crack on quickly with. This undermines the confidence and hope that the talk above was intended to imbue
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Post by Igitur on Jul 16, 2018 7:59:18 GMT
I suppose the 43 architects who have designed 306 grounds are still cogitating, or perhaps sent to the colony. I can't help thinking that Wael has made a rod for his own back with the talk of experts who have built lots of stadiums it raises expectations, which I think it was meant to (a bit of a knee-jerk response to the announcement a year ago, among other things), but then nothing visible is happening the same thing happened with Hamer's landing lights, and telling us that Colony plans were due to go in a few weeks ago etc I realise that they are damned if they do and damned if they don't, but the Colony was meant to be a smaller thing that they could crack on quickly with. This undermines the confidence and hope that the talk above was intended to imbue Yep. I agree. We keep throwing pelters because of the lack of nous in the first place producing silly statements and secondly because we are not being told anything which we all thought would change when NH toddled off to his Italian house.
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Post by eppinggas on Jul 16, 2018 12:54:32 GMT
Bristol Rovers CEO Martyn Starnes explained: “The work going on at the Mem right now is not the discussed development of the stadium. This is to try and improve what we have got while we try to develop a long-term plan..." To conclude. One year on from the UWE debacle - we still do not have a long term plan in place. Disappointing, but not unexpected. UTG.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jul 16, 2018 13:05:32 GMT
Bristol Rovers CEO Martyn Starnes explained: “The work going on at the Mem right now is not the discussed development of the stadium. This is to try and improve what we have got while we try to develop a long-term plan..." To conclude. One year on from the UWE debacle - we still do not have a long term plan in place. Disappointing, but not unexpected. UTG. there's another example.....it was said that we had a Plan B. It seems that in fact we didn't
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Post by kingswood Polak on Jul 16, 2018 14:48:36 GMT
Planning was due in around 4-6 weeks ago as per official news , from Steve Hamer. Still, many are happy to swallow the tents and a bar improvement so I guess we really do get the team we deserve KP, we actually get the team others own, control and upon which they spend what money they think it is sensible to invest. Yes we can complain all we want, but it will never make a difference. Your are, of course, right BUT we could not just roll over and accept it , without so much as a whimper. That’s what I am “trying” to say. It seems the majority are genuinely happy and I can’t knock them for that but I habe always wanted something better. That’s is all I really wanted to convey
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Post by axegas on Jul 16, 2018 15:13:16 GMT
Kind of hard to train for football in a field with grass 4 foot tall. Didn't we have some kind of professional consultants who had scheduled work to start on the pitches? That should have begun by now I thought? Planning was due in around 4-6 weeks ago as per official news , from Steve Hamer. Still, many are happy to swallow the tents and a bar improvement so I guess we really do get the team we deserve That wasn't official news at all, Hamer made the comments at the AGM which only shareholders were permitted entry to. The hold up in the planning permission for the colony remains unclear, I've seen many people blame the owners but it is still possible the delay is at the south Gloucestershire planning council end of things.
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Post by harrybuckle on Jul 16, 2018 17:04:46 GMT
Buy the Civil Service Sports Ground in Filton Avenue to train at 1) Is it still closing/for sale? 2) Who is going to find the £m's required if it's ever sold as "development" land? 3 July
Local residents will know the Civil Service Sports Club on Filton Avenue as a much-used and appreciated community space.
On 9th April the staff and management committee of the Bristol Area CSSC were informed in person by the CEO Simon Lee and the Director of Volunteering and Business Delivery, Andy Shaw, that the CSSC Estates Strategy recommended that the club should be closed by the end of September 2018.
The club is fighting the proposal as the popular sports and social facility is busier than ever and is a very valuable local resource. Members, visitors and local residents are angry and outraged as the timescale for consultation is far too short to allow for a fair process.
Tony Nelson, the Chair of the Bristol Area CSSC, says: ‘The club is a welcome community space in an area not over-endowed with green areas. With 13 table tennis teams it is the biggest and best equipped club in Bristol, and also hosts eight football teams, two netball teams, the largest skittles league in the area, the Ultimate Frisbee Club (their women’s team will be competing at the World Championships in the USA this summer) and many other sports besides. Ashley Down and Filton Avenue schools use the playing fields for sports and wildlife days, having no grounds of their own. Sporting facilities aside, the club function rooms are constantly busy accommodating societies and groups, seminars, meetings, team building exercises, wedding receptions, wakes and parties, among other events and the club’s annual fireworks display is renowned in the area for its excellence and charitable Fundraising. In these days of growing obesity and concern over inactivity, the importance of physical exercise is universally recognised as beneficial for our health and well-being and it goes counter to common sense to close this popular, well-used and well-equipped sporting Venue.’
The Bristol committee are managing the campaign to keep the club open and encourage all those who feel strongly about this proposal to email their comments to handsoffourclub@bristolcssc.co.uk . They will then be included as part of the submission to the CSSC
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