towngas
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Post by towngas on Feb 15, 2021 13:13:54 GMT
if the info is correct... then the ownership structure is certainly not what most would expect it to be. What is the ownership structure alleged to be then? Who knows? And it’s getting to the point where I dont really care much any more. And that’s a shame after 50+ years of faithful support and following the team around the country.
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Post by towngas on Feb 15, 2021 13:18:15 GMT
But I agree, the case was daft, we were never going to win. Didn't the judge actually find in favour of Rovers on four of the five points of contention. As I remember, the only reason Sainsbury's won was on the the fifth (and overriding) point, that the contractual agreement had time-expired. And it only time-expired because of the tactically astute calling of a judicial review by Rovers' opponents at the very last moment, to maximise the length of time before the case could be heard? The above has no bearing on whether the UWE Stadium scheme was viable, or in Rovers' long-term interests, which is still a moot point. Although I think some of the construction costs that are being remembered now are ones which applied at the end of the drawn-out saga. If Nick Higgs could have cracked on with the scheme in the initially envisaged timescales, the costs would have been much lower. I’ve long maintained that Sainsbury’s secretly and anonymously funded ROSE or whatever they called themselves. A well-meaning group would have been unable to fund that JR with jumble sales, cake stalls and carols in the park at Christmas.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 14:20:47 GMT
if the info is correct... then the ownership structure is certainly not what most would expect it to be. What is the ownership structure alleged to be then? Give the guy a chance, he has said that he is looking for clarification regarding a few points before he states what he has been told. Very wise given that he has received the information anonymously so could be a load of bull.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 15:07:31 GMT
Give the guy a chance, he has said that he is looking for clarification regarding a few points before he states what he has been told. Fair comment. I had to ask the question though, even if only for the rest of us to engage in speculation. There's precious little else to do at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2021 23:08:13 GMT
I’ve long maintained that Sainsbury’s secretly and anonymously funded ROSE or whatever they called themselves. A well-meaning group would have been unable to fund that JR with jumble sales, cake stalls and carols in the park at Christmas. Maybe. I never thought back then that I would miss those heady days, when the worst court case to denigrate the club was a bizarre fight with one of the major supermarket chains. Little did we know then that our interest in trials would need switch to our manager defending two separate assault charges.
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Post by Bath Gas on Jul 26, 2021 5:03:48 GMT
I’ve long maintained that Sainsbury’s secretly and anonymously funded ROSE or whatever they called themselves. A well-meaning group would have been unable to fund that JR with jumble sales, cake stalls and carols in the park at Christmas. Maybe. I never thought back then that I would miss those heady days, when the worst court case to denigrate the club was a bizarre fight with one of the major supermarket chains. Little did we know then that our interest in trials would need switch to our manager defending two separate assault charges. Is it really necessary to bring up a dormant thread just so that you get the opportunity to mention the fact that our manager is currently involved in two court cases? You've send plenty about it on the relevant threads, surely it's best to leave it at that?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2021 7:33:19 GMT
Is it really necessary to bring up a dormant thread just so that you get the opportunity to mention the fact that our manager is currently involved in two court cases? You've send plenty about it on the relevant threads, surely it's best to leave it at that? Dormant? This thread manages to be both the nuttiest, but occasionally somehow the most interesting, mostly regarding boardroom or consortium gossip and speculation. Since I have been away I had not responded to the person I did for some time, which I claim the right to fulfil on my return. I related our historical court case with B*****'s current one because I felt the contrast worthy of comment. You didn't, which is fine, but I think we should be able to contrast two subjects here.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jul 26, 2021 7:38:06 GMT
Maybe. I never thought back then that I would miss those heady days, when the worst court case to denigrate the club was a bizarre fight with one of the major supermarket chains. Little did we know then that our interest in trials would need switch to our manager defending two separate assault charges. Is it really necessary to bring up a dormant thread just so that you get the opportunity to mention the fact that our manager is currently involved in two court cases? You've send plenty about it on the relevant threads, surely it's best to leave it at that? it's not really necessary to go on a Rovers forum at all. But that doesn't make it a bad idea. Although sometimes I have to remind myself
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Post by rowdenhill on Jul 26, 2021 8:49:02 GMT
This thread may be dormant, but it will never die. It is the ultimate thread, the ne plus ultra of threads, the thread of threads Its relationship to other threads is as the Pacific Ocean is to the Sea of Azov. Or Gilbert Harding to Nancy Spain. Or Rebecca Long-Bailey to Sid and Doris Bonkers. To suggest otherwise is delinquency, if not sacrilege innit.
We shall always have the prospect of news coming in October, and if not this October, then next October, or the one after that ...
Vivat in æternum filum octobris.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jul 26, 2021 8:54:58 GMT
This thread may be dormant, but it will never die. It is the ultimate thread, the ne plus ultra of threads, the thread of threads Its relationship to other threads is as the Pacific Ocean is to the Sea of Azov. Or Gilbert Harding to Nancy Spain. Or Rebecca Long-Bailey to Sid and Doris Bonkers. To suggest otherwise is delinquency, if not sacrilege innit. We shall always have the prospect of news coming in October, and if not this October, then next October, or the one after that ... Vivat in æternum filum octobris. est verum aeternum
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2021 11:11:29 GMT
Just you wait for October. I really do miss the silliness of Sainsbury's litigation though. A more civilised age.
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Post by a more piratey game on Aug 30, 2021 9:47:49 GMT
not too long to wait now peeps, October is just a few weeks away...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 12:33:28 GMT
B*****'s in now for the foreseeable future. Loads of Gasheads are in total support. He seems to have control of the owner. I'm not even sure we're not scouse owned. B***** and his associates are in, somehow. Nobody knows on what terms he's contracted. I'm not sure he is contracted. It's odd. B***** and his associates are invested. How, and why - this is should trouble all. Instead an away win in Yorkshire heals all. Al Qadi's vanished: B***** speaks for both. I worry what Rovers I'll have to return to. B***** isn't contracted, he made that clear in his recent statement and I have been told it's true. He certainly does appear to have control of the owner so who will sack whoever is being paid to employ B*****? According to members on the other forum, news due in October.
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Post by gasprom on Oct 31, 2021 12:47:26 GMT
B***** isn't contracted, he made that clear in his recent statement and I have been told it's true. He certainly does appear to have control of the owner so who will sack whoever is being paid to employ B*****? According to members on the other forum, news due in October. The occasional leak of vague stadium information caveated with “its going to take a long time”. Just like the occasional 1-0 win, pacifies a chunk of the fan base for the foreseeable
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 12:56:29 GMT
B***** and his associates controlling Bristol Rovers is surely new enough for any October.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 13:07:26 GMT
These things take time.
It's only 3 years since this thread started.
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Post by swissgas on Oct 31, 2021 14:57:05 GMT
News filtering through about the new stadium is that Martyn Starnes and Tommy Widdrington will be helping out with the foundations.
Tommy likes to plan a few seasons in advance so he has already been measured up by an executive from Cemex ( formerly the RMC Group).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 15:09:25 GMT
News filtering through about the new stadium is that Martyn Starnes and Tommy Widdrington will be helping out with the foundations. Tommy likes to plan a few seasons in advance so he has already been measured up by an executive from Cemex ( formerly the RMC Group).
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Post by baselswh on Oct 31, 2021 15:14:36 GMT
News filtering through about the new stadium is that Martyn Starnes and Tommy Widdrington will be helping out with the foundations. Tommy likes to plan a few seasons in advance so he has already been measured up by an executive from Cemex ( formerly the RMC Group). 😀
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 16:14:23 GMT
Those were the losses in the last lot of accounts I've seen published for Fleetwood and represent a full trading period whilst he was there. If he's making comments such as him deciding it was best not to make a statement about his holocaust comment last week but to address the issue in his press conference towards the end of the week, that raises very real concerns about how much control he has here. At least it does for me. When swissgas first gave his idea that B***** could have bought his way in, I thought it was wide of the mar, now and with the unwillingness to do any pressers or medias, I truly believe B*****, plus a couple of other mate, have bought in, in fact i am sure of it. Time will tell I have no information, but thanks for reminding me from whom this suggestion originated, although a few of the usual suspects (of whom I hope to presume myself a member) seem to have some suspicion, at least with regard to the B***** Firm's influence and reach. We're not going to get any answers from Al Qadi, so I hope anyone connected on here will keep sharing. This seems like the worst October news ever, and Halloween seems all too appropriate.
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