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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 17:49:39 GMT
So basically TG agreed a shirt sponsor with Mintbet. It turned out that we couldn’t have mintbet on the shirts so we gave them other sponsorship instead which they were happy with for the contractual terms. Mintbet we’re happy. Club was happy. I still don’t see why TG should have lost his job? Exactly the sort of sloppy standard that saw us finish 10 points from safety last season. Keep right on cheering that mediocrity, it's going real well. BTW, I understand that after over a year to ensure that everything was just right for the return of supporters, the person in charge of this area of the club couldn't even ensure that the scoreboard was operating correctly for the first home game this season. But hey, it's fine, no problem, why do these things matter? It's odd isn't it that someone was mentioning the club being caught out by demand at Twerton and setting up a 'wallpaper table cash turnstile' in the car park, as if that was something from the stone ages. Sounds exactly the same as the farce of Gorringe trying to implement his plastic code scanner boxes in the turnstiles and totally failing to communicate to supporters what the arrangements were, so ending up with stewards collecting cash off of supporters whilst they queued Those stewards were in total disarray, cash bulging out of their pockets, people joining the lines ahead of where they had already collected money from, so they completely lost track of who had paid and who hadn't. Yeah, he's real good this Gorringe geezer, top notch...
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Post by a more piratey game on Sept 8, 2021 18:07:09 GMT
So basically TG agreed a shirt sponsor with Mintbet. It turned out that we couldn’t have mintbet on the shirts so we gave them other sponsorship instead which they were happy with for the contractual terms. Mintbet we’re happy. Club was happy. I still don’t see why TG should have lost his job? that's a good point well made
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 8, 2021 18:17:08 GMT
So basically TG agreed a shirt sponsor with Mintbet. It turned out that we couldn’t have mintbet on the shirts so we gave them other sponsorship instead which they were happy with for the contractual terms. Mintbet we’re happy. Club was happy. I still don’t see why TG should have lost his job? that's a good point well made There are a fair few.who don’t use any forum, who could disagree re TG. I don’t have any dealings with him
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Post by a more piratey game on Sept 8, 2021 18:21:40 GMT
that's a good point well made There are a fair few.who don’t use any forum, who could disagree re TG. I don’t have any dealings with him but on what grounds kP?
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 8, 2021 18:25:11 GMT
There are a fair few.who don’t use any forum, who could disagree re TG. I don’t have any dealings with him but on what grounds kP? I wish i had permission to share facebook posts but its about his manner in inaction on matchdays, in brief
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Post by a more piratey game on Sept 8, 2021 18:26:27 GMT
I wish i had permission to share facebook posts but its about his manner in inaction on matchdays, in brief ta. Just rubbed them up the wrong way. Sub-optimal, but everyone rubs some people up the wrong way - just see the reception I get from some on here
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Post by irenestoyboy on Sept 8, 2021 20:31:12 GMT
So basically TG agreed a shirt sponsor with Mintbet. It turned out that we couldn’t have mintbet on the shirts so we gave them other sponsorship instead which they were happy with for the contractual terms. Mintbet we’re happy. Club was happy. I still don’t see why TG should have lost his job? Exactly the sort of sloppy standard that saw us finish 10 points from safety last season. Keep right on cheering that mediocrity, it's going real well. BTW, I understand that after over a year to ensure that everything was just right for the return of supporters, the person in charge of this area of the club couldn't even ensure that the scoreboard was operating correctly for the first home game this season. But hey, it's fine, no problem, why do these things matter? It's odd isn't it that someone was mentioning the club being caught out by demand at Twerton and setting up a 'wallpaper table cash turnstile' in the car park, as if that was something from the stone ages. Sounds exactly the same as the farce of Gorringe trying to implement his plastic code scanner boxes in the turnstiles and totally failing to communicate to supporters what the arrangements were, so ending up with stewards collecting cash off of supporters whilst they queued Those stewards were in total disarray, cash bulging out of their pockets, people joining the lines ahead of where they had already collected money from, so they completely lost track of who had paid and who hadn't. Yeah, he's real good this Gorringe geezer, top notch... So pieces of modern technology that are built by hardware and software manufacturers fail or have a glitch and it’s all TGs fault and should pay with his job 😂😂 I dread to think what would happen if you were in charge of a company and an employee turned on his computer and it blue screened. Employment law would have a field day with you. FML. I’d thought you had something serious like fraud as some evidence.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Sept 8, 2021 21:03:46 GMT
So basically TG agreed a shirt sponsor with Mintbet. It turned out that we couldn’t have mintbet on the shirts so we gave them other sponsorship instead which they were happy with for the contractual terms. Mintbet we’re happy. Club was happy. I still don’t see why TG should have lost his job? Exactly the sort of sloppy standard that saw us finish 10 points from safety last season. Keep right on cheering that mediocrity, it's going real well. BTW, I understand that after over a year to ensure that everything was just right for the return of supporters, the person in charge of this area of the club couldn't even ensure that the scoreboard was operating correctly for the first home game this season. But hey, it's fine, no problem, why do these things matter? It's odd isn't it that someone was mentioning the club being caught out by demand at Twerton and setting up a 'wallpaper table cash turnstile' in the car park, as if that was something from the stone ages. Sounds exactly the same as the farce of Gorringe trying to implement his plastic code scanner boxes in the turnstiles and totally failing to communicate to supporters what the arrangements were, so ending up with stewards collecting cash off of supporters whilst they queued Those stewards were in total disarray, cash bulging out of their pockets, people joining the lines ahead of where they had already collected money from, so they completely lost track of who had paid and who hadn't. Yeah, he's real good this Gorringe geezer, top notch... If true: Stewards nothing to do with the Stadium Manager, then?
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Post by axegas on Sept 8, 2021 21:57:23 GMT
I wish i had permission to share facebook posts but its about his manner in inaction on matchdays, in brief I mean I’d expect he’s at his busiest on a matchday, so inaction might just mean he was doing something else.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 9, 2021 12:03:44 GMT
I wish i had permission to share facebook posts but its about his manner in inaction on matchdays, in brief I mean I’d expect he’s at his busiest on a matchday, so inaction might just mean he was doing something else. It’s much more but i have been asked not to share the post. A truly staunch Gashead too
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2021 12:19:58 GMT
I mean I’d expect he’s at his busiest on a matchday, so inaction might just mean he was doing something else. It’s much more but i have been asked not to share the post. A truly staunch Gashead too Surely something on Facebook is already in the public domain so why not post it here so we can have our own opinion?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2021 12:24:14 GMT
Maybe it was this opinion?
Rich Hasell 29 August at 11:53 · Yesterday wasn’t about winning a football match but a show of representation by the 300 fans who turned up after a 500 mile round trip who actually give a s**t about our club. Make absolutely no bones about it the Bristol Rovers I grew up with in the 70’s are dead from a ownership perspective. They don’t care about the future of the club. We are being stripped to the undercoat by the way our club are not handling internal and external communication. No news on the academy players or development squad, getting rid of young players and replacing them with over the pension age cart horses etc. Stadium? What stadium? If we have no plans that are viable plans that are happening then please tell us that because we’ve been strung along well before Wael ever arrived from the Middle East. Don’t even mention Tom Gorringe because ‘Commercial Director’? Well he couldn’t even direct an orange electric scooter through the shimmering blue Memorial Gates. The club is Dying or maybe dead and JB is just the scapegoat diverting attention away from the laughable owner and management. Evolution not Revolution - not my words - you’re having a laugh. I await to be proved wrong ? UTG
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Post by a more piratey game on Sept 9, 2021 12:38:57 GMT
Maybe it was this opinion? Rich Hasell 29 August at 11:53 · Yesterday wasn’t about winning a football match but a show of representation by the 300 fans who turned up after a 500 mile round trip who actually give a s*** about our club. Make absolutely no bones about it the Bristol Rovers I grew up with in the 70’s are dead from a ownership perspective. They don’t care about the future of the club. We are being stripped to the undercoat by the way our club are not handling internal and external communication. No news on the academy players or development squad, getting rid of young players and replacing them with over the pension age cart horses etc. Stadium? What stadium? If we have no plans that are viable plans that are happening then please tell us that because we’ve been strung along well before Wael ever arrived from the Middle East. Don’t even mention Tom Gorringe because ‘Commercial Director’? Well he couldn’t even direct an orange electric scooter through the shimmering blue Memorial Gates. The club is Dying or maybe dead and JB is just the scapegoat diverting attention away from the laughable owner and management. Evolution not Revolution - not my words - you’re having a laugh. I await to be proved wrong ? UTG That's what the French might call 'du bla bla bla'
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 9, 2021 14:04:53 GMT
Maybe it was this opinion? Rich Hasell 29 August at 11:53 · Yesterday wasn’t about winning a football match but a show of representation by the 300 fans who turned up after a 500 mile round trip who actually give a s*** about our club. Make absolutely no bones about it the Bristol Rovers I grew up with in the 70’s are dead from a ownership perspective. They don’t care about the future of the club. We are being stripped to the undercoat by the way our club are not handling internal and external communication. No news on the academy players or development squad, getting rid of young players and replacing them with over the pension age cart horses etc. Stadium? What stadium? If we have no plans that are viable plans that are happening then please tell us that because we’ve been strung along well before Wael ever arrived from the Middle East. Don’t even mention Tom Gorringe because ‘Commercial Director’? Well he couldn’t even direct an orange electric scooter through the shimmering blue Memorial Gates. The club is Dying or maybe dead and JB is just the scapegoat diverting attention away from the laughable owner and management. Evolution not Revolution - not my words - you’re having a laugh. I await to be proved wrong ? UTG Edited. Two other on my friend posted very scathing content. Rich said much more on TG
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 9, 2021 14:07:03 GMT
Maybe it was this opinion? Rich Hasell 29 August at 11:53 · Yesterday wasn’t about winning a football match but a show of representation by the 300 fans who turned up after a 500 mile round trip who actually give a s*** about our club. Make absolutely no bones about it the Bristol Rovers I grew up with in the 70’s are dead from a ownership perspective. They don’t care about the future of the club. We are being stripped to the undercoat by the way our club are not handling internal and external communication. No news on the academy players or development squad, getting rid of young players and replacing them with over the pension age cart horses etc. Stadium? What stadium? If we have no plans that are viable plans that are happening then please tell us that because we’ve been strung along well before Wael ever arrived from the Middle East. Don’t even mention Tom Gorringe because ‘Commercial Director’? Well he couldn’t even direct an orange electric scooter through the shimmering blue Memorial Gates. The club is Dying or maybe dead and JB is just the scapegoat diverting attention away from the laughable owner and management. Evolution not Revolution - not my words - you’re having a laugh. I await to be proved wrong ? UTG That's what the French might call 'du bla bla bla' If you knew Rich then this would shock you as he, normally, will not say one negative word. Now K has posted this I will see if I can get the unedited version to
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 9, 2021 14:10:39 GMT
Maybe it was this opinion? Rich Hasell 29 August at 11:53 · Yesterday wasn’t about winning a football match but a show of representation by the 300 fans who turned up after a 500 mile round trip who actually give a s*** about our club. Make absolutely no bones about it the Bristol Rovers I grew up with in the 70’s are dead from a ownership perspective. They don’t care about the future of the club. We are being stripped to the undercoat by the way our club are not handling internal and external communication. No news on the academy players or development squad, getting rid of young players and replacing them with over the pension age cart horses etc. Stadium? What stadium? If we have no plans that are viable plans that are happening then please tell us that because we’ve been strung along well before Wael ever arrived from the Middle East. Don’t even mention Tom Gorringe because ‘Commercial Director’? Well he couldn’t even direct an orange electric scooter through the shimmering blue Memorial Gates. The club is Dying or maybe dead and JB is just the scapegoat diverting attention away from the laughable owner and management. Evolution not Revolution - not my words - you’re having a laugh. I await to be proved wrong ? UTG A little more Mandy, I’m not suggesting Wael doesn’t care though. He’s entered into a business that’s unforgiving that’s ruthless that needs the correct dynamics in place to run without using utilities such as Ticketmaster which could ultimately alienate the fan base. He’s divided the fan base by employing muppets like Gorringe who strolls about in his pristine Jeff Banks double breasted suit with matching brogues who hasn’t got a clue about how to interact with fans. In fact he said to one of my mates the other week ‘If you don’t like what’s going on then don’t bother’ ! Saying that to someone who’s been going for 40+ years is shameful & Gorringe or Starnes have no place in our club. As for Starnes, he ignored the Rovers fans in Strensham services on the M5 on the way home from Mansfield and spent all of his time talking to Plymouth fans, those of his ex employer. The only director who comes out with any credit in my eyes is Barry Bradshaw who we see driving to every away match on his own in his Mercedes BB2. Wael is way out of his depth and he’s employed people who don’t give a s**t and are just picking up a wage. Prove me wrong UTG Rich😀
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 9, 2021 14:13:37 GMT
It’s much more but i have been asked not to share the post. A truly staunch Gashead too Surely something on Facebook is already in the public domain so why not post it here so we can have our own opinion? I ask first my friend but as you have already posted then I gave the add on plus it stunned me as we have had some heated debates as I saw Rich as a Blue tinter but top rovers supporter, home and away and with his own problems
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Sept 9, 2021 14:55:32 GMT
Double, double toil and trouble..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2021 16:24:52 GMT
Maybe it was this opinion? Rich Hasell 29 August at 11:53 · Yesterday wasn’t about winning a football match but a show of representation by the 300 fans who turned up after a 500 mile round trip who actually give a s*** about our club. Make absolutely no bones about it the Bristol Rovers I grew up with in the 70’s are dead from a ownership perspective. They don’t care about the future of the club. We are being stripped to the undercoat by the way our club are not handling internal and external communication. No news on the academy players or development squad, getting rid of young players and replacing them with over the pension age cart horses etc. Stadium? What stadium? If we have no plans that are viable plans that are happening then please tell us that because we’ve been strung along well before Wael ever arrived from the Middle East. Don’t even mention Tom Gorringe because ‘Commercial Director’? Well he couldn’t even direct an orange electric scooter through the shimmering blue Memorial Gates. The club is Dying or maybe dead and JB is just the scapegoat diverting attention away from the laughable owner and management. Evolution not Revolution - not my words - you’re having a laugh. I await to be proved wrong ? UTG A little more Mandy, I’m not suggesting Wael doesn’t care though. He’s entered into a business that’s unforgiving that’s ruthless that needs the correct dynamics in place to run without using utilities such as Ticketmaster which could ultimately alienate the fan base. He’s divided the fan base by employing muppets like Gorringe who strolls about in his pristine Jeff Banks double breasted suit with matching brogues who hasn’t got a clue about how to interact with fans. In fact he said to one of my mates the other week ‘If you don’t like what’s going on then don’t bother’ ! Saying that to someone who’s been going for 40+ years is shameful & Gorringe or Starnes have no place in our club. As for Starnes, he ignored the Rovers fans in Strensham services on the M5 on the way home from Mansfield and spent all of his time talking to Plymouth fans, those of his ex employer. The only director who comes out with any credit in my eyes is Barry Bradshaw who we see driving to every away match on his own in his Mercedes BB2. Wael is way out of his depth and he’s employed people who don’t give a s*** and are just picking up a wage. Prove me wrong UTG Rich😀 I had a chat with Barry Bradshaw at Exeter. He had been dining with the current board before the game but said, "They don't really want me here and it doesn't feel like the same club any more." I'm sure it must feel different for him not having to cover the losses and despite what a lot of people say, Barry is actually a decent bloke. I think your friend needs to realise the Barry isn't a director anymore but is a life Vice President for his previous services.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2021 16:50:48 GMT
Maybe it was this opinion? Rich Hasell 29 August at 11:53 · Yesterday wasn’t about winning a football match but a show of representation by the 300 fans who turned up after a 500 mile round trip who actually give a s*** about our club. Make absolutely no bones about it the Bristol Rovers I grew up with in the 70’s are dead from a ownership perspective. They don’t care about the future of the club. We are being stripped to the undercoat by the way our club are not handling internal and external communication. No news on the academy players or development squad, getting rid of young players and replacing them with over the pension age cart horses etc. Stadium? What stadium? If we have no plans that are viable plans that are happening then please tell us that because we’ve been strung along well before Wael ever arrived from the Middle East. Don’t even mention Tom Gorringe because ‘Commercial Director’? Well he couldn’t even direct an orange electric scooter through the shimmering blue Memorial Gates. The club is Dying or maybe dead and JB is just the scapegoat diverting attention away from the laughable owner and management. Evolution not Revolution - not my words - you’re having a laugh. I await to be proved wrong ? UTG A little more Mandy, I’m not suggesting Wael doesn’t care though. He’s entered into a business that’s unforgiving that’s ruthless that needs the correct dynamics in place to run without using utilities such as Ticketmaster which could ultimately alienate the fan base. He’s divided the fan base by employing muppets like Gorringe who strolls about in his pristine Jeff Banks double breasted suit with matching brogues who hasn’t got a clue about how to interact with fans. In fact he said to one of my mates the other week ‘If you don’t like what’s going on then don’t bother’ ! Saying that to someone who’s been going for 40+ years is shameful & Gorringe or Starnes have no place in our club. As for Starnes, he ignored the Rovers fans in Strensham services on the M5 on the way home from Mansfield and spent all of his time talking to Plymouth fans, those of his ex employer. The only director who comes out with any credit in my eyes is Barry Bradshaw who we see driving to every away match on his own in his Mercedes BB2. Wael is way out of his depth and he’s employed people who don’t give a s*** and are just picking up a wage. Prove me wrong UTG Rich😀 Would very much like to hear the other side of this. My understanding is that Gorringe is a member of the BoD of the FC, it's inconceivable that a Board member would ever address a supporter in that way.
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