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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 18, 2016 11:54:46 GMT
Nope that's why i asked you because you give the impression in your post that you did Well using statistical analysis similar to what Dubes would use pre-Dubey we had a points per game average of 1.6. After his appointment the average went to 2.46 over a 13 game period. If we'd have started the season with Will in the set up we'd have managed 113 points (well 113.6 but let's round down for the sake of it). If he'd not come we'd have managed 74 (73.6 I'm rounding up this time to make Will look bad). Without Will we'd have missed out on the Playoffs by a point!
Quite the revelation imo.
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 17, 2016 14:05:44 GMT
dc promised to offer at least a 1 year deal to all 1st team squad players if we were promoted obviously as a motivation tool,the downside side is maybe some players stay who would appear to be surplus. True, but that didn't stop us offering Fallon nothing. Paddy could hardly feel hard done by having earned a year's salary for 60 minutes play time. I take it you're counting the half time break at Daggers in that 60 minutes? |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 13, 2016 8:15:05 GMT
Because not everything in life is about money. Sure, he's been good for Rovers, but you can equally argue that we've helped him develop as well. I totally agree on the development front, but who bats an eyelid at that in any form of job? The trainee does two years with a company and then moves on without even thinking about who has trained her/him. Unless they keep the person, long term, all companies are in a no win situation. Some take the view that they are benefitting their industry. At least football clubs have the added benefit of a contract, for a set period, to protect them. Football clubs give "longer" contracts to protect their asset and ensure they can get a sell-on fee. In recent years we have generally had short contracts because our experience has been pretty retched with respect to individual players (shall I list them...) and results. We have now been caught out because of our change in "fortune". Had we had a crystal ball and known what was going to happen we wouldn't be in this position and MT would be tied to a longer contract. If it had gone wrong (who really thought MT would have improved his finishing quite so dramatically?), and he had a longer contract, there would have been some interesting comments on here. And to add to that the manager has stated he prefers to have players on short contracts and playing for their futures. You can't have it both ways and have to accept you will lose good players for free. And what does MT really owe us? It could've been Jamie White that started scoring goals with MT not getting any game time and then he'd been encouraged to leave the club. The lad has to look after his future. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 10, 2016 7:01:40 GMT
Someone tell these two we've just secured BACK TO BACK promotions for the first time in our history. Sounds like it's escaped their notice. Must have escaped the notice of the person who decided to reintroduce the thread, can we put the anchor on this one Mods, it's embarrassing and totally unnecessary. Hard to believe an administrator of the forum could be so petty as to troll back through months of threads to start an argument. Kg sounded far more level headed in his response than the Administrator did. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 9, 2016 7:32:18 GMT
Indeed. We are back in an "as you were" 5 years ago. Will be an interesting summer. We missed out on an opportunity last summer and paid the price this season. 1. We have the chance now to get some players in hopefully starting with Tomlin and showing players we aren't a flash in the pan as we've stayed up. We failed to attract last summer. Whether it was Cotterill or whether it was newly promoted unknowns who knows? 2. You are now in a division far far harder to get out of than your last two. It's now the likes of Coventry, Sheff Utd, MK Dons, Charlton, Bolton etc. All of them vying to get back up. You need a good summer to be ready. Both of us have some work to do. It's going to very interesting for your investment next season. If Bristol Rugby get back into the Rugby Premiership (which looks likely) they are going to require some big investment to keep themselves there. However rich your owner might be there has to be a financial limit to what he has available to him particularly with the Chancellor of the Exchequer about to enforce harsher tax regulations on British exiles in the Channel Islands and further abroad so he may not have the 'cash' available to support both teams at the level he once did. He has been a long time supporter of the Bristol rugby team even when he supported the Rovers until he changed allegiance when the Gas moved to Twerton so potentially you aren't going to see the investment you need to improve your team in your present league that you of course would like. We'll be happy to sustain year on year improvement but Burton have just secured successive promotions without huge investment so with our new owners only having to financially support one professional team who knows what could be achieved. We have no doubt League 1 will be harder but not as hard as when we were last there with the likes of Manchester City, Leeds, Norwich, kSouthampton, Leicester, Sheffield Wednesday etc and it was no surprise we came a cropper as we just didn't have owners with enough money to match the financial clout of those teams. We're hoping it might be a bit different this time around, who knows, footballs a funny old game.  Really Bridgeman. The wage cap in Rugby Premiership is lower than the alleged fine Bournemouth have just had for breaking FFP in the Championship. As for SL having some longheld love for Bristol rugby he refused to help them when they wanted to play at AG when we were planning to redevelop the Mem. Small change for SL to establish Bristol at next level if they don't choke again and even they should romp through this play off. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 8, 2016 7:53:44 GMT
Just wanted to say congratulations. Have been following your season and has been hard not develop green eyes as was so close to being us. But you are top club with class fans, meet a few on my travels again this year and were always friendly. A cracking manager too so deserve another promotion. Only wish there was a Bristol derby next year to look forward too. Hope you can spare a little luck for the Mariners you left behind though. Best of luck in League 1! Bloody hell pull your finger out and thrash Braintree, all the best |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 7, 2016 13:48:41 GMT
The Sky presentation stage is here, so remember stuff em and get on the pitch
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 7, 2016 11:25:29 GMT
Today Kaiser I live in hope as I have every day for the last 34 years that the turd of a football club with no moral compass you support will pay up in full monies owed to friends and family for work carried out in 1982. Any chance? That's harsh calling Accrington & Poxford a turd of a club. I applaud kaiser in seeing the light and turning away from that other club. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 7, 2016 9:20:24 GMT
Let's be honest if the choice is supporting Bristol s**tty, Accrington or Poxford it's a no brainer, isn't it? You can't blame kasier for not wanting to support Bristol s**tty.
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 6, 2016 17:50:44 GMT
Not quite. We all assumed (I assume) that we had a contract with UWE, and we just had to find the money; plan A for getting it was to sell the Mem to Sainsbury's for over the odds; when it became increasingly clear that it wasn't going to happen, the assumption - and talk - was of a plan B to raise the money. What seems to have been said now is that the sale to Sainsbury's was written into the contract with UWE, so if that didn't happen the contract with them was void. Maybe UWE had good grounds for giving a toss how we raised the money, and wanted that clause in there, but it sounds to me like a get-out clause for us. Sadly, we didn't want to get out, but without selling to Sainsbury's, we didn't (and presumably currently don't) have a contract with UWE. So much for the mythical plan B. Who knows how ready UWE would have been to change contract terms with the old regime and sign up for another five years of being jerked around, if another way of finding the dosh had been found, but I expect they're far readier to re-contract with the new lot. Damn, I'm glad they came along. It may be just that it was contracted that the Sainsbury's funds were popped into a secure account and released in phases as the work progressed. But as I think you are suggesting, that should have been easy to deal with via an amendment to the contract if alternative funding was in place. Exactly, been saying that regarding the Sainsburys cash for a couple of years. I'm sure the clause was at UWEs insistence so that they didn't end up with a halfbuilt white elephant on their doorstep. Still Al water under the bridge now just matters if the new owners can provide the financial guarantees to satisfy UWE enough to get them to sign a contract. Suspect they again want to see a large sum of money deposited in an escrow account before contract becomes legally binding. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 6, 2016 13:37:38 GMT
Doesn't point 1 and 2 of Nick Days tweets contradict each other? Glad he gave that careful consideration
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 6, 2016 8:51:44 GMT
Message is that he'll be fit for Saturday
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 5, 2016 19:25:51 GMT
Brendan in 'not knowing what he's doing shock!'
See you on Saturday!
Edit- You may be better off posting this on Gaschat, there's a few more of them than us.
Can you do it for me please Rex, not sure what I'm doing tbh mate  ? All done for you Brendan, let's raise the roof for him on Saturday. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on May 5, 2016 18:24:50 GMT
Would've stayed off the pitch but stuff the killjoys at the FA.
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Apr 30, 2016 9:05:28 GMT
Phone up before Thursday and then pick up on the day. If in the first season your son goes to enough games then the following season he should get a book.
Sensible by the club or potentially you give out a season ticket for kids that don't go often which means there is one less ticket the club can sell on the day.
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Apr 24, 2016 12:53:40 GMT
1. If you don't want your views challenged don't go on a public forum. 2. Yep and the agent i believe was fined more & banned for 6 months. As an aside I think NH was cynically used by the agent. I'm also sure that Gareth Ainsworth won't be sending his teams out to lose for any reason (only an idiot would believe that) & I doubt that there are many players still at Wycombe from 2 years ago & even fewer who knew or remember the complaint to the FA More than happy to have anything I say challenged, but childish sniping about 'moving on' isn't going to lead to much of a debate is it? Higgs' disastrous tenure is part of the recent history of our club, it seems like a reasonable topic for discussion to me. The agent, from memory, was banned for 24 months with 18 months suspended. Here you go, a quick Google and it's all there, www.southwestbusiness.co.uk/news/28052014100914-relegated-bristol-rovers-make-dramatic-bid-to-stay-in-sky-bet-league-two/I'm left wondering how much of a role those '' specialist sports lawyers together with Nick De Marco, a leading sports barrister,'' had in convincing Higgs that this was a good idea, and if we ever paid them for their services? What I do know is that it was frigging embarrassing and no matter what we think about lightening-gate, they can always throw this back at us. Not our finest hour. Well we'll agree that NHs tenure was disastrous but we'll disagree about this episode being embarrassing he asked the question of the FA & didn't get any joy. I personally don't know any Wycombe fans but I'd be surprised if very many even remember the incident. And we also seem to agree that NH was cynically used by the agent, and perhaps others, but perhaps you are the sort of person that wouldn't report anything out of the unusual as it's not your business, as it happens the police (for instance) quite like people reporting such things as it does help them. As to 'moving on' I know you won't, some people like living in the past, personally I think the present & future is much more important. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Apr 24, 2016 12:21:33 GMT
You're not going to move on then? No surprise there. If you want to pick an argument; 1. Find someone else. 2. At least get your facts straight, WW were fined £10,000, why would the FA hand down that fine to a club who had done nothing wrong (although the offence was committed under previous ownership). 1. If you don't want your views challenged don't go on a public forum. 2. Yep and the agent i believe was fined more & banned for 6 months. As an aside I think NH was cynically used by the agent. I'm also sure that Gareth Ainsworth won't be sending his teams out to lose for any reason (only an idiot would believe that) & I doubt that there are many players still at Wycombe from 2 years ago & even fewer who knew or remember the complaint to the FA |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Apr 24, 2016 11:46:17 GMT
You mean where the FA decided that an agent had acted improperly on the instructions of a club but the club had done nothing wrong? Stop living in the past and move on. Priceless. No, I mean where Higgs suggested that WW had gained a competitive advantage due to something that had happened 2 years earlier and under previous owners, and as you rightly say, had already been addressed by the FA. You're not going to move on then? No surprise there. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Apr 24, 2016 10:57:09 GMT
My fear is now they're out of the playoffs that they'll drop a few kids on for the last couple of games or be mentally on the beach .. If Higgs were still involved, given how he acted 2 years ago, I wouldn't blame them if they did. You mean where the FA decided that an agent had acted improperly on the instructions of a club but the club had done nothing wrong? Stop living in the past and move on. |
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Apr 22, 2016 14:42:21 GMT
54 in Somalia? Sounds legit. thats the Bristol suberb of Somalia  Lawrence Hill? |
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