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STATEMENT: TRAINING GROUND PLANNING PERMISSION APPLICATION NOT SUBMITTED Bristol Rovers Football Club can confirm it has not submitted a new planning permission application for its Almondsbury base. Crucially the look–at-the-state-of-it site will bring together the club’s first team and Academy players and staff plus enhance Rovers’ care pathway programme. Included in the old-look facility are a main rugby pitch plus two other rugby pitches and a cricket pavilion. The club has worked with Wael’s project managers to design a building that any part time rugby club would be proud of, encompassing a toilet, a changing hut, a first aid kit, rehab facilities and an MFI imitation teak home office set for the first team and Academy staff. 20th CENTURY FACILITIES “This will bring our training facilities into the 20th century and provide the football club’s Academy and first team with a place to hang out” Rovers chief executor Steve Hamster told brfc.coke.uk. “We’ve been pretending to work on the training ground project for the past year and, like the redevelopment of the Memorial Stadium, it’s a fantastic story to tell the fans.” “Our player development programme is supposed to underpin our ethos at Bristol Rovers Football Club and providing a second rate home for our first team and Academy setup is another demonstration of the Al-Qadi family’s level of commitment to the club and its young players.” Hamster added: “We have worked with so many consultants I’m beginning to lose count but when the current lot disappear and new ones are appointed we will keep supporters fully up to date every step of the way because they think it means something.”

Tick... f*****g tock.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-42315621

My goodness,I almost felt myself 'blushing on his behalf-but not quite!.......f#&£ing cringeworthy. If I had a tenner for every time he says "these things take time" I could buy him out....third class bullshitter par-excell'ence.

gas365 Youth Team Dec 7, 2017 at 9:54pm blueblood1883 and okebournegas like this Quote gashead1981 said: As bankers surely they were able to look at the profit and loss and see how much was underpinned by the previous directors? It’s business basics and totally bonkers that they would have to wait to run the club to notice that. They should also realise that the delaying of building/refurbing a stadium is also halting revenue and income streams. I think maybe we have been giving them too much credit all along. Their father set up the bank which would have been a good leg up into the banking world without having to make the hard yards that self made people do. I am unaware of what the owners of the club have achieved on their own merits outside of the family business- if someone wants to put me straight on that then I am genuinely happy to be corrected. As it is I can't help but think that where City got Lansdown (loathsome as he is), rag bag Rovers got the investment banking version of the Chuckle Brothers.

Yes, he's one of the "Children of the Evolution"

The gas have announced that they are releasing a film called 'The life of Wally', like everything else about the gas it's a complete rip off of some obscure Monty Python film whose name escapes me, but some of it has already leaked on to the inter web accidentally leaked by a complete bullshitter who has told the world that he repairs computers and sometimes at a very holy place called Ashton Gate. Picture the scene Wally is being carried down Gloucester Road and he drops a gourd (the gourd was representative of a trophy but the gas had sold all of theirs) and then one of his shoes falls off. Henbury Gas: Hail Messiah! Wally: I'm not the Messiah! Henbury Gas: I say You are, Lord, and I should know. I've followed a few. FOLLOWERS: Hail Messiah! Wally: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand?! Honestly! Miah: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity. Wally: What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah! FOLLOWERS: He is! He is the Messiah! Wally: Now, **** off! Henbury Gas: How shall we **** off lord Wally: Oh, just go away! Leave me alone. Wally: glances at his really nice watch, reclaims his Ipad from Henbury Gas who had been repairing it after it had crashed during the sermon on Hanham Mount, where Wally had preached to the multitudes with at least 2 million locked out and he produced his latest miracle of turning fine wine into piss and thought to him himself 'thank **** Chelsea are home tonight and i've got a season ticket". Wally: Where the **** is Dwane?.

Was he near cash converters with Billy Bodin ?

The Proforma Affair The sad passing of Christine Keeler last week brought back memories of an early 1960’s scandal involving Bristol Rovers which became known as “The Proforma Affair”. This sordid episode set in motion a long term decline of the club which can be traced to the day when an unfortunate case of mistaken identity led to us being forced to sell our prized asset Stephen “Dai” Ward to Cardiff City. It all began when Rovers’ director John Hare received an invitation to attend a kinky party held at a stately home near London and, knowing my penchant for stately homes, asked me to stand in for him. In those days I had no trouble standing and was pleased to help out but soon after arrival I discovered that our John had been confused with a prominent minister in the Government who shared the same name. Never one to refuse a challenge I carried on regardless and was quickly chatting to a highly successful banking tycoon from the Middle East who seemed very keen to assist with our plan to move from the training ground at the back of the Black Swan car park to a state of the art facility in South Gloucestershire. Mind altering drugs were in their infancy then and were packaged in a remarkably similarly way to Rennies so when I woke up next morning in bed with a girl called Mandy Rice - Krispies it was hardly surprising that I could recall nothing of the night before. And when I was later taken by limousine to a solicitor’s office at Chipping Sodbury I had no inkling that the land purchase papers I signed on behalf of a Jersey company were part of a devious plot to alter the balance of power in British football. But before the week was out a danger existed that my name and that of Bristol Rovers would be forever linked with failure to pay debts as and when they become due in one of the first cases of solvency abuse to hit the United Kingdom. At that time the Middle East, in economic terms, was a neglected backwater with the oil boom not yet underway and the West Bank a tiny sub post office just outside Petra. But politically it was a hot bed due in no small part to the success of the local electric blanket industry. And we at Bristol Rovers were merely prawns in this game of intrigue but, lacking any marie rose Source, extremely vulnerable to being blackmailed into supporting the application of Amman Disunited to join the football league. Within days bills started to arrive for goods and services supplied to that blasted overgrown field. Goat hooks, hedge fund trimmers, metal fences, metal mickeys, youth opportunity scheme kids, all came by the lorry load. And we had no way of paying for them because the promised suitcase full of used dinars had not turned up. Matters came to a head when a delegation of vendors, tax officials and the PFA arrived at our office demanding proforma payments in advance and threatening to name and shame us if we did not cough up. After 80 years of existence our histrionic club was in danger of being forced out of business because of those unscrupulous Arabian schemers who deliberately risked our integrity just to satisfy a desire to have their name read out on the BBC Light Programme Sports Report. But fortunately we still had one ace up our sleeve. Top scorer Dai Ward was sold to Cardiff, the bills were paid and with the help of the military attache at the Soviet Embassy in Saint Helier we managed to have the mysterious offshore company wound up and ownership of the field transferred into the name of Bristol Rovers. I spent many a happy minute in that cosy Portakabin at the Hambrook training ground as Christine Keeler would have been delighted to testify.

They will be relegated or insolvent by March, or even both. Bodin will be gone in Jan after which they have nothing left and so will go on a winless run to oblivion. The training ground and academy will never happen, the pitch will remain a quagmire and the only things they will have achieved is to have unpaid bills, the carpets cleaned, new curtains, refurbished toilets and a new shop. RIP Bristol Rovers FC.

The sooner they go bust and disappear up there own deluded arses the better. It's good fun ripping the piss out of them but they are like some annoying wasp that needs to be put out of it's sad existence for good. The 2 bell-end Sags at work were cracking each other off today saying that they can still make the playoffs Can you really put Bristol Rovers and the Championship in the same sentence, (ok I just did) but it would be ******* embarrassing if they ever fluked it, but a very funny painful slow death seeing them getting battered week in week out.

Or perhaps, given their current financial problems, he was just hoping to catch up on the latest score on teletext by looking through the Rediffusion shop window - a bit dated methinks, but I well recall doing the same back in the day....

Was he busking

Well might as well be me then As I said.. Dont know what all the fuss was about. A new dawn... For the Gas.. Befitting of the 600th page as we look out across the expanse of their new franchised location in Jordan. The new Wadi Rovers.

Will nobody ever think about the Championship-ready sprinklers ffs?

Are they having baths in the bogs as well? That would be of huge benefit to most of their fans.

The thing is though. Rovers fans will love that . And think everything is going to plan . Idiots

3rd class......As good as that?

All he said was we are talking about a plan, but we dont yet have a plan. Well they have been talking about a plan for months and will continue to talk about it for months to come. The reason they cant come up with a plan is that they have no money. Seems like all they are doing is moving the club shop and painting the bogs. Later, they will improve the playing staff with a visit to Lidl as they cant afford Waitrose. He just kept saying that these imaginary plans will take time. Sorry Wally there's not much time left. I wonder if they have a plan to deal with insolvency.

That was the most cringeworthy interview I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t make it to the end. It was like watching a child trying to explain why he hadn’t done his homework.

West Ham Chelski was a 12:30 kick off

Since when have the 15ers played "attractive football", can anyone hazard a guess? 1950's? 73/74? Apart from that it has been hoof hoof non-league pub team stuff hasn't it?

His team were just kicking off the second half then. He must have rushed over to the Drawbridge to catch the second half.

Old skool classic

Disgusting what happened after the game yesterday. Hope the guy makes a speedy recovery and has no lasting damage. No one should go to a football game and have that happen to them. Although I doubt the teens attended the game I'm shocked Rovers havnt released an article or even retweeted the appeal for information??

I've looked back just one year and had to laugh at their selective memory loss. Apart from the Matt Taylor threads, they were also convinced City were going down and they were going up at the end of the season. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8600/matty-sold-over-10m "I'd take £6 million and a loan back until the end of the season". "He lacks the attributes to go for anything more than £2m in my opinion". Then when Matt Taylor did join City they conveniently forgot this thread; http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8642/matty-leave-on-cheap Bristol Rovers hot-shot Matty Taylor will spark a January transfer war. Brighton, Cardiff, Wolves, QPR and Glasgow Rangers have all come in for Taylor who has scored 15 in 22 games this season and a total of 60 goals in the past two and a half seasons. Taylor is valued in the £1million bracket but has a cut-price clause in his contract which allows him to go on the cheap with Rovers bracing themselves for a battle to keep him. The 26-year-old signed a new deal last July despite interest from other League One and Championship clubs but Rovers will now struggle to keep him after his prolific form. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8960/matty-quarters Matty T is still being linked with a transfer to multiple Championship clubs. The club have said he's not for sale.

Cruel, but quite amusing

How about we promise you single malt but in reality get you nothing

Well I was going to wait for 3 wins in a row but I really have been missing you all and didn't want to miss out on any Xmas presents you may be sending me (Any single malt will be fine btw)

Their top scorer could change his name to Billy Bedouin.

Classic, also going to swipe this to send to some mates, Nice one Cheese!

Ah, so you hadn’t actually gone away. You were just waiting until you’d won a couple of games. No wonder we’d not seen you for so long..!

I’m sure we wore purple on Friday night....

so bland and uninspiring,city are live on sky 4 times this month. the only chance they have of any tv coverage is if they hosted the great british bake off in their tent

Not good that a bloke was walking home from their match today and was stabbed by 3 youffs on push bikes. Hope he gets well soon, and they catch the little ***** that did this. Nobody deserves that. https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/newsroom/2017/12/stabbing-in-horfield-under-investigation/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialSignIn