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  1. This is the particularly funny and ironic part of the interview. Credit to some of the Gas fans for flagging up his mistake on the gasheads.org forum. As PRESIDENT of Bristol Rovers, Wael Al-Qadi should know that that FFP does not apply to League 1 clubs. Instead, they (like other L1 clubs) adhere to the Salary Cost Management Protocol (SCMP). This is a Financial Fair Play framework but rather importantly, owners can invest as much money in their club as they choose. Such investment is not permitted by FFP in the Championship hence the reason Steve Lansdown is trying to build the turnover of BCFC with so much non-matchday activity. Basically, Al-Qadi is lying to the Rovers supporters when he says that FFP is at least part of the reason that the owners are not investing more in the playing squad. They could pour millions in if they wanted to. Played like a fiddle....
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  2. I used to work with a gashead, who’s son got suspended from school. The teachers asked the kids what their dad likes to do in his spare time, so he stood up infront of the class and said “my dad likes to go up the downs, dressed in women’s lingerie, then he follows men into the bushes and pleasures them for money” The very unimpressed, shocked & concerned teacher ordered him straight from the classroom and, outside, asked if what he’d said was true..? “No Miss” said the young lad. “He’s a Bristol Rovers season ticket holder, but I was too embarrassed to tell the class that!”
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  4. Better than being Redfield and definitely a Wh...
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  5. 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.”
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  6. Are you sure we don't know the same set of Sags? Blimey, they are all the same, clinging onto 1982, Windass and their away following myth. I wish I had taken a video on Friday night of the Sags faces as Flints winner went in. It was absolutely ******* priceless!!!!
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  7. Will nobody ever think about the Championship-ready sprinklers ffs?
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  8. 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.
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  9. 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.
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  10. I'm Horfield and definitely red
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  11. Get em to try the Pill tradition of swimming to the Lamplighters, Shirehampton. "Yer going in the river"
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  12. i head it had to shut after the floods of tears when flint scored
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  13. Been done several times throughout this thread, but what's the point, they will only tell you the figures are wrong. Facts mean nothing to them.... Fact.
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  14. I longingly await the time when I look on this thread and the word 'Administration' appears.
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  15. Tick... f*****g tock.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-42315621
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  16. Are they having baths in the bogs as well? That would be of huge benefit to most of their fans.
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  17. 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.
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  18. live in Portishead and was sat opposite Matty with his partner in Costa on the Marina Saturday morning after Sheffield United game around 11.30am he was drinking a Americano, seemed very relaxed, told him he made a difference coming on last night and wished him all the best for the rest of the season, he smile and said thanks.
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  19. I’ll never tire at digging this visual out from the stadium planning docs of 2009......shows location of season ticket holders around Bristol. Quite clearly we are everywhere including massive numbers in the so say gas areas! Taking into account our season ticket numbers have gone up by about 40% since then, I’d confidently say the city is ours.
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  20. According to the BP:- Billy Bodin pens contract, midfielder and winger sign, new training ground - Bristol Rovers' dream January transfer window If only Carlsberg did Rovers fortunes....... Unfortunately they have to settle for Watney's!
    1 point
  21. Flower Of Scot(t)land....The Corries
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  22. Agree about Kingswood SJ. Also, it does seeem to be the older lot that are staunch G*s. I grew up in and around there and know as many reds as I do 15'ers, if not more.
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  23. Judas. Now you've tipped off Congresbury Gas (presumably there is one?)
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  24. only going on what the bloke down the pub told me SJ ......joking aside little stoke and stoke Gifford the sort of areas youll see the lesser spotted idiot
    1 point
  25. Erm, aren't they the same place? I live close to BI, not in it, and there is one staunch gas boozer on the island suggesting the estate is predominantly blue. I would suggest it's one of the few blue areas left but in Barrs, next door, it's virtually ALL red and long may it continue! @Cheesleysmate lives near me so I would assume he agrees? Kingswood was pretty blue when I was a nipper with one shining 'bastion of red' boozer. While there's still a lot of older blues, I would suggest there are an awful lot more reds in BS15 than there used to be, maybe not parity yet but it's not far off!
    1 point
  26. It was coined by Dopey Darell - #### the greyhound
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  27. Don't worry. In just a few months, when you get your driving licence, you'll show them even the kids are red!
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  28. Rovers fans tell me that Kingswood is Gas, Cadbury Heath is Gas, Hanham is full of shitheads, Staple Hill is Gas, Fishponds is Gas, Eastvile is Gas, Patchway is Gas, Southmead is Gas, Filton is Gas, Horfield is Gas, Ashley Down is Gas and everywhere else is Somerset and full of shitheads.
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  29. Not sure; but Dopey would definitely "man" a hound out of town.
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  30. We average more away support than them every season for as long as I can remember, that’s a fact. It’s published each year in various football related websites. You could trawl the Internet yourself looking for statistics but the next time they claim to have better away support than us why don’t you say to them “prove it”....they cant. I remember someone posted a similar question on Slagchat asking for proof of Rovers superior away support so he could go back to his ‘shithead’ mates and show them. Not one statistic to back up their claim, in fact they all did their best to sidestep the question completely and change the subject to Dean Windass and 1982 Sorry but your mates are standard deluded Sagheads. If they try and tell you our numbers are only bigger because they visit smaller L1 and L2 grounds just remind them that they rarely sell out their allocations in those grounds either.
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  31. Any attempt to use that acronym on here with 'up' as the first word automatically gets changed.
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  32. Why do they use the acronym FTG? Surely the only thing that could mean is **** the gas?
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  33. You can't pull the wool over my eyes - Perry Como
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  34. We can improve the training ground as much as we like, the fact remains we don't have a Santa's Grotto and the Gas do.
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  35. I'm a procrastinator, Get me out of here....
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  36. 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.
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  37. 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.
    1 point
  38. 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??
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  39. 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.
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  40. The BBC article has them relegated to league two again
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  41. So this poster is saying that Rovers fans will only turn up in huge numbers if their team is doing well...doesn’t sound very loyal to me. Although you’d expect that logic from a thick Cardiff fan. Rovers have been higher than us and their attendances have never dwarfed ours. Big numbers home and away? 7k at home last week 2-300 at Bradford, Bury and Rochdale and this at Scunthorpe.... What a dick!
    1 point
  42. It’s not a stadium rebuild project..!
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