weeble Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 11 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: Is that right? Is the piece that Rich quoted out of date then? Yes, it dates from Rovers announcing their preferred site - before South Glos agreed the changes. A training ground where you weren't allowed to use it before 6pm during school terms, wouldn't be much use to any professional football club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 11 minutes ago, weeble said: Yes, it dates from Rovers announcing their preferred site - before South Glos agreed the changes. A training ground where you weren't allowed to use it before 6pm during school terms, wouldn't be much use to any professional football club. OK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 15 minutes ago, pongo88 said: The Bristol Rugby owner was a lifelong Rovers supporter who just happened to put the club into administration, enabling Rovers to buy the other 50% for £10k. No attempt was made to find any other backers to avoid administration. This has been covered many times on the forum, but is always ignored by those of a gas persuasion And we still didnt steal anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeble Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 14 minutes ago, pongo88 said: The Bristol Rugby owner was a lifelong Rovers supporter who just happened to put the club into administration, enabling Rovers to buy the other 50% for £10k. No attempt was made to find any other backers to avoid administration. This has been covered many times on the forum, but is always ignored by those of a gas persuasion A 'life long' supporter who hadn't noticed that Rovers had been forced to leave the city for Bath, and only remembered when the rugby club were desperate for more income in 1996? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 1 minute ago, Hello said: And we still didnt steal anything Just served up on a silver platter, a platter that was probably ill gotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stawey Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 On 25/11/2016 at 07:07, cityloyal473 said: what goes around comes around and will keep biting them in the bum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pride of the west Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 There has to be a catch somewhere. They can seemingly find the cash to build a training ground which at the end of the day will cost a couple of million yet can't find any money for players and remain in the bottom 6 of league 1 for player budget. I also find it telling that wallys daddy was over for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 16 hours ago, Robert the bruce said: All the way up to the mudguards...... Rattling his taters..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaller than a flea Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 4 hours ago, steviestevieneville said: I spoke to someone who had supported Bristol for decades .He had no ties to City or your lot but knew what had been going on when your lot bought the stadium. He told me that all memorabilia of Bristol RFC had been chucked into a skip even while they were still playing there and nobody would ever know that it was a rugby stadium, they were also made to feel unwelcome in their own home. Your excuse of a club has a history of being underhand and lacking class . That is truly shocking, if true. It goes a long way to explaining why they moved to Ashton Gate as soon as possible, sixteen years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviestevieneville Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 4 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said: That is truly shocking, if true. It goes a long way to explaining why they moved to Ashton Gate as soon as possible, sixteen years later. Well they couldn't move before SL bought them could they . Just another club you nearly ruined Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 The Colonic, is this plan B for when UWE falls through? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 3 hours ago, Port Said Red said: Is that right? Is the piece that Rich quoted out of date then? The piece I quoted was to give a little background to the current statements. Also to show the connection with the rugby club ownership. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 17 hours ago, Robert the bruce said: All the way up to the mudguards...... And the mudflaps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 6 hours ago, Hello said: I'll give you the purchase of a lease for the site although I guess it would be a significant length of time and not 5 years but are you lot still peddling the Memorial Stadium nonsense? Rugby club were going bust, were going to sell Mem to Amtrak for £2.3m, BRFC paid £2.3m for 50% of the ground. We had the bank loan to prove it So the rugby club chairman and BRFC supporter (Arthur Holmes) threatened to sell the Memorial ground to Amtrak for £2.3m (the figure he was owed by the rugby club), until he came up with the better plan of selling 50% of it to BRFC (Dunford), for the same figure of £2.3m (the amount he was owed). There was a condition that, if either of the clubs went bankrupt, the other club could buy the remaining 50% for £10,000. Yippee! BRFC come to the rescue of the rugby club, they'll be joint owners of the stadium company, and the rugby club will be forever grateful. Now then, the rugby club, which he was chairman of, was losing money at an alarming rate, didn't receive any of the proceeds of the 50% sale, because it paid Arthur Holmes back. So they were still losing money, had no income from the sale and after five months, Arthur Holmes (rugby club chairman and BRFC supporter) filed for bankruptcy of the rugby club. BRFC (Dunford) bought the remaining 50% for £10,000, not bad business. Dunford was happy, Holmes was happy, rugby club directors were happy, after a piece of land was shared out, but, the rugby club weren't happy. In the obituary that Dunford wrote about Arthur Holmes, he used two thirds of it to explain the deal for the Memorial stadium, why? Oh yes, Arthur Holmes was made a lifelong President of BRFC, for his services to the club. No BRFC didn't steal the Memorial ground, their chairman and friends at the rugby club saved the ground for the future of both clubs. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 3 hours ago, Hello said: And we still didnt steal anything And we didn't "steal" your top goal scorer ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Smaller than a flea said: That is truly shocking, if true. It goes a long way to explaining why they moved to Ashton Gate as soon as possible, sixteen years later. Fifteen years and seven months after paying their first rent to BRFC for use of the rugby ground. I suppose they could have moved to Bath, complaining that Bristol never helped them in their search for a new ground. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 Holmes was a total**** (and so, for that matter was his Mrs) ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 9 hours ago, Rich said: So the rugby club chairman and BRFC supporter (Arthur Holmes) threatened to sell the Memorial ground to Amtrak for £2.3m (the figure he was owed by the rugby club), until he came up with the better plan of selling 50% of it to BRFC (Dunford), for the same figure of £2.3m (the amount he was owed). There was a condition that, if either of the clubs went bankrupt, the other club could buy the remaining 50% for £10,000. Yippee! BRFC come to the rescue of the rugby club, they'll be joint owners of the stadium company, and the rugby club will be forever grateful. Now then, the rugby club, which he was chairman of, was losing money at an alarming rate, didn't receive any of the proceeds of the 50% sale, because it paid Arthur Holmes back. So they were still losing money, had no income from the sale and after five months, Arthur Holmes (rugby club chairman and BRFC supporter) filed for bankruptcy of the rugby club. BRFC (Dunford) bought the remaining 50% for £10,000, not bad business. Dunford was happy, Holmes was happy, rugby club directors were happy, after a piece of land was shared out, but, the rugby club weren't happy. In the obituary that Dunford wrote about Arthur Holmes, he used two thirds of it to explain the deal for the Memorial stadium, why? Oh yes, Arthur Holmes was made a lifelong President of BRFC, for his services to the club. No BRFC didn't steal the Memorial ground, their chairman and friends at the rugby club saved the ground for the future of both clubs. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I am not going to say it wasn't a convenient deal or that we got a good deal (we still paid the same amount for half the ground as it was going to be sold for, so not peanuts) We were already tenants, surely it made sense to offer the ground to the other club that played there and secure the ground for both teams as opposed to selling anything/everything to someone else who may have had other ideas. Whether Arthur Holmes took the money and ran to Timbuktu isn't/wasn't our problem As for any 'Honorary Title' he may have been given by Rovers, people get given them for all sorts. Hell Barry Bradshaw is now a life Vice president because he served on the board and I don't know many that say great things about Boycie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bianconeri Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 35 minutes ago, Hello said: I am not going to say it wasn't a convenient deal or that we got a good deal (we still paid the same amount for half the ground as it was going to be sold for, so not peanuts) We were already tenants, surely it made sense to offer the ground to the other club that played there and secure the ground for both teams as opposed to selling anything/everything to someone else who may have had other ideas. Whether Arthur Holmes took the money and ran to Timbuktu isn't/wasn't our problem As for any 'Honorary Title' he may have been given by Rovers, people get given them for all sorts. Hell Barry Bradshaw is now a life Vice president because he served on the board and I don't know many that say great things about Boycie Ah, so a 'convenient deal' that involves a bit of insider knowledge is a good thing when it benefits MoronFC but a legitimate deal where insider knowledge may have been disclosed by one of the parties to the cintract is cause to gomwhining to the FA? 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 1 hour ago, Bianconeri said: Ah, so a 'convenient deal' that involves a bit of insider knowledge is a good thing when it benefits MoronFC but a legitimate deal where insider knowledge may have been disclosed by one of the parties to the cintract is cause to gomwhining to the FA? classic example of #gaslogic 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 1 hour ago, Bianconeri said: Ah, so a 'convenient deal' that involves a bit of insider knowledge is a good thing when it benefits MoronFC but a legitimate deal where insider knowledge may have been disclosed by one of the parties to the cintract is cause to gomwhining to the FA? and again, I have said City have done nothing wrong regarding Taylor. They just made use of knowledge. Is Rovers 'complaint' actually against City or asking how City came about the knowledge. Two different things 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 1 minute ago, Hello said: and again, I have said City have done nothing wrong regarding Taylor. They just made use of knowledge. Is Rovers 'complaint' actually against City or asking how City came about the knowledge. Two different things stop biting on the subject Hello, you're one of the decent few but you're doing yourself no favors with this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted February 8, 2017 Admin Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 35 minutes ago, Monkeh said: stop biting on the subject Hello, you're one of the decent few but you're doing yourself no favors with this Have to say it is refreshing to have decent replies from a Rovers fan not just back biting at everything 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 44 minutes ago, phantom said: Have to say it is refreshing to have decent replies from a Rovers fan not just back biting at everything Yes, it was good to see Fordingbridge Pirate on here the other day, haven't seen @In the Net recently? Sensible debate is so much more interesting that the constant "he said, she said" stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bianconeri Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 1 hour ago, Hello said: and again, I have said City have done nothing wrong regarding Taylor. They just made use of knowledge. Is Rovers 'complaint' actually against City or asking how City came about the knowledge. Two different things Not pointing the finger at you at all sport, it's good to have a sag who doesn't resort to tribal rhetoric. If I was in the blue camp I'd be worried about the consequences of who disclosed Taylor's contract either by telling us or putting it in the public domain IF it happened. That's why they'll not formalise any complaint. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 32 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: Yes, it was good to see Fordingbridge Pirate on here the other day, haven't seen @In the Net recently? Sensible debate is so much more interesting that the constant "he said, she said" stuff. What about "my old man said....", stuff..?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 8 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said: What about "my old man said....", stuff..?! That's worse 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 1 hour ago, Port Said Red said: That's worse Nowhere near as bad as......"a reliable source" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myol'man Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 3 hours ago, Bar BS3 said: What about "my old man said....", stuff..?! Oi, leave me out of it! 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1982 Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Just now, Hello said: And we still didnt steal anything you can imagine if the boot was on the other foot, the gash would be running to the authorities crying foul. Wycombe, Sainsburys, And Taylor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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