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Their one and only beef with SL is that he pumps millions into us, not them. That's it. This bitterness is compounded by the fact they have never had anyone willing or able to back them to the same degree (when they so desperately need it). Until now, of course. What they could do, with someone like SL... But to throw mud at SL simply because he is red, not blue would leave them wide open to ridicule, too easily dismissed, so they pretend to be outraged by his non-dom status. Of course, if they were geniunely affronted by football club owners not doing their bit for their country or for being questionable characters, they would be "banging on" about the owner of Sports Direct, or the one running Villa into the ground until recently, or the ones borrowing hundreds of millions to buy Man Utd and lumbering the club with the debt, or the goon at Cardiff/Fulham/Forest (take your pick), not the one employing local people at the going rate along Anchor Road and ploughing millions into the local economy in south Bristol (and rescuing long established local sporting clubs, rather than taking advantage of them at their most vulnerable). But they don't give a f*** about any of that. What pisses them off is that he is spending millions on us, not on them. It's hypocrisy laced with decades of bitter, bitter envy. A toxic combination.

I don't think he bought them as a toy, he probably thought it was a genuinely good business deal. Possible this happened... Higgs said buy the club, it has assets and only a small amount of debt. They ask why he is selling the club then, well because he has to service a loan and has ran out of lines of credit. Wael looks at the finances, yup, a couple of loans to pay off that have fallen due, and then the club is debt free with a nice large asset in the Mem. Seems a good deal, check with Higgs what kind of cut he want's out of the deal - he ask for maybe 1-2 million and bingo - Rovers have a new owner, Dwayne Sports, who are registered in Jersey and have now got the purchase and loan payments on their books. Now he starts to realise the club runs at a loss, that the UWE deal is not a clear cut as it seemed, in fact UWE seem keen on using the land for a new faculty. Wael also realises that they will not own the land, and that Rovers will be nothing more than tenants and for that privilege they have to front most of the building costs - so he has to renegotiate to get a better deal. Wael looks at his £70 odd million wealth and starts wondering how much he should put into the club... it's a big gamble, and most of the wealth is tied up in assets, so he looks for financing, but what kind of returns can they expect from the ground for a large up front costs ? Probably nowhere enough to make it a decent deal, so he struggles to find anyone to get on board.... and that's where we now are Wael goes to sleep at night cussing Higgs and dreaming of owning a trouble free Gillingham. So Rovers are owned by a offshore company, in a tax haven, by a business man from Jordan - and what is it they say about us and Lansdown ?

Wally driving along with his Chelsea badge hanging from the rear view mirror

Really? I imagine it will be the source of at least another 2 pages worth of comment on gullible ones. What they seem to forget is that he personally has probably paid more in tax etc in his life, before he moved, than many of us will earn in a lifetime. Also he continues to pay tax and create jobs through Hargreaves Lansdown and Bristol Sport, in fact he must be one of Bristol's largest employers. What a bloodsucker!

And the sags should know, they`ve followed a few.

It came across as a sporting Spinal Tap.

I like how the presenter started the piece off by saying how they are used to living in our shadow. Gold that

Please tell me that someone is watching this programme on bbc one about the sags? Please!? This has to be a mockumentary because I'm pissing myself already!!!!

Ooops - must remember to switch my web-cam off in future!

@NeilS I respectfully suggest you stop coming on this thread to tell others what they can and cannot post on this forum. If you cannot respect other people's right to post I recommend ignoring this thread. If you cannot do this we can help you, but this will also result in you having difficulty accessing any thread. Good luck with your decision.

For clarity, I'm a Dolman ST holder, so I'll be off (of the ****ing variety) 10 minutes earlier than most, so a swift reply would be appreciated.

So he categorically denies he's a billionaire. Will they all shut up now and crawl back under their rocks?

How can Samir be in two places at once ?

I'd rather wipe my ass with 40 grit sand paper... after a case of the runs and inflamed hemorrhoids.

You announce that you won't post again on this thread, say farewell, then immediately post again. You can't resist, can you?

Bought a canopy?

Wally now thinking "half a dinari for my life story"....

Sorry but , he is not a messiah , he is a naughty boy

"Only the true messiah would deny his divinity"

Jesting aside. I thought Wally came across as a nice enough bloke. Well, nice enough as far as my experience of fake billionaires goes anyway. In fact, when considering the fake billionaires I've seen on a regional news program interviewed in Jordan, I'd almost go as far as saying he's the best one they've done.

Don't forget the £12 000 we paid to bring Alfie Biggs back from Preston in 1962. That was 12% of the Jimmy Greaves' £99 999 record transfer fee so if Pogba is worth £90 million today then using the same yardstick Alfie would be worth £10.8 million or about the same as your Kodja fellow. Unfortunately we cannot use that yardstick because, although the finance is in place, the feasibility study has not yet been completed. Older OTIBers may or may not concur with my view that Harry Kane is the modern day equivalent of Alfie. But they will certainly agree that the rivalry between our clubs was more civilised in those days and I can only apologise for the disgraceful comments by a supposed Rovers supporter about a Bristol City WFC player. This trait of reveling in malicious abuse is not solely aimed at you reds either because the sneering at clubs like Yeovil Town and the attempted bullying of Wycombe Wanderers goes hand in hand with the vicious disrespect shown to our former managers as exemplified by the "Oldgas" post quoted earlier in this thread. I pray that one day the true Rovers spirit of sportsmanship will return. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alfie-biggs-footballer-known-as-the-baron-7718496.html

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8136/sat-attendance-tour-britain i see they are blaming Saturday's low attendance of the tour of britain surely the loyalist most passionate fans in the country wouldn't miss a game for the cycling?

Apparently coming back from some kind of knock

ITV+1

So they are talking about the possible multi million pound transfer for a player who wasn't snapped up on a free in the summer. #gaslogic

This really bugs me, I hate hypocrites, and 'THEY' just don't see it.

The best thing about that interview is Lansdown smiling right back at him in that picture, que the jealous bitterness of Wally and the horsepunchers.

you may have had him there

This means that even with the sags contributing to the thread and encouraging involvement, just over 3% of the posts are to do with the gas. Put another way, if you had an hour chatting to your City mate, this would represent 2 minutes laughing at the gas and 58 minutes talking about City.

As moderators of this forum, we merge any sag related chat into this thread. Since this thread started there has been approximately 400k posts on here, 13k in this thread (at least a thousand of which from our unfortunate blue cousins - who we don't ban just for registering unlike sagchat). This means that even with the sags contributing to the thread and encouraging involvement, just over 3% of the posts are to do with the gas. Put another way, if you had an hour chatting to your City mate, this would represent 2 minutes laughing at the gas and 58 minutes talking about City.

In his Toyota.. which probably cost less than his watch.

I stand corrected. Saw somewhere Waggy was playing for possibly the first time this season and I misunderstood.

The thought of seeing some fat saghead ,head to toe in lycra makes me feel quite sick.

They seem rattled by that Oxfords fans comment but I can't see what it says Amazed they didn't blame their low attendance on another boycott.

Sorry no, you're right I should have quoted the original post. Even I could recognise the sarcasm in your post!

Waggy was injured all season but started on Saturday

I did like this bit " I can't see why you would be puzzled at why we didn't go out and get 'proven' league 1 quality standard players, anyone who has listened to DC or has seen the type of players he's signed over the last couple of years would know that's just not his style " Not his style? He's never been anywhere he could spend any money ffs. When did they last pay a fee for a player?

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8133/terrible-truth-signings I like this one where the poster has put together a list of 7 'proven top quality league 1 players' that he wishes they had signed instead if the carp that they ended up with. Just so happens that 4 of the players listed are old servants of ours. As if they would have joined that shower - they have standards you know! #keepdreaming

Should be framing and mounting this one. Couldn't explain it any simpler or clearer than that.

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/8138/matty-transfer-window... 2nd comment is a beauty

Like I said, they're just full of sh1t and easily dismissed. Mike Ashley anyone?

You wanne make a small fortune from owning a football club, start with a big fortune.

It wouldn't have even been that bad if it was just the fans, but I heard their own club rep doing the summariser role the first match after the takeover, reiterate these exact "facts". Surely that would have been a good time for the club, through the local media outlet, to correct the misinformation. The fact they didn't take that opportunity comes as misleading at best and dishonest at worst.

Tbf , they are now financially secure or at least safe in the short term. In that respect he's done a good job (where that debt has gone maybe another question.) What I don't get is originally , under Higgs , I thought everything was in place . If Sainsbury's had bought the ground it was all systems go. Now their new leader is doing feasibility studies . I thought the stall was funding , I don't blame him for not wanting to spend a large proportion of his (his families ? ) personal wealth on something that they won't own outright, but (and I've said before , I'm no financial wiz ) if the risk is too great for you and you own the club how will they attract investors who would want a large return on their investment. Another point ..... If the delusional gAss had not come out with all the Billionaire , 6th richest club in the world , Prem in three years , we're coming for you BULL then this thread would have died a long time ago. They are the gift that keeps giving , even though they don't realise and many on here don't want it !

Thanks keep me informed

Well that certainly was one of the most obvious side steps in interviewing history...... "Can you compete financially? Financially? well uuuuuh, financially, the only way we can beat them is on the pitch"!

So there we have it, a lily livered liberal "super fan" and closet gas sympathiser

If I see X Factor or BGT on the TV in my house I go off and do something else because I don't have any interest in watching the crap, the same here, if you don't want to read it, it's really simple, don't click on the thread and expect it to be something you want to read or have any interest in.

What a c*** you really are. I've been supporting this club for forty years, I don't need some jumped up p**** to try and tell me what I can and cannot do. If you don't like city fans taking the piss out of rovers, don't read the thread, it's simple.

Not rovers related but have to laugh at what Oxford fans sang at Swindon today. "6 in a row, just like your fingers it's 6 in a row"