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Stefan Payne has done the gas fans here!

About Stefan Payne Big money signing 200k.

Welcome to SPAS . The Stephan Payne Appréciation Society . The Gas player signed for them for a massive £300,000 . Never put in any effort , hardly bothered the scoring charts . Comically swore at the Gas supporters . Had his contract paid up and finally tells the world that he is happy to play in front of ‘real supporters ‘ . Mr Payne , I salut you Sir .

Indeed, world class trolling. And its hit the spot too They gave him hell apparently and he gave them some back. He's now publicly had a go at them, nice one Stefan - always welcome at the Gate How's the stadium coming along Pikeys ? What was your chant last time we met when the Ashton Vale project had failed ? Oh Yes, "we've got our stadium." That was as premature as proclaiming to be the 6th richest club in England - that's weathered well. Gave us a laugh though - still doing so. Keep 'em coming my deluded, ragass neighbours

Ahh yes, this old chestnut. Hello Sagheads you Goalie shirt obsessed stalkers. As has been mentioned a million times, Cardiff City (as detestable as they are) are nowhere near as much of a complete ******* shambles as the Gas are. This thread is so long because you keep giving us things to laugh at you about. We also actually play Cardiff City on a reasonably regular basis. Many City and Rovers fans have NEVER even seen a League Bristol Derby. That’s why so many City fans consider them our biggest rivals. If you spent more time supporting your team and less time staring into your mobile phones trying to find out our scores then your players wouldn’t think you are a bunch of *****. To us you’re just something to point and laugh at. Hope that clears it up.

Just play steptoe & son music as they come out . That should cover it.

Should probably also mention the longevity of this post is testament to each and every one of the amazing gifts they have given since they have been a league club. What a FOUR years of league football it has been.

As I mentioned before, apparently they are going to have a Twitter poll to gauge opinion on it. Most of them hate the idea, so I will vote in favour of it.

So Aston Villa have as mooted sold the stadium then? Few thoughts: Given parachute payments too, nearly £90m in 3 years- wow how dislikable they increasingly are. Had the benefit of that and still needed to do this?? Derby at least sold Grant-Christie-Hughes-Ince-Hendrick-Vydra-Weimann. Birmingham got stung but have now sold Adams and Jota as a result. Who did Aston Villa sell of note?? Not talking foreign players who would have wanted out on relegation, but of note which first team or near first teamers did they sell? Same can be said of Sheff Wed- Jack Hunt the only one, but they didn't have all those parachute payments to help. On that note, Parachute Payments really should be conditional on a club making significant efforts to help to balance the books IMO. Aston Villa did not therefore under my system would be fined a proportion of their parachute payments- obviously FFP would still apply as it would to everyone else. The ground went for £56.7m right. Was that "gross" or "profit"- if it was the latter it'd be interesting- because only the profit on such sales, as opposed to the total transaction would be of use in this instance- especially if an internal transfer such as this. Anyway their accounts appear to in terms of Villa Park- unsure how much it's worth. They probably did sell it for enough to get through FFP. 80-90% profit maybe? Again- questionable. This must surely call into fresh question the Pride Park deal. Reading ground worth £20m, goes for £26.5m- though only 24k capacity, similar modern build and 1998 was its completion date as opposed to Pride Park which was 1997. The next bit is a RUMOUR- but Hillsborough apparently gross sale price around £30m- current value based on 2013 valuation around £22-22.25m. Margin about 1/3 on each. EFL or perhaps I have more faith in club owners with hefty resources and proper business nous need to get some sort of inquiry going- to challenge the valuation, the profit based on benchmarking, hire some high end valuers and lawyers- these things can be legally challenged but it ain't easy! Someone mentioned projected accounts. It's possible that they had this in their projected accounts- highly unlikely but possible that they had it as a fallback plan in these in case of no promotion. Fine I reckon. Not saying we can go nuts- we cannot- but the profit on Flint and the academy lot, the savings on amortisation on some others- all a big help. The Kelly sale likely would fall in the 2018/19 accounts, the savings this season to date would be there but not huge- Fielding, Marinovic, Pisano wages and possibly a small profit on Eisa. However our 3 year position is decent but again that £24m loss in 2017/18- before allowables-has to be kept in mind. OTOH we should've made a profit last season, the Kelly sale making absolutely sure- the bigger the profit the more we can spend in the subsequent window or 2. As I say can't go nuts but by the end of this season, that aforementioned £24m loss- so summer 2020 basically, June 1st 2020 this will drop off and our new starting point will be summer 2018 and the restructure. I don't have any particular concerns about breaching it with SL, MA and LJ at the helm.

Here we ******* go again. I swear this comes up at least once a year? I think it was maybe TomF who broke down the percentage of use on this thread over FOUR years. It's almost like this is a fan base who struggle with simple arithmetic such as, I dunno, attendances... P.s. HELLO SAGGIES!!!

I'm a freewheeling chap of eclectic tastes.

Like the fit and proper test, FFP is an attempt to look like there is proper governance.

We could potentially sign 2 or 3 Chelsea players over the coming days and weeks - proper transfers, not loans - don’t underestimate the comedy value of this - because when the Jordanian billionaire Chelsea fan took the helm at the gas, amongst their hilarious taunts towards us was that they would have a big link with the big club from West London -then suddenly they whinged and whined when Tammy had the temerity to choose us ‘over them’ and since then we’ve obviously rubbed their noses in it big time by taking three superb Chelsea players on loan - with a view to signing one or more of them ...comedy gold - hello saggies! How does it feel to have been taken in by a fake billionaire?! Never mind, just remember - all fans love you and hate us, it’s true, cos you said so ...

I think you’ve just invented a new word there,Tinpotedness,or otherwise known as Bristol Rovers.

They laughed at our fanzone on their pathetic forum - they accused us of going ‘all American’ regarding the matchday experience - now they want to copy us ?! To all the sags reading this, that is a perfect example of why this thread will never die - because you just keep giving us stuff to laugh at - and it’s brill! But don’t worry, as you’ve often said, every other teams’ fans In the world love the gas and hate Bristol City - so you should be ok.

Sad, laughable, deluded, moronic, horse punching, window nutting wastes of oxygen. You missed a couple @Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan ?

? They just don't get it do they .....

One of the blue few is saying that Payne was shite because he was depressed. Wouldn't you be if your once promising career ended up at that dump... listening to that song over and over again?

The loss of both their stadium hopes and Jeremy Kyle in the same year. 2019 is a tough year for gas fans.

I’ve just had to look up the meaning of that word, Michael. I can’t unsee it. I don’t want to know how it is that you know it!

Discussion on Asschat about goal music; ? Replying to @Official_BRFC Goal music Is for tinpot clubs whose fans dont generate an atmosphere ......

It’s not that absurd..! Leon Clarke obviously supported Bristol Rovers, as a lad. Who didn’t..?! So now he’s been knocking around the higher divisions for a few seasons, making a good wage, maybe he wants to see out his career fulfilling the life long dream of most footballers..! ?

The potential asset stripping won't bother Villa fans, they're living the dream and so on. For it's long term benefit football needs a club behaving like this to crash and burn.

Interesting that nswe stadium Co is outside the clubs group of companies, that could get real messy if the owners ever look to sell or a takeover approach

Their going to need more guy rope then....

Er. . . They haven't got a training ground unless one of them has a digger and a combine harvester to mow up the weeds at Colonic Farm. Hastily arranged means bring your own tents boys, we're off camping

Not just DC’s penchants then?

Not sure if this has been shared yet? How villa got around FFP https://offthepitch.com/a/new-filing-reveals-aston-villa-sold-stadium-owners-5-weeks-ago

Can Wycombe expect a writ I wonder?

They'll be lucky to get a Clarks pie..Leon Clarke? Really? Doctor - the patient is ready now....

Oh............someone else's fault AGAIN ?

Leon Clarke In other news Messi was shopping at Sainsburys in Ashton.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, PAYNE HAS SIGNED FOR TRANMERE AFTER HAVING HIS CONTRACT TERMINATED, SO ESSENTIALLY LEAVING ON A FREE, THE GAS STILL HAVEN'T GOT ANY MONEY FOR ANY OF THEIR PLAYERS https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48804756

Don't need any "qualified " or "independant" valuer. You or I could perform the task, as the only information required is the amount the club needs to achieve as "profit" o the sale transaction in order to avoid breaching ffp and that's the figure that goes on the bottom of the valuation report. The fact that there is no active or open market in football stadia means that there is little chance of any comeback on a valuer in terms of him/her being required to justify their valuation figure.

I've read this in a Irish accent for some reason.

FGR today signed goalkeeper Adam Smith who was released by the SAGS (after playing 28 league games in 2 seasons). On signing Smith said ‘I think it’s a good opportunity to move my game on to the next level’. Don’t you just love it.