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I love that they believe it's going to happen. Then start chucking figures around like Monopoly money . All from a club that took 9 months to put up a TV bracket.

As long as they don't try to ground share with us. Essentially, balls to them.

They’ll be dreaming about a cup final...which for them would be drawing us in the 3rd round.

I just want to take this opportunity to point out that Gasheads never get on their players backs. Nothing but 100% support every time...that’s why everyone loves them and hates ‘da shit’.

I don't disagree (except that you're not going to get existing Rovers fans coming to watch City, that will instead be the new generation of fans) but I also don't think that's incompatible with what I've said. Vince buys Rovers for a song without a ground, merges the teams, satrts playing in Blue and Green, and moves closer to Bristol. If the merged team starts getting 5,000 that's doubled the crowds and given them a good base from which to grow.

Palace have never shared a ground with Brighton - their rivalry stems from some fiery cup ties in the late ‘70s - both managers hated each other (Venables vs Mullery) and after one of the cup ties Mullery walked around the pitch flicking the V sign at Palace fans - he then stormed into the Palace dressing room, chucked a fiver on the floor and told Venables ‘your team ain’t worth that’ ... it all escalated from there ...

When they merge, they could take the Forest Green from Forest Green Rovers ... and the Rovers from Bristol Rovers .... and call the new team Forest Green Rovers?

It was about £10m in the accounts which seemed an undervalue and the charge was at £10m. £15m seems more reasonable, given the Sainsbury's bid in the era of peak supermarket was IIRC £30m, and as the debt is being allowed to rise to that level it looks like the AQs also think so. The £25m / £30m values are coming from gasheads being let loose with a calculator and then multiplying Bristol land values for particular uses by the acreage of the Memorial ground site and selecting the biggest figure without taking into account the many other factors that valuers consider. And as with any speculation once enough people have repeated it then it becomes fact.

If Bath City get their way, Twerton will be too good for them by then.

Is that even enough these days? If you are going to do it properly you probably need to be looking at close to £50m and you wouldn't want that to be more than around 10% of your personal wealth. People with that kind of wealth don't suddenly appear from nowhere, there would already be rumours and suggestions in the air.

Couple here saying how SL would kick up a fuss if Ree’s does in fact help them with their next pipe dream. Strange how not a single one of them mentions how their shitty little club went crying to BCC about how unfair it was if they helped City without helping them too. I hope SL whinges and bitches just as they did back then. Reap what you sow Sags, reap what you sow...... http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/15297/radio-interview-marvin-rees?page=3

4548 with 240 loyal and true. Like sardines.

Somebody who is even dimmer than the floodlights at Bromley. For a minute I thought there were just a few people shining some torches

The kind of person who brings flares to a ground in the first place.

Protection - Massive Attack

I'm Googling that.

Please no. I was hoping they'd relocate somewhere a little further away. Like Pyongyang.

Talks renewed about merger with Forest Green Rovers and relocation to Gloucestershire.

They must be starting to 5hit their pants by now & not because the pot they pi55 in will have to be sold but with the replay starting in a few hours and everyone wanting them to be defeated.

Some peeps will, some peeps won't Some peeps spell it with a small S, and some peeps dont Looks like I got it wrong again, I don't know why Some spells it proper, then they tells I . With thanks to a song by Weston -super- Mare RACEY 1979.

Fella Just because you are posting on a thread does not mean you are contributing.

Mostly it was yeah but there was also a fair bit about how the Bromley fans loved them to bits and were sooooooo glad they got to play them and not da shit.

240 eh? The Leeds Utd of L1 once again shock everyone with their huge travelling army that follow them everywhere. I didn’t watch it but I can only assume that all talk after the game is how lucky Bromley are to be the latest National League club to find themselves financially secure for another year thanks to the Gas....

Corrected for you. Dreams CAN come true..!

It was on telly, Wales were playing, it`s turned a bit nippy...………………………………….

Nothing to be gained by us playing them, they will probably lose to Plymouth anyway, hope Plymouth batter them !

Jesus this is terrible. Imagine having to watch this every week.

" Well from watching this you can definitely tell one of the teams is two leagues above the other. Only thing is it’s Bromley who look the League 1 team. " #GasLogic

Hopefully after a replay when the third round draw has given the winners Liverpool at home.

If they get through it only prolongs the agony till Plymouth knock them out ???

Even Bromley’s tent is better

Are Bromley likely to play a weakened side as they are concentrating on the league or will they respect the plucky underdogs?

"we are here at Bromley for the replay after the first match was drawn at the MEMORIAL GROUND" At least they got that right

On BT Sports

I think it's on BT sports.

Ahhh.......the Vegans meet the Vagabonds

To become overnight, every football fan's favourite other team? FGs new ground is targeted to be next door to the mahoosive recycling centre which dominates the skyline at M5J13. That would seem to fit the identity of the 15ers on many levels.

It would be easy to move Santa’s Grotto, but could the Championship ready sprinklers be moved to Nailsworth?

I was under the impression that the mem was worth £10-12million - it seems to be accepted wisdom over on gaschat that it is worth upwards of £25million now?

Plymouth was ina similar mess seven or eight years ago, looking at dropping out of the league and either in or going into administration. A local property developer, James Brent, stepped up to buy them and he said it was only until they were back on an even keel and then he would step down. Amazingly he was absolutely true to his word; sorted them out financially such taht they were now turning a profit and rebuilt some of the ground and then sold at a fair price to somebody else; stepping down. That's the sort of person they need.

Yes, exactly. I think this became the inevitable outturn when UWE failed; the level of internal debt accumulated since that happened now comfortably exceeds the value of the Memorial ground so it will have to be sold. Some wealthy local businessmen, maybe even Higgs again, will buy the football club without the ground and Rovers will go back to Twerton. I don't know any Rovers fans these days but maybe, as with Brexit, it woud be better to just get it over with so that they can move on. They certaiinly need a change of ownership or you can see them going down the same road as Coventry. Jeff Bezos is not suddenly going to develop an affinity for da famous quarters.

I think every scenario leaves the sags not owning a ground ( History repeats itself ) Unless there actually is a multi-millionaire Gas supporter yet to announce himself to the adoring masses ?

Its the inconsistency though, look at Hampshire when they did us over, only 1 score over 200 at 226, from memory horrid wicket not punished, there were plenty last season that went unpunished.

....unlike Weston Super Mare - ( which has seen better days.)

I was laughing so much, that I shat and pissed myself simultaneously.

Because its the funniest thread ever seen on a football forum

I believe its a morbid fascination with Rovers, like poking a cat, ( who's just been ran over but hasn't died yet) , with a stick. Or turning a life support machine off and on really quickly for a laugh...