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Found an alternative ground guide earlier and had to share this Barnsley fans review of the swamp. 'Gary Bennett, 4th May 2019 - Bristol Rovers v Barnsley Travel: Having been to Bristol City a few times the route was routine till we got to Bristol. But we followed the satnav and found off street parking easily enough. Refreshments: We found a local pub on Gloucester Road and kept ourselves to ourselves as the pub was a bit lively with Rovers supporters. Impressions: I have to be honest and say the ground is barely Football League standard and light years away from Ashton Gate. The away facilities are terrible. What's with all the tents? Atmosphere: We went one up then went down to ten men and they got a late winner but it didn't really matter as we were back in the Championship anyway. Exit: We hung around in the same pub and kept quiet! Then an easy drive home. Enjoy: Bristol is a great city especially around the centre and we wish we could have stayed the weekend as we have done before. But the Rovers ground is abysmal and the area around it doesn't have too much to offer. Luckily we won't be back next season (or any time soon hopefully).' https://www.tothe92.co.uk/groundguide/bristolrovers.html

Okay, I'm going to make a further guess on the Fewers new stadium situation. They ground share with FGR when they move, it will be billed as a partnership arrangement with the club 'committed' to moving back to Bristol as soon as a suitable site is found. Meanwhile, the Mem gets sold for housing and the club is sold on for a nominal amount with Wally keeping a few percent. The stadium partnership arrangement will be Rovers paying FGR rent with no commercial benefit. It's what they do.

Quelle surprise. A Villa fan in denial. Truth is pal, you were very very close to breaching the regs. It was widely acknowledged by the whole football world. You may have just gotten away with it. Just. Suck it up, be grateful that you might’ve just sneaked under, but don’t come here acting high and ******* mighty and that you weren’t pushing the line. Cuz you were. Very close.

Were that to be the case, Rob presumably Dale Vince would contractually impose his vegan belief upon his tenants (I can't believe that he'll allow meat products to be prepared in his food outlets every other week)? Thus the 15ers will need to get used to tofu so I thought I'd better check for them on the situation regarding product expiry dates. The good news was quickly found "I have used unopened tofu 60 days after expiration" therefore the fewers' present catering standards will need no change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx--7xHyx3M

I wonder if they`ve told them or will they just rock up one Bank Holiday weekend and set up camp?

I have a dream I have a dream that one day my descendants, the automatanns, will be gliding along the motorway in a hydrogen fueled driverless module when artificial intelligence will tell them to look northwards. Naturally they won’t be able to do so but an implanted virtual reality regulator will provide the sensation of gazing out towards a spectacular scene shimmering in the distance. Crystal clear pools of distilled water with brightly coloured amoeba skimming gracefully across the surface. Fields of rich dark crumbly earth from which all heavy metals and those nasty golden centipedes have been removed and sent to South Bristol Business Parks full of equal opportunity employers with staff busily refreshing their Facebook and Instagram pages as they strive to re-engineer Chinese made consumer goods. Residential units built using timber from sustainable forests and Cotswold stone from South Korea. Homes not just fit for heroes but also for heroines, hermaphrodites, hemorrhoids and everyone in between. Dwarfing it all a gigantic Sportograd rising unobtrusively skywards and constructed entirely from reconstituted paper cups. It’s crowning glory a smooth curved jagged edged “Football Reactor” dedicated to the philosopher Sir Alf Garner. At the epicentre a glowing core of smiling happy faces with voices emitting a stirring sound which carries forth on a billowing stream of new clear wind. ” But it’s been no bed of roses, No pleasure cruise, The challenge of building a new football stadium, We always must lose. Cause we are the Champignons my friends ... “ I have a dream.

What a great thread ? Their time is coming don’t you know? In your own time lads

I would guess the without a realistic reevaluation of the Mem, the equity has all been taken. Especially with interest payable on the loans. @Davefevs might have more of an idea. They shelled out (if I am correct) cash to buy the club and to pay off the debts they inherited, but secured that payment against the one fixed asset. I think if your 'classic' case of; Risk Free Investment (we have the UWE property/stadium deal) + nuisance kid brother + letting him scratch his football itch + no real cash changing hands (it's all secured) = HOW DO WE END THIS NIGHTMARE? Property deal gone bad or promises made that couldn't be kept? Either way, I would imagine a fair number of Fewers are starting to doubt the next 12 months.

You reckon their burgers contain any meat? I very much doubt it given their track record in the catering field.

Must have been written by a shithead. Every other club`s fans love them to bits and would never say such horrid things.

They thought they’d found a solution, by listing the club for sale on eBay. The one bid they did receive has now been withdrawn, after one disgruntled punter said “I needed a fancy dress costume for my kids party. I offered £12.50 for a Mickey Mouse outfit, and nearly ended up as the owner of Bristol Rovers”..!

Trumpton Riots - Half Man Half Biscuit

As promised I have found those two links. https://www.astonvillanewsandviews.co.uk/villa-sell-villa-park-to-themselves-for-56-7-million-why-so-cheap/ This was where it was referenced that they had previously said they were of the view that £200m could be reasonable. Some key snippets below, some clear key snippets bolded. https://www.astonvillanewsandviews.co.uk/thoughts-on-derby-and-are-we-selling-villa-park/ Make of this what you will...the author seems to be very crowing, across their two pieces? For balance, they also state that it's as bent as it gets. They also fail to note that this shell company was actually formed in 2017 and merely moved from the direct group to the direct control of the owners... Clearly though, the first time £200m was sourced by me, was from an Aston Villa related page!

Dale already thinks they're one of his 'sort' based on the tented commune they like to dwell in.

You are, because match officials can't keep showing this obvious bias, people will start to ask questions ?

I'm going to suggest that our record in the time period you mention, which includes relegation out of the league, being knocked out of the cup by countless non league sides and never having played you in a league fixture, suggests that there is no perceivable bias toward our club by match officials. If there is such a bias, then we are in even bigger trouble than I thought.

Has a very exspensive watch apparentley

You miss the debate.....again!!! Your argument was that if you had to sell a player because of FFP you shouldn’t have resort to playing youngsters, you should be able to bring in someone equally as good. If you can do that for free, then great. We don’t have FFP to worry about, because we accept that when we sell a player for £7m (Flint) we can’t then go and spend another £7m on his replacement. We go and buy Webster for £3.5m. When we sell him for £20m (so glad it was Brighton rather than you!!), we can spend £7m on Kalas. When we sell Reid for £9m, we buy Andi Weimann for £2m and Mo Eisa for £800k. You see that when your costs outweighs your income, you have to make that money up somewhere. And then we also rely on bringing Kelly (An 18 year old in) through because we sell a Joe Bryan....and sell him for £15m ahead of the end of our accounting period, and we report a profit. You see, we are forced into bringing youngsters in. Some will come through our academy like Reid, Bryan and Kelly. Others like Flint we bought for 300k as a 22 year old late developer, Brownhill for youth development compensation. We then develop them. We accept that. You see bitter that Grealish might have had to be sold. But you’re a huge club, so that’s ok. When we see your 18/19 accounts and they’ve been analysed by more (much more) experts than me in Kieran and Swiss, we’ll see what’s really happened. Might all be fine, in which case you can sit their smugly. But it does make you wonder why so many people have questioned your FFP position..

Brilliant comeback. What a result! Didn't turn up first half but much better in the second.

Well there is mushroom for improvement over at the Mem :laugh:

It's funny how you've popped back Miah just as Rovers win their first game for 4 years, Leeds win for the first time since Brexit and Rangers implode at the first sign of pressure ?

Ah Miah, long time, no see............probably 15 games worth ?

Strava, as pointed out previously, is great. It’s like a running diary and allows me to have a laugh at the gas at the same time!