Unan Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) Edited July 29, 2018 by Unan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 7 minutes ago, Unan said: Yeah but they don’t just ban City fans for being City fans apparently....that Gashead berk who was on here the other week told us so. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) Here’s a selection of my favourite belters so far: Edited July 29, 2018 by Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 Yeah, on OTIB 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said: I love the bit where it says.. ”so once again Rovers find themselves in the shadow of their big brothers across the City” Some things never change. And never will! #ticktock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 Just how wrong can you be? "I think if we now get our debts paid, UWE built and the club own the stadium - we've done extremely well. Anything else is a bonus." Debt now c. £11m, secured upon the Mem UWE expensively dead in the water as far as Rovers are concerned so no chance of owning that. Best players sold and not replaced. Thiugh they have bought a training ground, or rather a field, and Rovers don't own it anyway. I'm trying to think what beneficial things they have actually done since taking over; was it something like new toilets and a refurbished club shop? Wael Al Qadi, with these gifts you are spoiling us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 15 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said: I'm trying to think what beneficial things they have actually done since taking over; was it something like new toilets and a refurbished club shop? Wael Al Qadi, with these gifts you are spoiling us! This is one of the things that baffles me. They claim they were seconds away from admin before the takeover, but that is based on speculation. All the new owners have done is saddle the club with debt , secured against a bit of prime land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenBall Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) I see our old Portsmouth/Rovers fan Weezlebee liking a lot of the narcissistic comments made by the horsepunchers 15ers back in 2016, whatever happened to him? Glad it's gone all tits up with Wally at the helm, who seems such a terrific chap.. Edited July 29, 2018 by Sergio Georgini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenBall Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 4 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said: “Hellooooo, we are the BEST club in Bristol now, the RICHEST club in Bristol...new stadium is on its way, what more do you want? happy days, unlucky da shit!” ”Uhh I have to say we’re worth more and bigger n betterrr than they’ll EVER be...it’s gonna be a perfect time, I think Premiership in foive years” Jakes dad (and Gasheads everywhere), Feb 2016. Throwing fake money at Morecombe fans if remember correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenBall Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 4 hours ago, BoneyardTIM said: It's going downhill fast on their forum. This just appeared, I have seen on another Forum that our Owner has in the last 24hrs received messages of abuse, some of a racial nature. Does anyone know if this is true, if it is I don't have the words to express my disgust. Whilst we are all passionate about our club and I include Wael in that it is totally inexcusable for some of our so called fans to behave this way. If this is correct perhaps we should message our support to the Owner to redress the balance. Does a bear shit in the woods? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 When the Arab took over 2 guys came running over to me on a building site in Weston like 2 spring sheep and said WHO,S THE RICHEST CLUB IN BRISTOL NOW BOYO. I’m rammed that down there throats ever since....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myol'man Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, supercidered said: Fetching it off would be my guess Felching a dog? Surely not Edited July 29, 2018 by myol'man . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 19 minutes ago, Sergio Georgini said: Throwing fake money at Morecombe fans if remember correctly? Nearly. The suggestion was to wave fivers at Morecombe fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert tann Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 The word on the street is that Wael Al-Qadi is putting together a consortium to buy out the rest of his family. Paying off the Dwane Sports loan and acquiring the club will cost 12.5 million The Colony land will cost 1.5 million The training centre build will cost 5.0 million The full redevelopment of the Mem will cost 33.0 million The "Championship Ready" budget will cost 12.0 million But the 64 million dinar question is whether Prince Ali will have time to join the consortium or whether he will have his pockets full dealing with the food riots in Jordan ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiale Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 It's still hilarious as we said from day one that they had no money. Whilst we linked their worth and what they could realistically spend, the Rovers fans were getting more and more carried away - any of them could have looked the new owners up but instead just went full on bat shit crazy mode in their excitement. It was months before they started would even admit they were not as wealthy as they thought, then a year before realising we were right in the fact they had no money to spend on the club. As for banning City fans, they always have, that's why it's such a deluded echo chamber over there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiale Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, bert tann said: The word on the street is that Wael Al-Qadi is putting together a consortium to buy out the rest of his family. Paying off the Dwane Sports loan and acquiring the club will cost 12.5 million The Colony land will cost 1.5 million The training centre build will cost 5.0 million The full redevelopment of the Mem will cost 33.0 million The "Championship Ready" budget will cost 12.0 million But the 64 million dinar question is whether Prince Ali will have time to join the consortium or whether he will have his pockets full dealing with the food riots in Jordan ? If he truly can get 50+ million in funds, there surely are better prospects out there ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 9 minutes ago, Fiale said: It's still hilarious as we said from day one that they had no money. Whilst we linked their worth and what they could realistically spend, the Rovers fans were getting more and more carried away - any of them could have looked the new owners up but instead just went full on bat shit crazy mode in their excitement. It was months before they started would even admit they were not as wealthy as they thought, then a year before realising we were right in the fact they had no money to spend on the club. As for banning City fans, they always have, that's why it's such a deluded echo chamber over there. There are none so blind as them who will not see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 23 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said: This is one of the things that baffles me. They claim they were seconds away from admin before the takeover, but that is based on speculation. All the new owners have done is saddle the club with debt , secured against a bit of prime land. It is based on speculation but its possible, as in administration rather than going bust. That the then directors didn't want to put any more of their own money at risk was evidenced by the "wonga" loans at high rates which were timed to repay at the time after Sainsburys paid the vast overvalue (was it £30m?) for the Memorial Ground and the UWE stadium started. That Sainsburys pulled out meant they were then down to repaying those loans out of their own pockets and looked like they didn't wnat to do that so that would have meant administration. Just ticking back through their year end accounts with the AQs taking over Feb 2016 shows that the loss has doubled, with the costs of the £250k London office clearly not helping. Even an optimistic valuation of the Mem is £15m now so the net assets of the club will be near as damn it zero come 30 June 2018 or, to put it another way, now. Years ended 30 June Net liabilities exc. the ground 2013: £5.8m 2014: £6.4m - increase £0.6m 2015: £8.4m - increase £2.0m 2016: £10.1m - increase £1.7m 2017: £12.7m - increase £2.6m Annual Operating Loss 2013: £0.8m 2014: £0.6m 2015: £0.9m 2016: £0.6m (plus a £2.3m write off of previously capitalised costs for UWE so headline £2.9m) 2017: £2.1m (plus a £0.9m write off as above so headline £3.0m) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bristol Rob Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 47 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said: It is based on speculation but its possible, as in administration rather than going bust. That the then directors didn't want to put any more of their own money at risk was evidenced by the "wonga" loans at high rates which were timed to repay at the time after Sainsburys paid the vast overvalue (was it £30m?) for the Memorial Ground and the UWE stadium started. That Sainsburys pulled out meant they were then down to repaying those loans out of their own pockets and looked like they didn't wnat to do that so that would have meant administration. Just ticking back through their year end accounts with the AQs taking over Feb 2016 shows that the loss has doubled, with the costs of the £250k London office clearly not helping. Even an optimistic valuation of the Mem is £15m now so the net assets of the club will be near as damn it zero come 30 June 2018 or, to put it another way, now. Years ended 30 June Net liabilities exc. the ground 2013: £5.8m 2014: £6.4m - increase £0.6m 2015: £8.4m - increase £2.0m 2016: £10.1m - increase £1.7m 2017: £12.7m - increase £2.6m Annual Operating Loss 2013: £0.8m 2014: £0.6m 2015: £0.9m 2016: £0.6m (plus a £2.3m write off of previously capitalised costs for UWE so headline £2.9m) 2017: £2.1m (plus a £0.9m write off as above so headline £3.0m) So long story short, Wally is racking up considerably higher losses than the previous lot, whilst also indicating that they aren't looking at putting more money in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Fiale said: It's still hilarious as we said from day one that they had no money. Whilst we linked their worth and what they could realistically spend, the Rovers fans were getting more and more carried away - any of them could have looked the new owners up but instead just went full on bat shit crazy mode in their excitement. It was months before they started would even admit they were not as wealthy as they thought, then a year before realising we were right in the fact they had no money to spend on the club. The Post were as much to blame, billionaires/£15k watch etc, they just lapped it up. Now ant sensible person would have checked on the internet before crowing about being the 6th richest club in the UK, but that wouldn't be them would it. No , they carried him around shoulder high which was exactly what he wanted, pathetic really. The next year or so will be telling. If they start the rebuild , buy a player or two and challenge towards the top end of the division the club will obviously a more sellable option, he may well make a profit. The problem in that is finding someone to buy it. Actually, thinking about it, has anyone seen the picture/article with Wael's watch ? He's not had to pawn it has he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 You’d think this is an ideal story for an investigative journalist of our local paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 5 hours ago, wood_red said: midlandgas213 Club Legend Posts: 1,599 Posting Level Next Level in 1401 posts Feb 19, 2016 at 2:37pm Quote Post by midlandgas213 on Feb 19, 2016 at 2:37pm ahhhhh getting all shirty already wait till we pass you on the way up and you are on the way down, and how many of the floating Bristol fans will you expect at trashton they will all becoming to the gas house in future don't also forget you are deep In the mire in a relegation fight so see you next season anyway we might let you tramps in the mem to clean it HOW'S ALL THAT GOING MIDLANDGAS213??.. Not very well. Can you imagine the Mem being clean..?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirColinOfMansfield Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 I can't see why the fans are getting so agitated .... this is from last December when he laid out his plans with incredibly detailed timescales... Apparently one "These Things Do Take Time" = X years (where X = 4 Irenes * 3 Tillsons / 2 Harrisons + a Matty Taylor) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdliketoRogerMoore Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Unan said: Are some of them starting to realise what we’ve known for years? **** the gas! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Eddie Hitler said: It is based on speculation but its possible, as in administration rather than going bust. That the then directors didn't want to put any more of their own money at risk was evidenced by the "wonga" loans at high rates which were timed to repay at the time after Sainsburys paid the vast overvalue (was it £30m?) for the Memorial Ground and the UWE stadium started. That Sainsburys pulled out meant they were then down to repaying those loans out of their own pockets and looked like they didn't wnat to do that so that would have meant administration. Just ticking back through their year end accounts with the AQs taking over Feb 2016 shows that the loss has doubled, with the costs of the £250k London office clearly not helping. Even an optimistic valuation of the Mem is £15m now so the net assets of the club will be near as damn it zero come 30 June 2018 or, to put it another way, now. Years ended 30 June Net liabilities exc. the ground 2013: £5.8m 2014: £6.4m - increase £0.6m 2015: £8.4m - increase £2.0m 2016: £10.1m - increase £1.7m 2017: £12.7m - increase £2.6m Annual Operating Loss 2013: £0.8m 2014: £0.6m 2015: £0.9m 2016: £0.6m (plus a £2.3m write off of previously capitalised costs for UWE so headline £2.9m) 2017: £2.1m (plus a £0.9m write off as above so headline £3.0m) Those losses, until now, have been sustainable, thanks to guaranteeing them against the value of the Mem. The problems begin from here on in. There is literally nothing left..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 12 minutes ago, hail gus cesaer said: Are some of them starting to realise what we’ve known for years? **** the gas! Who’d have thought that some unheard of foreigner buying your club, after the likes of Gillingham had refused their involvement, could possibly go wrong..? Oh yeah... Gillingham. And us..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B block Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 Our blue friends need our help, can anyone assist ? Weeezord Club Legend 39 minutes ago Quote I appreciate this will likely turn sour but as I can't make it down the Mem until a couple of months into the new season, does anyone have any photos of the new improvements? Notably the new North east section and club shop etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redcityman Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 I hope that wally is there to finish the job, would be great to see them finally relocated to a new home, and a new home where they can catagorically state that they are the richest club. To play in the Downs League. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weepywall Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, B block said: Our blue friends need our help, can anyone assist ? Weeezord Club Legend 39 minutes ago Quote I appreciate this will likely turn sour but as I can't make it down the Mem until a couple of months into the new season, does anyone have any photos of the new improvements? Notably the new North east section and club shop etc. Improvements !!!!! That will be the 300 seat structure that can be knocked up in a day and a half Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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