Red-Robbo

The overriding emotions after the game on the Walsall fans forum is that we're cheating primadonna's

Surprised they have a forum. There's so few of them, can't they just all ring each other up for a natter?

Baldock is fast becoming a BCFC legend. He looked lost, isolated up front under the last manager, but the guy constantly gives 100% and wahey! he sticks them away.

Great result!!!  

Just... a perfect day 

Remaining fixtures are

 

Pompey (A)

Rochdale (H)

Wycombe (A)

Mansfield (H)

 

squeak, squeak

Worth pointing out that Rochdale are second and Mansfield 10th 

WE had better not see them in non bloody league! Forest Green can but not us.

What a clash that would be: South Gloucestershire Rovers against north Gloucestershire Rovers. My money's on FGR.

Does anyone really believe Rovers will be relegated to non league?

Why not? An improving Northampton side need just take one more win than them from the last few games and it's Hello Alfreton Town for the Blue Few. 

Good save from Cunningham's shot. 

 

Elliot 'inch perfect pass'

Aha. the real Wade Elliott has turned up 

"utter utter shite"... Says a Rovers fan referring to their first half performance. They really are in the brown stuff!

Torquay with 58% possession, according to PA. 

... and Northampton score to keep the Gas two points from the drop.

Come on Torquay! 

Samuel Baldock you star! 

Kelly would provide that break-up play in front of the defence we sound like we're missing....

I agree. There are many spelling errors on the BCFC web site; seems like they are fast catching up BBC.

Fast catching up the BBC, you mean H. 

In Swanage with carp wireless connection. Al I will say is COME ON YOU REDS :bounce: :bounce:

Get yourself down to The Fish Plaice on the Square. You'll get a Cod connection there, although reception might be a bit bass heavy...

Ironically, the rescheduling helps me with my Saturday arrangements. 

Still, I do feel sympathy for those that have had things mucked up by it. Far too late. 

Good letter, Hotwellsred BTW.

According to the book I thought that Gordon was a Moron, not a simple old idiot ! Love french trains of course, have used them before, must remember to composter le billet.

My main problem with the government subsidy is the lack of transparency or clarity. I can obviously see the enviromental and social reasons as to why a subsidy is appropriate but why is it pitched at the level that it is? It gives the appearance of being a made up figure. A proper cost benefit analysis needs to be carried out and the results held up to scrutiny.

And on that point, my friend, I completely agree with you!

Between 1999 and 2002 Gordon, Canute, ''I have put an end to boom and bust'' Brown sold off 60% of UK gold at rock bottom prices. George Osborne called it ''one of the worst decisions ever made by a British Chancellor.

So you accept my point that it was well before the bank bailout and entirely unconnected.

Your man Gideon certainly knows a thing about bad decisions - he takes them constantly - but nothing can perhaps match the bad decision to sell off 100% of Britain's utilities and railways between 1982 and 1996. 

Why not let them fall like dominos.

They could have given every household the money back from quantitiative easing and we would have put it all back into the economy ourselves.

I'm glad you're not Chancellor, Screech!

 

 

I can only imagine the howls of abuse on here if it had been a Tory government that had used the proceeds from a gold sale to bail out the banks, pouring money into the laps of his 'banker chums'.

As I pointed out, the gold stocks were halved in 1999, nine years before any bank needed to be bailed out.

There is a lot you can criticise Brown for, but I'm not sure the bail outs are one. What would you do as Chancellor? Let the country's financial institutions collapse like dominos because some banks had put large amounts into hopelessly overstretched US mortgage providers.

I need hardly point out that the decision to intervene was supported by G.G. Osborne and the Tory front bench.

However I don't think you can call bankers "Labour's chums". Look at where there money goes:  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/feb/08/tory-funds-half-city-banks-financial-sector

Surely you can't believe that. Brown needed the money to bail out the banks and to continue his policy of spend, spend, spend. He then took the unprecedented step of announcing when it was to be sold. An 'O' level student with a rudimentary understanding of supply and demand could have predicted that the knowledge that the market was to be flooded with gold would have depressed the price.

It was recommended by the Bank. This is all minuted and on record. Gold reserves are a bit of a hangover to when currencies were pegged on them. Lots of countries have none or virtually none - China, Canada and Australia to name but three. We still hold enough to put us in the World top 10. Of course, what the propagandists didn't tell you was as gold was sold the BoE was boosting its foreign currency reserves. These had been depleted ruinously during the Thatcher recession.

The reserves were - of course - sold over three years, not in one lump sum - and many years before any bank bailouts. The two events are not connected in any way.

Surely you can't believe that. Brown needed the money to bail out the banks and to continue his policy of spend, spend, spend. He then took the unprecedented step of announcing when it was to be sold. An 'O' level student with a rudimentary understanding of supply and demand could have predicted that the knowledge that the market was to be flooded with gold would have depressed the price.

I suspect they'll not be able to fill their troughs as much as Gideon's mate:   http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/04/osborne-best-mans-hedge-fund-made-36m-profit-on-royal-mail/

Just what are you saying Robbo?! What you're implying would be akin to the wives of various government ministers buying loads of shares in private health care providers mere days before the NHS was turned into a 'market' and said firms were given lucrative government contracts...

It might even be found that various ministers have shares in Goldman Sachs and the other advisor companies. Whatever next!

Ken Clarke often has a few too many......

 

Few too many pies, judging by that picture!