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2 minutes ago, brad blit said:

Naismith for Williams

Wells for Cornick (push Bell wide) 

This is a game where our small squad and limited resources are showing against a very similar team, who have 1-2 good players 

We won't score without that Cornick long throw though...

1 hour ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

I thought he told everyone he was loaded. Down to his last £20m or something?

There is something rotten about fleecing supporters for information his employer should be making freely available.

He has criticised his goal keeper for not being a team player then makes money as an individual from club info?

Announced the signing of Vale "exclusively" on his own subscriber account.

How that is not misconduct by the manager is beyond me. But of course, the powers at be there will put up with all his nonsense.

1 minute ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said:

You'd think the wise Scouse philosopher would know that it's "obliged", not ****** "obligated". Thick, whey faced rat.

The only thing missing from Barton's tweet there is:-

"But you can listen to my views on tomorrow's game anytime on my subscriber only account"

He's basically not talking to the Post as it makes him no money.

Fingers crossed for his Investment training he doesn't enrol with the Michael McIndoe school...

3 minutes ago, chinapig said:

I suggest they adopt These Things Take Time as the club motto. It would look classy in a Latin translation.

haec ut tempus

Their new motto.....

Hussain Al-Saeed outlines plans for Bristol Rovers infrastructure in first public interview - Bristol Live (bristolpost.co.uk)

So the next "Messiah" speaks and what does he say? Well actually nothing really....

Apart from the fact that Rover's fans need to be patient and there is lots of things outside of their control, there was no promises of extra finance, merely that they need to improve the non-existent Academy and poor Training facilities.

Anybody thinking they've now got a Kuwaiti Billionaire to go along with the Jordanian one is going to be a bit disappointed.

Oh, and as for the Fruit Market, they're "Talking". Brilliant, good luck with all of that. 

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Me too, back in the Les Kew days..

Basically turned into a crowd participation version of Play your cards right, the figure went up significantly after the booing, absolutely hilarious.

The biggest con for me of that era was the Liverpool home game in the cup.

1-1 and then the floodlights "failed". The game was obviously abandoned, but good old Les made everyone pay again to come back for a replay, that also finished in a draw., rather than let everybody back for free.

Can't quite remember what happened in the replay at Ainfield?.

1 hour ago, ExiledAjax said:

Nope, if the two months assessment is correct then he's not going to be playing until early October, which is only slightly earlier than Conway is currently projected to be fit. So sell or not we'd have been without our two young starlets for the first dozen or so matches.

As you say, it's better for everyone to get it done with a few weeks left of the window and see if we want to strengthen. 

How often in the last few seasons though has 2 months turned into 3 or 4? Certainly the case with Naismith and TC at the start of the year. There can be no guarantees of course on the timing of their returns.

To sell an injured player for £25m on that basis is a good negotiation from my point of view. Amazed that Bournemouth didn't pause it, after they apparently missed the severity of Antoine's shin injury from the medical in Jan.

1 minute ago, ExiledAjax said:

Iraola says Scott is out for a couple of months.

Yep, just watched that.

Can't help feeling that caused us to push the sell button a bit.

A couple of months, can easily turn into longer. He certainly wouldn't have been available for Millwall tomorrow (like NP said he probably would of).

Sounds like it was a good time for all parties to get a deal done. For me, the Scott saga has been a bit of an unnecessary saga this summer. 

Luckily we have another 3 weeks to address any perceived areas of improvement in the team now.

4 minutes ago, RedHienz said:

Did it sell?

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-rovers-put-big-screen-8462938

My mistake it was LinkedIn apparently. Sure it was on FB as well.

Great quote by Gorringe at the bottom of the article there.

"In his final programme notes of the season before their fixture against Bolton, CEO Tom Gorringe wrote: “Given the schedule we have contingency plans in place should any delays occur. We will also be working with planning, building regs and our Safety Advisory Group (SAG) to ensure the project runs as smoothly as possible and is signed off for supporter usage at the earliest opportunity.”

The SAG worked out well didn't it?

2 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Earlier reports suggested Gorringe was to go as well, those reports seem to have disappeared.

'Tom, you're the CEO, who is responsible for all these **** ups?'

 

'Err, him over there!'

 

He's our very own Boris Johnson

Wasn't David Bright the guy trying to flog your TV/Scoreboard on Facebook earlier this summer?

1 hour ago, GrahamC said:

I’m not a fan of doing swap deals when you are the minor party, as we clearly are here, but I wouldn’t have been too disappointed if we had included James Hill (Matty’s son) in the Scott deal as it would have given us a more experienced CB cover option than the 2 lads who are currently on the bench until Rob Atkinson is back, enabled us to have used Naismith in midfield if necessary & added a player who has the potential to increase in value.

Doesn’t seem likely though.

My hunch is we will add a more experienced goalkeeper & a young midfielder to the squad & that will be it.

Still think too that we would like to shift a couple of players who are out of favour like Sam Pearson, Idehen & Bajic on permanently if we could.

Whilst Tanner is "Ok" at RB. We all know that McCrorie was bought to be first choice there.

Who knows what "Bacterial infection" means? It could be something quite small, or something like glandular fever (which would take months to get over).

With that in mind and unless there is any more information forthcoming from the club at some stage, I would certainly look at the RB position as one we need to strengthen in. 

At present, we are once again lopsided in our attacking endeavours and for all our strengths on the left flank, any attack down the right seems to peter out (generally due to the default GT's backward pass). As a defender I like Tanner, but he does get a nosebleed if he goes past the half way line.

18 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

I had similar when my nephew signed for their academy. Fortunately for me he decided fairly early on that he didn`t want to pursue a pro career and his parents were slightly relieved as they couldn`t really afford to keep dragging up and back from Taunton several times a week.

He doesn`t regret his decision as he landed a job coaching at a very good Public School.

Good choice, their "Academy " is a complete cluster.

If they devoted any money/effort they could pick up talent from the Gloucstershire area, and a load of the BIC boys. They don't seem to be bothered though.

Is your daughter's godfather's son a scouser who has also played for Fleetwood?

If not, then he's got no chance of any game time. 

Just now, Kid in the Riot said:

An excellent technician. Also, is it just me or does he look bigger on the pitch than his supposed 5ft 9 height? 

Decent in the air, a bit like Bryan at times. Not sure I see him as a CB though, very left footed.

I started a topic on him after the Cheltenham game about how good he was. Carried that into tonight, albeit against L1 opposition again.

17 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

I’m confident, despite any media noises, we have a plan B and Nige is in on it. Did he want to keep Alex? Course, we all did. But he also wanted to keep Antoine in January, and within hours of him leaving we had Anis and Harry in the door. If you work on the basis this has been afoot since Percy mooted it last week, wheels will have been in motion. I would not be shocked if plan B arrives in the next week.

And it had better include a goalkeeper 

Max wasn't great again tonight was he?

Came and then went back and got his positioning wrong for their equaliser. 

Then in the second half kicked the ball directly to their player who played it to an Oxford player who had an abysmal effort.

Signs for me in last 2 games, that there's been no improvement since last season.

36 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Why does their new owner look like he’s been kidnapped and being driven to the culprits lair in a 1970s Volvo?

 

Does anybody get a feeling that the new guy is a banking mate of Waels and not really from any wealth or influence?

A week has gone by and no plans for the future have been shared. We still know absolutely nothing about the guy and he just looks the whole time as he's being chaperoned around the place. He seems to have no-one with him apart from Wael and his own son?

It's all a bit bizarre....  

1 minute ago, ScottishRed said:

Interesting.It suggests that he is not in negotiations with anyone else, certainly not in this league, as you would have thought he would have been at their game.

The comment was made that maybe he is considering retirement further up the thread. I think that may be a possibility, maybe the last 18 months of almost constant injuries has put that thought in his head,which would be understandable. Maybe the desire to play and risk further damage to his body is no longer there.

As we all know Tomas is very much his own man and not your typical footballer. He may have decided to bring forward his plans post football. 

True, it might also be the case that I believe he lives in Long Ashton and fancied walking down to see a game at a club he played at for 4 years though of course.

4 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

And you didn't sit on him until he signed a new contract?

You've had a nightmare!

I must admit I did think about talking to him. But respected his privacy of course.

1 hour ago, nickolas said:

Really??

Yep, and he continued to walk into Long Ashton passed him by the turn off.

I can tell you now it was him.

2 hours ago, chinapig said:

He'll go to the Oxford game as well?

Who knows, it's only a walk down from Long Ashton.

Walking back to Long Ashton Park and ride, Kalas was walking behind us with his girlfriend. 

He was at the game, so who knows what will happen next week?

1 hour ago, Bcfcshags said:

Not in the squad tomorrow. Out injured  

Probably the same injury that forced Knight to pull out of that Derby friendly then?

After seeing Araoye this pre-season. We certainly have a potential first teamer looking to integrate into the league squad now.

Maybe that's had an impact over the decision making around Kalas and what we are willing to offer him?

51 minutes ago, italian dave said:

Just wow! Entitlement barely begins to describe it!

The ‘snag’ in the planning application is 100% Bristol Rovers incompetence. And thereafter, apart from the complete garbage about City, it’s simply about everyone else having to change their ways and speed things up simply because it’s Bristol Rovers.

Kind of makes you hope that consent, eventually, is refused

Does it say on their application that they have actually used any planning consultants in making the proposal?

Or was it the case, allied to the "Have you got some free unpaid time to do our Electrics, plumbing, maintenance etc in the ground campaign" .

I'm sure that if they had used a professional company, they would have outlined timescales of such a project within the planning process. I can't believe that they are trying to say as a club "problems not of the club's making".

2 hours ago, phantom said:

Exactly what "mitigating circumstances " are they on about? They royally f##ked up, by demolishing the existing stand(s)/gazebos and thought they could just do what they want by building a new one straight away.

That's not "mitigation ", that's just plain awful mis-management.