Fiale

1 hour ago, Monkeh said:

400m? the bloke/family aren't worth 40 million they own a SMALL share of an investment bank, they say he's worth more then Tony Fenadez at QPR who is worth 750 million and is co-owned Lakshmi Mattel who is worth 17.5 billion,

that tells you all you need to know about that article 

People trolled through the family earlier in this posts and estimated the families worth around £70 million - a lot of money for sure, but as it's mostly assets I doubt they are a very cash rich family. 

I can't understand how they get away with putting up these type of stands - they are meant for temporary seating for events not long term stadium seating.

Wheres the money ?  UWE and training ground, as well as paying of Wael is what upwards of £50 million, is the Mem land going to net them that much profit, seems like if you have that sort of money their are probably better investment opportunities out there.

3 hours ago, BS2 Red said:

It can’t be, there are no white plastic chairs.

Quality for the marquee also looks too high... 

13 minutes ago, nebristolred said:

Naff all. But they haven't got a pot to p*ss in.

Even if he was on just 1k a week, that's over £200k left over his contract. I know it's not quite how it works but when they have no money it's not exactly an option they have.

The contracts don't really work like that though. They say it's a 2, 3, 5 year contract but they will have release clauses in them for either party which would be maybe a years salary compensation if the manager is sacked or they leave for another club. TBH even the Cheltenham job though a league lower would be better long term prospect than Rovers currently.

25 minutes ago, nebristolred said:

P*ss taking aside, they do have a pretty decent manager, and the second Darrell Clarke goes, they are absolutely fooked.

He is the one part of that club which cannot leave, and given he is clearly frustrated and not being backed, if the right club comes along he is going to be off.

Yet another potential bit of hilarity to go alongside the looming financial implosion which could occur this season.

He will stay there until sacked, I am not sure if he's afraid or just has zero ambition, but being at Rovers with no money and a plethora of valid excuses seems to suit him fine. 

We are sitting deeper now it seems. Swansea finding it easier to pass from the back / midfield.

playing some real nice stuff....

some really nice football, could be 4-0 up and Swansea could have no complaints... well 

12 hours ago, Tomarse said:

Watch a few episodes of lie to me about behavioural reactions when lying. Then watch this video again 

Did you see Victoria Coren Mitchell on the show. She was laughing at people not being able to recognise the truth or not by reading people, I bet David Mitchell is the most loyal husband on earth, because he's getting nothing past her.

Kind of feel sorry for Wael. By all rights he should be watching games in a nice shiny new stadium. Him and his family entertaining friends, family and business contacts is corporate hospitality at the ground. Nice offices and a foot hold in the UK for whatever they wish to do, all with a nice football club to invest in a little (of course then a nice wad of cash from pocketing some of the mem money). Instead he was sold a dud, and I imagine his family are none to happy about it either, as selling / staying is going to tarnish their business credentials one way or the other, I expect they have no idea what to do with the club at the moment, so just treading water hoping something comes up.

32 minutes ago, In the Net said:

Hence I try not to antagonise. 

Have no problem with people giving other view points and input, it keeps people honest. The thought of this place turning into a echo like the Gas forums.... nope. 

Surely you have a auto signature if you work for a company with a company email address.

16 minutes ago, Rocky said:

Gash being kicked out their training ground in 12 months. Maybe that’s been mentioned in this 747 page thread?!

Yeah we talked about it when they were buying the colony - 

8 minutes ago, Rocky said:

Such a weird lot. Talking about Chinese burning Matty Taylor’s cock. 

So in Nobbygas world giving people chinese burns on their cocks is a thing - bet his friends love him 

16 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Was it 10 years Fiale, I thought it was 5? I do appreciate it was a tongue in cheek comment by the way.

yes it was 5  (5-10)  i did type 5-10 but it did not register just the   -10 came out..    FFS  (fat finger syndrome)..  

1 hour ago, Ska Junkie said:

To be fair, LJ did say we would be in the Euro league so we're not totally innocent of a bit of flannel ourselves. 

1 hour ago, JamesBCFC said:

1. In response to a question for where we'd be in 5-10 years.

It's been 2 seasons.

2. It was said with a grin on his face- fairly clear from the tone as well that he wasn't being completely serious.

Well it was asked of DC and LJ "where do you see the clubs in -10 years time"  - DC replied with something uninspiring like being able to afford their own match balls and kits or something equally lame, and LJ just smiled and said to be playing in Europe. So no he was not being 100% serious, just mischief aimed at DC and Rovers.

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 ? 

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.

So even their forum rules are a dumb contradiction.

3 hours ago, Wanderingred said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/easyjet-quadruple-prices-bristol-airport-1700238

 

"Airline company easyJet are apparently aware of Bristol Rovers' famously good away following."

How can the Bristol post not know how Easy jet works, you book early to get cheap tickets, the more tickets sold the higher the price of those remaining. They have nearly always operated this system.

Wow @TETBURY MASSIVE calling our Police liason officer a Snake - I guess suggesting he thinks she's a liar -

2 hours ago, BCFC11 said:

Here he is then Billy Bullshitter, needs to get that ear fixed, looks hideous.

Hey don't mock his ear, half of it was bitten off by a shark. 

He was rescuing a disabled child who was thrown off a ferry by a city fan, the kid was so traumatised he even manage to sell the poor shell shocked kids family a Rovers season ticket.

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9 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

À chair is still a chair even though there's no one sitting there.

But a seat is not always a chair. A chair (legs back and seat), a seat can just be a foldable piece of plastic (Ashton gate seating) a bench, a stool. The mem has chairs that are seats, we just have seats that are seats regardless of anyone is sat.

6 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Pretty sure our seats are made of plastic....

Are they chairs or seats ? A chair is always a seat, but is a seat always a chair ?