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16 hours ago, JBFC II said:

Another absolute weapon 

There have been artists I really liked until they played down there and then never felt the same about their music afterwards.

How sad must his life be to go off a musician because they've played at our ground? 

 

 

I've never liked the Spice Girls

13 hours ago, Unan said:

Ellis Harris or however his name is spelt is one, went Cardiff? away. Had a City sticker on his back.

He isn't a City fan, just mates with Bobby Reid and some othe rlads

25 minutes ago, sglosbcfc said:

Made me laugh when you said looks like a stereotypical Gashead, that is spot on, Kingswood was full of Penrice lookalikes in the 80s. I heard on Radio Bristol a couple of years back a piece where they said Penrice was a City fans, had a trial at the club but was rejected for being too small. Was taken on by the Gas and unfortunately never stopped scoring.

I've also been told before now that Bill Holloway (Ian's dad) the former Longwell Green Chairman was a City supporter who used to take Ian to Ashton before he was taken over to the dark side!

didn't 80% of blokes look like that in the 80's

6 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

It's perfectly reasonable for covenants to be removed where they relate to restrictions that are today illegal or where their purpose may no longer be easily discharged. In which case if the land on which The Memorial sits is preserved for 'Sport & Recreation' Wael & Co would have an impossible task in demonstrating that the covenant has been maintained since Bristol Rugby upped sticks and left. Methinks that's been his intention all along.......

Surely that depends. I mean Bristol Rugby sold the training pitch for housing. Does that mean a precedent has already been set

oh and the small matter that a Sainsbury's was basically approved by Judicial review

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2018/june/roverscommittoreducingsingleuseplastic/

serious conversation now. good to see my club doing this and would be great to see City follow suit

11 minutes ago, class_not_gas said:

Plymouth have had rovers pants right down with this https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/2018/june/no-quarter-given/ 

How

17 minutes ago, harrys said:

It’s a shame he didn’t try to improve himself but rather sit pretty playing at the worst ground in the league ( didn’t one fan describe it as Chernobyl?) still, I suppose there is a lot to be said about playing in front of the best fans in the world 

well I guess half your squad are going to **** off and better themselves in the summer aren't they

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

Yet the company owned by Wael's family, Dwane Sports, which holds 92% of Bristol Rovers' shares, is registered in Jersey - they haven't got a clue...

Guernsey  = tax evasion (supposedly)

Jersey = ????

By their own definition, their new carpets, curtains and canopy over the hospitality entrance are all funded by 'tax evasion'

#GasLogic

I have never worried about Lansdown and his Tax. if he wants to limit his time in the UK that's up to him

However as far as I am aware WAQ and the family aren't UK citizens or residents and 1883Ltd still pays all it's tax owing just as Bristol Sport does

16 hours ago, pride of the west said:

You have to wonder that if Wally is so loaded, why were these normal end of season maintenance works not carried out last year?

I can only think of 2 options. He's skint (which we have all kind of figured out) and he wasn't sure how far he could stretch last season's season ticket money. Or this time last yr he still believed UWE had a chance and deemed the spring clean unnecessary. 

they were. The pitch has been done every summer for years. The whole place was decorated within weeks of him being there. Something that never happened under the last lot

2 hours ago, NOTBLUE said:

Decoration not relocation.

got to admit that made me chuckle

16 hours ago, lenred said:

Jesus. What an absolute embarrassment they are, still dining out on that shite from years ago.  Desperate they are. Desparate and bitter!! 

Got to admit it, i find it embarassing myself. At the time yeah of course we celebrated, but they way some of them treat his 'God' like status is sad.

It was supposed to be a Tote End Boys night and thats the best thing they can come up with

1 minute ago, walshys shuffle said:

what if stewart went with clarke to norwich,what then for rovers?

That's a different bridge to cross isn't it. Stewart has said in the past he'd like to be a manager and he might see taking over at Rovers as the next step for him rather than being DC's assistant.

Who knows anything at the end of the day

13 minutes ago, myol'man said:

As they all know, Stewart is a gurt 'ted 

And a Rovers hero.

Money or no money, I think Stewy would be the obvious choice to take over and I think a lot of people would like to see him get the chance if it came about

13 hours ago, B block said:

Can't wait for dopey to leave and they can go back to empoying clowns to manage them

to be fair he's performed miracles there 

I think Stewart would probably get the job if Clarke left. I think we would try and go with continuity rather than picking someone from outside

11 hours ago, harrys said:

If the guy has any ambition at all and a team like Norwich come Calling he should be off like a shot, he wouldn't want make the same mistake as Karl Robinson whose stock has dropped dramatically after staying with MK for too long

I think the difference currently though is Robinson and MK had the stadium and facilities and they had opportunities to go up and have never taken them. I guess they stagnated and a change was needed

currently we are playing at a not fit for purpose stadium and IF real progress is annonced on this in the summer before the start of next season DC MIGHT decide to stay and hope to continue the upward trend we are in at the moment as their is still room to improve

I dont think we will make the play offs but we have a decent outside chance. We dont have to play anyone above us and we have 3 of the bottom 5 in our next 3 games. 

Either we will win these easily and keep up the momentum, or the likes of Coventry and Chesterfield will make it difficult and we will drop points that will put us out of the running

Dont know about the Port Vale incident as I wasnt there but always amazes me and I am sure you have the sort of fans also thst turn up to a busy away game, 5 mins before kick off after having a few sherberts and then kick up a fuss because they cant sit/stand wherd they want, 

Rovers have said they will ban any fans guilty of any offences, but hey dont let facts get in the away of anything.

I have no doubt we had morons getting involved, but it appears the stewards wanted some as well. Even the Vale fans say the stewarding is heavy handed and it has made for a combustible situation.

idiot stewarda and some idiot fans. 

Steve Hamer is only asking for information, because of what he has been told. If some of your fans complained to your club, I am sure you would want it looked into.

I cant abide racism and pulled some up on it on Gaschat. Criticse the stewards but what colour and where they are frim is irrelevant

1 hour ago, Bianconeri said:

Ah, so a 'convenient deal' that involves a bit of insider knowledge is a good thing when it benefits MoronFC but a legitimate deal where insider knowledge may have been disclosed by one of the parties to the cintract is cause to gomwhining to the FA?

and again, I have said City have done nothing wrong regarding Taylor. They just made use of knowledge. Is Rovers 'complaint' actually against City or asking how City came about the knowledge. Two different things

9 hours ago, Rich said:

So the rugby club chairman and BRFC supporter (Arthur Holmes) threatened to sell the Memorial ground to Amtrak for £2.3m (the figure he was owed by the rugby club), until he came up with the better plan of selling 50% of it to BRFC (Dunford), for the same figure of £2.3m (the amount he was owed). There was a condition that, if either of the clubs went bankrupt, the other club could buy the remaining 50% for £10,000. Yippee! BRFC come to the rescue of the rugby club, they'll be joint owners of the stadium company, and the rugby club will be forever grateful.

Now then, the rugby club, which he was chairman of, was losing money at an alarming rate, didn't receive any of the proceeds of the 50% sale, because it paid Arthur Holmes back. So they were still losing money, had no income from the sale and after five months, Arthur Holmes (rugby club chairman and BRFC supporter) filed for bankruptcy of the rugby club. BRFC (Dunford) bought the remaining 50% for £10,000, not bad business. Dunford was happy, Holmes was happy, rugby club directors were happy, after a piece of land was shared out, but, the rugby club weren't happy. 

In the obituary that Dunford wrote about Arthur Holmes, he used two thirds of it to explain the deal for the Memorial stadium, why?

Oh yes, Arthur Holmes was made a lifelong President of BRFC, for his services to the club. 

No BRFC didn't steal the Memorial ground, their chairman and friends at the rugby club saved the ground for the future of both clubs. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

I am not going to say it wasn't a convenient deal or that we got a good deal (we still paid the same amount for half the ground as it was going to be sold for, so not peanuts)

We were already tenants, surely it made sense to offer the ground to the other club that played there and secure the ground for both teams as opposed to selling anything/everything to someone else who may have had other ideas. Whether Arthur Holmes took the money and ran to Timbuktu isn't/wasn't our problem

As for any 'Honorary Title' he may have been given by Rovers, people get given them for all sorts. Hell Barry Bradshaw is now a life Vice president because he served on the board and I don't know many that say great things about Boycie

15 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

The Bristol Rugby owner was a lifelong Rovers supporter who just happened to put the club into administration, enabling Rovers to buy the other 50% for £10k. No attempt was made to find any other backers to avoid administration.  This has been covered many times on the forum, but is always ignored by those of a gas persuasion 

And we still didnt steal anything

14 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

It's not nonsense it's true, you evicted a local sports club from their historical home

as opposed to them selling it to a distribution company and moving to Clifton RFC for example

23 minutes ago, Rich said:

Waiting to be shot down on this but, do they own it? We know BRFC don't. 

Their initial statement said that Dwayne Sports had acquired the site, If I'd bought it, I'd say "bought it". I think they might have bought a lease of the site from the owners, which might be linked to the dodgy deal for the Memorial ground when, certain rugby directors were palmed off with land out by Filton, given away in return for an easy transition to joint ownership (sold down the river) of the Memorial ground.

The rugby club acquired planning permission for the use of their combination team, but didn't have the funds to see the project through.

"The site for Bristol Rovers' proposed new training ground has been revealed in planning documents that have been published online.

Chairman Steve Hamer revealed last week that 29 acres of land in an unnamed location had been identified and a South Gloucestershire planning application has now confirmed that Colony Farm in Hortham Lane, Almondsbury is the site Rovers are proposing to develop new training facilities on.


In the document, which was submitted on August 31, Rovers are named as the applicant and are seeking the green light to carry through to completion on a historical planning application that was approved for the 'erection of clubhouse, floodlights and store.' The plan also includes 'construction of vehicular and pedestrian access and car park'.

Planning permission for a similar use of the site was granted in 2001 but the development of training facilities by Bristol Combination Trustees – the original applicant – was never completed and the land, which currently has marked out football pitches, has since been used to house local amateur football clubs.


The site in Hortham Lane where the new training ground is planned

The club's decision to see the project through to completion depends on the removal of two conditions that were attached to the original planning permission that prohibited use of the facilities before 6pm during school term time.

They have also submitted justification for the removal of a condition that limits use of the site only to the previous applicant for non-professional and Under 18s matches unless a written request for consent is submitted to the council.


The plans are believed to include the construction of facilities that would initially meet Category 3 Academy status with the possibility of applying for upgrade to Category 2 status in the longer-term.

Rovers' first team has been a tenant at the Lawns - a 15-acre site that was previously owned by AXA – in Henbury since 2012, while the youth and academy sides are housed some 3 miles away at the Golden Hill Training Centre in Horfield.

The lease on that site expires in March and the club is keen to house their first-team and all of their age-group sides under the same roof at the proposed new training facility".
   

I'll give you the purchase of a lease for the site although I guess it would be a significant length of time and not 5 years

but are you lot still peddling the Memorial Stadium nonsense? Rugby club were going bust, were going to sell Mem to Amtrak for £2.3m, BRFC paid £2.3m for 50% of the ground. We had the bank loan to prove it

1 hour ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

Its about time the rovers started producing youth players. A new trainig set up should surely help.

Skuse, Bryan, Reid, Golbourne, Hill, Carey, Coles, Doherty, Lita? and not to mention all the youngsters that have left for the top prem clubs over the last several years. 

Is lines and ellington the only one with Championship experience in recent years?

Dont know where the myth from rovers fans comes from that they have a better youth set up.

you have definitely had a better youth set-up. Hell we are only just getting a training ground of our own, but I would say that we had Scott Sinclair. More recently Donovan Wilson was taken by Wolves, Matt Macey by Arsenal.

We have at least produced a few good enough for the team we have had in recent years in Tom Lockyer, Ollie Clarke and Ellis Harrison

20 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

You lot have changed your tune..! 

25 minutes ago, Doozerchris said:

What's your gut feeling.?

19 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

What money indeed?

if you go back through the thread, I have not been one to give it  the big un that we are loaded, and I don't care about Lansdown and his legal right to live where ever he wants (I would choose somewhere warmer than Guernsey personally) and Bristol Sport makes perfect business sense (although I would admit to some 'banter') on that point.

Dwane Sports/The Al-Qadis, I do not know where their finance for things is coming from. It's safe to assume it will be investors and will require some ROI, how much comes from other Al-Qadi business dealings compared to outsiders remains to be seen.

I would again assume, that give Wael's Jordanian FA connection, the training ground would eventually look to get Jordanian youngsters over here. (not sure the rules on perhaps the Jordanian FA putting some money into the facility)

As for do they have a pot to pissin? Ultimatley who knows, but one thing we ALL KNOW is their is no money to take out of BRFC is there