Hello

12 minutes ago, Super said:

http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/leeds-united-set-for-surprise-talks-with-promotion-winning-manager-regarding-top-job/

Leeds already being called tinpot on the rovers forum.

not tin pot but a basket case for sure

2 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

To me Rovers are the stain that stops Bristol having a proud history in the top league.

Small time to never reach the Prem but just enough to affect our support.

Given the choice of seeing City v Rovers regularly or City v Man Utd/Liverpool/Arsenal? Its a no brainer.

But you got to the top. I guess that was Rovers fault you fell and fell aand went bust.:laugh:

19 minutes ago, Just Red said:

I would be happy for you if the majority of your fans didn't continually harp on about us and they concentrated on your own club. 

You have to also remember that back to back promotions from the conference to league one is not all that uncommon. So far momentum and team spirit has carried you to where you are now. Your gonna need a little bit more about you if you are gonna push on further and to be honest to even survive.

To make the jump up to the Championship is far more difficult. Donny and Yeovil have done it and have then returned to what may be considered their natural positions in the league.

Your club as a whole is a million miles away from being a Championship club. In fact I'd love to see you make the jump up to the Championship as it will destroy your club. Ala Yeovil. I know Your fans like to think your the greatest club in the world but you simply would not be able to compete financially. Even us with our healthy resources struggle to compete with the bigger boys, things are slowly changing for us but only because of our Championship experience. We have had to suck a lot of lemons and kissed many frogs and made many mistakes and spent maybe 50 million? Just to be a lower Championship side. Our biggest mistake was reaching the play off final. We should have done it how we are doing it now.

The truth is over the past 10 years your club has had similar fortunes to Cheltenham and that's the size of club I consider you to be currently.

Around 2000 you were in a similar position to us, even finished above us, however for the majority of the past 15 years we have pushed on and had some modest success at the top of league one and in the Championship, you have just gone backwards with the odd small step forwards every now and then, but then you go backwards again.

When you had the likes of Roberts, Ellington, Cureton etc I feared you. You had an impressive team in those days. I could name every single one of your players back then. Now I couldn't name one.

As a club you have returned to league one with a poorer team than you had in those days and off the field you have made no progress at all. Your stadium is identical to 16 years ago save a new roof here and there. Your youth facilities are poorer. You've lost the rugby income and your attendances have been pretty average. In all honesty you should be able to attract at least 8k in league two regularly. The fact you havnt speaks volumes.

In the same period we have pushed on and became a Championship club, Our academy is a Cat 2. We have the whole Bristol Sport model. The stadium has been rebuilt, New training ground. Our fan base continues to grow. Our whole club has been overhauled off the pitch with people like Mark Ashton coming in. We were able to attract players such as Maynard, Trundle, Sno, Hartley, Heaton and more recently Kodjia, Baker, Tomlin, Flint, Freeman etc etc. You signed a homeless guy.

Don't run before you can walk. 

I agree with you to a degree on the jump to the Championship. I think we need to establish ourselves back in league One and the new owners have time to implement any plans and hopefully get the stadium built.

I wouldn't turn down promotion if it came. but if we were somehow good enough/fortunate to go straight up again, we wouldn't be ready

1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

Just seen the , is Daryl the best manager ever for the squatters , article on the Post sight.  Now I don't like him/them , but he has done a decent job but does that paper have no perspective at all ??  They have done back to back promotions (in case you hadn't heard ), commendable , but does anyone red or blue really believe the first promotion an achievement ? Good day out for them but coming a poor second best to Barnet, really ?  The second is a job well done (all be it relying on Acrington not to score) , they have momentum and something to celebrate after falling out of the League , but dear God does that rag go over board or what ! 

1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

Just seen the , is Daryl the best manager ever for the squatters , article on the Post sight.  Now I don't like him/them , but he has done a decent job but does that paper have no perspective at all ??  They have done back to back promotions (in case you hadn't heard ), commendable , but does anyone red or blue really believe the first promotion an achievement ? Good day out for them but coming a poor second best to Barnet, really ?  The second is a job well done (all be it relying on Acrington not to score) , they have momentum and something to celebrate after falling out of the League , but dear God does that rag go over board or what ! 

depends on what you class as an achievement. Not many teams have come straight back up from the conference. Cheltenham have done well but I would suggest they were better prepared/ran to be a conference club given how they were operating in the league compared to us and adapting was less of a challenge.

This year, we were what 4 goals better than Accrington, so in that sense we deserved it. Accrington have had an outstanding season in relative comparison

Is Clarke the best manager? all subjective at the end of the da with different circumstances. Gerry (1st time round) is probably still top at the moment, but Clarke could better him

As for the Post, to be honest I give up with them they write so much shite all round, Rovers, City, the news

23 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

And let's not forget the insane decision of a ref to blow for half-time while the ball was mid-air and heading towards Wimbledon's goal.

If that goal had been correctly credited to Stanley, the Gas would be in pray-off terrain.

out of interest what was incorrect about it.

It was stupid, but not incorrect

55 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

If someone offered you 17th -  20th next season now would you take it or do you think you can do better than that? I know a lot of your more `vocal` followers seem to think you`ll be promoted by Christmas as you`re `coming for us` but I`m genuinely interested in what a calmer head thinks.

I would take it.

Even Wael was not expecting to go straight up ans its a bonus. Next season is about the new ownership putting whatever ideas into place/reality (if they are to be)

Consolidation for me is key and hopefully getting a sound footing to potentially push on. Too much too soon might be a hinderance

1 minute ago, Just Red said:

A sag bead once again going on about attendances, change the bloody record will you. 11k is pathetic.

Sorry for trying to answer one of your 'friends' questions

15 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

they got just over 11.100 on Saturday, was that a sell out? I am assuming the Daggers didn't sell their allocation.......

all the Home tickets were sold. there were 11,130 officially. Daggers had their allocation reduced to 400 and only sold 291 and there was a small segregated area. (no more than 100 seats I would say)

apparently the official capacity is 11,916 according to online sources (although I guess that doesn't include any segregation) to me though that doesn't add up

Purely for banter as i know some of you will enjoy taking the piss out of it. :laugh:

10 minutes ago, bs3 said:

Back to Back promotion from the conference to League is very common, and then that club reaches its level. It just shows how bad the Conference and League 2.

Yeovil Town, Fleetwood, Stevenage all have done back to back promotions in recent years.  But obviously the gas will be claiming that their back to back promotion is unique 

 

 

Its not unique no.

The third division might be our level. Obviously anything can happen but i would hope we have a bit more tha Yeovil borrowing a team every year,.or Stevenage, Fleetwood to be comfortable in league, but it only takes one bad managerial appointment or aignings that dont care.

Yesterday was great, and enjoyable the party will continue later.

Hopefully next year is positive but i will lake 20th now

Enjoy your last game today guys.

Hope Rovers do the business and we get a bit of luck in one of the other games.

Regardless of the banter and arguments, i hope this is the start of a good time.to be a football fan in Bristol, Red or Blue

1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

Surely how the stadium is funded must be a major concern.

We're in the fortunate position of having an owner who isn't claiming interest on monies lent to the club, if you get external funding then people will expect a return or at least want their monies secured against the value of the new stadium.

With external partners wanting a return then that would mean less revenue going to the club and with various different financial fair play measures in place would this not put you at a commercial disadvantage?

Yes I do wonder how it will be funded. The same questions I was trying to ask of the old board to be honest.

However the new owners actually give me some confidence they can actually secure real investments and not try and blag everything like the last lot of chancers

At the moment we are back to square one and the questions will be asked in due course. Or maybe they won't have to be as the new people seem to actually communicate to the fans and they will tell us how it will all come together as and when

7 hours ago, Just Red said:

Each and every Rovers fan have a deep physiological problem with us, I can't even explain it, it's just weird. They hate us but at the same time are also obsessed by us? I think secretly deep down they all wish they were City fans but just to stubborn to admit it.

and the same token there are many of your lot that don't consider us rivals any more but continue to talk about us.

I am not going to get carried away with how much or how little the new owners at Rovers have or whether The/A Stadium comes out of his pocket or is actually well funded.

However so far they are a breath of fresh air and I am glad to be finally rid of the chancers we had leading us to oblivion.

1 hour ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Looks like it is full steam ahead for the new stadium ....

• currently trying to resolve "a few issues"
• take their time to get the planning phase of the project right.
• currently in talks with UWE
• the possibility of building a "world-class" stadium
• Rovers have yet to reveal whether they have plans to alter initial blueprints
• make sure that we have everything we need in place before we start the implementation phase
• There has been a few issues discovered that they are trying to resolve

 

What could possibly go wrong? ....answers on a postcard to Wally at The Mem

 

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-Rovers-Taking-time-planning-phase-right/story-29173082-detail/story.html

 

I have no idea whether Wael and co will build the stadium or not, but everything that has come out of the new regime seems to be that they are trying to sort out stuff that the last lot either hadn't sorted or were 'selling off SIlver within' the project in their desperation to build it

31 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Joking aside, new stadiums do seem to make an impact on supporter numbers and there's no real doubt in my mind that once the UWE Stadium is built their attendances will go up, certainly in the first few years. Whether they stay higher will depend on success/failure on the pitch....just like us and pretty much every other league club. 

In fairness to 'Hello', he hasn't been spouting all the pie in the sky bullshit you find written by mentally challenged Rovers fans on Facebook and Slagchat. They've always slagged off our atmosphere yet many also complain about their own at the Mem as things are now with a 'hardcore' 5/6k supporters. It'll be no better in a 21/27/35k all seater stadium with an extra 10k fans who couldn't be bothered to show up during the hard times....let alone belt out Irene or anti City songs for 90 minutes. 

Slagchat and Facebook will of course claim that as soon as these new fans turn up they'll be blown away in amazement by the 'quarterz' and 'Ireeen' and will instantly become 'Gas fer life', 'hate the shit', 'Gas family' blah blah blah which is cringeworthy rubbish. If they were that special as a club and fanbase compared to us they would've had higher attendances than us for decades, selling out their own ground every week...but they haven't.

 

I guess football is all what if's, buts and maybes and clichés at the end of the day

What if Geoff Bradford never broke his leg (or was replaced) and Rovers got promoted to the 1st division, what if you had won the Championship play-off final.

Personally as I have said before I'd rather Rovers and City had a healthy rivalry as high up the divisions as possible. obviously that means success for both teams to  a degree.

4 minutes ago, Stortz said:

Agree with much of what you've said and Hello and our other pet Gas on here aren't too ridiculous.

My point is that instead of being happy with the possibility of a 20k stadium, a fair proportion of them suddenly start talking about 30k or 35k capacities. It's just classic Gas delusion.

And I've read all the excuses about why you haven't sold out tomorrow @Hello. Whichever way you dress it up, not selling out a sub 11k hovel for this game is more than a bit embarrassing. Especially given how much the majority of your fans bang on endlessly about how well supported you are.

personally I believe we should have sold out, but nowt queer as folk. I think the problem is that we have averaged 6,500 most of the season so the extra are all pay on the day. I know there were a few people that were forking out for the last 4 or 5 games all in one go so they had a ticket and some couldn't afford to do all the games.

Might be poor, might be a lame excuse but that is the challenge for us and every other clubs getting the 'extra' fans to commit to Season tickets and making them regulars

I only mentioned 35K stadium as that is the potentially expansion at UWE. I have no idea what the owners want to build.

I don't see myself bragging about filling that or even 21k if anyone bothered to read the words I actually wrote.

As for Exeter tomorrow. I imagine some people will hold off and are hedging their bets with the play-offs a possibility. Most people have plumped for the last game of the season which is sold out.

This is why (like you) improving or building a new ground is important. Hopefully helps bring  RELATIVE success and people commit to better facilities, or better facilities attract more people which helps  success as the circle goes round, like every club that attempts to do it

I'm not in to getting carried away like some of our fans have.

Definitely small steps for us, but there at least seems to be a better feeling around the club.

If we ever build a new stadium be it 21,000, 26,000 or 35,000 at UWE, if something actually starts to happen I think it will encourage more people to come back or start supporting Rovers.

I don't pretend we would fill it or even get better crowds than yourselves if you were doing well, but I think the stadium issue is the one thing that has eroded away Gasheads more than any other or I should say the failure to produce on despite many plans.

11 hours ago, bs3 said:

Your full off BS mate, every one and I mean every one connected Bristol Rovers from the tea lady, fans, and Gas Heads who  work in the media , belived that your man was a mutli mutli billionaire, on the same level as the Man City owners and you all thought you will be in the prem in a few season and playing in the champions leauge.

As it turns out you still can't even afford to build your cheap souless bowl of a stadium at UWE but you might build a car park there in October. 

DC and the team as done well this season but he will not be the first to get promoted from the Conference and then go on toget promoted the following season to L1, it is a regular occurrence. 

If you do or don't get promoted this season will you have the biggest budget in L1 or L2 if not why not , after all he is the 6th richest man in the world, this is not me claiming this but your fans on national radio . Your fans made these claims on radio phone in and not once  did the local media the ex board or current board quash these rumours.

I went to birmingham last week for work and got chatting to some West Brom fans and they mention the Rovers take over by Billionaire Arabs  and how they are going to do a Man City, when I told them he is not as wealthy as first thought and they still can't affford to build thier new stadium, they did have a little chuckle. 

You have again became a laughing stock.

Beleive it or not, not all of us were sucked in to the hyperbole and poor reporting of the take over. I have no idea what the Al Qadis are worth and to be honest i dont really care as long as they run the club right

Whatever happens and whater division we are in, it is at least possible to beleive a better future after Higgs nearly gambled it all away.

I am not taken in by the bluster and speculation of how much the Al Qadis are or arent worth, but they at least seem to come over a damn site more business savvy then.the last lot.

Hopefully we go up and with you lot safe in the championship things will be positive for football in Bristol at least. Maybe in the Rugby as well if they dont screw up again.

Hopefully we can.join you in the championship in the near future and not necessarily 3.promotions on the bounce

10 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

I know you are ( for a Squatter ) a fairly sensible poster , but do you rally not get the difference in the two jobs the highlighted parts represent?

One is supposed to entertain and encourage debate of listeners and the other is meant to be a professional representative of your club. Not a pissed up no mark on a jolly with his mates down the local , I dread to think of the out cry if Cott's would have done that.

So you paid £2.3m for 50% and just £10k for the other 50% because your co-owners were in financial difficulties. Sounds like bloody daylight robbery to me, there isn't one person on this forum who wouldn't have ran to the mortgage lenders to take that deal !

Which bit about Amtrak buying the site for that price and us paying the same for half is confusing you

41 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

Who was the owner?

Other questions. Why did the Bristol Rugby owner (a lifelong Rovers fan) have a clause in the contract that allowed Rovers to buy the rugby club's 50% of the ground for £10k?  It's usual business practice to ensure that your only asset is retained in the event of debts. You don't give it away.  Also why did the the rugby owner (a lifelong Rovers fan) put the  club into administration, thereby triggering the clause? No warning and no opportunity for other interested parties to take over. 

2.3 million was what Amtrak were going to pay for the site, we paid that for 50% with the 10k site

How much should we have paid?

Not our fault Bristol Rugby has been badly run that Rovers saved them and then years later Steve Lansdown had to save them.from going tits up

Bristol were going bust and would have sold it the Mem to a distribution firm.

But i guess its all a conspiracy

28 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

The land used to include two practice pitches used by Bristol Rugby and was approx twice the size of the current footprint. Where did the money go when this land was sold for housing?

Bristol Rugby sold that not us,.better ask the owners of the time what they did with it