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57 minutes ago, The Gasbuster said:

Loads of whingeing 15ers on R.B. this evening

Excellent

4 minutes ago, Dark Wood Covert said:

Didn't they have a pen as well? Glad to see they ran out of luck in the end....

Well done Posh!

And the 10k gate didn't materialise either.

Happy days

19 minutes ago, Fiale said:

 

So the nuclear option. 

Not so different yours except that I think the only thing that will be built on the site at UWE is a School of Law (with a nice car park).

Here's hoping.

28 minutes ago, Fiale said:

 

I am guessing selling the Mem, pocketing the money, then either buying a stadium with loan money, or renting a new stadium built by a third party and renting it - would be the only way to asset strip Rovers as they only really have that one asset. I don't think he will do it, he seems like a millionaire who just wants to own and run a football club... kind of dream lot's of people would aspire to.

 

If he did want to asset strip the club - sell the Mem, put the money into the holding company Dwane Sports. Borrow £40 odd million and build a cheapish stadium, put the loan repayments and debt onto Rovers books (or let a third party pay for and build the stadium and just rent it from them - though that leaves the club in a precarious position). Sell one or two players that may have any value, call in the loans that Dwane Sports hold against Rovers (for purchasing the club / buying out Higgs / paying of Wonga) and sell whats left of Rovers to whoever is interested, or just give it away for a nominal £1.   Wael's family are worth around £75 ish million - within a year or 2 he could increase his families wealth by a huge percentage, and that money would be cash as opposed to their current wealth that's mainly tied up in assets.

So I am sure it would be tempting to a businessman.... we will know when the funding for the UWE stadium is announced as to whether that's his plan, if a third party builds it, or most of the money is borrowed and all the loans dumped onto Rovers and not the holding company... you know what's happening.

I see it this way. Dwayne Sports calls in the loan and the football club goes into administration. Dwayne Sports repossesses the CH4pit and sells it off for whatever the Nimbys will allow.

BRHPFC (2017) have to groundshare somewhere. 

By 2021/22 season they are squatting at Yate Town while polluting the Sourhern League.

12 hours ago, Smaller than a flea said:

I think some of you want us back up there with you more than we do.  Really.

You are wrong, deluded and plain wrong. We do not want to play you again - ever. 

The sooner Wally does the asset-strip that is clearly planned the better. Then you can toddle off to the Toolstation League or something, though what those clubs have done to deserve your Neanderthal supporters is not for me to say.

2 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

They started on the car park a few weeks ago to avoid that legality. 

That's the car park for the new Legal Library?

9 minutes ago, Griffin said:

Can't deny it, the Gas have class.

We will have some who thibk the same I'm sure. I just hope they are not so ingrained in their prejudices that they are them in public like that.

7 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

I think for a club that came out non league their attendance is quite good.

 

Almost bound to be like that when a club comes out of non-league. The novelty factor of playing full time big name clubs every week will be quite a draw.

11 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

Hmm well Bristol Rovers as a club name wasnt formed until 1899 whilst the name Bristol City was 1897 so im not really sure....There was a team called Black Arabs around the area at that time mind you....

Yes, the 1883 date relates to the predecessor of the predecessor of one of the teams that merged to become horse Punching Sag Losers FC.

But since when have they been concerned with facts?

10 minutes ago, Bazooka Joe said:

What's the 1883? Their highest-ever attendance?

The total IQ of their record crowd

15 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

spurs the last biggest crowd for the hoof hitting clowns SR ?

If they had 18k for that one they must have had some pitiful crowds in other games to get the average down as far as it went that season.

9 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Really don't see the point in comparing historical attendances from 40 years ago.

Unemployment was in the millions, grounds were far from comfortable environments and pre Euro96, there was very little marketing going on, that tournament reignited the Idea of watching live football for a lot of people.

The question was when the horse abusers last had a 20k plus gate for a league game that wasn't against us. The answer is about 45 years ago. I agree with your point about the differences between now and then but this appears to be the answer to the exam question. I feel very smug as I had a feeling it was as far back as when Villa were in division 3.

34 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

I'm gonna stick me neck out and reckon there last biggest crowd was against Tottenham 78

Under 18000 for that one

sub 20k for Manchester Utd in 1975

just over 20k for Villa's visit in 1971 so I think my hunch was correct, and the crowd was 75% Villa

48 minutes ago, Lord Spandex said:

Bristol Rovers face opposition over plans for state-of-the-art training ground in Almondsbury
 

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/bristol-rovers-face-opposition-over-plans-for-state-of-the-art-training-ground-in-almondsbury/story-29839244-detail/story.html

That'll be down to us i'm sure. After all, everyone else is in awe of the greatest fans in history and "da famous quarters"

13 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

Even in our darkest season of 82 we averaged more than you! Yet....

Cou

So, top of the head, they are traditionally about the 55th best supported club in the country and we are about the 40th. Someone with more time than me could do the analysis more accurately but I don't think I'm far out.

Odd fact for our gates is that the promotion season of 1976 and the play off season of 2008 had very similar average gates.

12 minutes ago, myol'man said:

16 April 1976

Second Division

Rovers

0–0

City

26,430

Last time they had over 20,000 for a home league match.

Oh, and who were the opposition?

If I remember rightly, we had over 12,000 on the Muller Road end that day Alan Dicks red 'n white army

No,no,no, they had 99% of the crowd and there were 28 of us there. A sag told me so on here just the other day.

My memory is a little different, the Muller Bank was packed and most of the other parts of the ground were mainly red. The pictures of the game confirm that too.

A while earlier than that Villa took over 15000 to Eastville for a div 3 game so the crowd may have scraped over 20k,but their gates were in freefall from about 1975.

8 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

A tenner less..?

No. MK Dons were charging Rovers season ticket holders £15 for away tickets. 

True but neither of them could make it as the moped was off of the road.

6 minutes ago, myol'man said:

Just as a matter of interest, when was the last time the blue few had 21,500 for a home league match?

Last time we went to Eastville?

9 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

Can we park at the ground or should I just pay some urchin to protect my cat for three hours?

That is ludicrous even for a sag. You possess neither the funds nor the mental alacrity to drive a car. So why would you take a feline to a game of football?

3 hours ago, NOTBLUE said:

I expect the Dopey Feckers will actually phone up to enquire when  they are going to be on sale.

Fixed that for you

4 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Gashead's latest gem on social media...! 

Bookmark that for reuse next April. Karma can be wonderful.

There is more chance of them meeting FGR in the league.

On 22/10/2016 at 18:12, Dark Wood Covert said:

Also considering the quality of teams currently above and the fact they lost to Bolton, Scunthorpe and Sheffield United. Still got plenty of decent L1 teams to come yet as well, they won't be saved by the ref & the linesmen nearly every game.

 

Driving to the match yesterday I heard 20p interview a sag at Oldham. His neanderthal mutterings consisted of:

Best team in the league

Going up

Been better than every other team this year.

So look out City.

1 hour ago, Malago said:

Did you chose the username seventeen in recognition of the number of years since you finished above us in the league?

mind the gap

No, it's his IQ, one of the smarter sags

10 minutes ago, Smaller than a flea said:

This is banter on very thin ice here. You can criticise the fans, the stadium, the lack of wealth of the new owner, and the players, but slagging off the man who has totally transformed our club in two years is never going to work.

I hate to think where we might be if Nick Higgs hadn't turned to him in desperation and said "Well, all the other overpaid buggers have failed miserably, so it's on your shoulders now, lad."

He's joining Swansea soon, apparently.

What slagging off? Everything about the Salisbury City days is fact, try looking it up. They would probably have gone bust at the end of Dopey's last season but for the fortuitous windfall from Matt Tubbs's transfer.

They were always a fit side and threw the kitchen sink at opponents, especially at home, but came unstuck badly at times. Is that anything but fair comment, especially as I doubt you saw any of it?

6 hours ago, Aizoon said:

Not unlike Gary Johnson, then

Similar, I'd put him a level below GJ.

Frankly my cat could have managed Salisbury City out of the Southern League with a full-time team that was essentially the same as the one who played in the Conference the previous year. Even then, Truro won the League!

Dopey's team blew a 14 point lead in March the next season and had to go up through the play offs.

One parallel with the 15'ers is how much all the other fans despised the 'old' Salisbury.