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28 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

Hayles, Stewart, Ellington and Martyn left over a period of time for a combined total of £5.4m.....which back then was a huge amount of money.

The big question is......where did a lot of that money disappear to?

 

All joking aside (for now), you're absolutely right. Don't forget the £1m they also got for Lambert. Even the Rovers fans themselves have no idea where any of it ended up...

5 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

Don't forget, Hayles, Stewart and Ellington.  They all left for big money back in the day.

And more recently Matty Taylor. Wasn't he apparently valued at several million?? How did that work out for them?

7 minutes ago, Red Rag said:

Just had a quick browse of their forum. They are getting the wind up on all fronts. The comments from Hamer in the supposed email reply seem quite damming of employees and departed staff. It's getting uncomfortably hot at the Minimal. Shall we have a whip round?

Umm...no!

3 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

Here's a simple question for them to put to the Rovers' Chairman:

"When do you expect the £10m secured loan facility upon the Memorial Ground to be fully drawn and how will you fund the club's operating loss and the payment of interest upon that drawn loan thereafter?".

It's a simple question.

Very concisely put, and possibly one for Twentyman to broach next time he invites Hamer or Wally onto his show (not that I expect either to answer with any honesty or clarity).

4 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

I'd also laugh if they emulated their performance away at the Cobblers in the 1998 play offs - after a 3-1 home victory in the first leg, the gas were spouting off about a play off final appearance being a formality - it was rumoured they even pre-booked the coaches to Wembly....then three days later they lost the second leg 3-0 at Northampton to go tumbling out! Happy Days!

Corrected that for you 

5 minutes ago, WessexPest said:

Lockyer no more

Sweeney no more

Slocombe no more

Taylor no more

UWE no more, 

Solvent no more,

I like this game. How long can we keep this going? 

2 hours ago, Cheesleysmate said:

Spot on. They had been so envious of our stint in the top flight that our plummet towards being extinguished was met with absolute glee by the other club in the City. To say they were "over the moon" was an understatement and they so desperately wanted Ashton Gate. They never once stepped in to help us out, so **** the lot of them. They haven't changed either, they still can't handle the very mention of our name without going into total meltdown. The sooner they are gone for good the better. 

Just be grateful the internet hadn't been invented in the run up to '82. The size of this thread would pale into insignificance...

2 minutes ago, Gazred said:

Bet they are all salivating over "world class stadium". How the **** are you going to get one of those in there? Why not just say modern stadium, got to over sell it as usual and end up looking more and more stupid.

Corrected that for you 

2 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

Whats the story then?

He failed to score at all!

5 hours ago, HOMERSIMPSON said:

And the Russians have released pictures of the system.

 

Isn't that Nick Higgs' (in)famous watertight bucket?

1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Only one team in Bristol has sold a striker for (potentially) £15m

 

 

And only one team in Bristol has sold a striker they rated at over £10m for £300k 

46 minutes ago, supercidered said:

What was the Feng Shui one?

When they moved to the Mem they hired an 'expert' to improve the Feng Shui layout of the ground and improve their luck. From memory, all they did was place a goldfish bowl in one of the goal nets for a couple of weeks 

How about misspelling their own graffiti (that's one to be "prowed" of), or plastering 'Clarke out' posters around the training ground and then enjoying successive promotions under him...

Unfortunately, I think Pembos departure was an act of cowardly desperation from those truly in fear of their roles at AG at the moment. If LJ gets the boot now, who is there realistically to take over in the interim? An assistant coach who appears to be at the centre of our downfall, or another one who has only been in the job for a day?

Good luck Pembo- thank you for being you. You won't be forgotten. #doublewinner

7 hours ago, TETBURY MASSIVE said:

This any good?

I have it on record from my sources deep within Homebase that the rake insisted on a 99p release clause.

8 hours ago, pride of the west said:

I'd feel sorry for them if they actually woke up to all the BS. 

I wouldn't!

Simply embarrowssing

2 hours ago, 29AR said:

Too wide a range to guess. However, Sainsburys almost certainly won't be getting every single penny spent on their defence back. What will happen now is the parties will to and fro about the costs incurred and agree a proportion for which Rovers are liable, or go to a costs hearing. Rovers may have taken (very expensive) insurance out againsts costs too .

Why on earth would they have even considered this when the contract was deemed so "watertight"...

2 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Apparantly Wael has been in Switzerland this week as part of the team supporting the candidacy of Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa in his attempt to win the vote for FIFA presidency. Wael, that was in vain.

Prince Ali got 4 votes. Apparently, Wally is requesting a recount on the grounds that 'thousands' of voters were locked out and were therefore unable to cast their votes...

Or David Kohler and the 'Kohler Dome'

51 minutes ago, Tomarse said:

I'm surprised nobody has sought to find out exactly what they are worth... Surely someone at the WDP/BP should be investigating it.. 

Since when did they deal in facts? Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

13 minutes ago, Cheesleysmate said:

My suggestion is the shout from Clem when the Sags were away at Forest Green "Rovers fans singing their anthem....Come On Eileen" and it could start with Come On Eileen playing and have the video of them singing the gas are staying up at Wycombe followed by them storming the pitch when relegated out of the football league, Jeff Stelling announcing that they are gone after 92 years, some news headlines about horse punching, attacking their own stewards, racist abuse, and their fans trying to fight with opposition players because they think they are too big for non-league football? How about a montage of all the goals they conceeded to some right tin-pot outfits?

Don't forget the references to the Thatcher years, dogs dying, etc :-) 

On ‎11‎/‎21‎/‎2015‎ ‎8‎:‎15‎:‎02‎, cityloyal473 said:

We took over 1200 for a meaningless last game of the season. 

I thought we were all in the Mansfield end that day...

Wow  , the Gas Hit Squad have really let themselves go.

Gypsies

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