Gert Mare

13 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

Although there are some sensible people on the Rovers’ forum who realise how shambolic the club is, there are still a lot who are totally deluded - e.g. 
 

 “I think we knew that Wael and co were hard bargainers after the UWE collapse.

That's a good thing, we want a good deal for the club ultimately.”

How can anyone believe the UWE and Fruit Market stadiums have fallen through because of Wael’s negotiating skills?  They’ve fallen through because, as always, Rovers don’t want to spend any money. 

They just don’t want to believe it.

So they’ll just carry on blaming Shitheads for everything.

Goodnight Irene.

On 09/09/2023 at 17:19, Gert Mare said:

Yep. With no update / progression of the ‘fruition’ of the Fruitihad they just announce plans for a Meccano South Stand and start flogging tickets and the Sags just lap it all up, forgetting all about the Fruitihad and if it will EVER happen. They’re not even questioning what the actual F is going on?!

Then they get in some ageing pros and a controversial woman beater because he’s going cheap and then when the South Stand runs into planning problems they announce that they are after JCH (without any intention of actually seeing it through) to divert Sags from planning a Tote End Aggro assault on any Green Party Member who by default is now a Gurt Ted intent on preventing their progression at all costs.

They just can’t see it and they just refuse to believe it and yet the shit fest is happening almost daily. They are now creating 150 page threads where they almost believe it and then someone pipes up with how unfaithful they are and round and round in circles they go.

The dumb ####wits!

 

Ummm….Yes….Could have been responding word for word to my post on here yesterday

Conspiracy theory eh? Jesus, how ******* thick are they? Deluded Sags!

8 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

I suspect you are thinking of Bolders.

Baggins can be quite sensible at times

Bolders & Baggins. Wasn’t that a kids TV programme during the 80’s?

Baggins was a Badger who has now been displaced from his home because Rovers started building a Meccano stand without the appropriate planning permission.

No wonder he isn’t happy

39 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

And this is one of the areas where they fail so fantastically.

If anyone questions the club, the message or the direction, they are immediately called a Gert Ted which is followed by the Eff Off back to Trashton line.

They have completely missed the point of supporting the club. It isn't just about getting behind the team on a match day, it's challenging the club to ensure that everyone can progress. The moment Wally thinks he is losing the room, he pays for a coach to take a few fans to an away game and they are back onside.

Yep. With no update / progression of the ‘fruition’ of the Fruitihad they just announce plans for a Meccano South Stand and start flogging tickets and the Sags just lap it all up, forgetting all about the Fruitihad and if it will EVER happen. They’re not even questioning what the actual F is going on?!

Then they get in some ageing pros and a controversial woman beater because he’s going cheap and then when the South Stand runs into planning problems they announce that they are after JCH (without any intention of actually seeing it through) to divert Sags from planning a Tote End Aggro assault on any Green Party Member who by default is now a Gurt Ted intent on preventing their progression at all costs.

They just can’t see it and they just refuse to believe it and yet the shit fest is happening almost daily. They are now creating 150 page threads where they almost believe it and then someone pipes up with how unfaithful they are and round and round in circles they go.

The dumb ####wits!

54 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

And that is a very true statement.

Most fans get the club they deserve, there are some outlying clubs where the club is too big to listen, but even Liverpool recognise The Spirit Of Shankley and have made changes because of them.

Loads of people on hear moan about SL, CEO, The shirts, SCAT etc, but there is a recognised route to raise and challenge things.

We have Jerry as an active SLO and whilst there will be countless occasions where things haven't necessarily gone well, you do get a feeling that the club are listening, even if they don't say they are listening.

The Fewers had some sort of Black and Gold protest a few years back, I think that group amounted to one bloke and a knitting machine. If they have an SLO then either they are brilliant as they never reference them, or they don't do a lot. During their non-league/relegation years, all sorts of talk about protest but they never got organised, anyone remember Cheltenham ground share?

The reason their club treat their fans so badly is because they let them.

Not true! Tom Gorringe is addressing the supporters with the truth this very minute……

10 minutes ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

Thank god there are wealthy Kuwaiti backers at the helm now ...

Yep, Del-Saeed and Wadders.

This time next year we’ll be the 6th richest club in the country!

10 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

This guy (Oldie) gets it, but he'll be pilloried for posting it ;

"Yes, it hasn't been smooth sailing but the approach the board has taken means the stand will be built as quickly as it possibly could have been."

"That made me laugh out loud.
An approach which fundamentally ignored the realities of the BCC planning processes, perhaps even the rules?

Let's not even talk about timings.
Nor PR management, nor fan engagement.

I cannot work out whether this growing catalogue of errors is due to arrogance, stupidity or incompetence.
Whether it be the new stand, JCH transfer saga, season ticket delay or shirt branding.
It is tedious to have these issues being discussed time and time again, but who exactly is causing these issues? It's not the fans, is it.
Then we get extolled to shut up and just get behind the team, on the false premise that to be critical is to not be "behind the team" Which of course is complete bo**ox.
Then there is the divine Mr Barton whose teams, under his direction, have barely won a home game since the beginning of 2023. Dare we be critical of that.
Still, the escape from this grim reality is at kick off at any given game when optimism rules, nourished by a couple of Thatchers on board.

Short lived, invariably, as that maybe."

Ted?

1 hour ago, BrizzleRed said:

Not a bad shout there.  I honestly couldn’t believe it when I heard they’d supposedly landed him for 800k.  So out of character for those losers to bid that kind of money, when the Tilson record had stood for so long.  

I did wonder if it was more cynical and calculated than that though.  I certainly wouldn’t put it past them to try and con their imbicile fanbase by supposedly bidding big, but with no intention of actually following it through, hence the last minute hitch..

The result is that their bunch of simpletons are now thinking their new invester is loaded, so it’ll be interesting to see if he follows it up next transfer window.

Yeah, Pirate Gas has done some further research and has come up with this…..

As you previously pointed out the Al Elmam Real Estate Company website ( www.elmamrealestate.com/ ) was last updated a decade ago and had little evidence of any activity anyway and the Foodco. Website also doesn't reveal much as it seems the small Al Firya Kuwaiti Restaurant has permanently closed (link on website doesn't work anyway) and the other two links to the restaurant franchise chains of Buffalo's Cafe and Quiznos that Mr Al-Saeed owns the franchisee rights to are also broken and unaccessable. I'm still wondering and fascinated to know how they made their fortune and what other business interests they are involved in that enabled them to buy into a League One football club? 
 

 “Stick a pony in me pocket……”

I’m beginning to think that the ‘G’ in their much loved acronym is for ‘Gift’ not ‘Gas’. Up the Gift!  

3 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

From Heartofgas on their forum who won't hear a word against the club (apparently the process for their new temporary stand is a successful) ;

"We don't know 2 of the 3 we f'd up.

On JCH we don't know the reason why it went wrong. It may have been nothing to do with us.

On the stand, how have we f'd up? Would it have been better the board planned to do this next summer? Yes, it hasn't been smooth sailing but the approach the board has taken means the stand will be built as quickly as it possibly could have been. In my book that is a success and I like that approach.

Why do some supporters always seem to jump on the most negative take on every situation and indulge in a rovers flagellation."

Yep. Still the delusion courses through their blue-blooded veins like this absolute belter

Eh? What more do you want? I would say Premiership in 5 years….’ERE WE GO!

11 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

"You can plan all you want ............etc"  Well it seemed to work out alright for us, just lucky ,I guess ?

On 07/09/2023 at 17:57, petehinton said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/darragh-macanthony-lifts-lid-collapse-8733300#google_vignette
 

This really does make me think they genuinely couldn’t afford him and had no intention of signing him, just wanted to show the ambition. There’s just no other explanation for something being that shambolic. Surely?

If I was a betting man then I would put my money on this being exactly what they did with their track record.

Miss the deadline, make out that they tried to seal the deal, but in reality they had no intention of actually going through with it.

They know that ‘these things take time’ and whatever line they feed the gullible Sags they know that they will lap it up, worship Wally and blame every other *** in sight.

Some of their fans have woken up to the shit show, but they are shouted down by the neanderthal goons who say they’re not ‘faithful and true’ enough, give it the old ‘Up da Gas’ line and point out how Wally is the messiah who saved them and if that doesn’t work they call them out as ‘Ted’s’ and get the forum to issue a ban.

24 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

 

I'm not sure that they will.

Remember those trees they cut down without permission, Greens on the council are gunning for them.

If we behaved in the same way do you think that we would get away with it?

I don't and I don't think that they will either.

Is that “They gurt Shithead Greens?” 

23 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Why are they carrying on 'building' when they still don't have permission? I thought they had to stop until permission was / might be granted?

Stinks of assumption and arrogance IMHO.

It would be their best cock up ever (NLBR apart) if they had to take it down again. 

Apparently, if they didn’t start the build the contractor was going to pull out to work on another job so in the words of The Beautiful South “Carry on regardless”

4 hours ago, OneCity said:

Oh, they've been saying the same thing for rather a long time. Far longer than ten years...

EASTVILLE Stadium Could become the West's Biggest Sports Centre...

..."There are 19½ acres of ground here [said Douglas Milne, Rovers' Director]. We could build a hall of sport, a running track and a multi-storey car park, and the stadium could cater for many sporting interests...not just soccer and greyhound racing. It could be a little White City..."

And that from 1965!

 

58 years and counting now...

These things take time.

Evolution not revolution 

1 hour ago, CiderJar said:

As bus stops go it is awesome, as football stands go it is awful

Boat storage available in Horfield.

For details / enquiries please contact:-

Wally,
Da Gas,
BS7 FTG 
Tel: 0272 272 272 
or FAX: 0272 999 999 (Please wait 50 seconds before pressing the send button)

“It’s always someone else’s fault”. 

Exactly, now you can see what us Gurt Ted’s keep telling you Gasheads. You always play the victim.

“Rag Ass”

”Tin Pot”

Hallelujah…..See Gasheads? These are now your OWN words from your OWN supporters.

Shitheads aren’t arrogant. We’re pointing out what you actually are…A Tinpot club ran by a charlatan.

Smell the coffee, see the light like your fellows above.

Stop simply lapping everything up, blaming Ted’s and setting yourselves up as a complete laughing stock!

47 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Yes.

As an aside you also see a few (& how appropriate) car registrations around with yew tee gee (for some reason this keeps defaulting to FTG) all a bit pathetic, isn’t it?

At least you can spot the Tinpot supporter, point and laugh your bollocks off as they drive past on their drive of shame.

1 hour ago, Super said:

Love how they still think he'll rip up his contract at Peterborough 

Yeah, why wouldn’t he? It’s the Gas after all.

Why wouldn’t anyone in their right mind not want to jump at the chance of joining Da Quarterz?

Gas innit? Gas, Up da Gas….6th richest club, coming for da Shit, In Joey We Trust, New temporary stand with concourse more massive than the Atyeo, moving to the 27,001 capacity stadium at the Fruit Market, Unlucky da Shit!

Bet he’s tearing his contract to shreds in front of DMacs face right this minute!

Finally found something that rhymes with Orange……Gorringe….and he has definitely ******* Tangoed the Tinpots!

The Tillson lives on.

If anyone is interested in renting a property in Portishead I know a guy who has literally just put one up for rent due to totally Tinpot circumstances.

£800k signing would have deflected the supporters of everyone’s favourite second club away from the South Stand circus and the non existent progression of the Fruitihad Stadium.

I spoke to a Sag yesterday about the building site and his words were ‘Totally Tinpot and Embarrassing’. That made my day in itself. The failure to submit the paperwork for the JCH deal on time put the cherry on top of the well iced cake.

The gift train to oblivion keeps on rolling with Dad’s Army onboard.

TINPOT!

I think SL has been clear in how he wants the club to operate. He doesn’t want us to be operating at a loss and continuing to make up the shortfall from his own pocket.

He has invested heavily in the infrastructure of the club and HPC to make it attractive to young players who can see that there is a genuine pathway into the first team.

There is no way that we could have competed financially to sign a player of Alex Scott’s ability, but we could produce it at a fraction of the cost.

We have to work within the constraints of FFP, but also we need to balance what comes in vs what we pay out in wages.

The risk of simply throwing money around is far greater than the likelihood of achieving success. 

Whilst it might be frustrating from a fans perspective the situation is the same for the majority of clubs in the football league.

You only have to look at the turmoil that has led to 8 - 12 point deductions and almost inventible relegation as a result of clubs that have chosen to take a gamble.

We have avoided FFP penalties, avoided the drop to League One, slashed the wage bill and have profited from the investment made in our academy.

Football is not just a game, it’s serious business with astronomically overinflated costs.

There will become a point where the bubble has to burst and when that time comes we need to be in the mix to embrace and take advantage of those changes. The alternative is that we end up going to the wall long before that time comes.

Yes, SL is quiet, but why repeat what he has said on a number of interviews over recent years?

NP is doing what is required of him with the resources at his disposal. I don’t know of many managers who would want to work in that way as poor results with limited options would reflect badly on their own reputation. Fair play to him. I think quite a number of fans recognise how difficult a job he has and this is why they don’t jump on his back.