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Tomlin banned for next game?

Come on City let's get stuck into these dirty northern ......

Orient down to 9 men and 1-0 down to Plymuff.

54 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Only due to their own failings.

So  by that (#tedlogic) does that mean if either were to get relegated again that instantly makes us better? Of course not you belter.

You will never make the Premiership as you are bottlers for the big occasions. Considering you have a billionaire covering your debts I'd be asking why a club like Bournemouth  can buy their way in but you still struggle in the league below, and best players are borrowed. I guess Lansdown already has the Premiership club he always wanted...

If you are so far ahead of little old Rovers why do you still deem us important enough to have this as your top 5 threads each day, even after 2 successive promotions and sitting in a league you were struggling in not that long ago under Mcwinless?

If any other club needed proof what a narrow minded lot you are then a look through this thread is all they would need.

Anyway, you can all go back to admiring your dicks in a mirror, just make sure its the right way around as you may be looking at the magnified side.

 

When you've built your new ground and been promoted to the championship, come and tell us about it.  Until then, know your place you pitiful little sag.

"Is Flint a liability ?"  No, he's an effing hero.

Whadda we want

A clean sheet

when do we want it

Now

FFS we've take the lead.   Who'd have thunk it.

1 hour ago, Aizoon said:

Horace is working on it. Not too hard, mind. We want them to be rare.

I prefer mine medium or medium to well done.

I see they're at Swindle on Tuesday for the "who gets who sent off" derby.

Nor one for the purists.

1 hour ago, Lucan said:

For a season that promised so much, the fact we are relying on an 18 year old loanee to provide the magic is really telling of where the club really are...

That's it, let's throw in the towel and write off the season after 8 games.

3 minutes ago, Andy1970 said:

2 points from 9 I mean! 

3 wins, 3 defeats, 2.draws.  12th in the table.  Given our difficult start I'd have taken that at the start of the season.

TT-.Tammy Time

Cardiff losing again.  My tips to go down, Wigan, Cardiff and Blackburn. 

Much more compact.

1 hour ago, RUSSEL85 said:

Dont care if we lose 5-1 as long as we score first 

Old enough to remember when we won 5-1 at Hillsborough.  A John Galley brace or hat trick.  One of the early signs that things were on the up under Alan Dicks.

1 hour ago, Fiale said:

I don't think he bought them as a toy, he probably thought it was a genuinely good business deal.

Possible this happened...

Higgs said buy the club, it has assets and only a small amount of debt. They ask why he is selling the club then, well because he has to service a loan and has ran out of lines of credit.

Wael looks at the finances, yup, a couple of loans to pay off that have fallen due, and then the club is debt free with a nice large asset in the Mem. Seems a good deal, check with Higgs what kind of cut he want's out of the deal - he ask for maybe 1-2 million and bingo - Rovers have a new owner, Dwayne Sports, who are registered in Jersey and have now got the purchase and loan payments on their books. Now he starts to realise the club runs at a loss, that the UWE deal is not a clear cut as it seemed, in fact UWE seem keen on using the land for a new faculty. Wael also realises that they will not own the land, and that Rovers will be nothing more than tenants and for that privilege they have to front most of the building costs - so he has to renegotiate to get a better deal.

Wael looks at his £70 odd million wealth and starts wondering how much he should put into the club... it's a big gamble, and most of the wealth is tied up in assets, so he looks for financing, but what kind of returns can they expect from the ground for a large up front costs ? Probably nowhere enough to make it a decent deal, so he struggles to find anyone to get on board.... and that's where we now are Wael goes to sleep at night cussing Higgs and dreaming of owning a trouble free Gillingham. 

So Rovers are owned by a offshore company, in a tax haven, by a business man from Jordan - and what is it they say about us and Lansdown ?

You wanne make a small fortune from owning a football club, start with a big fortune.

1 minute ago, havanatopia said:

Out of interest does anybody know if the City team are staying in Yorkshire through tuesday night?

They usually do a stop over with two close proximity matches in the same week.

No, they came home.  Johnson quoted as saying he felt it was better the players had time with their families.

Bottom four, booed off at half time, Dopey refusing to do press interviews after the game, not at all happy days at Rovers.

6 minutes ago, 8menhadadream said:

Where has the 'top 10 / above us' come from? We are in the play off zone of the Championship and that shower of s**t are in the L1 relegation zone. Am I missing something? 

The only comparison between the 2 clubs nowadays is the 'Bristol' in the respective names. Other than that we are eons ahead in every respect. R*vers are rarely sung about at the Gate anymore and apart from a quick look at the results screens on the way out, rarely mentioned.  A genuine question, can someone name 1 (that's ONE) thing they have or can do better than us apart from lose to Scunthorpe?

We've never won the conference playoff final 

So back to the business in hand.  Is Wally going to give a definitive, unequivocal statement on the UWE stadium in tonight's blockbuster radio production.

Since this thread has adopted an Americanism all by itself, I thought I get off my chest two other Americanisms I can't stand.

1.  Do the math:. It's not even do the maths, it's do the arithmetic 

2.  Back in the day: A lazy man's/women's "back in the days of yore", which is more lyrical.

Now can somebody please change the title to the Bristol Rovers Dustbin Thread.

I see bottom 4 side Bristol Rovers are at home to fellow strugglers Rochdale next Saturday in an early season 6 pointer relegation battle.   Not a game for the purist I would imagine.

8 hours ago, pritcm said:

This is very long thread. Are we discussing something important?

Is there a prize for the millionth view btw?

No and no.

Which just goes to show in footballing terms, chimps have a lot less to be ashamed of than chumps.

In fact, I don't think a team of chimps has ever been relegated to the Vanarama Conference.