Up The City!

4 hours ago, Antman said:

SL has been this inconsistent over a very long period. The crazy transfer policy that brought in the likes of Thorpe and Akinbiyi was under his control, (SL was finance director) when they didn't work out, we saw exactly the same approach - lock everything down and pull in your horns.

Its a terribly approach to business management that is a very effective way of racking up debt (£90 million now in total? some one can check the books and correct me) it also only serves to utterly destroy the fans confidence and given that he is intent on building this whole Bristol Sport ethos, IMO it's a dumbass way of running the show.

I can wholly accept the principles of the '5 pillars', in an age when the hugely successful clubs only exist in a distorted bubble, where financial probity is out the window and their survival is dependant on massive benefactors (although maybe we should note that John Henry, the Liverpool owners wealth is equal to SL) to strike out and try and build a sustainable model is laudable, but...

You have to accept that you are competing with the likes of Watford and a host of parachute payments for clubs who have visited the Premier League and that means that realistically you will struggle, unless you hit the freak wave and do what we did last year.

I genuinely believe last season was largely a happy accident - the seventh wave - that Cotterill was lucky enough to ride on, I'm not convinced how much control he had over events, and that was shown this season.

The PR surrounding this club is laughable -the whole billy big bollocks approach to appointing the likes of Mark Ashton and the 'Team' is pretty meaningless if the 5 Pillars threshold is set so low we realistically will always remain a league 1 team.

There is an argument that maybe SL ought to give it a go, a proper go and try and get up to the Prem, but that would require strategic, clever and sustained investment at the right moment and I'm not sure that he is capable of that or actually that football is the sport to be trying it !! maybe thats his plan - the rugby is more of a target for him.

LJ's appointment is rather like those helium balloons the day after the party - they float around at knee level slowly dropping to the floor, still pretty, but somehow depressingly downbeat.

I cannot accept that a moderately successful lower league manager, and forget the hype, thats all he is, however eloquent, is the answer to our plan right now.

SL likes his cronies - just look at the board - he thought he had a crony in SC, but it bit him on the backside in the long run - how he keeps the fanbase onside from here on in will be interesting.

 

 

Akinbiyi we got a good season out of and then sold on for 3.something million, Thorpe eventually scored us plenty of goals before leaving on a free. These are exactly the sort of players we should be aiming to sign.

A brilliant end to a tough and emotional week. A result like this will give the whole club a lift and could show the new manager we have great potential .

17 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

Absolutely NO CHANCE that we'll score ...

Love it

13 hours ago, Southstandoriginal said:

The ironic thing about the Mem is that despite it's utter crapness most of it isn't actually that old. The side stands were built by the rugby club in the 80s and 90s and the archaic looking clubhouse end was built by the sags after they moved in.

I'm sure the club house end was already there? However their fans had to raise the money for a roof for it.

Feeling gutted. The win was there for the taking. The penalty not given was a game changer.

Insert appropriate swear word here.

That's a fantasy of theirs. Sorry but no room for you within Bristol Sport. Maybe they should have backed our world cup bid. Failure to do that will forever rule them out.

Yessss

We need to ditch the 352. Other teams have figured it out. Listening to BBC West Midlands after the game their manager said they exploited our back 3 by pushing their wingers forward and it worked for them.

Driving home stuck in traffic wondering how we lost that one. Not a pen. Should have had two ourselves in first half. Ref was totally against us. The last game should have beeb chalked off as Donaldson was impeding Franks view. The ref qas even watching the scuffle.

I'm quite happy that this man that runs the show is a die hard City fan and when he's long gone we then have his son to take over whos an even bigger fan. So actually it's two people running this show but lets not let the facts get in the way.

Hows the Nick Higgs one man show getting on? Lost in court. Owe millions and no clear plan on how to move forward. Ok.

Just need someone who can convert all those chances.

Stats from tonight really prove my point about our defending. Fantastic offensive formation but three chances conceded and two of those resulted in goals. Both of which stemmed from getting caught out making poor decisions.

Absolutely buzzing though. Really feels like a win and a big confidence boost going into a really rough away game.

Ian would say those stats are wrong.

All we need is a couple of experienced Chanpionship players to add to our group of talented younger players.

Get in there!! Jumping around my house. Exactly the confidence boost we needed.

I hate listening to away radio coverage. It's not good for the life of my laptop.

Sounds like one of thise Windows 10 adverts.

Never liked this referee Keith Stroud. Always seems to be controversy when he comes to AG.

Ahhhhh

Atmosphere sounding great. Anyone in the Dolman able to share a pic of the South Stand full of fans?

All we need is one or two experienced Championship players. Cotts sounded really upset after.

To be professional at all times both during work hours and outside of work hours in order to maintain the excellent reputation of Bristol Rovers F.C. 

Guess that wasn't in their managers job description?

Am I correct in thinking this 350k is an interim payment and not the full amount?

http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/article/rovers-explain-rejection-of-derisory-sainsburys-offer-2585761.aspx

They're clearly going all-in.

Very strange they are disclosing all this information.

Car park sold for housing to fund a new stand and you'd be on the money I reckon...

Guess thats what you ment by them having options? That's all well and good but what about the other 3 stands?

A good cup run for us or us getting into the play offs or the rugby getting promoted and playing the likes of Bath will see will see 27k sell outs imo.