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1 minute ago, Ska Junkie said:

In all seriousness and I'm one that has taken the piss out of Clarke (as the gash boss, he was fair game), looking in from the outside, you have to say their board have just binned the only remotely decent thing in their club. All joking aside, he's done one hell of a job for them bringing them back to L1 from non- league.

Hopefully, by binning Clarke, they've just signed and sealed their relegation. 

Where’s the ‘fingers crossed’ emoji?

3 minutes ago, Tyna said:

Open letter/ petition on Change.Org

https://www.change.org/p/wael-al-qadi-open-letter-to-the-board-of-bristol-rovers-football-club?recruiter=66015793&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive

We the fans of Bristol Rovers Football club are writing this letter to you; the board to try and mend our broken relationship.

It is now nearly 12 months since we were told that the club was about to submit a planning application for our training ground to South Gloucestershire council and it is not acceptable that the fans only discovered that plans had been shelved due to cost nearly a year later in a damage limitation interview by Steve Hamer in the wake of the Barnet defeat nearly a year later. We now have a plot of land in Almondsbury sitting doing nothing and our (now ex) manager saying he doesn't believe it will be built during his tenure. It's inconceivable that the owners appear to believe this doesn't warrant some kind of official statement underlining what they intend to do going forward to finally provide this club with fit-for-purpose training facilities.

The same is true for the stadium. Since the club pulled out of the UWE Stadium project, many feel that no adequate reason has ever been provided and are left bewildered that any deal could possibly be worse than an indefinite stay at the crumbling Memorial Stadium, with yet another tent thrown up haphazardly to improve spectator experience. We know many parents who are hesitant to bring their young children to the Mem because of the derelict conditions at our ground which puts us in serious danger of losing a generation of fans as the rest of the football world modernises around us. It is not unreasonable to expect updates on the owner's stated goal of redeveloping the Mem, unless of course the new tent is the extent of these plans.

Finally, whilst we understand that the owners can not be expected to come and and quash any and all rumours around the club, the strong and consistent rumours that the club is up for sale and there will be no more investment in the club until any takeover is completed are troubling and paired with the lack of progress in infrastructure or any meaningful communication from the board create a self-perpetuating atmosphere of unease around the club that we believe is beginning to have an effect on the pitch.

We are not writing to you to demand that you immediately progress on the training ground and stadium. The reasons there has not been progress may be complex and varied. What we are demanding is communication from the club on a regular basis on what is being worked on, what direction any future plans are going in and any delays that have come up.

We see this taking one or more of the following forms:

- A monthly fans forum where fans can ask questions directly to the board
- A monthly written statement from the board on the work it is doing
- Regular interviews on club channels on the work the board is doing
- Immediately putting out a statement if there is bad news to announce

We believe the above would stop the current cycle of radio silence and then bad news slipping out in BBC Radio interviews. This would also go some way to stopping wild rumours circling around the club and building trust between the board and the fans.

Bristol Rovers fans are used to having our backs against the wall and no one expects overnight success or massive unsustainable investment but we do demand is to be kept informed and whenever possible involved in the direction of a club many of us have supported for 50, 60 even 70 years of our lives. Let's work together to ensure there is a competitive, modern and sustainable Bristol Rovers football club for our children and grandchildren.

Yours sincerely

Gasheads everywhere

The desperation is almost palpable.

on a side note, my best mate is a gas head and he texted me, ‘the only good thing we had has just left the building’

1 minute ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Am I the only person who feels sorry for the bloke.  He was doing a great job for them and has been royally shafted by the club.  Didn’t he turn down Leeds to stay at the Mem?

Probably. 

10 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

So can somebody help me why the sags haven’t got a game this weekend. 

So they don’t lose....again

10 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Do you know, I’m starting to feel a bit sorry for the blue, bitter few who happen to co-populate our fair city....they try so hard to remain relevant and visible - they are straight on to Talksport when we beat Manchester United in a cup quarter final because the nation is apparently very interested in Darren from Patchway’s assertion: “Yeh but da Roverzzz take more fans to away games than da shit” - bless him...then they climbed all over the Man City forum when we played them in the cup semi final, spouting the same shite, while we quietly took 8,000 to Manchester in midweek...

And all the while we have built a £45m stadium and have now had planning permission granted for a state of the art training ground...whilst they flounder like a fish out of water waiting for tents to be delivered as new stands to their ‘stadium’ - yes, tents...in 2018...their home ground is ridiculed by away fans whilst others wax lyrical about the palatial surroundings offered up by Ashton Gate...and all this after they fell for the guff that Wael spouted when he took them over ... so they carried him down Gloucester Road...

They couldn’t take time to let it sink in and study what it actually meant, oh no, they took to Social Media channels to ridicule our club because they were instantly ‘much richer’ and indeed were now ‘the sixth richest club in England’ - they ridiculed the transfers out of Reid, Flint, Mags and Bryan, calling it a ‘mass exodus from Ashton Gate’ - while failing to acknowledge those deals gave us the best part of £25 million...meanwhile, our genuine billionaire owner nicked their best player for £300k and carried on making sure we had an amazing stadium and state of the art training facility - they will never admit that they are jealous and filled with envy, but they are, they just are...and I just feel a bit sorry for them....nah, bollox do I...!!

How can you feel sorry for a set of numptys who did the premature ‘jig of delight’ on wycombes pitch as “the gas are staying up, and now you’re going to believe them” yet be relegated a week later, and the team staying up was.....you guessed it.....Wycombe 

14 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

Just going by what I was told by a couple of Argyle fans that were there Miah.

What did happen then?

The 92000 locked out started a Conga. Several of them left to go tent shopping. Irene was nowhere to be seen. She wasn’t there, they had already wished her a ‘goodnight’ 

all the unrest was started by the green ‘army. 

49 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

https://www.facebook.com/Bristolcityfans2017/videos/2172587543028705/

 

 

Whoever did this,  take a bow. 

10 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

http://gasheads.org/thread/7651/waq-interview?page=9

Can someone explain to me how a hypothetical arena and a stadium for them are the same thing? Surely the footprint / floor space of an arena is far too small for a football pitch? 

The planned arena was a capacity of 12,000. And we all know that’s at least 100,000 too small

19 hours ago, JustinCider said:

Seriously, how much would you think DC's salary would be?

If he takes them down, not enough

This Kyle bennet bloke prefers ISIS to city

is that the Isis that murdered one of my mates in Afghanistan and left another mate of mine who served alongside him with severe post trautmatic stress syndrome that ended his marriage, wrecked his relationship with his kids, has been the reason why he’s struggled to work since then, and has been institutionalised twice. That ISIS? You  gas head cretin.  Dick head. 

1 hour ago, phantom said:

@myol'man where was this from?

Circa 1982?

4 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

FLD as they are now known.

What a great idea love it. They could read the scores out using it. We can then guess the team and manager. 

Makes a great chant down at the gate too,  “LJBC, LJBC” this will catch on. 

Im sorry. Could we wait until I’ve brewed the coffee and sat down please

Just now, Bazooka Joe said:

C'mon let's be fair.....at least theirs is portable, and warrants special atTENTion.

 

And when they move to their 435,699 capacity stadium at UWE its very imporTENT they can take the old fixtures and fittings with them 

11 hours ago, RedLionLad said:

I'll just leave this here...

“Darryl says bounce around the ground, bounce around the.....” and it collapses

1 minute ago, Northern Red said:

Brian Pinas.

Tommy todger?

2 million vi

13 minutes ago, myol'man said:

Looks like this thread will pass 2,000,000 views this weekend . It's not that we're that bothered about R*vers, it's just that they keep coming out with classic comedy gold 

2 million views yes, but how many have been locked out?

7 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

You must be joking..!

Surely you don’t actually have a gashead mate..?!

I have one too, actually he was my best man at my wedding.  Made him wear a red tie like everyone else. He loved that....

Re racist Rovers. Has anyone noticed thar every plastic chair you see in one of their photos is white? Just saying, like. 

We have consistently over the last few seasons comfortabley doubled their home league fixture attendances. This season we are edging towards tripling the amount of people attending. Be great if we could do that consistently. Tick tock? Yeah, ok 

1 hour ago, Bonkey Dollocks said:

As City fans, we've been treated to some excellent laughs over the last couple of days.

The non-stadium debacle is very amusing indeed, but take time to spare a thought for those less fortunate than ourselves.

With relations between R****s and UWE breaking down, prospective new students may never again get the chance to laugh so heartily at the g*s as they did at last year's freshers' fair...

Is that tv showing the Bristol Rovers 0 Mansfield 1 game?

1 minute ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

"Tens of thousands are listening", Geoff? Really?

i think Geoff meant that tens of thosands of people are listening and laughing their socks off

45 minutes ago, Dolman Block B said:

Pinched

But couldn't stop laughing.

Your stadium? It was all a dream, Irene.