Unan

22 hours ago bidefordgas, markczgas, and 2 more like this Quote Post by lastminutewinner on 22 hours ago 22 hours ago Kingswood Polak said: Mar 16, 2018 at 10:01am socrates said: What difference will it make if he’s “ got the blinkers on “ as you put it or whether his eyes are wide open ? What difference is it going to make if your obsessed with the 82ers or you say **** em we’re Rovers this is our club so who cares about them ? We’re all entitled to our opinion but none of it makes any difference to whether the 82ers are successful or we’re successful or not. All we can do is support our club. ______________ That is undoubtedly true but do you care that there will be a F.C. in the FL called Bristol Rovers and are still relatively well supported. You think I’m obsessed with city ? Not true but I see their crowds and I see their plans and then I look at ours and it’s pretty clear to see who is taking the initiative. I’d like to think that we can pick up some floating fans and alliances but, as it is, the only gasheads are kids being born into it and not all of them are nailed on certainties That is all I am trying to say but fair enough, looks like I’m in a very small minority. I am old enough to remember how many of our own changed alliance when they got to the old division 1 and it hurt to see friends, at school, suddenly turn up with their city scarves. It will happen and I hope they can feel our hot breath upon them when it does. The “gap” is getting bigger while we do nothing ______________ I agree; Wael talks a lot of evolution but the only evolving thing I can see is that City will pick up more and more younger/floating fans and while we are still all talk and no trousers. Its hard to accept the evolution not revolution philosophy when your neighbours have transformed their ground into a good modern stadium with top training facilities and signing players for £5million+. It will be years before we even start to catch up with them, if at all. Anyone who thinks City's success wont affect us is very short-sighted. ______________ I think you need to be at least 35/40 to really appreciate and understand the rivalry that there USED TO BE between us and The Sh*t. It's now nearly 20 years since we last played them in a league game and although football is unpredictable we are unlikely to cross paths soon. In the meantime, away from the pitch as you last 2 guys have stated we are drifting even further away. You quite rightly say KP that the only new Rovers fans are those that are born into it like my 11 -year -old lad , but even then some of these kids don't follow their families. Over the last few years I have taken plenty of my lad's friends to games - not one of them has become a Gashead, they either support one of the big clubs or no-one. One small thing I'd like the club to do more is have regular open trials (a couple of times a season) for the Academy - it's letting the local public know that the club is part of the community and interested in engaging with its supporters and Bristol folk. ______________ Thank you very much. At least one person gets what I am saying. I appreciate your back up. They now are getting a category A academy while we argue who will pay for a training ground and that will be done piecemeal as it is. We haven’t changed at all and are still very much ragbag or ragass as Cotterill said. I would just love to compete is all but I’m dreaming. I don’t see it happening

Realistic, fans not going to games/locked out..

It's Unan

Oxford Luton

How long in league one would be satisfactory? How many seasons would you be happy with in league one? A decade? 2 more years then championship? How long do you really think with our infrastructure would be needed in league one? _________________ Ive had enough of the sh** league already.

bluebutterfly Club Legend Posts: 2,132 Posting Level Next Level in 868 posts Post by bluebutterfly on 12 hours ago 1] they paid off the debts of the previous owners including the wonga loan. 2] They bought a great piece of land to develop a training facility. 3] They invested in coaches at various levels of the club. 4] They introduced a development squad as a bridge between academy football and senior football. 5] They got darrell clarke signed up on a 5 year contract. 6] They paid fees for 5 players partington,burn,nichols,mensah and sercombe,only sercombes fee of 150k was disclosed. 7] We now have proper water sprinklers built into the pitch. 8] We have 21 senior pro footballers. 9] we have an electronic scoreboard and other superficial improvements to the ground. 10] were introducing electronic turnstiles. 11] we now have a CEO. 12] We have a statistical analysis [will dubey] . Question marks? 1]We are losing money. Most clubs have overall debt,some as high as £100m+ but even so we dont want to be losing money. 2]The charge against the mem,some say totally normal business practise,others think its a sinister threat to the club. 3]But what about the new ground or redeveloped ground?some say give them time,others say nothing will ever happen. COST OF GETTING A NEW GROUND,TRAINING FACILITY AND PROMOTION WINNING TEAM? £60-80m maybe? can this be done with our new owners? YES OF COURSE IT CAN 5 years from now we will be in the championship with a better ground,a great youth set up and a bright future.

"providing us with a unique e-mail address for every Season Ticket that you own" What old system are they using? So if you bring 2 kids you have to make email addresses for them rather than having them all linked to your one account...

Noooo

The photo isn't real it's just a concept

Photoshop

So Dwane Sports took 1.1m for the colony facility, sell the stadium and leave Rovers groundless but with no money lost and a 1.1m gain.

We have a good set of footballers giving it everything for the badge - Wrong We have a development squad we can be proudabout with some very exciting players - Wrong We have a good backroom team - Wrong New owners who want the very best for the club - Wrong New commercial dept looking to bring more funding into the club with new and innovative ideas - Wrong A new Ground breaking shop in the near future - Wrong New ticketing facilities to make it easier for distantgasheads - Wrong We have a new training ground about to be built with excellent facilities to attract the right type of player to the club - Wrong A newpurpose built stadium about to be announced - Wrong A great set of supporters - Wrong No mention of the manager, I'd agree with that one, Henbury Gas has taken it a step up with his bullshit.

Like wine

It wasn't me that posted it but that's what I presume they meant.

Taylor

Wankdorf Stadion

Cosmic Pasty Youth Team Posts: 90 Member is Online Posting Level Next Level in 10 posts 13 hours ago Quote Post by Cosmic Pasty on 13 hours ago 15 hours ago Midsomer Murderer said: Please let's not give them anything to quote on otib ~ We all know they love to read our forum They've got as far as they have off of the fortune of a man with more money than sense and enough cash to throw it around so that it sticks where it counts and all that gets wasted gets forgotten. That and by playing dirty along the lines of the Snake saga. The structure might appear to be sound, but the foundations it's built on are rotten to the core. Hardly worth applauding. Quote that, bar stewards.