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2 hours ago, Loon plage said:

If he was defaming Bristol City and the club didn't want to take it further what was OB doing visiting the cretin ?

Apologies if BCFC did flag the matter to A&SP.

Defamation, slander, libel (etc..) are all civil matters except in a very few select circumstances (members of the higher echelons of the Royal Family, certain Crown Officers, blah, blah, blah......), so the Police would not be involved. I think we've been here a few (hundred) times......

But... HG made an allegation of an assault and did this is a very public way so the Police (in the form of JulieH) had an obligation to investigate what could have been a criminal matter. Again, I think we've covered this more than a few times.

Can we agree that HG is an irrelevance and stop mentioning him or this alleged incident?

38 minutes ago, Southport Red said:

The poster who replied that this was a class post that brought back happy memories should experience a nice piece of Karma soon when the Receiver rocks up at the Memorial. 

Irony is that they cannot possibly be in a list of highest falls from grace because they only ever wobble between division 3 and Division 5. To fall, you must first have flown numbnuts

These is no such thing as 'division 5' it's a term they invented to try to disguise that they were NON-LEAGUE

Some delusional has started yet another thread on CH4Drivel about the new stadium and UWE taking over the Mem for student housing. I lost the will to live but 'Marvin the Mare' is involved too (even though UWE ain't in Bristol).

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12853/uwe-marvin-bristol-rovers

Meanwhile in more plausible news Lord Lucan and Shergar have been found sharing a house in Knowle West.

2 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

That can't be more than 500 surely

That whole end only holds about 1200 so there are 400 there tops - plus 5000 in the home end and 2500 in the executive boxes of course.

10 hours ago, 22A said:

Rovers joined the League in the 1920's and over the next 94 years finished above City on just 26 occasions. They then dropped out of the League and since rejoining it have still remained below City. Should any gashead dispute this, the years are listed below.

1933, 34, 35, 37, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 then a twenty year gap to 1982, 83, 84, 89, 90, 92, 96 and the last time 2000

Don't forget; Rovers were bottom of the League in the 1938-39 season, but were re-elected. It does mean though that some gasheads would have regrettably (and I do mean that) died during WW2 knowing their team was the worst in the League.
 

They joined the League in 2015

17 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

Door and a window?

Double stable* doors, four windows that open. I meant 'why did they bother?', my shed on the other hand serves a number of purposes and it built to last.

*no horses before the blue duo come looking

7 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

I'll just leave this here...

My shed is bigger than that.....and better built.....and probably cost more.

Seriously, why?

7 hours ago, pongo88 said:

In case you’ve forgotten today is the 38th anniversary of when Rovers south stand burnt down at Eastville.  It was a wooden structure and was about to be condemned as it didn’t meet safety standards. As a result of the  fire Rovers received an insurance payout. Some people, at the time, claimed that the fire was started deliberately to get this money though, of course, I couldn’t say that. One result of the fire was that their trophy room was destroyed and all their trophies lost. I’m not sure what these trophies were, but I’m sure they were interesting 

 

 

Sunday afternoon wasn't it? I was driving along the M32 going out of town and couldn't believe it.

If memory serves the manager at the time was Don Megson and when he asked about whether any cups had been destroyed the fire service said not to worry as the fire hadn't reached the canteen.

Later that season the trophy room was burgled and the entire contents were stolen. Police later apprehended two men who were in possession of 20 square yards of blue carpet.

23 minutes ago, Midlands Robin said:

As a Phoenix club there's a risk they'd end up having to start near the bottom of the heap like Hereford.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind

1 hour ago, JamesBCFC said:

And because you are only allowed to own one English League side at a time.

How far down the pyramid does that go do you think? Relegated this year, administration next triggering a points deduction that makes back-to-back relegations more likely and start 20-21 season as non-league either in their current guise or as a phoenix.

Wouldn’t want Bristol Sport to go near them though.

10 hours ago, Redsi2 said:

Traditionally Rovers have been run by small shopkeepers and the like on their board whilst City have often had bigger businessmen such as Dolman, Hobbs and Lansdown heavily involved with them. They have more resources.

Which explains why Burnley reached Europe in the 1960s when their chairman was a butcher.

25 minutes ago, You Do The Dziekanowski said:

Even when we win there’s a meltdown. ‘Should’ve won by more’ ‘Frankie needs to be taller’ ‘Pack was poor’ 

Has the season started then?

9 hours ago, Coombsy said:

The rented office got to be for tax reasons plus they are using it for there other business while taking money from  rovers to pay for it 

of course he' comes across as a lovely man wait till the the fall out you see his true colours 

bet he's don't turn up for the fiirst game he be on holiday suning his self payed by the increce of coffee prices 

how lucky are we 

You have to make profits to pay Corporation Tax. You seldom do anything in business solely ‘for tax reasons’, If benefits through reduced taxation are your determining criterion then you’ve probably got it wrong........

9 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

The fewers aren’t happy. No marquee signing. Excuse the pun . Getting charged overpriced beer and food. Maybe reality is finally hitting home .

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12561/exeter-match-thread?page=7

but the better team lost!

59 minutes ago, Loon plage said:

So Gas currency has now changed from a Tilson to a Harrison, or are we still talking multiple Tilson's ?

As with most things, depends if you are buying or selling

2 hours ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

So that'll be £750k then.

More likely 400k rising to maybe 750k

1 hour ago, Monkeh said:

Flint 7 million

Reid 10  million

Kodja 16 million (I think)

 

Our 3 best players 32 million

Er.... that’s 33

34 minutes ago, 54-46 said:

Poster on gaschat says the fee will be “in excess of 7 figures”

So, 8 figures.  £10m at least........

 

8 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said:

Or £300,000.00

£138 12 shillings and 11 pence

3 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Ipswich.

You know it’s Barcelona for £92 million really

3 minutes ago, bert tann said:

 

Is Ellis Harrison really joining City  ?

Speculation on Fartchat started at £750k and now at £1.6m. 

So it’s £300k but we are paying 96x what they are paying him.

Better than joining us would be stepping up to join Salford or Billericay.

27 minutes ago, SimonR said:

So Kettering town were the home team there right? I was just thinking that looks better than Chernobyl does now.

Rockingham Road was a very decent non-league stadium, demolished now (sadly).

33 minutes ago, 22A said:

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12457/league-pre-season-prediction-thread

They nearly all expect Rovers to finish mid table.

Presumably that means they are not coming for us; these things take time.

All fans are eternal optimists in pre-season. If mid-table is expected by the majority then a relegation scrap is the most likely outcome.

12 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said:

You're right on that.

Most of my.AS media studies course was watching films.

I was thinking about where our blue friend* may have got his extensive legal training and that course popped into my head. To be fair, I don’t even know if there is a BTEC Media Studies course!

29 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said:

If Henbury Gas has made it all up, then is it not libel/slander against the club?

Libel is almost invariably concerned with the written word. Both libel and slander are civil matters unless they involve the Crown, some offices of state, and a few other weird and wonderful exceptions. This area is one of the most arcane and fascinating areas of UK law in my humble opinion and wouldn’t be covered in the BTEC media studies course.

3 minutes ago, Gashead1981 said:

As mods we had contact from HG this afternoon following his meeting with PC Julie and her colleague. 

They had HG request us moderate the thread as there were comments on there the police didn’t like and any further comments that were directed to PC Julie were likely to warrant them taking further action against the posters. 

The collective desicion was taken to lock the thread to protect anyone that felt the need to comment further and not HG. 

We have also been told the police will be in contact with both forums to make a statement on the matter. When that is I don’t know but I am sure PC Julie will be along here shortly to make a comment in an official capacity as your liaison officer. 

As regards the alleged claim made by HG, I am sure the statement the police will make will indeed settle the matter once and for all. 

 

I am sure your extensive legal training will mean you know the difference between an “alleged claim” and a “claim alleged”.