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Wow he's won family club of the year a few times - now we know why they brought him in as that's obviously a perfect fit...

I do worry about directors that can't even spell Independent :laugh:...

I was so happy that day...

22 minutes ago, The Joker said:

Waterlogged more likely 

Those championship sprinklers playing up again? 

They've clearly not run out of money - those carpet cleaners aren't cheap you know! 

Even if they were bought cheap at the Mem's car boot sale... 

26 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said:

https://twitter.com/Gashead04Mark/status/914126174502219776

He must be parody surely? I love his bio though

 

Wow he sounds lovely...

Quote

 

10 hours ago pirate said: How can our budget only be the 13th-17th best when we had the 7th best average attendance last season and currently 8th best this season???

9 hours ago bluebutterfly said: Where have you been though to say that? 
Attendances are less and less important by the season,look at bournemouth and fleetwood,look at our dogshit ground!
Its all about TV and commercial outlets and activity,conference facilities,hotels and wealthy owners throwing money at a project without being certain they will get the money back.

9 hours ago pirate said: I know Fleetwood's chairman has moved some of his businesses to the ground so there is more rental income and apparently have decent corporate stuff going on, but we also sell out our corporate stuff. Bournemouth were bankrolled by a wealthy Russian and partly spent millions on transfer fees to get where they are (along with astute management from Howe). Do the teams with the 6th/7th to 13th best budgets really rake in much more than we do? They might do, but I doubt it is considerably more. I know the ground is dogshit and we need better to increase income, but like I said, we had the 7 the best attendance record (more than 4 times Fleetwood's) and always sell out our boxes and corporate side of things as far as I'm aware. Perhaps the answer is to "throw money at a project without being certain they will get the money back", but that might fall under the 'revolution not evolution' category. Before anyone says we spent such and such on so and so, we also raked in 300k for Taylor and a rumoured 300k for the Chelsea match, both unexpected incomes. I just feel like we've been sold a bit short on the playing side of things and expected a higher quality of player arriving.

 

Firstly I wish they'd learn to break things in to paragraphs...

Secondly they're still screaming about attendances, not realising that despite being very expensive for the poor facilities their supporters have to put up with that attendance isn't the be all and end all for clubs these days.  Their rival clubs can now make a lot more where they've got newer facilities.

They honestly seem to think their car boot sale in the car park brings in the same as conferencing facilities or commercial rentals - the ones who can tell "corporate income" aside from hospitality that is...

1 hour ago, B block said:

 

Nope the penny's not dropped yet, delusion is still top dog at fortress Chernobyl

Sorry what I mean is Darrell deserves an opportunity at a Championship club with decent facilities similar to LJ

 

If he stays here for five years, he'll get it.

When the guy called him LJ I thought "cover blown maybe?" as that's normally more our term for him, but apart from one calling him a Ted they're mostly too busy fighting like cats and dogs to notice...

4 minutes ago, Cheesleysmate said:

 

It's what's inside the Grotto that scared Georgie.......

Nick Higgs?!

Well that's the Mem regeneration done then.

Now just to mow the lawn at the Colony and that's all Wael's promises sorted.

9 minutes ago, bert tann said:

 

Ah, but in 13 of those years Rovers had the services of the second greatest manager in our history.

Luckily our fallow period has now ended and here in the 21st century we are all set to plumb new heights.

 

"The toilets at The Mem have also been under scrutiny and we are currently looking into ways that we can spruce up both the men’s and women’s toilets in the stadium.

Whilst some have suggested relocating the ladies toilets, we are afraid that this is not possible at this moment in time."

 

Relocating them to a better stadium?

Or just to the pub down the road?!

It also appears their mascot's kit was out of date:

"With regard to Captain Gas, we are pleased that he has now been provided with new kit and will be wearing it for the first time tomorrow!"

49 minutes ago, pride of the west said:

The post website has just put up a list of improvements the mem will see this weekend and the coming months.

It reads like a wishlist for a conference south side.

I've also noticed that anything which will cost decent money is headed as 'under discussion', including providing waterproof clothing for fans 

Yes, the:

"and the possibility of providing wet weather clothing to those supporters not undercover when it rains. "

bit really did entertain me - it's almost like the poor area in Shakespeare's time, no seats or cover for them either...

1 hour ago, Monkeh said:

no i don't think it is, they average 8k at a push? break even was 10k, but they've released alot of high earners or sold them and replaced them with youth team rejects and non league players on a lot lower wages,

the dog fiddler is doing a fantastic job with the tools he has, once he gets fed up then they will be well and truely ****** again and will tumble back down the leagues

When the Al Qadis took over and promised them UWE, Hamer said breakeven was 15k, which is why they couldn't stay at the Mem as they'd die.

Of course then UWE fell through at they're staying at the Mem, so wish they'd get on with ending...

15 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

Yes, he should get out before he's got a relegation on his CV..! 

Yep you wouldn't want anything awful like taking a "prowed" club out of the league on your CV... 

Those were such happy times :laugh:...

27 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

I'm not in the slightest bit for the PC side of modern life, BUT there is a massive difference in using a general term, which whilst it might be a little outdated and can be mistakenly taken as offensive, is an entirely different kettle of fish to putting posts on Facebook, calling your own players "black cnuts" because they had a penalty saved!! 

Agreed - I just laugh at how their lot always manage to descend from discussing whether finding a general term offensive quickly descends into listing their preferred insults and why they're not offensive until the thread gets closed :laugh:

And yeah that Facebook post was beyond parody, even for them!

Uh oh they're back to their "we can't stand being PC" rants where they get very, very close to racism...

Sorry did I say close?  I meant well past it, decency isn't even in the rear view mirror any more.

Classy bunch, such a family club 

50 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

just had a quick gander at Gaschat.

Would appear that as they are starting to understand they don't have a vessel to urinate in, the collective sense of humour has returned.

Posts along the lines of 1800 sold, 5000 stuck outside.

Some are even suggesting Saint Darrell of Dogbotherer escape before the lack of transfer funds sullies his unblemished and holy reputation...

7 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Why not..? He's got just as much experience of managing at this level. 

Indeed, by comparison Ozzy is an eloquent, well-informed intelligent individual...

Classic on their other forum:

http://gasheads.org/thread/6757/hope-wrong

'Arry would apparently want to be DoF at some tinpot club that can't afford to top up his dog's finances (plus he'd be worried about his bulldog around their management!) 

Got a feeling a few of our wind up merchants might be on there :laugh: as one has pointed out maybe Wael's kit means he wants to be the manager 

Maybe player manager at this rate :laugh:...

8 hours ago, BanburyRed said:

He could've shaved, surely? He looks half asleep, like he's just woken from a terrible dream where he's been given of job as commercial director at a football club.....oh, hang on.....

What a clown! I wouldn't trust him to direct my grandmother across the road....

He does look like the grandson of a familiar face:

1 hour ago, Septic Peg said:

Found another gem on Twitter folks and it's gold.

 

Absolute class :laugh:.

Yet another thing for them to have an inferiority complex about. 

It's the same if you Google "Bristol football club" etc. - and I love how wound up they get about people calling us Bristol...

Sometimes it's like they don't even exist 



49 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Wolves are gonna tear them a new arse (hopefully)! 



4 minutes ago, RichardEdd said:

Some views from the Derby forum:

Absolutely pasted. 

Lucky to be 4. Hope you're a quick learner Gary because you're serving up some utter crap! 

 

Bristol city's players are still going now, where the hell have ours been all afternoon. No character yet again, no fight, no desire, no energy.

 

Best team won, complete ahnilation s**** happens, enjoy it when we win and accept it when we lose (that's what being a Ram is clearly all about) 

 

Thrashed by a better faster more skillful side

Nice to hear that from a forum other than our own! 

15 minutes ago, El Hombrecito said:

Jesus, they just keep giving. What's a stronger word than obsession? 

:laugh: they try to claim we're obsessed due to the size of this thread. 

Whereas in reality it's that we can keep our ridicule of them (mostly) to one thread, while every single one over there is riven through with their jealous inferiority complex...

44 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

4. Is the key one and the answer will come in March, if not before with current gates, when the loan facility secured against the ground will be fully drawn at which point they will need to put their own money at risk.

Currently their only skin in the game is the amount they paid for the club.

I'm not expecting the club to go "pop" in March; they can put a charge on the land for the training ground to take them through to the end of the season but a buyer then has to be found as you then have a club with zero net assets losing c. £1.3m a year and they would have to put their own money at risk to keep it going. And there seems to be big reluctance to do that.

Wonder if the old directors are actually being paid from the club itself?  Using the credit facility to pay for the takeover, in the way the Glazers loaded Man U up with debt?

And think Bert Tann or someone mentioned the Colony being registered to Dwane Colony Ltd - if Dwane Sports are already the owners of it I doubt they'll want to put a charge on it...

Think January will be very interesting - if they're selling Bodin "because he won't sign a new contract" (but in reality to cover the bills) and the Colony hasn't started to be built then maybe, finally, even their more deluded fans might think something is up.

I noticed the old planning permission for the Colony did include some conversion to residential property - do you think Hamer's Post interview where he mentions 30 acres repeatedly is to butter R*vers fans up?

http://developments.southglos.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=constraints&keyVal=NQUUHTOK0C500

"We're using half - only half honest! - for housing to get the investors on board.  We're just starting the houses first because..."