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12 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Pretty much everything about the Prem is shit.

I know that many want us to get there but having seen us play 4 seasons of top flight football in my life (a totally different, fairer world), I’m genuinely not bothered about joining that circus.

It's VAR that would ruin it for me. It's taken away the one fundamental pleasure in watching football - celebrating a goal.

Last weekend I did the very old-style thing of watching MOTD without knowing the results. I found VAR even ruined that - goal with celebrations, then the camera cut to the Ref speaking into his earpiece, the dreaded "VAR will be having a look at this" and subsequent fannying around with monitors on the side of the pitch. Add to that tedious discussions as to whether someone's fingernail is playing him offside. Worst thing to happen to football IMO.

23 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I think Aden split up with Mrs Pack’s sister and started going out with Chanel Cresswell (actress).  

I think Chanel Cresswell may be an actress in the same way that I'm a footballer.

4 hours ago, Northern Red said:

Apparently only a couple of the existing squad are under contract for next season so he'll have the opportunity to completely rebuild it.

Best thing they could do.

It's around 13-14 IN contract and 14-15 OUT of contract at a rough estimate. There have been so many players in/out the last couple of seasons that it's more or less impossible to say for sure.

Still players like Amadou Bakayoko on the books at present having spent the whole season at Dundee. At least one, David Davies genuinely thought to be missing / lost but apparently sadly long-term ill, not injured.

Very few with any re-sale value at all.

33 minutes ago, trickytimes said:

Who is his brother-in-law?

Aden Flint IIRC. They or their wives had some sort of spat?

13 hours ago, Lrrr said:

A lot of budgets in the national league are bigger than those in league two, bigger attendances and no form of financial fair play in the national league has seen Wrexham have a bigger budget then half of league one when in national league and Stockport were paying players 6k a week when they were there. 

No one in the NL will be paying anywhere near what FGR are paying in L2 this season. If we take the recently published payments to Agents as a rough guide, only Wrexham paid more, FGR paid £260,000. Highest in the NL was Oldham at £80,000.

Just depends on how much Dale Vince wants to continue chucking money at the problem and how difficult it will be to get existing players off the payroll. There's around 30 in the 1st team squad!

7 hours ago, Lrrr said:

They'll struggle to get out of the national league Cotts or not, they'd likely have to at least increase their budget by 50% to compete for promotion

Top 6 at least L2 budget this season. I think increasing that by 50% for National League would be insane but this is Dale Vince. A fool and his money are easily parted.

Their biggest problem will be getting rid of the vast majority of overpaid and disinterested players.

1 hour ago, bristolmoose said:

Are they the only surviving fans who witnessed a Rovers goal?

The worrying thing is that Fritzl doesn't look out of place on that bus.

9 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Things are worse than we thought!

 

"The Kuwaiti equivalent of Jon Lansdown" :laugh:!

He shall henceforth now be known as Abdulatif Al-Lansdown.

8 hours ago, TonyTonyTony said:

If he is being paid until January 2025, he must have signed an NDA, in which case he has broken it by responding to the post's story. 

Not exactly the smartest move, considering he is on gofundme asking for money.

Yeah that was the first thing I thought too. Probably a smart move if there was a NDA as there is no way he was keeping his trap shut for year or more. Could now have saved themselves paying his salary for 9 months there. 

Mind you this is Bristol Rovers, so who knows what might have been put in place or whethervit's 'watertight'.

All good entertainment anyway.

5 hours ago, frenchred said:

Must be a Bristol thing as our club is a shambles behind the scenes as well!

There's shambles and there's Bristol Rovers (and Swindon Town to be fair). 

59 minutes ago, Red Billy said:

Sometimes you think you are safe and that the results needed to create the swing won’t happen.  Some times you think fifty points will see you over the line.  Some times you laugh so hard you have tears that roll down your cheek. 

Shows that you can be relegated with 50pts even with only 2 down.

Even this season only Rotherham currently have less than a point per game in the Championship. So I think it could be 48-50 points needed to stay up. It will be great to watch especially from a place of safety. Could easily be 6-7 teams involved on the last day.

47 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Any guesses as to what the bucket is for?

I really don't want to think about that, especially as someone said the 'concourse' looks like a prison...

1 hour ago, SydneyCity said:

My brother told me of something he read the other day…

The Championship is made up of 24 teams. 11 are fighting for promotion. 11 are fighting relegation. And there’s also Bristol City and Preston.

Yep that's been mentioned a few times already and it rings true but it could be added that also Preston always finish above Bristol City! 

5 hours ago, RedM said:

I was chatting to a very knowledgeable steward yesterday. He said scouts were taking an interest in Whittaker, some clubs were making regular visits. He mentioned Tottenham, Crystal Palace and Leicester as the most interested.

Hmm... Given recent news I'm not sure Leicester will be signing too many players in the net year or so. Palace would be a good fit.

55 minutes ago, pillred said:

Finding it difficult to join in this love-in for Alex Scott, sorry if that sounds harsh but to me it's like wishing your ex-wife well after she has left you for a bloke uglier than you who had a few bob, whilst you had to carry on working in Aldi.

Sainsbury's more like, Aldi would be Bristol Rovers

5 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

It's insanely bad management. Sure some of it will have included the Rodgers payoff but Leicester and one point of mitigation is laughable. Risible. A damn cheek.

Mitigation owing to budgeting based on past Sporting Achievement?? Get ******. 

Surely that's them basically admitting they screwed up in plain text on official HMRC documentation. Not very clever, would have been better saying nothing because HMRC themselves don't care how much they've spent as long as they pay the correct tax and vat.

6 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Their accounts are late again.

Likely to be bad they reckon. The new owners have already said current losses are 'unsustainable', which seems to have been swept under the carpet by the masses. Also won't include the new stand shambles which will have gone way over budget and will be in the 23-24 Accounts. 

and the new owners are supposed to be property developers, what could possible go wrong?

2 hours ago, cider hoss rules said:

From a mate of mines FB account, I’ve removed his name to save his shame!
Proper tinpot, a bar in a horse box

Is that the 'Concourse' that their magnificent new stand was supposed to have?

56 minutes ago, Loosey Boy said:

I think their decision not to appoint someone like Warnock, could end up being their downfall now……their internal “appointment” could backfire massively.

They are badly in need of a win on Friday night……..

Yeah seemed like a no-brainer given his home location. A team with obvious attacking ability that looks like it needs 'firing up' and to get back to Home Park being a bit of fortress, like it was before Christmas.

19 minutes ago, petehinton said:

And their director of football put in charge for rest of season!!

Would have thought it would be the perfect job for Warnock, he'd barely have to get out of bed! 

For those not 'down with the kids' I believe Drum&Bass is the one where the music's at 45RPM but the drums are at 78RPM.

10 hours ago, WessexPest said:

Barnsley - Have played in top flight

Rent Boys - FA Trophy First Round Runnersup.

Barnsley also have an FA Cup win

Don't forget one of Rovers major honours - National League runners up 2014-2015

6 hours ago, RedorDead BCFC said:

Ive read that about if Vardy scored loads of times. If he did then the concept of time, would have changed. Then no one would know what would have happened after. 
 

Yes logically if Vardy scores from his first chance then he doesn't get the second or third chances because the whole game from that point plays out completely differently.

I went to the FGR Fans Forum on Tuesday because of Cotts. He was great and entertaining, effortlessly taking on a Q&A for 1 hour 40 mins with humour, honesty (sometimes brutal) insight and none of the clichés / coachspeak that we get these days. 

On the other hand Dale Vince didn't turn up at all. At 19:00 we were told he was 'held up and would be along later' but even though everyone was still there at 20:45, the meeting was ended. Conveniently avoiding having to answer any difficult questions about how he's messed up the last 2 years. Ironically his son Dane (FGR 'Director of Projects') stood in for him, very much in the style of Jon Lansdown.

2 hours ago, WolfOfWestStreet said:

At this point Sonya Jacksons trumpet or Robbie Fowlers dog would be an upgrade.

He must know his time here is coming to an end, he has no respect from the fan base and is now just an object of ridicule. It's becoming hard to watch in all honesty.

In fact this whole situation reminds me when Leeds, when they were at the height of their disfunction, sacked experienced manager Brian McDermmot and hired Forest Green Manager, David Hockaday ... a hugely dissapointing appointment in the eyes of the supporters, he became an object of ridicule, was completely out of his depth, sacked after 6 games and is now genuinely a P.E Teacher at Stroud College.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Hockaday

Remember him only too well. He was the beginning of the end for FGR and me. Hockaday alone for 4 years was bad enough but add Dale Vince to the equation and there was no coming back. He was out of his depth at FGR and was eventually sacked, so how the Leeds thing happened is still totally beyond me even now.

The funny thing was at the time he went to Leeds, if you Googled him the number one result was a clip of apoplectic FGR supporters giving him severe verbal abuse at Grays Athletic after being relegated from the Conference (later reprieved after off the field shenanigans). It takes a lot to get FGR supporters even mildly annoyed.