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Yes I was wondering about this too. Surely SL could chuck a relative pittance at it to make the team competitive, or are there financial restrictions? I would certainly be a whole lot cheaper to get the ladies to the top of the prem than the men! Would be good publicity for Bristol Sport too if they were up there challenging, with the push to popularize the Women's game at present. Of all the components of Bristol Sport the ladies team surely would be the easiest to get to the very top I would tthink?

I sometimes wonder if Bristol Rovers isn't real, that it's some kind of TOWIE type soap opera purely for our enjoyment. I mean when they won at Ipswich they were 3rd, on a roll and with a home game to come against AFC Wimbledon to go 2nd and I rhink City lost that day. Lireraly No-one would have written a sscript where the manager walks out to go to team in danger of relegation to the National League, they employ a new manager who's never played, managed or won a game of football in his life and they drop like a stone to 12th and lose at home to the team in 23rd in L2 whe there was a real chance of a Wembley final.

Blimey, there was an amazingly accurate prediction here!!! pongo88 OTIB Supporter 4,928 6,710 posts Location: A little to the east of west and a bit south of north Report post #947 Posted April 22, 2014 If they go down, I can see them being a marquee club as well. They'll start work on their new ground, and run out of money, so will just have a few large tents around the pitch instead of proper stands.

I'm intrigued by what looks like a Tannoy speaker top right? Rather than it being bolted to the stanchion horizontally in the traditional manner, it appears to be suspended by a cable looped over a nail attached to one of the tent poles and therefore just dangles limply, pointing straight down Ian Holloway lurking suspiciously outside the shitter too.

While the fines for late returns are nothing even for a tinpot operation like Rovers one thing you do not want to do is provoke HMRC to have a closer look at your affairs. Not submiting on time wil certainly do that!

Same for me except that for some reason that I've long since forgotten, I follow Alloa and a Partick loss today would have been great. Still as the only part time team in the Scottish Championship, Alloa are putting up a great fight. Last season Brechin got 5 points or something and didn't win a game all season...

It's the same weird gurning/yawning/nervous tick thing that Clarke was doing towards the end of his reign. Is there some sort of Scooby Doo type thing going on where it's actually Clarke wearing a mask and putting on a really bad 'Oirish' accent. Come to think of it, has anyone seen Clarke recently? "If it wasn't for you meddling meddling teds, we'd have got away with it" etc

Jeez if anything is going to make Tomlin "reconsider his life choices", it surely has to be running out on to the pitch at that dump.

Yes there's Stefan Payne who not only doesn't score but called his own supporters "w****rs" a couple of weeks ago.

Surely time for the old Billy Connolly, Partick Thistle joke... I hear the Al Qadi family are planning to change Bristol Rovers' name, the club will be known as "Bristol Rovers Nil". I thank you

Dont forget the £350k "Striker" who has scored 1 goal in 57 games or whatever it is And he was Marty Taylor's replacement! This comedy is ongoing.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...really not a good day for BRFC even by their own low standards, maybe they were attempting to bury bad news with more bad news! Application to turn barns into residential use at The Colony has been refused by SGC. No ecological surveys were submitted. Now I'm no expert in planning but Ecological surveys are a pretty basic requirement. https://developments.southglos.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=PDE6U0OK0F100

So, whisper it quietly, do we think they might sneak play-off place? I think the top 5 is out of reach but that last play off place is very much up for grabs. Plymouth could be the heroes who stop them, they've come from about 10pts down and bottom place and still have the Gas at home to come I think. Whatever you think about them, it would be some achievement by Clarke given the background he's working against and he's had F all support from the rest of the clowns in charge.

This is what swissgas posted (and to be honest he seems to have far more clue what's going on than Hamer.) So the man with the money wants to protect his "investment" by putting a charge on the ground. However that "investment" is currently losing about £2 million a year apparently This is not going to end well is it.

I liked the way that twice when talking about the 'training ground' being ready, he said "Septem...umm...July 2019". So there's a 3 month delay already! That state of the art 'Training Complex' has very quickly become 1 full size pitch and 3 smaller ones with no mention of any other facilities at all. That visit to see Fleetwood's facilities must have been very enlightening:- "This is fantastic, just what we want, so how much did it cost?" "8 Million quid" "Bugger that for a game of soldiers" It should also be asked that, given it's now just 4 pitches, why the hell is the planning permission still dragging on and on?

It's the old Gareth Keenan joke from The Office but couldn't resist... "Al-Qadi, who was born in Qatar and who is assistant to the general manager of the Arab Jordan Investment Bank"

Nope it's from the accounts lodged with Companies House for the football club and / or Dwayne Sports. All freely and publicly available from Companies House. Most of the other stuff is informed guesswork but the Charge against the stadium is there in black & white.

So WAQ is the idiot son who was given something unimportant and small to look after, where he couldn't do much damage and he's even managed to cock that up completely. Happy Days

I'm not sure Mr Al Qadi could even afford to buy Dale Vince out. A couple of years ago Ecotricity was valued at about £80 million. and while the Gas are getting excited about the possibility of a Bristol league derby next season in the league, it's still quite possible that the FGR v Bristol Rovers derby could return.

Only Bristol City could manage to get relegated on my 50th birthday. and FGR lost yet again.

The Chairman has also done a Cardiff this season and imposed a kit change with no consultation with the supporters. So instead of the Black and White stripes worn for about 100 years, FGR now play in a home kit of 'Ecotricity Green'. This obviously hasn't proved hugely popular with supporters and might explain why last two home gates were only 760 and 940 despite the great start to the season. Would be very funny if FGR swapped places with Bristol Rovers.