6 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

You always seem to be the bearer of bad news !

I look at it that they're copying us, and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I like the Spanish, that would be the semblance of a decent motto on a shirt.

Estas cosas toman tiempo

This bit is fairly impressive tbh; even if the rest is more of the "of course nothing's happen WRT a new stadium, but we will pretend that it is".

The debt was £7m over a year ago at the last accounts and maybe £9m now, usually people want it to stay as debt because then there is no tax liability from repaying it in full.

Good news for Rovers as a club but bad news for Wael's personal fortune. Though I'm sure that the Lansdowns would do similar for City in similar circumstances.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04501223/filing-history

Rovers also confirmed that as part of the takeover process, the debt owed to Dwane Sports will be capitalised. This means that apart from ordinary trade creditors the club is substantively debt free.

If he had been entirely honest and revealed every detail of a confidential ongoing transaction worth upwards of £20m and so jeopardising that transaction then that would have been the response of an utter moron, which he very much isn't.

On 07/08/2023 at 21:49, REDOXO said:

I seem to remember last season they were allowed to broadcast on the internet (overseas) for early league cup ties. However BCTV SHOULD have audio!

I did check and it's not online for Radio Bristol.  I remembered some cup games being available last year so maybe they were early FA Cup games.

1 hour ago, GeoTheCiderHead said:

First game of the season and a “free hit” ?

I go 16th to 18th, though without any serious relegation worries.

This IMO is our last transition season from the problems that Ashton left us with.

12 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

For me, being a league club and failing to qualify for the League Cup will never be beaten. I assume they are the only club in the history of English football ever to achieve this incredibly embarrassing feat? 

I knew that it had happened once subsequently for the same reason, a bye given to a club in European competition, but I didn't recall the club.

It was AFC Wimbledon in 2011/12.  The 4 in brackets after each club refers to their division.

Preliminary round

Times up to and including the fourth round are BST (UTC+1). Times from the quarter-finals onwards are GMT (UTC±0).

Due to newly relegated (and League Cup title holders) Birmingham City having a bye to the third round following qualification to the Europa League and the extra Europa League berth awarded to Fulham through the Fair Play league, newly promoted AFC Wimbledon and Crawley Town played each other in a preliminary round. The draw for the round took place on 13 June with Crawley Town at home. This was the first need for a Preliminary Round since the 2002–03 season.

29 July 2011	Crawley Town (4)	3–2	AFC Wimbledon (4)	Broadfield Stadium, Crawley
19:45	Akpan 38' Torres 53' Tubbs 64'	Report	L. Moore 26' Midson 46'	Attendance: 3,204 Referee: Darren Deadman (Cambridgeshire)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–12_Football_League_Cup

I bet he regrets burning all those fifty pound notes these days.

23 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

Any Arab billionaire wouldn't be wasting their time with a 3rd division club stuck in a non league ground and train on a Sunday league pitch,

 

Unless they have bought them for the same reason that Robert Maxwell bought Oxford United; he wanted somewhere near his home where he could land his helicopter.

Time to remind our younger readers of 19 year old property developer and "multi-millionaire" Spencer Trethewey.

https://taleoftwohalves.uk/featured/not-run-football-club-spencer-day-story

29 minutes ago, JackofromSanJavier said:

"Right own up, who’s behind this?"

A valid question @petehinton..............whoever posted that on gas shat is a very naughty boy, girl or indeterminate.   Also they are a clear role model to those of our ilk who sadly still have a sag 'mate'.  The above snippet should be introduced into the next converstion with said 'mate' quite early on.  This rumour can only gain speed over on that forum the more times it's dropped into conversations!!   Good luck all. 

 

Sadly, I got banned from the forum a long time ago for innocently floating the idea that I was a Malta based squillionaire gas fan looking to invest in the biggest club in bris!

Dr Faustus is actually very sound, he used to post on Ziderheads.

Though I can't speak for the veractity of what his mate has told him.

29 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

There really is something in the water in Horfield. How are they this dense?

 

Until the voice of unblemished truth that is Henbury Gas posts that he knows something then I won't believe a word of it.

4 hours ago, Gert Mare said:

They’re threatening each other now on AssChat like a pack of feral dogs and still blaming anyone other than their shambolic club ownership.

Tinpot

I do find it unbelievable that "nice man" Wael has appointed Barton and then let him sign that Exeter striker.

This has totally divided their fanbase and the rows keep flaring up between them, the damage from bringing those scumbags to Rovers is going to cast a long shadow.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some scrapping between their own fans this season.

1 minute ago, wendyredredrobin said:

So what happened to the best stadium in Bristol at the Fruit Market then?  Did it turn out to be a lemon after all?

I guess they couldn't steal the land or get it for free which probably ruined that plan.

They're entirely dependent on the company carrying out the wider development.

It is very possible that the FM is redeveloped without a football ground.

22 minutes ago, Gazred said:

"I have no facts to back this up but I doubt any other club in the league would have so much opposition to building so little.

I can imagine the fruit market is currently full of sh*t heads walking their dogs claiming its an area of outstanding natural beauty"

I'd say that the people who live there have had so much in the way of planning applications thrown at them by Rovers over the years (Sainsbury's, student accommodation, possibility of high density housing if the Fruit Market happens) that they are all very switched on with regards to monitoring planning and how to draft an objection that will work.

If this was the first and only proposed change by Rovers in the last ten years then I suggest that it would have gone through on the nod with few objections raised.

If however you keep messing people about with frequent planning applicaions. or threats thereof, as Rovers has done then the residents will become rightly peeved and start to object to anything and everything.

People buy a home partly because they like what surrounds it, their interest is not going to cease at the border of their property.

6 minutes ago, YorksRed said:

Terry Cooper never got the recognition he should have had for what he did for the club during one of its most difficult times, which saddens me.

He's often cited as our best / most important post war manager on here so the fans do indeed recognise his contribution.

53 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I don't want to quote the whole of @ExiledAjaxlast post, but am I right in thinking that Terry Cooper was also a director when he was our Manager? I have known it happen at other clubs too.

Correct, but it isn't exactly commonplace.

Whilst with Bristol City in October 1983, Terry Cooper became the Football League’s first player-director this century.

https://grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/2240

20 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

Reckless club management is causing this,

Personally I blame Wreckless Eric for all of the problems in the whole wide world.

No.

There is a long long way to go yet.

Sadly.

As an example Barcelona is raising 700m Euros by selling big chunks of its future income streams.  Gotta keep that money flowing in so they can keep spending it.  

https://theathletic.com/3366941/2022/06/17/barcelona-lewandowski-de-jong-socios/

The only possible way I can see of the English top division going back to the pre-1994 days when it was fully part of the league system would be if there was a European super league of twenty teams established which scooped up all of the big teams and they only played in that league and not their national ones; no promotion / relegation except by the odd election as used to be the case with the Conference winners usually denied promotion to Div 4.

This would divert a lot of the current Premiership TV money into that league and away from the Premiership and so bring the Prem down to a far more equal footing with the Championship.

If that doesn't happen then it's business as usual for decades IMHO and all that Bristol City can do about it is to try to be promoted so that we also have our snouts in the money trough. 

Just now, OddBallJim said:

Running a football club is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman

You have to buy lots of things, shoes, clothes, central midfielders. Even when you already have loads of them.

They are really obscure.

I doubt many on here could even have a decent guess, I can't.

In Rovers' case however "they" will not be some disgraced baseball team but rather Planning Enforcement officers from the council coming to tell them to take it down.

15 hours ago, phantom said:

Personally I think that would be a terrible thing to do 

As above, he's been awful for four seasons now, forgetting his personal situation for a moment, it's going take a lot of time and effort just to be an average footballer again, and there hasn't even been a slight hint he's either got his mojo or touch back. 

Onto his personal situation, I'm sure it's a massive relief for him that he's gone public with his awful situation but there's nothing there to say he's dealing with this, and is certainly far too soon to be able to say he's moved on 

I honestly don't see him having any future as a top end footballer ever again he's slipped too far away from where he once was 

The sad thing about all this is as his current employer I firmly believe Everton should be doing everything to protect him, take him out of the public eye and look to assist him getting his mental health issues resolved as that will be of more use to him in the future years 

Sending him out on loan is already saying he's not good enough. 

Realistically he should be heading for a Division 3 or 4 club as that's his current level.

It will take the pressure off and give him the opportunity to regain his former ability.

I think his going to any Championship club would be a disaster for both him and the club.

I have enough confidence in our current recruitment team to know that he won't be coming here.

4 hours ago, IdliketoRogerMoore said:

The bbc is failing to attract younger veiwers because it’s seen a a useless, outdated ring for peado’s by young people! 
  
Old people are dying off and the young people have so much choice than older people had when the was 3/4 channels! 

Don't hold back Sir Rog!

BBC TV may have turned into a load of unwatchable rubbish (even their major soap Eastenders is down to only about a million viewers) but I really like a lot of the radio output including the local radio football commentary.  Sound of the City was, and hopefully still is, an absolute gem.

Don't throw the baby of their radio stations out with the bathwater of their TV channels.

Why do radios have stations, and televisions have channels?

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-radios-have-stations-and-televisions-have-channels?share=1