Eddie Hitler

It doesn't work. Buying Rovers off Higgs only worked on the basis of a quick win with the UWE being built, sell the Memorial Ground for housing, pocket that money, sell the club on but now playing in the UWE stadium. As soon as UWE failed - possibly with the UWE team playing hardball because they knew the AQs were in it for a short term profit - that was it. You then have a loss making lemon on your hands with the only way to salvage anything being to secure your debts against the ground and look for a sale. The quick profit has gone but you do at least stand a chance of getting your money back as long as you can sell before the debt less the assets exceeds the price that anyone would pay for a L1 club with average support. At 30 June 2018 net liabilities were £13m; allow a (generous) £15m ulpift for the ground and you have £2m of assets. If they could have sold the club then for £6m (IIRC what they paid) then that's their money back. At 30 June 2019 you have -£1m of assets, somebody may pay £6m and that's their money back. At 30 June 2020 -£4m of assets, is somebody still going to pay £6m? It's looking increasingly unlikely by this stage. And into 2020/21 the further money covering the losses is effectively lost. I would say that they have about a year in which to sell or they are going to have start writing down their investment in BRFC by £3m a year or sell the ground and take whatever offer comes in for the club; effectively giving it away.

I said similar: why on a very limited site would you set aside the majority of the land for a use that will make you no profit and instead lose anything from £1m to £3m a year?

It buys him two years of dicking about without the natives becoming restless; if he does ever get planning then he will "do a Higgs" and start tramping the world to find a greater fool to buy a football club with a shiny new stadium just ready to be built and fully-funded from the sale of the old one.

Heeeeeerreeeeesssss Wally!

If you're going to finance all of that then why waste your profits by setting land aside for a loss-making football ground? Just stick a few blocks of flats up instead and make a fortune.

I don't know about the appropriateness of such a site nor whether they will get funding. What I do know is that there is absolutely no way that they will get through planning and then get a stadium built within two years even if everything goes to plan; I would suggest four years is realistic.

Nothing to do with me! Anyway I've read, probably on this thread, that that wasn't the case for some reason. Which I forget.

That's such a perfect vignette of a midweek pint.

Ditto. It may actually be excellent but I haven't seen it so am not joining in what seems to be the compulsory slagging off of the programme. That I've not seen it is probably connected to my not having a TV.

And what precisely is wrong with Love Island pray tell? (did I just say that?)

No poltics on here please. Just gas bashing.

I would agree as long as we continue to be owned by the Lansdown family. If we are sold then all bets are off. Edit: I would also say that the most important definition of any club is its fanbase. MK Dons is the continuing company of Wimbledon, FA Cup winners with a long stay in the Premier League. AFC Wimbledon was cobbled from nothing together twenty years' ago. The majority of the old WImbledon fans support AFC Wimbeldon so that is the current version of the old WImbledon; whatever the records at Companies House may say. I started supporting City in 1979; as far as I am concerned I still support the same club now.

Yes we did, even if we can claim not on a technicality, but we kept the ground and the club continued. Since 1982 we have been fortunate to have had a lot of very good people running the club with the real improvement to my mind stemming from Scott Davidson's tenure as Chairman and now the Lansdowns' ownership. Your last really good owners were the Dunfords. Nick Higgs may have been good for a while but he gambled and lost and now you have, well there have been so many posts upon your current ownership that I won't repeat them.

Well personally I always carry in my luggage a Bristol City flag in case I am approached to take part in a video. I don't think it has anything to do with Bristol Sport; it's the Council. It is a bit odd though; if you're going to represent sports fans in Bristol then there is a Premiership rugby club and whilst Rovers are smaller than us they are a professional football club and they aren't that common. Maybe it was just that they took whoever applied as long as they ticked their boxes for a cross section, so "Sports fans - tick".

It's the first step on a descending slippery slope of neediness that ends up with us sidling up to Sunderland fans in a bar and asking if they like us more than Rovers fans.

They don't really dislike us; those are tiny percentages. If you look at the Plymouth one then loads of people dislike them but for us, bar Rovers, nobody really does. Our second place is only 17% from Preston compared with Plymouth's second being 60% from those friendly Rovers fans that everyone really likes honest.

But everybody loves the quarters! I clicked through out of interest, this was on the Plymouth Herald, as the reporter clearly does love them and was suggested in the headline that Plymouth didn't like us for some reason. The results are rather different. https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/football/argyle-exeter-portsmouth-rivalry-league-3124750

Oddly that's not the case though; they are spending a lot of money as that's how they lost £3m last year compared to Higgs' era £600k losses. I think they will do pretty well in the league this year, maybe even promotion, but it will be a pyrrhic victory as was the case with Bury winning promotion because the club will be drowning in debt. Football fans tend to have fairly short term views so expect the crowing cries of "coming to get you" as the slide into selling off the ground gains momentum. Is Twerton Championship ready?

Seconded.

Spot on; as the criterion for Notts County losing their crown is the loss of continuous league membership then Rovers with their four years' continuous league membership is one of the newest league teams beaten only by Forest Green Rovers.

Told you! Take the warning. No image search, no mind bleach required. What is seen cannot be unseen.

As someone who once took similar advice as being a tempting offer I made the mistake of searching "lemon party". Oh my word, do not search for this. I am not joking here. Ever since I have taken these warnings at pure face value and will cetainly not be searching for blue waffle. Not all knowledge is good.

No, nothing to worry about. It's seen as bad form to let them go like this rather than do it yourself but it's no worse than that. It looks like another two will be allowed to be struck off.

And then there were five. Companies' House dissolves the Filton Avenue Guarantee Company. 16 Jul 2019 Final Gazettedissolved via compulsory strike-off https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06912935/filing-history

And there it is. The big lie about everyone liking Bristol's second club ripped apart in one post: