Eddie Hitler

Swindon signs up all the ex cons; he'll be training with them soon.

So BREXIT (Bristol Rovers EXIT) is actually going to happen on March 29th after all? Somebody tell Theresa before she resigns!

I was wondering upthread what had happened to their AGM and it seems I'm not alone as it was March 19th last year and still hasn't been announced. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/14110/agm The required date for filing accounts at Companies' House is nine months after the end of the relevant accounting period so for their 30 June 2018 accounts that's 31 March 2019 or rather this Friday as that's the last working day. This level of delay is unusual and suggests material uncertainty in the accounts meaning that they're going to the wire. Two possible reasons come to my mind: New owners are imminent so they are being held back as this would be a material post balance sheet event so would need to go in the notes. Or the usual guarantee of financial support for the next year may not have been forthcoming meaning that the accounts can't be drawn up on the "going concern" basis. Or they could just be trying to generate interest in a dull set of accounts by holding them back until the last minute; and they've succeeded with that one anyway.

It has happened again once so there is another club that didn't qualify for the league cup; I can't track it down but IIRC Wimbledon was one of the teams. Another claim to uniqueness falls.

That was back in the days when they had Gary Penrice as a strikers' coach and he produced a million pound striker year in year out. Then they sacked him to save a few quid. A club run by halfwits.

With their £250k a year London operation and advertising campaigns Rovers are certainly going for it in the swanky PR stakes. Meanwhile the relegation threatened team plays in a ground that would embarrass a medium sized school whilst the training ground develops nothing other than weeds. I'm not one hundred percent convinced that the owners have their priorities right.

Required to be filed at Companies' House 31 March; they are usually presented at an AGM prior to that so I guess about now if you look at the gas forums.

Is "concrete" today's special word? Or is Wael giving us an insight into what Dwane Developments or Wiztek have planned for the ground so the word is muchly on his mind. Wiztek https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10664221/filing-history Dwane Developments https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11253528/filing-history Rovers, accounts to end June 2018 due by the end of March. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04501223/filing-history

Good point. I don't believe that any Div 3 club could beat a full strength Chelsea u23s, for example, so I think the big clubs are deliberately fielding weakened sides in the later stages so that you don't get the nightmare outcome you suggest. It does look like it's paving the way for premiership reserve teams getting into the lower leagues. Currently I think there's a Level 10 top limit. In the South West Peninsula League, level 10, there is a Plymouth Argyle u23 team who are always in the top two which is unsurprising given their professional back up and full time players being up against part timers getting changed in a hut. The Freight Rover ingress of such teams looks to be part of an attempt to start creeping that level 10 upwards into the conference and ultimately the league.

Yes. A boycott of this competition is the correct response since the attempts to wreck it came in.

That is absolutely superb. One to read through slowly as it's a lengthy succession of tweets.

I genuinely hadn't realised that the reason the Gas Hit Squad is so called is because they keep turning up at other grounds to be hit. Every day is a school day.

https://thebristolcable.org/2018/06/up-banjo-island-down-the-lamb-pub-cadbury-heath/

This is something about which they do worry and is discussed on their forum. The days when Rovers had a serious chance of a higher league position than us are long gone; they don't even have a realistic chance of playing in the same division. Add in our cup runs and the embarrassing state of their ground then any Bristol kid who wants to start watching football is going to need a very strong line in self-deprecating humour if they're going to select Rovers over City as their team to watch. This has been the case for ten years, maybe fifteen or twenty. With no prospect of anything changing given the refusal of the Rovers' owners to spend anything other than the bare minimum to field a team and stop the ground falling down.

Are the Rovers' fans all being locked out?

I think he must getting confused with Pelynt FC who also play at The New Camp in Barcelona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%2C_Cornwall

It was reported in the press, for example: Daily Record November 2016: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-linked-matt-taylor-heres-9328918 And even more specifically from 25 Jan 2017, the Ipswich site: https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/31030/town-among-clubs-linked-with-bristol-rovers-striker/onthisday

Ironically their complaint on another thread about Payne is that he's useless in their team because he's purely a finisher in that he can't create his own chances but relies upon a service into the box from midfield that isn't being delivered. Now my memory of Brett Pitman was that he was absolutely identical; he was purely a finisher. Somebody like Akinbiyi could pick the ball up in midfield and create a goal out of nowhere but Brett didn't have that speed, strength and dribbling ability but was a great finisher. Fingers crossed that Brett doesn't go there as they'll be slagging him off as much as they do Payne because they will have again signed the wrong forward for the way their team plays.

As @KeepUpLino said I don't think it's machismo; it's more about continuing with regular activities despite the warning signs. I've never refused to board a plane, and I've never had any reason not to, but to stand up and refuse to board a plane because it's been having trouble would seem odd. Maybe it's past experience overriding the current situation. A better word would maybe be "habit". I'm not entirely compliant, for instance I flat refuse to drive in snow; to the point where I would rather lose my job rather than drive in it. This stems from the very rational view (IMO) that the last time I drove in snow I crashed because of the snow so I'm not doing it again. Planes though: there are loads of safety rules and preflight checks these days, you're on with a vastly experienced pilot who knows the risks and is as much in danger as you are if things go wrong. Essentially you're trusting the pilot rather than the plane. 1959 was an awfully long time ago and rules were much slacker.

Stuart's story After a string of failed relationships left me homeless and sent me into the clutch of drug and drink addictions and petty theft to escape the reality of my situation I felt I only had my dog to turn to, my faithful companion in times of need. I was begging for drink money in Salisbury city centre when a northern man in a tracksuit came up to me. He started asking how I was and what the dog was called. He seemed very interested in my dog as I remember; which was nice of him. Anyway when he heard my story he said that there was a place he knew in Bristol where I could get regular hot food and me and the dog could have a run about on a field, others used to join us and we'd kick a ball about. After a few weeks of this he said he would look after the dog whilst we kicked the ball about, and if I did it on Saturday afternoons then he could even pay me as there was a special fund set up by a Mr Qadi. I even got some new clothes for Saturdays. Life is now great, I get to sleep in the clubhouse and have enough money for two pasties a day and lots of hot drinks. And I am off the booze and drugs. I stil wonder what happened to my dog though.

Yes. Boycotting the early rounds to show the just contempt for the way that the competition has been ruined is spot on. There really should be zero attendance at these games. But if your team is in a rare final at Wembley, however tainted the competition may be, you are going to want to go. Who would not?

Pilot and one passenger (from the Cardiff thread).

The nine o'clock news just led with Sala may be on the plane which suggests that he was.

Cardiff forum thread; latest is their striker is not on it. http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=204226&sid=ea2070696ce489e132438430037f2eea

I don't think Jon Brown got the memo about Rovers being the friendly family club that all neutrals love.