Eddie Hitler

I think it's a club in-joke at Swindon to deliberately have the worst club badge in the Football League.

I don't mind what we have for a club badge as long as it has hash tags and ampersands.

The hyphenation of "leg-ends" is a masterstroke.

The Chairman role is usually a part time role, couple of days a week maybe, so £70k is pretty good. I'd have thought both he and the CEO are actually very busy owing to the apparently remote owners with their tight purse strings (so regular cost and payment schedule negotiation with supplier to stay within cashflow budgets) and requirement for endless updated reports on ground improvements, new ground, training ground. If the story of the training ground improvements is correct (sky high spec, £3m budget, cost estimates £11m, no attempt to bridge that gap just drop hands), and the lack of progress suggests so, then it's going to also be a fairly thankless job. I've worked in a situation where the Board was such that you knew you were wasting your time in bringing new projects to them yet they still demanded they be brought. It was like a silly parlour game.

Indeed. The only problem that the Rovers fans have is the mob of gurt Teds that follows them around wearing Rovers shirts whilst punching horses, playing boob cricket, and terrifying families. I know this because I read it in the Bristol Evening Post.

There seems to have been a mass awakening on their forum following Steve Hamer's obvious nonsense yesterday. Better late than never.

It is one thread Tommy. That is all you have to ignore: one thread.

"I suppose I was just stating my view.." I'll give you that now they are a bit of an irrelevance, I'm taking the long view that may be they will be a footballing force again. I admit that it's looking unlikely at the moment.

You may be right; these aren't simple questions. Although I'm glad nobody is trotting out the old ones about Downs League on Saturdays and "rugby city" as a get out of jail free card for the lack of success. Maybe we would be more successful as a one club city - though would you merge to achieve that? (I'm presuming the answer would be "no", as it would from pretty much everybody including myself)

Maybe I'm just getting old (older...) and rose tinted; I wasn't old enough to experience the Rovers' fans shenanigans in '82 and have only read about them on here. I also wonder how representative they are of their wider fanbase; both clubs have a range of fans with the more vocal posting on forums and the most vocal, usually those with the extreme views, being the most noticeable. Somebody on here posting "I hate gas scum!" is going to be more noticeable than my posting about gasheads who I have known and liked in real life. Who are, as middle class professionals, probably not going to be representative either. Most posters on Gaschat seem to regard Henbury Gas as a bit of a berk tbh. Anyway, as @Stortz poimted out: the gas have just been knocked out of the first round of the cup by a non-league side! That is funny. Memories of Hitchin.

Steve Hamer is being wheeled out to take the flak on Geoff's show on Radio Bristol at 6pm tonight. I wonder if they will allow callers? I enjoyed his rambling Count Arthur Strong type delivery last time, particularly his "Well, you know..." response to a question as to whether the youth teams had to buy their own kit (the eventual answer being: Yes because they enjoy doing so, or similar) so will give it a try as there is limited radio comedy about these days. Jumpers for goalposts.

? Out of reps; absolutely spot on.

There are a few in Gloucester; on here you'll have to get yourself down the Regal. Edit: not me these days but used to be.

That's also my take on it. I recall John Hall lecturing us in the early 90s on how the Bristol clubs should merge and so would then emulate the success of Newcastle as the only club in the city. Well Newcastle is hardly lighting up the league these days but Liverpool with the constant pressure from Everton continues to thrive as do the Manchester clubs. I think two club cities produce stronger footballing teams and that historically (though I'm not flogging through the stats) we have alway done better with Rovers snapping at our heels. Rovers have been hilarious these last few years but as a result have put zero pressure on us so we're now content to float around mid table Championship which we wouldn't be content doing if Rovers were top of L1 or in the Championship with us and occasionally being higher than us. As it is we have zero competition because I'm not counting the faux rivalry with Cardiff or Swindon.

Come on, we're above the "superfan" stuff surely. Everybody on here supports the same club or we wouldn't be on here in the first place. My only self-applied rule is that if I haven't actually seen a game then I don't disagree with the opinion of someone who has; ditto if I haven't seen a run of games and then don't disagree with the assessment of a player's recent form with someone who has.

If that was happening at City we would have "Sack the Board" protests to force a change of ownership. It doesn't happen there because they are too cowed yet mistake that for loyalty and take pride in it. Pillocks. Fans get the club they deserve shaped in their own image. Weak, accepting and capitulating is about the size of it for Rovers these days. On the pitch and on the stands.

I think my speakers must be playing up. The loyal cheer from the massed ranks of gasheads at the end sounded to me like "What a load of rubbish".

In his defence he was forced to sign for them at gunpoint.

Maybe the Al Qadis have sold it to UWE.

One red and three yellow cards to Barnet's zero bookings. What a nice club they are and grace any stadium with their artistry and gentlemanly sense of fair play.

Official Wales FA site, tremendous stuff! WALES SQUAD: Wayne Hennessey (Crystal Palace), Danny Ward (Leicester City), Adam Davies (Barnsley), Connor Roberts (Swansea City), Chris Gunter (Reading), James Chester (Aston Villa), Chris Mepham (Brentford), Ethan Ampadu (Chelsea), Tom Lockyer (Bristol City), James Lawrence (Anderlecht), Paul Dummett (Newcastle United), Neil Taylor (Aston Villa), Joe Allen (Stoke City), Matthew Smith (FC Twente, on load from Manchester City), Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal), Andy King (Leicester City), George Thomas (Scunthorpe United, on loan from Leicester City), Harry Wilson (Derby County), David Brooks (Bournemouth), Dan James (Swansea City), Ben Woodburn (Sheffield United, on loan from Liverpool), Tom Lawrence (Derby County), Tyler Roberts (Leeds United), Sam Vokes (Burnley), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid).

@Tomarseedit: I'm talking nonsense (again!)

Well it appears that Henbury Gas is considerably richer than yowse. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/13206/82ers-debt?page=2 I expect he's a billionaire as well.

Apparently his original quote before their media department reworded it was: "I don't trust any of our lot with a football"

A quick perusal of related companies: DWANE DEVELOPMENTS UK LIMITED Not a lot going on here; first required accounts filing 30 September 2019. WIZTEK LIMITED Now this is odd. The company is 100% owned by Hani Al Qadi but without apparently trading it now has losses of £1.0m which are covered by a debt to to Hani Al Qadi. There is nothing dodgy about this, it's just odd and why would you want to do it? My guess is that an asset valued at £1m and currently owned by a AQ company will be transferred into it. The land, or part of the land, for the "training ground" is the obvious candidate.