Eddie Hitler

Just how wrong can you be? "I think if we now get our debts paid, UWE built and the club own the stadium - we've done extremely well. Anything else is a bonus." Debt now c. £11m, secured upon the Mem UWE expensively dead in the water as far as Rovers are concerned so no chance of owning that. Best players sold and not replaced. Thiugh they have bought a training ground, or rather a field, and Rovers don't own it anyway. I'm trying to think what beneficial things they have actually done since taking over; was it something like new toilets and a refurbished club shop? Wael Al Qadi, with these gifts you are spoiling us!

Cracking spot! We tend to assume that it was the golden age of journalism back then.

Just had a read of that whole thread. They have collectively smelt the coffee and woken up; it took a while but they got there in the end. Will they now take the next big step of organising Sack the Board protests now that they have realised that the next bit of evolution is relegation?

Absolutely. From time to time you get people on here saying that their son has been offered a youth place by Rovers and should they take it? The answer is of course: yes, every single time. Opportunities to play professional football are incredibly rare so you should take whatever is offered.

That's bitter beyond belief. A reasonable stance would have been "Fine, but we would expect similar help if we were in financial difficulty". Whether councils should bail out football clubs with taxpayers money is questionable but many do. Plymouth council seems to buy the freehold of Argyle's ground for millions every time they hit financial difficulty then sell it back when a new owner comes in.

I think the yellow kit's ok but you can't really go wrong with block colours. I agree that the home kit is one of the worst examples of "the famous quarters" that I have seen.

Exactly. He is their forum prat who most of them are embarrassed about. We have had posters who are nearly or even as bad but they don't last very long for whatever reason; maybe sheer weight of numbers calling them out.

I feel so ashamed

It looks like a surgical truss!

I genuinely thought that the opening "doing up their shop" paragraph was the precursor to a whole set of improvements. No, that was it, plus mentions of previously announced work on the bar and getting the cheap sand off their pitch. Double wow. Build and they will come and they will be locked out.

Given that the enormous wealth of the Rovers' owners comprises shares in a Jordanian bank this is probably relevant; just think back and remember what happened to UK bank shares in 2008: RBS went from 6000 in 2006 to 121 in 2009. Protests in Jordan against tax rises and austerity measures - the biggest demonstrations in years - continued for a third consecutive night. Police fired tear gas and blocked roads in the capital Amman to stop protesters getting close to the cabinet office. The protesters say a new tax bill backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hurt the poor and middle class. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44345136

Has "Dwane Developments UK Limited" of 5 New Street Square, London, United Kingdom, EC4A 3TW (just the legal office) been mentioned yet? This was founded in March this year with Hani Al Qadi the only current director; and owned 100% by Dwane Sports (yes, that one) in Jersey. No accounts as yet but the title suggests that the intention is rather more than merely putting some portakabins at the Colony training ground which is owned by Dwane Sports rather than Rovers. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11253528

He did call us his friends

I didn't realise it was that low. At the last accounts they'd pumped in (lost) £10m and had extended the debt facility to £14m which covered another two years' losses. That's more than a fifth of the family wealth gone on a delapidated football ground, a field with a fence round it, and some white plastic garden chairs.

Rich did ask!

You are a poster for whom I have a lot of respect and for that reason I will drop this now.

And he is being slaughtered for it on here and called out for it by several gasheads on gas chat. I would say that is enough. Lies on a forum get a response on a forum. It's not like his rubbish is being reported in the BEP. Start putting his personal details and workplace up and the response moves outside the forum into harassment. I do not think anyone posting on this thread, which ranges from amusing to laugh out loud funny, would consider taking any such action but every football club has its share of loons. LJ received death threats and had to move house, Matty Taylor the same. There are people who do such things and I don't see such response as being commensurate to Henbury Gas making a total tit of himself on gas chat.

Thanks.

Thanks for the support Bianconeri. I don't think there's anything remotely malicious from any of the guys posting here who are just trying to have a laugh but it's now crossed the line IMHO.

I wouldn't be happy if a normal poster on here, say you or me, was having photographs of their business, its address, and their own picture plastered all over a gas public forum so to me the same courtesy should be extended. The only post I have reported is my own in order to flag it up because I don't think anyone on this thread is being deliberately malicious. Just sometimes banter crosses a line.

Errr... Banter is great and Henbury Gas is clearly a total belter but I'm really not happy with his picture being shown on this thread. And not just for aesthetic reasons! To be open about this I am going to message the mods to suggest that it be taken down.

No it's true; I have been provided with photographic evidence. Here is a picture of Henbury Gas with said disabled fan, Donny Oddlegs.

It's the careless cruelty to apostrophes that offends me more; as well as the wanton capitalisation of improper nouns.

I get the impression that these inventions appear real to Henbury because he has cut out and painted little cardboard figures of the mythical disabled fan and his helper and has conversations with them late at night. "Do you hate the shit Mr Disabled Fan?" "Yes, I hate the shit Mr Henbury sir." "And do you also hate the shit Mr Helper of Disabled Fan?" "Yes, I also hate the shit Mr Henbury sir." "Excellent, Smarties all round!"

Marvellous, isn't it Ollie Clarke picked up an early booking for a challenge on Southend captain John White, and continued to throw himself into tackles. Just before the half time whistle, the midfielder was penalised again, this time for a tackle on Sam Mantom. Referee Anthony Coggins had no hesitation in showing Clarke a second booking, but then proceeded to walk away from the Rovers No.8. However after an apparent reminder from Southend forward Simon Cox, Coggins marched back over to Clarke to show him the red card.