Eddie Hitler

I was promised a share in the greyhound racing if I kicked it all off. I never received it.

Harleygas is that rare example of a gashead with a sense of humour. The rest of them will burn him as a witch.

The area available for development and expansion around The Memorial Ground is certainly comparable to that around Goodison Park, as in: The area available for development and expansion around The Memorial Ground is about a tenth of that around Goodison Park. (second image dragged out so the ground is roughly the same size)

I have an uncle and a family friend like this, they don't go to games any more but put Bristol in general above a subdivision of it. This is why I don't have the vitriol that others have for the gas, though I did have a little chuckle when they went non-league after all the "we're coming to get you" rhetoric.

Look mate, if you were as thick as two short planks like wot they is you'd be doing exactly the same Don't forget he had some new turf laid.

Um, possibly I think they'll be put up for sale some time this season. If results go their way it will be late in the season; if not then in the next few months so the incoming buyer is paying at the level for a L1 team rather than a L2 one.

Can't see why they would do so, it's not like the Sainsbury deal where there was a contract in place; albeit with clauses that Higgs didn't understand. The UWE deal was pulled before heads of terms were agreed so the contract won't have been drawn up yet. What should be more concerning is the financial position of the gas. The Memorial Stadium is valued at £11m and a charge of £10m has been placed against this creating a line of credit. The costs of the UWE stadium project and a £1.5m annual operating loss meant that by 30 June 2016 £7.2m of this credit had been drawn and spent. So now that would be £8.7m meaning that the remaining line of credit is £1.3m; being insufficient to cover the operating loss for the current season. So they need more money. Third party companies, even Higgs' Wonga loanees, require security. Now this could be achieved by giving them a charge upon The Stadium but it would have to rank above the existing charge; meaning that a chunk of that £10m would become unsecured and effectively lost to the owner. I will rely upon gasheads' opinion that Wael is a good sort so he's unlikely to liquidate them but the impression also being given is that there is no more money to come and, unlike Steve Lansdown, he doesn't have the money to give up that debt. So this is looking very like the gas will be out of money by the end of the season so will be going up for sale with any new owner having to take on a debt of £10m secured against the ground. The gas may have checked out of the Conference but they can never leave.

They um, oh - wait a minute it's ah, no, it's gone. Ah, got it - they played in Bath for a bit and there is a decent view from Twerton. Yes, that's it, they had a really nice view for several years. I am jealous of that.

Gas Guzzler? I think they must have some sort of entrance test as it's a cut above the collection of semi-literate outbursts that is Gas Chat.

Time to move this into classics? We have officially taken on the mantle of being the biggest laughing stock in Bristol.

Indeed. Maybe a sarcasm tag before someone bites.

And in case this is a genuine post, welcome to Bristol and to the decent club. Derby games next season will be a scant consolation for getting relegated though!

People, or rather the ones posting on this forum, aren't "turning" on the players.

No. Not as first choice. No. We don't intend going there. Yes - you win!

That's a cracking question there Mr Army.

Seriously? A 5% charge is the standard for these sort of transactions.

And anybody that's neutral tends to prefer the smaller club: Stoke or Port Vale Notts Forest or Notts County Chelsea or Brentford et cetera

It's alright, we can put a lot of newspaper down first to stop them muddying it.

Bristol Derby, City victory. Sounds great, it's been far too long.

And the spelling, that's no mean feat getting that right first time with no crossings out.

We are (unfairly) a team of giants according to that Villa fan.

Yes absolutely. I'm not Ten Minutes of Rough telling people to stop it. Just that nothing of real interest to us is happening now so people are being drawn into the "count the away attendance" level of schoolboy point scoring. If it isn't worth a new thread then why descend to it on this one? I read the thread precisely to see if anything comes out about their Chairman and UWE but that's all buried in the trivia swamp. Could be worse I suppose, people might start making "hilarious" puns.

I'm not saying don't talk about them or pretend that there is no rivalry but this enormous thread came about because of some seriously funny stuff. If they start up again with the comic capers then huge thread time again but with this one always near the top of our board I feel that I know more about them than their own fans do; and I don't want to.