cityloyal473

They are indeed being led a merry dance. Even if there is a payout the line from the Evil Post would suggest that it wouldn't be enough, and theres always been questions over full funding anyway, so to take/win a settlement doesn't change anything.

This bit from the evil post is intriguing: "Even if the club was to win on appeal, they would only be awarded damages instead of the multinational being forced to buy the Memorial Stadium." If this is the case; then regardless of the UWE's position, the project is dead in the water as of now.

meet the new kit, same as the old kit..

It's not in any doubt now: this is sh!t or bust for the Sags.

This^^ Rovers signed a contract knowing that Sainsburys had included conditions giving themselves a way out, yet still decided to sign. Whilst Sainsburys may not have acted morally right (in bad faith), they were legally right; as confirmed by the judge. Unfortunately for Rovers this is the business world and companies have no objection to reneging (legally or illegally) on deals. Rovers wont be the first and they wont be the last to have their fingers burnt. Welcome to the real world Rovers. Shit happens. Get over it and move on with Plan B....

Looks like we could be right...He has recovered from the decision and has had discussions with his legal team and appears to be of a mind to appeal the decision. He appears bullish in the clubs chances but all I will say is that if his legal team are so confident, perhaps they will mount a no win/no fee appeal. He did tell us that Sainsbury would not be able to give any evidence in any such appeal and there are two points of appeal and we only need to win one of those points to overturn the verdict in our favour. Perhaps, a fellow Gashead who was also present could confirm the finer details. Read more: http://gasheads.org/thread/3600/higgs-on-points-west?page=6#ixzz3g3mr2EDp

Ok, what's the consensus, will they appeal or not? I think they will.

Wow. What a bunch of mugs.

Have I read that right? Have gash supporters bought shares worth 1million from the club for 2% equity?

I was going to include the Liverpool similarity in my earlier ramble. It's completely true. They're always the victim. It's always someone else fault. TRASH, Sainsbury's, Wycombe, John Ward, blah, blah, blah. Until they see the elephant in the room they will continue to lurch form one disaster to the next. And, it's funny you should mention this being our fault; there's Gash who genuinely believe that SL was behind the Trash campaign.

I was going to include the Liverpool similarity in my earlier ramble. It's completely true. They're always the victim. It's always someone else fault. TRASH, Sainsbury's, Wycombe, John Ward, blah, blah, blah. Until they see the elephant in the room they will continue to lurch form one disaster to the next. And, it's funny you should mention this being our fault; there's Gash who genuinely believe that SL was behind the Trash campaign.

Screwed over by who? Sainsbury's are legally entitled to break the contract. This was decided in a court of law. The fault should lie firstly with the morons at Rovers who signed a "watertight" contract, but which it later transpires was " ...tortuously, laboriously and in some respects badly, drafted. It makes any draftsman itch to have a try at it...". And with Higgs for his constantly bullshitting throughout the entire process despite all the warning signs that Sainsbury's were pulling out. Up until very recently it was a case of "partners" and "dotting the I's and crossing the T's". Higgs deserves Karma just for that. As he does for not having a plan B in place. When AV went belly up for City we had a plan B - redevelop AG. Rovers have no plan B and amazingly despite all the warning signs about Sainsbury's intent have allowed PP at the Mem to lapse. There an amateurish outfit who've had their fingers burnt; they haven't been screwed over. I'd have some sympathy for Gash fans if they could see this, but they can't. They all think its Sainsbury's fault when Rovers are at least equally to blame for this whole mess. Higgs is trotting out the line that they've been screwed over to hide is own shortcomings and the Gash are lapping it up.

Squashed by a ruthless PLC? Sainsburys won fair and square in a court of law on a point of law.

Not sure anyone else would lend to them after today. Barclays saw this coming and called their loan in. Perhaps whoever they took the Wonga style loan from will also be having a bit of an oh shit moment.

The fact that they're thinking of appealing leads me to believe there is no plan B, which should be a big worry for them given the amount of lead up time to this going tits up. The UWE and the Sainsbury's case aside, I believe they've also let any planning permission for the Mem lapse. They truly are screwed if thats the case.

And the construction/contract area was supposed to be his forte.

That would be great if he had!

You have a much better understanding of the legal process than me; how long do you believe it would take for the Gash to launch an appeal and get it to court?

There ma be a little bit of wriggle room there for the Gash but then that surely leaves it open to an appeal by Sainsburys should the Gash appeal and win. Then it will go on ad infinitum.

So was Ashton Vale, but and I saw little sympathy from the Sags then. So screw them.

No chance Aldi or Lidl will pay 30 Million for the Mem. Even if they did, It would leave a significant funding gap.

Think they only get told 24 hours in advance of the result and for someone to have disclosed it to him would have been contempt of court. Think he's just taking a 50/50 swing at it. Further to that, I'd imagine that if the result has gone against Sainsbury's (as they'll already know) they would quite possibly be monitoring things like Twitter and Forums connected to the Gash for a 'leak' of some sort.

Not sure the Gash has the coin to appeal? This court case in Poker terms is their 'All In'.

Not surprised. Who wants a six month contract?

"I think it's more significant that they missed out on a signing because they would only offer him a contract to the end of the calendar year, instead of the whole season!" If that's true that's bizarre.