BCFC_Dan

7 hours ago, Fordy62 said:

I think me and my mates have been notable by our absence on this thread (a little akin to the slags on here circa 2014). 

However, with such a young & small budget squad I'm gonna put this season down as a success. 

After winning a trophy last season it does feel a bit flat seeing the season end with nothing but I'd say there's been some progress made. Up until the Durham game they did really well in the T20 and really should have made the finals day. They've also kept their Championship season alive a lot longer this time. If there was more than one promotion spot on offer they'd still be in with a shout.

2 hours ago, Fordy62 said:

Im sure the pub that I would have frequented as a youngster (after having played cricket for Uley) was called the Kings head (on the right hand side just before the big hill that heads up to nympsfield. 

Kings Head was towards the Dursley end of Uley, just before the corner where the road narrows before the brewery. It closed down quite a few years ago now.

On my one appearance for Uley cricket club (out for a golden duck) we definitely went to the Crown afterwards.

15 hours ago, Kezman said:

Absolute awful selection today. Why is Jack Taylor not playing??? His batting alone wins matches, should be playing instead of Cockbain.

As for Noema-Barnett, quite possibly one of the worst players to ever don the Glos shirt. Rank average batsman and bowler. Not contributed any real inns or bowling spell of note since he joined. We've signed the talented all rounder Van-Buuren who has a miles better batting and bowling average yet somehow hasn't been selected!

Think I can do a better job selecting the side. 

 

Presumably Taylor wasn't playing because he could no longer bowl and they'd suffered a bit from a lack of available bowlers in the previous two games. That said, he'd batted better than Cockbain in the previous matches and he can be so dangerous it does seem madness to leave him out.

No idea why Noema-Barnett was preferred to Van Beuren. He really does need to start showing why he was worth his contract soon. I think he can be forgiven last year as a settling in period but he's got to produce something this year.

We probably shouldn't be expecting to win the trophy again this year. Last year they won it through determination and a fair bit of good fortune, rather than by being an exceptionally good side, but a failure to get out of the group stage, which now looks highly likely, would be massively disappointing.

Glos putting up the worst title defence in living memory....

11 hours ago, Tomarse said:

Glos loose another local clash. Would they trade a poor season in the OD stuff for a pop at promotion to div1?

As a fan, maybe, but I'm not sure that'd be in the club's best interests. There's surely more money to be made from good runs in the one day cups and the chances of actually succeeding in promotion this season are pretty slim I'd have thought.

One step forward, two steps back: Jack Taylor's been suspended from bowling again.

I do like Jack Taylor. Up to the heady heights of second in the table now. I doubt they'll remain there but wouldn't it be frustrating to finish second in a season when it doesn't count for anything?

If the light holds then this could get interesting....

2 hours ago, Woodsy said:

1130 start at New Road - think Worcs are about 230 odd in front

Chuck the bat for an hour, get to 300 in front and let Shants and Leachy plough through them for 140 just before tea

Ideal! 

Well you've got the first half of your wish. Let's hope you don't get the second.

9 minutes ago, john from high littleton said:

Agree, v difficult to feel sorry for super rich footballers....in they're greedy pursuit to try and get even wealthier. 

These aren't super rich, though. They're well paid compared to the average for sure but nothing like the top players get.

Being a footballer is a short career and the sensible ones will try to invest as much of their earnings as they can to prepare for a retirement that could come at pretty much any moment. Obviously these invested very badly and should have been suspicious of anything promising 20% pm ROI but there is nothing wrong in principle with them wanting to grow their wealth (or indeed with anyone wanting to, rich or poor).

10 minutes ago, lenred said:

Think the £70m is what the family are supposedly worth in total Dan as opposed to the 15ers selling price. 

9 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

I did find something that said the family are now major players in Jordan after taking over HSBC's interests in that country, that would be in the banking community. So as has been said, money available to use without touching their own, bit like the Glaziers at Man Utd.

 

I think he means the family is worth £70m not the Squatters !

9 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

Think you're misunderstanding! The £70m is the suggested family worth, not the club worth.

2 minutes ago, Griffin said:

70m is the families net worth nt the buying price..

Thank goodness for that. Yes I was misunderstanding. I haven't read the whole thread, just skipped to the end.

Anyone daft enough to pay £70m for that lot would be welcome to them!

51 minutes ago, Collis1 said:

If they are only worth £70m then that is hilarious.... That is pennies in the realm of football club owners.

Considering that Gloucester Rugby was sold for around £20m last week I'd say £70m is massively overpriced for the Rovers.

Potential or not I'd rather have a profitable Premiership rugby team than a football club that was only promoted out of non-league 8 months ago.

Chris Dent getting most of his runs for the season in one innings...

C'mon the Shire!

It'll be annoying for me if we get Yorkshire at Headingley because I'll be away when it's played. On the plus side it's a chance to get some bragging rights over the gf's parents who aren't keen on accepting that we were on track to beat them at Scarborough last month (no doubt they'll win this time though and I'll have to put up with at least a year of ribbing).

Glos WIN at CHELTENHAM ! I've seen it all now !    

And in doing so have done themselves out of two days of festival revenue. Only Glos could stitch themselves up by winning too well!

I'd back the Gidman Jnr right, Gidman Snr has been awful

Neither seems to be having a great time. Maybe they'd like to come back to Bristol (where nobody is having a good time).

Hell yeah - 12 points for Worcester gets us out the relegation zone and put Notts bottom!

It's Gidman vs Gidman!

Bloody Glos does the impossible AGAIN

121 needed to avoid following on. 115 for 7 - piece of piss. Not for the Glos though 116 all out

Worse than that, Klinger & Cockbain have given us just the slightest glimmer of hope, which will no doubt be dashed by 11:15 today. It's the hope I can't stand.

What the club needs is the executive boxes and non-matchday facilities, not the capacity. A redeveloped Ashton Gate can provide these, thus solving the immediate problem and helping the club finance itself without outside investment.

If this proves successful and the club is regularly pulling in 25k+ crowds at Premiership level then they'll be much better placed to get a new stadium built. Maybe not at Ashton Vale if the TVG is in force but somewhere, and the argument of "they'll never need it as they're not successful" will not apply to the same extent.

Ashton Vale would have been better bit this is the most pragmatic option under the circumstances.

Perhaps if the club achieves sustained success over the next 10-15 years they could look at Ashton Vale again, but the redevelopment solves most of the immediate problems.

JET is in the form of his life right now, so it's the perfect time to sell.

He might well go on to play successfully at a higher level but he's not the sort of striker who's going to score goals at the rate he has been on a regular basis.

The trick will be to find a club which is either too daft or too desperate to realise this, get them to part with a few million and then build a more balanced team that isn't based around catering for one talismanic player.

SO'D has alluded to the number of times we've been in this situation before and probably taken the wrong option. There are many examples, from Aaron Brown to Marvin Elliot, where we've been offered sums considerably over the player's value and turned them down because we're an ambitious club, when with hindsight it might have been better to sell.

Right now it looks like without JET's goals we'd be ruined, but that's because the team is set up around him. Set the team up around Baldock and Taylor instead and they will get the goals. Far more sensible to take the money and do that than hope JET can keep up the kind of form he's never shown in the rest of his career.

Being the owner and sole share owner of Ecotricity, he certainly is not short of a few quid.

To say they are finally copetitive is ironic as many of the teams at that level operate on smaller budgets.

I'm not sure you understand what the word 'ironic' means. They used to operate on a budget which was a fraction of the other clubs in the league. Now they have one which allows them to compete at the top. It's hardly ironic.

Nots sure about the "fresh air" they use manure on their pitch to make it an orgnaic pitch

Am sure there was a story about having a soler powered lawn mower ???

Yes. Are you suggesting any of this is a bad thing?

You obviously have a "soft spot for FGR", but surely it is a bit strange that he banned the players and the ground from having red meat !

Surely the only chairman in the country who dictates what the players can't eat and what food is sold at their ground ?

Would understand if a choice was offered . . ..

I've been watching them for as long as I've been watching City. They were my local team growing up. If the owner thinks a diet without red meat is healthier and the manager and players don't disagree then I don't see the problem.

The Chairman has also done a Cardiff this season and imposed a kit change with no consultation with the supporters. So instead of the Black and White stripes worn for about 100 years, FGR now play in a home kit of 'Ecotricity Green'. This obviously hasn't proved hugely popular with supporters and might explain why last two home gates were only 760 and 940 despite the great start to the season.

Would be very funny if FGR swapped places with Bristol Rovers.

The kit change is certainly controversial but I think the new green kit is far nicer than the old black and white stripes. But then I didn't much like the old red socks either...

Same here Edward, big night last night for The Tigers in terms of returning home, need to read up to see how that went. Got a stuffing off Brackley Town at home last night as well. Gloucester vs Brackley - two bastions of 'northern' football!

As a Guiseley supporter I could have done with them beating Brackley! I think it's just to do with the large number of teams around London who are in the Southern division. Oxford are in the North now too!

Never met the fella, going on what people tell me who have, and who work for him

Agree that he's done some tremendous things, but there's plenty of people out there who have done good things but that doesn't make them nice people, or any less unplonkerish than other people

That's fair enough. I have heard one or two negative things about him via employees too. He may not be the world's nicest chap. Nevertheless, I am proud to have them supply my electricity & gas and I think he's generally doing things right. Please accept my apologies for assuming you based your opinion on what he stands for, not what he's like.

Why is Dale Vince a plonker?

I don't agree with veganism particularly but I don't recall any rule stipulating that a football club has to provide burgers and pies. The rest of the stuff he does is tremendous and pretty important for the future.

He's hardly super rich.

They finally have a budget to be competitive at that level but it's about far more than just throwing money at the team.