Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

[Taz]

11 hours ago, weepywall said:

Looks like a good signing to be fair.

 

11 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

Not sure.

76 minutes in the EFL with Hull last season.

Time will tell, good player for England u20 tbf.

I raise you Taylor Moore. 

[petehinton]

3 hours ago, Hot Air said:

Is the Championship much better? Luton and Sheffield United are bang average sides who got promoted last season.

L1 includes Bolton and Barnsley, two clubs who have played in the PL within living memory, unlike BCFC. 

And as for being over budget...planks and splinters come to mind. 

Deary me

[glynriley]

4 hours ago, Hot Air said:

Is the Championship much better? Luton and Sheffield United are bang average sides who got promoted last season.

L1 includes Bolton and Barnsley, two clubs who have played in the PL within living memory, unlike BCFC. 

And as for being over budget...planks and splinters come to mind. 

I bet you were itching to put '82' on the end of that...

[supercidered]

22 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Deary me

“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

― Mark Twain

[Open End Numb Legs]

4 hours ago, Hot Air said:

.....planks and splinters come to mind. 

Thanks for bringing the stadium back into the conversation.

If Rovers spend big and get promoted then fair enough, any promotion is tough, but the wage bills for the various divisions tell the story about what is needed in terms of quality, there is a big difference.

Having an 'eye for midfielders' is not enough in itself if the signings are all loans.

The joint owners have one thing right, these things do take time. Why they then try to take short cuts is a mystery.

[Bar BS3]

20 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Thanks for bringing the stadium back into the conversation.

If Rovers spend big and get promoted then fair enough, any promotion is tough, but the wage bills for the various divisions tell the story about what is needed in terms of quality, there is a big difference.

Having an 'eye for midfielders' is not enough in itself if the signings are all loans.

The joint owners have one thing right, these things do take time. Why they then try to take short cuts is a mystery.

I think the "these things take time" probably referred to their temporary new stand...!

[Leveller]

4 hours ago, Hot Air said:

Elliot Anderson was a huge success for BRFC, winning national plaudits, and Barton has a good eye for a midfielder. 

BRFC signed two promising players from Chelsea before - Colkett and Clarke-Salter. Great things were expected of the former, but he struggled to live up to the physical demands of the league and had his loan cancelled early before briefly resurfacing at Swindon. 

The latter didn't live up to the billing, but subsequently became a championship-level player (QPR, mind)

With the exception of a very few, it is extremely hard to tell at this stage if players will make it. 

 

The new owner seems to be an unknown quantity. It will be interesting to see if he is willing to put in funds to follow the Fruitihad dream and upgrade the team. And will Wael be sidelined now he’s just a minority shareholder?

[petehinton]

replies are gold

[Port Said Red]

28 minutes ago, Leveller said:

The new owner seems to be an unknown quantity. It will be interesting to see if he is willing to put in funds to follow the Fruitihad dream and upgrade the team. And will Wael be sidelined now he’s just a minority shareholder?

What do we think the chances are that he is both an unknown quantity and has sufficient funds necessary to spend on a football club over a significant period of restructuring? 

[Open End Numb Legs]

33 minutes ago, petehinton said:

replies are gold

Could you paste some onto here please?

I don't do Twitter so can't see them.

[petehinton]

6 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Could you paste some onto here please?

I don't do Twitter so can't see them.

 

[BS3 Ark at Ee]

One of their posters claims we’ve stagnated in the championship and only get crowds of 12-15,000 these days  That’s odd considering we’ve got just shy of 15,000 season ticket holders!

Edited August 15, 2023 by BS3 Ark at Ee

[Leveller]

2 minutes ago, BS3 Ark at Ee said:

One of their posters claims we’ve stagnated in the championship and only get crowds of 12-15,000 these days  That’s odd considering we’ve got just shy of 15,000 season ticket holders!

This is the old argument about tickets sold v. actual bums on seats.

[Open End Numb Legs]

Thanks for the Twitter pastes.

You can understand the frustration from the average fans who pay good money when times are hard and expect better. Success on the pitch is never easy, treating your fanbase with respect can be planned for.

[Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan]

44 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Could you paste some onto here please?

I don't do Twitter so can't see them.

 

8 minutes ago, BS3 Ark at Ee said:

One of their posters claims we’ve stagnated in the championship and only get crowds of 12-15,000 these days  That’s odd considering we’ve got just shy of 15,000 season ticket holders!

Eh? 

[LilRascal]

 

Maybe stream the urinals through to the Fanta taps? 

[Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan]

13 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

Thanks for the Twitter pastes.

You can understand the frustration from the average fans who pay good money when times are hard and expect better. Success on the pitch is never easy, treating your fanbase with respect can be planned for.

They've got the club their supporters deserve.

[Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan]

15 minutes ago, Leveller said:

This is the old argument about tickets sold v. actual bums on seats.

Our attendances and theirs are calculated on tickets sold. As we’ve seen often especially at certain times of the year (ie Summer Holidays, Christmas) not everyone who has a ST will be there.

To suggest that we only get, on average, 12-15k though is rubbish. 

They love to point out that we are merely ‘treading water’ in the Championship but would they get the sort of crowds we get if they were in the bottom 10 in this division for the best part of 3 years? No chance.

 

 

[BS3 Ark at Ee]

It’s the same for every club. So if their average attendance is 8,500 then we can claim they get about 5,500 that actually attend then

[BS3 Ark at Ee]

They just love to pluck random figures out the sky and claim it as fact,

[Monkeh]

1 hour ago, petehinton said:

 

Fair play to those, the gas are normally blowing smoke up the clubs ass, more and more are starting to see them for what they actually are

[phantom]

I had to laugh at this line from the following report 

Huge support for Bristol Rovers plan as new stand becomes a political football - Bristol Live (bristolpost.co.uk)

And a post from Bristol Labour claimed: “3,500 Gasheads missed today's game without the new stand at the Mem, and so local businesses lost out too #GreenPartyDelays must end – they should stop holding up Bristol Rovers’ planning application, like they did did with the UWE Stadium.”

[Red Army 75]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/huge-support-bristol-rovers-plan-8677192
 

Huge support. Nothing like blowing it out of proportion, well it is the post I suppose.

 

[Rudolf Hucker]

1 hour ago, LilRascal said:

Joey's already working on a plan whereby only subscribers to his website can use the toilets.

[Open End Numb Legs]

 

'....... the usual chorus of Goodnight Irene will be replaced by an eerie silence......'

Well, that's an upgrade I suppose.

[Bristol Rob]

https://bristolian.org/explanations/bristol_rovers

 

[chinapig]

16 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

https://bristolian.org/explanations/bristol_rovers

 

How long before Gasheads claim that the Green Party has been infiltrated by Teds?

 

[pommers65]

Just now, chinapig said:

How long before Gasheads claim that the Green Party has been infiltrated by Teds?

 

Not Long..

[bcfc01]

18 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

https://bristolian.org/explanations/bristol_rovers

 

Its posted on their "forum" and getting a bit of support along with the usual bile.

 

[bcfc01]

Are the 2015 Fewers revolting ? (yes, I know they are, but you know what I mean);

"If I recall correctly, when the South Stand proposals were originally announced TG stated that they were aware that the lead times were tight and there was risk it would not be ready "for the start of the season". However, he also stated there were contingency plans should it not prove achievable. Well apart from asking the league to give us away fixtures to start the season (and presumably later asking Barnsley to switch) what happened to those contingency plans?"

"He also stood at the fixture release breakfast and told fans to their face that everything was on course and not to listen to the “media”.