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Post by rememberhalifax on Nov 21, 2018 16:02:56 GMT
Yea, much rather UWE built and we were playing in the conference or lower, sure we all feel the same !!
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Post by Topper Gas on Nov 21, 2018 16:15:35 GMT
Being a National league side is not really relevant to what ground you play at as Barnet's owner has ploughed £60m into the club, I sense it's just our luck we never seem to have owners who want to throw money at the club. Although all this feeling sorry for ourselves is all a bit sad, particularly given that not long ago we had travel to Bath to watch us play a home game.
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Post by althepirate on Nov 21, 2018 16:16:32 GMT
Disgrace that tonight we are playing a non league team that have a better Stadium than us, and if we beat them we face another even lower non league team with a better Stadium as well. Totally agree - but frankly I've given up caring anymore. For the first time I will not be renewing my season ticket next season if this lot are still in charge. So you don't care about Bristol Rovers you only care about the owners? Well as usual the strong supporters will keep us going and when we get better you can come back. If we all did what you propose to do there won't be a Bristol Rovers to come back to.
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Post by axegas on Nov 21, 2018 16:36:16 GMT
Being a National league side is not really relevant to what ground you play at as Barnet's owner has ploughed £60m into the club, I sense it's just our luck we never seem to have owners who want to throw money at the club. Although all this feeling sorry for ourselves is all a bit sad, particularly given that not long ago we had travel to Bath to watch us play a home game. £60m are you sure? Seems a lot for a club that have temporary stands on 3 sides and play in the national league.
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Post by axegas on Nov 21, 2018 16:46:41 GMT
These doom and gloom threads are getting rather tedious I must say. Let us stop feeling sorry for ourselves and do the one thing we can do as supporters which is get behind the players and the manager. We need to believe collectively as a football club that we can achieve survival this season and that we have every chance of going on a cup run. Yeah, the trouble is we're in this 'we shouldn't even be in this place' place. If we'd just got to the Championship then everyone would be ready to hit the ground running and support us through an obvious relegation battle, and no matter how many we'd be losing by, everyone would be up for it. While we arse about at say below halfway to 20th in League 1, people can't make up their mind whether to moan about an averagely poor season, or to really get their relegation struggle boots on. That's part of the reason we got relegated to the conference, imo, no one really believed we were in a relegation struggle until just before the Wycombe game, and then once we won that, no one really believed we'd go down. A lot of the people that stand around me at matches seem to be resigned to relegation this season which I think is strange considering we haven’t spent much time in the relegation zone and there is a lot of the season left to played. I think it’s mainly due to the sudden downturn in our home form that is influencing most people’s opinions, they can only see what is in front of them and to go from one of the best home records in the league to 6 defeats in 9 this season seems to have convinced most that we will struggle to survive. We’re not sleepwalking towards relegation this time, we seem to be have almost been consigned to it by a section of supporters and that to me is even worse. I want to see this can do attitude return to us and a belief that we are better than what we are performing at the moment but this will only happen once we get a couple of home wins under our belt and with Barnet and Gillingham being the next two visitors to the mem there is no better time to do it.
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Post by blueridge on Nov 21, 2018 16:55:34 GMT
Totally agree - but frankly I've given up caring anymore. For the first time I will not be renewing my season ticket next season if this lot are still in charge. So you don't care about Bristol Rovers you only care about the owners? Well as usual the strong supporters will keep us going and when we get better you can come back. If we all did what you propose to do there won't be a Bristol Rovers to come back to. Thanks for the invite to come back - I've been coming back for well over sixty years but I wont be coming back as a season ticket holder next season. And until these current owners are gone I wont be renewing.
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Post by pirate on Nov 21, 2018 16:56:37 GMT
Being a National league side is not really relevant to what ground you play at as Barnet's owner has ploughed £60m into the club, I sense it's just our luck we never seem to have owners who want to throw money at the club. Although all this feeling sorry for ourselves is all a bit sad, particularly given that not long ago we had travel to Bath to watch us play a home game. £60m are you sure? Seems a lot for a club that have temporary stands on 3 sides and play in the national league. According to wiki, The Hive facility has apparently cost Barnet/Tony Kleanthous upwards of at least £49m. The 44-acre initial site cost totalled £11 million (£6m funded by Barnet), consisting of several astroturf pitches, 10 grass pitches, 14 dressing rooms, physiotherapy rooms and meeting rooms. He has subsequently invested a further £26 million to turn the site into an Internationally recognised world class sports training and medical sports science facility and partnered with Toshiba Medical Systems to form the first medical imaging academy in the UK. The site has hosted international teams from Brazil, Germany, Peru, Sweden and many other premier overseas clubs. Development is ongoing with the announcement in November 2017 of two further planning applications for an Academy, Indoor Hall, stadium expansion and two level parking costing £17m. Edit: How much of that Kleanthous has personally funded I'm not sure.
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Post by turdburger on Nov 21, 2018 17:08:45 GMT
by end of feb we will have new owners, uwe will be announced. heard it here 101st🙃
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Post by wysemangas on Nov 21, 2018 17:11:31 GMT
Are the we the most patient supporters in the country who are able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or deathly silence without becoming annoyed. We are, it would appear sleepwalking into a distinct possibility of relegation or a lot worse I am now at the end of the road with no feedback, no nothing from our owner/s who I believe are taking the p**s out of us all.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Nov 21, 2018 17:17:52 GMT
we’re not sleepwalking towards relegation this time, we seem to be have almost been consigned to it by a section of supporters and that to me is even worse. Because we’re so incapable of scoring up front. Which is a shame, as we’ve sorted our defence for the first time since we’ve been back in League One and have some tidy tidy players in Sercombe and on paper players like Upson. If we could score we’d be looking towards the top end I reckon.
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Post by axegas on Nov 21, 2018 17:44:52 GMT
we’re not sleepwalking towards relegation this time, we seem to be have almost been consigned to it by a section of supporters and that to me is even worse. Because we’re so incapable of scoring up front. Which is a shame, as we’ve sorted our defence for the first time since we’ve been back in League One and have some tidy tidy players in Sercombe and on paper players like Upson. If we could score we’d be looking towards the top end I reckon. Yep, I would agree with that.
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Post by bluestone on Nov 21, 2018 18:00:06 GMT
Yawn
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Post by bluedave on Nov 21, 2018 18:00:42 GMT
Totally agree - but frankly I've given up caring anymore. For the first time I will not be renewing my season ticket next season if this lot are still in charge. Yep, that's about how I feel too mate. I felt more enthusiasm for the future of the club with Higgs in charge than I do with the disingenuous cowardly fakes that we have now. I feel the same ,dejected,no hope for the future,relegation a near certainty enough is enough,gutted. Half the ground shut again tonight so I won’t be going again.
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Post by syg on Nov 21, 2018 18:06:37 GMT
I hate to think what some of you were like when we were in the conference.
I dont think any aspect of the club is worse than it was then
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Post by Windmill Hill Gas on Nov 21, 2018 18:12:57 GMT
Granted our ground is a bit sh**, but Barnet's is tiny and Stockport's probably hasn't seen any investment since they were in the league so not a great example!
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Post by midlandgas213 on Nov 21, 2018 18:34:11 GMT
Rather be in league one with a crap ground than be in barnet/stockports league with a nice ground any day. Totally agree but the way we are going under DC we will be in their league with a crap ground as you put it (just to be clear I like the mem )
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Post by Icegas on Nov 21, 2018 18:37:48 GMT
Nither ground is really better then the Mem.
Stockport have one massive new stand thats been up in there championship days 20 years ago.And Barnets is new but its a modern day mangotsfield ground or the new Dings stadium.
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Post by socrates on Nov 21, 2018 19:10:17 GMT
So you don't care about Bristol Rovers you only care about the owners? Well as usual the strong supporters will keep us going and when we get better you can come back. If we all did what you propose to do there won't be a Bristol Rovers to come back to. Thanks for the invite to come back - I've been coming back for well over sixty years but I wont be coming back as a season ticket holder next season. And until these current owners are gone I wont be renewing. Weve always sold our best players and then had to replace them with free transfers or cheap buys. I don’t think this board are any worse for our club than the last lot or many boards before. As supporters were unlucky at the moment that the new players we’ve signed haven’t made as much of an impact as the free signings and cheap buys from the past such as lambert Taylor monkhouse and Bodin but I really don’t blame the board for that. If they’d gelled and we were top half then the board would still be reasonably popular and before anyone says UWE that wasn’t their project it was a project from the last board which nearly bankrupted us and did take us to the conference. The training ground ? Well we didn’t have a new one before they arrived we still haven’t now so it’s not like they’ve taken one away from us. A pipe dream from a useless chairman who had made his money from construction and was determined to build us a new stadium regardless of anything else it seems. I don’t know if our playing wage budget this season is higher, lower or the same as last season but I imagine it’s around the same or higher considering the amount of players we’ve signed too. Other than going very quiet this last year it’s hard for me to really point the finger at our board and say they’ve done anything wrong. It’s a results business and our results have been poor this season but I blame tactics and players not being right for those tactics or perhaps they aren’t good enough but the board ? No worse than anything in my life time.
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Post by socrates on Nov 21, 2018 19:23:53 GMT
Disgrace that tonight we are playing a non league team that have a better Stadium than us, and if we beat them we face another even lower non league team with a better Stadium as well. We’ve had a terrible ground since 1986. In fact the Mems a better ground now than it’s ever been and obviously better than Twerton so we’ve actually got a better ground than at any time in the last 32 years.
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Post by chilly1883 on Nov 21, 2018 20:06:21 GMT
Disgrace that tonight we are playing a non league team that have a better Stadium than us, and if we beat them we face another even lower non league team with a better Stadium as well. We’ve had a terrible ground since 1986. In fact the Mems a better ground now than it’s ever been and obviously better than Twerton so we’ve actually got a better ground than at any time in the last 32 years. sorry if I’m missing something, but eastville was a sh** hole too
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