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Post by aghast on Jan 28, 2019 23:14:05 GMT
You don’t know until you put us up for sale. How do you sell your car or house? Got to advertise the thing, give it a little spruce up (signings to keep us up) Because people are queuing up to takeover a club losing millions a season! If it wasn't Rovers, would you be interested?? When you could go for a club with a decent stadium and facilities already in place. The amount they could buy another club for, would be no way near how much it would cost to sort us out. Which makes the Al-Qadi's refusal to back down on wanting all the UWE revenues and land look like a terrible mistake. |
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Post by daniel300380 on Jan 28, 2019 23:37:56 GMT
Because people are queuing up to takeover a club losing millions a season! If it wasn't Rovers, would you be interested?? When you could go for a club with a decent stadium and facilities already in place. The amount they could buy another club for, would be no way near how much it would cost to sort us out. Which makes the Al-Qadi's refusal to back down on wanting all the UWE revenues and land look like a terrible mistake. Not if they are still planning to build elsewhere. |
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Post by singupgas on Jan 29, 2019 0:21:27 GMT
Which makes the Al-Qadi's refusal to back down on wanting all the UWE revenues and land look like a terrible mistake. Not if they are still planning to build elsewhere. *Facepalm* they aren't doing anything. We will be in ramshackle tents in 10 years. |
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Post by Okebournegas on Jan 29, 2019 0:26:27 GMT
Which makes the Al-Qadi's refusal to back down on wanting all the UWE revenues and land look like a terrible mistake. Not if they are still planning to build elsewhere. I admire your optimism, I genuinely do. |
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Post by Henbury Gas on Jan 29, 2019 0:37:07 GMT
With all the cost cutting going on in and around the club, they must be planning for a Div 2 existence or they are trying to make the club look better financially to prospective new owners.
At the moment it looks like the former but i hope for the latter
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Post by daniel300380 on Jan 29, 2019 0:43:36 GMT
Not if they are still planning to build elsewhere. I admire your optimism, I genuinely do. Didn't say I was optimistic. Fact is we don't know what they are doing. So they could still be working on alternative sites. If they are not, why did they raise the budget this season, why appoint a CEO etc. Things like that, mean I'm still 50/50. Even DC said the other day that have been trying, but so far it's not come off. |
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Post by daniel300380 on Jan 29, 2019 0:45:50 GMT
With all the cost cutting going on in and around the club, they must be planning for a Div 2 existence or they are trying to make the club look better financially to prospective new owners. At the moment it looks like the former but i hope for the latter What cost cutting. Budget went up this season, plus we brought in a CEO at extra cost. GC will decide on the development squad, if he wants to take the money from that and put it into the first team. So that's moving the budget, not cutting it??? Unless you know different?? |
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Post by swissgas on Jan 29, 2019 1:24:02 GMT
With all the cost cutting going on in and around the club, they must be planning for a Div 2 existence or they are trying to make the club look better financially to prospective new owners. At the moment it looks like the former but i hope for the latter What cost cutting. Budget went up this season, plus we brought in a CEO at extra cost. GC will decide on the development squad, if he wants to take the money from that and put it into the first team. So that's moving the budget, not cutting it??? Unless you know different?? Steve Brookfield the Finance Director left in June last year just before Martyn Starnes came in so we have replaced a Finance Director with a CEO who also happens to be an accountant. Given the circumstances that change is unlikely to have incurred extra cost for Rovers. Darrell Clarke often spoke well of Steve Brookfield and it is disappointing that he was allowed to leave without any announcement from the club or acknowledgement of his service. |
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Post by Severncider on Jan 29, 2019 1:44:39 GMT
3rd January 2018: Dwane Sports are pleased to announce that Evans Jones Chartered Surveyors and Planning Consultants of Cheltenham have been appointed as manager to oversee the development of The Colony training facilities. 28th January 2019: .... This tells me enough to have little or no confidence in our owners to successfully run our club. My understanding is that we no longer employ them, I could of course be wrong.  A question for the Chairman or the CEO? |
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jan 29, 2019 5:47:43 GMT
They're trying to "produce" a flop??? Maybe we need to change our club song to "Springtime for Hitler in Germany" ?
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Post by Henbury Gas on Jan 29, 2019 6:43:56 GMT
With all the cost cutting going on in and around the club, they must be planning for a Div 2 existence or they are trying to make the club look better financially to prospective new owners. At the moment it looks like the former but i hope for the latter What cost cutting. Budget went up this season, plus we brought in a CEO at extra cost. GC will decide on the development squad, if he wants to take the money from that and put it into the first team. So that's moving the budget, not cutting it??? Unless you know different?? DC & MS wage bill for starters Some of the duplicate backroom staff not having their contracts renewed No new Kit for the development squad Development squad being cut next year Development Squad + Under 21's training together Players being released and not replaced (so far) On the upside we are looking for more scouting staff |
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Post by gashead1981 on Jan 29, 2019 6:49:09 GMT
Which makes the Al-Qadi's refusal to back down on wanting all the UWE revenues and land look like a terrible mistake. Not if they are still planning to build elsewhere. Please tell me you didn’t fall for that...?? |
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Post by worrelsterlingalbion on Jan 29, 2019 7:40:29 GMT
What cost cutting. Budget went up this season, plus we brought in a CEO at extra cost. GC will decide on the development squad, if he wants to take the money from that and put it into the first team. So that's moving the budget, not cutting it??? Unless you know different?? DC & MS wage bill for starters Some of the duplicate backroom staff not having their contracts renewed No new Kit for the development squad Development squad being cut next year Development Squad + Under 21's training together Players being released and not replaced (so far) On the upside we are looking for more scouting staff Re the Dev squad do you know if this is definitely being cut ? Not disbelieving you but Wael made a big thing of producing our own players as part of the evolution line. IMO we'd be better off with a smaller 1st team squad supplemented by our own youngsters but what do I know ? The owners seem to have a very different take on what evolution means !! |
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Post by Jomo on Jan 29, 2019 7:47:22 GMT
3rd January 2018: Dwane Sports are pleased to announce that Evans Jones Chartered Surveyors and Planning Consultants of Cheltenham have been appointed as manager to oversee the development of The Colony training facilities. 28th January 2019: .... This tells me enough to have little or no confidence in our owners to successfully run our club. My understanding is that we no longer employ them, I could of course be wrong. A question for the Chairman or the CEO? Would be a good question of course, can you please ask them the next time you're in the corridors of power and report back to us? |
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 29, 2019 8:18:47 GMT
What cost cutting. Budget went up this season, plus we brought in a CEO at extra cost. GC will decide on the development squad, if he wants to take the money from that and put it into the first team. So that's moving the budget, not cutting it??? Unless you know different??
Some of the duplicate backroom staff not having their contracts renewed No new Kit for the development squad Development squad being cut next year Development Squad + Under 21's training together Players being released and not replaced (so far) On the upside we are looking for more scouting staff From memory only Broadbent of the 1st team squad has left and he wanted to leave? DC & MS leaving was hardly a cost cutting exercise, plus we've probably had to pay DC some compo for his 5 year contract etc so it's actually cost us more in the short term. |
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Post by Henbury Gas on Jan 29, 2019 8:21:29 GMT
DC & MS wage bill for starters Some of the duplicate backroom staff not having their contracts renewed No new Kit for the development squad Development squad being cut next year Development Squad + Under 21's training together Players being released and not replaced (so far) On the upside we are looking for more scouting staff Re the Dev squad do you know if this is definitely being cut ? Not disbelieving you but Wael made a big thing of producing our own players as part of the evolution line. IMO we'd be better off with a smaller 1st team squad supplemented by our own youngsters but what do I know ? The owners seem to have a very different take on what evolution means !! spoke to one of the development coaches and they painted a grim picture... can only take that at face value. |
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Jan 29, 2019 8:44:46 GMT
Re the Dev squad do you know if this is definitely being cut ? Not disbelieving you but Wael made a big thing of producing our own players as part of the evolution line. IMO we'd be better off with a smaller 1st team squad supplemented by our own youngsters but what do I know ? The owners seem to have a very different take on what evolution means !! spoke to one of the development coaches and they painted a grim picture... can only take that at face value. What did they say, then? Or did they say 'I paint a grim picture.' |
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Post by Okebournegas on Jan 29, 2019 8:51:01 GMT
spoke to one of the development coaches and they painted a grim picture... can only take that at face value. What did they say, then? Or did they say 'I paint a grim picture.' 😂😂😂😂whilst saying it with a sad face , you know , like the mail online chav sad face when a parent is asked to stop wearing their pyjamas whilst dropping their kids off in the school playground 😂😂😂 |
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Post by daniel300380 on Jan 29, 2019 11:03:48 GMT
Not if they are still planning to build elsewhere. Please tell me you didn’t fall for that...?? No that's why I'm 50/50. The stuff they have done does not add up, to them not being interested IMO. Fact is no one knows. Although according to most fans on here, because they don't know, that is good enough to mean nothing is happening lol. |
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