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Post by Cantankerous Gas on Feb 25, 2016 8:42:31 GMT
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Feb 25, 2016 8:46:48 GMT
He is certainly raising our national profile, I'll give him that.
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Post by Henbury Gas on Feb 25, 2016 8:48:03 GMT
Still nothing "concrete" about UWE yet.....
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 25, 2016 8:50:11 GMT
CG I'm a bit disappointed in your thread title as surely this is a better one from The Times "The role of Bristol Rovers in deciding the future of football around the world" the OTIB willlove this (not!)
I agree it would be great if somebody can post the full article on the forum
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Post by Big Jock on Feb 25, 2016 8:50:13 GMT
He is certainly raising our national profile, I'll give him that. Dinnae know aboot you but he's raising a hole lot mare here!! |
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Post by RD on Feb 25, 2016 8:51:41 GMT
He is certainly raising our national profile, I'll give him that. Remember a few years back when, in the space of what seemed like a few weeks, Rovers were used by several different managers in uncomplimentary scenarios? Someone said something like "it was so bad, it was like watching Bristol Rovers" - and he was the manager of a Scottish team or something like that (no it wasn't Mark McGhee  ) Then there were one or two articles that randomly had a dig at us too. Crazy to think how it could all change over the coming years. Maybe one day, my son who is due any day will actually be called a "glory supporter" - Imagine that!!!!! |
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Post by RD on Feb 25, 2016 8:52:28 GMT
CG I'm a bit disappointed in your thread title as surely this is a better one from The Times "The role of Bristol Rovers in deciding the future of football around the world" the OTIB willlove this (not!) I agree it would be great if somebody can post the full article on the forum Is that really the title?!?!? Hahaha that's absolutely awesome! The Teds will love that! hahahahaha |
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Post by Big Jock on Feb 25, 2016 8:52:33 GMT
CG I'm a bit disappointed in your thread title as surely this is a better one from The Times "The role of Bristol Rovers in deciding the future of football around the world" the OTIB willlove this (not!) I agree it would be great if somebody can post the full article on the forum Why do peeps keep banging oan aboot City an OTIB? |
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Feb 25, 2016 8:53:20 GMT
He is certainly raising our national profile, I'll give him that. Remember a few years back when, in the space of what seemed like a few weeks, Rovers were used by several different managers in uncomplimentary scenarios? Someone said something like "it was so bad, it was like watching Bristol Rovers" - and he was the manager of a Scottish team or something like that (no it wasn't Mark McGhee ) Then there were one or two articles that randomly had a dig at us too. Crazy to think how it could all change over the coming years. Maybe one day, my son who is due any day will actually be called a "glory supporter" - Imagine that!!!!! Yeah, its odd to think my boy may only know good times. Actually, its bizarre..... Wow. |
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Post by RD on Feb 25, 2016 8:53:54 GMT
CG I'm a bit disappointed in your thread title as surely this is a better one from The Times "The role of Bristol Rovers in deciding the future of football around the world" the OTIB willlove this (not!) I agree it would be great if somebody can post the full article on the forum Why do peeps keep banging oan aboot City an OTIB? Ummmmm because they are f**king MASSIVE obviously. Duuuh |
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Post by xplosivgas on Feb 25, 2016 8:54:54 GMT
While '21700 may be more' sounds exciting at first glance, increasing the capacity would mean revising the plans (and presumably the planning permission) which will just delay things further. Surely get the thing built ASAP as per the plan and worry about the rest if we're ever selling out several times a season! The current plans allow for expansion anyway I seem to recall.,,
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Post by xplosivgas on Feb 25, 2016 8:58:31 GMT
CG I'm a bit disappointed in your thread title as surely this is a better one from The Times "The role of Bristol Rovers in deciding the future of football around the world" the OTIB willlove this (not!) I agree it would be great if somebody can post the full article on the forum Is that really the title?!?!? Hahaha that's absolutely awesome! The Teds will love that! hahahahaha I suspect the only point they'll pick up on is his playing down of the 'billionaire' tag! |
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Post by HarryBayles on Feb 25, 2016 9:01:32 GMT
Al-Qadi also played down speculation over his wealth, when telling the paper: "This 'billionaire' tag I have is a misunderstanding. Somebody just labelled me that.
So just an ordinary millionaire then..
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Post by simon1883 on Feb 25, 2016 9:03:56 GMT
Remember a few years back when, in the space of what seemed like a few weeks, Rovers were used by several different managers in uncomplimentary scenarios? Someone said something like "it was so bad, it was like watching Bristol Rovers" - and he was the manager of a Scottish team or something like that (no it wasn't Mark McGhee ) Then there were one or two articles that randomly had a dig at us too. Crazy to think how it could all change over the coming years. Maybe one day, my son who is due any day will actually be called a "glory supporter" - Imagine that!!!!! Yeah, its odd to think my boy may only know good times. Actually, its bizarre..... Wow. You should ensure that he is fully briefed on all the bad times... We could hold a session in the South Stand one week |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 9:08:04 GMT
Remember a few years back when, in the space of what seemed like a few weeks, Rovers were used by several different managers in uncomplimentary scenarios? Someone said something like "it was so bad, it was like watching Bristol Rovers" - and he was the manager of a Scottish team or something like that (no it wasn't Mark McGhee ) Then there were one or two articles that randomly had a dig at us too. Crazy to think how it could all change over the coming years. Maybe one day, my son who is due any day will actually be called a "glory supporter" - Imagine that!!!!! Yeah, its odd to think my boy may only know good times. Actually, its bizarre..... Wow. But will it make him a 'real' supporter Hugo. To appreciate the good times, you first must have experienced the bad times, and by christ, we've certainly got that experience |
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Feb 25, 2016 9:09:17 GMT
Yeah, its odd to think my boy may only know good times. Actually, its bizarre..... Wow. But will it make him a 'real' supporter Hugo. To appreciate the good times, you first must have experienced the bad times, and by christ, we've certainly got that experience To be fair he was there at THAT Mansfield game. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 9:13:10 GMT
But will it make him a 'real' supporter Hugo. To appreciate the good times, you first must have experienced the bad times, and by christ, we've certainly got that experience To be fair he was there at THAT Mansfield game. Hopefuly, being young, he'll soon get over that particular mental scar. |
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Post by yattongas on Feb 25, 2016 9:16:59 GMT
While '21700 may be more' sounds exciting at first glance, increasing the capacity would mean revising the plans (and presumably the planning permission) which will just delay things further. Surely get the thing built ASAP as per the plan and worry about the rest if we're ever selling out several times a season! The current plans allow for expansion anyway I seem to recall.,, The plans are already in place aren't they? I thought Higgs said it was 21,700 but could increase to 27,000 (ish?) without further planning permission. It was also possible ( presumably with new planning permission ) to raise cacpacity to 35,000 by raising a roof here or there . its hard to remember now after all those yrs and various stadium Plans |
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Post by gasincider on Feb 25, 2016 9:18:45 GMT
While '21700 may be more' sounds exciting at first glance, increasing the capacity would mean revising the plans (and presumably the planning permission) which will just delay things further. Surely get the thing built ASAP as per the plan and worry about the rest if we're ever selling out several times a season! The current plans allow for expansion anyway I seem to recall.,, Actually, the capacity can be increased by an additional 5000 without the need for extra planning permission. There is room above the lower tier to put 5000 seats in , and as it would be purely internal, there would be no need for additional planning permission. This is already in the plans, and in fact was considered to be cheaper to put them in at once rather than have to call in construction gangs again to put them in. With regard to wealth, I've researched everywhere I can think of, and whilst the whole family is worth well over a billion, Wael is only a multi millionaire. Mind you, the purchase of our club is by the whole family, so strictly speaking our owners are billionaires. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 25, 2016 9:19:30 GMT
CG I'm a bit disappointed in your thread title as surely this is a better one from The Times "The role of Bristol Rovers in deciding the future of football around the world" the OTIB willlove this (not!) I agree it would be great if somebody can post the full article on the forum Why do peeps keep banging oan aboot City an OTIB? Because they just love posting stuff about us, even though we are apparently no longer their real rivals? |
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