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Post by chewbacca on Apr 23, 2024 22:07:21 GMT
I’ve been told that [redacted by mods, please think about what you’re posting].
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 23, 2024 13:53:32 GMT
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 23, 2024 9:49:57 GMT
If the prem clubs in Europe are upset playing too many games in the domestic cups then all the efl clubs should agree on not taking any of their players on loan. Let them stockpile,pay them stupid wages to sit around or send them off to some minor league abroad. For clarity Bristol Rovers have had 12 loans from Premier League clubs in the last 3 seasons (Lamare Bogarde twice).
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 23, 2024 9:35:29 GMT
I mean it's hardly surprising, works in all fields of work. People tend to enjoy working with people they've worked with previously. Pretty much every manager post-Conference relegation has done it or tried to do it... Which is fine because most of them have still brought in other decent players that they had never worked with before. With the exception of Tisdale of course, who spent the one window he had only trying (and failing) to bring in players who he had worked with before! That and the fella who signed some crocks who shared his agent.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 23, 2024 9:24:16 GMT
It feels like managers can’t seem to bring in many players that they haven’t already worked with. I mean it's hardly surprising, works in all fields of work. People tend to enjoy working with people they've worked with previously. Pretty much every manager post-Conference relegation has done it or tried to do it...
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 23, 2024 8:50:15 GMT
Bit weird giving out a Golden Boot award with a game to go, are the club ruling out Best Newcomer Jevani Brown from scoring 15 in the last game?!
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 23, 2024 8:39:34 GMT
Sounds familiar.
Rovers were at this point in 2011 announcing plans at UWE. Not much difference in the artists impression, but shows how inflation works.
Rovers: 20,000 for £40m Oxford: 16,000 for £100m
Thankfully the last fella didn't waste 7 years mucking about!
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 23, 2024 7:59:42 GMT
It's been an interesting piece of news this. Most clubs who have written statements have made a point about the financial aspect rather than sporting ones. Unfortunately that is the nature of the game now. Of course FA Cup replays shouldn't be pied off but the reasoning by many EFL clubs is both lazy and selfish.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 22, 2024 19:39:14 GMT
The big screen will be displayed at the training ground next to the Covid Season Ticket Holders Board.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 22, 2024 16:11:43 GMT
Wael has just posted. Goodbye, good luck & thank you Why is it so hard for the club to communicate through official channels? Why is it always messages or tweets from Wael, or dm's with Tom Gorringe. Does my head in. Side note thank you Sam for all of your efforts in the quarters. One thing that could never be questioned is his commitment. If the President can get some attention, he will.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 22, 2024 10:43:08 GMT
Tom Lockyer announced he was leaving prior to our last game of the season in 2018/19, I see this as similar. Again that wasn’t the club with Tom, but GT. With Sam, this is (presumably) his decision to go public for his own reasons, at which point it Wael did the right thing and acknowledged (and if he didn’t reply he’d be criticised too!) I guess if he’s injured it might simply be him marking his last time with the group all together at a match. Simple as that Yep! I think people are just getting their knickers in a twist over something minor. In due course I'm sure the right thing will be done.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 22, 2024 10:04:12 GMT
Each year we have out of contract players that leave, and likely know in advance they are off, yet the club wait until after the season ends to announce departures. How people can say the club not announcing Sam’s departure with two games left to go as poor form is beyond me. He’s been a good servant and I wish him all the best, but to make out that we (or he) has been robbed of a grand farewell is a bit much in my opinion Fair comment. But it is also a bit strange that he has done his farewells to the club before the season has ended and the retained list being announced along with the good bye and thank you post from Wael. Perhaps it isn't poor form from the club but it is odd that they have gone away from the norm for him. Tom Lockyer announced he was leaving prior to our last game of the season in 2018/19, I see this as similar.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 22, 2024 9:30:38 GMT
Only went to one game, so it's Bristol Rovers WFC.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 22, 2024 9:27:31 GMT
Each year we have out of contract players that leave, and likely know in advance they are off, yet the club wait until after the season ends to announce departures. How people can say the club not announcing Sam’s departure with two games left to go as poor form is beyond me. He’s been a good servant and I wish him all the best, but to make out that we (or he) has been robbed of a grand farewell is a bit much in my opinion Just to back this up; 2022/23 Season End 07/05/2023 2022/23 Retained List 20/05/20232021/22 Season End 07/05/2022 2021/22 Retained List 19/05/2022
2020/21 Season End 09/05/2021 2020/21 Retained List 13/05/2021
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 18, 2024 21:39:09 GMT
- The Small Stand at Twerton was part paid for by insurance from the Grand Stand arson. - The North Stand at Eastville was part paid for by the Supporters Club. - The Thatchers End and Family Stand roofs were paid for solely by supporters, as were our floodlights. Neither roofs are permanent structures and were originally intended to have a life of around 10 years. If you do not own a ground for 57 years, you can consider building one yourself. So TG is the only CEO who's managed to get a stand built in the last 50+ years? Its not permanent. Every single board bar Dunford Snr has been useless
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 18, 2024 13:21:29 GMT
- The Small Stand at Twerton was part paid for by insurance from the Grand Stand arson. - The North Stand at Eastville was part paid for by the Supporters Club. - The Thatchers End and Family Stand roofs were paid for solely by supporters, as were our floodlights. Neither roofs are permanent structures and were originally intended to have a life of around 10 years. If you do not own a ground for 57 years, you can consider building one yourself. I thought that the small stand at Twerton Park was mainly paid for by a grant from the Football League/FA - Rovers were able to access grants which were not available to Bath City. I was under the impression it was helped by an insurance pay out, either way that's not the club paying
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 18, 2024 12:56:18 GMT
Not true is it really ..... Small stand at Twerton was paid for by Rovers, even though we were only tenants. It is still there despite Rovers wanting to try moving it when we left. Clearly we had a big part in the North Stand at Eastville as it was largely built as a result of success for Rovers on the field and funded by the supporters club I believe. We obviously also built the roof over the Thatchers End and the Family enclosure which are also permanent structures. Accept again funding came from 50-50 etc but ultimately they were football club projects. We did not own Eastville after the 1930s or Twerton or the Mem at the start. Would you build an extension on a house if you only rented it ? - The Small Stand at Twerton was part paid for by insurance from the Grand Stand arson. - The North Stand at Eastville was part paid for by the Supporters Club. - The Thatchers End and Family Stand roofs were paid for solely by supporters, as were our floodlights. Neither roofs are permanent structures and were originally intended to have a life of around 10 years. If you do not own a ground for 57 years, you can consider building one yourself.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 18, 2024 10:54:36 GMT
I'd like to actually know what "Grassroots Football" is, in my opinion very few if any grassroots clubs have made the first round proper. Tier 9 and below ? It's an interesting question because that level had and continues to have some big, big clubs in. It just seems like the FA throw the word "Grassroots" about any football bellow the national league which, it isn't at all.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 18, 2024 10:31:50 GMT
Not sure about the "increase support for grassroots football" tagline.. surely if scrapping replays helped at grassroots level they would be scrapping them below 1st round proper. Just pandering to whiny Premier League teams AGAIN and it's the lower or non league clubs that will suffer AGAIN I'd like to actually know what "Grassroots Football" is, in my opinion very few if any grassroots clubs have made the first round proper.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 18, 2024 9:54:57 GMT
It was under construction when we moved in and I assume paid for by Bristol Rugby? It was, yes. The last time the Football Club paid for a new permeant structure by itself was the Tote End in 1935.
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