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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 16, 2024 15:56:42 GMT
Should give them permission if they don’t already have it as the guy is sadly a liability. Red card and/or goal conceding error waiting to happen
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 15, 2024 10:28:37 GMT
No wonder they’re watered off but MT has done the right thing and they shouldn’t have committed to a southern team if they can’t hack the travel.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 14, 2024 22:20:48 GMT
I think so. I’m not convinced he’s actually injured.
He was playing with kids with the community trust the other day
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 14, 2024 16:38:18 GMT
It's pretty hard for him to win here really. He takes the time to engage with the fanbase and answer fan queries at all hours and gets criticised for not delegating. If it were the other way round he'd be smashed for being inaccessible and hiding away from the blowtorch of fan engagement. This has to be one of the oddest criticisms I've ever heard to be honest. Exactly Just think, one person on here thinks he is at fault for not delegating email queries to the catering people...what world do these people live in? If it relates to catering why ever not? If it relates to ticket mess ups, why not get Pete to deal with it? If there’s a mess up involving ticketing affecting hundreds or thousands of supporters why not send out a communication about what’s going to be done about it instead of replying individually to those who ask and letting everyone else guess as to what’s happening? That’s how healthy normal organisations operate.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 14, 2024 9:36:41 GMT
It has marketing managers, media managers, heads of HR, retail managers? They do? All stated in plural, do you know who these people are, their names perhaps? A lot of this is well documented. Retail manager is Pete Weymouth, also extending to ticketing. The head of HR who knows but the role exists - it’s infamous in relation to the JCH saga. Media manager of head of was posted on here when the role was filled. Go on LinkedIn and search for the club and you’ll find the names of individuals filling these or similarly named roles - dont think it’s necessary to actually name them here. Hardly ITK information that I’m making up. He’s not running the show on his own.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 14, 2024 8:30:53 GMT
It’s all well and good that TG replies to emails courteously at late times or when he’s on holiday but for those in senior positions in a workplace you have to ask if he should be answering those emails at all. Leaders need to know when to delegate in an effective organisation - if he can’t delegate appropriately is his organisation being effectively run? If he has that much correspondence should he have a PA to help handle it? Or should he be drafting wider comms to supporters instead of concentrating on sending similar replies to multiple supporters. Work smarter rather than harder. There are many issues around the club that have deserved attention. Ticketing fiascos, catering, other areas where the club don’t seem to be ticking as well as it should. I’d rather my CEO was focussing on the bigger picture than routine customer service. You think the club has that kind of people infrastructure in place? It has marketing managers, media managers, heads of HR, retail managers?
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 14, 2024 8:24:47 GMT
It’s all well and good that TG replies to emails courteously at late times or when he’s on holiday but for those in senior positions in a workplace you have to ask if he should be answering those emails at all.
Leaders need to know when to delegate in an effective organisation - if he can’t delegate appropriately is his organisation being effectively run? If he has that much correspondence should he have a PA to help handle it? Or should he be drafting wider comms to supporters instead of concentrating on sending similar replies to multiple supporters. Work smarter rather than harder.
There are many issues around the club that have deserved attention. Ticketing fiascos, catering, other areas where the club don’t seem to be ticking as well as it should. I’d rather my CEO was focussing on the bigger picture than routine customer service.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 13, 2024 13:05:06 GMT
Cox in goal.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 12, 2024 17:20:00 GMT
Do these accounts include any expenditure on getting the stadium up and running? Fruit market? South stand? I doubt we spent a great deal just attending meetings about the FM, as it doesn't sound like it got as far as drawing up plans etc? The costs of the new stand will be in next year's accounts. Although you have to assume they'll be covered by the £3m loan the club have taken out. The big concern is how much we've incurred on players wages and employing two sets of management/coaching staff. Wael was clearly spending well beyond his means and if the Al Saaeds hadn't come to his rescue, we could well have been heading for Admin once his money eventually ran out. Is that for sure? Or speculation? I’d have expected that the June 23 accounts included at the very least architects drawings and groundworks which I expect aren’t insignificant costs.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 12, 2024 16:33:06 GMT
Do these accounts include any expenditure on getting the stadium up and running? Fruit market? South stand?
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 12, 2024 16:32:17 GMT
Just remember this season a certain someone created our 'best ever' squad which included a fee for Connor Taylor. Don't think the fee for Aaron Collins will paper over many, it any, cracks. Scary thing is - these accounts relate to last season not this season. This is why I’m not too worried about a reduction in budget of 25%. We have clearly been living beyond our means
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 12, 2024 11:38:51 GMT
On the face of it it seems like the death knell to ifollow. Following the email yesterday/this morning (whenever it was) I have been doing some reading and thinking about it as I like the ifollow product.
However with some very crude maths approx 1800 games spread evenly across the 72 (which I know it won’t be) that makes 25 games a season per club broadcast. Split it 50/50 home and away and we’ll see about half of away games broadcast. If you think of it now that only evening games are shown or those on an international break, bank holiday or some other reason not on a Saturday then how many of those do we get in a season? Far less than 13.
So an ifollower should find it easier and cheaper, provided they have sky sports anyway, to watch the gas remotely next season for away games.
From the clubs perspective though that might be 13 odd games they don’t get a tenner for ifollow.
The rest you can “go on holiday” and see whilst you’re somewhere else. Same as you would do right now for a Saturday 3pm fixture.
edit: it’s 1,000+ so can pretty much split the maths in half. Don’t know where I got that from but either way probably not any different to todays situation.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 12, 2024 8:17:21 GMT
In time hopefully the south end will mainly be for away supporters and all the other stands will be done up to a decent standard, so we don’t have to worry about them seeing pillars which represent a massive improvement on away supporters stood on the East Stand open fully to the elements.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 12, 2024 8:11:25 GMT
Did I read somewhere Taylor bought the players a meal if we won and kept a clean sheet? Boy, they must have really hated that restaurant! Was it not £1k at Cheltenham? Ironically they achieved it at Orient and have gone missing ever since
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 11, 2024 19:32:24 GMT
The Al Saeeds weren’t responsible for anything to do with the South Stand or FM so let’s see what they come out with.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 11, 2024 15:18:17 GMT
6th April we announced the FM then the south stand on the 12th ish if I remember right. At the time it seemed like a simple temporary stand but looking back with what we know now it all seems a bit comical! I thought we announced that the FM was not happening. Not that it was. I agree with you about the South Stand but the announcement of the FM happening was much earlier surely? That was my point. UTG! www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2023/april/stadium-journey-begins/6th April including the video shared earlier 28th April it turns out for the south stand announcement www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2023/april/south-stand/But everyone seemed to know this was coming imminently at the time of the 6th April statement
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 11, 2024 8:04:42 GMT
Now would be a good time to throw a dead cat on the table. We were on 8 points from the previous 10 games when Wally and Tommy Gulag announced our move to the Fruit Market a year ago this week! You sure? UTG! 6th April we announced the FM then the south stand on the 12th ish if I remember right. At the time it seemed like a simple temporary stand but looking back with what we know now it all seems a bit comical!
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 10, 2024 20:01:03 GMT
Idea is to shut them up by turning up to play.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 9, 2024 21:16:20 GMT
When Coughlan left and we went into free fall after the appointment of Garner - we were told to give him chance to rebuild with a new philosophy in the summer. Remind me, did that go well??? Coughlans team were flying. Barton’s not so much. I didn’t agree with keeping Garner but I’d back Taylor with a summer.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 9, 2024 14:19:32 GMT
GC came in, kept us up with a small squad that ran through walls for him. He got us to 3rd in the league then weird sh** started happening. Look at the Liam Scales thread for a reminder of what went down behind the scenes. Then he left us for a club in the league below after supporters hounded him down every match despite us continually winning. It seems there was also disharmony with Widdrington behind the scenes. Whilst I completely believe the family argument I don’t think us as supporters nor the management behind the scenes helped the situation. I don't think we touched 3rd place until the infamous Ipswich(a) victory; after which he immediately announced he was leaving!! What a way to kill the buzz But he was a rather unlikeable character tho and I think a few things he said rubbed fans up the wrong way (remember his dismissive comments re: Chris Lines' milestone achievement etc?).. but phew can argue with the results he ground out. Big shoes to fill taking over from a fan favourite (and widely regarded now to be a club legend) in DC. Almost entirely opposing characters from the outside looking in. So he got us to 3rd then? Many may consider him unpleasant for the way he treated Chris Lines but no player is bigger than the club. Like him or loathe him GC got us results and was on track to get our best L1 result this decade when he left. Many players under him have gone to play for him since he left, Ollie Clarke, Rollin Menayese. Compared to JB, GC was a saint. Since then we had Garner who cleared the decks of anyone who cared and had any ability and replaced them with journeymen and dross from academies who would give us anyone they wanted off the books. Tisdale couldn’t get a tune out of them and then we were left with Barton.Who totally capitulated and dragged us to bottom of the table whilst blaming everyone but himself. He might be a good scout and Widdrington might be doing a job at Conference level but we’ve seen how they performed at l1 level. It wasn’t good enough. It’s not right the way he got rid of him with keepy ups and the club shouldn’t have allowed that but in getting rid of him I don’t think he necessarily did anything wrong. There should be no jobs for the boys at rovers and people need to earn their place. Earn your place by doing keepy-uppies in front of everyone? In the article (which is still up BTW) Jamie concedes that it was highly likely he would be replaced. Nobody would have complained or been surprised if he had just been thanked for his efforts and had his contract terminated. But for a young lad to be humiliated in front of players/staff like that is what has caused the outrage. " At that point though, as a change in management always brings, Hedges knew there was a risk of being replaced by someone Barton wanted to appoint himself. However, he would have never expected to see his time at the club end in the way that it did.
"I know there was a big battle for power at the time where Joey wanted to have control of everything," he adds. "I think he wanted to have control of everything while Tommy was still at the club in his position. He felt like he would be a block to getting what he wanted, I think.
"So without any real foundation or meaning, in my opinion, he had it out for Tommy at the start and because I was Tommy’s man, he had it out for me for no real reason. Anything I would have said or done would have been redundant because he had it out from the get-go, in my opinion, that I was not going to be required." It seems like Barton was angry and wanted to dish it out on someone he knew couldn't or wouldn't dish it back.. playground bully tactics. Similar tactics to ones he is deploying right now on twitter (orchestrating pile-ons to critics based on their appearance). Not going to disagree with any of that. My post did say it wasn’t the right way about going about doing it. I meant earning your place with results under the job you’re employed to do. My post was getting across that things weren’t and haven’t been right at the club for a long time and that for all his warts it was the right thing for JB to have a clear out. However with him gone we needed one again and we haven’t quite finished it yet IMO. Plenty of playing staff that need moving on and one or two behind the scenes as well as IMO the club is as poorly run as it was when Starnes was running the gaff.
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