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Post by dave1883gas on Jul 29, 2022 11:52:05 GMT
Ticket has now gone.
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Post by dave1883gas on Jul 29, 2022 11:10:20 GMT
Hi,
No problem and its yours if you want it. I don't want anything for it and would prefer another Gas Head makes use of it rather than it going to waste! Let me know if you want to collect from him (Downend) or if easier I can meet you somewhere outside the ground prior to kick off and hand it over.
If you want it send me a PM and we can arrange.
Dave
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Post by dave1883gas on Jul 29, 2022 8:41:36 GMT
I have 1 free spare ticket for tomorrow (FGR) in the Popular Insulation East Terrace (standing). If anyone would like it let me know. Its printed off with the bar code etc. so should be no worries with entry problems and e tickets! You can either collect from me (Downend) or I can meet you before the game somewhere and hand over. It would be a shame for it to go to waste given the capacity reduction. Dave
UTG.
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Post by dave1883gas on May 10, 2022 17:35:15 GMT
Here is one my lad put together.
Enjoy
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Post by dave1883gas on Feb 16, 2022 18:58:42 GMT
Sammy for me followed by Daggers game, mind you this seasons Oxford cup replay has had a few hits to! And one for Daggers vm.tiktok.com/ZML63CCkS/
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Post by dave1883gas on Feb 16, 2022 18:53:27 GMT
Sammy for me followed by Daggers game, mind you this seasons Oxford cup replay has had a few hits to! Here is an Oxford one my lad put together. vm.tiktok.com/ZML6cooh1/One of those rare and amazing games!
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Post by dave1883gas on Aug 20, 2021 16:12:15 GMT
That seem crystal clear to me! Not always a fan of the open letters but that one seems succinct and too the point. It seems like a sad state of affairs and the SC need a fresh approach with new leadership and date I say it some younger representation. Surely now is the time to form something new and different with a more wide ranging appeal to younger supporters. It seems to me that someone needs to grasp the undoubted passion that all sides have, draw a line under what has gone before and start afresh with a new more modern approach.
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Post by dave1883gas on Jun 26, 2021 16:12:38 GMT
I watched all the playoff games and thought Collins looked excellent for FGR. Very skill full and quite exciting player…. Have high hopes for him in the quarters.
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Post by dave1883gas on Jun 24, 2021 20:08:58 GMT
Life is about opinions and I respect all opinions. When I decided to put my name to something I did it knowing it would throw up varied opinions from those who know me who I hoped would understand to the majority of those who don’t who felt / feel I am a chancer, conman, fantasist etc. I felt the supporters deserved to know about another potential option given the amount of let downs we have had over the years. I have never said it involved new owners and I have certainly never promised anything other than the fact we very nearly had the main stakeholders at a table which involved land owner, developer, club and potential funders. In my opinion we couldn’t have really got any closer. That was the position after many months of communication with the club both verbally, virtually, written and face to face. So to get to that position we must either be very convincing fantasists, conmen, fame seekers etc. and the owner / club was taken in by us for a prolonged period of time (which would be a worry in itself) or we had something and for whatever reason it fell away at a crucial time. There are two sides to why the latter may have happened. Having taken stock of the situation it’s fair to say, like in many situations we would probably have done things differently and perhaps we made the mistake of thinking everyone at the club would be as positive as the owner was…. In my opinion that is probably the reason it came to an abrupt end. I am not a Wael basher and I think quite the opposite of him. From my experience he seems a very nice man and I have no doubt he has the best interests of the club in mind. That’s not to say I agree with everything he does and some of those he has appointed. After 5 years of ownership I had hoped for more. I would like to think if he was asked about me he wouldn’t think I was any of the things I have been called despite us disagreeing passionately about why the end of our communications happened. I have taken a massive step back and have certainly not got as involved, opinionated and passionate about the club as I was prior as I find it very frustrating and difficult to see us where we are now both on and off the pitch. I do however still want the club to progress and as I have said from the beginning….. nobody will be happier than me if and when the club announce a new stadium at the fruit market / mem redevelopment / new location. No group of supporters in the land deserve a new stadium more than us gas heads. I said what I said in the hope it may prompt the club into action and we may have got back to talking which didn’t happen… I also said what I said in reaction to an earlier communication in the local press where it was expressed that my friend / colleague and I were not seen as credible. Given people knew who I was I didn’t feel that was fair and in my opinion it was unfair to label us as not credible without actually knowing anything about us or at least investigating it first. I suspect I know where those comments came from but ultimately it could never be proved. That’s about it in a nutshell. I think the fact there are so many varied opinions on the stadium situation as a whole is a reflection of the repeated let downs we have experienced. That then seems to divide opinion with some supporters seeing no wrong whatsoever in the current owners / custodians and some seeing absolutely no positives at all. I suspect the majority fall somewhere in the middle. I don’t regret for one moment saying what I said or putting my name to it (something which I believe is a fairly rare occurrence). I would like to think that most people would understand why I did that and whether they agree with it or not most would think I didn’t wake up one day with a fantasy / dream and post it on a forum with my name attached to it.
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Post by dave1883gas on Apr 30, 2021 18:48:48 GMT
I’m still around and like every Gas Head I am as bitterly disappointed how the season has finished on the pitch as what is going on off it. I understand the scepticism but at the time I put my name to what I said because I knew I would be called out as a fantasist etc. People were correct in assuming neither my colleague or I would have the financial resource to deliver a stadium and we never said that was the case. What you need for such a massive project (in my opinion) is access to land, finance, expertise and a real desire for all parties to engage fully. I believe we had 3 of the 4 and I it’s probably obvious which one I felt was missing. Here is a project that my colleague and I have brought the parties together on. It’s worth noting the organisations involved when considering financials. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/1500-seater-esports-venue-proposed-4772055In the fullness of time I am confident Gas Heads will see what an opportunity the club have missed out on and it won’t need me to point it out. After much frustration and disappointment we have moved on. Back to simply supporting the club and hoping we make a quick return to league 1. UTG Sorry Dave but remind me what this has to do with a stadium for Rovers? There is no room at that location. Am I missing something? No link... I’m merely pointing out I am not a fantasist who was making up a stadium story like some think (and I understand). Whilst the Rovers idea hasn’t come to fruition we have the capability of bringing the correct parties to the table where there is desire.
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Post by dave1883gas on Apr 30, 2021 18:38:32 GMT
I’m still around and like every Gas Head I am as bitterly disappointed how the season has finished on the pitch as what is going on off it. I understand the scepticism but at the time I put my name to what I said because I knew I would be called out as a fantasist etc. People were correct in assuming neither my colleague or I would have the financial resource to deliver a stadium and we never said that was the case. What you need for such a massive project (in my opinion) is access to land, finance, expertise and a real desire for all parties to engage fully. I believe we had 3 of the 4 and I it’s probably obvious which one I felt was missing. Here is a project that my colleague and I have brought the parties together on. It’s worth noting the organisations involved when considering financials. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/1500-seater-esports-venue-proposed-4772055In the fullness of time I am confident Gas Heads will see what an opportunity the club have missed out on and it won’t need me to point it out. After much frustration and disappointment we have moved on. Back to simply supporting the club and hoping we make a quick return to league 1. UTG
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Post by dave1883gas on Feb 6, 2021 11:05:02 GMT
Should have ended my last post:
Let’s at least see UTG.
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Post by dave1883gas on Feb 6, 2021 11:01:41 GMT
This is my first post on here and apologies that I have lifted it from the other forum but given this has snowballed I wanted to say something on here too as the last thing I wanted was for people to argue over something I posted elsewhere!
Ok what started as a simple post has prompted more questions than I thought! I was simply posting to back up what others had said about options that have been open to the club. We are now where we are and I can’t and won’t go into details about the wider scheme. I wish I could as my life would be much easier but hopefully the fact I have put my name on here provides some comfort that I’m not an attention seeker / pretend ITK. The bottom line is the further time passes the less likely it becomes that Rovers can be involved (that is a fact and not an intended bargaining tool). I don’t have any kind of platform to speak from other than on here but having considered the situation carefully over the last 24 hours i think it’s best to look at a way forward rather than dwell on where we have been and my opinions on why we haven’t got any progress. The club know who I am and have a good knowledge of what we are trying to achieve. Its very exciting and as a long standing and very passionate Gas Head I could not rest easy knowing that I didn’t do absolutely everything in my power to try and include Bristol Rovers in the wider scheme. My passion for Bristol Rovers often gets the better of me and in hindsight putting my name on a public forum was maybe not the shrewdest move but sometimes as I said my passion gets the better of me. This has to be my last post otherwise the situation will just snowball with questions that I can’t answer however I hope my decision to put my name to this results in a positive way forward. So come on Rovers, re engage with me and we can see if there is a way forward. If not that’s fine but le
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Post by dave1883gas on Oct 3, 2019 18:50:45 GMT
Whilst I do think it is close, we keep hearing 2-4 weeks every 2-4 weeks! It must be close either way.... Assuming it’s a positive it would be interesting to know what the stadium ownership structure will look like. Will we own the freehold of the stadium? Will it be leasehold (I suspect this will be the case) and if so what will the length and terms of any lease look like? These must be the key questions to ask as if it is correct and this is predominantly a land deal rather than a football deal the lease arrangement will be key to our future. If it’s a long lease on favourable terms / freehold it would be a real positive... if it’s a short lease, less than 99 years we could end up with another Coventry situation. I just hope the deal makers have done all they can to ensure the security of the club in the new Fruit Bowl arena given this is supposedly more of a land transaction than someone who wants the football club in isolation.
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Post by dave1883gas on Oct 3, 2019 18:43:20 GMT
Last time I said something re this subject I got shot down for breaking Wael's confidence.. So I do this aware some of you many not like me doing so! Was told earlier today by the same chap that this is right at the point of conclusion and WILL be wrapped up and announced within the next 2 - 4 weeks. Must confess, I am slightly wary of what I have been told of the consortium in talks to buy the club.. Seem to have 90% interest in the land at both the Fruit Market and the Memorial Stadium and 10% interest in the actual football club. Guess we just have to hope that the current proprietors have done their due diligence and we are not being sold down the river as it were. As I say, take it or leave it and feel free to shoot the messenger if you like, I can't say I care too much! Whilst I do think it is close, we keep hearing 2-4 weeks every 2-4 weeks!
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Post by dave1883gas on Sept 27, 2019 14:28:39 GMT
The Wael announcement was nothing more than Wael trying to make himself look good. The sad thing is, especially as he's supposed to be some big-shot businessman/banker is that he clearly doesn't learn from his mistakes. He's got some form, hasn't he? From giving himself the ludicrous title of President, to sitting with Gas fans at away games,, having selfies with anyone remotely 'known' and who are prepared to pause briefly for a snap beside his beaming, gormless face, to making ridiculous stadium claims via any media outlet that will give him airtime. It seems to me he has spent his life desperately trying to escape his elder brothers shadow. He thought owning an English professional FC would do that. Wrong, they wouldn't even trust him with the Chair, instead giving it to a chancer with a dubious track record. Typical Gas really. Someone has been listening to the /Knowall brigade because that is exactly the rhetoric that has been flowing downhill from where he gets it from. What mistakes does he have to learn from? Why does Wael need to make himself look good? It’s total nonsense and doesn’t make any sense. If you think he made that tip bit of information available without consultation with the people brokering the deal and with the media (the bbc no less) then you are as deluded as the people that you listen to. If he wanted to be some kind of social media sycophant then he would be conducting himself with a lot less decorum and with a greater show than you see him doing, especially being the wealthy beneficiary of a bankers son, if you want to stereotypify any further. Talking of one snap shot, If you had an ounce of brains, think about who Claude Makalele is, how he is connected to Chelsea and why he was at the Mem on a Tuesday evening...I’ll leave you to have a think about that. Disagree with the way our president and family run the club and point out things that trip us up, but this constant personal, vitriolic character assassination is getting out of hand. I don't disagree with the points you make. Who is at the top of the hill from where this mis-information is flowing from though? We may as well understand this.....Is it Steve Hamer / a rogue club employee etc? Clearly if this is correct it is causing the club and its business to be potentially destabilised so surely it should be stopped? It cant be difficult to stop / remove someone from a post if they are deliberately telling lies / feeding confidential info? From the outside looking in it looks like an unprofessional mess of a situation which has been going on for a while now and is causing the club and fan base to be divided. The club rarely provides any info / update other than tit bits of un substantiated info with little substance and certainly no time scales. Surely its time for the club to take action and sort this problem out....Unless of course those who are supposed to be causing all these problems are crucial to the future of the club in which case you would have to question their motivation to cause problems.
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Post by dave1883gas on Sept 27, 2019 14:02:43 GMT
The Wael announcement was nothing more than Wael trying to make himself look good. The sad thing is, especially as he's supposed to be some big-shot businessman/banker is that he clearly doesn't learn from his mistakes. He's got some form, hasn't he? From giving himself the ludicrous title of President, to sitting with Gas fans at away games,, having selfies with anyone remotely 'known' and who are prepared to pause briefly for a snap beside his beaming, gormless face, to making ridiculous stadium claims via any media outlet that will give him airtime. It seems to me he has spent his life desperately trying to escape his elder brothers shadow. He thought owning an English professional FC would do that. Wrong, they wouldn't even trust him with the Chair, instead giving it to a chancer with a dubious track record. Typical Gas really. Wael's enthusiasm and money would do far more good if it was used to promote the game of football in Jordan. All he has managed to achieve at Rovers is drain away the £15+ million of equity which the club possessed when he took over and which gave us some security and a reasonable bargaining position. Now we are at the mercy of others, pawns in a game, and despite the promise of the Fruit Market scheme fans should not underestimate the danger of Rovers "falling between two stools" (which is not a comment on the state of the lavatories at The Mem). I'm not sure what the two stools comment refers too but if its the apparent split in the club I agree that there is a huge danger more time and effort is spent by the various parties fighting for control than actually being productive. Exactly what I was saying earlier in the thread regarding the fact that your average supporter is fed up of hearing about it. Leaks, agendas etc....If people are acting incorrectly in their official capacity at the club they should no longer be at the club. As nobody ever says anything officially its hard to tell who is right and who is wrong. I would guess that those that are being accused of acting incorrectly are only still at the club if they are important in some way to the clubs future. If they are not and they genuinely are acting incorrectly then there is no good reason for them to still be around. It seems like one big mess with many variables still to be sorted before positive news breaks. If it fizzles out and doesn't happen I don't see where the club or owners go from there.
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Post by dave1883gas on Sept 27, 2019 13:48:58 GMT
So the new owners are going to fund and get planning permission for the stadium, buy the land, and then buy the club, with someone else's money, presumably? So not one point of failure like Ashton Vale for that lot, or two like UWE/ Sainsbury's, but in fact three? Lovely. What could possibly, possibly go wrong there? What new owners? Who said Wael is selling? Given that the names of the new owners / investors have already been mentioned then either this is a takeover or a large new investment with new majority share holders. I don't think the current owners will be developing any new stadium site anywhere but we shall see hopefully!
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Post by dave1883gas on Sept 27, 2019 13:46:50 GMT
So the new owners are going to fund and get planning permission for the stadium, buy the land, and then buy the club, with someone else's money, presumably? So not one point of failure like Ashton Vale for that lot, or two like UWE/ Sainsbury's, but in fact three? Lovely. What could possibly, possibly go wrong there? Exactly what I am saying....I think its further off with more obstacles and variables than we felt given the mention if it on the radio and the fact that most people (I believe) would not have said a thing until it was much closer to being announced.
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Post by dave1883gas on Sept 27, 2019 13:01:49 GMT
We still must be some way off an announcement. Assuming new ownership is linked to the new stadium project i.e. we will not be taken over until any new owners are sure the stadium is good to go, I can't see how an announcement can be made until planning is secured. I would envisage that only then will new owners take over the club / invest in the club. Whilst planning may be at an advanced stage I would have thought drawings and plans would need to be made public from a public consultation point of view (I am certainly no expert on planning law though). It may well be the first supporters know about it (from an official source) is when we see drawings of the new fruit bowl arena. Even then If there is opposition / objections to the new stadium the whole thing could fall apart or be delayed as we are all to aware form previous attempts! I can't see we are an attractive proposition on a stand alone basis and any new owners / investors would only be interested once they know a stadium site is secure. From our point of view this has also got to be a good thing as if new owners took us over and failed with the stadium we are back where we are now with the serious possibility of the Mem being used to repay debt accrued. This is why I was asking for a statement / holding statement earlier in the thread as unless we are right on the verge of an announcement (and I don't think we are) then we have potentially months more of this waiting around and speculation and frustration before anyone knows anything. I would have thought to have come out officially and mentioned this on the radio we would have been much closer than we apparently are. Either that or I am totally wrong an announcement may happen in the next few weeks. People say the club had to say something as there were rumours but I don't think they did need too as there are still rumours...just loads more of them. If nothing was said at all people wouldn't be as frustrated as they currently are, checking the forum and social media desperately hoping to find news of an announcement when indeed that may be still some way off. The radio interview seems more bizarre by the day considering 2 months down the line we are none the wiser and no more has been said by the club officially. This is Bristol Rovers however!
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