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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jun 18, 2020 9:05:18 GMT
Just done mine, I went for the Academy option. Snap. East Stand refunds are just over £89 so if they get enough of us moaning old codgers in that stand to waive the refund it’ll be a little boost for the academy and it’s progress.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jun 12, 2020 9:39:48 GMT
Think they’ll be working around any potential location/transport/parking issues. They were ramping up park and ride/ shuttle bus options for the Mem before lockdown which isn’t that inaccessible... so moving to a more restrictive location will make them think of fan friendly solutions. Colchester have worked around their problems and if we’re finally getting somewhere re our stadium there will be ample opportunity to devise some varied methods of lessening the the negative impacts on fans in respect of the change of home venue.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jun 11, 2020 23:19:48 GMT
Okay, it's it time to think of names for this new stadium, does it deserve its own thread? I reckon The Banana Box The Fruit Salad Bowl Presumably the selling of the naming rights will be an instant way of getting some of the initial outlay covered, in which case we have to be prepared for anything including a wealthy darksider outbidding everyone so they can name it “The Gas Are sh**” Stadium or some such. Unfortunately some of the more apt local industries are unlikely to have money to waste on stadium naming rights so we won’t be seeing something like the Bristol Blue Stadium as a tie in with Bristol Blue Glass which wouldn’t have been bad in my opinion. However, I’m guessing a sports betting company fed up with hearing the Bet365 stadium mentioned as often as it is might consider a new stadium in Bristol a good opportunity to get their name mentioned several times every other weekend in various newspapers, websites and TVScores as they happen programmes.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jun 11, 2020 8:10:01 GMT
We'll be back at Crewe next season.They have a very modest stadium but one fab large stand which has been there a while now but looks great.Would certainly settle for that at the Mem.Crewe also have an amazing social complex which they use-pre Corona-to the maximum.Of -course their training complex is impressive.Tiny club but well run.Remember Marcus scoring there and the play off semi when Radio Stoke said,'Bristol fans are driving away on their way back to Eastville sounding their car horns.We had of -course long left Eastville. Ran my first 'LINE' there v Torquay when Tony Waddington had been appointed manager. I remember getting fed up with not winning there for a few years and then Jon French popped up with a winner. Of course that semi final and the rebound in off Paul Miller’s knee after the keeper had parried his initial strike is still the best memory of Gresty Rd. I also remember Dario Gradi being unimpressed with the bobbly pitch at Twerton...he wasn’t that much happier on the Rugby pitch a couple of years later as Cureton and Gurney struck a couple of long range strikes to defeat them. As regards the positive news on the new stadium can we assume whenever and wherever it comes to fruition that MJ Abbott have the contract to develop the playing surface? It would be strange to spend so much attention getting the training ground surface to behave exactly as that of your “old” stadium and then someone else creates the surface for you at the new stadium that doesn’t match the training ground one.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jun 9, 2020 17:59:00 GMT
Hmm interesting.. I wonder if by "match tickets" they include season tickets? and if so how it will be calculated? Technically we paid for 23 home games and we played 18. So we played 78% of our fixtures.. so will we be entitled to 22% of our season ticket back? I suppose you could argue that Bury dropped out, so that could be more like 18% Personally I would rather not claim the refund - but if lots do then that could be quite expensive for the club. They have a way to contact each current season ticket holder, they can ask a straight two option question. Would you like a refund for each match unplayed at the mem or have these funds reinvested in the club. Personally if this money makes the difference between keeping a fringe youngster or having to let them go (like Tomlinson say) then I’m all for leaving money I have already considered spent to remain within the club.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jun 3, 2020 22:54:29 GMT
I might be going mad but I thought we Signed TDH on a pay as you play contract?. I didn’t interpret what they said when we signed him as a pay as you play contract so much as an understanding that if we kept him fit enough to play a reasonable amount of games for us then we’d have to pay his previous club a top up fee.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on May 23, 2020 21:32:27 GMT
Mark McKeever away at Reading, he may not have scored in that six nil win but he panicked their defence throughout. Shortest unplayable performance was probably Astafjevs at Oldham when we won 4-1 they deliberately crocked him Halfway through the first half because he was making them look stupid.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on May 6, 2020 21:55:27 GMT
Well given his previous achievements the biggest misfire for me was Bob Lee.
Three imports that disappointed Carlos Sanchez López, Rune Johansen....and despite making thirty odd appearances for us I hoped for better from Stephane Leoni.
Jimmy Hamilton and Paul Bannon were let downs because they weren’t able to fill the boots they replaced.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Apr 25, 2020 22:45:19 GMT
Got relegated the following week. I think Cureton was our top scorer that year. Ha-Ha, Cureton our top scorer 14 years before he was born! For the record that season our top scorer for League goals alone was Bobby Jones with 13. If you include cup goals then Geoff Bradford had 14 with both Bobby Jones and Peter Hooper trailing him by one.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Mar 8, 2020 21:19:23 GMT
No match report this week because it was almost as bad as last week and the view I had was behind the goal and the crossbar got in the way of nearly everything but answering my own question we have a) defenders who can't defend. b) Attackers who rarely score. c) A totally non existent midfield. d) No leadership whatsoever from the owner Based upon our lack of goal attempts the half season highlights dvd from BGs reign is going to concentrate on our best throw-ins. It was originally going to feature 20 of our best sideline restarts but having reviewed the footage they are going to just feature five examples.....they are hoping the team will be able to contribute two more in the remaining games to add to the three they already have safely in the video archives.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Mar 8, 2020 13:57:37 GMT
I noticed in the last year or so we have at least 8 players out every game . For instance yesterday: Jaakkola Little Davis Kelly Matthews Ogogo Ginnelly Russe Barrett J.C.H Reilly out. It's almost natural to have out up to 10 players every single game in a small squad. Is this bad luck or something much deeper ? Apparently the bad luck is assisted by the quality of the training surfaces.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Mar 8, 2020 13:54:52 GMT
So the next three games will be zero points, probably zero goals scored and I predict 8 or 9 conceded. We will get thrashed away to Pompey and Oxford (probably by three or more goals in both). I believe the Rochdale, Burton and Lincoln games are the only ones where we may pick up some points. I predict we will get 2/3 more points this season. Either one lucky win, or a couple of draws. Have to give Garner some credit...he’s united the fans quicker than Coughlan divided them!
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Mar 6, 2020 6:50:24 GMT
Hmm, it was always Gonna Fly Now until 1997. Then we signed Barry Hayles, who scored three in three and looked unstoppable. At the time we had a thriving internet discussion group called the gas list administered by Mo Bell, the membership included regular fans and Rovers match day volunteers and board members. Anyway we were discussing a chant for Barry and I remarked that the current chart song epitomised him....He gets knocked down but he gets up again... also using another part of the song to illustrate ... he scores a headed goal, he scores a tap-in goal, he scores a left foot goal, he scores a right foot goal etc....it got a few people agreeing that it was fitting for him. Anyway a couple of weeks after that discussion someone responsible for the run out music gave that one a whirl. As per usual it divided the fanbase, some embraced the change, others felt there was no need to ditch Rocky as it had served as the run out song when Gerry got us promoted etc. I remember a few fans objection to Tubthumping was because of the politics of the band who sang it!! Anyway it served as our runout song until Barry was sold, and maybe continued a bit longer with Jason Roberts assuming Bazza’s mantle but there was a steadily growing call to return to Rocky which we did for several years until we had at least two seasons of running out to Pirates of the Caribbean. I can’t be certain as to the years we adopted this one as unlike the Chumbawumba one I do not know what the catalyst was for the change
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Mar 6, 2020 1:09:43 GMT
I view my season ticket contribution as more of a charitable donation these days! It is a cash injection into the club I love at a time (close season) where other revenue streams are not available and hopefully ensures they don’t “do a Bury”.
Whether I actually use the ticket is another matter. Match day travel isn’t cheap by road or rail these days and in terms of time it’s a significant chunk of a Saturday used up in the round trip and the game time, so I freely admit I don’t always use the ticket if the likely spectacle is not going to justify the effort. So, for example, there were no weather or health issues preventing me from attending the Shrewsbury match but the prospect of wasting 8 hours and a tankful of fuel to watch a side hardly capable of generating a shot on target proved less of an attraction than the housework and Jeff Stelling at 3pm. I didn’t feel guilty about not turning up for the game because they’d already had my attendance money and judging by the universal depressed view of the match itself I made the right choice. I’ll continue to pick and choose which games of sterile-ball I attend which is, in my opinion, just as unattractive to watch as Coughlan-ball.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Feb 18, 2020 22:31:43 GMT
Have it your way (you always do) but I repeat in the context of new stadiums aiding the upward rise of many teams in and around us it is a valid example of no upturn in fortune resulting from the Provision of the stadium. The original post also bemoans the fact that AFCW and Brentford from our level are about to have new homes...Brentford’s upturn has arrived well before the stadium and we’ll know more about the wombles when they are in it but it would be good to see them experience the bounce too in order to encourage our owners to come up with a viable solution to our own issues...I’d like us to do a Cardiff, Swansea or, going further back in time Wigan, just don’t want us to do a Chesterfield or Notts County .... or for that matter have our club sold to crook developers like Darlington !!
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Feb 18, 2020 15:01:18 GMT
Yes but let’s balance this sobbing with a reminder that new stadia were also in place for Chesterfield, Barnet and Darlington who went the other way...and redeveloping an existing dilapidated one didn’t make Notts County kick on either. Yes we all want better facilities than we’ve got but don’t think that’s a golden ticket to the top tables. Why do posters, who assume know something about football, keep referring to Darlington when it's a well known fact their stadium was built on the proceeds of crime, anybody with any common sense can see their new stadium was never viable. My point is nothing to do with where the money to build it came from but the fact that the wonder of a new stadium did not generate the expected enthusiasm and increased support. I went to the new stadium when they’d just moved in. Most new stadiums add thousands on the gate in the first season due to the novelty value. Their stadium did not generate that new stadium bounce because it was built miles from anywhere and their crowds never suggested they would populate even a quarter of it. It was a ghost town stadium.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Feb 18, 2020 7:48:03 GMT
Makes you weep when you look at Swansea and Cardiff and how they've moved onwards and upwards since the days of being our rivals. And then weep a bit more when you see Brentford and AFC Wimbledon also at it nowadays. Neither of those, especially the Dons, are conventionally rich clubs. They have rich owners. But so do we, FFS!!! What a shambles the last 4 years have been. Time for another weep. Yes but let’s balance this sobbing with a reminder that new stadia were also in place for Chesterfield, Barnet and Darlington who went the other way...and redeveloping an existing dilapidated one didn’t make Notts County kick on either. Yes we all want better facilities than we’ve got but don’t think that’s a golden ticket to the top tables.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Feb 5, 2020 16:47:47 GMT
So you’re not Si Pirate but Sip Irate?? Well you’ve “tossed” your toys out the pram several times in this thread. Makes me think you’re not impressed with BG or something!! We appear to have invested quite a lot into his brave new world so I imagine you’ll be in this mood for several more months I’m afraid.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Feb 5, 2020 7:27:43 GMT
Whilst he’s always said he can’t comment on the stadium progress or lack of it, he has always mentioned about budget, FFP and trading to stay within our means. So after the many in, few out window we’ve just had, can he confirm we are still within FFP guidelines and are not in danger of breaking any limitations that might incur a fine or docked points in coming seasons?
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Feb 4, 2020 3:00:40 GMT
The way things have gone since GC’s extraordinary post match Ipswich interview the experienced head he needs is that of the Captain of the Titanic...”Right I’ve rearranged all the deck chairs...now what’s next?”...
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