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Post by tinner on Sept 17, 2016 17:12:25 GMT
I will tell you what is embarrassing is the constant fault finding nick picking people on here.
As has been pointed out this was a freshers fair, just a huge amount of stands with freebies/leaflets.....nothing more and idiots on here are moaning....what on earth did you expect..........a glitzy presentation with corporate boards etc, that not one student would have been the slightest bit interested in?
What I see is an informative, stand out stall, totally fit for purpose..........but no lets waste money and time on something totally unnecessary and certainly not required, but I guess it is another opportunity for the righteous mob on here to find fault....perhaps you can organise a boycott of future Freshers fairs in protest.
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Post by tinner on Sept 15, 2016 18:41:44 GMT
This subject has been running since 1986 and still has a number of years to go; simply knock down and rebuild at the MEM. Happy days, Gloucester road pubs, tremendous, why on earth we are even still talking about a pie in sky project at the ******* UWE is beyond me.At best we will at a push need a 15,000 seater stadium, which is bigger than Dean Court and those boys are doing OK in the prem. Absolutely spot on.......we had planning permission before, and sure we would get again. The perfect location for a footy stadium. Laughable given that we can barely ever sell out the Mem that people on here are talking about planning permission for 27k/35k increase to the UWE.
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Post by tinner on Sept 13, 2016 7:27:21 GMT
I find a lot of quotes on here as laughable........football has moved on, the days of simple 4 4 2, with a big centre half and big centre forward week in week out are long gone, except in the minds of some here. If I recall, the season we went down, we played 4 4 2 at home in most if not all games....and look where that got us.
Given that DC has two promotion in two seasons, I do not understand why some cannot simply afford him the respect to know what he is doing, and how he is doing it........particularly given that we have only played a handful of league games this year.
If at Christmas we are struggling, then perhaps the criticism/challenge will be more justified.........but for gods sake we are only in the 2nd week of September!!
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Post by tinner on Sept 6, 2016 20:35:45 GMT
I am going to go again having been one of the orginal 2,888 the other week at the first game with my Father. I boycotted the Paint Pot game because I think the FA got it wrong and not just one individual. I think the FA have got a lot of things wrong and the main thing is the dominance of the Premier League which has ruined our national side and driven up the cost for the fan to watch football. But I am not letting one individual ruin my chance and our chances of supporting and cheering on our team. Yes it's a case of money but the truth is if we beat Chelsea and got Man United away then another 4,000 would have gone. I will take the £25 on the chin, I am not letting Lee Power stop me seeing us beat this lot. And us beating them and cheering on our side on is the best way to shut up Lee Power. Not many of our fans complained when we called off the Stockport game last minute on a Saturday to give ourselves a rest for the JPT game against the sh**. A lot of their fans travelled down that day, we soaked the pitch and I'm sure put pressure on the ref. These things happen in football and life, the league is our bread and butter and the team needs our support at Swindon. Lee Power might lose a few pounds by the boycott but it won't make much difference where as I think we can at the game. Absolutely spot on....well said
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Post by tinner on Sept 3, 2016 8:08:58 GMT
F*ck me the righteous mob strike again....lets see how many more games we can boycott this season!!!!! True the gesture of say a half price ticket would have been appreciated but lets be honest, that is only a tenner saving....jesus this our nearest thing to a derby this season and we have loads on here insisting they wont go. I guess those same people didnt bat an eye lid when helping to line Abramovich's pockets a couple of weeks ago.
I despair sometimes, all for the sake of the cost of a couple of pints.........
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Post by tinner on Aug 25, 2016 17:08:38 GMT
Sounds very promising , surely he had to go in straight at number 1 ? So never mind that Mildenhall has been excellent this season, and am guessing you have never seen the new keeper play, or if you have once or twice at best, you think he must come straight in at number 1.........why is that exactly??
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Post by tinner on Aug 16, 2016 6:07:43 GMT
Here we go the usual excuses, any wonder that C*ty take the p*ss about our crowds when we are patting ourselves on the back for getting 7500...jesus! 7500 is about 70% of our capacity. Unless the teds get 18900, they have nothing to take the p1ss out of... And wait.... Brilliant...lets reduce our capacity to 10k, and our attendances will be even more impressive.........
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Post by tinner on Aug 15, 2016 20:55:30 GMT
Shame there isnt the same enthusiasm for Rovers home matches! To have below 5k for Cardiff with reduced prices and fail to sell out on Sunday, is in my opinion very poor. I really do wonder what more Rovers have to do, given that we have won 14/15 last home games, and the last game of last season will probably go down as the most memorable ever. Lots on here are so quick to criticise the club, the team and individual players....we all know if we had lost on Sunday that there would have a clamour to ged rid of Clarke/Mildenhall/Lines.......and yet our biggest problem in progressing would seem to be our apathetic support........yes the usual 6k may increase to 8k but that is still not great considering all that has happened over the past 6 months. So forgive me for not giving a sh*t if we have 4 or 6k tickets, or when or if we sell out against Chelsea....I just wish there was more support for our club at home to correctly recognize the teams efforts. If I was Wael, I would be seriously wondering if a 22k capacity is necessary...as it stands I would far perfer a smaller revamped Memorial stadium with a max of say 16-18k. Let me get this right. We scraped out of the conference in the playoffs by finishing second to little old Barnet and luckily beating Grimsby who were the better side on the day - that season we lost to Braintree, Althincham, Forest Green, Eastleigh, Barnet etc, and drew against Dover, Woking, Alfreton etc.
Last season we scraped into 3rd place on the last day of the season by beating already relegated Dagenham & Redbridge in injury time, just pipping the mighty Accrington Stanley (better known for a milk advertisement than a football team) who unexpectedly slipped to a draw at home to lowly Stevenage in their final game to open the door for us to replace them in the final promotion spot.
And you expect the Mem to be sold out against a team that was also in league 2 last year? 10,000 fans yesterday was a very respectable turnout given the sh**e suffering Gasheads have had to put up with for many years.
Wael is shooting for greater things than beating crap teams in leagues 1 and 2 and if he succeeds, we will need something far better and bigger than the Mem. And yes, suddenly people who didn't go to games when we were in the conference and league 2 will suddenly start turning up - and no doubt you will be saying they are not proper fans and you prefer if if we were playing in league 2 again in front of 6-8,000 fans. But those extra people will become fans and will make us a greater club - probably the same sort of fans who are trying to get Chelsea tickets at the moment.
In my view, occasional fans become fanatical supporters when they are treated to decent quality football for a prolonged period of time. Likewise, die hard fans become disillusioned and their support wanes while we languish in non league/lower league football. That's the way football is - not just Bristol Rovers.
Whether you like it or not, 'scrapping' third place beating D&R is probably the best moment many of us will ever get in football. We are on a high winning virtually every game at home and yet still that isnt good enough...how long does this pro longed period have to be......and of course dont forget in order to shoot for bigger things, we need the crowds to fund this.....but still you keep to your view, and lets all pat ourselves on the back when we get our 8000 crowds!!
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Post by tinner on Aug 15, 2016 20:49:55 GMT
All good stuff..........but still a big step away from the level of support we deserve. The crowd on Wednesday will be interesting, and I will say if we exceed 10k that is good, but am guessing it will be closer to 8500 which will be poor. Poor? You think?! Cardiff home, Oxford home, Bolton home, then Chelsea away. Summer holidays, kids at home etc. Over 7500 GAS in attendance on weds is far from poor imo. But I do like your mindset since it means that some of our fans are ahead of the passive mediocrity. Here we go the usual excuses, any wonder that C*ty take the p*ss about our crowds when we are patting ourselves on the back for getting 7500...jesus!
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Post by tinner on Aug 15, 2016 19:30:01 GMT
Shame there isnt the same enthusiasm for Rovers home matches! To have below 5k for Cardiff with reduced prices and fail to sell out on Sunday, is in my opinion very poor. I really do wonder what more Rovers have to do, given that we have won 14/15 last home games, and the last game of last season will probably go down as the most memorable ever. Lots on here are so quick to criticise the club, the team and individual players....we all know if we had lost on Sunday that there would have a clamour to ged rid of Clarke/Mildenhall/Lines.......and yet our biggest problem in progressing would seem to be our apathetic support........yes the usual 6k may increase to 8k but that is still not great considering all that has happened over the past 6 months. So forgive me for not giving a sh*t if we have 4 or 6k tickets, or when or if we sell out against Chelsea....I just wish there was more support for our club at home to correctly recognize the teams efforts. If I was Wael, I would be seriously wondering if a 22k capacity is necessary...as it stands I would far perfer a smaller revamped Memorial stadium with a max of say 16-18k. Let's not overlook last seasons home attendances were the highest for decades, this summer's s/t sales are also highest for probably as long as records exist, certainly at least at the mem. Also yesterday's attendance may well have been the highest ever gate form the first home game, we also had to contend with peak summer holiday season and the balloon festival plus Oxford are hardly the biggest draw when we played them last season. If we get around 10K again tomorrow they could well be the first time we've had around 20K in our first two league home games at the Mem nothing to complain about supporters wise in my view. All good stuff..........but still a big step away from the level of support we deserve. The crowd on Wednesday will be interesting, and I will say if we exceed 10k that is good, but am guessing it will be closer to 8500 which will be poor.
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Post by tinner on Aug 15, 2016 18:17:20 GMT
Shame there isnt the same enthusiasm for Rovers home matches! To have below 5k for Cardiff with reduced prices and fail to sell out on Sunday, is in my opinion very poor.
I really do wonder what more Rovers have to do, given that we have won 14/15 last home games, and the last game of last season will probably go down as the most memorable ever.
Lots on here are so quick to criticise the club, the team and individual players....we all know if we had lost on Sunday that there would have a clamour to ged rid of Clarke/Mildenhall/Lines.......and yet our biggest problem in progressing would seem to be our apathetic support........yes the usual 6k may increase to 8k but that is still not great considering all that has happened over the past 6 months.
So forgive me for not giving a sh*t if we have 4 or 6k tickets, or when or if we sell out against Chelsea....I just wish there was more support for our club at home to correctly recognize the teams efforts. If I was Wael, I would be seriously wondering if a 22k capacity is necessary...as it stands I would far perfer a smaller revamped Memorial stadium with a max of say 16-18k.
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Post by tinner on Aug 15, 2016 6:55:18 GMT
like I said the first paragraph,we should've been 3 up with only 5 mins gone Oxfords three chances didn't count but ours did ? That chance mildly bottled was the most clear cut of all I agree that Mildlenhall perhaps should have come out to that ball, but why on earth would you say he 'bottled it' To me just a poor snap second decision........and actually given that they didn't score, some may say the correct decision!!! But he has no history of ducking out of challenges so to say that is just plain stupid.
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Post by tinner on Aug 12, 2016 15:48:49 GMT
imo ellis deserved an 8 at least,seems to have matured a lot on the pitch. Mildy an 8 for me a good performance seemed confident and in command of his box,although is he injured as he din't quite look right every time he dived to his right.The only thing i'm worried about is our pace ,but on the other hand the team are very fit If you ignore his kicking! Absolutely nothing wrong with his kicking unless we now expect him to ping 50 yard accurate passes!!
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Post by tinner on Aug 12, 2016 15:31:25 GMT
I also thought Bodin was a brilliant outlet for us and our skilled a fair few of the Cardiff players when in possession. Sadly I see Gaffney as another Blissett. Great for the league we were in, but may struggle against better, quicker and tougher opposition. Would loved to be proven wrong though. Funny how we all see players differently. Yep, because I thought Taylor's first touch was appauling compared to Gaffney. You surely did not watch the game, sadly Gaffney lost control of the ball virtualy every time it came to him!!
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Post by tinner on Aug 12, 2016 9:10:46 GMT
Well done tonight Ollie Clarke, 120 minutes of passion, effort and some time interceptions. Good post, Roadman. And yes, he had a good game tonight. Well done, Ollie! Roadman is clearly being sarcastic here, which pretty much sums up this whole thread, and the manner of some of our supporters. If we wind back 3-4 years, our policy was to sign known players, which back fired as, of course, many simply did not give a sh*t. Thankfully this policy changed with DC, and it is incredible to think that 16 months ago, the majority of the team from last night, were playing Alfreton in the conference. We now have a team that actually care, and work their b*llocks off for the cause, and the net effect of that has been the successive promotions. You would think that everyone would be fully behind the whole squad, and give them all the praise and support that they deserve as a group, but no, there are a number on here who are simply never satisfied and look to find fault. Ollie Clarke may never make it to the premiership, but I for one am grateful for his efforts, his dedication, and the fact that he now trying to adapt to another level up. Will he make it...possibly not, but I think he deserves absolute respect for how he has helped the club, and our total support in trying to step up to this level. Ultimately, DC will decide if OC is good enough (and he certainly held his own last night) but in the meantime would it not be great if we could all just be grateful that we have a squad of players who are 100% committed, and enjoy our current relative success without calling for the heads of some blokes who have played a massive part in this, and who continue to do all that they can for this club.
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Post by tinner on Aug 10, 2016 22:05:45 GMT
Am getting the same problem, was leaving it late as was unsure if I could make it, but now looks like I will not be able to buy a ticket!!
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Post by tinner on Aug 10, 2016 14:09:48 GMT
Bloody hell, £10 a ticket and £1 for kids....and you still want extra incentive! £10 per ticket clearly hasnt been very succesfull. May have sold shirts (extra income) to people who wouldnt buy one at full price Bloody, lets just give the tickets away!! If there is poor take up of tickets, then that just shows are support in very poor light. First competitive game of the season, following the excitement of promotion, £10 tickets, and still we are struggling to sell a decent amount.....think we need to get off our high horses about how good we think are support is!
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Post by tinner on Aug 10, 2016 12:43:44 GMT
I dont think its possible to make it pay on the day now with cardiffs reputation. I do think they could have done some offers to sell more tickets when you think that historically attendances for the first round are generally poor unless you come up with a plumb tie. 1/3 off a new shirt when you buy a ticket? Kids go free? Bloody hell, £10 a ticket and £1 for kids....and you still want extra incentive!
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Post by tinner on Aug 6, 2016 14:08:29 GMT
Well quite obvious really, our manager....you know the one who has helped us to back to back promotions for the first time in our history, and who turned down Leeds Utd to stay with us......has opted to play a certain formation and team to support that, not rocket science that. No doubt you would have been one of the people moaning that DC didnt play Bodin when we secured an away point at Stevenage, which helped provide us with one of our greatest football moments ever...... Bloody hell its just my opinion FFS, some of you lot need to lighten up a bit its a forum after all. Well you asked a question, and I gave you an answer. I never quite understand how some people seem to pick fault regardless.....
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Post by tinner on Aug 6, 2016 13:58:09 GMT
You play your best players and Bodin has turned into one of our best players of late, so unless he isnt 100% I dont know why he is not on the pitch. Well quite obvious really, our manager....you know the one who has helped us to back to back promotions for the first time in our history, and who turned down Leeds Utd to stay with us......has opted to play a certain formation and team to support that, not rocket science that. No doubt you would have been one of the people moaning that DC didnt play Bodin when we secured an away point at Stevenage, which helped provide us with one of our greatest football moments ever......
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