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Post by chilly1883 on Jan 4, 2018 16:41:25 GMT
Sorry, can't help it, but I personally don't like listening to Hamer. Sounds a little condescending, did I hear wrong last year? When he said after tying down Taylor, "we don't have to sell our best players anymore". Wow that's changed in a year. We've now sold two of our best players.
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Post by lpgas on Jan 4, 2018 16:46:07 GMT
What Keith should have asked Steve Hamer was "How is this Evolution thing working?" Steve would have had ample opportunity to then say that DC would get 25% of BB transfer fee, 50% is being spent on the training ground and the new stand (along with a grant that every other football club in England has used) and the other 25% is on its to the owners offshore account. Surely that's what "Evolution" is? Isn't it? Most of us will be long gone before this club evolves in to a modern up to date club.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 17:13:09 GMT
I'm sorry but why is Hamer sitting down with DC on the 4th of January to discuss transfer targets etc? Shouldn't this have been done a month ago?! As SH said it is upto D.C. who he targets and whether they are loans or perms. D.C. did remind us the 12 days before the next game was going to be busy for him on the phone. Nobody knew 100% whether BB would still be at Rovers after the window or not. SH will probably be letting D.C. know how his budget may have changed and how they will manage the spread of the money (fees. wages etc)
By SH highlighting he was GOING to speak to D.C. about transfer targets it stops the interviewer asking questions about names of potential players doesn't it.
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Post by twertonboy on Jan 4, 2018 17:17:30 GMT
Love to know what our budget was before bodin sale?
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Post by pirate on Jan 4, 2018 17:19:42 GMT
Love to know what our budget was before bodin sale? A mars bar, a packet of monster munch and a few peanuts?
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Post by gonzales on Jan 4, 2018 17:20:42 GMT
Seven minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
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Post by paulpirate on Jan 4, 2018 17:22:44 GMT
Love to know what our budget was before bodin sale? i heard two blokes who are always by the west stand entrance smoking say 500k
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Post by Raj Gas on Jan 4, 2018 17:23:04 GMT
Billy decided very quickly that Preston was his next stop (and good luck to him) but until this happens the club wouldn't make any concrete decisions on buying players. In an ideal world we would have the funds to go out and buy someone we want before he went because now clubs/players will be looking for more money from us. Football is a strange industry and running a club is not like most businesses we work for, I thought it was a very straight forward interview and didn't read anything in to it. In fact we have had a successon of managers (i.e. Trolls,John Ward and DC) who have been given money in the past but were always cautious about spending their budgets and now we are talking about paying out on transfer fees which is not something BRFC is really used to doing. I agree with what you say here, are you happy with the reported sale fee for Billy ? That's a tricky one I had hoped we might have had a "bidding war" but he moved too quickly for that. Hopefully we have a sell on clause because I can see BB going higher if he stays injury free and we might get some more money later on. I am not for spending all the money on trying to replace him and hope we can get in an experienced defender and midfielder and perhaps then give some opportunities to some young wingers on loan?
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Post by twertonboy on Jan 4, 2018 17:33:00 GMT
We must be getting at least two in before Blackpool game? Nearly every club in league one has done business already, Surely we can’t leave it too late again making out we’re being all shrewd then end up with a panic buy!
How much was Johnny burns?
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Post by markczgas on Jan 4, 2018 17:34:00 GMT
I agree with what you say here, are you happy with the reported sale fee for Billy ? That's a tricky one I had hoped we might have had a "bidding war" but he moved too quickly for that. Hopefully we have a sell on clause because I can see BB going higher if he stays injury free and we might get some more money later on. I am not for spending all the money on trying to replace him and hope we can get in an experienced defender and midfielder and perhaps then give some opportunities to some young wingers on loan? thought we could have got double the reported fee (400 - 500 K) but that's all too late now. I like your ideas about recruitment.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 4, 2018 17:47:48 GMT
Strange how whenever SH is interviewed about something he's always going to have a meeting about that topic that very afternoon or the next day! "I'll be sitting down with the manager this afternoon/ I'm visiting their training ground tomorrow to get some ideas/ I'm going to London tomorrow to meet with possible investors/ We have a meeting on Friday to discuss options................" Always just about to chase things up. What a busy man! I do that in work - im middle management - if i get pulled in by the boss and ask if something has been sorted/done [that ahsnt] I just say "yeah, we're meeting about it later". Great blag.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Jan 4, 2018 20:06:56 GMT
Steve Hamer said when talking of some of our Legends,'Joshua Watling'.Never knew 'Josser' was Joshua.SH must have been doing his homework!!!!
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Post by pucklegas on Jan 4, 2018 20:56:40 GMT
Love to know what our budget was before bodin sale? A mars bar, a packet of monster munch and a few peanuts? That’s because we are the crazy gang! thought you would be at the mem identifying targets for D.C. with Hani marking them into the 3 classes of players, poundworld poundland and 99p shop!
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Post by knowall on Jan 4, 2018 21:24:58 GMT
Steve Hamer said when talking of some of our Legends,'Joshua Watling'.Never knew 'Josser' was Joshua.SH must have been doing his homework!!!! spend some time with SH and you will find he probably knows more about Bristol Rovers history and players than you do.
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Jan 4, 2018 21:30:38 GMT
Steve Hamer said when talking of some of our Legends,'Joshua Watling'.Never knew 'Josser' was Joshua.SH must have been doing his homework!!!! Was it just mangling the words? His name was John, I think? Is he still alive?
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Post by dragonfly on Jan 4, 2018 22:00:04 GMT
Heard Hamer on "having a Gas"saying Preston met BRFC's Valuation of Bodin. Surely no-one at the Club would value Bodin as low as £400k, so a substantially higher outcome was more probable.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 23:16:51 GMT
From that I take it we have basically done nothing regarding getting a new player in then!
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Post by Wimborne Gas on Jan 5, 2018 0:52:53 GMT
Sorry, can't help it, but I personally don't like listening to Hamer. Sounds a little condescending, did I hear wrong last year? When he said after tying down Taylor, "we don't have to sell our best players anymore". Wow that's changed in a year. We've now sold two of our best players. We don't HAVE to sell. But you can't keep players that want to move on, especially when they have release clauses in their contracts in Taylor's case. Billy wants to play in the Championship and we are nowhere near atm. Lower league clubs will always lose better players to the Championship, not just Rovers. The money and standard of football is too big a draw for them. Financially, we do not need to sell, but what could we do in both cases? It makes sense to cash in now when the player has already decided to leave. As for some posters thinking no initial talks had taken place before this interview, get a grip.
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Post by bradfordmeyerbiggs on Jan 5, 2018 0:57:56 GMT
The puppet master of the Venky's!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 2:47:17 GMT
Why do we always roll out Hamer without giving him a brief of what he should /shouldn’t say ? Pretty sure he has said earlier in the season that we won’t sign anyone in January as he felt this was a bad month do business? Please don’t tell me that he thought B.B would sign a new contract and we would mange Until the end of season with what we already have BB has made a point about playing in the Championship and had we been in the top 6 and looking likely to go up he probably would have stayed, until the summer at least. Our better players know now that we are a long way off that and if they want that opportunity and the bigger wages then they will move clubs, that I am afraid is a fact of life as these days there is not much loyalty in football. Theres no fan loyalty to players either though is there? Lots of players at the club now who played big parts in 2 promotions and a great league 1 season have been hammered relentlessly this season. Lockyer,brown,sinclair,lines and leadbitter all getting stick,hardly anyone says "their out of form" at the moment. Players have changed and fans have changed.
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