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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:02:53 GMT
Wael has always said he would go if the fans did not want him, are we reaching that time?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:08:28 GMT
I voted Yes although it is a far more nuanced question than 3 basic answers.
For me it boils down to this:
If the prospective buyers have some Rovers representation on the new board (ie an Ed Ware type who could be a steady hand on the tiller) then I would be very disappointed if any such takeover collapsed because Wael wants to hang on to his Rovers shares for dear life.
I would hope that Wael would always do what is best for the club and not himself.
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Aug 29, 2018 15:09:13 GMT
Who would want to buy us?
It's all well and good saying yeah lets sell, but who want's to buy us?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:15:09 GMT
Who would want to buy us? Don't think anyone will want to take it on but if there is someone with the money and determination to redevelop the mem or re-enter talks with UWE and develop a training ground then I would hope that Wael and family would walk and accept some loss on his purchase. DC is holding it all together and an owner who does not talk is making things untenable.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:23:49 GMT
Cheerio then. If he writes off the debts I’ll buy us for a £1.
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Post by Nortongashead on Aug 29, 2018 15:26:18 GMT
Wael's problem is he's all smoke and mirrors. Let US know where we are under his ownership rather than pointless conjecture and speculation all the time. If he cant progress the club to a new home then he needs to find someone that can. I quite like him as our owner, but id rather have someone who isn't as likeable that's gets things done and is more ruthless in their quest to get things progressing. To be honest I'm pretty disillusioned by it all now and its starting to reflect playing wise now as well.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:30:48 GMT
Yes because he’s had all his glories now The going gets tough the tough get going 🤝
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Post by Blueside on Aug 29, 2018 15:33:49 GMT
Wael's problem is he's all smoke and mirrors. Let US know where we are under his ownership rather than pointless conjecture and speculation all the time. If he cant progress the club to a new home then he needs to find someone that can. I quite like him as our owner, but id rather have someone who isn't as likeable that's gets things done and is more ruthless in their quest to get things progressing. To be honest I'm pretty disillusioned by it all now and its starting to reflect playing wise now as well. Be careful what you wish for. Alongside "Ruthless", you would also need "Understands football and football culture". Would you like a ruthless owner who "gets things done" and gets "us" to the premiership, but in the process changes our names to Bristol Zebras or something, changes our kit from blue and white quarters to red and green stripes to align with his other business interests, and moves us to Didcot where there is a nice cheap piece of land on which to build a 35000 all seater state of the art stadium with excellent access to motorways and railways, and sausage rolls at £5 a go? Not voted, too difficult to decide.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:36:25 GMT
Wael's problem is he's all smoke and mirrors. Let US know where we are under his ownership rather than pointless conjecture and speculation all the time. If he cant progress the club to a new home then he needs to find someone that can. I quite like him as our owner, but id rather have someone who isn't as likeable that's gets things done and is more ruthless in their quest to get things progressing. To be honest I'm pretty disillusioned by it all now and its starting to reflect playing wise now as well. Exactly, I find the dislike MacAnthony gets quite interesting because although his style is not liked by some at least the guy is a straight shooter and puts his money where his mouth is. Could you imagine Darragh MacAnthony going on with Twentyman and telling us he can't tell us anything because confidentiality? Ha! The mere thought it hilarious. Given someone like him or a Wael character who is nice but has nothing to say I would take the dislikable bloke any day. I'm not looking for a drinking buddy I'm after a chairman for a football club and I think people get those two things conflated when they talk about Wael being a nice man.
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Post by gregsy on Aug 29, 2018 15:36:50 GMT
Poll aside, I take it quite a few have given up on wael announcing any infrastructure developments?
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Post by Nortongashead on Aug 29, 2018 15:38:47 GMT
Wael's problem is he's all smoke and mirrors. Let US know where we are under his ownership rather than pointless conjecture and speculation all the time. If he cant progress the club to a new home then he needs to find someone that can. I quite like him as our owner, but id rather have someone who isn't as likeable that's gets things done and is more ruthless in their quest to get things progressing. To be honest I'm pretty disillusioned by it all now and its starting to reflect playing wise now as well. Be careful what you wish for. Alongside "Ruthless", you would also need "Understands football and football culture". Would you like a ruthless owner who "gets things done" and gets "us" to the premiership, but in the process changes our names to Bristol Zebras or something, changes our kit from blue and white quarters to red and green stripes, and moves us to Didcot where there is a nice cheap piece of land on which to build a 35000 all seater state of the art stadium with excellent access to motorways and railways, and sausage rolls at £5 a go? Not voted, too difficult to decide. I can except everything apart from sausage rolls at £5 a go!
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Post by milo on Aug 29, 2018 15:39:16 GMT
Think it's early days for stuff like this to be honest.
We are no worse than we always have been. He is at least getting a small gripes sorted here and there which is more than what was done in previous years before his ownership.
Yes, it's not turned out to be all it's cracked up to be so far but who's to say the next person will - the grass isn't always greener.
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Post by blueridge on Aug 29, 2018 15:43:14 GMT
As Abraham Lincoln once said - "You can fool all the people some of the time & some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time"
After Wael's last interview this effectively reflects my thinking and I would suggest a lot of other people.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:44:16 GMT
Cheerio then. If he writes off the debts I’ll buy us for a £1. Yes, but will you meet the running losses of £2 m a year and develop a stadium and training ground as well?
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Aug 29, 2018 15:44:50 GMT
Cheerio then. If he writes off the debts I’ll buy us for a £1. And how would you pay the first years losses of c.£1.5M?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:47:37 GMT
Yes because he’s had all his glories now The going gets tough the tough get going 🤝 I'm not sure Wael has the resilience needed and it seems as things get tougher we just see and here less and less of him. Seems to be in hiding.
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Post by Jomo on Aug 29, 2018 15:47:41 GMT
We don't know enough to make an informed choice about this. It's typical of your average football fan to childishly demand change when things aren't quite going the way you want.
Bit more patience required methinks.
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Aug 29, 2018 15:49:34 GMT
Cheerio then. If he writes off the debts I’ll buy us for a £1.
WOW!!!
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Post by zulugas on Aug 29, 2018 15:49:39 GMT
Holy sh** some of you people have very short memories. The club is now being run in a proper business like manner, it starting to generate revenues we struggled to get in the past and all around the whole setup it more professional. It will take time for the club to feel the benefit of this, but the green shoots are there. None of us know what is going on in the back ground about the stadium or training ground, but do you really think the family are just sat there twiddling their thumbs? Do you really want to go back to the old days of hand to mouth existence? The money bags Rovers fanatic that some people think is out the itching to chuck his / her fortune at the club doesn't exist. The Al Q's are cautious business people and run the club that way, and as far as i am concerned that's fine by me, beats the out of control crash into non-league football we had in the past.
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Post by pirate on Aug 29, 2018 15:51:22 GMT
Pull yer finger out Wael!!!
Actually, just sell up to one of the other 10 potential buyers that you mentioned previously, they couldn't do much worse.
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