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Post by Jomo on Aug 8, 2019 2:44:49 GMT
And yet they're getting sh** on the next thread for telling us about ongoing plans for a stadium. Also, if they'd never mentioned the new screen, how much better would that have been for them. If they'd just come out with the reason for shirtgate, do you imagine the relevant threads would be full of people saying, 'Well, that's ok. Thanks for telling us. Love you. xxx' But they didn't volunteer information about the fruit market. Twentyman put a direct question to Wael about it, and he answered. He would have been hard-pressed to deny it, since it was all over social media. I agree with you about the hypocrisy in some instances on this forum. If they say nothing, we slag them off. If they say something, we slag them off. And some would have moaned if they'd told us six weeks ago that the away shirts would be late. But I don't think the moaners are a majority. Just a few professional moaners with too much time on their hands. I think the overwhelming majority of posters on here could handle some bad news, and would respect the owners for telling us how and why it is. It's really frustrating to hear nothing for months on end and only get to hear from Wael when Twentyman backs him into a corner from which he cannot escape. I'm not expecting great things from the current leaders. I saw my first game in 1968, and it's been generally the same disappointing stuff throughout all those decades. That's ok. We can't all be Man City. But I would like to think that they could respect the fans enough to keep them informed. They don't seem to like doing that. That's my impression anyway. Cracking post aghast that's exactly how I see it. It reminds me of a kid who has accidentally broken their parents favourite wine glass or something. They pretend nothing happened and just throw the offending item in the bin and go on like there's nothing wrong, for fear of the retribution, knowing full well that they can't get it away with it forever. It's actually cutting off their nose to spite their face because owning up to it in the first place gets the monkey off their back, resolves the problem and earns respect and trust for being truthful in spite of the "owning up" being a bit uncomfortable. After all, it wasn't even their fault, and a parent with any sense can see that. I see the situation with Rovers as a bit like that. They announced the big screen because it's a good thing, and yes it is a good thing in my view. Some moan about it but then that's par for the course. Sadly there are a number of Gasheads who openly criticise anything and everything which is just stupid, but they don't represent the fanbase as a whole, and their empty-headed vitriol should be taken in context of it being only an idiot minority. The remainder of the objective and mature fanbase suffer from the stupidity of the minority by now facing a situation where we have radio silence over anything that has taken a wrong turn, whether it was the club's fault or not. The screen was announced when it was all rosey, and then buried when things started to go awry. The home kit was announced and all was good, but they chose not to even mention the fact that the away kit wouldn't be ready for "X" number of weeks. That was their perfect opportunity to mention it and clear the air. AF and gas1970 I almost always agree with you, but I can't agree that this is just another stick to bash the club with. I honestly do not give two hoots over the away kit being late, I'm 95% sure I won't be buying one anyway as I never buy away shirts, but that's not the real issue here. The real issue is us having a club that now deliberately chooses to only announce news when it won't result in a come back on them. What they don't seem to realise is that their lack of communication is not helping them, it's hindering them. If they'd explained the situations such as staff departures for whatever reason, "big screen is experiencing technical issues which we're trying to resolve", "supplier has made an error with shirt colour for the away shirt so it'll be delayed, we apologise for the inconvenience" then I would not be posting on this thread. I would feel satisfied that they've openly communicated these issues and given us the information we need. I know there would be some idiot moaners but I'd hope that this sort of information would go a long way to appeasing the majority of the fanbase. They've dug themselves into this hole where trust has diminished, certainly on my part, and I hope they have enough sense and backbone to see why this is, and go some way to digging themselves out of it. At the moment their radio silence just incriminates them in the eyes of a lot of the fans, and it needn't be that way. That's on the assumption that there isn't actually anything untoward behind all these things in the first place. Maybe it's perhaps my "misplaced" trust that I don't buy into these conspiracy theories in spite of the lack of communication.
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Post by jhgas on Aug 8, 2019 12:51:10 GMT
Had a reply from Mr Gorringe on Twitter.... sounds like we should see something soon 👍🏼
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Post by Gas-Ed on Aug 8, 2019 14:39:21 GMT
Had a reply from Mr Gorringe on Twitter.... sounds like we should see something soon 👍🏼 What did he say?
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Post by BelieveItWhenIAmSatInIt on Aug 8, 2019 14:44:43 GMT
Had a reply from Mr Gorringe on Twitter.... sounds like we should see something soon 👍🏼 I had that same reply a week ago... Make of that what you will
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Post by stapletongas on Aug 8, 2019 14:48:42 GMT
Socially, a far greater percentage find it easier to moan, whinge and criticise than those who praise and congratulate.
The proof is all here. The volume and size of posts bears no relation when we win to when we lose. People don’t write loads of paragraphs analysing a win, but lose a game and it’s different matter.
We are a negative nation of moaners.
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Post by BelieveItWhenIAmSatInIt on Aug 8, 2019 15:00:00 GMT
Socially, a far greater percentage find it easier to moan, whinge and criticise than those who praise and congratulate. The proof is all here. The volume and size of posts bears no relation when we win to when we lose. People don’t write loads of paragraphs analysing a win, but lose a game and it’s different matter. We are a negative nation of moaners. Many thanks for your observation.
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Post by Jomo on Aug 8, 2019 15:09:26 GMT
Had a reply from Mr Gorringe on Twitter.... sounds like we should see something soon 👍🏼 I had that same reply a week ago... Make of that what you will Did you ask him why the club have made no communication on this subject? They'd certainly have been able to save TG from wasting his time responding to at least two individual tweets asking what's going on, if they had been more forthcoming with info.
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Post by BelieveItWhenIAmSatInIt on Aug 8, 2019 16:05:03 GMT
I had that same reply a week ago... Make of that what you will Did you ask him why the club have made no communication on this subject? They'd certainly have been able to save TG from wasting his time responding to at least two individual tweets asking what's going on, if they had been more forthcoming with info. To be honest, I always get the feeling from TG that he is as frustrated at things as the rest of us! He is a very progressive and ambitious young man and if the club do not start to mirror his enthusiasm he will leave before too long, of that I am sure. Hopefully these latest stories of a take over have some truth to them and we end up with a board that match his ambition.
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Post by chewbacca on Aug 9, 2019 8:34:01 GMT
Socially, a far greater percentage find it easier to moan, whinge and criticise than those who praise and congratulate. The proof is all here. The volume and size of posts bears no relation when we win to when we lose. People don’t write loads of paragraphs analysing a win, but lose a game and it’s different matter. We are a negative nation of moaners. Three paragraphs moaning about moaners.
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Post by spiess1 on Aug 9, 2019 9:10:17 GMT
Socially, a far greater percentage find it easier to moan, whinge and criticise than those who praise and congratulate. The proof is all here. The volume and size of posts bears no relation when we win to when we lose. People don’t write loads of paragraphs analysing a win, but lose a game and it’s different matter. We are a negative nation of moaners. As the Aussies rightly say...….whingers.
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Post by stapletongas on Aug 9, 2019 9:18:38 GMT
Socially, a far greater percentage find it easier to moan, whinge and criticise than those who praise and congratulate. The proof is all here. The volume and size of posts bears no relation when we win to when we lose. People don’t write loads of paragraphs analysing a win, but lose a game and it’s different matter. We are a negative nation of moaners. Three paragraphs moaning about moaners. 3 paragraphs of social observation.
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Post by chewbacca on Aug 9, 2019 9:21:02 GMT
Three paragraphs moaning about moaners. 3 paragraphs of social observation. Twelve pages of football club observation in that case.
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Post by stapletongas on Aug 10, 2019 8:32:44 GMT
Is it true that in the 1940’s we had a red and white quartered away shirt?
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Post by Jomo on Aug 10, 2019 8:39:37 GMT
Is it true that in the 1940’s we had a red and white quartered away shirt? Wasn't everything in black and white back then?
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Post by Gas-Ed on Aug 10, 2019 8:47:47 GMT
Saw this thread bumped to the top and thought here we go.
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Post by mftc on Aug 10, 2019 9:59:57 GMT
As it is taking Macron so long it must be the LBGT rainbow style shirt, with each colour handsewn together!
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Post by gasstrictband on Aug 10, 2019 10:11:58 GMT
Mid sixties, we played in red & white stripes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2019 10:35:39 GMT
Socially, a far greater percentage find it easier to moan, whinge and criticise than those who praise and congratulate. The proof is all here. The volume and size of posts bears no relation when we win to when we lose. People don’t write loads of paragraphs analysing a win, but lose a game and it’s different matter. We are a negative nation of moaners. zzzzz tell us something we don’t know! It’s the way it is - like it, cope with it or move away!
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Post by stapletongas on Aug 10, 2019 11:05:31 GMT
Socially, a far greater percentage find it easier to moan, whinge and criticise than those who praise and congratulate. The proof is all here. The volume and size of posts bears no relation when we win to when we lose. People don’t write loads of paragraphs analysing a win, but lose a game and it’s different matter. We are a negative nation of moaners. zzzzz tell us something we don’t know! It’s the way it is - like it, cope with it or move away! I know, I’m observing not complaining
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Post by Baxtinho on Aug 10, 2019 11:11:29 GMT
As it is taking Macron so long it must be the LBGT rainbow style shirt, with each colour handsewn together! Would gain a lot of good publicity for the club, but this place would probably explode.
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