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Post by stuart1974 on May 8, 2024 8:50:14 GMT
First signing, currently with the club. First signing, new player. Plans for East Stand. Next seasons fixtures. New kit. No announcements in May. The chicken or the egg? My money is on administration. 😱 Or straight liquidation. 🫣 (The egg came first)
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Post by stuart1974 on May 8, 2024 8:46:19 GMT
Apart from snake who have we sold for a bargain? Them all. We're Football's Poundland.
I wouldn't say many from the following list were not bargains:
1 Jason Roberts 00/01 West Brom €3.00m 2 Barry Hayles 98/99 Fulham €3.00m 3 Gareth Taylor 95/96 Crystal Palace €1.90m 4 Nathan Ellington 01/02 Wigan €1.80m 5 Marcus Stewart 96/97 Huddersfield €1.80m 6 Nigel Martyn 89/90 Crystal Palace €1.50m 7 Jonson Clarke-Harris 20/21 Peterborough €1.40m 8 Rickie Lambert 09/10 Southampton €1.20m 9 Aaron Collins 23/24 Bolton €880k 10 Ellis Harrison 18/19 Ipswich €840k 11 Steve Yates 93/94 QPR €820k 12 Marcus Browning 96/97 Huddersfield €750k 13 Mustapha Carayol 12/13 Middlesbrough €640k 14 Gary Penrice 88/89 Watford €630k 15 Will Hoskins 11/12 Brighton €565k 16 Billy Bodin 17/18 Preston €450k 17 Jamie Cureton 00/01 Reading €368k 18 Peter Beadle 98/99 Port Vale €367k 19 Matty Taylor 16/17 Bristol City €350k 20 Justin Channing 96/97 Leyton Orient €318k
Values in Euros from Transfermarkt
Also need to factor in football inflation.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 8, 2024 8:39:47 GMT
You've well and truly used that up already, and now you're just an utter bore regurgitating the same old crap every hour. We know the owners aren't perfect, they haven't been for decades, and I doubt they ever will be. Things will change under my rule . I think Chewie was hoping for things to improve. 😉
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 15:44:21 GMT
We know, you've made your view abundantly clear. Perhaps we can get back to the topic of the thread. Sure. Will the new East Stand keep the WAQ mural do we think? Hopefully they'll commission a new one and name the stand in his honour. 😉
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 15:23:58 GMT
I think you've missed the point. It's not calling for a better approach, it's asking for the name calling to be tempered down a notch. I stand by it, they're a pair of useless berks. We know, you've made your view abundantly clear. Perhaps we can get back to the topic of the thread.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 15:13:44 GMT
Just crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s The way things go at Rovers, more dotting the Ts and crossing the Is. 😇
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 15:12:08 GMT
Couldn't make the 7-0 game, City were out of it after the penalty so expected to win by the final whistle. Mansell's penalty was too nervey. Igoe's goal was great, but for pure excitement (if that's the gauge), I'd have to go for Browner. But the tension in the lead up to the City game…… mahoosive pressure ! All week before the Teds giving it the biggun saying how they were going to win easily. Then we battered them . Pure footballing bliss . Don't get me wrong, I loved it and the day after. 😃 But for pure unadulterated joy at the final whistle bearing in mind when the goal was scored, the timings couldn't have been better.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 15:08:58 GMT
So one club then😂. I bet their budget is still a lot less than ours. So you would be happy if we cut ours you the same, to make a profit? Plus they only made a profit as they made £1.4 million on transfers. That does not happen every season. Some of that was down to Taylor, who most slate on here😂 Here in lies the issue. Here we are losing £2-4m a year, not going anywhere, not having a better stadium, not doing anything of note and still 4 points bellow a club that's regularly turned a profit. Rovers investment has been short term, sure it may prop us up in League One for a bit but it's not sustainable. For all WAQ's noise about "Evolution not revolution" Rovers boom and bust approach to the club hasn't changed since the early 2000's. We're still a club that sustains itself completely on match day revenue. That needs to change. I find it absolutely insane that asking for a more reasoned approach to running a football club is laughed off on here. Surely putting things in place to secure the clubs future for the next 30+ years is more a priority than the difference between 12th in League One or League Two? I think you've missed the point. It's not calling for a better approach, it's asking for the name calling to be tempered down a notch.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 13:21:01 GMT
Couldn't make the 7-0 game, City were out of it after the penalty so expected to win by the final whistle. Mansell's penalty was too nervey.
Igoe's goal was great, but for pure excitement (if that's the gauge), I'd have to go for Browner.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 12:24:54 GMT
Which brings us back to my question, what should he have done instead? Sign with UWE? Redevelop the Mem? Pursue the FM? Not go ahead with The Quarters? Not capitalise the loans or support the managers? PR isn't great and mistakes made, dont think anyone disputes that, but on those strategic decisions what should he have done differently? Since we purchased The Mem in 1997 78/92 clubs have either partially or fully redeveloped their stadiums. One's who haven't were significantly developed in the 90's (Millwall, Forest and Carlisle being examples). Be it Dunford's, Craig's, Higgs', al-Qadi's or AlSaeed's boards they've all failed. Al-Qadi achieved as much as Higgs, he was just a bit richer. Which just goes to show that owning us is difficult and expensive. Perhaps our owners, past, present and future, should be given a little slack in terms of the personal abuse.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 11:50:09 GMT
Thing is Chewie, at one point you were hanging out the back of Wael and were best buddies. The level of vitriol across all social media platforms is not healthy and wonder wether there is something more than their supposed inadequacies. Here’s a thought why not speak to both directly and voice your concerns rather than hide behind a locked account on X and on here. It's quite easy to "see the light" regarding things. In Wael, like I said we had an owner who is all sh** and no fart. In 2016 he said “A new stadium has to be built. We cannot be sustainable if we stay at the Memorial,”, since then we have built a pre-fabricated semi-permanent (by rights semi-temporary then) stand and had a failed Stadium in UWE and two failed sites in the "Close by" site and the Fruit Market. The latter the club released a Promotional Video in a sort of Whaddon Road choose your seats parody. With regards to the UWE development in 2019 WAQ stated UWE "decided they wanted a different use for their land", five years later the land is still not being used, has not had any plans put forward for it despite the University proceeding with numerous developments across the campus. Fair play the scaled back Quarters was opened in October 2020 over two years late with Category 2 Academy Status not achieved in the al-Qadi tenure. So, in conclusion, in 7 years we have a new stand at a ground it isn't sustainable to develop similar to what National League behemoths Eastleigh have and a training ground similar to AEK Boco. As for Mr Gorringe I point to; the Mint Bet sponsorship, the Football Index sponsorship, the 30.55% rise in Season Tickets, the Fruit Market statement and video, not getting planning permission for TWO stands, releasing a shirt to raise awareness of disabilities two days after banning disabled Barnsley fans, the "victimless crime" statement, deleting the any club employees who are convicted of such offences "will be dismissed immediately" before signing Jevani Brown, overseeing the REDUCTION in the capacity of The Mem, Ticketgate vs Norwich, £15 season cards, "normal fans" and the deleted tweet that followed. Shall I go on? Which brings us back to my question, what should he have done instead? Sign with UWE? Redevelop the Mem? Pursue the FM? Not go ahead with The Quarters? Not capitalise the loans or support the managers? PR isn't great and mistakes made, dont think anyone disputes that, but on those strategic decisions what should he have done differently?
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 9:21:55 GMT
Similar suggestion on the other forum. Could it be the same source? No idea. Presumably you both trust your sources enough to comment. Are you confident or could they be wrong?
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 8:26:32 GMT
Such as? I don't really understand why there is such hatred of him and TG on a personal level. Disagreeing on and critiquing what they do is one thing, but it's crossing a line for me. They're both useless. Christ, they released a video for a new stadium that they had no plans for, no agreement on, nothing. They're both beyond parody at this point. Absolute bozos. Believe me, I've had the pleasure of working with many people who are not up to the role, guilty of naivity or incompetence, I still wouldn't get personal though. As for the 'just do something' it's still a question of what. The FM was still on until relatively recently and they eventually got on with the South Stand. I'd rather they did that earlier, granted.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 8:12:30 GMT
What should he have done? Absolutely anything. All fart and no sh** that bloke. Sums it up that he's only sold up to someone that'll preserve his little Waelter Mitty fantasy as President. Such as? I don't really understand why there is such hatred of him and TG on a personal level. Disagreeing on and critiquing what they do is one thing, but some of the comments from different posters is crossing a line for me.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 7:38:29 GMT
Greens run Bristol now …. Expect all sorts of additions in the stand . Owl boxes - solar panels - seats made from cardboard etc.. At least Wally didn't waste 7 years ey? What should he have done?
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 6:59:33 GMT
I got a text saying he is gone at 12 midnight. I cannot find anything to back that up but will see later this morning Who text you ? 😂 Similar suggestion on the other forum. Could it be the same source?
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Post by stuart1974 on May 7, 2024 6:57:10 GMT
Name who wrote and sent the email, or is it all innuendo as usual? id like to know,I’m sure others would also 👍🏾 I don’t know for a fact. Just my opinion from reading it that it’s pretty obvious. Maybe, but it's still speculation. Not aimed at you, but this is just how rumours get out of hand, one person's "maybe" becomes and Internet fact within a few posts and before we know it, there are calls for sackings.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 6, 2024 22:02:01 GMT
I'm not sure I can understand the fuss about this - what exactly IS the correct expression for people who are not disabled? The way I read it is that disabled cards will be free to users and normal - all other? cards will cost £15. Strikes me this is yet another "let's have a go at TG" type of post. As it happens, I talked with a disabled fan and asked if the reply was offensive and he laughed his socks off! So you are comfortable with the club disregarding disabled fans/people as ‘normal’? Because that is very clearly how it is worded. “We have provided all disabled fans through Clare to get FREE cards for them upon request. As for normal fans and older fans they can purchase the card for 15 pounds”. Absolutely rank. The lengths some go to to defend anything to with the club is embarrassing It's poorly worded but I'm not sure there is any malice intended. An apology or clarity wouldn't go amiss perhaps, but I wouldn't get too wound up over it. The lack of facilities is far more insulting imo.
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Post by stuart1974 on May 6, 2024 20:06:34 GMT
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Post by stuart1974 on May 6, 2024 17:25:58 GMT
Surely it can’t be long until we get to see the plans ? I’m sure we were told it was a couple of weeks away and that was about 3 weeks ago ! 😂 We could def do with hearing a bit of good news after what seems like many weeks of misery. I think he said the plans would be finished then, but they wouldn't show fans. They said they would take them to the council and relevant people and make amendments before showing them. So I didn't think we will see anything soon. That's right, two weeks or probably more to finalise then show to the authorities. Depending on that feedback they'll formally submit and publicly announce. Still a while off yet.
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