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Post by aghast on Feb 26, 2023 22:20:53 GMT
I went to Bath v Bristol rugby on Friday evening. Great atmosphere, no segregation, beers at your seats, no trouble at all so far as I could see.
Why can't we be like that?
The only downside I could see was there wasn't as much singing from a concentrated group of fans in one end or other. It was noisy but sort of diluted.
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Post by aghast on Feb 26, 2023 21:59:13 GMT
I've never been a fan of Black or very dark away colours Loved this one from 2017-18
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Post by aghast on Feb 26, 2023 21:06:06 GMT
Agreed the current matchday programme at £3.50 is poor value lots of full page adverts big headlines no photo captions and on some pages too small font particularly the results match stats are almost unreadable. The days of award winning programmes during the Keith Brookman era are well behind us. No doubt there are more adverts and "fillers" but since covid the number of volunteer article writers has reduced. Perhaps some forum users could donate articles? Obviously the club would involve some kind of censorship but a Pirate scouting page, (sorry can't recall which user this is - but a memories of a Central League ref/lino, a Swiss Gas Conspiracy Theory page and Big Jock pre match cuisine and jokes page would no doubt be original for a match day programme! How about an articles called "You never forget your first time" and every programme features memories of different peoples first Gas experience. With a mass of different ages it would span decades - even in the law of averages by chance someones first game was the same as yours no doubt the pre match journey and view of the game be would be totally different. But seriously, as mentioned the Pirate is not as good as it was, so maybe if a few people have the time and inclination they could volunteer to write a few articles each a season? Maybe a few left field articles would give it a boost? How about posting 'Views from the Forum'? It's all here already. A selection of recent comments on topics like 'Favourite Starting XI', 'Ever bumped into a gashead away from home?' Marcus Stewart and Nick Anderton fundraising, and 'Joey Barton is unfit to be Bristol Rovers manager'. Ok, maybe not the last one.....
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Post by aghast on Feb 25, 2023 20:47:07 GMT
Do do doo. We always win at Oxford. GGMI joins in the celebrations over our win and Dude's success.
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Post by aghast on Feb 25, 2023 20:42:24 GMT
On a more general point, and I've struggled to find an answer, how is the debt situation going in Greece, and the relationship with Germany, who were accused of demanding/imposing strict monetary controls on their Greco cousins, or bleeding them dry like they ran the country, according to who was commenting at the time?
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Post by aghast on Feb 25, 2023 17:29:56 GMT
I don't understand the rules. Is it an actual starting XI on a particular day in the past or a mix and match of whoever we've liked best? Because we have both here. This stuff worries me and I need my blue blanket.
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Post by aghast on Feb 25, 2023 17:22:23 GMT
Good result and relief all round. I think our return to winning ways had more to do with Belshaw's return than might be obvious.
He didn't win the match just by being there, but I think seeing him back in the side gave a confidence boost to what has been an extremely nervous set of defenders, and that transmits itself through the side.
Also, Oxford were terrible, which might have something to do with it I suppose.
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Post by aghast on Feb 24, 2023 23:32:48 GMT
Just got back from the rugby. Nice evening, great atmosphere, poor stadium, £64 a ticket to sit in a glorified South Stand!!!!!! Outrageous.
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Post by aghast on Feb 24, 2023 23:10:24 GMT
IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION ABOUT POTENTIAL DELAYS IN THE PLANNING PROCESS FOR THE PROPOSED NEW STAND. David Bright replied,: "We’ve started the conversations and we have good people working on it for us, we hope to be able to keep pace on the project." Well we've heard that before. We've employed more stadium consultants than I can count. Now I realise it won't be 4,000. It'll be announced as 2,500, then 1,750, then it won't happen after all.
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Post by aghast on Feb 24, 2023 23:06:19 GMT
SS7. 7?
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Post by aghast on Feb 24, 2023 23:04:07 GMT
The woman's game is the same but different than the men's. You have to watch it as a game in it's own right and not try and compare it to a men's game. I find it entertaining and in some ways more enjoyable than the men's e.g. Lack of dissent and cheating, those who say they would beat our men's team, say so in jest i presume, we would have to declare at half time! I seem to remember we played against Bristol Rugby in a pre season friendly in the early 00's. One half of football and one half of rugby. The football half was a draw! Don't keep us dangling man. How did the rugby half go?
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Post by aghast on Feb 24, 2023 23:02:20 GMT
For anyone interested based on form, PPG & footballing mathematics I don't understand, currently Rovers would finish 19th position 4 pts above the drop zone. Shows just how tough our run in is..... Anything can happen though! This is presumably based on current form and not season's form. Well current form won't last for 14 more games, will it? Will it? 😖
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Post by aghast on Feb 24, 2023 17:10:49 GMT
The 2 properties at the top of Alton Road are Nos 20 and 25. 20 is a leasehold property, last sold in 2016 no idea who sold or bought. 25 is also leasehold, but last sold in 2021. Leasehold being owned by 1 person/organisation and then let to a different person/organisation (I think). The two properties that were owned by the club along with the land behind were 18 and 20 and looking at the works that have recently taken place on those properties it really does look like they have been sold. Well they would have been, wouldn't they, because redevelopment of the Mem is a non-starter. Doh!
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Post by aghast on Feb 24, 2023 0:12:01 GMT
What a fine looking bunch of patriots they are. Makes you proud to be British 😱
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Post by aghast on Feb 24, 2023 0:06:09 GMT
Regarding the height issue and any possible objections. Do the club still own any properties in alton Road or were they sold off? Looking on google earth there seems to be an area of wasteland to the south/south west of the south stand. Its not big ( and looks like it has a couple of kids trampolines in it). Not sure if rovers own it but if cleared would give a bit better access to any new south stand. If it really is wasteland (although someone must own it).we could do something like the old Dell at Southampton. Don't laugh. Brentford already have.
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Post by aghast on Feb 23, 2023 22:42:43 GMT
I was at the game last night. Lots of pass and move, work the angles and the channels. Lionesses now 29 games unbeatean. On current form I think they would give Rovers first team a tough game...and probably beat us. Blimey that's a bet I'd love to lay you at even money. Whilst it's great entertainment it's miles away from men's professional football. In an intergender (yes, there's a word for these things....) match I'd be surprised if they could beat a half decent Sunday league park side. That's not meant as being disrespectful to women's football. I think the standard has increased massively over the past 10 years and it's entertaining to watch, but the two are like chalk and cheese. Not comparable really. The Lionesses would wallop a side made up of 11 me's though.
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Post by aghast on Feb 23, 2023 0:01:25 GMT
To be fair, there has been unseasonably cold weather in parts of Spain and Morocco which has contributed to the shortages* *Not denying that Brexit was sh**e all the same. Yep that’s acknowledged, the point being when there isn’t a glut of fruit they will export to those countries that are closest and easiest. Last on the list will be a country where is more costly and time consuming. That’ll be us and that’ll be Brexit . As with nearly everything this country is going down the pan for , Brexit has made things worse than they otherwise would have been. Remember we were going to get cheaper food ? 😂🙄 Everything is going wrong in the UK, and we were promised everything would get better. It's not all directly related to Brexit, apparently, but it's going more wrong here than in the average of the rest of the EU. So if we accept our lack of cucumbers, and car firms leaving Britain, and GDP declines are just events, events unrelated to Brexit, we have to wonder where we'd be if these non Brexit related happenings had happened if we'd still been in the EU?
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Post by aghast on Feb 22, 2023 23:45:16 GMT
Ok , so it’s a a stand replacing the south stand and that other stand by the west terrace if I’m right ? That’s 1800 seats at a guess ? filling in the corner with a wrap around stand adds a couple of hundred and extended it to along where the big screen is is another 500 ? Add another 6-8 rows of seats all around adds 1200 ish ? Totally back off fag ( guesses ) . Does this add up ? Yes I’m sure you’re about right. So it’s a temporary measure to get more income on match day. And absolutely nothing wrong with that. Just surprised it’s taken 7 years to do it! UTG! TG didn't say it was a temporary stand. He didn't say it wasn't either, to be fair. He said some stuff about how we need a new stadium, of course, as he would. I really don't think it would be too difficult to get to 18,000 capacity in something that might look like a bit of a dog's dinner with a new south stand, add-ons either side(s) of the East and West stands and perhaps an additional seated tier above the Thatchers end towering (!) above the fanzone. But it would do the job in the short to medium term, bring in a lot more ticket revenue, and cost a hell of a lot less than a new stadium or complete rebuild. Still expensive, and I'm not paying the bill, so maybe it's pie in the sky. But as I've said, doing nothing is not an option.
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Post by aghast on Feb 22, 2023 22:13:01 GMT
Further confirmation, if any were needed, that the Mem is being redeveloped, probably in the absence of any other plans. If you only have one remaining plan, apart from doing nothing, then you go with that plan, even if some of your spokespersons have said it's a non-starter. Look forward to the denial any such thing was ever said.....
4,000 sounds great, if it can be done and if it happens. Fingers crossed.
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Post by aghast on Feb 22, 2023 18:06:08 GMT
Personally as a Barton hiller I would say the fruit market is south of the river. Traditionally the feddar is the dividing line. The Netham side was inner North . The old St Philips Marsh was inner south. The fruit market is closer to lower Totterdown ( City ). I do take your point about needing a new ground but I feel a club is reflective of a community and its involvement. I can understand it if we moved to a nuturel rural area but this feels like City soil !. The Feeder isn't the river though. Fruit market is north of the river and whatever spin you care to put on it, that's actual fact. Barton lovers. Barton haters. Barton Hillers. The man can't be ignored.
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