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Post by long john silver on Mar 30, 2016 20:47:26 GMT
we can just sing him happy birthday instead.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 27, 2016 18:27:33 GMT
Carstairs works for bristol university and has been doing everything he can to try and stop rovers going to the UWE. The UWE having a purpose built sports arena on site would put them on another level.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 27, 2016 14:20:08 GMT
First time post and hope to join in quietly rather than make a huge entrance.... This conversation started with my mate a few weeks ago, but we got chatting about how well Rovers were doing which then looked very likely the playoffs for us and I asked the question if you had to choose a playoff victory or success for England at the Euro's then what would you choose? It got a mixed response, I for one would choose Rovers title or promotion over England always, this includes a World Cup final. Watching the England game tonight, I admit I may have taken part in an exaggerated celebration in a friendly but made me think about the summer and would I rather see Darrell Clarke or Roy Hodgson on a open top bus parade, I'd choose D.C every time. My mate on the other hand would rather see a united country and see every fan from every club celebrating together. Maybe I'm selfish but as much as I'd like to see England do well in the summer and beyond I'd get much more satisfaction and pleasure seeing our Rovers triumph. Interested on other opinions? UTG i'd take a rovers promotion over a euros win but a world cup is another story.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 26, 2016 17:51:57 GMT
I am a STH and sit in the Dribuild stand and have noticed that we have 1 or 2 very untidy supporters who tear up their losing 50/50 tickets into confetti size and throw them in the air, thus drifting in all directions depending on wind conditions. This practise isnt welcome to most of us and needs to be stopped,do those doing it ever stop to realise just WHAT they are doing,except to make a mess that has to be cleared up by someone at COST to the CLUB. If you are one of those Supporters,PLEASE in your interest and others ,give it some thought. Do we want to take a practice like this to our-''planned''- new Stadium.I hope not. That was the only downside on a great day yesterday.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 26, 2016 8:13:20 GMT
so 2 rovers fans gobbed off to derry and he told them to f**k off. shock, horror
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Post by long john silver on Mar 25, 2016 2:27:14 GMT
Who the f**k is Kano .
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Post by long john silver on Mar 24, 2016 17:30:44 GMT
If only we had a bigger ground.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 23, 2016 12:03:13 GMT
I'm still a little confused about the funding. So, if the Stadium costs £40m to build and we sell The Mem for £20m, then we are £20m short. So we borrow £20m from 'financiers'. How do we repay the loan? Most clubs outside of The Prem struggle to break-even, let alone make a profit. The stadium will only cost £30m to build the other £10m is in the value of the land which is being leased to us so we only need another £10m, Providing we get 20 for the mem .
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Post by long john silver on Mar 23, 2016 11:54:30 GMT
Very positive. I found this line very interesting, "Anyone who comes knocking on our door to ask about things like naming rights when the stadium is up and running in two years' time might have missed the boat." Seams confident of securing additional funding. Maybe a few parties have already expressed an interest? I thought that UWE had it in the contract that it had the naming rights? Hence the UWE stadium. He probably means the stands.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 22, 2016 20:46:23 GMT
he will probably do his achilles on friday after that write up. top player though , i've always rated the bloke
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Post by long john silver on Mar 22, 2016 11:29:39 GMT
lockyer will be missed but we still got parks , clarke and McChristal. harrison and McBurnie wouldnt of started anyways . we will be fine.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 20, 2016 13:12:59 GMT
they have accepted relegation then. What do I know! if it wasnt for how ridiculously poor dagenham and york have been they would still be very much in trouble.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 14, 2016 18:09:26 GMT
It will be quite interesting to see how DC manages the new era. Up until now he has had to work within a tightly constrained budget and has build a squad of players drawn mainly from non-league status. He has got them playing and, in my opinion anyway, overachieving as a team. We are all applauding the fact that we have "got our Rovers back". Every single player seems to want to put in their shift, and more importantly they want to win for the club. They play together as a team, and seem to be just as much a team off the pitch as on it. Maybe that has evolved as part of the "backs to the wall" mentality. I do hope that the availability of funds doesn't change any of that. I kind of agree that we need cover for the central midfield due to the current injuries - but I would hate to see the spirit of the club lost if we brought in the wrong type of player. Good point. But we do need to embrace this new era. We are now with the big boys and can affford any player we want. The problem will be attracting then to a us in the bottom tier. We just nned to get one big name in to prove to the football world we are the real deal. great comeback against fulham saturday , think you will stay up ?
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Post by long john silver on Mar 14, 2016 9:38:20 GMT
www.justice.gov.uk/courts/court-lists/list-appeal-civil
notice
Take notice that on THURSDAY, 17MARCH, 2016 in COURT 63, at 10 O'CLOCK, Judgment will be given in the following.
APPLICATION
A3/2015/2702(B) Sainsbury's Supermarkets Limited -v- Bristol Rovers (1883) Limited.
APPEAL
From The Chancery Division
FINAL DECISIONS
A3/2015/2702 Sainsbury's Supermarkets Limited -v- Bristol Rovers (1883) Limited.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 13, 2016 23:30:42 GMT
Don't give up the day job.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 13, 2016 10:07:14 GMT
nearly 8k for a league 2 game and your dissapointed. I thought it was a fantastic turnout.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 6, 2016 19:40:05 GMT
I was surprised to be honest, as I thought taking over the sponsorship was a good way of getting money in to the club without causing FFP problems. So some possibilities; We really still do need to behave like money is tight, so the £100k from the raffle is still essential or Its just a Red Herring as FFP doesnt apply to us in this season or next as we've come up from the conference & they are going to pour money in regardless I'm really not sure where we are, we are certainly recruiting big time off the field, and will have to watch that when FFP kicks in for the 2017/18 Season. At this point I am just reminding myself we are NOT a rich club, we just have a rich owner (Marcus Evans has a huge fortune, but Ipswich Town don't see much of that!!) What do you all reckon? Wheels were already in motion for the raffle to happen and 100k is a sh** load of money for a league 2 sponsor . If it's not broke don't fix it.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 4, 2016 20:07:27 GMT
people seem to think there's a huge pool of pacey wingers and 20 goal a season strikers out there just waiting for a club to throw some money there way. its not that simple and i'd rather DC was picky with who he brings to the club. we threw money at players before and it got us relegated , lets not go down the same path
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Post by long john silver on Mar 4, 2016 17:15:46 GMT
who has said extra funds have been made avalible to DC ? the clubs playing budget was decided at the begining of the season.
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Post by long john silver on Mar 4, 2016 16:38:26 GMT
im out of step with modern football fans and there very short memories and instant ability to boo there own team or maybe leave early. also cant relate to the forum "get darrell clarke" out attitude if we lose a match does anyone else find they cant tune into this nihilistic instant win or go mentality that pervades modern football? i dont really belong on any forum or maybe any football ground as i dont relate to the people around me,,anyone else feel like this? i think alot of football managers can be victims of there own success. at the begining of the season most fans would of been happy with a mid table finish but given our successful campaign this season many fans will see anything but finishing in a playoff posision at the end of the year as a disaster. football fans are fickle whatever team they support and you only have to read this forum on a regular basis to see that were constantly 2 games away from a crisis or winning the league.
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