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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 25, 2024 13:37:07 GMT
Exactly. The article makes it very clear about what people in the most important positions feel about how the club is being run as was evident from Matt Taylor’s interview after Exeter. Clearly he feels he is not being supported, and I am sure it is him that has expressed his disappointment and frustration to Dan that it took a month to bring in an assistant and even now it’s still not been officially announced. Also that there is no recruitment team and that this was known 1 month before the transfer window opened and here we are 6 days before the end of it and there is still nothing and so we have missed out on his targets and have to go with what we have. This article is designed to lay the boot into the ownership on behalf of the fans, it won’t have been done lightly, it is very unusual for a local paper to attack the owners of a local club BEFORE the fans are openly doing so, and it takes balls to do it. Our fans in the past have often been too apathetic and forgiving of bad ownership and tend to blame everyone else but the club owners for its lack of progress or for bad outcomes. These new owners have barely communicated with us since they took over, the complete opposite of say the Wrexham owners, and yet we have many fans who are happy to give them the benefit of the doubt. What do they deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt? Actions? Going ahead with the new stadium that was proposed? Happy people at the FC? Player recruitment? Building a competent management structure to support the first team? Effective and inspirational communication? We will have the failing club we deserve (or no club) unless we are willing, as emotional shareholders, to hold to account the actual shareholders. Dan Hargraves has lit a spark that could be a catalyst for a change in attitude. I know some fans have great difficulty in separating the FC itself from the owners of the FC, thinking they are one and the same and what is good for the owner is good for the FC and vice versa, but they must. It is not the same and something that is very bad for the FC could still be very good for an owner. Or are local journalists, enamoured with the lovely facilities and champagne at the Gate simply sh stirring? No. We absolutely need to lose this inferiority and victim complex that anyone that criticises anything to do with BRFC must be doing it because they are a shithead! Its part of the problem as to why we are where we are!
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 25, 2024 12:56:10 GMT
Well, if that does not draw a response from the club, it will tell us everything and what many have been saying for quite sometime. Fair play to Dan Hargreaves for putting it out there. Exactly. The article makes it very clear about what people in the most important positions feel about how the club is being run as was evident from Matt Taylor’s interview after Exeter. Clearly he feels he is not being supported, and I am sure it is him that has expressed his disappointment and frustration to Dan that it took a month to bring in an assistant and even now it’s still not been officially announced. Also that there is no recruitment team and that this was known 1 month before the transfer window opened and here we are 6 days before the end of it and there is still nothing and so we have missed out on his targets and have to go with what we have. This article is designed to lay the boot into the ownership on behalf of the fans, it won’t have been done lightly, it is very unusual for a local paper to attack the owners of a local club BEFORE the fans are openly doing so, and it takes balls to do it. Our fans in the past have often been too apathetic and forgiving of bad ownership and tend to blame everyone else but the club owners for its lack of progress or for bad outcomes. These new owners have barely communicated with us since they took over, the complete opposite of say the Wrexham owners, and yet we have many fans who are happy to give them the benefit of the doubt. What do they deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt? Actions? Going ahead with the new stadium that was proposed? Happy people at the FC? Player recruitment? Building a competent management structure to support the first team? Effective and inspirational communication? We will have the failing club we deserve (or no club) unless we are willing, as emotional shareholders, to hold to account the actual shareholders. Dan Hargraves has lit a spark that could be a catalyst for a change in attitude. I know some fans have great difficulty in separating the FC itself from the owners of the FC, thinking they are one and the same and what is good for the owner is good for the FC and vice versa, but they must. It is not the same and something that is very bad for the FC could still be very good for an owner.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 25, 2024 12:27:03 GMT
What a depressing read and sadly one in which Gas heads through the decades have become accustomed to. A director from a fellow league 1 side (who have also had their share of problems) asked me what do you know about the new owner ?, we cant find anything concrete!! - my reply was: SNAP!! I believed like many that Wael would do the right thing and bring in the right “honest” individuals., has he been fooled ? - Who are these people ?. Yep it’s the “here we go again” syndrome. Who would be a ruddy Gas head ? - Amongst the best fans in the land, who deserve so much more, it is sadly depressing to keep living these shambolic offerings. I still say “They built a new stand - that is progress” but the overall picture is confusing at best and depressing in reality. UTFG 🙄 It still isn't clear how the deal that Wael made to sell his shares was structured. It looks to me as if the shares were simply bought from Wael meaning the cash is in his pocket with no benefit to the club.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 25, 2024 11:19:58 GMT
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 24, 2024 19:35:49 GMT
Why is the attendance suddenly a secret? We never seem to announce it anymore.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 18, 2024 12:55:12 GMT
Their first goal probably onside as we have a player on the line but definitely not a penalty for their second. Ref has been conned, is incompetent or bent to award that!
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 18, 2024 12:45:02 GMT
Please get some photos of the concourse and views those in the central blocks tonight! Also, isn’t Brunel the sponsor of the old stand, probably get renewed in the summer with something else? Did take a photo of the concourse last night, but no idea how to post it on here. Any guidance appreciated. It’s just an empty space at the moment, no sign of any toilet blocks. There are however some extra food outlets etc outside on the west side, although only one was open last night. Is there even a plan to have toilet blocks or bars / food stalls?
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 18, 2024 0:02:50 GMT
So what was the attendance?
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 8, 2024 23:37:19 GMT
But our clubs wouldn’t be pretty much always lower league if the people of this city supported their football clubs in the same way as they do in other comparable sized places. What comes first? In other places it’s the local clubs that come first, success follows. It will rarely happen the other way around which is why we have mainly lower league teams. Just think how big the Bristol clubs would be if only half of Bristolians who support Liverpool or Man U instead actively supported their local club. The whole of the SW is a footballing backwater. Bristol, Swindon Exeter, FGR, Cheltenham and Plymouth from about 8 SW counties fgs. If it’s such a footballing backwater how come there are thousands upon thousands who support football clubs, only they support clubs from elsewhere because they win stuff! I’d agree with you if those people didn’t support anyone or didn’t like football but that’s not it is it? Football IS popular in the SW. The fact that there’s less clubs to share the support around than there is in say the North West means that our clubs could have fantastic support. The difference is attitude. Glory hunters in this part of the world are embraced and even the active fans of the local clubs make excuses for them. That doesn’t happen so much elsewhere where it’s more fashionable to support your local teams.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 8, 2024 23:11:09 GMT
Financially it’s a great draw if we beat Norwich but that’s it. More Bristolians support Liverpool than the Gas (and 82 for that matter) and that is truly and utterly pathetic and it’s why the clubs in this city aren’t as big as they are in other comparable sized places. Is it that?
Or is that both Bristol clubs have been starved of pretty much any success and apart from City's few years in the late 70's no history of top flight Football?
Plus Bristol has the biggest Amateur/Semi Pro scene outside of London, where more people are playing Football themselves on weekends more than anywhere else.
If you combine both Bristol clubs home and away average attendances it's pretty much 30k home and over 3k away. Thats not bad at all for clubs that have always been pretty much lower league.
But our clubs wouldn’t be pretty much always lower league if the people of this city supported their football clubs in the same way as they do in other comparable sized places. What comes first? In other places it’s the local clubs that come first, success follows. It will rarely happen the other way around which is why we have mainly lower league teams. Just think how big the Bristol clubs would be if only half of Bristolians who support Liverpool or Man U instead actively supported their local club.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 8, 2024 22:56:16 GMT
Interesting selection of comments from Norwich fans. Most seem keener on avoiding a humiliating spanking at the hands of a good side than the prospect of a decent day out and the possibility of a good result. Who was it who said football was all about glory? Danny Blanchflower maybe? I’d rather risk a drubbing from Klopp’s kids than be as negative as some Norwich fans seem to be. Difference is that Norwich play Liverpool fairly regularly and are not star struck and wetting their pants thinking about going there again for a so say ‘big day out’ I’d rather be like Norwich. Maybe if people in Bristol had the bollox to support their local clubs in the same percentages as they do in Norwich or Ipswich or Burnley or Newcastle or Sunderland or Sheffield or etc etc it would be no big deal for us either!
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 8, 2024 22:28:30 GMT
Financially it’s a great draw if we beat Norwich but that’s it.
More Bristolians support Liverpool than the Gas (and 82 for that matter) and that is truly and utterly pathetic and it’s why the clubs in this city aren’t as big as they are in other comparable sized places.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 4, 2024 23:12:23 GMT
What an absolute lemon of an interviewer. The owner says "we have big plans", the only question needed is "great, what are they?" Thing is that the interviewer doesn’t really give a f**k and has no idea who his audience are. Just another passer by on his way to whatever he wants to be but won’t get very far because he doesn’t actually ‘get’ the job he’s meant to be doing now!
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 4, 2024 21:05:23 GMT
Like I said it’s actions rather than words that matter. We didn’t actually sign JCH did we? Words were great, actions less so. It is what it is and what its mainly been throughout our entire history. But you haven’t answered the question what was you expecting from our new owners in these short few months? I don’t know where your logic is coming from 🤷♂️ Just because we’ve had carrots dangled before that these guys are going to be exactly the same. So what should they have done by now get your trust and for you to think you can’t trust them? I was expecting nothing and we’ve got nothing other than Barton getting sacked and Taylor getting appointed. Nothing earth shattering and I’m not expecting anything earth shattering! The stand being built is progress but on the flip side the Fruit Market is in the bin.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 4, 2024 20:13:50 GMT
Agree, couldn’t give a toss what Sh1!heads think, it’s got nothing to do with them. However as always it’s actions that will speak louder than words. I can’t say that at this moment in time I have any more confidence in this fella than anyone else that’s owned us. That’s up to you how you feel bud, But the blokes only been here a matter of months but out of interest what was you expecting by now for you not to trust him? What should he have done by now? He was willing to break our transfer record but for stuff behind the scenes that was out of his control it didn’t happen. 🤷♂️ Like I said it’s actions rather than words that matter. We didn’t actually sign JCH did we? Words were great, actions less so. It is what it is and what its mainly been throughout our entire history.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 4, 2024 19:40:02 GMT
Why do so many of our fans give a sh!t of what they think over the river?? We’ve been in their shadow for decades now let them say what they want 🙄 The man can’t win he was asked a question and is getting crap because he’s got ambition I’d rather have owners like this any day of the week then what we’ve had in the past UTG Agree, couldn’t give a toss what Sh1!heads think, it’s got nothing to do with them. However as always it’s actions that will speak louder than words. I can’t say that at this moment in time I have any more confidence in this fella than anyone else that’s owned us.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 3, 2024 0:18:00 GMT
i phoned them up. Largers Inc Moretti, Staropramen, Coors, Adams, and peach larger. Cider is Aspal. What are their food options? I don’t know about that place but I do know that the murderers does decent grub. Been Norwich a few times, sometimes for football sometimes not and this place has always been good and doesn’t generally have monkeys on the door demanding to know what football team you support! Anyone going for the weekend try also the Adam and Eve, ancient place with loads of character. Also Ribs of Beef if only to sit on the narrow balcony right above the river.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jan 2, 2024 12:28:40 GMT
Near the away part of the stadium is a pub called The Coach and Horses. It has a brewery at the pub and is popular with home and away fans mixing together. www.thecoachthorperoad.co.uk/about-us/My advice is to go on the Friday night and make a weekend of it. Lots of great independent pubs and food places. There's a hotel at the stadium but also budget options in the city centre. Any other away fan friendly pubs? Tend to prefer avoiding microbrewery pubs as I don't always enjoy their unfamiliar lagers... The Murderers is good www.themurderers.co.uk/
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Dec 28, 2023 10:54:36 GMT
That is completely unacceptable. What a shambles! What is exactly happening at our club? South Stand update? Matt Taylor working without his or in fact any coaching team? Our new major shareholder communicates so rarely that I can’t even remember who he is! They updated about the south stand last week Ok, thanks, my bad. Just read it now and fair enough.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Dec 28, 2023 10:28:03 GMT
The match report v Pompey kept referring to us as Bristol! That is completely unacceptable. What a shambles! What is exactly happening at our club? South Stand update? Matt Taylor working without his or in fact any coaching team? Our new major shareholder communicates so rarely that I can’t even remember who he is!
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