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Post by pilninggas on Mar 11, 2017 10:19:37 GMT
It is astonishing that it has stayed at £260 for so long. The improved crowds in more recent times has probably helped to offset the lack of inflation on the ticket. At least the old board recognised that their lack of investment wouldn't be well recieved if prices kept going up (maybe the lack of increases hastened our demise, but doubt it).
As the Al-Qadis have paid down the debts and are showing moderate ambition, and DC has shown he can work miracles on a limited budget an increase will help us move on with the evolution.
I fully anticipate terrace in the North and East to rise to £300, and don't mind if it does, it's great value imo.
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Post by pilninggas on Mar 9, 2017 17:35:07 GMT
Very much a player who haa grown with the resurgence of the club. For that I am grateful.
If I am honest, I thought he'd cut it in L2 and he did, but wondered about the step up to this division. Thinks he's been superb. Hope he stays injury free for the remainer, as the last 2 run ins have been quite cruel to the guy.
In the beard we trust.
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Post by pilninggas on Mar 5, 2017 18:52:04 GMT
That O'Hanrahan bloke is a real knob, isn't he? He thinks he knows it all, before I got banned from there, I pointed out some of the things he said simply weren't true, but the little morons still believe what he says. An utter prat, who's as far up his own arse as Johnson.
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Post by pilninggas on Mar 1, 2017 20:10:52 GMT
I think we should put Sweeney's picture above the pasty stand, seems fitting what with the pies being filled with mystery-meat
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Post by pilninggas on Feb 28, 2017 18:46:21 GMT
such a shame this match is a tuesday evening. would have absolutely gone if this was a Sat.
Come on gas 3 points please.
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Post by pilninggas on Feb 10, 2017 19:08:57 GMT
Perhaps someone's gone to watch Sabadell in the sun on a permanent basis.
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Post by pilninggas on Feb 4, 2017 11:04:33 GMT
Landsdown is a Lady Garden. I hope this is just the start of his nose being continually rubbed in sh**. As Hugo says, he is a smug, rosy faced twat. Yes Lansdown is a lady garden. I believe he thought that the Gas would die when we fell out of the league and heavily in debt. He invested heavily in the City team and got promoted to the championship during our conference season trying to push home his advantage in the hope that the 82ersame would gain a monopoly over football n Bristol. He didn't give our club and fan base any credit though and thought we would just roll over and have our bellies tickled. Well we didn't roll over, we came together and bounced straight back up. Not only did we bounce back we became an attractive proposition for investment and then came along the breath of fresh air that are the Al Qadi's. Lansdown has been caught with his pantsdown. He tried to kill the gas and has f**ked it up I really don't believe that Lansclown or any of the ownership of teds saw rovers going out of the league as some sort of massive opportunity to get a leg up. I guess the commercial side would be aware that if we had gone for good, they'd make a case to be the only league team, blah, blah to try to get kids follow the teds. I don't believe there is some vendetta down trashton to get rid of us, apart from their nut case fans who'd burn down the mem (like eastville and twerton), if it weren't concrete and steel. I really don't think that they spend as much as time as some of us (not me) would like to think discussing us; some of us may get that vibe because that's what lots of their fans do (and too many of ours about them). My gut instinct about ted board meetings is a repeated discussion about how they keep employing dud managers, who can only do anything if shitloads of cash is thrown at the playing staff.
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Post by pilninggas on Feb 2, 2017 22:31:40 GMT
Hamer is doing what is expected of him. Chairmaning the club in an efficient, business like manner.
The funny thing about Hamer is, whilst he is new kid to the club, when he did a whole show with 20man early in the Al Qadi days, he revealed his days growing up in Somerset, his school days with George Petherbridge as his PE teacher and his knowledge of the historical state of west country ans specifically Bristol football.
I understand at times he sounds vague or a bit PC, but the guys is treading carefully, keen not to say anything that might conflict contractual obligations to confidentiality.
I think the Al Qadis could have appointed a much 'greyer' chairman, but went for Hamer, because during the brokering process, his knowledge of Bristol football came through. I suspect people who are frustrated by the protracted stadium situation are projecting that frustration on to their view of him.
Keep up the goodwork DC, Wael and Steve.
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Post by pilninggas on Feb 1, 2017 16:10:28 GMT
Easter is on his way out to Newport i was told last night Surely he had to sign by last night for that to happen, or does he become a non contract player if we now pay off his contract? I'd pick Easter over James or what I've seen of the two so far this season. Quite right. The contract and registration had to be cancelled before the deadline lastnight or the registration has to stay with us until the window reopens- otherwise clubs could pull all sorts of fast-ones to transfer players when the window is closed. Jammer is with us now until the summer, unless he effectively retired from playing. I hope he and the others who were told they could leave but didn't can play some part in our season if called upon. #utg #putbillyuptop
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 31, 2017 21:27:56 GMT
1) hamer said what we'd expect him to say. its a shame he wished taylor luck at the end tho. hamer is generally alright, better than higgs.
2) so have mcchrystal, jammer and lawrence actually gone? cant see anything that confirms this.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 27, 2017 6:50:43 GMT
I bet pompous Uni-types are a pain in the arse to deal with. They're not going to budge much, if at all, on price. Oh well, I guess the Mem has a certain charm. It won't be 'pompous uni types' who will be doing the work at UWE's end. It'll be their corporate people, estates management and lawyers, who will be on every detail and making sure it returns them as much as possible. Fair enough really, we'll do the same when [if] we leave the mem, possibly by selling the land off in parcels to the highest bidder.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 26, 2017 19:15:20 GMT
I've occasionally heard this euro-crap played at the mem before games. It was probably yonks ago when this 'song' was still remembered from the charts. We don't need to do stuff like this, leave it to the sweaties.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 19, 2017 21:39:56 GMT
I'm pretty sure there was a game under Graydon, where all bar one of the outfield players was really a centre-half. It was home game and it was awful.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 17, 2017 18:06:29 GMT
Is that Richard O'Donnell? When the Post first reported he was surplus to requirements I asked a couple of teds if he was any good. They rated him, saying he is a better shot stopper than Fielding. He is now off on loan to Rotherham. Did we take a look at him? Seems like an opportunity missed. We could have borrowed him until the end of the season. edit: it's Weale, isn't it.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 13, 2017 17:38:54 GMT
Darrell is the best thing to happen to this football club in over a generation. The odd glitch for me is no big deal. He has my faith and backing. We are very fortunate (Higg's best appointment) to have this man at our club. Sod the boo-boys.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 10, 2017 22:29:15 GMT
So on a serious note, DCs talk about shifting players out a few weeks ago was nonsense. We don't seem to be making any notable signings and we are going with what we've got. The loans have returned, Macca and Manse are getting minutes and we have a smaller, weaker squad than a week ago. " DCs talk about shifting players out a few weeks ago was nonsense." Then...... "The loans have returned"....... Makes sense. Clearly he has evaluated the squad and loans have either been told they won't really feature or that conversation happened with coaches at their parent club and quite properly the loan has been ended early. We've got to trust DC. He must have looked at central midfield, for example, and decide that OliC and Lines are closest to first choice with Colkett and Boateng below them in pecking order. Chelsea and Palace rightly then recalled them. It says quite a bit about players already at the club have kept promising premier league youngsters out of the team. #utg
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 7, 2017 18:45:08 GMT
I've said all along he's a decent keeper. We could do better in league 1 than Puddy but he isn't as bad as many say he is. I think he's benefited from decent keeper coaching from Stewart Naylor and probably training with Mildy and now Roos has helped him improve his game (i'd also imagine training matches featuring Taylor, Gaffds, Bodin and Harrison, help our keepers improve). He's certainly not a bad keeper, that description I reserve for Scotts Howie and Shearer, both absolute rubbish.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 5, 2017 20:58:38 GMT
I don't blame DC or these loan signings; but with their announcement and arrival a few months back there was a sense of optimism and intent about working with PL clubs and making loan signings who could impact (rather than the rubbish loans we often had historically) and move us on to the next stage. It's a shame these loan signings have not made the impact we had hoped for.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 5, 2017 6:55:59 GMT
Weird how a thread about Nathan Missit's move to Arevile has become a chance to bash Gosling.
Can't see the chap being here for much longer, but he's not a bad player just too slight.
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Post by pilninggas on Jan 1, 2017 13:55:20 GMT
From that end of season implosion in 2000 until DC brought us back up first time, we have had some really crap times [the period from the end of 06 until about 09 was a break from that]. For a large part of that time we were a basket case; how many times did we finish a season in the lower half of league 2, whilst watching other clubs get promoted via autos or playoffs and having been entertained? how many times did we wonder how teams came and made us look silly at our own ground?
Now I find we are looking up with our ambition and long past the mentality of trying to tread water (we couldnt even do that when we finally got found out and fell out of the league). We are top of the promoted bunch. We are in the top half of this league and moving forward in all ways. The main thing is that we retain DC's services and that when we have a bad run we don't get too wound up.
Great times to be a Rovers supporter.
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