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Post by mftc on Apr 13, 2024 18:06:21 GMT
Soujorn. Sorry fella. I truly cannot help myself Sojourn. Sorry fella. I truly cannot help myself. 😆 Two-shay!
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Post by mftc on Apr 13, 2024 15:45:01 GMT
Did I read somewhere Taylor bought the players a meal if we won and kept a clean sheet? Boy, they must have really hated that restaurant! Was it not £1k at Cheltenham? Ironically they achieved it at Orient and have gone missing ever since Blimey did Taylor offer to give them £1k to spend in Cheltenham again?
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Post by mftc on Apr 12, 2024 7:48:18 GMT
I'll predict a £5m loss and several issues hidden by the fact they are simplified accounts and not full details. Either way, they'll be many concerned but still calls on other threads to have a greater staff turnover (new management, players, etc) and spending on the stadium and The Quarters. As always, it's those due next year and the year after that which will tell us what the new owners are truly thinking. Spot on If the "professional" and "outsource everything possible" model installed by TG, isn't working, surely some outside the box thinking is required. Isn't the definition of stupidity doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. We can't go back to the ragbag Rovers, feeding on scraps and relying on volunteers and hand outs, but some sort of middle ground maybe the way forward. We have to realize where we are - a middle of the table division 3 side, make sure we never go to division 4 again and just enjoy the brief sorjoins (don't know who to spell it but sounds like a good word!) to the championship - if they ever happen!
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Post by mftc on Apr 12, 2024 7:39:02 GMT
Did I read somewhere Taylor bought the players a meal if we won and kept a clean sheet?
Boy, they must have really hated that restaurant!
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Post by mftc on Apr 9, 2024 8:19:52 GMT
Thought this was going to be for Taylor if we don't score tonight!
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Post by mftc on Apr 9, 2024 8:18:38 GMT
Read in the programme he passed away.
Made Twerton memorable in own way; Gary Flipflop, the bloke in the pink crash helmet, I heard he is and the ref is available for pantomime, amongst his own Coleman Balls.
Has any other club has so many well known and loved matchday announcers? Ray Kendall, Keith, Nick Day and Lance.
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Post by mftc on Apr 8, 2024 7:08:40 GMT
If the rumours of a 25% cut in the playing budget are to be believed then there's no way he will be coming here Is that compared to the start of last season, or the budget as of now? If it us from Aug 23, then we have probably almost achieved it.
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Post by mftc on Apr 8, 2024 7:06:04 GMT
Hell yes , we haven’t scored for eight games. To be fair JCH only has one goal in his last 13 games... Fits right in then!
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Post by mftc on Apr 8, 2024 7:04:19 GMT
Just seems another example of "its just what other clubs do".
I don't think it is value for money when they can get pre season/team bonding in the West Country.
Good job they recently signed that agreement to not increase the club carbon footprint by not undertaking unnecessary air travel.
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Post by mftc on Apr 7, 2024 15:07:21 GMT
What a waste of money. Why dont they do pre-season at Brean or a boot camp?
Would save the club a fortune. (Are the accounts out yet?)
It will either be too hot so they can't train properly, or it will be similar weather to here.
Great, we only lose by one goal in a behind the doors friendly to a Europa League team, but how is tika taka type football any real practice for Shrewsbury away on a cold winter evening.
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Post by mftc on Apr 6, 2024 9:41:50 GMT
I thought it was going to be a music based thread.
The Rovers records I can think of are: Rod Hull, The Bollards (Follow the Rovers?), Radio Bristol (GWR?) 1983 centenary song b/w The Irish Rover, Gerry's 1990 squad, Screen Soccer Turning On the Gas, can't remember his name but the 7 January 1956 song.
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Post by mftc on Apr 6, 2024 9:35:40 GMT
Did the not very Bright events really lose the club that much that they are not bothering with a corporate player of the year this year?
I haven't seen anything advertised.
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Post by mftc on Apr 6, 2024 9:32:32 GMT
He was good too! Good goal ratio, us made a few for the Duke yet apart from the Latvian they were not the best team ever.
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Post by mftc on Apr 6, 2024 9:30:49 GMT
Stephane Leoni - I was at Rotherham to see his only goal for the gas in Jan 1999. A full back who made 45 appearances for Rovers between August 1998 and May 2000. I went to watch a French 2nd division match at Brest v Metz while on holiday in Brittany in around 2007. Stephane Leoni was playing for Metz! He shouldn't be in a thread with player named and shamed. He was very decent. Remember he tripped and fell through a glass door or something. The ladies liked him, I seem to recall.
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Post by mftc on Apr 6, 2024 9:26:58 GMT
wasn't the last home game v Bolton an exciting 3-2 defeat?
A similarly exciting game but conceding one less goal would do me today. (Or better still winning 3-2!)
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Post by mftc on Apr 3, 2024 19:23:10 GMT
I see we have reduced capacity again.the new wheelchair access above the family area has meant about 5 rows of terrace has been removed to put in a platform.
Although it is good to see wheelchair access, surely they could have instigated this without the need to remove any terrace area capacity.
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Post by mftc on Apr 3, 2024 12:40:36 GMT
The clubs attitude in my experience upto now has been are they good enough for the first team on the weekend. If not on your way. Not having an u23 doesn’t help one bit, and the cost of keeping young players that are nowhere near ready yet, is a stumbling block. It’s just one of those things. If the financials don’t make sense to keep players that aren’t ready but could be in a couple of years, thats it. A club like ours can’t afford to stock pile players, just doesn’t make sense. A shame as we lose really decent lads, but on the flip side you get a really good one and they are gone. I am assuming Max playing / training for Wales as well, and getting over an injury plagued period. I think things are a little Different now as I know Both Jones and Greenslade has not cost the club a penny in the last 2 years as their wages have been covered by their loan clubs. I know Jones is back Training full time with 1st team but Bromley are paying his wages until the end of the season and Greenslade trains with 1st Team twice a week and Oxford City twice a week as they are part time but his wages are met by Oxford. So although a 23's would be good, that is where you would need more expenditure as you would need to pay these players full time. I know the Club is quickly trying to move to Cat 2 which means we have to have a 23's side and a lot more investment in the academy... we will see! So basically if our youngsters are good enough to play at a decent standard of men's football they will pay for themselves and I think its a far better learning curve to be be playing competitive Men's Football at a young age than development football now and then. That's interesting but do you really mean the clubs they are loaned to, are paying their full wages? I know they can't be on that much, but I would have thought thats still quite unusual. I suspect we only pay a very very small fraction of our loan players wages - eg look at what Vale is alledged to be on at Chelsea.
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Post by mftc on Apr 3, 2024 9:37:49 GMT
I would assume we have a clause for Aaron to win promotion but what about JCH.
No doubt we got some extra money when Peterborough went up before, but does the promotion clause come into effect more than once if it still from the same division?
I assume it is based on the wording on the clause.
Did we put in a EFL trophy clause?
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Post by mftc on Apr 3, 2024 7:38:39 GMT
Not actually the case, not filed late in any of the last three years. The date Companies House shows is when the accounts become visible. The date of filing is on the receipt barcode applied to the first page of the document. 30.06.20 Accs due by 31.06.21 (covid extension). Filed 29.06.21 30.06.21 Accs due by 31.03.22. Filed 31.03.22 30.06.22 Accs due by 31.03.23. Filed 31.03.23 I would imagine (hope!) the same scenario is happening this year. UTG It's a good point, well made What I don't understand is why they haven't put the performance on the website yet. Something like this: www.bwfc.co.uk/news/accounts-202223-publishedBecause most fans on here are depressed enough already!
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Post by mftc on Apr 3, 2024 7:36:21 GMT
It's around this time of year the first year pro intake is announced.
I haven't seen any FA youth cup games for ages and there is no mention of the youth team in the post Keith Brookman programmes, so I don't know much about the youth teams now and none have played in the JPT equivalent.
Kofi Shaw has been mentioned a few times on here and even included in the squad a few times (not sure why JB didn't pick him on the couple of times we couldn't fill the bench?) Dewsbury? did well I thought in his cameo in the FA cup, and the kid with the double barrelled name who played v Peterborough must be 18 now.
Who is likely to be given a contract?
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