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Today's giggle; http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/13036/new-stands?page=19 ipgas posted It is for me because I have watched 50 years of mediocraty. I have seen Rovers in the Championship, Div 1, and 2 and non league, but mostly half way up Division One, or div 3 as it was. I want something better, I want us to have crowds of 20k+ like we did when I was a kid. If we had not have sold Eastville, I have no doubt that we would be the bigger of the 2 Bristol clubs. But that is history, and since then every ground we have been at has been crap, and the Mem is no different. I want to be a gashead watching a reasonable team in the Championship, not floundering around in the lower half of league one, because our sh**ty ground can only provide funds enough to do that. Meanwhile even some non league clubs have better grounds. Bloody angry to think some of you have no ambition for the club

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/13046/familiar-pattern socrates has posted (and try not to laugh out loud) I think the losing by the odd goal every defeat can be changed in to a massive target for us. If we can start to find the net more frequently then we’ll be picking 3 points up more often than not and rise up the table. Got to get our forwards scoring because since we’ve brought in the keeper we’re rarley conceding and we can have a good season However, midlandgas 123 is a realist; Odd statistics so we have picked up nil points from 3 top teams In 3 games but 10 points from 8 lower teams over 8 games , So really we are not picking up much more than a point a game from the lower teams Relegation statistics

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/13048/bristol-rovers-walsall-match-thread?page=8 Post Options Post by gasandelectricity on 58 minutes ago Very interesting listening to Ed Hadwin on Twentyman he seems convinced that it’s not down to Darrell and that not much in the way of investment was coming in the summer. Also said that something is going down, and that there’s definitely interest, but they can’t find anything concrete. Given that Darrell seems to not like him too much, and that he has the inside line from people at the club this is extremely interesting. Perhaps he said "we are 5H1T and are going down"! "Darrell is still our prized asset, and it would break my heart to see him leave, but he needs support from someone right now. Someone said on Twentyman that we should replace him with Holloway. I cringed at the suggestion but actually he could be the perfect man to offer up something like the above. Certainly not as a DOF but as someone who understands our club and these sorts of challenges as a manger like nobody else but Darrell himself".

Corrected for you.

So City are one point of the play offs to climb out out of the Championship and some of us are a bit disappointed at only drawing v Villa. Meanwhile the gas are just one point off being in the League 1 relegation places and; http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/13015/bradford-bristol-rovers-official-thread?page=6 I would have settled for a point at the beginning of the game , clean sheet away from home , so I’m reasonably happy, our mini run continues....... Positive result and a clean sheet on the road. Onto the next one.

Well, if that's a "massif improvement", it doesn't say much about their so called stadium does it? it's shelter for the fans, so I realise it's a benefit off the pitch, but how will it be a benefit to the club ON the pitch as they claim?

Because guff all is what they're worth! ?

Give's em somewhere to gather when the team "parks the bus"!

It's all they need.

"If we manage to build a decent stadium" = If I win the lottery this week. "They've never been able to shake us off and never will" = so they admit to being irksome and unwanted. "Thank God the rugby don't play at the Mem anymore" = We put the boot in to a fellow Bristol sports club.

The metal sign on the gates used (1960's and 70's).to read "Bristol Football Club"

Don't laugh too loud; http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12947/clubs-mess-top The biggest asset of Bristol Rovers FC is it's supporters. The biggest asset of Bristol Rovers 1883 Ltd is the land on which the Memorial Stadium is built. Financing Bristol Rovers FC by borrowing money secured against the value of the parent company's land was a recipe for disaster. In future Bristol Rovers FC will have to be financed with a mixture of equity capital provided by it's owners and profits generated through the success it manages to achieve on and off the field. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12852/who-ya-gonna-blame-next

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12930/gas-luton-matchday-thread?page=19 I'm not so sure a league 1 player is too concerned about training grounds and facilities etc. Under Francis we trained on some pitches at Fry's which were used for local football teams. The chance to play in front of 10000 fans must surely be what persuades them, along with the wages. Another tough game against Coventry next weekend. They beat Barnsley today. Struggling to see where the next win is coming from if I'm honest.

And so it came to pass; Read down page 15 and it's wrist slitting time for some. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12930/gas-luton-matchday-thread?page=15 Wow, yet another poor sounding loss. Not good.

Luton just did!

http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12896/knowall-severncider-itks?page=43 Glengas posted; Oh well, back to Rag Bagless Rovers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trowbridge_Town_F.C. Trowbridge Town Football Club is a football club based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. They are currently members of the Wiltshire League and play at Woodmarsh on the southern edge of the town.

Who does?

Which one will be the new home of the gas?

From 2017; https://memorialgroundbristol.wordpress.com/ The meeting was arranged by Friends of the Memorial Ground (FOMG), to discuss the intention of Dwane Sports Ltd, who are the owners of Bristol Rovers, to rebuild the Memorial Stadium. The two key ‘take-aways’ were that: Dwane Sports are considering building a new stadium with a capacity of about 17,000 to 20,000 (which is 5,000-8,000 more than the current capacity) the new stadium would be self-funded. In a spirit of co-operation and a shared interest in a sustainable/successful future for the stadium, FOMG emphasised that a wide range of creative solutions to match day traffic and parking would be necessary. The club recognises that research into fans’ travel patterns was needed. Rovers are putting up bicycle stands. We discussed other options, including providing incentives to fans to cycle or walk to matches, shuttle buses to Kingswood, Easton, Temple Meads, etc, a deal with local bus companies, pooling resources and solutions with the Bristol County Ground (Gloucestershire County Cricket Club), park & ride, park & stride, car sharing, and the setting up of a match-day-only residents parking zone. The Memorial Ground is to be rededicated to commemorate Bristol rugby players killed in wars since 1945. Bristol Rugby Former Players are applying for funding to professionally restore the listed entrance gates. FOMG and Rovers are to explore the possibility of re-planting the Scots pines around the ground’s perimeter, where these are now missing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Stadium_(Bristol) The Memorial Stadium, also commonly known by its previous name of the Memorial Ground, is a sports ground in Bristol, England. It opened in 1921 dedicated to the memory of local rugby union players killed during the First World War,[2] and was the home of Bristol Bears until they moved to Ashton Gate in 2014. It is currently the home stadium of Bristol Rovers F.C., who moved there in 1996. The site was created on an area of land called Buffalo Bill's Field, after Colonel William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show was held there between 28 September and 3 October 1891.[3] Two years later in September 1893 Clifton RFC played on the site for the first time. During the First World War the site was converted into allotments but after the war Buffalo Bill's Field was bought by Sir Francis Nicholas Cowlin (then the Sheriff of Bristol) and given to Bristol Rugby Club. In 1921 it became the Memorial Ground, home of Bristol Rugby Club, and was opened on 24 September that year by G. B. Britton, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, as a home for Bristol Rugby Club. In 1996, Bristol Rovers moved in as tenants of Bristol Rugby Club, and then entered into joint ownership through the Memorial Stadium Company. After just two years, in 1998, the rugby club was relegated from the Premiership (causing them severe financial difficulties) and under the terms of the agreement Bristol Rovers were able to buy Bristol Rugby's share of the stadium for a 'nominal fee', a clause designed to protect either party should one or the other fall into financial difficulties. The rugby club became tenants in their original home.

P:age 13; the comments are making amusing reading. http://gaschat.co.uk/thread/12896/knowall-severncider-itks?page=13 It seems everyone has heard something. All th way up here i had a pal tell me a few weeks ago that UWE was on again with us getting th plot of land FREEHOLD in straight swap for Th Mem which UWE will build student lets on. I didnae ask who th fukk will own us tho :laugh: whether WAQ or a new bunch. Well if the money "should" be available then it's as good as built. What great news. These two versions of the story show Wael in two completely different ways. If the IoM consortium version, with Wael clinging on to a place on the new board but UWE not wanting him, is true, it shows that his time here was pretty much a failure and he will not be remembered kindly in years to come. If on the other hand, the Southampton construction story is true, it shows that against the odds Wael has managed to come up with the investment many of us never believed he would, and he'll go down in history as a hero. I wonder which it is? Maybe a third version will emerge. You forgot the bit about him and the family saving us from looming administration? I think the AQs wanted to OWN the UWE site. Correct. They also wanted to buy an extra piece of land for a superstore and a hotel. The things they didn't like was the fact that UWE under the Higgs agreement would take all the money from the car park and a share of the food and drink outlets, Add to this we had to incorporate some teaching rooms and a gym which students could use and a jogging track. It actually benefitted them more than us. That is why it fell through, because Wael wanted all that to be ours, and I agree, the stadium has to make money for us, not UWE and that is why you need to buy the land

http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=287&t=167057 The brabazon hangars contain a lot of asbestos from what I last heard, and will require a lot of work to get them in any sort of state where the public can gain access to them!