Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

[ChippenhamRed]

3 minutes ago, DancinDannyD said:

Exactly well said that man (or possibly woman, I don't know!)

Much like those sniggering at our lowest competitive fixture attendance last night the issue at stake is much bigger than a point scoring exercise.

What Swindon are doing is shameful. And I'm proud that such a low turnout happened last night at our, and other EFL Trophy, games as the implications of letting this slip through unchallenged are just too great for our beautiful game.

Cheers (man)

[GrahamC]

According to my maths they now have 6 players who are on loan, the three they brought in today, two earlier in the week (Roos and Roberts) and James from Peterborough.

They do realise that you can only include five of them in your squad, do they?

 

[zippycar]

15 minutes ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

This is Wally's story ....

http://www.venturemagazine.me/2016/08/buying-into-the-beautiful-game/

"After months of intensive negotiations, al-Qadi eventually beat around 10 other bidders to secure ownership of the club by absorbing its considerable debts. Due to a non-disclosure agreement, he can’t reveal the figures involved, but he insisted his family got a good deal. “You would be amazed at how much value we got,” he said. "

So he didn't pay off the considerable debts .... he just "absorbed" them!

Would we be amazed at the value he got? .... he still had change from a fiver?

 

 

So the extent of his investment to date is to buy some sarnies for the players:

"As soon as he took over, he set about making simple but important improvements to the way the club was run. He was surprised, for instance, to find no food was being laid on for players after training. So he began organizing catering for them. “If you provide food for the players to eat on the same table, that creates camaraderie and bond for the whole club and gives it meaning,” he said.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Incredible stuff from the brain dead idiots who frequent that den of stupidity.

Maybe Chelsea loaned us Tammy because they thought our support is superb, Obviously we didn't need to prove it by selling 4k tickets for a glamour cup tie at Stamford Bridge. I expect West Brom were dying to send us players after we took 5k to the Hawthorns in January?

Their apparent satisfaction that Wally is not so quick to put his hand in his pocket is in stark contrast to the shit they were all coming out with when the Al Qadis arrived and they all went into w@nky overdrive about how he was going to splash the cash and bring in quality players to help them overtake us in the league.

Hypocritical morons.

The only reason we got Odemwingie weren't it? 

[Gert Mare]

Rickie Lambert has signed for Baadiff. So will all the sags be buying bluebird shirts with "Lambert" on the back? After all, they did it with England shirts years after he had left the club?

[Kodjias Wrist]

3 hours ago, DancinDannyD said:

A number of Chelsea fans on Twitter surprised he's gone to L1 and not the championship.

This annoys me about premier league fans, how often do they watch lower league footy? I know Chelsea probably have the best youth system in the country now and had around 40 players out on loan last season, but the championship is a very strong league now!

[Son of Fred]

7 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said:

As part of the wider "football family" we should not be celebrating this, regardless of the club involved. It is a disgrace.

Typical Swindon.....Vile club.

[Unan]

10 hours ago, BRFC_Gas said:

That's a bit of a strange comment seeing Tammy Abraham had also not 'done anything' when you signed him.

Anything to have a bitch about us though hey!

Apart from score a ridiculous amount of goals, be the golden boy in the young England set up & be classed as the best youngster at Chelsea in a decade?

[Port Said Red]

8 hours ago, DancinDannyD said:

Exactly well said that man (or possibly woman, I don't know!)

Much like those sniggering at our lowest competitive fixture attendance last night the issue at stake is much bigger than a point scoring exercise.

What Swindon are doing is shameful. And I'm proud that such a low turnout happened last night at our, and other EFL Trophy, games as the implications of letting this slip through unchallenged are just too great for our beautiful game.

From what I have heard it depends whether the post is on a weekend..

[Fiale]

 

 

 

10 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

This is Wally's story ....

http://www.venturemagazine.me/2016/08/buying-into-the-beautiful-game/

"After months of intensive negotiations, al-Qadi eventually beat around 10 other bidders to secure ownership of the club by absorbing its considerable debts. Due to a non-disclosure agreement, he can’t reveal the figures involved, but he insisted his family got a good deal. “You would be amazed at how much value we got,” he said. "

So he didn't pay off the considerable debts .... he just "absorbed" them!

Would we be amazed at the value he got? .... he still had change from a fiver?

 

 

 

 

It probably was good business. Higgs ran out of lines of credit and having a multi million pound asset like the mem is meaning less unless you have a buyer / somewhere to move. So Wael pays of a few million of debt/loans on behalf of Higgs and the club as well as giving Higgs a few million to vanish. Now Wael has a nice asset worth £ ? in the mem, and has stuck all the debts/loans to buy the club in a overseas company that owns Bristol Rovers. 

Edited September 1, 2016 by Fiale

[phantom]

11 hours ago, zippycar said:

So the extent of his investment to date is to buy some sarnies for the players:

"As soon as he took over, he set about making simple but important improvements to the way the club was run. He was surprised, for instance, to find no food was being laid on for players after training. So he began organizing catering for them. “If you provide food for the players to eat on the same table, that creates camaraderie and bond for the whole club and gives it meaning,” he said.

 

47 minutes ago, Fiale said:

It probably was good business. Higgs ran out of lines of credit and having a multi million pound asset like the mem is meaning less unless you have a buyer / somewhere to move. So Wael pays of a few million of debt/loans on behalf of Higgs and the club as well as giving Higgs a few million to vanish. Now Wael has a nice asset worth £ ? in the mem, and has stuck all the debts/loans to buy the club in a overseas company that owns Bristol Rovers. 

Or move the debt from Bristol Rovers FC across to Dwayne Sports ?

[Fiale]

28 minutes ago, phantom said:

 

Or move the debt from Bristol Rovers FC across to Dwayne Sports ?

Possibly, will be interesting to see their first years accounts.

[1960maaan]

1 hour ago, phantom said:

 

Or move the debt from Bristol Rovers FC across to Dwayne Sports ?

 

42 minutes ago, Fiale said:

Possibly, will be interesting to see their first years accounts.

Isn't that the sort of thing the Glaziers did?

Buy the club, pay off the debt with money from the club then own the club without risking any personal wealth ? 

[Fiale]

6 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

 

Isn't that the sort of thing the Glaziers did?

Buy the club, pay off the debt with money from the club then own the club without risking any personal wealth ? 

 

Yeah, it's pretty common - and feels totally wrong.

[WhistleHappy]

1 hour ago, phantom said:

 

Or move the debt from Bristol Rovers FC across to Dwayne Sports ?

....blimey, so Dwayne & Dwaynetta have invested some of chavvy 'loadsamoney's stash into a sort of footbally club thingy?

'arry Enfield must be so prowed of 'em .

(meanwhile, the real football club south of the river remain considerably richer than thou..  )

[myol'man]

15 hours ago, DancinDannyD said:

Exactly well said that man (or possibly woman, I don't know!)

Much like those sniggering at our lowest competitive fixture attendance last night the issue at stake is much bigger than a point scoring exercise.

What Swindon are doing is shameful. And I'm proud that such a low turnout happened last night at our, and other EFL Trophy, games as the implications of letting this slip through unchallenged are just too great for our beautiful game.

I actually agree with the Dancing one here, what the EFL have done to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy is shameful, imagine a final between Reading U 23's and Swansea's reserve team  

And in response to the £25 ticket for the Swindle re-match, I think the gas board should go one step further and refuse to take any ticket allocation at all.

[Unan]

7 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

That doesn't mean anything, first team football is a different beast.

Anyway, the 2 we signed are both highly rated as well in their respective positions. Just thought it was a stupid comment considering..

I never said it did? I simply replied to you asking what he'd done (which I presumed you meant what has he done that your signings haven't done).

[Tall King Blox]

1 hour ago, BRFC_Gas said:

That doesn't mean anything, first team football is a different beast.

Anyway, the 2 we signed are both highly rated as well in their respective positions. Just thought it was a stupid comment considering..

Chill fella, .......your here to be shot at 

[Unan]

24 minutes ago, Tall King Blox said:

Chill fella, .......your here to be shot at 

You're* 

[Bristol Rob]

2 hours ago, myol'man said:

I actually agree with the Dancing one here, what the EFL have done to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy is shameful, imagine a final between Reading U 23's and Swansea's reserve team  

And in response to the £25 ticket for the Swindle re-match, I think the gas board should go one step further and refuse to take any ticket allocation at all.

If the blue few had any sense they wouldn't buy tickets but travel en masse to Swindon.

Millwall used to do it years ago, travel in huge numbers without tickets and the police used to make sure they got in because it was easier to manage them that way.

I'm sure if they were all milling around in the pubs and car park the police would soon get them in the ground. 

'Course, that would require organising. Not their strong suit.

[chinapig]

4 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

 

Isn't that the sort of thing the Glaziers did?

Buy the club, pay off the debt with money from the club then own the club without risking any personal wealth ? 

So called leveraged buyout I believe. Amazes me it's allowed.

[Betty Swallocks]

2 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

If the blue few had any sense they wouldn't buy tickets but travel en masse to Swindon.

Millwall used to do it years ago, travel in huge numbers without tickets and the police used to make sure they got in because it was easier to manage them that way.

I'm sure if they were all milling around in the pubs and car park the police would soon get them in the ground. 

'Course, that would require organising. Not their strong suit.

There's too many in their 'faithful and true' band for them to make a stand. 

I'd like to think we'd more than kick up a fuss about something like this. 

Is totally bang out of order and Lee Power knows it. To blame police is ridiculous, if it was just to cover police and staff I doubt it would come to more than £5.

Unless of course he adds his food tab to match day costs, that might be the reason they are charging £25.

Hidious football club.

[Malago]

2 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Shoot away pal,

Thoughts on your best striker wanting away to a rival club in the same division after only a year?

Tammy and £11 million quid.  JK won't be missed.

Thoughts on Wally being a fraud?

[Silvio Dante]

1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

If the blue few had any sense they wouldn't buy tickets but travel en masse to Swindon.

Millwall used to do it years ago, travel in huge numbers without tickets and the police used to make sure they got in because it was easier to manage them that way.

I'm sure if they were all milling around in the pubs and car park the police would soon get them in the ground. 

'Course, that would require organising. Not their strong suit.

Some would argue that could be antagonistic and not in their family club ethos.

If only they had a rich Jordanian benefactor to whom the cost of 1500 (I'm being generous) tickets at £25 a pop was pocket change and he would happily shell out to get the fans there.

If only such a person existed.

If only.

Edited September 1, 2016 by Silvio Dante
Jordanian not Qatari. Neither exist so why I'm bothering I don't know...

[Bristol Rob]

Surprised Rovers fans aren't up in arms about the number of loan signings they've made.

Surely if they want to be a feeder club they would just come out and announce it. Makes sense, permanent players free signings and then topping up the squad with a multitude of loans.

[Up The City!]

Did everyone miss what that article said? Or am I misreading it? 

To me he kept talking about value and payments they receive. He's in it for the money and the money only.

He will do enough to keep them afloat.for the time being and then eventually asset strip them.

[TwoSheds]

Aug 30, 2016 at 3:01pm aghast, Gas-Ed, and 1 more like this

Quote

 

Post by Antonio Fargas on Aug 30, 2016 at 3:01pm

Aug 30, 2016 at 2:59pm aghast said:

Everyone going could at least hit Swindon in the wallet area by making sure they buy all their food and drink outside the ground. That should cost them a few thousand squid.

 

Yep, there's a handy Sainsbury's not far from the ground.

Rovers fan don't think much of having to pay again re rematch v Swindle. Boycott the ground refreshments but going to Sainsburys (They do have short memories) Having recently getting shafted by Sainsburys. Another gift 

[Vincent Vega]

3 minutes ago, Just Red said:

Did everyone miss what that article said? Or am I misreading it? 

To me he kept talking about value and payments they receive. He's in it for the money and the money only.

He will do enough to keep them afloat.for the time being and then eventually asset strip them.

Fingers crossed  .

[The Joker]

5 minutes ago, Just Red said:

Did everyone miss what that article said? Or am I misreading it? 

To me he kept talking about value and payments they receive. He's in it for the money and the money only.

He will do enough to keep them afloat.for the time being and then eventually asset strip them.

Noooooooooooo not flog santa's grotto

[Vincent Vega]

35 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Shoot away pal,

Thoughts on your best striker wanting away to a rival club in the same division after only a year?

While yours spent 3 months going around with cap in hand only to end up back at the tented village .in the meantime we have brought in around 20 million in transfer fees alone this month. Just close your eyes for a moment and imagine what that is like (you could build a stadium for that sort of money ) now open your eyes and close the door of your caravan you belter.

[Vincent Vega]

3 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

20 million in transfer fees yet your best player isn't yours?

So bitter.

[Esmond Million's Bung]

1 hour ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Shoot away pal,

Thoughts on your best striker wanting away to a rival club in the same division after only a year?

Here's my thought's enough money to buy the whole of BRFC PLC, ground, tents, sheds, shipping containers, the whole squad, a Jordanian bank, a fleet of camels (although the squad is full of camels) and still enough for a down payment on UWE with no outside investment needed to help out your billionaire blagger with the nice watch.

Our biggest mistake was not being able to teach him the offside law, perhaps if we had we could have got 30 mil for him, but we'll live with the 15 mil and a 3-1 win without him against his new club and another 20k plus crowd.

That's my thoughts.

PS:- Save up your pocket money for the great county ground rock and roll Swindle volume 2 and I hope it pisses down again.

Edited September 1, 2016 by Esmond Million's Bung

[WestonRobin]

14 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

20 million in transfer fees yet your best player isn't yours?

Sod all in transfer fees and your 3 best players aren't yours!

[Numero Uno]

7 minutes ago, Esmond Million's Bung said:

Here's my thought's enough money to buy the whole of BRFC PLC, ground, tents, sheds, shipping containers, the whole squad, a Jordanian bank, a fleet of camels (although the squad is full of camels) and still enough for a down payment on UWE with no outside investment needed to help out your billionaire blagger with the nice watch.

Our biggest mistake was not being able to teach him the offside law, perhaps if we had we could have got 30 mil for him, but we'll live with the 15 mil and a 3-1 win without him against his new club and another 20k plus crowd.

That's my thoughts.

PS:- Save up your pocket money for the great county ground rock and roll Swindle volume 2 and I hope it pisses down again.

You missed the B&Q plastic seats.....or doesn't the £20m cover the cost of those?

[pongo88]

19 hours ago, SirColinOfMansfield said:

This is Wally's story ....

http://www.venturemagazine.me/2016/08/buying-into-the-beautiful-game/

"After months of intensive negotiations, al-Qadi eventually beat around 10 other bidders to secure ownership of the club by absorbing its considerable debts. Due to a non-disclosure agreement, he can’t reveal the figures involved, but he insisted his family got a good deal. “You would be amazed at how much value we got,” he said. "

So he didn't pay off the considerable debts .... he just "absorbed" them!

Would we be amazed at the value he got? .... he still had change from a fiver?

 

 

Has anyone noticed that in the photograph used in the article the Memorial Stadium has new blue seats? (To the left of Wally). The stand has also been rebuilt. The photo doesn't look anything like the real world, unless the development has taken place overnight 

[Esmond Million's Bung]

8 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

You missed the B&Q plastic seats.....or doesn't the £20m cover the cost of those?

I also missed out that whilst we were stuffing the best part of 20 mil into our bank account and several of our players were on international duty, we never lost to a team of Reading's kids at home.

Edited September 1, 2016 by Esmond Million's Bung

[Numero Uno]

4 minutes ago, Esmond Million's Bung said:

I also missed out that whilst we were stuffing the best part of 20 mil into our bank account and several of our players were on international duty, we never lost to a team of Reading's kids at home.

With Matty "Messi" Taylor and plenty of other first teamers on the pitch too....you forgot that!!

[Vincent Vega]

4 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said:

So they have edited the photo to make themselves look better

There is no software known to man that can make that shower of shit look any better.

[Busterrimes]

I don't want to be seen to stand up for those cretins but my guess is Wally is pictured at Sabadell pre season

13 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said:

So they have edited the photo to make themselves look better

 

[roylegalatyeo]

Don't know if it's been covered,but how many loan players are allowed in a team.Seem to remember Cardiff in 2010 had about 10 loanees but could only play about 5 in the same 11.If so how are the gas going to get around that?

[Portland Bill]

52 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

20 million in transfer fees yet your best player isn't yours?

Best player?? You mean top goal scorer, big difference.

[Fiale]

10 minutes ago, Busterrimes said:

I don't want to be seen to stand up for those cretins but my guess is Wally is pictured at Sabadell pre season

 

yup

 

 

Sabadell also has an unlikely alliance with English club Bristol Rovers. It started when fans of the respective sides formed a friendship based initially on the fact that both clubs play in blue & white quarters. It now has a more formal footing with fans & officials paying visits to each others clubs, and Rovers will pay a visit to Sabadell for a pre-season friendly in July 2016.

[GodEmperor Palpatine]

56 minutes ago, BRFC_Gas said:

20 million in transfer fees yet your best player isn't yours?

Tomlin? Last time I checked we bought him so... 

[1982]

Just now, BRFC_Gas said:

20 million in transfer fees yet your best player isn't yours?

Why cant you just be happy for us.

[Kodjias Wrist]

3 minutes ago, Dark Wood Covert said:

Tomlin? Last time I checked we bought him so... 

Im suprised he wouldnt know this by the amount of time he spends obsessing over us.

[Vincent Vega]

3 minutes ago, 1982 said:

Why cant you just be happy for us.

Bitterness won't allow him, it's the enemy of the simple mind.

[Monkeh]

When did we sell tomlin Flint or Bryan?

oh you mean kodja he wasn't even in the top 3 

poor bitter deluded fools get back to camping you gippo's

[Kodjias Wrist]

1 minute ago, Monkeh said:

When did we sell tomlin Flint or Bryan?

Why is it i half expect someone to correct you on our three best players...

[Unan]

11 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

When did we sell tomlin Flint or Bryan?

oh you mean kodja he wasn't even in the top 3 

poor bitter deluded fools get back to camping you gippo's

Tomlin, Flint & GON IMO. Don't mean to correct you.

Edited September 1, 2016 by Griffin

[Red Army 75]

Am I reading this right . A poor little Gashead. Is trying to take the piss out of city for selling a player for upto 15 MILLION POUNDS. Strike alight. 

[archie andrews]

6 minutes ago, Griffin said:

Tomlin, Flint & GON IMO. Don't mean to correct you.

 

with magnus coming up on the rails........

[HoldenBall]

1 hour ago, BRFC_Gas said:

20 million in transfer fees yet your best player isn't yours?

Clubs didn't even want your "best" player on a free. Says everything you need to know about your glorified conference team IMHO.

[Spoons]

2 hours ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Shoot away pal,

Thoughts on your best striker wanting away to a rival club in the same division after only a year?

Come back when you don't watch your team play from a tent!!

[cityloyal473]

1 hour ago, pongo88 said:

Has anyone noticed that in the photograph used in the article the Memorial Stadium has new blue seats? (To the left of Wally). The stand has also been rebuilt. The photo doesn't look anything like the real world, unless the development has taken place overnight 

Holy sh!t, the guys a complete loon.  Who thought that was a good idea?

[Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan]

2 hours ago, BRFC_Gas said:

20 million in transfer fees yet your best player isn't yours?

We've got a squad full of quality players, a couple happen to be on loan.

Is that really the best you've got?

**** me 

[GodEmperor Palpatine]

Didnt the Gas lags sell their top striker Jamie Cureton to Reading a divisional rival at the time for peanuts?

And this moron criticises City for selling JK, a very talented yet tactically inept striker for a possible 13M profit... At least 9M so far.

#gaslogic

[Tall King Blox]

3 hours ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Shoot away pal,

Thoughts on your best striker wanting away to a rival club in the same division after only a year?

Economics for you don,t work then, as for best striker you are correct, shame he never played for the team, we will miss him, but we got more just waiting to piss you off waiting in the wings, cos you pricks always look for our results before you look at your own........gas logic

[GodEmperor Palpatine]

43 minutes ago, cityloyal473 said:

Holy sh!t, the guys a complete loon.  Who thought that was a good idea?

They need actual investment, gotta make it pretty for these potential trillionaires itching to invest in the biggest club on the planet

[Red Army 75]

7 minutes ago, Tall King Blox said:

Economics for you don,t work then, as for best striker you are correct, shame he never played for the team, we will miss him, but we got more just waiting to piss you off waiting in the wings, cos you pricks always look for our results before you look at your own........gas logic

It shows how little ammunition they got for piss taking when they try and use a 15 million pound transfer fee . The green eyed monster does strange things to the head . 

[Fordy62]

4 hours ago, BRFC_Gas said:

Shoot away pal,

Thoughts on your best striker wanting away to a rival club in the same division after only a year?

Thoughts on the headline news on your website being:

"no car boot at the mem this weekend"?

What a complete embarrassment. I hate the gas and yet I'm embarrassed for you. 

[Spoons]

52 minutes ago, Dark Wood Covert said:

Didnt the Gas lags sell their top striker Jamie Cureton to Reading a divisional rival at the time for peanuts?

And this moron criticises City for selling JK, a very talented yet tactically inept striker for a possible 13M profit... At least 9M so far.

#gaslogic

If I remember he was sold sharpish due to a issue with the chairmans daughter?? 

 

[Bristol Rob]

1 minute ago, Spoons said:

If I remember he was sold sharpish due to a issue with the chairmans daughter?? 

 

I understood RBS were calling in the overdraft and they needed cash quick.

Which is why he went on the cheap, Reading has the cash available 

[Spoons]

1 minute ago, Bristol Rob said:

I understood RBS were calling in the overdraft and they needed cash quick.

Which is why he went on the cheap, Reading has the cash available 

£250,000 I think? Was a bargain as he was being touted at £1million plus!

well a bank calling in an overdraft isn't as exciting as the story I was told !! But think your answer sounds more like the truth !!

[Bristol Rob]

2 minutes ago, Spoons said:

£250,000 I think? Was a bargain as he was being touted at £1million plus!

well a bank calling in an overdraft isn't as exciting as the story I was told !! But think your answer sounds more like the truth !!

Maybe after the chairman's daughter he got jiggy with the offspring of someone from RBS.

Use both. We'll never know the truth.

[GodEmperor Palpatine]

10 minutes ago, Spoons said:

£250,000 I think? Was a bargain as he was being touted at £1million plus!

well a bank calling in an overdraft isn't as exciting as the story I was told !! But think your answer sounds more like the truth !!

Hibs I believe offered 1M at the time but the Gas went for the Reading bid which was 250k

#moregaslogic

[BS3City]

Well come on then BRFC_Sag! You've asked a question and had plenty of answers. I'm still waiting for your witty, smug (and probably bollox) answer...

[Guest brizbob]

did,nt they get £1 million for ricky lambert what happened to that money?not gone on players or ground

[Malago]

5 minutes ago, brizbob said:

did,nt they get £1 million for ricky lambert what happened to that money?not gone on players or ground

Apparently, since 2008  they have only paid a transfer fee to purchase a player on 3 occasions. 

[pongo88]

4 hours ago, Busterrimes said:

I don't want to be seen to stand up for those cretins but my guess is Wally is pictured at Sabadell pre season

 

If so, it's even worse than an edited photo of the Mem. He's pretending someone else's ground is his own. That's like Steve Lansdown having his photo taken at Wembley and saying look at my wonderful investment.  

It's obvious that Wally didn't want anyone to see the real Mem, as it wouldn't fit his story. 

[pride of the west]

On the gas getting these 2 kids in from Chelsea. Have these kids done something wrong and need a kick up the backside or have chelsea not done their homework? The training facilities and the horfield fallout zone will be a big shock to them I'd imagine 

Edited September 1, 2016 by pride of the west