Asaint4ever Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 oh well! http://www.brfcforum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=85409 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustapha Fag Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 ok thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Protected forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Johnson Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 cant be bothered to register... but unsurprising! They've lost their best player, a proven goalscorer & for peanuts really... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 No surprise there tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaint4ever Posted 10 August, 2009 Author Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Aratoncrack saints1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaint4ever Posted 10 August, 2009 Author Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Protected forum. try mine mate username - Aratoncrack password- saints1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I wouldn't gloat or want to rub it in.unless we've been treated like c**ts by particular fans given where we've been&come from, I think a bit of humility is in order.anyway there are bigger things to think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Majestic Channon Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Look what the bloke who put up this vid wrote yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 That they are gutted is a good thing. I do feel for them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaint4ever Posted 10 August, 2009 Author Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Look what the bloke who put up this vid wrote yesterday scored some nice goals! im well excited:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team-saint Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I think as Saints fans we know how they will be feeling more than most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I think as Saints fans we know how they will be feeling more than most. What he said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toomer Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 We know how they feel even when we were in the Prem some of our better players went to other clubs for better money or to balance the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWD Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 We have got a good price for him, he has gone to a bigger club with world class facilities and a chairman who has the funds to give them a bright future. This really puts a smile on my face! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdock Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Looks like we now have someone who knows where the goal is. Loved the volley at about 2mins 30 secs in, dropping right downalmost vertical he certainly knows how to volley a ball that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 a million quid is a decent amount of money. I guess they will point to the £1.5m (plus add ons) for Cox but he is younger thereby offering sell on potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Oooo er, they are bitter ain't they! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Marco Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I like the way they try to say Saints are not a big club. In our worst season ever last year we still had an average of over 17k people. With the complete and utter **** on display and with the garbage chairman and managers etc that is pretty decent. If things go well for the club we can get that up to 20k+ this year. Where as Rovers have an average of just 7k.....Now that is not me be-littleing Bristol just it shows the club has both more fans and a bigger stadium. For our 1st game in league one we had 21k turn up, Rovers had 7k, that is 3 times more people. For League One Saints are a big club. For the Championship we are a top 6 club based on attendences. So in terms of say Man Utd we are not a big club, but in terms of League One we deffinatly are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 we are a bigger club than many in the CCC or League 1 but lets not foget where we are right now! In 2003 we have something like the 10th highest attendance for the season in England - so you could argue we are in the top 10! Certainly we should be in the top tier on potential - but we're not! A good cup run helped though! Bristol Rovers suffer from having two clubs in Bristol - but as a city its about the same size as Southampton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rory Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Does anyone else get really embarrassed when they see our fans posting on other club's message boards? It seems like our fans always act like we have the divine right to be a big club. It is the pinnacle of cringe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Marco Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Does anyone else get really embarrassed when they see our fans posting on other club's message boards? It seems like our fans always act like we have the divine right to be a big club. It is the pinnacle of cringe. We don't have a divine right to be a big club. But having suffered the way we have over the past few seasons generally the fans have stuck by the club. The fact as i mentioned above even being relegated,having two dutch nobodies and a chairman hated by most getting 17k+ is pretty good going. The fact we can do that when at our worst shows we have a solid fanbase. When things go well as also mentioned we have the ability to nearly double that number. And that to me is what makes a big club. Not the fact you got loads of money to spend on players but the fact people actually support you and turn out to see you. Not many clubs in this country can get 20k+ people to come see you play in League One. If some of the supposed big teams in the prem league were down at this level i wonder if they could get those numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr X Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 scored some nice goals! im well excited:p including one against us by the look of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Look what the bloke who put up this vid wrote yesterday 2:15 to 2:38 in that video is absolutely class! Reminds me of MLT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Interesting, Lennie Lawrence's quote on the BRFC OS. "I don't begrudge Rickie in the slightest, but people have to understand the situation that we faced. Rickie is, deservedly, the highest paid player in the history of Bristol Rovers Football Club by a long way and Southampton have doubled his wages. http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0,,10328~1749339,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Interesting, Lennie Lawrence's quote on the BRFC OS. "I don't begrudge Rickie in the slightest, but people have to understand the situation that we faced. Rickie is, deservedly, the highest paid player in the history of Bristol Rovers Football Club by a long way and Southampton have doubled his wages. http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0,,10328~1749339,00.html let's not begrudge Markus doing what he wants with his own money..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintjay77 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 2:15 to 2:38 in that video is absolutely class! Reminds me of MLT! some of the goals in that vid its hardly suprising they are gutted to lose him. Hopefully he can continue that form withus and step up even further. We need people to get us out of this division and push us forwards in the CCC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintjay77 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Interesting, Lennie Lawrence's quote on the BRFC OS. "I don't begrudge Rickie in the slightest, but people have to understand the situation that we faced. Rickie is, deservedly, the highest paid player in the history of Bristol Rovers Football Club by a long way and Southampton have doubled his wages. http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0,,10328~1749339,00.html That doesnt suggest we are paying massive wages. To me it looks like BR have never pushed the boat out and this guy was just more expensive than anyone else they had. The rest could have been on £20 per week and he was on £25 per week for all we know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 That doesnt suggest we are paying massive wages. To me it looks like BR have never pushed the boat out and this guy was just more expensive than anyone else they had. The rest could have been on £20 per week and he was on £25 per week for all we know To be fair an extra fiver is hardly a "life changing move." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintjay77 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 To be fair an extra fiver is hardly a "life changing move." but if we have doubled his wages which by our standards were pi ss poor then it will be life changing to him but still reasonable to us? I got no idea what money he is on but does anyone believe he will be on anything like the wages of Saga, Raz, KD, Perry, Thomas or Holmes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 we are a bigger club than many in the CCC or League 1 but lets not foget where we are right now! In 2003 we have something like the 10th highest attendance for the season in England - so you could argue we are in the top 10! Certainly we should be in the top tier on potential - but we're not! A good cup run helped though! Bristol Rovers suffer from having two clubs in Bristol - but as a city its about the same size as Southampton Population of Southampton:c228,600 Population of Bristol:c416,400 Bristol is nearly twice the size of Southampton But we have bigger boats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintjay77 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Population of Southampton:c228,600 Population of Bristol:c416,400 Bristol is nearly twice the size of Southampton But we have bigger boats! With 2 main teams in Bristol you could argue that each club could have a population of 208200 which puts us as the bigger club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 (edited) With 2 main teams in Bristol you could argue that each club could have a population of 208200 which puts us as the bigger club In terms of attendances, last season against Bristol City we certainly were: Southampton 13,257(min) 27,228 (max) 17,866(av) 410,936(total) Bristol City 15,304(min) 18,456(max) 16,816(av) 386,780(total) Bristol Rovers 5,870(min) 10,293(max) 7,170 (av) 164,923(total) But Bristol's total attendances for both teams were 551,703. Just as well Bristol is divided by two clubs. http://www.emfootball.co.uk/attend.html Edited 10 August, 2009 by eelpie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 According to their forum, he was on £5k a week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleaver Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 So are we not allowed to buy any players at all . ever . from a rival team then? When did that rule come into force? Get over it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 According to their forum, he was on £5k a week! Heard that we had offered him 10k p/w, so i guess that's true. TBH if rasiak is going (which i guess he will now) it's not any additional strain on the wage bill, I'd even suggest he may be cheaper in terms of goals/games bonuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintjay77 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Heard that we had offered him 10k p/w, so i guess that's true. TBH if rasiak is going (which i guess he will now) it's not any additional strain on the wage bill, I'd even suggest he may be cheaper in terms of goals/games bonuses. anyone got an idea of what raz and saga are on? im guessing its more than 10k per week so again by our own standards 10k is not overdoig anything. if this guy can bag the goals like he did last seaon then its 10k per week week spent IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saints foreva Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I feel sorry for the majority of the Rovers fans, they have just lost their best player to a side who are in the same league as them. Just imagine how we'd have felt if Kelvin signed for Leeds. (I seem to remember he was linked there before West Ham) I wish Rovers a good season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 anyone got an idea of what raz and saga are on? im guessing its more than 10k per week so again by our own standards 10k is not overdoig anything. if this guy can bag the goals like he did last seaon then its 10k per week week spent IMO Rasiak is on 10k iirc, but that is near on 18k apparently when you take into account goal bonuses/appearances. You can understand why Lowe wanted him off the wage bill tbf. GB did seem to like doing that...offering a hefty wage and then beefing it up even more with all these additional bonuses. Think you'll find this is a reason players like Euell etc didn't feature at the start of the season, even though they were fit. We just couldn't risk paying the bonuses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I feel sorry for the majority of the Rovers fans, they have just lost their best player to a side who are in the same league as them. Just imagine how we'd have felt if Kelvin signed for Leeds. (I seem to remember he was linked there before West Ham) I wish Rovers a good season. I do too, although delighted as a Saints' fan that we have got him. I also wish them a decent season. THE team in Bristol IMO!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I do too, although delighted as a Saints' fan that we have got him. I also wish them a decent season. THE team in Bristol IMO!! go and tell that to them..im sure they will tell you to F-off i dont wish anyone in our league a decent season.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I can kind of feel for them - we've been in their position for years, losing our better players. It's great to be on the otherside though i must admit. But at the end of the day it's about ambition and money, and thankfully we have both right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Block 5 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Having to sell your best talent is a situation we are all too familiar with, so I empathise with the Rovers fans. Let's hope that when we play them, Rickie only sticks 4 or 5 past them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 feel free to log in with Username: yesyesyes Password: hello Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red&white56 Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Looks like we now have someone who knows where the goal is. Loved the volley at about 2mins 30 secs in, dropping right downalmost vertical he certainly knows how to volley a ball that's for sure. You're absolutely spot on - the volley against Luton was top draw ! I also liked the fact that he seems willing and capable of shooting from outside the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 You're absolutely spot on - the volley against Luton was top draw ! I also liked the fact that he seems willing and capable of shooting from outside the box. I'm sure we can get that coached out of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Looks like its not just rovers fans who are reacting. Blackpool fans are bemoaning the unfairness of it all - how we can be within a c*ck-hair of going out of business and then splash 7 figures on a quality player. ignorance and sour grapes.... http://fansonline.net/blackpool/mb/view.php?id=219787 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 I feel sorry for the majority of the Rovers fans, they have just lost their best player to a side who are in the same league as them. Just imagine how we'd have felt if Kelvin signed for Leeds. (I seem to remember he was linked there before West Ham) I wish Rovers a good season. I agree - the time when we were arrogant hopefully has passed. Feel sorry for Rovers fans, they have lost a hero and although dog eats dog these days let's at least have a bit of humility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langleysaint Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 Looks like its not just rovers fans who are reacting. Blackpool fans are bemoaning the unfairness of it all - how we can be within a c*ck-hair of going out of business and then splash 7 figures on a quality player. ignorance and sour grapes.... http://fansonline.net/blackpool/mb/view.php?id=219787 Do these people have no access to any media??? maybe not in Blackpool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig Posted 10 August, 2009 Share Posted 10 August, 2009 "Where is the justice in football?" We've dropped two divisions and lost our best players repeatedly within a 4 year period. F*ck off Blackpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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