Gloucester Saved from Relegation?

[leohoenig]

Following on from Gloucester's win tonight, a result that lifts them abve Oxford City (1-0 losers at bottom placed Workington), comes this report in the Liverpool Echo
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/fo ... th-6772689" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If accurate, then it places Vauxhall at the foot of the league, leaving only two other relegation places

[RegencyCheltenhamSpa]

VM taking the sensible option to step back and rebuild a solid base. They have done exactly what Gloucester should do.

[Malabus]

If accurate, then it places Vauxhall at the foot of the league, leaving only two other relegation places

But four are demoted from that league. I wouldn't write off Workington just yet.

[Daveangel]

Three are relegated. Four from the Conference Prem. If VM pull out, I believe the team finishing 3rd bottom with the best points total from the CN and CS will be reprieved. The South clubs are currently in the best position to take it.

[RegencyCheltenhamSpa]

If Gloucester took the brave but sensible decision to do what VM have done the benefits are clear.

They could rebuild at a smaller ground (Tuffley or somewhere), immediately reducing their outgoings of paying us rent and playing matches at a stadium vastly too big for their budget.

Once the balance sheet is in a much better state the owners can divert money into the new stadium and plan for rising back up the leagues with healthy crowds in their own new ground.

In ten years they'd be much better off than they are now - each season they spend desperately clinging on to CN status whilst having to spend so much just to play at a ground in a different town they will get more and more damaged and destabilised. The spiral will be downward and not upwards.

Do the right thing and drop a couple of divisions and rise again.

[Daveangel]

Utter cobblers.

We have a number of new sponsors, are debt free, and living within our means. We've recently had 7 consecutive games called off and still paid all the bills. If we can stay up this season, we are getting within touching distance of a move back to our own City which will undoubtably bring a spike in interest and paying customers. Gloucester is a City of 150k odd people, and has the potential to grow. VM isn't even a place, and struggles to get 150 home supporters. They are maybe doing the right thing, but we are looking up, not down.

[Ralph]

Utter cobblers.

We have a number of new sponsors, are debt free, and living within our means.

But Dave, how would you like to come home and find a squatter in your house thats not moving out.. thats not living within your means

[Daveangel]

Utter cobblers.

We have a number of new sponsors, are debt free, and living within our means.

But Dave, how would you like to come home and find a squatter in your house thats not moving out.. thats not living within your means

It would be if the person in charge (in my case my wife!) had agreed a contract with them, and they were keeping up with the agreed rent

[RegencyCheltenhamSpa]

Utter cobblers.

We have a number of new sponsors, are debt free, and living within our means. We've recently had 7 consecutive games called off and still paid all the bills. If we can stay up this season, we are getting within touching distance of a move back to our own City which will undoubtably bring a spike in interest and paying customers. Gloucester is a City of 150k odd people, and has the potential to grow. VM isn't even a place, and struggles to get 150 home supporters. They are maybe doing the right thing, but we are looking up, not down.

I never mentioned looking down - my post as you will see talks about looking up!

The club may be debt free but there is someone somewhere who isn't - there was the story of how you only cleared thirty odd quid. So how much do postponed games cost you? Where is the money coming from?

Out of interest, who are the sponsors? I assume they must have a bigger wallet than Burger Star to be pinning future hopes on surely?

[London Exile]

Gloucester City should just fold, end of.
This will allow Daveangel to stop messing around and support Cheltenham Town Football Club full time instead of moonlighting as one of us

[Daveangel]

I've just been a little bit sick in my mouth

[RegencyCheltenhamSpa]

I've just been a little bit sick in my mouth

A bit Peakey?

[Robin]

Utter cobblers.

We have a number of new sponsors, are debt free, and living within our means. We've recently had 7 consecutive games called off and still paid all the bills. If we can stay up this season, we are getting within touching distance of a move back to our own City which will undoubtably bring a spike in interest and paying customers. Gloucester is a City of 150k odd people, and has the potential to grow. VM isn't even a place, and struggles to get 150 home supporters. They are maybe doing the right thing, but we are looking up, not down.

I thought population of Glos was 109,000 and Chelt 116,000?

[RegencyCheltenhamSpa]

Utter cobblers.

We have a number of new sponsors, are debt free, and living within our means. We've recently had 7 consecutive games called off and still paid all the bills. If we can stay up this season, we are getting within touching distance of a move back to our own City which will undoubtably bring a spike in interest and paying customers. Gloucester is a City of 150k odd people, and has the potential to grow. VM isn't even a place, and struggles to get 150 home supporters. They are maybe doing the right thing, but we are looking up, not down.

I thought population of Glos was 109,000 and Chelt 116,000?

City of Gloucester population approximately 121,500 in the 2011 census data release.

[Neil]

That doesn't include parts that come under Tewksbury BC and Stroud DC.

[RegencyCheltenhamSpa]

I know Neil - I was posting to show how inaccurate Robin's numbers were (once again).

[Neil]

"The 2011 census gave the population of the whole "Gloucester Urban Area" as 149,820."

"According to 2010 estimates from the Office for National Statistics, Cheltenham's population is 115,300"

[RegencyCheltenhamSpa]

"The 2011 census gave the population of the whole "Gloucester Urban Area" as 149,820."

Correct. Why not go whole hog and read this report on which Gloucester features.

http://www.centreforcities.org/research/outlook14.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[taxidave]

Surely Neil the more you "big up" Gloucester's population the worse it makes your attendance figures appear. I would have thought a crowd of 328 is the sort of figure you would expect for a town the size of Tewkesbury or Evesham not a large city, especially as you were playing Stockport who, as a former football league club, must be considered one of the big guns of the division.

[Neil]

Stop stroking your hard on Dave.

I expect nothing less from the populous of Gloucester, they want it and they want it now. That's why you get utter s#!t tards who despite being born and bred here nail their colours to the Cheltenham Town mast. They aren't prepared to put the work in to get the club to the c!#p level that yours have risen to. The rest support Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool etc.

As I've explained before, I can only control my own attendance. I'm enthusiastic about the City's club to me workmates yet I'm the only one who ever goes. Oh well, I've tried.

[Daveangel]

Stop stroking your hard on Dave.

Christ almighty, that puts an image in my head that I might need therapy to remove

[taxidave]

Stop stroking your hard on Dave.

Christ almighty, that puts an image in my head that I might need therapy to remove

It is the sort of filth that one has come to expect from Neil, I am surprised he has not posted some more pornographic images on here like he did a few years ago.
Perhaps the police took away his pc that contained all those images.

[Malabus]

That's why you get utter s#!t tards who despite being born and bred here nail their colours to the Cheltenham Town mast.

That's not shitarism it's called intelligence.

[Neil]

Stop stroking your hard on Dave.

Christ almighty, that puts an image in my head that I might need therapy to remove

It is the sort of filth that one has come to expect from Neil, I am surprised he has not posted some more pornographic images on here like he did a few years ago.
Perhaps the police took away his pc that contained all those images.

How could I post p0rn on here when I was either banned or not allowed to register?

Like Shaggy says, "Mr Boombastic".

No, actually, "It wasn't me".