Sustainable Forest Green Rovers

[dog]

FGR Chris and certain other FGR fans seem to have lost touch with reality. Once the football club is gone from Forest Green there will be nothing but more houses in an area already lacking facilities. Furthermore, the club is Forest Green Rovers, not M5 Stroudwater Junction Rovers. Why do people think playing by the motorway will attract more fans? The football club would be moving from a built up area to the middle of nowhere.

It is time people started to be more critical of DV. He's slashing money up the wall with little football knowledge and are we really going to sell our assets to rent a ground from the parent company? It's short sighted. What concerns me just as much is just what happens if Eco-Park is a no-goer. What then?

 

[FGRJC]

I guess you live in Nailsworth walking distance from the ground and you're scared to travel 10 minutes further...

 

[Sparrow]

Or he supported the club before the money came in unlike the other FGR fans on here.

 

[FGRJC]

Or he supported the club before the money came in unlike the other FGR fans on here.

I actually started to support the club back in 2005 when I was 11one of my mates invited me up, been a season ticket holder every year since. Back when not getting relegated was seen as something to celebrate... I live 20 minutes from forest green and the new ground would take 10 minutes off my journey time..

 

[genesimmons]

New ground would be a pain in arce to get to for non car owners like me arriveing in gloucestershire by train. It was a pain in august been on a bus a hot bus for a hour on piss poor roads. Forest green are the only pro club i have been to where theres no station in the town. Mind i was impressed by new lawn: food, drink and brill pitch. A quorn burger and local brewed lager made a nice change to a pint of bland pee and a manky beef burger

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[GTFCfish]

I live 20 minutes from forest green and the new ground would take 10 minutes off my journey time..

That would be good then as it would stop your horse getting tired legs.

 

[EnglishRed]

"back in 2005 when I was 11"

God I feel old

 

[dog]

I guess you live in Nailsworth walking distance from the ground and you're scared to travel 10 minutes further...

No. Eco-Park would be 15 minutes closer drive for me. Plus I was watching FGR well before the money arrived. I recall watching two matches with total attendances less than 100.

 

[The_Boss]

Oh how Forest Green could have done with today's prize money to help those MASSIVE LOSSES.

 

[dog]

Oh how Forest Green could have done with today's prize money to help those MASSIVE LOSSES.

£20?

 

[Greenacres]

Same as dog, the new ground would probably halve the amount of time it takes me to get to and from games. My first game was also in 2005, while we were still playing at the old ground, though I can only claim to have watched games in the company of 300-400 others, nothing as low as 100. I think there are plans to reopen the railway station in West Stonehouse, on the Gloucester to Bristol line, so that should make it a bit easier for people to get to and from games...at least they won't have to go to Stroud then catch a bus.

 

[Sparrow]

Did Chris and The Boss have it out?

 

[The_Boss]

Did Chris and The Boss have it out?

I saw him coming and soon decided against risking my life. No chance I was catching rabies.

 

[Greenacres]

There was us hoping you might adopt him as a pet!

 

[FGRJC]

"back in 2005 when I was 11"

God I feel old

 now I know where I recognise you from!

 

[Sparrow]

I saw him coming and soon decided against risking my life. No chance I was catching rabies.

Did you? Couldn't have been him. Chris doesn't travel.

 

[Chris FGR]

Did you? Couldn't have been him. Chris doesn't travel.

0/10

I certainly do, even to the absolute shit holes. Speaking of which, waited for you and the boyz to show up and "run me through Nando's" near the station in Woking for ages earlier this season, which is a shame for you cos you missed your chance.

 

[RLC]

Clubs who have been in adminstration at some point in the last 30 years, and are currently at or have been at this level recently- Tranmere, Newport, Kettering, Aldershot (twice!), Maidstone, Barnet, Exeter, Doncaster, Chester (twice!), Halifax (twice!), York, Darlington (x3!), Wrexham, Stockport, Cambridge, Boston, Crawley, Luton, Northwich, Farsley, Salisbury, Weymouth, Rushden and Diamonds.

In fairness, you can't bracket us with some of those clubs you mention. We were actually the first club ever to go into administration in 1987, before it became a 'tactic' used by clubs to write off their debts. At the time we were skint, it is as simple as that. Years of low attendances caused by economic problems locally (as we are reminded every week) and Liverpool and Everton having the best periods in their history and nicking our fanbase. We did not overspend because we never had any money to overspend in the first place.

I don't think we have ever been in financial trouble due to excessive spending.

 

[genesimmons]

In fairness, you can't bracket us with some of those clubs you mention. We were actually the first club ever to go into administration in 1987, before it became a 'tactic' used by clubs to write off their debts. At the time we were skint, it is as simple as that. Years of low attendances caused by economic problems locally (as we are reminded every week) and Liverpool and Everton having the best periods in their history and nicking our fanbase. We did not overspend because we never had any money to overspend in the first place.

I don't think we have ever been in financial trouble due to excessive spending.

Whos your club

 

[RLC]

Whos your club

Tranmere.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Whos your club

Says it in his profile gene and he's from Birkenhead!

 

[dog]

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I certainly do, even to the absolute shit holes. Speaking of which, waited for you and the boyz to show up and "run me through Nando's" near the station in Woking for ages earlier this season, which is a shame for you cos you missed your chance.

What an embarrassment this boy is. My daddy is bigger than yours.

 

[Chris FGR]

What an embarrassment this boy is. My daddy is bigger than yours.

Damn right he is. He's also too good AND clever.

 

[Gibber_McGee]

Wrexham went into admin not because of excessive spending, but because of a long campaign against a crooked asset stripping owner who was trying to close the club down and sell our ground to B&Q or Ikea to make himself a few million pounds. After a long and hard-fought campaign by the fans, and some mistakes by the then owner, we, along with a couple of the then directors, managed to force the club into admin. This resulted in the loss of 10 points and relegation from League 1. On the flipside we still had a club to support, and somewhere for them to play, and that is solely because of what the supporters did. There is more here if anyone is interested: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/apr/05/wrexham

The lesson in this is that a football club exists because of and for the fans; owners are temporary and come and go. Be wary of their actions at all times. From what I can see FGR are not run in a sensible way and, furthermore, will lose all of their current assets if they move grounds and simply become a tenant. This will mean that their debts will no longer be covered by their assets, and they will be totally reliant on the largesse of their owner in order to exist. I'm sure he has only good intentions and it could all work out well, but circumstances can easily change and that doesn't mean he will always be in a position to fund them in this way, which would be disastrous.

 

[FGRJC]

Wrexham went into admin not because of excessive spending, but because of a long campaign against a crooked asset stripping owner who was trying to close the club down and sell our ground to B&Q or Ikea to make himself a few million pounds. After a long and hard-fought campaign by the fans, and some mistakes by the then owner, we, along with a couple of the then directors, managed to force the club into admin. This resulted in the loss of 10 points and relegation from League 1. On the flipside we still had a club to support, and somewhere for them to play, and that is solely because of what the supporters did. There is more here if anyone is interested: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/apr/05/wrexham

The lesson in this is that a football club exists because of and for the fans; owners are temporary and come and go. Be wary of their actions at all times. From what I can see FGR are not run in a sensible way and, furthermore, will lose all of their current assets if they move grounds and simply become a tenant. This will mean that their debts will no longer be covered by their assets, and they will be totally reliant on the largesse of their owner in order to exist. I'm sure he has only good intentions and it could all work out well, but circumstances can easily change and that doesn't mean he will always be in a position to fund them in this way, which would be disastrous.

So you're saying a business man whos company is turning over millions and millions every year isn't running the club properly? I trust his knowledge and skill, I have no worries about how the clubs being ran.

 

[Gibber_McGee]

So you're saying a business man whos company is turning over millions and millions every year isn't running the club properly? I trust his knowledge and skill, I have no worries about how the clubs being ran.

No, I'm saying that circumstances change and that the fans should always keep their guard up, and a critical eye on the owner, as ultimately the supporters are the real custodians of any club. I'm sure that the fans of Gretna and Rushden and Diamonds felt the same way that you do.

Successful businessmen typically have no issue with selling or closing down a business when they no longer have a use for it.

 

[Chris FGR]

What exactly are fans supposed to do anyway?

Even if some were worried, they have no say in how the club is run. Ecotricity is by far the majority shareholder, so Vince calls the shots. End of.

 

[yellow]

A wage budget around seven times the size of ours, and yet you still can't put us away.

Imagine what Vince's money could have done with a proper club..

 

[gijsbert_bos]

Vince's money plus the Cowleys would have them in the Premiership. Unfortunately he keeps picking uff managers who spunk all the cash on has-been journeymen or billy big-bollocks players with piss-poor attitudes, all of whom are just looking for the biggest pay packet.

 

[Sparrow]

Poor old Forest Green getting picked on by everyone else. NO ONE LIKES US

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