Sorry to hear the news - wrong decision IMO - however not suprised I think the Board should only appeal if (a) it thinks it can win or (b) it does not cost more money
Another well rounded and sensible decision. Sainsburys and Bristol football......................A match made in hell for both City and Rovers
If you can be assed to read it, here is the full judgement - all 39 pages of it https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sainsbury-v-bristol-rovers-judgment.pdf Here is the final paragraph from the judge.... “Accordingly I find that Sainsbury’s must succeed because of the construction of Schedule 1 to the Agreement [2.11] which seems to me to be an insuperable barrier to the Club. If this is wrong (and I do not think it is), I find that the Club must succeed.” So she may be wrong but she doesnt think she is. Rovers will appeal because their legal team want more money of course and will tell Higgs the judge is wrong and we will win the appeal which will get Higgs excited. If the appeal goes our way and it is indeed proved the judge is wrong about it then we would win. But Sainsburys will then appeal of course. If we lose the appeal, thats more money to pay the legal team and more costs to pay too. DC has said the outcome effects his budget. So appeal now would harm our on field chances. Who will fund the appeal? Another wonga loan?
The board will think we will win because their crap legal team will say so. They will be licking their lips about this decision.
Sainsbury’s have issued a brief statement following this morning’s High Court judgement against Bristol Rovers. “The High Court found in our favour today, agreeing that the conditional contract between Sainsbury’s and Bristol Rovers lawfully terminated in November 2014. The judge made no findings of Sainsbury’s acting in bad faith with the club. We understand that this is a sensitive issue locally and that there will also be disappointment as a result of the court’s decision today. We will continue to work with the local community via our existing Bristol stores which employ over 800 people, and are extremely popular with customers.” Sainsburys can go and **** themselves. ****s.
Dont know what happend re above but sorry to all for wasting time posting nothing. Gutted is how I and no doubt all of the genuine Bristol Sporting Public and Gasheads feel about this shafting from big business again. Whilst its admirabale of Nick Higgs and the Board to say "we are appealing" given their judgment and the Legal Specialists that they engage when will they decide that when it commes to legal issues we are a bunch of no hopers lead by Legal Firms who are motivated by ££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££'s only. If not why no win no fee becuase any sensible firm would know they'd be on a hiding. I was dejected, ashamed, frustrated, fearful for the future of our Club and more when we fell out of The League but with the potential money pit that we seem intent on continuing to waste cash in and that doesnt include our perilious position with The Pay day Loan type Company that will now want repaying, I think personally that this will be a bigger disaster than what has gone before. That said its not only the players that will need to dig deep this Season and ensure success on the field we as fans are needed by our Club more than ever now so lets get behind everyone connected with the club, bunker down adopt that seige menatality that everyone is against us and use that as a positive. Yep we might still be rag bag Rovers in a cess pit of a Stadium (and likley to be so for years to come) but we are still here,currently still in business and much as we dont want to be at the Mem long term lets ensure that all opposing Teams and Fans have the same view. Onward and upwards , keep the Faith and remeber your Club needs you more than ever. UTG.
When the champagne corks stop flying in Sainsbury's boardroom and the last of the non-alcoholic ginger beer is drunk in the Green Party's garden shed, both groups can hang their heads in shame. Sainsbury's may have legally manipulated the contract to allow them to escape from what appeared to us all to be an arrangement full of good faith. They were assisted mainly by the minority obsessive 'we don't want it' by Daniel Radice and her colleagues which enabled the delays that have permitted Sainsbury's to wriggle out of the deal. But let them think hard on this; I believe the deal included the building of 64 homes, so 64 families can go look elsewhere. Do Sainsbury and the Green Party care? The new stadium was intended to be a magnificent facility for all of the community; not just for football. We all care, do they? UWE would have had a stadium on the campus which would have been the envy of many of the international university community. So the students will miss out big time too. Let's hope that with due consideration of what this disastrous decision means to Bristol they ........................ Oh! and George, please do not insult us any further. Give her the order of the boot please.
I would be interested to know how George Ferguson thinks Bristol's clubs should approach these sorts of schemes in the future. He's an expert in developing property and he's also now got the inside track on how planning works here and the associated politics. It seems to me that both clubs could have done with more foresight from Ferguson and others who supposedly have the interests of Bristol and the community at heart, rather than the sympathy and hindsight that will be heaped on us now. It is tragic - but mainly because local interests appear to have fallen over themselves to sabotage the scheme, while the smooth operator Sainsburys have only really had to bide their time.
It seems to me that George Ferguson should hang a notice on all the main roads into Bristol welcome to Bristol the NIMBY capital of England, if you want to invest money in this city we will delay you for a long enough period so that if you change your mind you will have no problem in getting out of your contract. Cllr Radice said that she and her pals didn't wish Bristol Rovers any harm I dread to think what she will organise when they do.
Ferguson will only be interested if it gains him more PR or if he has a chance to make money out of it. Roll on the next mayoral election and lets get him out of office as he's not fit for purpose.
Bristol's a total joke when it comes to development. Always has been, always will be. Last week we discovered that the much-lauded, high-frequency Metrobus ‘bus rapid transit’ was going to be restricted to just 3 buses an hour and cost up to £7 a day to use, that the Henbury Loop suburban rail line that would help commuters into the impossible-to-park-in city would now not happen, because it’s ‘too expensive’. Meanwhile on Temple Way there are what appears to be huge bombsites filled with rubble where they’ve been waiting to build development like Glassfields for about 8 years, and the glorious vision of the derelict Post Office building that greets visitors as they pull into our shabby old Victorian train station. City got pushed back when they tried to develop Ashton Vale, the powers that be won’t reopen Ashton Vale railway station – even though it’s right next to Ashton Gate which is increasingly difficult to park anywhere near, the idiots in S Glos think it’s a great idea to destroy Bristol’s only decent runway and surrounding industry and replace it with thousands of crap rabbit hutch houses – the list goes on and on. The whole city is a ****ing laughing stock when it comes to development. Britain as a whole has **** infrastructure and Bristol is at the arse end of it. Since I moved from Bristol to Dursley 10 years ago, Dursley has built a new Hospital, Library, Secondary School, Fire and Ambulance Station, Youth Centre, expanded its train station and even a brand new ****ing Sainsburys Superstore which I will no longer be frequenting. And Cam & Dursley’s a bloody crappy little town of approx. 14k population, yet it still has had more development that 650k Bristol! Bristol has the perfect storm of incompetent local politicians and smug, self-satisfied residents, many of whom are incomers who will object to any kind of development that impinges on their concept of Lymeswold-on-Avon. Why people put up with it, I have no idea. If this kind of thing happened in Manchester, there would be riots. And electing Ferguson has made no difference whatsoever, if anything the red-trousered ****wit has made things worse, if that’s possible. The whole thing’s a ****’s job.
Totally agree with you. Just think if these people had been around when Isambard Kingdom was alive. 'We don't want a nasty little bridge spanning that gert big gorge thing, it will spoil the view' and 'train station? What for? This train nonsense is just a flash in the pan'
Here's the email addresses for Mike Coupe, CEO of Sainsbury's and David Tyler, Chairman. I've sent them both a stiff, but non-sweary piece of my mind, not that it will do any good, just makes me feel better. [email protected] [email protected]
