Hi there, name's Tom, another refugee from the other forum. You've probably already heard this rant 100+ times now today but I'm so full of bile I just have to angry-type for a while, sorry. F*** this. I've been quiet about the board because I thought seeing the stadium through took hard work and patience which was to be commended but this is too far. There were people offering the club help with all manner of things FOR FREE on the forum and they've been snubbed. This after Brian wanders on to the forum asking us to "pull together" to get back in the league. Apparently this means continuing to stamp up the ticket price and shut up and leave it to the pros. If there is to be any meaningful "top-down assessment" of the club as Higgs promised, then why are legitimate views and suggestions from the fans (the people that pay for the whole thing) being silenced? A few ridiculous things were said on the other forum but only in the absence of clear answers to major questions from the club. You speak middle-management bullshit, you get confusion. Simple. At the moment Darrell Clarke is the only person speaking plain English at the club. Relegation won't reduce the crowds that much but this kind of treatment might. The libel claim is obviously concocted but even if there was something the club legitimately wanted to suppress, a cursory look at internet culture would tell you that this will backfire spectacularly. I for one was disappointed (understatement really) with losing league status but basically placid. I'm now mad as all hell. Love Rovers, hate the board. Peace out.
Anger is still my main emotion. Yes, I'm disappointed, even embarrassed; but the main feeling is ANGER. ANGER that such an inept bunch of cretins can let our club sink so low.
Sorry Southville Pirate for the lateness of this thread being moderated! If a new member post a comment or thread which has a link in it then it needs to be checked by a moderator for spamming reasons. This site got hit a few times by spammers in the past so the owners set the system up where if you post a link within your 1st 10 comments then it goes to a moderator. This thread didnt come up that it needed moderation as you didnt actually put a link but for some reason a link shows up! Srange. All sorted now though
Southville, I understand how your feeling. We are all hurting my friend. I dont mean to make you feel worse but things may get worse before they get better. I do honestly believe they will get better. Maybe blind faith but that all we have at the end of the day. I just wish one of us won the lottery winning hundreds of millions.
The board really are a bunch of clowns. Hopefully this only helps fans to pull together and force changes
I also can't believe that the club is continuing to treat loyal Gasheads like this. The same arrogant attitude that helped to bring us to this current sorry state of affairs is clearly still prevalent at the club. I'm afraid that this culture of paying lip service to the fans has to end - there are people out there who really want to help the club yet they're not being listened to. The club is just a PR disaster. Anything from not telling a player he's released before announcing it to the media, to closing down dissenting voices on the OS. PR and comms are my trade - they're making basic errors which are compounding an already poor situation.
Hey, no worries. I did actually mean to put a link to something called the "Streisand effect". Defined by Wikipedia as "a phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet." Which is why I think the board may live to regret censoring honest questions from lifetime fans.
