Rovers to play at Victoria Ground next season

[Number6]

Amongst the humour I particularly enjoyed

"The club is in first class order throughout"

"To assist the club and its community, a sum of £45,000 has been spent on the club.... This amount has gone directly into the club"

[G.W]

What is amazing with the BR bid was concluding with setting the terms for their own lease (rent free)
bet that went down well at the council.

[Royston Green]

How on earth could the council award the lease to a football club that cannot even spell the name of the town to which they belong correctly?

We all make spelling mistakes on forums like this - we're in a rush and it really doesn't matter.

But to make so many mistakes in such an important document is awful.

I see many documents such as this as part of my job and I can confirm that the Rovers' application is just not up to standard.

As with a job application, the document should convey the aptitude of the person/people behind it. If this was the best the management of Bromsgrove Rovers could muster, then I'd say they need some more help.

But we've known that for a long time, and all offers of help get rebuffed.

A real shame.

[Cris]

Originally Posted by Royston Green

How on earth could the council award the lease to a football club that cannot even spell the name of the town to which they belong correctly?

We all make spelling mistakes on forums like this - we're in a rush and it really doesn't matter.

But to make so many mistakes in such an important document is awful.

I see many documents such as this as part of my job and I can confirm that the Rovers' application is just not up to standard.

As with a job application, the document should convey the aptitude of the person/people behind it. If this was the best the management of Bromsgrove Rovers could muster, then I'd say they need some more help.

But we've known that for a long time, and all offers of help get rebuffed.

A real shame.

The spelling of Bromsgove Rovers Limited is not a mistake, at least not a mistake in the document, that is the actual name of Mike Wards company!!

[ivoradam]

Its very obvious why the council decided to approve of giving the lease to Sporting. Their application is by far more professionally put together and I'm sure they will manage the ground for the benefits of the community more successfully than those behind the scences currently at the Rovers.

[Vic]

Originally Posted by happy

I agree with Albert on this one and I will also be taking up some points with the Council.
Any one who posts anything with a little substance on here and the bully gang arrive picking up on spelling mistakes and punctuation etc. I was lead to believe Tom Herbett was the bully.

Well said Happy. I dedicate this classic Poison Girls song to each & every one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VeZ1...ayer_embedded#!

[Long Range Rover]

Originally Posted by Vic

Well said Happy. I dedicate this classic Poison Girls song to each & every one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VeZ1...ayer_embedded#!

Right back at yer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-82blMxGXcs&feature=fvsr

[Archie Andrews]

Originally Posted by Vic

Well said Happy. I dedicate this classic Poison Girls song to each & every one of them.

Vic.

If you want to suggest musical entertainment then I think in your position anything by "Blind Faith" would be more appropriate. Or "Lost Cause" by Beck?

[Cris]

I've just posted the following on Facebook, just a few of the issues I have with the Rovers bid. Thought I'd post it here too as it took me a while so I want someone to bloody read it!! Apologies for any spelling grammar errors, I know how upset some people get about them!!



It amazes me that any one from Bromsgrove Rovers dares to criticise the Sporting bid when the Rovers bid is so riddled with misleading and inaccurate information. Even if we ignore the poor spelling and grammar, it is clear that the Sporting bid is of a far higher quality than the Rovers one. There are so many problems with the Rovers bid that I don't have time to list them all but a few of the lowlights for me are:

1) The very first line in the bid is “Bromsgove Rovers Football Club Ltd.” The person that wants to operate the Victoria Ground can’t even be bothered to spell the name of the town correctly. How can anyone claim to want to be a part of a community when they can’t even spell the place! I accept spelling mistakes happen but once it was realised it should have been corrected, what contempt it shows to Bromsgrove Rovers Supporters and To Bromsgrove District Council when you don’t think its important to spell the name of the town correctly.

2) The first sentence on page 2 of the bid has two glaring errors:
a) “Bromsgrove Rovers Football Club want to build and sustain a successful, professional community club” On what planet would you have to be on to think the Rovers is “successful” its in administration for the second time in 10 years, if that’s what you want to sustain no wonder the council rejected the bid.
b) “Steeped in 130 history” surely anyone with an interest in the club, its supporters and its community would know how old the club is, 125 years by the way!

3) Still on page 2, “Bromsgrove Rovers is proud of its heritage and wishes to strengthen the good relationship that exists between the club and the local community” would that be the local community where businesses have lost money because the club fails to pay it bills or is that the part of the community that is so alienated by the club it starts a new club?

4) Page 3, who exactly are Worcester FA?

5) Page 4, why is the club trying to link up with Worcester College, surely if the Club wants to engage with its local community as the bid claims, they would be looking to link up with the college actually in the town!

6) Page 5 “the club is in first class order” I can’t even begin to describe what a laughable comment that is.

7) “the club, since the new licence, is lucrative” If the club is so “lucrative why has Mike Ward claimed he can’t afford to rent the club from Bromsgrove Sporting and why if the club is so “lucrative” does the bid say that “The budget does not allow for rent” surely if the club is “lucrative” it can afford to pay rent!

8) Still on page 5 “All football clubs in the country have taken a big hit fro the credit crunch” That is complete garbage, the footballing industry has been one of the most resilient in the credit crunch there have been countless reports in the press describing how well football has come through the recession, the idea that “All” clubs have taken a “big hit” is ludicrous. If this is an attempt to pretend that the credit crunch was to blame for the Rovers going into administration then it’s grossly misleading.

9) Page 6 “To assist the club and its community, a sum in excess of 45,000:00 pounds has been spent on the club by personal investment” Would this be the £45,000 that Mike Ward paid to buy the assets of the club, every penny of which went to the administrator. How exactly does that money “assist the club and its community,” it’s not even as if the administrators based in Bromsgrove. Would it also by the £45,000 that Mike Ward failed to pay in total, no mention in the bid that the new administration have already failed to pay a bill on time.

10) “Still on page 6, “the budget does not allow for a rent payable to the council” is this the way business works, I want something off you but I’m not willing to pay for it, I shall remember that next time I’m looking to rent a place, “Dear Landlord, I would like to rent your lovely flat, however I can’t afford the rent, I’ll be moving in Thursday, Thank you” What world does Mike Ward live in?

11) Page 7 “we have proved time and time again that things have changed, and we have the support of the community behind us” How have things changed? How has the change been proved? If the community is behind you why has a community club been set up? Have you any evidence for this claim?

12) Page 8 “As the present Licencee and acting chairman of Bromsgrove Rovers Football Club, this application for the lease comes with knowledge, experience and factual details”
a) What experience, has Mike Ward ran a football club before?
b) “Factual details” see above and below, see the Advertiser most weeks, see his utterances on Facebook, Mike Ward does not deal in “Factual details.”

13) “thus reflecting its 130 year heritage and the wishes of the original doner of the grounds” I don’t know what the original donor’s wishes would be regarding this issue and neither does Mike Ward and it’s an insult to his name to suggest that he does. What I am pretty sure of is that he wouldn’t be impressed that the chairman of the club doesn’t even know how old the club is.

I’ve shown the bid to a friend of mine who teaches A level Business Studies, she tells me that if she were presented with coursework by one of her students that was of the same standard of the Rovers bid then she would have refused to mark it.

The bid is a disgrace and demonstrates the complete contempt Mike Ward has for the club, its supporters and its community. I challenge you to find one independent person who would pick the Rovers bid over the Sporting one.

To return to my original point, for anyone from Bromsgrove Rovers to dare to criticise the Sporting bid shows a level of arrogance and denial that even Tom Herbert would be proud of. People in glass houses really shouldn’t throw stones.

[victor5]

Brilliantly put Cris.Doubt if anyone at rovers will have the nous to reply?