[Football] The Jills

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Crawley, but I can't remember the reason why we couldn't.

Think they didn’t want the wear n tear on the pitch

 

[Spiros]

Never had a problem with the Gills either. Personally I'd rather they recovered so that Crawley could drop to the conference instead

 

[Javeaseagull]

I think I read somewhere that the FA were against us going there and they were told not to offer us somewhere to play. If true we owe them quite a lot.

 

[Arthur]

Er, yes yes I know.

Marvelous insult sir....have the rest of the day off.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I've never really understood the antipathy towards Gillingham.

At least they let us use their ground when nobody else did.

It might not have been a great experience, but it saved us at the time

Where else could we have gone?

All od this. Much has been said about Paul Scally and his regime, but as you say, without anywhere to play where would be now?

If there is any antipathy surely it should be directed at the likes of Pompey or Crawley, where we were denied the chance to groundshare.

If anything l'm on Gillingham's skde in their fight to hold on to Football League status, if only because they possibly kept the Albion alive by letting us set up home there back in the dark old days.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Gillingham in Dorset is pronounced with a hard G, as in fish breathing apparatus.

Indeed it is.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Marvelous insult sir....have the rest of the day off.

Is it though ? Being called Jill isn’t insulting.

 

[TugWilson]

If i recall they were at Wembley in the early 2000s for a play off final , and a fair few of our lads and lasses went up in support .

 

[Boys 9d]

I thought it was the owners, Crawley Council and not the Football Club that prevented Albion using the ground?

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I thought it was the owners, Crawley Council and not the Football Club that prevented Albion using the ground?

Maybe, but the end result was the same, we were prevented from playing there.

 

[Icy Gull]

Same here. They charged us rent eh? Wouldn't anyone have done the same including us?

Didn’t our “rent” pay for the Gordon Road stand. Scally was a mate of Bellotti too wasn’t he?

I do not wish them well

 

[Cornwallboy]

Didn’t our “rent” pay for the Gordon Road stand. Scally was a mate of Bellotti too wasn’t he?

I do not wish them well

Why was it 'rent'? Surely it was rent, as we paid them money for use of their facilities. Were they supposed to say 'have it for free'? Would we let another club use the Amex for free? As for Bellotti and Scally I have no idea as didn't / don't know either.

 

[Icy Gull]

Why was it 'rent'? Surely it was rent, as we paid them money for use of their facilities. Were they supposed to say 'have it for free'? Would we let another club use the Amex for free? As for Bellotti and Scally I have no idea as didn't / don't know either.

300k paid for three years, we were only there for two and Scally didn’t refund the third year..allegedly.

We were shafted by Gillingham, with Bellotti’s compliance, no doubt approved by Archer imo. All sorts of shit was going down at the time. Us folding no doubt being the preferred outcome from this ludicrous arrangement for home games.

If you are OK with it, that’s fine, doesn’t mean I have to be as well though.

Nasty club with a nasty owner at the time, getting into bed with our asset stripping owners at the time imo

I’d like @Lenny Rider take on this

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Why was it 'rent'? Surely it was rent, as we paid them money for use of their facilities. Were they supposed to say 'have it for free'? Would we let another club use the Amex for free? As for Bellotti and Scally I have no idea as didn't / don't know either.

100 % correct. We were lucky to find a temporary home. No need for some of these comments on the monthly Gillingham FC threads. I’m sure their fans aren’t as obsessed with us as ours are with them.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

300k paid for three years, we were only there for two and Scally didn’t refund the third year..allegedly.

We were shafted by Gillingham, with Bellotti’s compliance, no doubt approved by Archer imo. All sorts of shit was going down at the time. Us folding no doubt being the preferred outcome from this ludicrous arrangement for home games.

If you are OK with it, that’s fine, doesn’t mean I have to be as well though.

Nasty club with a nasty owner at the time, getting into bed with our asset stripping owners at the time imo

I’d like @Lenny Rider take on this

Not based on actual facts then Icy ?

 

[Icy Gull]

Not based on actual facts then Icy ?

Nope, but I do wonder how many of you who are saying you were OK with it actually went to the Priestfield for two years every couple of weeks during the seasons we played there though, and lived through the shit that was going on with the club leading up to the groundshare.

All my opinions are based on personal experience at the time and the rumours about it

I have no problem with others being happy with how it was handled

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Nope, but I do wonder how many of you who are saying you were OK with it actually went to the Priestfield for two years every couple of weeks during the seasons we played there though, and lived through the shit that was going on with the club leading up to the groundshare.

All my opinions are based on personal experience at the time and the rumours about it

I have no problem with others being happy with how it was handled

Clearly you do have a problem with those differing opinions if you think they must be from people who weren’t there….

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

New majority owner so locals who support them are waiting to see whether there is any investment. He recently referred to them as " sleeping giants " so he obviously is a bit clueless. By the way it is the "Gills".

Often pronounced, even by local telly 'presenters' here in North Kent, wrongly, as the things fish breathe with

 

[Icy Gull]

Clearly you do have a problem with those differing opinions if you think they must be from people who weren’t there….

Not at all, just interested whether they actually lived through it or are just grateful Gillingham gave us a home ground at the time even if they didn’t go or weren’t even born at the time.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Not at all, just interested whether they actually lived through it or are just grateful Gillingham gave us a home ground at the time even if they didn’t go or weren’t even born at the time.

Or the third option which is grateful to Gillingham for allowing the ground share, acknowledging that we had to pay to do that and having been a STH throughout our time at Gillingham and before…