Painful to watch!!

I'm fully behind DC but it's nonsense to suggest he has received no backing. Nicholls and Payne would have cost upwards of 500k combined, more than a decent investment at this level.

People are delusional if they seriously think we would spend 1m+ on players from Forest Green etc.

Having seen Telford score twice today, it's gutting that a player who knows how to hit the back of the net was brushed aside.

Lines available for the next match need to start him he’s our only natural playmaker.
Without him we lack the ability to unlock defences .
Our top two assists these last few years are Lee brown and Chris lines.
With neither in the team we can’t create much and even when we do it’s loads of half chances .
Browner didn’t create half chances he set up
Goals, likewise lines.

Ross Wallace, Kazenga LuaLua, David Henen, Adam Hammill, Wes Hoolahan, Darren Bent, Matt Mills, Greg Halford, Lloyd Dyer, Chris Eagles, Jim O'Brien, Diego Poyet, Nathan Oduwa are just some of the ones available. I could name 5 or 6 quality ones abroad, but you probably won't be aware of them so I won't bother. If they were out of contract before the deadline then they can be signed anytime and there is no deadline. Is the money there? It is if Wael wants it to be.

The Al Qadi family aren't as rich as we were initially led to believe, but they aren't paupers either. They could afford to increase the budget if they wanted to. How about 'donating' the 500k in transfers fees we received this summer? Even If it was paid in instalments they know they will get the money eventually.

As an older fan myself I understand how staffordshiregas feels.

Despite all the failings we saw in society in years gone by there was then, IMO, a greater tendency to say what you meant and to stick by what you said. Darrell Clarke struck a chord with Gasheads when he said he wanted a mix of young hungry players together with seasoned professionals of good character and I think the team built with the likes of Lockyer, O Clarke, Leadbitter and Harrison along with Mansell, Monkhouse and Mildenhall are a testament to this philosophy. What I believe he planned to do was to continue pursuing this policy at a higher level of quality as Rovers moved up the leagues. But unfortunately, due to financial constraints and the justified perception of Rovers as an unfashionable club lacking in facilities, he has found this difficult to accomplish.

Do  the recent signings really fit the category of player which Darrell said at the start he wanted to bring to the club ? We know Nichols, Smith and Sercombe all had problems at their previous clubs and were not wanted. And if we are honest with ourselves aren't  Upson, Rodman, Payne and Martin the kind of journeymen we said we didn't want anymore ?

It is the "double speak" which gets to me and I expect many older fans too. If we cannot follow the plan which we were given and embraced at the beginning of the journey with Darrell Clarke, and which we thought Wael was going to continue and improve on with investment and up to date infrastructure, then for goodness sake tell us !  The worst offender in my eyes is Wael because (as I've posted many times before) he relies on thinking he can pull the wool over our eyes because he knows most of us don't understand how business works. If he really meant it when he said he wants what is best for Bristol Rovers then he has to tell us how he is going to provide the training facilities, the modern stadium and the budget which Darrell Clarke needs to be able to keep his best players and to add true quality to the squad If he cannot do this he should let go, cut his losses and pass the club on to someone who can take it forward.     


 




   

Can't see this on Wael's Twitter feed - do you have a link?

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I don't think that's true. Shrewsbury showed last year you can bring people into an unfashionable club at a reasonable rate and have them be top-six. And young hungry players are relatively cheap by definition. Not sure which of our players you don't believe are of good character. So, 'financial constraints' seems to be the sort of thing to say when the team is not performing well. Istm we have a pretty middling budget for the league, and on paper a pretty middling  squad.

Obviously you have a point about the training ground and the stadium, but these things keep getting conflated with the team's performance, which istm is a red herring.

Im probably going to get pelters for this -- But in my opinion we miss the type of player we had in Jermain Easter.