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Post by Slide away on Jan 19, 2019 20:23:59 GMT
Im certain that it is due to the appalling facilities...who realistically would come to a ramshackle rusting old rugby ground along with a rented training ground where you are expected to pick the fox crap up before starting on a morning? Let's be honest, proabably 85 of the 92 are better than what we offer. Due to this we need to pay top dollar to mediocre players using up all of the decent budget! Yeah, its not like we have, or had any players sign for us, eh? You obviously didn't read the post properly. Those that do sign do so on good money to compensate the poor set up, good money that is not justified by their quality (or lack of)
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Jan 19, 2019 20:26:41 GMT
Yeah, its not like we have, or had any players sign for us, eh? You obviously didn't read the post properly. Those that do sign do so on good money to compensate the poor set up, good money that is not justified by their quality (or lack of) You another itk? How much money is Rodman on? As you obviously know.....
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Post by Slide away on Jan 19, 2019 20:29:00 GMT
You obviously didn't read the post properly. Those that do sign do so on good money to compensate the poor set up, good money that is not justified by their quality (or lack of) You another itk? How much money is Rodman on? As you obviously know..... No and £3.5k / week
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Jan 19, 2019 20:32:29 GMT
You another itk? How much money is Rodman on? As you obviously know..... No and £3.5k / week Lol... Your not itk, yet know how how much he's on.... Out if interest, his did you come up with 3.5k? Football manager doesnt count.
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Post by gasheadbatesy on Jan 19, 2019 20:35:43 GMT
I wasn’t there. My point wasn’t that we played well. It was that people really do love to exaggerate on here. I rarely if ever comment on match day but it was NO exaggeration to say, that was one of the worst games of football I have seen at the Mem. It lacked commitment, passion and skill - frankly players going through the motion - a disgrace to the name of Bristol Rovers FC. New Year’s Day wasn’t much better. I commented after the New Year’s Day game how water poor we were. Today was only slightly worse. Back to back water poor home performances. We were creating plenty under D.c. We’re not even doing that anymore. Very worried now. D.c should have been given January. We owed him that, at the very least that.
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Post by Slide away on Jan 19, 2019 20:39:54 GMT
Lol... Your not itk, yet know how how much he's on.... Out if interest, his did you come up with 3.5k? Football manager doesnt count. I tried to be jovial and take the edge off in the 3.5k post which doesn't seem to have worked! I'm certainly not itk but it isn't hard to work out that we basically pay decent money for average players. We have used are entire budget on this lot- a budget that must be reasonable given that we consistentaly get 8-9k per home game (top 6 in league attendances) and the commercial side is as strong as it ever has been.
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Post by mehewmagic on Jan 19, 2019 20:42:59 GMT
You another itk? How much money is Rodman on? As you obviously know..... No and £3.5k / week Maybe I'm naïve but if someone like Rodman (by that I mean not young & not a player with a stunning record) is on that sort of money I think I will give up. People bandy around figures like £1k a week and £2k a week without anyone putting into a figure most of us normal people can understand, namely £50k a year and £100k a year. £3.5k a week is close to £200,000 a year. The national average wage is circa £26k a year. If any of our players are on £200k a year I'll be extra p'eed off at my £11 an hour and being a supporter of a local team.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Jan 19, 2019 20:47:41 GMT
Campbell from Stoke was the player that had agreed to come but scored twice in week so stoke keeping him for the bench typical How do you know?
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Post by gashead1981 on Jan 19, 2019 20:59:11 GMT
Campbell from Stoke was the player that had agreed to come but scored twice in week so stoke keeping him for the bench typical Perm or loan?
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Post by Forestgas7 on Jan 19, 2019 22:01:56 GMT
Campbell from Stoke was the player that had agreed to come but scored twice in week so stoke keeping him for the bench typical Perm or loan? Loan
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 22:09:43 GMT
Campbell from Stoke was the player that had agreed to come but scored twice in week so stoke keeping him for the bench typical How do you know? IIRC we were linked with him last time round and ended up signing Jakubiak instead. I was reminded of the name when he scored those two against Shrewsbury.
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Post by socrates on Jan 19, 2019 22:12:23 GMT
I rarely if ever comment on match day but it was NO exaggeration to say, that was one of the worst games of football I have seen at the Mem. It lacked commitment, passion and skill - frankly players going through the motion - a disgrace to the name of Bristol Rovers FC. I guess we're all exaggerating. The one bloke that didn't go to the game clearly knows better than us! I’ve told you all a million times to stop exaggerating.
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Post by pirate on Jan 19, 2019 22:46:50 GMT
If we can't attract the players in the football league, maybe we should go and get some of the better ones from non-league, improve them further and hopefully sell them on at a profit and reinvest to have a continuing loop of talent. That type of player has served us well in the past and most of the best players in our history has been from this type of route.
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 19, 2019 23:14:57 GMT
If we can't attract the players in the football league, maybe we should go and get some of the better ones from non-league, improve them further and hopefully sell them on at a profit and reinvest to have a continuing loop of talent. That type of player has served us well in the past and most of the best players in our history has been from this type of route. We tried that with Parts, Mensah and Matthews(who was at Eastleigh last season) none of which now look up to Div 1 football. Plus we need players to hit the ground running not wait half a season to adjust to league football.
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Post by gaschat on Jan 19, 2019 23:29:59 GMT
If we can't attract the players in the football league, maybe we should go and get some of the better ones from non-league, improve them further and hopefully sell them on at a profit and reinvest to have a continuing loop of talent. That type of player has served us well in the past and most of the best players in our history has been from this type of route. There's a reason why they're non-league
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 23:31:15 GMT
If we can't attract the players in the football league, maybe we should go and get some of the better ones from non-league, improve them further and hopefully sell them on at a profit and reinvest to have a continuing loop of talent. That type of player has served us well in the past and most of the best players in our history has been from this type of route. Thats the obvious route for a club like rovers to take in truth and stick with it if one or two dont come off. Plenty on here clamouring for proven league one players when we missed out on the play-offs in league one with mostly our conference squad. We cannot compete for the best league one players or the highly rated league two lads so a clear policy along non league lines would be a realistic route to take imo.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 23:35:52 GMT
It’s like having to rent an expensive house miles away from Nowhere in order to work in an Aldi. Only those really dedicated to retail management and not the other comforts in life will go - so a very small percentage. Hence we can’t sign any players.. we are a sh** Aldi store in the sticks! 😂
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Post by pirate on Jan 19, 2019 23:36:51 GMT
If we can't attract the players in the football league, maybe we should go and get some of the better ones from non-league, improve them further and hopefully sell them on at a profit and reinvest to have a continuing loop of talent. That type of player has served us well in the past and most of the best players in our history has been from this type of route. We tried that with Parts, Mensah and Matthews(who was at Eastleigh last season) none of which now look up to Div 1 football. Plus we need players to hit the ground running not wait half a season to adjust to league football. I wasn't just talking about this season, more of a longer term strategy. Matthews is only 21 and I've seen enough of him to think he has the potential to come good. There are one or two in non-league that could come in and have an immediate impact IMHO. Im thinking of the Warburton's (Stockport) and Whitley's (Ebbsfleet) of this world. Even further down there are players 5 divisions below us I reckon could offer us more than what we are seeing from the likes of Payne. Players like Lumsden (Tadcaster Albion), Whitehouse (Tadcaster Albion), Brad Lynch (Colne), Trickett-Smith (Leek), Ferdinand (Bracknell), Tyreece-Walters (Greenwich Borough).
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Post by pirate on Jan 19, 2019 23:55:09 GMT
If we can't attract the players in the football league, maybe we should go and get some of the better ones from non-league, improve them further and hopefully sell them on at a profit and reinvest to have a continuing loop of talent. That type of player has served us well in the past and most of the best players in our history has been from this type of route. There's a reason why they're non-league Hayles, Ellington, Roberts, Martyn, Penrice, Randall, Taylor were non-league. So were Vardy, Austin, Deeney, Smalling, Solly March, Michail Antonio etc. In the Championship Yannick Bolasie, Dwight Gayle, Lee Gregory, Joe Lolley, Jarrod Bowen, Aden Flint etc. And some of the better performers in our division too like Lyle Taylor, Kieffer Moore, Ashley Hunter and Jamal Lowe.
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Post by axegas on Jan 20, 2019 0:09:57 GMT
If we can't attract the players in the football league, maybe we should go and get some of the better ones from non-league, improve them further and hopefully sell them on at a profit and reinvest to have a continuing loop of talent. That type of player has served us well in the past and most of the best players in our history has been from this type of route. There's a reason why they're non-league Yes, because L1+L2 proffesional clubs like ourselves haven’t given them a chance yet to unlock their potential at a higher level through proper coaching. Not every player is going to show amazing talent at 16,17,18 and find themselves a professional club. Many slip through the net due to height, poor scouting, being played in the wrong positions etc and develop later on. Plenty of examples of these sorts of players, Vardy, Bolasie and Austin being prime examples.
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