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Post by Dirt Dogg on May 9, 2019 13:56:33 GMT
Bookies odds are worrying, there’s no one else even close in the running.
Steve Cottetril at 33/1 seems like a good punt!
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Post by daniel300380 on May 9, 2019 14:02:14 GMT
Hrrmmmmmm correct me if I am wrong, but did DC not leave us with Matthews & Bennett? A pair of wide players that GC almost immediately shipped out and replaced with Ogogo (another CM).... Always makes me chuckle the narrative that DC left us with no width when in actual fact it was GC who cleared out two thirds of the wingers in our squad. That were both out of form. I said before the season started we lacked with, think Matthews played through the middle more the season before. GC recognised that and decided to play a diamond formation. That's why Ogogo was brought in. That decision helped save us. I said before last season started we would struggle and I'm normally over positive lol. I said we had no width and too many central player's. GC signed what we needed to stay up.
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Post by creategasnotwar on May 9, 2019 14:10:03 GMT
If Matthews and Bennett are the best we could do for width I’d rather play without personally. But that is not the point is it. The quality of said players is questionable, agreed, but the fact is GC was left with options for width. Point being it was GC and not DC who very clearly showed his hand for all to see by moving all of our wide players bar one out of the club. Well if I’ve got 4 central players who are all (debatably) league 1 standard and 3 wingers, two of which aren’t good enough for league 1 you can take a guess if I’ll play a narrow or wide formation. The options at that point in January is either invest in new wingers, or ship out the ones not good enough to save funds, obviously the latter would happen at this club. So yes, DC did leave GC with width, but I’m of the opinion of he stuck with the width we had the likely scenario would have been relegation, and GCs main job quite simply was to avoid that.
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Post by rosssgb on May 9, 2019 14:11:17 GMT
1/2 on according to Twitter.
Hurry up and take him Plymouth!
If he’s going to go it needs to be now and not in 3/4 weeks time. Big summer for us whoever’s in charge.
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Post by glengas on May 9, 2019 14:14:01 GMT
That were both out of form. I said before the season started we lacked with, think Matthews played through the middle more the season before. GC recognised that and decided to play a diamond formation. That's why Ogogo was brought in. That decision helped save us. I said before last season started we would struggle and I'm normally over positive lol. I said we had no width and too many central player's. GC signed what we needed to stay up. I don’t buy into this DC assembled a terrible squad. We had one of the best defences in the league and probably a decent midfield with O Clarke, Rodman and Sercombe. Where the problem lies is Rovers achilles heal the striker situation. Payne turned out to be a waste of space and Nichols can’t hit a cows arse with a banjo, so they were poor signings which cost him his job but to say the whole squad was poor is wrong. GC got in JCH which kept us up an achievement in itself.
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Post by daniel300380 on May 9, 2019 15:36:48 GMT
I said before last season started we would struggle and I'm normally over positive lol. I said we had no width and too many central player's. GC signed what we needed to stay up. I don’t buy into this DC assembled a terrible squad. We had one of the best defences in the league and probably a decent midfield with O Clarke, Rodman and Sercombe. Where the problem lies is Rovers achilles heal the striker situation. Payne turned out to be a waste of space and Nichols can’t hit a cows arse with a banjo, so they were poor signings which cost him his job but to say the whole squad was poor is wrong. GC got in JCH which kept us up an achievement in itself. I didn't say the whole squad was poor. I said we would struggle for width and goals. Which we did.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on May 9, 2019 15:40:07 GMT
Bookies odds are worrying, there’s no one else even close in the running. Steve Cottetril at 33/1 seems like a good punt! One letter out there DD, as an appropriate adjective.... and I was ready to give it the thumbs up like....
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Post by pucklegas on May 9, 2019 16:33:30 GMT
I said before last season started we would struggle and I'm normally over positive lol. I said we had no width and too many central player's. GC signed what we needed to stay up. I don’t buy into this DC assembled a terrible squad. We had one of the best defences in the league and probably a decent midfield with O Clarke, Rodman and Sercombe. Where the problem lies is Rovers achilles heal the striker situation. Payne turned out to be a waste of space and Nichols can’t hit a cows arse with a banjo, so they were poor signings which cost him his job but to say the whole squad was poor is wrong. GC got in JCH which kept us up an achievement in itself. Allegedly DC told JCH s agent we didn't need him pre season!
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Post by warehamgas on May 9, 2019 16:34:28 GMT
If GC was considering Plymouth it seems a bit odd that he would go about releasing players or telling they won't get new deals at least. Surely he could have postponed that by a week or so, taken the Plymouth job and just left it up to whoever comes next to decide who they want to offer deals to. Personally I wouldn't blame him for leaving. We are sh**e off the pitch and Plymouth are as big a club as us with better facilities. What's more some of our fans seem more than a little ungrateful for him keeping us up with once of the worse squads we've seen in a long time. Just what I thought. Pretty bizarre to be leaving the club, and just before you do, you release our Welsh international, our bearded motivator and our midfield maestro (he's one of our own). The only way that would happen is if GC were to leave for a rival club, similar to ourselves, in order to make them more competitive with us, and our owners have astonishingly failed to spot the impending disaster. Hmm... Have we released Tom L? I thought he’d run down his contract. Same result, yes he’s going but the reasons are very different. Bit misleading to say we released him. Looking last night on Walsall forum and they saw “we’d released” Tom L and some thought he’d be good for them!! UTG!
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Post by hometobarnsley on May 9, 2019 16:35:58 GMT
If GC was considering Plymouth it seems a bit odd that he would go about releasing players or telling they won't get new deals at least. Surely he could have postponed that by a week or so, taken the Plymouth job and just left it up to whoever comes next to decide who they want to offer deals to. Personally I wouldn't blame him for leaving. We are sh**e off the pitch and Plymouth are as big a club as us with better facilities. What's more some of our fans seem more than a little ungrateful for him keeping us up with once of the worse squads we've seen in a long time. Just what I thought. Pretty bizarre to be leaving the club, and just before you do, you release our Welsh international, our bearded motivator and our midfield maestro (he's one of our own). The only way that would happen is if GC were to leave for a rival club, similar to ourselves, in order to make them more competitive with us, and our owners have astonishingly failed to spot the impending disaster. Hmm... He didn't "release our Welsh international".
Our Welsh international ran his contract down so that he could become a free agent.
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Post by aghast on May 9, 2019 16:37:57 GMT
I'm just being ganged up on now.
One slip of the keyboard and they're on you. Like vultures.
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Post by warehamgas on May 9, 2019 16:40:32 GMT
Been called several things but never a vulture! 😀 UTG!
ps Not your fault aghast, even on the club side website he’s bunched in with others who have been released, so easy for everyone to draw the “wrong” conclusion.
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Post by matealotblue on May 9, 2019 16:45:21 GMT
Bookies odds are worrying, there’s no one else even close in the running. Steve Cottetril at 33/1 seems like a good punt! One letter out there DD, as an appropriate adjective.... and I was ready to give it the thumbs up like.... Runt maybe?
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Post by Topper Gas on May 9, 2019 17:04:17 GMT
There’s almost as much speculation on here as to who will get the Plymouth job as there is on their own forum. IMO, if Coughlan has any intention of taking the Plymouth job, he wouldn’t of agreed to a radio interview tonight, detailing his plans for the summer and next season but we’ll see. Perhaps he's going to explain why he's taking the Plymuff job!
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Post by hometobarnsley on May 9, 2019 17:35:46 GMT
I'm just being ganged up on now. One slip of the keyboard and they're on you. Like vultures. Sorry aghast, meant nothing nasty, but you know how the forum pedants like to have everything correct!
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Post by wertongas on May 9, 2019 17:46:39 GMT
I'm just being ganged up on now. One slip of the keyboard and they're on you. Like vultures. Yes that's life, now you know what its like for a football manger, or a certain Liverpool goalkeeper last season. One or two slip ups and you have to live with them for the rest of your life.
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Post by spiess1 on May 9, 2019 17:55:29 GMT
Football manger? Even Rovers players eat in a clubhouse. Runt and punt and any near homophones are NOT adjectives.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2019 18:00:08 GMT
I said before last season started we would struggle and I'm normally over positive lol. I said we had no width and too many central player's. GC signed what we needed to stay up. I don’t buy into this DC assembled a terrible squad. We had one of the best defences in the league and probably a decent midfield with O Clarke, Rodman and Sercombe. Where the problem lies is Rovers achilles heal the striker situation. Payne turned out to be a waste of space and Nichols can’t hit a cows arse with a banjo, so they were poor signings which cost him his job but to say the whole squad was poor is wrong. GC got in JCH which kept us up an achievement in itself. Spot on. The squad overall us decent enough for this level but it's all about the strikers. Ultimately, replacing Taylor, Bodin, Harrison and even to an extent Gaffney with a fraction of their value was a bridge to far, as to be fair it probably would have been for any manager at this level. Coughlan has come closest to doing so in effectively replacing Harrison with JCH. So far, so good.
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Post by gas24 on May 9, 2019 23:32:23 GMT
GC 2/7 for Plymouth job now
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Post by axegas on May 9, 2019 23:50:01 GMT
GC 2/7 for Plymouth job now Honestly, today's interview left me with the impression that if he was offered the managerial vacancy he would take it but thus far he's heard nothing so he's preparing for next season like usual. Nothing much based on that, just a hunch. Strange that more and more money seems to be put on him, even though he denies hearing anything about it though.
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