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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 11:29:24 GMT
Sorry I did say I was going to depart and enjoy the summer but I thought I would post a positive thread as my last one was deemed a little negative.
Cogs, I give him grace, not the best PR trained and our own version of Mick McCarthy, says it how it is. Yes he does need to get a little more savvy in this area, great skill in getting the fans on side for any manager in how you talk,. I don’t need this though, just a side that wins more than it loses for me and battles for the shirt.
I would like to thank and praise him for picking up an absolute car crash of a situation in December and let’s remember this was his first attempt at it. Out when Payne and Bennett, the latter ever present before and in came Jaks, Oxford away was a great day. Bad apples sent away from the squad, the cake mixture wasn’t great with what he was left with and some didn’t like the taste of it with his version. Joking apart, he looked at what he had, central defence with no height or dominance (Donny 4-0 loss at home) and decided to play 4 central midfielders in front to protect them. This led to a rigid style of football, no width (previous manager left none) or pace but a solid formation and side hard to beat............the end result was we stayed up, we don’t know the ins and outs of Linesgate but again PR wise he never handled well.
The coming season, budget, signings, enthused COGS has highlighted we need dominance, wingers and pace. Enthused he’s best mates with Chris Wilder and has said he wants to play football on the floor. I think anyone judging him on keeping a sinking ship afloat last season needs to question their own patience. Also if he goes by his last 2 signings again this leaves me with confidence.
I am personally glad we have a manager hell bent on success and his own personal success, I am sure he sees us as a stepping stone, maybe even replacing Mick McCarthy one day. I don’t care if he doesn’t call us “my/me fans” or feel the need to tell us about off the field activities. I just want him to manage our team and I think he will do that next season with no other distractions.
I’m saying it now, hold me to it as well, this man will take us to a top half finish next season and a real go for 6th place.
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Post by Henbury Gas on May 23, 2019 11:33:13 GMT
i'll give him to January
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 11:34:46 GMT
Can I ask your foundation on this? Wasn’t last season enough for you to see he had the foresight to see what he was left with and worked a formula out to get the best out of them?
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Post by chewbacca on May 23, 2019 11:35:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 11:37:54 GMT
Roady relaxing after starting his latest thread. 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 11:40:09 GMT
I think he will be excellent for us and will go on to manage in the Championship at some point.
Needs time and positive energy from all of us.
The back stabbing of him on here is poor ... he cleared up the mess left by DC ... that point surely cannot be debated. He still has some baggage to be rid of that will hamper his playing budget if we become stuck with them. That is down to rank poor Summer Recruitment in 2018 not GC.
The previous era is gone ... great memories in the main but now time to back the next generation and stop living in the “ let’s only remember the sparkly good bits “ past.
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Post by Jomo on May 23, 2019 11:40:31 GMT
Sorry I did say I was going to depart and enjoy the summer but I thought I would post a positive thread as my last one was deemed a little negative. Cogs, I give him grace, not the best PR trained and our own version of Mick McCarthy, says it how it is. Yes he does need to get a little more savvy in this area, great skill in getting the fans on side for any manager in how you talk,. I don’t need this though, just a side that wins more than it loses for me and battles for the shirt. I would like to thank and praise him for picking up an absolute car crash of a situation in December and let’s remember this was his first attempt at it. Out when Payne and Bennett, the latter ever present before and in came Jaks, Oxford away was a great day. Bad apples sent away from the squad, the cake mixture wasn’t great with what he was left with and some didn’t like the taste of it with his version. Joking apart, he looked at what he had, central defence with no height or dominance (Donny 4-0 loss at home) and decided to play 4 central midfielders in front to protect them. This led to a rigid style of football, no width (previous manager left none) or pace but a solid formation and side hard to beat............the end result was we stayed up, we don’t know the ins and outs of Linesgate but again PR wise he never handled well. The coming season, budget, signings, enthused COGS has highlighted we need dominance, wingers and pace. Enthused he’s best mates with Chris Wilder and has said he wants to play football on the floor. I think anyone judging him on keeping a sinking ship afloat last season needs to question their own patience. Also if he goes by his last 2 signings again this leaves me with confidence. I am personally glad we have a manager hell bent on success and his own personal success, I am sure he sees us as a stepping stone, maybe even replacing Mick McCarthy one day. I don’t care if he doesn’t call us “my/me fans” or feel the need to tell us about off the field activities. I just want him to manage our team and I think he will do that next season with no other distractions. I’m saying it now, hold me to it as well, this man will take us to a top half finish next season and a real go for 6th place. I like the bloke and thank him for saving us last season, no matter how ugly it was. He deserves his chance and I really hope he makes a success of it with us.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 11:42:21 GMT
We could do this to death, as we do every summer, in truth none of us know what will happen next season. Lets just grab a cornetto, stick a handkerchief on our heads, roll out the union jack towels, bat away the pesky wasps, slap on the factor 50, drink to excess and get dehydrated angry, burn sausages on the bbq, wear flip flops badly, take a donkey ride, follow the hordes down to Greece, moan about the Welsh people at Bristol Airport, show off our bad tattoos, achieve van man one arm sunburn when driving, AND ENJOY SUMMER!
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 11:44:57 GMT
We could do this to death, as we do every summer, in truth none of us know what will happen next season. Lets just grab a cornetto, stick a handkerchief on our heads, roll out the union jack towels, bat away the pesky wasps, slap on the factor 50, drink to excess and get dehydrated angry, burn sausages on the bbq, wear flip flops badly, take a donkey ride, follow the hordes down to Greece, moan about the Welsh people at Bristol Airport, show off our bad tattoos, achieve van man one arm sunburn when driving, AND ENJOY SUMMER! . So true about the damn welsh at Bristol Airport ... Gets the holiday off to a bad start!
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Post by Kingswood Polak on May 23, 2019 11:47:06 GMT
Can I ask your foundation on this? Wasn’t last season enough for you to see he had the foresight to see what he was left with and worked a formula out to get the best out of them? I think we can only give a true reflection on him once he has his own squad and has had the time to get them playing how he feels they should. I don’t think it’s great to judge on the season just gone as he said it would be ugly and ugly it certainly was. At end of day, I support Rovers and will continue to do so. As with all who support us, we live in hope but partly prepare for worse. No one said supporting us would be easy and no one can call us glory hunters 😂
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Post by Marshy on May 23, 2019 11:47:24 GMT
We could do this to death, as we do every summer, in truth none of us know what will happen next season. Lets just grab a cornetto, stick a handkerchief on our heads, roll out the union jack towels, bat away the pesky wasps, slap on the factor 50, drink to excess and get dehydrated angry, burn sausages on the bbq, wear flip flops badly, take a donkey ride, follow the hordes down to Greece, moan about the Welsh people at Bristol Airport, show off our bad tattoos, achieve van man one arm sunburn when driving, AND ENJOY SUMMER! . So true about the damn welsh at Bristol Airport ... Gets the holiday off to a bad start! Oy behave yourselves! I live in Wales, probably my in-laws though! 😂
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Post by orgasmic on May 23, 2019 11:51:37 GMT
Roady relaxing after starting his latest thread. 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 That's your avatar sorted!
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Post by twertonboy on May 23, 2019 11:55:59 GMT
It really is strange behaviour from certain fans that can’t take to him and still bang on about Dc who would have taken us down last season
He was brought in to do a job and he did that with dc’s failed signings to deal with and people still don’t want to see it... The same people moan about lines and Sincs when it was right for them to go...if they stayed after 3 games and their not up to standard again the same people would have moaned he hasn’t got a clue and no balls to off load them!
Like any manager he has til jan to show us what he can do with a smaller budget than dc so it’s still not really fair but I’m backing him and I agree with some staff going and tightening things up for a rocky couple of season because this squad needs rebuilding and with possibly a new keeper and new centre back things will take time to gel.
People moan about the owners not looking forward but our own fans can’t seem to let go of the deadwood either
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 11:59:56 GMT
Amen TwertonBoy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Post by peterhooper57 on May 23, 2019 12:19:31 GMT
Tbh not sure whether GC is with us, or still in the shake down at Muff; that said, while the football was awful to watch, he managed some how to ensure BRFC retained its status for another season in Div 1, consequently, if he stays ? then he deserves a crack at trying to build a team which is largely playing its football in the top half of the division instead of bouncing in and out of the bottom four.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 12:29:14 GMT
Before DC was appointed I always wanted a 'no-name' manager putting together his own team of triers who worked hard for the club (I know he had success at Salisbury but that was non-league) as we always went for a known quantity when appointing a manager. Turned out okay.
Hoping we have the same with GC. He's pretty much come from nowhere. We don't know what he's gonna be like building a squad. Interested to see who he can bring through the door. The first 10 games are the telltale sign for me. We need to act quick if heaven forbid its a disaster. I've got a feeling it wont be.
Cant remember the last time we were those bastards who unexpectedly won the first 5 games and sat at the top of the league with everyone saying 'well they're going up'. And stay up there or thereabouts the whole season. Can only dream.
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Post by warehamgas on May 23, 2019 12:48:15 GMT
Sorry I did say I was going to depart and enjoy the summer but I thought I would post a positive thread as my last one was deemed a little negative. Cogs, I give him grace, not the best PR trained and our own version of Mick McCarthy, says it how it is. Yes he does need to get a little more savvy in this area, great skill in getting the fans on side for any manager in how you talk,. I don’t need this though, just a side that wins more than it loses for me and battles for the shirt. I would like to thank and praise him for picking up an absolute car crash of a situation in December and let’s remember this was his first attempt at it. Out when Payne and Bennett, the latter ever present before and in came Jaks, Oxford away was a great day. Bad apples sent away from the squad, the cake mixture wasn’t great with what he was left with and some didn’t like the taste of it with his version. Joking apart, he looked at what he had, central defence with no height or dominance (Donny 4-0 loss at home) and decided to play 4 central midfielders in front to protect them. This led to a rigid style of football, no width (previous manager left none) or pace but a solid formation and side hard to beat............the end result was we stayed up, we don’t know the ins and outs of Linesgate but again PR wise he never handled well. The coming season, budget, signings, enthused COGS has highlighted we need dominance, wingers and pace. Enthused he’s best mates with Chris Wilder and has said he wants to play football on the floor. I think anyone judging him on keeping a sinking ship afloat last season needs to question their own patience. Also if he goes by his last 2 signings again this leaves me with confidence. I am personally glad we have a manager hell bent on success and his own personal success, I am sure he sees us as a stepping stone, maybe even replacing Mick McCarthy one day. I don’t care if he doesn’t call us “my/me fans” or feel the need to tell us about off the field activities. I just want him to manage our team and I think he will do that next season with no other distractions. I’m saying it now, hold me to it as well, this man will take us to a top half finish next season and a real go for 6th place. Now that I can agree with. Never understood why GC not more appreciated. In a results business he has got them in spades December onwards. Not the best to watch but he told us it wouldn’t be the best. He did exactly what he said he was trying to do. He kept us up and now deserves the chance. Like you roady I just want our manager to manage with no other distractions. I hope he can do that and as last season he will get my support. UTG!
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Post by chewbacca on May 23, 2019 13:35:32 GMT
Sorry I did say I was going to depart and enjoy the summer but I thought I would post a positive thread as my last one was deemed a little negative. Cogs, I give him grace, not the best PR trained and our own version of Mick McCarthy, says it how it is. Yes he does need to get a little more savvy in this area, great skill in getting the fans on side for any manager in how you talk,. I don’t need this though, just a side that wins more than it loses for me and battles for the shirt. I would like to thank and praise him for picking up an absolute car crash of a situation in December and let’s remember this was his first attempt at it. Out when Payne and Bennett, the latter ever present before and in came Jaks, Oxford away was a great day. Bad apples sent away from the squad, the cake mixture wasn’t great with what he was left with and some didn’t like the taste of it with his version. Joking apart, he looked at what he had, central defence with no height or dominance (Donny 4-0 loss at home) and decided to play 4 central midfielders in front to protect them. This led to a rigid style of football, no width (previous manager left none) or pace but a solid formation and side hard to beat............the end result was we stayed up, we don’t know the ins and outs of Linesgate but again PR wise he never handled well. The coming season, budget, signings, enthused COGS has highlighted we need dominance, wingers and pace. Enthused he’s best mates with Chris Wilder and has said he wants to play football on the floor. I think anyone judging him on keeping a sinking ship afloat last season needs to question their own patience. Also if he goes by his last 2 signings again this leaves me with confidence. I am personally glad we have a manager hell bent on success and his own personal success, I am sure he sees us as a stepping stone, maybe even replacing Mick McCarthy one day. I don’t care if he doesn’t call us “my/me fans” or feel the need to tell us about off the field activities. I just want him to manage our team and I think he will do that next season with no other distractions. I’m saying it now, hold me to it as well, this man will take us to a top half finish next season and a real go for 6th place. Now that I can agree with. Never understood why GC not more appreciated. In a results business he has got them in spades December onwards. Not the best to watch but he told us it wouldn’t be the best. He did exactly what he said he was trying to do. He kept us up and now deserves the chance. Like you roady I just want our manager to manage with no other distractions. I hope he can do that and as last season he will get my support. UTG! While I agree with the sentiment, people do want to be entertained. Last season, the situation we were in, we did just need results. Now, with a clean slate Coughlan has the chance to stamp his style of play on the club. His job next season will be very different to last, he does need to entertain, he does need to put bums on seats, he needs to show how his team will play and that will the interesting thing. I'm sure he'll be given time mainly because if the club were to get rid they'd have surely done it by now. It'll be interesting to see how this thread has aged in January.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 13:51:12 GMT
Thankful to GC for steadying the ship, and keeping us up. He told us it wouldn't be pretty, so no complaints there - we were forewarned.
Will be interested to see what style of play we adopt next season, hopefully he can recruit players who will facilitate his wish for us to play it on the deck.
I don't mind his interviews, he's in the very early days of being a manager, so there's bound to be a few bumps along the way. I was an avid DC fan, and nobody can prove that he wouldn't have kept us up too, but I'm right behind GC for next season.
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Post by warehamgas on May 23, 2019 14:24:54 GMT
Now that I can agree with. Never understood why GC not more appreciated. In a results business he has got them in spades December onwards. Not the best to watch but he told us it wouldn’t be the best. He did exactly what he said he was trying to do. He kept us up and now deserves the chance. Like you roady I just want our manager to manage with no other distractions. I hope he can do that and as last season he will get my support. UTG! While I agree with the sentiment, people do want to be entertained. Last season, the situation we were in, we did just need results. Now, with a clean slate Coughlan has the chance to stamp his style of play on the club. His job next season will be very different to last, he does need to entertain, he does need to put bums on seats, he needs to show how his team will play and that will the interesting thing. I'm sure he'll be given time mainly because if the club were to get rid they'd have surely done it by now. It'll be interesting to see how this thread has aged in January. Oh, I can see that and agree with you. My point was more about still being a league 1 club. We were never as bad off as some have said but we were in bottom 4 and a few points behind the team ahead of us. GC did a good job but as you say now he has to create a team that will be on the front foot, be more creative and play with a bit of width without losing the grit and determination that we showed last season. He has earned that right to build his own team. UTG!
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