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Post by stevek192 on Oct 23, 2019 8:20:01 GMT
My late Dad always told me if you can't say anything decent about someone then say nothing so there goes my report folks!! No seriously.... wait I am being serious!!!! I am not going to waste two hours writing for what rubbish was dished up last night by supposed to be Professional footballers. I particularly write for those who are unable for whatever reason to make it to the match.. all I can say to those people are you were the lucky ones!
Jaakkola 6.5 MOM
Davies 4 Slow and wasteful with the ball His poorest game in a gas shirt. Craig 4 Same as Davies Kilgour 3 Sloppy throughout and his worst game too.
Rodman 3 Full back not, wingback not and last night wingback not. Upson 4.5 The best of the worst midfield performance of the season. Ogogo 3.5 Off the pace last night and made to look very ordinary Clarke 2 Probably kind with the mark but he did manage two shots at goal which was more than most Kelly 2 Not good enough.How Leahy and Smith were chosen to be the two players dropped is beyond me.
Nichols 2 Another abysmal performance Adeboyejo 5 At least he tried but with the service received and the fact that we never got any players forward to support the strikers he was bang average.
Subs: Smith 3 Did he touch the ball-seriously cannot remember but if he did it was probably better than most did. Bennett 2 Played like a player who realises he cannot even get in a bloody awful side.
Crowd 4 7300 of which the entire crowd probably hadn't seen anything like it all season-our fans because it was absolutely awful and the Bolton fans because they won!! Ref 7 Kettle being better than all our team sums up last night!!
Bolton 7.5 Better than us in ten positions but they didn't need to be good because last night any of our local sides-League or non league would have beaten us. It was that bad.
GC He likes working with this bunch of players- I wonder if the situation in reverse is true and do they like working with him? Based on last night I would say No! This was an insult to the paying public. If we play like this again Saturday then it will be a big away win however bad Pompey are- but it probably won't such is being a Bristol Rovers fan these days. UTG
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 8:22:29 GMT
Inb4 how about atrocious
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 8:27:42 GMT
Two hours, bloody hell. Thanks for your service in writing up these games for those of us (like myself) who live away, ‘tis appreciated.
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Post by simonj on Oct 23, 2019 8:53:16 GMT
Thanks, I'm being picky, but if the 6 and 8 shirts were swapped, they might both have a 3. Upson was equally as dreadful, as was the whole bunch, except Victor and the keeper.
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Post by simonj on Oct 23, 2019 8:55:46 GMT
I like scandalous, as I feel I've lost money.
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Post by adrian301 on Oct 23, 2019 9:05:58 GMT
Our back 3 struggled the whole match with the physicality of their big forwards. At times it looked like men against boys all over the pitch. Victor at least held the ball up, when he got it, but we seemed clueless in how to support him.
I would play Bennett instead of TN, as he has a better football brain and does the simple things better.
Fair play to Bolton though. I would suspect that for all their financial woes, they have recruited better than us.
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Post by blueridge on Oct 23, 2019 9:15:13 GMT
I don't even think it was as good as "atrocious" - like you words fail me to describe that performance.
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Post by GasAttacK on Oct 23, 2019 9:22:01 GMT
My late Dad always told me if you can't say anything decent about someone then say nothing so there goes my report folks!! No seriously.... wait I am being serious!!!! I am not going to waste two hours writing for what rubbish was dished up last night by supposed to be Professional footballers. I particularly write for those who are unable for whatever reason to make it to the match.. all I can say to those people are you were the lucky ones! Jaakkola 6.5 MOM Davies 4 Slow and wasteful with the ball His poorest game in a gas shirt. Craig 4 Same as Davies Kilgour 3 Sloppy throughout and his worst game too. Rodman 3 Full back not, wingback not and last night wingback not. Upson 4.5 The best of the worst midfield performance of the season. Ogogo 3.5 Off the pace last night and made to look very ordinary Clarke 2 Probably kind with the mark but he did manage two shots at goal which was more than most Kelly 2 Not good enough.How Leahy and Smith were chosen to be the two players dropped is beyond me. Nichols 2 Another abysmal performance Adeboyejo 5 At least he tried but with the service received and the fact that we never got any players forward to support the strikers he was bang average. Subs: Smith 3 Did he touch the ball-seriously cannot remember but if he did it was probably better than most did. Bennett 2 Played like a player who realises he cannot even get in a bloody awful side. Crowd 4 7300 of which the entire crowd probably hadn't seen anything like it all season-our fans because it was absolutely awful and the Bolton fans because they won!! Ref 7 Kettle being better than all our team sums up last night!! Bolton 7.5 Better than us in ten positions but they didn't need to be good because last night any of our local sides-League or non league would have beaten us. It was that bad. GC He likes working with this bunch of players- I wonder if the situation in reverse is true and do they like working with him? Based on last night I would say No! This was an insult to the paying public. If we play like this again Saturday then it will be a big away win however bad Pompey are- but it probably won't such is being a Bristol Rovers fan these days. UTG I've been a big fan of Upson this season he had been playing really well until Doncaster. Last night however he was the worst player on the pitch. Looked like an old man that was being given the run around. To be fair you could say the same about most of our team last night.
Jaakkola 7 Davies 4 Craig 4 Kilgour 3 Rodman 5 Upson 2 Ogogo 3 Clarke 2 Kelly 2 Nichols 2 Adeboyejo 6
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Smith 2 Bennett 1
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Post by tommym9 on Oct 23, 2019 9:27:04 GMT
Thanks for the write up Steve.
Looked to me like Victor was the only one that actually gave a sh** last night.
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Post by titchthephot on Oct 23, 2019 9:29:11 GMT
Yes it was awful. Nobody did themselves any favours last night but hey ho, move on. It was just one game - in the same way that when we play superbly ...it is just one game. Look on the bright side, we can't get any worse so the only way is up!! (yes, I know, this is Rovers and they will probably prove that statement wrong!)
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Post by Jomo on Oct 23, 2019 9:44:00 GMT
My ratings for what it's worth:
Jaakola - 7 - Made a couple of decent saves and was composed despite a couple of dodgy backpasses.
Rodman - 4 - Poor performance and positioning was poor, crossing wasn't good enough but he at least showed some willingness to make things happen, they just didn't come off.
Craig - 4
Kilgour - 4
Davies- 4
All 3 centre backs were shaky and played some dreadful passes and were given the run around. I've marked them up simply because I think the midfield were so poor that the centre backs were left horribly exposed.
Kelly - 1 - My brother in law who came along with me last night said that Kelly was possibly the worth player he'd ever seen in the flesh. I wouldn't quite go that far but frankly he was an embarrassment.
O Clarke - 2 - Same as Stevek, only marked up from a 1 because he got a couple of shots away. His passing, control, and tackling were as bad as I remember seeing from anyone.
Upson - 2 - marked up for a half decent free-kick that clipped the bar. Otherwise he was abysmal.
Ogogo - 5 - I was staggered that he gave way for Bennett, when he was the only midfielder who looked capable of making a challenge. Most likely it was because he'd been booked.
Nichols - 1 - missed a sitter in the opening exchanges and from then on it was clear that his confidence was totally non-existent and it resulted in him getting literally everything wrong. No strength in 50/50s, awful first touch, no ability to find a pass, kept getting bundled off the ball. Embarrassing and probably his worst game for us.
Adeboyejo - 6 - marked up for his gutsy and committed display in the first half but his second half performance was very ineffective and the Bolton defence had him in their pocket. Just not good enough on the night.
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Smith - 3 - showed some energy but nothing came off and was too lightweight.
Bennett - 2 - pointless. Nothing came off and his attempt to beat a man before just running the ball out typified his cameo.
Bolton - 7 - they made us look like amateurs and fair play to them they looked nowhere near relegation fodder. Outpaced us, outthought us, and outmuscled us. I was really shocked at how much better organised than us they were, but even having said all this, our performance was so bad that Bolton didn't even have to get into top gear to beat us comfortably.
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Post by peterhooper57 on Oct 23, 2019 9:58:44 GMT
IMO moderated scores O Clarke 1 point , Nichols 0 points, harsh but fair.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 10:00:08 GMT
Yes it was awful. Nobody did themselves any favours last night but hey ho, move on. It was just one game - in the same way that when we play superbly ...it is just one game. Look on the bright side, we can't get any worse so the only way is up!! (yes, I know, this is Rovers and they will probably prove that statement wrong!) We've got Bromley on the horizon you know?
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Post by baggins on Oct 23, 2019 11:25:05 GMT
Yes it was awful. Nobody did themselves any favours last night but hey ho, move on. It was just one game - in the same way that when we play superbly ...it is just one game. Look on the bright side, we can't get any worse so the only way is up!! (yes, I know, this is Rovers and they will probably prove that statement wrong!) We've got Bromley on the horizon you know? At the moment we'd lose against Bromley Heath.
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Post by titchthephot on Oct 23, 2019 11:32:08 GMT
We've got Bromley on the horizon you know? At the moment we'd lose against Bromley Heath. We ALWAYS lose against non-league teams!!
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Post by Windmill Hill Gas on Oct 23, 2019 11:49:23 GMT
Looks like I picked a good game to miss on holiday! Let's hope we're better on Saturday. Luckily we've got a decent number of points in the bag to sort this out before getting sucked into the relegation zone!
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Post by Thatslife on Oct 23, 2019 11:53:26 GMT
Steve I always read your match reports and usually agree with what you write, but on this occasion I must disagree with this:-
Nichols 2 Another abysmal performance Adeboyejo 5 At least he tried but with the service received and the fact that we never got any players forward to support the strikers he was bang average.
You gave Adeboyejo a possible reason why he never scored because of the service he received yet Nichols was also a victim of that but at least he made 2 chances, and yes he should have done better with them, and I am not running Adeboyjo down, but pointing out the Nichols was far more involved in the game, was far more effective in the game.
I believed you were biased by the penalty miss and influenced by the crowds opinion of Nichols, who is now become the whipping boy again but he has good company both Taylor and Lambert were whipping boys.
But overall you team assessment was spot on.
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Post by tbonegas on Oct 23, 2019 11:58:06 GMT
My late Dad always told me if you can't say anything decent about someone then say nothing so there goes my report folks!! No seriously.... wait I am being serious!!!! I am not going to waste two hours writing for what rubbish was dished up last night by supposed to be Professional footballers. I particularly write for those who are unable for whatever reason to make it to the match.. all I can say to those people are you were the lucky ones! Jaakkola 6.5 MOM Davies 4 Slow and wasteful with the ball His poorest game in a gas shirt. Craig 4 Same as Davies Kilgour 3 Sloppy throughout and his worst game too. Rodman 3 Full back not, wingback not and last night wingback not. Upson 4.5 The best of the worst midfield performance of the season. Ogogo 3.5 Off the pace last night and made to look very ordinary Clarke 2 Probably kind with the mark but he did manage two shots at goal which was more than most Kelly 2 Not good enough.How Leahy and Smith were chosen to be the two players dropped is beyond me. Nichols 2 Another abysmal performance Adeboyejo 5 At least he tried but with the service received and the fact that we never got any players forward to support the strikers he was bang average. Subs: Smith 3 Did he touch the ball-seriously cannot remember but if he did it was probably better than most did. Bennett 2 Played like a player who realises he cannot even get in a bloody awful side. Crowd 4 7300 of which the entire crowd probably hadn't seen anything like it all season-our fans because it was absolutely awful and the Bolton fans because they won!! Ref 7 Kettle being better than all our team sums up last night!! Bolton 7.5 Better than us in ten positions but they didn't need to be good because last night any of our local sides-League or non league would have beaten us. It was that bad. GC He likes working with this bunch of players- I wonder if the situation in reverse is true and do they like working with him? Based on last night I would say No! This was an insult to the paying public. If we play like this again Saturday then it will be a big away win however bad Pompey are- but it probably won't such is being a Bristol Rovers fan these days. UTG No mention of Craig being at fault for goal number 2? Perhaps he wouldn't have done it, if he had the arm band on.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 12:02:10 GMT
Scandalous or Treacherous would be my word.
Scandalous because everyone who attended to support the home team were ripped off of their hard earned cash and time they will never get back. I have never seen a collective all perform so badly in the same game as last night.
Treacherous as the performance reeked of players not playing for the manager and making a statement .
I am disgusted that MY team played like they couldn’t give a stuff ... As for Clarke and Nichols I wouldn’t play them again simple they looked like park players guesting in a league match ...
Clarke should be given club captaincy but Craig surely has to run things on the pitch. Nichols should be shipped out to whatever level in January he is a lack of quality germ that has now infected the whole team who must be mystified that he still plays and messes up every game.
Where in any sport in any team would someone be allowed to under perform so badly for two plus years ...
Wish I could go on Having a Gas and talk to Coughlan about it live on air FFS ! Would make good radio for sure !
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Post by Henbury Gas on Oct 23, 2019 12:03:29 GMT
Thanks Steve, agree 100% with your report
I think this team played a "Lets Get the Manager Sacked" game, much like the last few games under DC
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