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Post by purdownpoacher1 on Apr 14, 2021 0:34:49 GMT
Wigan and Wimbledon win when they have to, whereas we have no backbone, no stomach and no balls except for a few exceptions. We have blown every opportunity to get out of this mess and Northampton was no exception. The once good name of BRFC is now in tatters. Mc Cormick a kid on loan from Chelsea is the backbone to our team. He’s been fantastic but what I say not only puts him in a fantastic light it also puts everything else about our team in a terrible one. Pathetic. So true - unfortunately! 😩 Utg 💙
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Post by baggins on Apr 14, 2021 5:47:26 GMT
That all went well then.
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Post by bluegas on Apr 14, 2021 6:09:07 GMT
You get sometimes what you deserve in life, we have been rank all season, no JCH miracle goals this season to save us. We go down stay respectful no big time Charlie claims of winning the League 2 title, just dust ourselves down and build again, Gas til I die! Btw get rid of starnes and widdrington and buy two strikers And at least one tough centre half captain and at leat one tough centre midfield captain. You don’t have to change a whole squad to become successful you just have to get it right in the right areas. Coughlan got it absolutely spot on with a handful of changes. TW, BG and Tisdale don’t even know what I’m talking about. We can only hope Barton does. (Know what you're talking about.) I rather think he does.
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Post by gregsy on Apr 14, 2021 6:15:07 GMT
Didn't bother keeping an eye on it last night, thought I'd leave it until this morning.... Oh dear.... Wish I'd have not looked at all....
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Post by barumgas on Apr 14, 2021 6:58:56 GMT
Didn't bother keeping an eye on it last night, thought I'd leave it until this morning.... Oh dear.... Wish I'd have not looked at all.... Yep, prepare the troops for our assault on League 2 next season. Anyway cheer up a day out at Torquay beckons
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Post by Strange Gas on Apr 14, 2021 7:00:51 GMT
Who said Wigan and AFC have a tough run in?! 🤷♂️
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 7:05:07 GMT
Who said Wigan and AFC have a tough run in?! 🤷♂️ Whoever said it failed to accept that we are simply crap and they are better than us because they can score goals.
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Post by Kipper on Apr 14, 2021 7:38:15 GMT
The club should bring prices down next season. Better still, free admission. Certainly what the club deserves.
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Post by 4d on Apr 14, 2021 7:45:38 GMT
Trouble in finding a new JCH is easier said than done. The last 20 years would probably indicate it takes us signing 20 strikers before we get lucky with a Taylor / JCH. This current squad with a fit JCH would have comfortably finished mid table at least this season. Way more than one in twenty. I’ve been supporting Rovers since 86 and we’ve usually found another striker to replace the one we’ve sold on. The times we haven’t have been the relegation seasons and there’s only been four of those in 35 years. This year is one of those year’s probably and to keep us up Barton needs to roll the dice , try something different, it probably won’t work but he’s got to try something different. I like him much more than Garner or Tisdale but theyve all got one thing consistent with all three managers so far is they’ve all done the same thing and haven’t tactically been that different from each other. Time to try perhaps Walker in the middle with Ayunga in a 442 with Tutonda as a left wingwr and hanlan as a right winger ? There are many variables to what you could do with this squad and we’ve had three managers and they’ve all done pretty much the same thing in terms of tactics positions and style of play. Garner was about a more slow patient build up ,but Tisdale snd JB have only upped the tempo - haven’t really tried anything different. 3 managers but very little has changed in terms of tactics , style of play players picked or formation. You’ve only got to look back through the matches this season it’s all very same same whoever the managers been. Hanlan was a winger at gills why hadn’t he been tried as a winger here under three managers ? Ayunga is a poor target man lacking in ability but he’s crying out for a nippy striker to feed off the mess he creates why hasn’t he been paired with Daley or Walker ? It’s so frustrating I wish I could have the last 5 games but we’re all football managers aren’t we. I did say last 20 years. My earliest memories supporting Rovers are also from the late 80s and for the first 10 years or so we were absolutely spoilt - Saunders, White, Taylor, Stewart, Hayles, Beadle, Cureton, Roberts, Zamora - started to take it for granted that we’d just sell them and replace them. Then we sold Cureton, Roberts and Zamora and bought in Micky Evans, Justin Richards and Kevin Gall and we’ve largely struggled since. All of the above would get into pretty much any league 1 team but how many strikers since then could you say that about? Lambert, Taylor, JCH and ?? It’s the main reason we’ve been nothing more than a bang average league 2 club for the majority of the last 20 years. Recently for every JCH there’s a Payne, Nichols, Reilly, Blissett, White, Mensah etc..
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Post by gregsy on Apr 14, 2021 7:49:04 GMT
The club should bring prices down next season. Better still, free admission. Certainly what the club deserves. Doesn't work like that does it.... Football fans realise that the product you pay for is a match, not a result, otherwise they'd charge you on the way out....
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Post by bluebiro on Apr 14, 2021 8:21:11 GMT
The club should bring prices down next season. Better still, free admission. Certainly what the club deserves. Doesn't work like that does it.... Football fans realise that the product you pay for is a match, not a result, otherwise they'd charge you on the way out.... should put a honesty box on the way out
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Post by rememberhalifax on Apr 14, 2021 8:26:49 GMT
Well every one seems to have thrown in the towel, bit premature i reckon, amazing 6 points for Wigan/dons last 2 games but who is to say we can't do the same? unlikely i know but you can't just give up, sincerely hope JB and squad are not of the same mind as this forum! Gotta keep fighting you never know, Wigan /Dons might think they have cracked it and it may have adverse effect! yes i know its a long shot but as i said you can't just give up, yet!
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Post by singupgas on Apr 14, 2021 9:03:27 GMT
Well every one seems to have thrown in the towel, bit premature i reckon, amazing 6 points for Wigan/dons last 2 games but who is to say we can't do the same? unlikely i know but you can't just give up, sincerely hope JB and squad are not of the same mind as this forum! Gotta keep fighting you never know, Wigan /Dons might think they have cracked it and it may have adverse effect! yes i know its a long shot but as i said you can't just give up, yet! Love for this team to come good. But they have too many mistakes in them yo see games out. Having said that I don't think we will be as cagey in remaining games as we were against Northampton.
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Post by peterparker on Apr 14, 2021 9:12:03 GMT
Well every one seems to have thrown in the towel, bit premature i reckon, amazing 6 points for Wigan/dons last 2 games but who is to say we can't do the same? unlikely i know but you can't just give up, sincerely hope JB and squad are not of the same mind as this forum! Gotta keep fighting you never know, Wigan /Dons might think they have cracked it and it may have adverse effect! yes i know its a long shot but as i said you can't just give up, yet! Barton threw it in ages ago. If the manager doesn't believe it, why should I People can moan about Widdrington being smug/bullish or whatever, but at least he was confident
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 9:29:00 GMT
Well every one seems to have thrown in the towel, bit premature i reckon, amazing 6 points for Wigan/dons last 2 games but who is to say we can't do the same? unlikely i know but you can't just give up, sincerely hope JB and squad are not of the same mind as this forum! Gotta keep fighting you never know, Wigan /Dons might think they have cracked it and it may have adverse effect! yes i know its a long shot but as i said you can't just give up, yet! Barton threw it in ages ago. If the manager doesn't believe it, why shouldn't it. People can moan about Widdrington being smug/bullish or whatever, but at least he was confident The difference between the two is that Barton doesn't have to shoulder the blame he can deflect it in whichever direction he likes. That is exactly what he has done and lots have bought it. Widdrington is 100% responsible for the squad that has been assembled and therefore also responsible for where we are. The big test for Barton will start next season when the buck will stop firmly at his feet. Assuming that he is still with us then.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 14, 2021 9:30:47 GMT
Doesn't work like that does it.... Football fans realise that the product you pay for is a match, not a result, otherwise they'd charge you on the way out.... should put a honesty box on the way out The players would owe us money.
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Post by oldmarket65 on Apr 14, 2021 9:34:46 GMT
In defence of topper he like some of us are questioning : how much more is this good man prepared to spend ?. He's blown £25 mil on a 3rd division side who seems like they are back in 4 . Its a good question . Will he continue next season in light of the demise of salary caps and spend big ?. He will have the JCH money and possible sell on to justify a good budget . I'm sure he never ever thought a possible championship push will end up in the basement . The people around him should apologise not Wael . It's not a good question it's an irrelevant question. The owner is the owner. Same as every other football club. The question of how much more he'll spend is no more relevant now than when Higgs was in charge, in fact, following the capitalisation of the debt and the funding of the training ground, its far less so. Ironically Topper to this day will argue until he's blue in the face that there's no way Higgs would have let us go into administration if a buyer hadn't been found (even after Higgs publicly stated that funding via MSP was unsustainable and the board weren't prepared to put any more money in). But for some reason now Topper is concerned that the person who has continued to fund and develop the club off field and has publicly stated that he will continue to do so will stop putting his money in. Why does Topper always believe the opposite of what people say? So on one hand you tell me it's not a good question But an irrelevant question.Then you make a statement " Following the debt and training ground its far less ". What's far less ?.
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Post by LJG on Apr 14, 2021 9:35:34 GMT
Barton threw it in ages ago. If the manager doesn't believe it, why shouldn't it. People can moan about Widdrington being smug/bullish or whatever, but at least he was confident The difference between the two is that Barton doesn't have to shoulder the blame he can deflect it in whichever direction he likes. That is exactly what he has done and lots have bought it. Widdrington is 100% responsible for the squad that has been assembled and therefore also responsible for where we are. The big test for Barton will start next season when the buck will stop firmly at his feet. Assuming that he is still with us then. Does that definitely make sense? Barton can blame other people so he has so it's Widdrington's fault because Barton has blamed him instead of taking some responsibility? Is that right?
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Post by LJG on Apr 14, 2021 9:36:18 GMT
It's not a good question it's an irrelevant question. The owner is the owner. Same as every other football club. The question of how much more he'll spend is no more relevant now than when Higgs was in charge, in fact, following the capitalisation of the debt and the funding of the training ground, its far less so. Ironically Topper to this day will argue until he's blue in the face that there's no way Higgs would have let us go into administration if a buyer hadn't been found (even after Higgs publicly stated that funding via MSP was unsustainable and the board weren't prepared to put any more money in). But for some reason now Topper is concerned that the person who has continued to fund and develop the club off field and has publicly stated that he will continue to do so will stop putting his money in. Why does Topper always believe the opposite of what people say? So on one hand you tell me it's not a good question But an irrelevant question.Then you make a statement " Following the debt and training ground its far less ". What's far less ?. Far less relevant as a question. So much so it's irrelevant.
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Post by Raj Gas on Apr 14, 2021 9:37:50 GMT
Well every one seems to have thrown in the towel, bit premature i reckon, amazing 6 points for Wigan/dons last 2 games but who is to say we can't do the same? unlikely i know but you can't just give up, sincerely hope JB and squad are not of the same mind as this forum! Gotta keep fighting you never know, Wigan /Dons might think they have cracked it and it may have adverse effect! yes i know its a long shot but as i said you can't just give up, yet! Barton threw it in ages ago. If the manager doesn't believe it, why shouldn't it. People can moan about Widdrington being smug/bullish or whatever, but at least he was confident He should have been given the job until the end of the season but didn't want it, I wonder why! He was instrumental in most of those players coming to the club and I still think would have got more out of them then the rest of the managers who have had a go. I suspect he has been busy ripping pages out of his black book, after all most of the names he had were probably League 1/Championship players who won't want to play in League 2!!
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