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Post by oldie on Aug 22, 2021 12:18:37 GMT
We signed all these northern based players to add some steel & grit to the squad & all come with plenty of experience and in most cases were highly recommended by fans of their previous clubs. Yet in that opening half they looked like they didn’t want to be here, just hard to fathom what we need to do, weather it’s a mental or coaching problem ,something needs to happen or I can see a few more drubbings on the card. The only bright spark for me was the introduction of Hanlon who started to ask questions of the Exeter defence, but that was probably due to the fact that he’s now in the shop window for a move.& wanted to impress. They'll probably be better against Barrow in their natural environment. Hopefully there'll be a blizzard. 😂😂😂😂
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Post by baggins on Aug 22, 2021 12:25:10 GMT
We signed all these northern based players to add some steel & grit to the squad & all come with plenty of experience and in most cases were highly recommended by fans of their previous clubs. Yet in that opening half they looked like they didn’t want to be here, just hard to fathom what we need to do, weather it’s a mental or coaching problem ,something needs to happen or I can see a few more drubbings on the card. The only bright spark for me was the introduction of Hanlon who started to ask questions of the Exeter defence, but that was probably due to the fact that he’s now in the shop window for a move.& wanted to impress. They'll probably be better against Barrow in their natural environment. Hopefully there'll be a blizzard. Forgot about him.
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 22, 2021 12:29:10 GMT
We signed all these northern based players to add some steel & grit to the squad & all come with plenty of experience and in most cases were highly recommended by fans of their previous clubs. Yet in that opening half they looked like they didn’t want to be here, just hard to fathom what we need to do, weather it’s a mental or coaching problem ,something needs to happen or I can see a few more drubbings on the card. The only bright spark for me was the introduction of Hanlon who started to ask questions of the Exeter defence, but that was probably due to the fact that he’s now in the shop window for a move.& wanted to impress. It's all a bit of a concern that if you ignored the first 45 minutes v Oldham, our best performers seem to have been Hoole (v Mansfield and Stevenage) and Hanlon (yesterday). Surely JB hasn't just signed a load of rubbish, if not, then why aren't any of them performing to anywhere their normal levels.
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Post by daniel300380 on Aug 22, 2021 12:33:40 GMT
Not a good performance all round, from the manager and the player’s.
I think we went into the game too complacent. Thinking Exeter have not scored yet, we will go and attack them. Starting with a back 3, with 2 wingers as full backs, made it a very open game. It might have worked against Oldham, but Exeter were ready for it.
The first goal is always important and once they got it, they had there tails up and like a lot of teams/players added a few more after ending there drought.
19 shots by both teams, 9 on target for both teams. That says how open we were.
Hopefully that was a blip and we will learn from our mistakes. Looking more dangerous going forward now. Even in the first half, we missed a few chances as well as them.
Finley looks like a confidence player. After a shaky start yesterday, he got worse. But after his goal, he looked line the player against Oldham again.
Still early days. Teams have got hammered and gone on to win leagues before. So far it’s not been good enough, that’s for sure. But like a lot on here, I say give a new squad at least 6-10 league games, before judging. So they have to turn it around soon, to save his job IMO.
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Post by Langford Gas on Aug 22, 2021 12:46:57 GMT
Have to say Hughes had a relly really bad day at the office yesterday, he is a better player than that.
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Post by bluegas on Aug 22, 2021 13:43:38 GMT
What's all this talk about Exeter? According to Lincolnshirelive we lost 4-1 to Leyton Orient yesterday.
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Post by playtowin on Aug 22, 2021 13:54:09 GMT
Have to say Hughes had a relly really bad day at the office yesterday, he is a better player than that. A bit like Craig or twentyman ,hughes might benefit from having a pair of younger quicker legs alongside him. Which why Grant might be dropping back into the back 3. Have to say that so far Hughes has not overly impressed. Yesterday the fact rodman and anderson were clearly not ready for another 90 minutes so soon after the last game. Clearly showed by the massive gaps out wide at the back. This drew the wider centrebacks across and out of position leaving an isolated single centreback with 2 strikers coming in. Its hindsight but after the first 10 mins anderson should have been replaced by Harries. Grant should have moved to rodmans position with rodman moving to part of a front 3 . Might have prevented going 4-0 down and offer a way back into the game. Or might have conceded 10...who knows
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 22, 2021 15:49:08 GMT
Have to say Hughes had a relly really bad day at the office yesterday, he is a better player than that. A bit like Craig or twentyman ,hughes might benefit from having a pair of younger quicker legs alongside him. Which why Grant might be dropping back into the back 3. Have to say that so far Hughes has not overly impressed. Yesterday the fact rodman and anderson were clearly not ready for another 90 minutes so soon after the last game. Clearly showed by the massive gaps out wide at the back. This drew the wider centrebacks across and out of position leaving an isolated single centreback with 2 strikers coming in. Its hindsight but after the first 10 mins anderson should have been replaced by Harries. Grant should have moved to rodmans position with rodman moving to part of a front 3 . Might have prevented going 4-0 down and offer a way back into the game. Or might have conceded 10...who knows Rodman and Anderson were poor from the off, surely fatigue would have only set in during the second half?
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Post by playtowin on Aug 22, 2021 15:55:36 GMT
A bit like Craig or twentyman ,hughes might benefit from having a pair of younger quicker legs alongside him. Which why Grant might be dropping back into the back 3. Have to say that so far Hughes has not overly impressed. Yesterday the fact rodman and anderson were clearly not ready for another 90 minutes so soon after the last game. Clearly showed by the massive gaps out wide at the back. This drew the wider centrebacks across and out of position leaving an isolated single centreback with 2 strikers coming in. Its hindsight but after the first 10 mins anderson should have been replaced by Harries. Grant should have moved to rodmans position with rodman moving to part of a front 3 . Might have prevented going 4-0 down and offer a way back into the game. Or might have conceded 10...who knows Rodman and Anderson were poor from the off, surely fatigue would have only set in during the second half? I dont think they had fully recovered their energy levels from the previous match. They both struggled covering the distance their position required from the off (as you said) Which left a huge space for exeter to exploit. Rovers did the same to oldham first half who left acres of space out wide.
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Post by bluebiro on Aug 22, 2021 16:44:18 GMT
After going two down this is where the defence coach would have been involved and those areas getting exposed would have been reinforced. Dont think Maher has that input to change the formation. Someone like bond or hill he will listen too and we would have tightened up and rebuilt.
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Post by pucklegas on Aug 22, 2021 16:57:44 GMT
Looking at the lowlights, we had plenty of defenders and players back, but they had too much space afforded to them, no one was pressing and closing down, Hughes lost his marker dreadful defending all round. Joey needs to accept more responsibility for the performances, and stop mentioning what we did at Fleetwood, sounding like a broken record, I'm still behind him as we cannot afford another reset, but results need to improve rapidly.
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Post by seanclevedongas on Aug 22, 2021 17:41:42 GMT
We signed all these northern based players to add some steel & grit to the squad & all come with plenty of experience and in most cases were highly recommended by fans of their previous clubs. Yet in that opening half they looked like they didn’t want to be here, just hard to fathom what we need to do, weather it’s a mental or coaching problem ,something needs to happen or I can see a few more drubbings on the card. The only bright spark for me was the introduction of Hanlon who started to ask questions of the Exeter defence, but that was probably due to the fact that he’s now in the shop window for a move.& wanted to impress. It's all a bit of a concern that if you ignored the first 45 minutes v Oldham, our best performers seem to have been Hoole (v Mansfield and Stevenage) and Hanlon (yesterday). Surely JB hasn't just signed a load of rubbish, if not, then why aren't any of them performing to anywhere their normal levels. Come on Topper, JB has already explained they are not going to start performing for another 4,5,6 or 7 weeks
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Post by playtowin on Aug 22, 2021 17:53:44 GMT
Looking at the lowlights, we had plenty of defenders and players back, but they had too much space afforded to them, no one was pressing and closing down, Hughes lost his marker dreadful defending all round. Joey needs to accept more responsibility for the performances, and stop mentioning what we did at Fleetwood, sounding like a broken record, I'm still behind him as we cannot afford another reset, but results need to improve rapidly. I agree with the JB comments all the time about things at other clubs. They are irrelevant ,this is Bristol Rovers. We dont care about Fleetwood or Newcastle or Man city. Save those comments for after dinner speeches and neutral podcasts. Talk about BRFC and what you are doing now or in the future. The more he mentions other clubs the more he will alienate himself from the rovers fanbase.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2021 18:01:54 GMT
Looking at the lowlights, we had plenty of defenders and players back, but they had too much space afforded to them, no one was pressing and closing down, Hughes lost his marker dreadful defending all round. Joey needs to accept more responsibility for the performances, and stop mentioning what we did at Fleetwood, sounding like a broken record, I'm still behind him as we cannot afford another reset, but results need to improve rapidly. I agree with the JB comments all the time about things at other clubs. They are irrelevant ,this is Bristol Rovers. We dont care about Fleetwood or Newcastle or Man city. Save those comments for after dinner speeches and neutral podcasts. Talk about BRFC and what you are doing now or in the future. The more he mentions other clubs the more he will alienate himself from the rovers fanbase. It's how he deflects all blame and responsibility. He will never change.
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Aug 22, 2021 18:04:15 GMT
Sad to see two of the forum’s most positive contributors over the years slagging each other off. What a horribly divided place this has become. It’s easy to see the reasons why. Once Wael made the bizarre choice to appoint Barton with court case pending, it was always going to be at the very least, an uncertain period for Gas with anxiety over the short term future. A relegation and another court case on the horizon, along with Hill walking out have only exacerbated the issue.
All that said, as fans we have to continue to support the team as best we can. The players were buzzing on Tuesday night at the atmosphere at the Mem. We do make a big difference when we’re behind the team. I’ve experienced the toxic atmosphere when we’re not, and we should avoid that if at all possible this season. For whatever reason, we were sh** yesterday but there is enough quality in our squad for us to be competitive in this league, I’m convinced of that. We still need a tweak or two in terms of personnel but there’s a lot of quality in there for this level and plenty of know-how too. Regardless of who our manager is after Christmas I’m confident we will be safe in this league and then we’ll have to figure out how to build again. For now, we have to endure the effects of this car-crash in the best possible way and I wish for us to stick together with the trademark backs to the wall Gas spirit and humour that we’ve always had.
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Post by Officer Barbrady on Aug 22, 2021 18:04:18 GMT
It's all a bit of a concern that if you ignored the first 45 minutes v Oldham, our best performers seem to have been Hoole (v Mansfield and Stevenage) and Hanlon (yesterday). Surely JB hasn't just signed a load of rubbish, if not, then why aren't any of them performing to anywhere their normal levels. Come on Topper, JB has already explained they are not going to start performing for another 4,5,6 or 7 weeks Imagine going for a job interview and telling the panel you plan to ship out everything they have, spend a sh** load of money and then do f**k all for 2 months.
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Post by playtowin on Aug 22, 2021 18:08:39 GMT
I agree with the JB comments all the time about things at other clubs. They are irrelevant ,this is Bristol Rovers. We dont care about Fleetwood or Newcastle or Man city. Save those comments for after dinner speeches and neutral podcasts. Talk about BRFC and what you are doing now or in the future. The more he mentions other clubs the more he will alienate himself from the rovers fanbase. It's how he deflects all blame and responsibility. He will never change. Its fine when a person is new (to a degree) but its a new season now and it has to stop.
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Post by Tilly's Thighs on Aug 22, 2021 18:25:16 GMT
Rodman and Anderson were poor from the off, surely fatigue would have only set in during the second half? I dont think they had fully recovered their energy levels from the previous match. They both struggled covering the distance their position required from the off (as you said) Which left a huge space for exeter to exploit. Rovers did the same to oldham first half who left acres of space out wide. I think you're spot on about the recovery time, it was there to see from the off.
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Post by playtowin on Aug 22, 2021 18:33:15 GMT
Sad to see two of the forum’s most positive contributors over the years slagging each other off. What a horribly divided place this has become. It’s easy to see the reasons why. Once Wael made the bizarre choice to appoint Barton with court case pending, it was always going to be at the very least, an uncertain period for Gas with anxiety over the short term future. A relegation and another court case on the horizon, along with Hill walking out have only exacerbated the issue. All that said, as fans we have to continue to support the team as best we can. The players were buzzing on Tuesday night at the atmosphere at the Mem. We do make a big difference when we’re behind the team. I’ve experienced the toxic atmosphere when we’re not, and we should avoid that if at all possible this season. For whatever reason, we were sh** yesterday but there is enough quality in our squad for us to be competitive in this league, I’m convinced of that. We still need a tweak or two in terms of personnel but there’s a lot of quality in there for this level and plenty of know-how too. Regardless of who our manager is after Christmas I’m confident we will be safe in this league and then we’ll have to figure out how to build again. For now, we have to endure the effects of this car-crash in the best possible way and I wish for us to stick together with the trademark backs to the wall Gas spirit and humour that we’ve always had. The fans have been divided since the sacking of DC. It just seems to be getting worse every month. There needs to be a positive success somewhere in the club to start bringing the fans together again. The quarters is great but its not anything to do with the fans.
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Post by allgasandgaiters on Aug 22, 2021 19:11:20 GMT
Come on Topper, JB has already explained they are not going to start performing for another 4,5,6 or 7 weeks Imagine going for a job interview and telling the panel you plan to ship out everything they have, spend a sh** load of money and then do f**k all for 2 months. Isn't that what Johnson has done with the Tory party - except he's done f**k all for 2 years.
(That's Boris, not Squeaky)
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