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Post by alanrg on Oct 5, 2022 14:29:40 GMT
Remember going to Eastville to watch the reserves of the likes of Tottenham and Arsenal and going to Hambrook as well
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Post by hardingegas on Oct 5, 2022 14:35:06 GMT
I went to that reserve game at Yate - Arsenal had the likes of Steve Bould, Jimmy Carter and 'Rocky' Rocastle coming back from injury.
Most of their team were in the bar after the game. I remember Marcus Browning having a storming game for us in 2-0 or 2-1 win!
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Post by dudelebowski on Oct 5, 2022 15:06:16 GMT
JB ain’t wrong, that lad having Jaspers shirt round his neck is a clear red. Number 46 looking mighty smug at Whelan’s red card as well, Isthmian league within 18 months👍🏻
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Post by yattongas on Oct 5, 2022 16:48:17 GMT
JB ain’t wrong, that lad having Jaspers shirt round his neck is a clear red. Number 46 looking mighty smug at Whelan’s red card as well, Isthmian league within 18 months👍🏻 That sending off looks pathetic. Surely an appeal?
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Post by woolavingtonpirate on Oct 5, 2022 16:49:38 GMT
Thought Coburn had the look of a proper old school centre forward. Looks like he could be a real handful when fit,got a bit of pace about him as well.
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Post by dudelebowski on Oct 5, 2022 17:02:33 GMT
JB ain’t wrong, that lad having Jaspers shirt round his neck is a clear red. Number 46 looking mighty smug at Whelan’s red card as well, Isthmian league within 18 months👍🏻 That sending off looks pathetic. Surely an appeal? Has to be, he’s initially holding the lad back to not get involved. The ref couldn’t have got that entire incident more wrong if he tried.
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Post by Topper Gas on Oct 5, 2022 18:26:29 GMT
That sending off looks pathetic. Surely an appeal? Has to be, he’s initially holding the lad back to not get involved. The ref couldn’t have got that entire incident more wrong if he tried. Warranted a yellow at worse, assuming Whelan didn't tell the ref to do one when he spoke to him. Meanwhile Clarke nearly got decapitated by his own shirt and the Palace player only got a yellow.
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Post by dudelebowski on Oct 5, 2022 18:48:05 GMT
Has to be, he’s initially holding the lad back to not get involved. The ref couldn’t have got that entire incident more wrong if he tried. Warranted a yellow at worse, assuming Whelan didn't tell the ref to do one when he spoke to him. Meanwhile Clarke nearly got decapitated by his own shirt and the Palace player only got a yellow. Echoes of Chiellini on Saka in the Euro final, getting a player by the collar and hauling them down from behind has to be violent conduct surely. Nice to see reasonable restraint from Clarke, a year ago he’d have probably took that kid to pieces!
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Post by Tilly's Thighs on Oct 5, 2022 23:23:51 GMT
Had a look at the Palace forum, and quite a few of them agree with Barton’s comments about the U23 teams being a long way off competing in this competition.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 6, 2022 5:49:15 GMT
Had a look at the Palace forum, and quite a few of them agree with Barton’s comments about the U23 teams being a long way off competing in this competition. It's all well and good until we lose to one and then he looks a dick 🙈 He leaves himself wide open.
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Post by pirate on Oct 6, 2022 6:43:01 GMT
PSG youngsters must have been shockingly bad!
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Post by keygas on Oct 6, 2022 6:48:53 GMT
Had a look at the Palace forum, and quite a few of them agree with Barton’s comments about the U23 teams being a long way off competing in this competition. It's all well and good until we lose to one and then he looks a dick 🙈 He leaves himself wide open. I think Barton comments are what the majority of league managers of teams in this competition agree with but are reluctant to speak out.
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Post by percy on Oct 6, 2022 6:50:46 GMT
Sounds like Joey got under his skin! As much as I wish JB would think first sometimes, this guy ignores the main points - the thuggish nature of his team and the fact U23s should not be in the competition.
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Post by basel on Oct 6, 2022 7:11:02 GMT
Sounds like Joey got under his skin! As much as I wish JB would think first sometimes, this guy ignores the main points - the thuggish nature of his team and the fact U23s should not be in the competition. When Joe is annoyed amongst much words of wisdom he also can be spiteful.He winds people up. Eg,if he disagrees with an opposition manager about part of a game just played,he'll have his say and it will make perfect sense,but,if Joe knows the opposing manager, as a player did'nt play at EFL level,he will add eg 'he did'nt actually play the game,so you know,his point of view lacks the necessary experience,he's naive'. It's Joe's way. Don't forget,on the field of play it was Rovers v Palace U21s,but the wider picture is/was Rovers and other lower EFL FCs' against the 'greed,arrogance and pig ignorance of our 'glorious' Premier. I support Joe's comments 100%. We are lucky to have him,the best young Manager in the UK.
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Post by gasify on Oct 6, 2022 7:46:55 GMT
www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/joey-barton-shares-disdain-efl-7665215A rant from Joey Barton that I actually agree with... Joey Barton has blasted the EFL Trophy as a " nonsense competition" after Bristol Rovers' 2-0 win over Crystal Palace under-21s on Tuesday, saying " the sooner we're out of it, the better". "I thought they (Crystal Palace) were what the problem is in the modern game, an academy side that are miles away from producing people who can play in the league," he said. "They’re so far away, let’s be honest, so it kind of makes a mockery for me of what that Premier League 2 is.
"You hear me talk all the time about these big clubs stockpiling players and what player for them today… We wouldn’t take any of their players, we just wouldn’t, they're so far away. It’s a good opportunity for us to look at that because we do like to utilise the loan market but I was so surprised to see them.
"It’s easy for them because their games don’t matter. Their games are irrelevant and nobody cares about them, but we’ve got a proper game on Saturday when mortgages are on the line, real football, real men’s football. So to have a team of kids go out and leave late challenges on you is bizarre. The competition is about developing younger players."
"We don’t really want to play in this competition, I’ll level with you," Barton continued. "It’s a waste of our time because we get players suspended, you get players injured from nonsense tackles from young kids who are miles off playing men’s footy. I just don’t see why we should support it.
"Next game, I may well just play our kids because I can’t risk my first-team players getting injured against a bunch of kids who are miles off the level and trying to impress people who are watching by kicking senior players. It’s a nonsense competition.
"Who cares about it? It’s a nonsense competition, and when it’s officiated in that fashion it makes me even further devalue the competition. I’ve tried to support it in all my time but when I get officials like that who are basically on work experience sending my players off that don’t deserve to be sent off and all the while allowing young players to steam in and make stupid tackles and don’t book them or reprimand them because they’re young players, it’s a nonsense.
"We don’t take it seriously, so I said to the lads tonight go out and enjoy it because the opposition are inferior because they are a bunch of kids. If you take their teamsheet and look at it in five years’ time, some of those lads will be working in civilian jobs. They won’t be playing football. Youth teams are usually geared around the development of one or two players, so I get why the EFL have put the competition in, but you can see from my point of view, if I lose any real senior players, we’ve got a proper game at the weekend and real football to come."
"You try to do the right thing because if we don’t fulfil the quotas, we get fined and all the other nonsense that comes down the track, but you can see from our standpoint we’ve got a duty of care to fulfil our league campaign and play the best team we can on a Saturday in the league. Having this nonsense of a competition in the middle of it, when players can be injured and suspended now, it just makes me question it."
"Who is the competition for? Is it for Crystal Palace? Yeah, I think so. Is it for the referees and officials to gain experience? Yeah. It isn’t for senior players and senior teams, it’s just a deterrent to us. The sooner we’re out of it the better and I’m going to go forward carrying absolute disdain for the competition when referees officiate it like that." So will he throw the game against Swindon next week and hope we don't qualify for the next round? This competition is still a chance of a Wembley final and £0.5M in prize money. Maybe this should be the season we go for it? Mid table and a trip to Wembley. That would be quite a good season?
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Post by hollyhillgas on Oct 6, 2022 7:47:27 GMT
The season ticket used to cover Football Combination game as well, so it was a decent crowd. Remember watching a reserve game against West Ham, Rovers were 4 down at half time, finshed 4 all, what a game!
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Post by SleepyGas on Oct 6, 2022 7:53:59 GMT
So will he throw the game against Swindon next week and hope we don't qualify for the next round? This competition is still a chance of a Wembley final and £0.5M in prize money. Maybe this should be the season we go for it? Mid table and a trip to Wembley. That would be quite a good season? I doubt he would deliberately set out to lose to Swindon. But don't forget where we are in the league. I certainly wouldn't be putting my best players out in this competition at the moment. It'll be a balance of fringe/youth players and senior players that need minutes.
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Post by purdownpoacher1 on Oct 6, 2022 9:01:51 GMT
It's all well and good until we lose to one and then he looks a dick 🙈 He leaves himself wide open. I think Barton comments are what the majority of league managers of teams in this competition agree with but are reluctant to speak out. Tells it as it is !!!! 💙utg
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Post by pirate on Oct 6, 2022 9:12:13 GMT
Jude and Jobe Bellingham's father
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Post by gasandelectricity on Oct 6, 2022 9:18:48 GMT
I remember a certain manager struggling with the step up to adult football…
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