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Post by garystash on Oct 30, 2021 21:21:27 GMT
Joey mentioned in his post match interview that things are looking better on and off the field. New stadium announcement imminent 🤞 A bid for the Fruit Market has been accepted. A stadium for Rovers is only part of a huge redevelopment of the St. Phillips area. All the planning for the rejuvenation will take 3-5 years to go through, so you won't be able to pick your seat just yet 😂
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Post by garystash on Sept 21, 2021 10:46:33 GMT
I have thought for a while that people are taking the p!55 out of Wael. We have someone at the helm with funds to invest in the club, but sadly it appears he is not a strong leader. The tone of an environment is set from the top and Wael needs to start demanding more. I can't help thinking you might be right. I get the vibe of a hapless divine right style 17th century monarch beset by intrigue and treachery, where the current court favourite is trying to entrench himself at the palace by getting rid of all his rivals and filling the court with his own sycophants, and making it impossible for him to be removed. Someone should shove a stiletto between his ribs and leave him dying on the ballroom floor in a pile of his own blood and faeces*. *Intended as a period-appropriate metaphor, only.
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Post by garystash on Sept 21, 2021 9:44:13 GMT
I have thought for a while that people are taking the p!55 out of Wael. We have someone at the helm with funds to invest in the club, but sadly it appears he is not a strong leader.
The tone of an environment is set from the top and Wael needs to start demanding more.
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Post by garystash on Jun 6, 2021 18:54:37 GMT
La Marina on Portishead harbour. Proper crispy base!
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Post by garystash on May 3, 2021 17:48:59 GMT
Reason was BG/TW. Gc did really well but didn't really have any foundations below him.DC did so Cowley's/DC is a better example. Very similar stories until one specific point in time. Both promoted from NL and into League 1 within 2 seasons. Both had a year or 2 of stability in L1 before the promotion winning managers left. Then the new bosses of both took over and continued what was good work and added some more quality to the team. At that point is when we decided to change it up. Lincoln continued that success whilst we decided that what has got us to 4th in L1 wasn’t very good, so appointed an unknown manager with zero experience under the direction of tearing everything apart and starting from scratch. It’s a very Bristol Rovers thing to do let’s be honest. The change of direction was because everyone moaned about the style of football under Coughlan. We were up into 4th, 2nd even at one stage as I recall, but crowds didn't grow and people were complaining. The football was woeful but yet it got results. Well all those who complained have got what they deserve. The exact opposite of Coughlan ball - a team that can knock the ball around but yet cannot get a result.
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Post by garystash on Apr 20, 2021 21:01:08 GMT
agree.think we will be down there for a few years. We have to be realistic now that this is our level and will find us going further back before a dead cat bounce. We can certainly forget about a stadium and even attracting new support from the area. Criminal that this was not stopped in april last year. It's been our level for the last 20 odd years. Since our last promotion we've just been kidding ourselves we are a league one club. All the established clubs at league one level are miles ahead of us.
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Post by garystash on Mar 31, 2021 14:05:18 GMT
In the recent BP article written by James Piercy about Barton’s comments there seems to be an anomaly with the PPG stated, negatively reducing Garner and Tisdales stats but not Barton’s. Call me a cynic but why would the BP try to make Tisdale and Garners stats look worse? If the error was just garner or Tisdales stats you can assume it was an error but for both of them? I’m not so sure. They state Garner as 0.9 ppg instead of 1.09 ppg. They have Tisdale as 0.66 ppg whereas he actually achieved 0.8 ppg. Barton’s ppg is correct at 0.7. It isn’t difficult to calculate the ppg correctly and whilst I appreciate the BP need to remain slightly biased to the club to get access I find it unacceptable that they are potentially fiddling the stats to make the incumbent manager look better. A PPG ratio of 1.09 still isn’t good enough and leaves you 2 injuries away from a massive problem. The recruitment in the summer wasn’t good enough, Garner did not build a good enough or an experienced enough side and he left us light in the most important position, up front. He also lacked an out and out experienced winger. That is simply poor by any managements standards and unacceptable. I know you are a Garner apologist Carlts but it’s mainly his fault we are in this position, you can’t defend it. Tisdale exacerbated the issue by failing to strengthen in the window as well employing some very questionable decisions, methods and tactics. By the time Barton got in he has a squad bereft of fitness, confidence and full of injuries with absolutely no way of strengthening it. Between Barton and Tisdale they have made an absolute cats arse of this and Barton is right. You'd think!
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Post by garystash on Mar 26, 2021 19:37:31 GMT
“You can’t escape the facts,” he continued. “You’ve seen the managers that have gone before here and you would presume that they do everything right, and it’s only when you get in here and you see it. “I could show you the footage of the training sessions. They’re a farce... “All I’ve got to go off is all the recorded training sessions, because everyone videos training now. Two-and-a-half-hour sessions on a Friday, what chance of the lads got?" Explains why we've got the worst late goals conceded stats in League One. Earlier we were being told by people who knew "Players" that Tisdale didn't take training sessions now he took too many. If you're referring to me, I never said I "knew" players. I explained in a later post the context of how I heard a player say that there weren't really any drills under Tisdale. Maybe Tisdale took a more game based approach to training and that's what he meant? I don't know, but I can tell you it didn't come across like that.
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Post by garystash on Mar 26, 2021 13:51:18 GMT
Well, I think now, after a number of pressers like this, it's time to stop going on about it. We get it Joey, it's not your fault. Now stop slagging people off and just do the job you're here to do.
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Post by garystash on Mar 25, 2021 10:29:12 GMT
I think I understand why some people were getting upset over his other activities now. I heard direct from a player that there weren't really any drills in training under Tis. God knows what they were actually doing, but the implication was they were just turning up on matchday with fingers crossed. If this is true (IF) it's pretty damning. No wonder Barton is banging on about a cancer at the club. I was really shocked to hear it tbh - but there you are. To give you some context, it was an online BRFC Community event. Two players (both of whom are senior squad members) were invited to join and take questions form the participants. The question was asked about what differences there were between the three managers training methods. As I recall, the answers were that Garner was good and the player believed he had potential if he had more time. Barton & co had come in and they had brought a lot of positivity. However the player said that under Tisdale there were'nt really any drills - and that was literally all he said about that. He had a definite smirk on his face as he said it, and I have no idea what he actually meant by it.
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Post by garystash on Mar 25, 2021 8:27:01 GMT
I think I understand why some people were getting upset over his other activities now.
I heard direct from a player that there weren't really any drills in training under Tis.
God knows what they were actually doing, but the implication was they were just turning up on matchday with fingers crossed.
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Post by garystash on Mar 24, 2021 21:32:09 GMT
Look, mate. I know you've got a dogshit record of backing managers but you can't make the Joey Barton fairytale into something it's not. He's done f**k all as a football manager and, sadly for us, continues to do f**k all as a football manager. No-one, and I mean no-one, except possibly you, would say that a manager who got us into the L1 playoffs had done f**k all for us. But if he does it for another club, then presumably it doesn't count. And this was Fleetwood we're talking about here. Not Sunderland or Ipswich. His current record is indeed terrible, but you seem to be harping on relentlessly (as you always do when you've got an idea in your head) about his past record and denying factual achievements. Pointless unless you just love arguing. That guy is almost exclusively on here to argue with people.
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Post by garystash on Mar 24, 2021 21:13:12 GMT
It not really the losses but the manner of the losses that kills my spirit. When that goal was disallowed last night you just knew they were going to undeservedly take all 3 points. It was obvious because that is the story of our season. I have but one hope left... That Anssi comes back, has some sort of magical influence on the team and our strikers finally hit form at the right time! That’s 2 hopes..... okay, I have 2 hopes left... 😛
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Post by garystash on Mar 24, 2021 21:10:48 GMT
It not really the losses but the manner of the losses that kills my spirit. When that goal was disallowed last night you just knew they were going to undeservedly take all 3 points. It was obvious because that is the story of our season.
I have but one hope left...
That Anssi comes back, has some sort of magical influence on the team and our strikers finally hit form at the right time!
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Post by garystash on Mar 24, 2021 17:02:58 GMT
You know, I watched "The Class of 92" on prime the other day. In it Gary Neville says Alan Hansen was right - you don't win anything with kids. However, Manchester United had Peter Schmeichel, Gary Pallister, Steve Bruce, Brian McClair and Eric Cantona. Ben Garner dismissed much of our experience, and that's where our plan of developing youth has gone wrong. I'm not disagreeing with what you say, but surely the likes of Anssi, Leahy, Baldwin, Ehmer, Little, Rodman and Upson should in theory provide plenty of experience to supplement our younger players? It's not like we've got a full team of kids. We also have McCormick, one of our young players, who is putting many of the others to shame with his passion, energy and commitment. So maybe it's not the fact that we have several inexperienced players, maybe it's just that they're not good enough? No, you make a fair point. I think Anssi has been a massive miss for his experience. Plus Rodman and Little have hardly played (the latter since he joined us). I feel as though Ehmer (and Little) are on JB's list of players that bring "lethargy" tio the squad. Neither ever seem that bothered about playing for us imo.
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Post by garystash on Mar 24, 2021 16:24:50 GMT
3:39 "What we don't want to do now is to recruit managers that bring in their own philosophy and ideas that are different to ours". 4 months later...."great reset"? How does this tally coherently? Maybe it has slapped them all in the face that you don't win anything with kids. You know, I watched "The Class of 92" on prime the other day. In it Gary Neville says Alan Hansen was right - you don't win anything with kids. However, Manchester United had Peter Schmeichel, Gary Pallister, Steve Bruce, Brian McClair and Eric Cantona. Ben Garner dismissed much of our experience, and that's where our plan of developing youth has gone wrong.
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Post by garystash on Mar 21, 2021 7:02:50 GMT
Hopefully Anssi will be back soon and our defence will improve. A great keeper will communicate well with his defence and from that comes confidence.
Then if our forward line can start finishing chances - which I think they are capable of doing - we will be an entirely different team results wise.
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Post by garystash on Mar 20, 2021 19:26:36 GMT
After 3 managers we should be past blaming the guy that's currently picking the team.
I find Barton's comments in the week about there being a lethargic attitude throughout the squad quite interesting.
I feel he is seeing relegation as almost unavoidable. I was however buoyed by his words after match today "it will get sorted!".
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Post by garystash on Mar 20, 2021 16:56:06 GMT
Anyone want to change their vote?
Widdrington out!
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Post by garystash on Mar 16, 2021 21:33:42 GMT
On a positive note, I've gotten through a lot of scotch on a Tuesday night this season.
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