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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 8, 2018 13:51:35 GMT
We sort of have electronic turnstiles? 😊
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 8, 2018 13:47:55 GMT
Yes. I suspect a book, or even a major motion picture, will be forthcoming about their two seasons (2017-19). Never a dull moment Those 2 leaving was on the cards though & they say that got a good deal. They signed Luke Waterfall (remember him from conference days?) a few days ago & got a MF on season long loan from Rangers this afternoon, so they certainly don't stand still.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 21:06:15 GMT
I can't believe I'm saying this... but for once in my life I'm in the know, I know something you all don't! Man this feels good, knowall and gasincider never said it felt this good. Friend of mine from Uni's best mate got to know him very well from his time at barnsley and still keep in touch today, obviously I've asked what's the craic and although Shrewsbury have accepted a bid because we've triggered a clause.... the man himself is not keen because it means moving his young family again, having already moved them around from Dover > barnsley > Shrewsbury, now potentially Bristol. Payne wants to stay in the north as he's made friends and settled in South Yorkshire. Be very surprised if he joins knowing that. Do I win some kind of prize for knowing this? Or do I get called a sh**head from now on 😅 Money talks though. Not sure what they pay him, but if we can afford to pay him more and a signing on fee, I'm sure he might think about moving. Yes. And the other way of looking at it is at least he didn't move to Shrewsbury, so Bristol wouldn't be an extra move. Anyway...what matters is that he's happy. If not, best to let it lie.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 21:04:13 GMT
He played wide left for one game and that was Saturday just gone. He was an out and out striker last season when played, hope he does well, likes scoring proper poachers goals but sometimes has to miss a couple before he gets one! I've read on your forum that he has no pace, poor technique, lack of effort, can't hold the ball up, wins nothing in the air, doesn't track back, regularly losses possession and misses 4 sitters for every goal he scores. Does that sound fair? He'll fit right in 😂😮
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 17:38:18 GMT
Before anyone goes off on the old 'didnt fancy her anyway...' route, and says they don't care, the problem with rejection is what it possibly says about your club's ability to attract players in the future.
Also what it does to relationships between fans & the owners, and between owners & staff.
As I said somewhere else we might as well just be upfront about it now and sell ourselves as a club with crap facilities, in an expensive city, but with a great track record of helping players go somewhere with good facilities and far better wages.
Posh have overtaken us in this respect.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 17:29:56 GMT
He looks extatic
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 16:56:28 GMT
His record in professional Football is similar to Bakayoko. Its still pretty much scraping the barrel IMO. 2 goals in 28 games for Gillingham. 0 goals in 12 games for Barnsley (Albeit in The Championship) 16 in 63 for Shrewsbury which is pretty much 1 in every 5 over the last couple of years is his best ratio. I wouldn’t say so, at Gillingham he was still young, he then went into non league and proved himself to be a natural goalscorer. At Barnsley he didn’t get a chance and now at Shrewsbury, he’s finished their top scorer in a team that finished third. I don’t see how we can do much better tbh without spending absurd amounts of money. True. Very unfair not to mention that he was 19-20 at Gillingham. Served his time in non-lge (5 yrs!) - should have gone to Lge 2/ Lge 1 when on fire at Dover, but Barnsley took a punt that didn't seem to work out. I followed his progress (or maybe lack of). Good move to shrews.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 16:50:12 GMT
This forum is like a punch & Judy show, with many agendas present ,(rather than evidence).
Surely the reality is somewhere in between?
Craig is potentially quite costly for what you get, and CBs have changed quite a lot since he was young. But he was an experienced signing.
Bennett certainly has the skills but not yet the end product. Will be interesting to see how he progresses.
Both came in very, very late. Can hardly blame fans for being concerned when they were told the window had shut & nothing official had been confirmed.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 16:36:13 GMT
Some perspective. When we moved back to Bristol the whole ground wasn’t ready on time and we had to move back to Bath for the opening game of the season. The image of Barry Fry’s flabby bare belly will live with me forever. 1 game after 10 years of exile. Not a bad problem.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 16:32:47 GMT
Bit late. The time to get him was when he was at Dover in our conference season (who have a good record with strikers...)
But anyway... We'll just spend more than we could have.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 14:31:38 GMT
Bakayoko must be reading the forums thinking "who's going to give me the least abuse: Walsall, Rovers or Coventry?" Believe me, most football players do not read forums.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 14:27:45 GMT
As much as I loved twerton, started supporting rovers there, was involved there, lived the atmosphere etc etc I have to say one HUGE thing has changed in life in general, and one thing has changed in my own life.
The former = information. We simply didn't have the channels of info then and to some degree ignorance was bliss. It also protected our players from possible transfers away!! We were pretty unknown. Literally. Football has also changed a lot. I suspect if we went back to twerton now for 10 yrs it would not be such a positive experience.
The latter = I was pretty casual in many ways & honestly didn't care that I knew little about the players, injuries, rumours etc. I enjoyed just watching a game, jumping around on the popular, & funny away trips. Would be hard to go back to that state of affairs now.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 14:19:41 GMT
Neither am I but there's no magnetic strip or sign of a electonic chip on the card, it just looks like a bit of plastic to me plus if they are now just producing them in the club shop(?) I can't see there is anything high tech about them. The stuff is inside, these days. They don't make them in the club shop, they just activate them (ie notify the database that the card is now in use). You could re-shape it and turn it into a ring, for example, and it should still work: Or even insert it into your body, and you'll never forget your ticket again. www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/585131/Man-NFC-Chip-Embed-Hand-Operation-Contactless-Card-Oyster-TFLI know whose ring I'd like to insert one in 😂😂
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 12:24:13 GMT
Cannot beleive our summer transfer business has come down to this, selling our best player for well under his value (and *ing instalments at that), only to be waiting on Walsall’s 3rd choice striker to decide between us and Coventry. You genuinely couldn’t make it up. Our Summer transfer business has not come down to this! The bulk of our transfer business was done weeks ago, and it's been pretty good. What it's come down to is replacing two strikers, given that one of our signings is a forward maybe one permanent one loan. As for Harrison being our best player, not convinced by that, and he's not exactly prolific. Wasn't that long ago people were slating Harrison, and whilst I agree he's improved, he's not Rickie Lambert. I'd love for us to have signed a couple of quality strikers by now, and I know we need at least one in the door, but I don't think our whole summer transfer business comes down to this one thing. Good point re the overall summer picture ...
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 12:16:39 GMT
FWIW, just because the deadline closes Thursday doesn't mean we can't still sign players either on loan or loan-to-buy... granted, we're cutting it fine already at this stage but still plenty of time for DC to strengthen the squad one way or another. "EFL clubs will still be able to sign players on loan up to August 31, 2018. They will also be able to sign players on loan with an option to agree a permanent transfer when the next window opens up to August 31." Plenty of time to get rushed into a slightly wrong fit, or pay over the odds to clubs who know we've sold players and have (a) money, (b) few strikers, and (c) little time left. I agree with not panicking but the system now means you REALLY do need to get things sorted earlier. Very few experienced players will be in this magical loan system . Younger players yes. But not older ones. Might pick up a few unicorns in there.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 12:07:49 GMT
I thought the whole point is to not have staff in the turnstile, but to have stewards outside (and/or just inside the ground) who sort out any problems. Every away ground I've been to who have electronic turnstiles make you but a tkt at an office. Also, the point is to take cash away from turnstile operators / have less cash to bank in general. But ours aren't electronic turnstiles but just card machines to count the number of spectators using each turnstile in order to meet the latest FA rules, the turnstile operator as still got to let you in... Fair enough. Disappointing but I guess it is at least a start towards a more integrated system in the future? And will take cash away from the turnstiles / operators that currently take it.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 12:03:04 GMT
Genuine question (and i'm sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere), now that Rovers do not have an early bird ticket available online is it now cheaper to buy on the gate? Just went to book two tickets for Saturday but you get charged a £1.50 admin fee on top the ticket price (£18 x 2 + £1.50). (Edit: also 65p charge for postage) So i'm thinking is it better to pay on the day or am i missing something here (2x £18)? It may depend on whether club have changed anything at the ticket office. For several seasons the tkt office portacabins have been a little over complicated by charging 1 fee (a flat fee) if you use debit card, a different type of fee (per ticket) if you use a credit card, and free for cash. Ending early bird tkts, yet still charging for postage & transaction fees online is a serious step backwards for fans who don't have STs. I don't think that one was thought through!
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 11:58:43 GMT
Simple question; clubs with electronic ticketing options (including the sheeds). How many have pay at the turnstiles, or do you need to queue separately at a ticket office? I think the Teds have the option to buy online, and print the ticket out at home - otherwise, you have to queue at the ticket office. There needs to be several operators selling tickets, at different windows, in order to keep the queues moving quickly - not sure that we have that sort of set-up at The Mem. Make sense. Everything else in life can be done like that. Print at home is quite normal. Or QR type tickets. I'm not the most technologically savvy person but having a (free) oyster type card for Bristol buses is amazing. Also, bought a train ticket the other day whilst on the bus to get to the train station. held phone to scanner & bingo, straight in the station. As someone who often does have to go to the portacabins for my tkt, I'd say they don't have much space capacity. Sat could be a nightmare. They do their best but always queues & club make it a little over complicated by charging 1 fee (a flat fee) if you use debit card, a different type of fee if you use a credit card, and free for cash. Finally, ending early bird tkts, yet still charging for postage & transaction fees online is a serious step backwards for fans who don't have STs.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 11:49:35 GMT
Simple question; clubs with electronic ticketing options (including the sheeds). How many have pay at the turnstiles, or do you need to queue separately at a ticket office? I thought the whole point is to not have staff in the turnstile, but to have stewards outside (and/or just inside the ground) who sort out any problems. Every away ground I've been to who have electronic turnstiles make you but a tkt at an office. Also, the point is to take cash away from turnstile operators / have less cash to bank in general.
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Post by mehewmagic on Aug 7, 2018 11:42:47 GMT
Why ! Me and my family have no stand to which we have purchased season tickets to watch the football from. If this issue is not sorted during the coming week we will be asking for a full season ticket refund and will go to games on a pay on the day. All of this is totally unacceptable when a family of working class rovers fanatics are so disenfranchised by the lack of a simple statement from the club . Question ? Why is everything so hard to get any information.. players injuries. Training ground. Stadium progress .it's 2018 not 1973 without fans such as us you have nothing please ROVERS communication let me down and that was in the eighties ...but you only need a seat! Which you will have! Relax! Deep breath! Ok, yes, a few deep breaths are probably needed but also do you know what it's like bringing kids (maybe young ones) to football? Def is good to know where you are sitting etc.
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