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Post by aghast on Apr 12, 2024 13:10:56 GMT
The original 'gluten for punishment' post has disappeared, thus making all the witty bread gags totally redundant ☹️
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Post by aghast on Apr 11, 2024 21:08:40 GMT
JRM living in a parallel world...again. JRM annoys me so much. A veneer of intelligence from years of private education masks a stupid man with reactionary and dangerous views.
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Post by aghast on Apr 11, 2024 21:04:31 GMT
Standards of service in hospitality have plummeted since our European cousins fled these shores for somewhere more welcoming.
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Post by aghast on Apr 11, 2024 21:01:25 GMT
Interesting post. Keeping Rotherham in the Championship is like keeping Sheffield United in the Premier League. It ain't gonna happen.
But the inevitably unsuccessful managers are always sacked, as was MT.
It has little to do with whether he can be a success with us. No point quoting his ppg with them. It's a different world in the league above.
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Post by aghast on Apr 11, 2024 20:54:20 GMT
I wonder whether the last few weeks of the season, with nothing at stake, evokes a similar mindset to when the exams are over at school, and you just go through the motions until the end of term (whether consciously or unconsciously). I think that's why we shouldn't panic and enter a meltdown just yet. We are safe, none of the squad are as committed as they would be if we were at the top or bottom, and I think a lot of people are going bananas about it at the moment. We have terrible current form but the season as a whole isn't a disaster. And MT contributed to our safety until it went t!ts up recently.
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Post by aghast on Apr 11, 2024 20:46:07 GMT
It's a lot of bread to fork out and I wonder rye they dough it.
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Post by aghast on Apr 11, 2024 15:47:24 GMT
Only at Rovers could the manager still be in job after this appalling run. Not only that the clubs owners have taken to the bunker Barton watched, arms folded, as we went into freefall with a team he accepted no responsibility for and we finished bottom. He wasn't sacked. Apart from the fact I dislike the thug, I could see why we kept faith for the new season because a manager needs to build his own squad and that takes time. Same applies to MT. At least next season we start in the same league....
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Post by aghast on Apr 11, 2024 15:40:23 GMT
We are Bristol Rovers and we don't do new manager bounces. Ask Clarke, Garner, Tisdale, Barton and Taylor.
I suppose Cogs did it but he was so shocked he resigned by accident.
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Post by aghast on Apr 10, 2024 23:06:43 GMT
It seems Bristol Rovers is a managerial graveyard where your career ends. Tisdale , Garner , Barton …..Taylor ? Who’d want the poisoned chalice ? 😂 Ian Holloway. We may as well just accept the inevitable and give him one last go. He can't be any worse than the last four.
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Post by aghast on Apr 10, 2024 23:01:42 GMT
So far, as per Barton but without the gob shitery And the wife beating. And the prison sentence.
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Post by aghast on Apr 10, 2024 22:56:26 GMT
I wonder who else we interviewed and considered for the DoF role, or was Friend the only one? What track record does Chris Spendlove have and was he the best possible candidate for the HoR role? I suspect they went for the cheapest options rather than the best! "A League 1 club is being taken over by a Kuwaiti family of investors." Gasheads: ooooooh?!!! "And that club is Bristol Rovers." Gasheads: wooo hooh!! "And that family are financially prudent and are not going to spend their way to promotion." Gasheads: ffs.....
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Post by aghast on Apr 8, 2024 18:42:17 GMT
Where Barton gave a response justifying his position - and not denying it or threatening them with legal action if they publish it. He even got a snide comment on the number of keepy-uppies in there. It seems to me that Barton wanted them to publish the story so he could whip up yet more publicity with his protestations of fabrications etc. He will claim that the media are trying to silence/cancel him because of whatever latest conspiracy he is peddling. Total loser. Notice you have been staying silent about the ****** *** job monotone Matt is doing, now he is a loser, no wins in 6 six games, no goals in six games, and the team he built this season has already been relegated back to division 1, the "king is dead long live the king"; wasn't it you big boy who said you would tell Joey what you though about him to his face, how's that going, hahaha thought not. So many unpleasant and unnecessary comments in that post it's quite breathtaking.
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Post by aghast on Apr 8, 2024 8:41:11 GMT
P’Boro were certain he was leaving right up to the last minutes of the transfer window and had already made new signings and re-shaped their attack. They weren’t going to just drop all their plans because his transfer collapsed. It’s not like he’s not getting games solely because his form had previously fallen off a cliff - he just doesn’t fit what they are now doing. He’s still plenty good enough to play in any side in this division and be at the top of the scoring charts next season - imo. We can find his stats for the whole season with a bit of searching and a spreadsheet... ...1336 mins in the league (so approx 15 full games). Seven league goals which is one every 191 minutes. Not prolific, not disastrous. Probably not the solution to a team that needs a fit, prolific striker... That's still equivalent to just over 21 goals per season, despite being pretty much hung out to dry at Peterborough, and he's not even 30 yet. I'm not sure where we would get such a proven goalscorer for nothing (albeit with a chunky wage bill) and he could be just the thing we need for two years to get us a top 6 finish. He might not be ideal nowadays but he's still good and he might actually want to come here.
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Post by aghast on Apr 6, 2024 19:52:30 GMT
The team Monotone Taylor built at the beginning of this season before getting the sack at Rotherham, were pathetic last night, beaten by Argyle and as a result relegated. The same clown in the past six games as BRFC manager as resided over no wins and his team have not scored a single goal. Today he had Jordy Rossiter, arguably the best footballer at the club available, and left him on the bench. I really hope the owners know what they are doing as from what I watched this afternoon, I saw a manager on touch line throughout the match with his arms crossed, no pattern of play, and a honest bunch of players who were generally going through the motions. Does this bode well for the future and can he be aloud to build another squad ? hmm. You can't blame Taylor for the performance of 'his' squad after he's left and also for the performance of Barton's squad now he's here. One or the other but you can't have it both ways. And your continued descriptions of him as monotone are a bit juvenile, but I expect you find it funny.
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Post by aghast on Apr 6, 2024 16:15:31 GMT
I'm getting worried about the squad under Taylor now. They seem to have nothing whatsoever to give or offer, including pride, determination and respect.
He seems to have lost them so we need either a miracle to get some of this lot to play for him or a massive clear out.
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Post by aghast on Apr 4, 2024 22:05:57 GMT
Nope , I’ll be voting tactically. ABC 👍 I don't agree with tactical voting, particularly for the Lib Dems who are implicit in Austerity and what followed after propping up Cameron in coalition or have you forgotten that? When I lived in Horsham, West Sussex, for thirty years, I voted 'tactically' for the Lib Dems since they were the only possibility of beating the Tories and their huge majority (over 20,000). Until, that was, 2010, and the shameless coalition where Clegg abandoned his beliefs for a taste of power. A disastrous decision, since the Lib Dems have been spanked on the arse by the millions who might have voted for them and have been decimated in the House of Commons. I will probably never vote for them again for fear of something similar happening, although I never say never. Even though I said it three times in the last sentence.
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Post by aghast on Apr 4, 2024 21:11:13 GMT
Complicated issue this one. A lot of people who consider themselves liberal, as do I, might rush to defend the rights of people to be who they want. But I know a few women, two of whom are committed feminists, who are deeply uncomfortable with the male to female trans thing and the idea that they should be considered whatever sex they see themselves as, with the right to act, and be, and integrate with women as a woman.
Ricky Gervais gets the idea.
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Post by aghast on Apr 4, 2024 18:00:01 GMT
All fingers and toes crossed that we don't get a hammering. With flip flops suncream and passports at the ready I'm not sure we have the fight left in us, apart from Chris Martin, who's made it clear he fights in every game.
Still, it's the time of the year when nerves kick in, form goes out of the window, and anything can happen.
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Post by aghast on Apr 4, 2024 17:32:40 GMT
It was good fun for a year but I suspect the novelty would have worn off pretty rapidly and within a couple of seasons we would have been playing in front of 5,000 or less. Yes but clubs can always get back, even after a prolonged spell in the NL. Chesterfield have just stormed it after several years with crowds of 10,000, and let's never forget Luton. A lot of people have said it would have been the death of the club if we had lingered down there, but there's always a way back up, and with crowds of 5,000 on a much much lower playing budget we would have come good eventually. Well I think so anyway.
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Post by aghast on Apr 4, 2024 16:09:49 GMT
You despise them, and they despise you. Fancy that. I don't support a football club that plays in the Welsh league though do I and complain every game about the welsh. If they hate the English so much join their own countries league. They wouldn't be missed that's for sure. You know as well as I do that Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham and Newport are not going to play in the Welsh league, so it's obviously a silly thing to suggest. As for hate, apart from your hate of their fans "in general" (no generalisation there then), I'm sure the animosity between Man U and Man C, Man U and Liverpool, Millwall and West Ham, us and the other lot, and many many more examples, equals or exceeds any hatred from the Welsh towards English clubs. It's football culture and it's all the worse for it, as are your attitudes.
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