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Post by richard on Aug 28, 2021 17:48:38 GMT
Ignoring the other two league matches is a bit cheeky. It's actually 4pts from 5 games, which is abject relegation form. Looking at performances we've got a win against a club in perpetual crisis and a draw against 10 men having been a goal up. Exactly. I couldn't be bothered to argue. Fair shout to his positivity but if you look at the current projected table for this season, we are down to finish bottom. This is the current up to date live projected table following today's game.
But not so catastrophic apparently! I just want to cry.
What an awful argument. The Premier League table on the same website lists Everton 3rd, Man City 6th and Arsenal bottom. If you think any of those will happen then I’m happy to have a bet with you!! Not saying we’re not awful but basing it on this is odd at best.
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Post by richard on Aug 19, 2021 10:03:11 GMT
Why did he down tools for Dave Penney ultimately getting us relegated?
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Post by richard on Aug 16, 2021 10:02:21 GMT
Anderson has definitely looked our biggest threat so far but he’s extremely right footed so in my opinion isn’t playing to his full potential on the left.
Every time he gets to the byline he doesn’t seem to know what to do with it because he can’t cross with his wrong foot and on Saturday there was also an incident where the ball came across the pitch and he struggled where someone with a left foot would have managed to control it.
I’d personally swap him and Thomas because it’s clear who is currently the bigger threat.
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Post by richard on Aug 3, 2021 18:35:13 GMT
A VPN is the answer for anyone living elsewhere in the UK and wants to carry on getting involved. Pretty sure you need more than a VPN as iFollow, like Sky, also checks your browser's actual location. A VPN certainly used to work fine the last time we needed to use it i.e. the season before last.
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Post by richard on Aug 3, 2021 8:46:51 GMT
Appreciating that these things might still happen yet.
I’d have brought in a right back because I worry we’re too tied to wingbacks with the current squad.
I would have either kept Ayunga or brought in another striker capable of holding the ball up front. I worry we’re a little too reliant on Pitman and whilst I don’t really buy this ‘he’ll only be able to play the last twenty mins’ rhetoric I do feel if he gets injured we’re a bit stuck.
Can’t really fault a lot of the rest of the squad build at this stage but it would be nice to see a full squad with the likes of Finley back because I’m just assuming that the players are of reasonable quality at this stage.
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Post by richard on Jul 13, 2021 16:02:11 GMT
Sorry, don't understand this... Can you explain please? Why would someone else being double vaccinated or not have any impact on you? Less likely to carry Covid and therefore less likely to spread it. Genuinely didn't know this. Is it true? I always thought it didn't really impact the spread of Covid too much but just reduced the symptoms / impact if you did catch it hence why cases are shooting up but hospitalisations / deaths are massively reduced from previous spikes.
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Post by richard on Jul 13, 2021 15:55:47 GMT
All sounds fair enough to me. Don't want to go and stand with a load of people who haven't been double vaccinated. Sorry, don't understand this... Can you explain please? Why would someone else being double vaccinated or not have any impact on you?
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Post by richard on Jul 1, 2021 9:32:21 GMT
With regarding watching football you told us all kyle bennett was rubbish when we signed him but you never came back to admit that so far you have been badly wrong about him. I can only assume that this is the reason the person deleted their account??
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Post by richard on Jun 26, 2021 9:36:09 GMT
Matty Taylor 28 goals in 4 years before joining us. JCH 29 goals in 7 years before joining us. Hardly fantastic records. Taylor scored 6 goals in 7 games whilst on loan at Chester before he joined us, I sense "richard" was joking but actually he was right about Taylor. As far as our strike force, as Barton confirmed the four players mentioned in the OP will be our striker force this season, as I wouldn't be surprised if Ayunga and/or Hanlan departed, given Williams departed today. Matty Taylor scored 6 goals in 7 games on loan at Chester mid season and then went back to FGR and finished the season with 0 goals in 12 games. That’s fantastic is it? If so, Saunders scored 6 in 3 games at one point for Fleetwood last season and Collins scored 4 in 4 games to end the season. When will people learn to stop writing off players before they’ve kicked a ball for us?
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Post by richard on Jun 25, 2021 19:49:04 GMT
JCH and Matty Taylor both had fantastic scoring records before joining us.
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Post by richard on May 18, 2021 13:25:36 GMT
I've bought boots again to cope with the Mem toilets to last at least 4 years. Is that boots or boats?
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Post by richard on May 11, 2021 19:50:32 GMT
Have we learned the lesson of allowing a rookie manager to completely clear out the club though? I have no axe to grind with Barton, and would probably have chosen to appoint him from the realistic options at the time, but this seems a huge amount of free reign to give to someone who is very inexperienced. DC did it when were relegated to the Conference. Hardly an experienced manager then. DC didn't, to my recollection, get rid of several coaches including youth level coaches. Nor did DC try and revamp the medical department at the same time. It just feels a lot to do in one go.
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Post by richard on May 11, 2021 19:31:15 GMT
I don’t think we’ve learned the lesson. This lot got us relegated with probably the most abject performances I’ve seen since the Graydon era. None of us know these players. JB has essentially said most of them aren’t good enough, aren’t professional, weren’t even fit and had an attitude problem. We don’t what any of them train like. I don’t think anyone is safe and I would be happy to see the back of all of them. Have we learned the lesson of allowing a rookie manager to completely clear out the club though? I have no axe to grind with Barton, and would probably have chosen to appoint him from the realistic options at the time, but this seems a huge amount of free reign to give to someone who is very inexperienced.
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Post by richard on May 10, 2021 19:41:22 GMT
Thanks for the welcome folks. Quick update from Vale Park. We had 15 players out of contract and DC has got rid of them ALL. ! Apparently he sits down with another 4 who have a year left to run and rumours are they are all gone as well. ! Does DC have form for having a cull? Surprised he's had such a clear out considering the incredible form since his arrival.
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Post by richard on May 10, 2021 19:39:59 GMT
Local constabulary seem to have bit of a attitude problem to after my last visit to Vale Park I'll be there again no doubt 🤕 When were you last there? Everyone seemed to have a problem when I was there lol but I just realised it wasn’t after relegation, it was the first game after trollopes promotion I was there. 1-1 Wasn't one of the supporter's coach windows broken that day?
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Post by richard on Apr 5, 2021 16:54:01 GMT
His fitness / desire is absolutely staggering, particularly from a Premiership loanee. He chases every ball as if his life depends on it.
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Post by richard on Mar 28, 2021 11:38:29 GMT
With all due respect, I'd suggest your constant sniping and hatred of our manager is also rather pathetic. As I said, anyone one with half a brain cell and some understanding can see where the blame lies. An unbalanced squad put together in the sumner that is lacking in fundamental areas that wasn't rectified in January. And you can do as many drills as you like, but can't legislate for a player incompetent or too lazy to stay with his man at a corner. That is clear. 33 days in charge, large injury list, no transfer window and with a limited amount of coaching time on the training pitch. Let's sack him and get someone else in, I'm sure there will be a long list of quality candidates for a club that has had 4 managers in little over a year. With respect Pirate, you were guaranteeing Barton would keep us up and would make us challenge for the championship next season 😂😂😂 I'd pipe down a bit Your head has gone.
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Post by richard on Mar 28, 2021 11:38:05 GMT
This is tough as not all the the new managers came in at the end of a previous managers month so I’ve done it on the first full month they managed where the majority of the games were in their control and only counted their games in the stats. Garner played 5 in Jan, lost 3 and drew 2. PPG 0.4 Tisdale played 3 in November, lost 2 and drew 1. PPG 0.33 Barton played 8 in March, lost 6, drew 1 and won 1. PPG 0.5 Overall every game managed in the league for rovers: BG - played 26 league games with a PPG 0.85 PT - played 15 league games with a PPG 0.80 JB - played 10 league games with a PPG 0.70 2020 / 21 season league games for rovers: BG - played 11 league games with a PPG 1.09 PT - played 15 league games with a PPG 0.80 JB - played 10 league games with a PPG 0.70 So looks like BG is the best manager we’ve had in 3...😬 If you take cherry picked statistics then yeah he was fantastic. For example he has the best PPG of any Bristol Rovers manager named Ben in the last decade.
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Post by richard on Mar 28, 2021 9:51:40 GMT
The below stats are from the soccer stats website (really useful): # Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts PPG March - JB 23 Bristol Rovers 8 1 1 6 6 11 -5 4 0.50 January - PT 18 Bristol Rovers 6 1 1 4 5 9 -4 4 0.67 October - BG 9 Bristol Rovers 6 3 2 1 8 6 +2 11 1.83 These are the stats for the last full month of fixtures each manager had / has (in JB case). It would be good to see the injury list at each of these months as well. Considering JB is blaming previous training regimes amongst other things. Also, the number of formations / personnel changes by each manager. Have you got the same stats for the first month of each manager’s reign?
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Post by richard on Mar 26, 2021 15:56:21 GMT
Pseudo intellectual, even had the heavy rimmed glasses on again today. Haven't seen them on since the first day he arrived, why doesn't he engage his brain and ask himself which guy appointed the most uninspiring bag of cement manager Ben Garner in the clubs history. Hasselbaink turned things around at Burton Albion in less games than Barton has had, all of this from a guy who could be in HMP Wakefield from June 11th, at least he can moan about the screws when there and suggest they get fitter. You're not comparing like for like though are you? Hasselbaink had a transfer window where Burton signed 9 new players.
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