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Post by holmesgas1 on Feb 23, 2021 16:20:05 GMT
You mean ignore it and it might go away. OK. Well this Holmes thinks he's made a reasonable start come win lose or draw tonight.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Feb 7, 2021 10:53:31 GMT
From 4th to 4th from bottom in 12 months. 1. Garner; dreadful appointment. No experience working at this level but given free reign to do what he likes with our team, and the budget. 2. Recruitment; dreadful, only one stiker with Division One experience signed. 4 left backs. "Best squad since promotion" Crows Widdrington. 3. Who was overseeing the signings? Probably no one, but someone should have been. 4. 12 defenders; 12 midfielders; 3 forwards; 4 goalies: When clubs are cutting down their numbers our squad is ballooning 5. Trying to change most of your first team in one year. This should have been done over 3 or 4 seasons. We said goodbye to players better than we signed. 6. The quality of our new signings. Probably 1 or 2 better than average. Is Day really better than Stopashot? 7. Tisdale, very little experience at this level, and that was pretty unimpressive. 8. Grayson has signed a deal until the end of the season with Fleetwood. We sign a manager on a 2 and a half year deal. Why? 9. Grayson was interviewed, Tisdale was "appointed". We were told there would be interviews. there was one. 10. We desprately need a forward (even on loan) We sign a fullback and a Goalie, and those 2 wages would have got a "reasonable" forward in. 11. If we go down, Tisdale will probably keep his job, seeing he is a good friend of our "Chairman". 12. The project to achieve success and sell our best players. We have always sold our best players and thats why we have won very little Every season we look forward to being better than the last, and it was beginning to look like we could achieve something. We had a "rough and ready" Manager in Coughlin, but he knew this league, and to get us out of the crap he signed, a Goalie, a central midfielder, and a very good centre forward. Or a new spine in a spineless team. Again we have yet another spineless team who want to pale tippy tappy football, unfortunately they dont have the abilitiy to do that, or indeed play the "basic" stuff we need. I cannot see us staying up. We will pull off a few wins against teams in midtable, but then we will buckle (no pun intended) when it comes to Swindon, and Burton and others at the bottom. This whole disastrous season has been brought about by courtesy of the board. Not Wael, because I think he is still a bit naieve, but both Starnes and Widdrington have a lot to answer for. Quote "Bristol Rovers Football Club is delighted to announce Paul Tisdale as its new First Team Manager. CEO Martyn Starnes said Tisdale's qualities "mirror that of the Club’s' ongoing strategy to build a ‘Bristol Rovers DNA’, with the new Manager signing a two and a half year deal.If you need a taxi to Ashton Gate, I'm sure a few of us will have a whip round for you...
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Post by holmesgas1 on Feb 6, 2021 12:38:54 GMT
This is my first post on here and apologies that I have lifted it from the other forum but given this has snowballed I wanted to say something on here too as the last thing I wanted was for people to argue over something I posted elsewhere! Ok what started as a simple post has prompted more questions than I thought! I was simply posting to back up what others had said about options that have been open to the club. We are now where we are and I can’t and won’t go into details about the wider scheme. I wish I could as my life would be much easier but hopefully the fact I have put my name on here provides some comfort that I’m not an attention seeker / pretend ITK. The bottom line is the further time passes the less likely it becomes that Rovers can be involved (that is a fact and not an intended bargaining tool). I don’t have any kind of platform to speak from other than on here but having considered the situation carefully over the last 24 hours i think it’s best to look at a way forward rather than dwell on where we have been and my opinions on why we haven’t got any progress. The club know who I am and have a good knowledge of what we are trying to achieve. Its very exciting and as a long standing and very passionate Gas Head I could not rest easy knowing that I didn’t do absolutely everything in my power to try and include Bristol Rovers in the wider scheme. My passion for Bristol Rovers often gets the better of me and in hindsight putting my name on a public forum was maybe not the shrewdest move but sometimes as I said my passion gets the better of me. This has to be my last post otherwise the situation will just snowball with questions that I can’t answer however I hope my decision to put my name to this results in a positive way forward. So come on Rovers, re engage with me and we can see if there is a way forward. If not that’s fine but le Thank you for posting Dave. I’m sure everyone on here like you wants the best for Bristol Rovers, I think some people have trouble differentiating between the FC and the owners of the FC and think that their best interests must be the same. I think the owner of the FC definitely sees the difference between the two and that’s why no progress has been made on any scheme so far. Good for you for trying. How can you make that comment. Based upon what? Dave's idea may be great, it may not be, but you cannot just assume, because they have not progressed it they do not have the best interests of the club at heart. They may have just decided its a bad investment. Unless you have information to prove the contrary we do not know.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Feb 2, 2021 20:13:25 GMT
Could be goodbye tisdale tonight When a Club spends cash on a country training ground rather than a team - what do they expect - no point blaming the staff - it is all down to the man who decides where the money is spent - anyone owning up Wael? What a load of rubbish... We were desperate for better facilities and don't believe this is anything to with financies. It's down to recruitment.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Jan 30, 2021 17:03:54 GMT
Pretty much our strongest side today. Totally exposed, no signs of any improvement from garner, hasn’t signed any forward thinking players. Tisdale has to walk. If you can’t win at home to Rochdale just as well pack it in. You cannot change the manager every 5 minutes... We need a striker not a new manager...
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Post by holmesgas1 on Jan 25, 2021 12:50:06 GMT
And that is why we should have stuck with BG. Not everyone's cup of tea I get that but i don't believe we would be in the situation we are in now if we hadn't jumped the gun and sacked him in my opinion too quickly. He was bought in to reshape the club and some of the recruitment was questionable but I sensed the players enjoyed playing for him I get the sense some of these don't really buy into PT So the best strategy for the club was to basically try and win a tallest dwarf competition? As much as I feel Tisdale was also the wrong choice it’s beginning to look like his most damaging legacy at the club is giving Garner supporters the excuse to argue that he was actually a decent manager! At the end of the day, no matter how it goes here Tisdale would still have an outside chance of getting another job, probably in league two. Garner will never manage another league club as long as he has a hole in his arse because he isn’t a manager. Though I tend to agree with your analysis about BG, you never know that he will not be a success next time around if he learnt from his mistakes with us.. Gerry Francis probably our most successful manager was a total disaster at Exeter, for same reason as BG. They both tried to play Premiership football with lower league players... Gerry was bright enough to learn; time will tell if BG is smart enough, and whether he has enough kudos to get given another chance..
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Post by holmesgas1 on Nov 19, 2020 10:02:31 GMT
He turned down offers from Southampton and Swansea, which showed he's loyal to a project. Exeter were a mid table national league side, when he took over. He took them to 8th in League 1, finishing a point outside the play offs. They then lost all of their player's, as they were out of contract as they are a fan owned club. He did that with no money, they couldn't build up debts like we did. Think people forget, before he arrived they had already spent 3 seasons in the national League. Before that he formed a new club and got them promoted 4 times and to the FA Cup first round. Another bloke happy in his comfort zone down the M5 then. No somebody who is loyal if he believes the cause is right.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Nov 18, 2020 20:19:25 GMT
Nothing against Paul Tisdale as he fits our philosophy. Just, out of interest has there ever been a gas manager fans have been excited about before they joined in the last 15 years? I can’t remember any in recent times! Yes Buckle and Graydon, just shows what us fans know.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Nov 7, 2020 21:26:49 GMT
Good result, well done Gas! I didn't watch today, what was the formation? I couldn't work it out from the lineup. Who played wide right, or did we play 4-3-3? Hard to say really it was still 3-5-2 I suppose but otzumer was drifting in between the lines to link play and Nicholson as wing back naturally attacked more than any other right sided player we have for that position. We still showed that we need that experienced midfielder to hold things together in the late stages of games though. Also that we need more strikers , otzumer isn’t a striker and neither is JML but Garner keeps playing players up front who aren’t forwards. Otzumer may not be a striker but he was their top scorer for their last two seasons league 1
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Post by holmesgas1 on Nov 1, 2020 12:55:47 GMT
Please, please bear in mind that opposing managers need to bolster, big up, their team. Claiming the opposition is very good, top class, etc., is one way of doing that. Though I'd like to believe it. Why be negative, we do have some technically gifted players, light years better than we have had before, they just need to work more as a team than individuals, but things are improving week on week. Defence also needs to relax, as definitely a little panic in there, but believe they will crack it. Lastly its a 100 times better than watching GC's style of play, so I do see light at the end of the tunnel. Promotion this season very unlikely, but if we can build for next why not.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Sept 13, 2020 16:22:53 GMT
A good result but for me not a particularly good performance. On another day we could have conceded at least four goals but fortunately we have IMO the best goal goalkeeper in the league. Apart from the penalty we created nothing at all, the midfield was weak and non combative, and the centre backs apart from Harries who had a reasonable game looked vulnerable to virtually every cross that came into the box. IMO only three/four players had reasonable games apart from AJ who was brilliant. Sunderland didn’t look a particularly good side but could and should have put a few goals past us - but every point will count come the end of the season. We still have a player on our books who would add bite to our midfield in place of Grant who was anonymous yesterday and I’m yet to be convinced of - Ogogo should be playing next week. Pretty much how I saw it. 9 times out of 10 you don’t ride your luck and that shot hits the inside of the post and goes in and we lose the game. Everyone particularly second half didn’t want the ball it was like a red hot potato. I think we got away with that performance massively Coughlan rode his luck for half a season, let's give BGs new team time too.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Aug 9, 2020 10:04:14 GMT
I didnt get to watch it yesterday as I was working, but I did look through the interactive commentary when I could, I'm going to be slaughtered for this i can already hear it, did anybody else feel just a little unimpressed? particularly second half. Please let me know I'm wrong I want to know that we performed brilliantly, if we did it certainly didn't come across that way, I know its early days, to early to say how we will finally play but still... 4.0? it didn't look as though there were many other opportunities... perhaps I'm wrong... Yes your wrong, well you did ask.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Jun 10, 2020 9:27:14 GMT
In the dialogue surrounding the return of competitive matches at League One level, the costs associated with the return to play, including the purchase of the relevant COVID-19 testing kits and PPE, would have totalled at least £500,000. Love to know where they spun this figure from, flys against anything dreamt up by the EFL or Chumpionship teams. Just about every other estimate is £160,000 to £200,000 Not what I've seen, most clubs were quoting overal costs of 500£k. The 150£k was just for testing.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Apr 17, 2020 17:10:27 GMT
Well done to all involved with that. Well balanced and I genuinely felt part of a family when reading it. Fully agree, great letter and made be feel proud to part of the Rovers family.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Apr 5, 2020 9:09:00 GMT
The point is that the financial performance since 2016 is unsustainable. What I see is a two man board of directors and a diminishing number of fans still in denial about what is happening. You are repeating what Wael said in his statement last week when he told us he had supported his managers with competitive league 1 budgets, that revenue streams had increased and that we shouldn’t worry because lots of clubs have rising debt and his commitment is as strong as ever. Then, after having implied everything was under control he went on to say the position is clearly unsustainable and a series of actions have been taken to reduce the deficit although (no doubt because of confidentiality agreements) he didn’t say what these actions are. He then told us the way forward is to increase revenue streams, obtain the best value for goods and services and to undertake astute work within the transfer market. Even you Daniel must see that Wael is struggling. Gashead81 is understandably keen to look for positives and points to Tom Gorringe’s work on the commercial side of the businesses where revenue streams have apparently increased. But on the face of it the revenue increase has been outweighed by a rise in costs so the effect of increased sales is to increase losses. That is the economics of the madhouse because any fool can sell more and more if they are selling at a loss. I say on the face of it because the accounts are so uninformative this year that we have no detail for commercial activities. But if it was a success story surely the club would highlight this with figures to show fans there was a bright spot within all the gloom. The secrecy and lack of transparency is telling and any bank or investor appraising Wael’s weak turnaround strategy would walk away very quickly. So all we are left with is the hope that Wael will keep funding Rovers losses till his money runs out. Wouldn’t it be more positive and enjoyable for Gasheads if we stopped consoling ourselves by ridiculing the antics of the Supporters Club, accept that Wael hasn’t come up with any serious solutions to the problems we have and started talking about how the football club is going to get out of this ? Far and away the best article I've read on here for some time. You have Daniel quoting mythological figures about what the debt was when Higgs, who wouldn't take advice from anyone,left the scene, and Waels propaganda minister gashead1981 defending the indefensible, and just constantly slagging off everyone but the main culprit. The sc is run like a well oiled machine in comparison. Just remember: £25m debt, no stadium, no training ground etc etc. The youth team team gets a mention. It's the sc that provides funds for it. They couldn't even afford to buy additional footballs recently until a contribution from the sc. The only thing we can feel proud of, is how the Community Trust has developed. Who was behind that I wonder? You guessed it You look out onto the stadium on a match day and think, what the hell is there to show for these horrendous debts. Cue the twisting of history. I have sat here reading all this infighting which is highly depressing, but when I read the SC being described as a well oil machine, even with the caveat of "in comparison" your credibility goes out the window. They have proved to be totally incompetent and latest tirade is embrassing and unprofessional and shames our club. As for KM, I have no axe to grind but as a member of the supporters club for more years to remember, not once has he ever reached out for supporters views, so how can he claim to represent us. I also see you hiding behind the CT as a beacon of excellence which they are. Maybe KM helped a little, but the driving force is Adam Tutton. He and his team with the help they get from the club in time, marketing, profile is what makes it a success. So please don't rewrite history, or claim credit for things you and your cronies or not worthy off.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Mar 17, 2020 18:29:18 GMT
Miah Dennehy for me. We had no idea what he was going to do, neither did the opposition, and he probably didn't too, but great fun to watch.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Feb 5, 2020 17:32:20 GMT
Not 100% Gas related, but I went to Anfield last night with some Town fans from Shrewsbury to watch the cup replay and you had pretty passing Liverpool via true hard grit and determination from Shrewsbury. OK town lost to a VAR decision that should not be in the FA Cup and a great own goal, but watching as a neutral. I would far rather have the true grit and fighting spirit over pretty passing any day. The Town fought hard for every ball and unlucky with the result. And that was due to pure hard work. so BG pretty passing football no thanks, just get the team working hard together, and fighting for every ball and never giving up that’s the Rovers way Give me quality passing football any day and as Liverpool, Coventry and others have shown, with passion, it is very successful.. The big hoof even with passion only gets you so far and quite often relegated, and if you're honest with yourselves our 4th position was totally built on sand. Let's take the rough now, but hopefully next season we will be much better placed to make a concerted effort on this league.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Feb 2, 2020 20:00:08 GMT
This has to be the most ridiculous thread ever posted We need to support him and make sure we stay in this division, By End of March beginning of April hopefully we will see what he has achieved and carrying on building for 20/21 Get behind him and not with a knife UTG This. Fully agree... We may not have the results but GC's results were built on sand.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Jan 27, 2020 18:28:02 GMT
He looks a lad with plenty of potential and could be a good add.... Definitely more potential than the loans that have just left. Shows to me Garner has some good contacts.
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Post by holmesgas1 on Jan 27, 2020 13:59:51 GMT
Two of us going, though local for us as Warrington based.
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