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Post by stevek192 on Feb 12, 2024 9:36:12 GMT
The big querstion is- Does Taylor have the ability to build the squad for next season. There are n o obvious signs he has. You would expect your Manager to have knowledge of the players available and I would have expected Taylor to know in January who was available but the things he said when he arrived about lack of scouting indicated he didnt have a clue on that side. JB had so many contacts and I am convinced the team only needed a bit of smart business in January. A striker like JCH would have been a big step forward. As it is we have taken a huge step backwards.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 11, 2024 10:43:13 GMT
Not Exeters fault but our fault for thinking that because a Manager plays a certain way with one team he can do it with a different team. Also both Tisdale and MT had lousy January windows with us. I fear the summer wont be much better. I hope I am wrong.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 11, 2024 10:37:27 GMT
Toppergas, I agree with you so IMO if you havent got a LWB you dont play with one and you play the extra player up front and pressurise the opponents defence. We allowed both Burton and Fleetwood to build from the back and in fact in both games we were the ones being pressurised. I have to say that since MT came in the football has deteriorated each game. His window was a waste of time- we are worse because he has signed light weights. Even the centre half at 6ft 5 is just not a bruiser and to be honest not a very good footballer- in fact just like Burtons 6ft 9 player doesnt look as if he can play football in a million years. Until we ATTACK teams at home we will not pick up any points and our away games coming up dont feel me with confidence with a Manager who looks and sounds out of his depth and I dont care who Roady says he will sign in the summer-the important time is now. Who knows who he will be able to sign in the summer when they dont even know what division we are going to be in? Roady chats rubbish, In Barton we were in most games we played,dominated possession and created chances and missed sitters. Some games were lost when we were reduced to 10 players, some were just downright poor refereeing. The last two games we cant blame the referees or missed chances because MTs tactics dont result in many chances created. In fact both Fleetwood and Burtons keepers could have stayed home. DIRE FOOTBALL.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 10, 2024 21:51:44 GMT
Our teams trouble is we are forever coming out of defence. The whole set up is to provide cover and numbers in defence without having the pace to get out if you are all going to defend. I get fed up of the two wing backs having to spend most of their time coming back then having two midfielders defending (generally not very well) and then at the most one player up front on his own. The new centre half is probably the poorest we have had. If we are going to play with pacy wide men then let them play as wingers and support the man up front with proper full backs behind them. We have in recent times had two Managers with an Exeter back ground and neither of them appear to have had a clue between them.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 10, 2024 21:24:18 GMT
Roady, I get fed up with hes looking at this or looking at that after what has been a totally disappointing window. If he plays the way we are playing at the moment with just one isolated up front and no front pressing we will be looking at a new squad in League Two next season. If that happens then for starters if the three players you mention are any good they will not sign for League Two. To me there are no signs at all that he is a better Manager than JB in either his team selection and substitutions or tactics. Christ he brings on defenders when we are two down and signed three light weights. Does he even look at videos of games under Barton. If so he would know that to play Gordon , Houle or Grant in defence is a recipe to disaster. Evans whilst playing well wastes 90 per cent of the free kicks and corners and most of the time Marquis is a headless chicken. If the club had not messed up the JCH deal IMO we would never have been in the mess we are in and also would not have lost AC. Three good players were needed in the transfer window. However to conclude it is no good looking back and we cannot afford to write the current players off completely or they will down tools (and may already have done so) and relegation will become reality. The Manager must change his thinking and change to an attacking ,pressing game of football and not let mediocre teams like Fleetwood and Burton play unopposed from the back. JB is gone and whilst I believe it was a bad decision, poorly timed and with no real knowledge of a replacement it is a decision that has been made and we as supporters must accept that and hope that Taylor can prove to be a good Manager which now the window is Past means getting the players he has playing to their peak.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 10, 2024 17:21:55 GMT
Boring Roady. Perhaps you want us to appoint Lee Johnson with you as his assistant.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 10, 2024 17:16:58 GMT
Does either Taylor or the owners know what they are doing? That is another absolute rubbish performance with a team that changed formation and personnel so many times with no real improvement. Throughout the game the only consistency was playing with one up front. Does it work? I don't think it has ever really worked. We are supposed to be the home side but we play like the away side with a Manager who does not appear to know what he is doing and in two games against two awful sides we have struggled to conjure up decent chances. How long will it take the Manager to work out that Grant is an awful defender and Gordons end product is a waste of time.Taylor has managed to make us even worse and nothing I have seen so far makes me think he is even an average Manager.. oh no I must be wrong because Roady says he is a very good Manager.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 10, 2024 16:14:19 GMT
You dont need to back off Roady because he is so knowledgeable. He comes back and the forum goes to pot. Loves to tell us who he knows ,now we are going to sign three very good players in the summer. We were 5 points off the Play offs when JB was sacked. Mtty Taylor has done very well (not) I hope he succeeds but so far i have watched more tripe than good and a boring style of football. Roady tells us he is a very good Manager-if he fails Roady will go missing again and then Roady will again return again later. We can survive without him returning!
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 9, 2024 19:31:59 GMT
His very name Roadyretrns says a lot. Seems to take every opportunity to criticise JB . As far as I am concerned the signs are that MT will do no better than JB but i very much hope i am totally wrong. I am convonced that JB would have sorted us out in the January window and again finished the season in an improved position on last year.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 7, 2024 16:17:38 GMT
Gasify, Nothing to do with the change of regime.Due i think to results plus the inability to bring in a noteworthy striker ie JCH or similar ilk. Everybody knew that especially after selling Collins at least one striker was minimum requirement. However i am convinced that JB would have brought in another striker. It is far to early to blame the Manager or to say that the change was a poor decision. If a new striker had been brought in to show the owners mean business I have no doubt that the 75% limit would have been reached
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 4, 2024 15:45:23 GMT
Very much of the optimist/pessimist is down to the owners and Manager as well as the players. I still believe that when you look at the squad we now have we are in a reasonably good place and I certainly dont think there is any need for a complete clear out in the summer. Obviously with six loans there are probably going to be the six leaving although evidence of recent times are that at least one of them will come back probably as a permanent even another loan. Of the rest of the squad at least to compare to previous years most if not all of the 18 are capable of playing League 1 football. Personally i would like to see a return to having mostly permanent signings. The lacking at the moment of strikers is to me a very negative point and i think is the reason that many supporters have given up on this season completely. The loss of form in the new year together with the failure to bring in a striker brought about our inability to reach the 75 per cent capacity on the new stand. With a sensible head the Play offs are probably out of reach unless we have a run of astonishing results. A marque signing of a striker would have created a greater belief in the owners but who knows perhaps at least one of the new boys is going to prove a marque signing.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 4, 2024 15:22:38 GMT
i personally feel that the 18000 is the minimum capacity that can be fitted in the ground and am sure that the club are looking sensible at this stage so as not to make too many hostilities with the neighbouring houses. The actual space available is no less than Goodison Park and therefore it certainly is not impossible to have a capacity of 22000-25000 and believe me i think if we were to reach the Championship those attendances would be possible as the availability of more seating and a higher standard of football together with making on the day availability will be more attractive especially to family attendance. Also dont be fooled by the City attendances because there looked to be a lot of empty seats in Ashton Gate on Friday for what was declared a sell out.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 1, 2024 23:59:47 GMT
The reason we have not got a striker is because we expect to sign players for peanuts. How do we expect to succeed when we sell a striker for £750,000 and expect to get a striker in for peanuts. If you want quality then you have to pay for it.I have less faith in this Manager and owner than i had in JB and Wael. the result of this window will be that the home attendances will continue to reduce. A big signing of a striker would have rerignited interest but i shall be happy when we get to 52 points. Unfortunately there is only one team in Bristol interested in moving forward and it is not us.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 1, 2024 22:44:12 GMT
We needed another striker in BEFORE we lost Collins. Now we need two in and unlikely to get any. I am not at all convinced by either the owners or the Manager to make quality signings.They have left it far too late (probably intention al) Am totally losing faith in my team as we seem in a totally disorganised mess since JB went. Why should it be any better in the summer?
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 1, 2024 13:04:46 GMT
Not signing anybody is a recipe to disaster. 10 points off the relegation zone can soon go. People talk about not having a recruitment team but surely Taylor knows players inside out.Certainly Barton did. Everybody who keeps on about wait to the summer- this is Bristol Rovers through and through these days.I wouldnt trust the owners to provide money in the summer and do you really get better value in the summer when every club is looking for players. If the owners were really (and im not sure they were) going to pay 1 million for JCH then surely he must be worth making a much reduced bid now.OK he might be free in the summer but i don't think we have a better time than now to get him. With our injury record this season to lose 7 and bring 1 in is really messing about with the future status of the club. Who is going to want to sign for us in the summer if we are a League 2 ckub?
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 29, 2024 23:35:36 GMT
yet again players going with little sign of incoming players. Our club is a bit of a joke when it comes to transfer windows.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 29, 2024 12:41:25 GMT
I agree Wembley Gas especially as we are so disorganised with transfers. if we let Marquis go this would only leave us with Chris Martin and I have no real confidence in our board to replace in time and with quality. IMO we should be recruiting two strikers if Collins goes but wouldnt be a bit surprised to not see a striker come in. Not sure what has happened to Sinclair because as a squad we seem very short of wingers. I would prefer to see new players come in BEFORE we lose players.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 27, 2024 15:00:23 GMT
Tbone lets see what Ward does before we decide if it is the right decision. I am not confident.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 27, 2024 14:54:25 GMT
Sorry Aaron but that is terrible "not in the position to be available"- so have we told him "we are not in the position to pay him". He is contracted to us and should be available to play until he is transferred.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 26, 2024 19:23:49 GMT
Very few first offers are accepted. There are generally at least 4 involved in any transfer for a player who is under contract. 2 clubs the player and the agent and all are seeking to get the best deal they can.
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