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Post by stevek192 on Jan 26, 2024 19:07:40 GMT
Anybody who saw that ridiculous tackle on Rossiter by a dirty MK Dons side would know that it was typical of a Mickey Mouse Cup game where the referee allows ridiculous and dangerous tackles to go unpunished because it is "only a Mickey Mouse Cup game." There were lots of bad tackles that night by MK Dons players and it could have been any player but it was Rossiter. Unfortunately football is a high risk game but in my opinion it is usually the best players who receive the worst tackles. I am sure he would love to be turning out every week if he could.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 24, 2024 12:44:25 GMT
I actually thought that Javani Brown was our best player when he came on. Always looking to move the ball FORWARD which certainly couldnt be said for Luke Thomas last night. I actually think it would be worth building the midfield around Brown even going to an old 4-4-2 with Collins and Martin up front and the midfield pushing up and stopping the opposition from coming forward instead of the present where you have one player expected to run around like a demented chicken whilst everyone else is back in our half. Taylor to me does not seem prepared to change but if he doesnt i fear we are going to find ourselves filling one of the bottom four places come May.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 23, 2024 22:18:43 GMT
Dont believe the owners are providing funds and I wont believe it until i see these players come in. JCH IMO was just a show and they had no intention of paying for him.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 23, 2024 22:16:07 GMT
Sorry but these owners havent a clue about football. We will be lucky to stay up playing like we are.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 23, 2024 22:10:02 GMT
So a lot of fans wanted a Manager who talks posh and sensibly but give me Barton any time. We could still end up in a relegation fight with the dross we are dishing up. How many times did Connelly and Crama pass the ball straight to an opposition player. Even Luke Thomas is passing backwards more than forward Headless chickens come to mind and the quicker we start playing attacking football the better. Exeter were awful but we were worse. Havent seen many occasions this season where a goal been disallowed for somebody in an offside position but didnt touch the ball but in truth we didnt deserve a point.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 23, 2024 20:46:13 GMT
The owners have a lot to answer for. This is some of the worse football this season and we are showing no signs whatsoever of a revival. Taylor IMO doesnt have a clue what to do and at the moment we will have a relegation fight on our hands if nothing improves. We are playing like headless chickens and nobody has performed with any sort of form. There is only one thing worse than this performance and that is the commentators. Keith droning on and this idiot with him has no passion whatsoever. At least the female commentator shows a bit of passion ,these two clowns together are terrible.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 21, 2024 10:23:18 GMT
I agree with Toppergas but you certainly dont take out the one man who knows where the net is!! Which would you prefer- a headless chicken who chases everyone around but rarely scores or a striker who is a class finisher? I know which i would have . The problem as I see it is MT and JB as well like the one up front probably to compensate for defenders who have an error in them,You could play Martin up top on the last man and have maybe Brown and Collins pushing up to pressurise. I think the statistics from yesterdays match were 15 crosses from which only one went to our player. This means either Thomas and Vale cant cross a ball or we dont get enough players in the box quick enough- i think it is a bit of both.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 21, 2024 10:12:08 GMT
What a stupid post this is-unbelievable that any supporter would want to take out the one bloke who actually knows where the net is. The secret is not to take him out but to ensure he gets more chances!! To say you dont want him defending corners- i lay odds he too would prefer NOT to defend corners but to stay up front and in the same way he would prefer to push the last man and pressurise him but on your own you cant do that-you need your other forward players to cut off the out lets. This is not Chris Martins fault- this is how the Manager asks him and the team to play. For some reason -which i fail to understand both JB and MT want everybody back for corners and free kicks and neither manager seem to want to play two up front together.Somebody tell me why you need Aaron Collins defending a corner when he cant really head a ball? Personally I would play Martin and Collins together and press the defenders.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 20, 2024 23:45:28 GMT
Somersetgas, it doesnt matter who you have up front if nobody else is playing the pressure game. MT obviously wants to play the game with no pressure on the opponents back four but stopping the opposition going too far. It obviously isnt working and its the same lack of organisation when we have corners. I would say the opposition score more goals following our corners than we score from them!
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 20, 2024 18:44:40 GMT
martin will easily be ok for this division next year.He is a class act and getting fitter each week. He has never had pace so that has never been his game so he good well go on at a good level similar to Milner. We have too many young players already and need a good mixture. Todays game was a big disappointment but really shows our lack of players in certain positions. There is no point giving up on the season now because that is a route towards relegation.Our target should be too fin ish top ten and for that we need three or four signings.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 19, 2024 19:14:32 GMT
How many more times do we have to start again? I was finely thinking that with JB we had a Manager who will improve us each season. I am sure that with a few signings in january he would have given us a chance of the Play offs. Now we are out of both cups we had left and so say too far behind to get a Play off place. What a waste of a season where if the owners showed a bit of ambition we could catch up that gap by bringing in the right players.i have the feeling we will waste these next three home games through not bringing players in yet. Hope i am totally wrong.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 18, 2024 14:09:39 GMT
It always seems that we wait until the final days of a transfer window but IMO we should be trying really hard to sign players now with three home games to come. As a club we have never seemed to be off the mark quick in windows and allow far too many games to pass before making a signing. It is clear at the moment that we need two or three players urgently. What better timing to show you mean business with three home games which will all probably sell out.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 15, 2024 22:16:53 GMT
The fact is that all the better young players are being picked up by City and will continue to be irrespective of what teams we have. We hardly have the Backroom staff to run the teams we do have! Best to save the cost and continue the present trend of signing players from other clubs. Any decent players we might get through development teams are lost to higher clubs before they get anywhere near our first team.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 15, 2024 21:56:15 GMT
bambergashead, That is rubbish. JB was still accountable to the owner (wael) who was paying the money. Due to the new owner we now appear to be heading back to the tinpot days which will be a great shame as I think Matt Taylor is a good Manager but needs some financial backing to replace the players we have lost and the backroom staff.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 15, 2024 11:31:30 GMT
strads1983, So you let go the only player in our squad who knows where the net is? At the moment Chris Martin is the only striker worth keeping even if we bring another striker in and it seems unlikely that we will get a striker in on similar form to CM because that will cost £600,000 plus and why shouldnt it when you consider that our record transfer fee of £350,000 was back in 1989!! When the owners said it is possible for Bristol Rovers to reach the Premiership do they realise that to do that we would need to be spending in excess of 2m for players of even Championship quality. The only way of us getting Championship players is to sign players with a poor injury record and look where that has got us. I would suggest that the owners son is totally out of his depth!!
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 15, 2024 11:16:13 GMT
The only signs i get at the moment are a club in run down. The new owners have done nothing yet to justify themselves. They sacked JB with no idea who was going to replace him or his staff whom it was no surprise that most went. The window at the moment is a one way journey and my hopes for this season which were high are now just on getting to 50 points and another season. As regards JCH the truth is that if we want a top striker on form then we will have to pay in excess of £600,000 whoever we go for and IMO as our record signing dates back to 1989 at £350,000 is it any real surprise that in 2024 you need to play double that to get a proven goalscorer. We are nowhere near ready for the Championship where to get the sort of quality needed you need to be paying over 2m for a player. Since the new owners came in we seem to be heading back to the tinpot days!
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 15, 2024 11:02:58 GMT
At some stage in this window we have to turn the tide as if we lose many more we will be struggling to field a squad. Six out and none in is ridiculous when we are so short of defenders,midfielders and another goalscorer. We have too many players under no pressure for their place whatsoever such as Harvey Vale who stays on the pitch despite being unable to finish his dinner-his final ball be it shot or cross being mostly terrible. I have at this point in time no faith whatsoever in the new owners. Time will tell.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 15, 2024 10:47:34 GMT
Gasify, I think you are being a bit too much the other way with your post against us. No way on Saturday was there a gulf between the two sides. All home teams except us probably tend to start on the front foot and that was the case Saturday however that balanced out after 20 minutes and what was 70% possession for Barnsley ended up pretty well 50% by the end of the game with us having six or 7 clear opportunities. Even the home commentators were praising us for the way we played! We were the better side by a mile and had we scored one of the numerous good chances we had I am sure we would have gone on to win by 2 or 3.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 15, 2024 10:40:19 GMT
Burton beat us 4-1. If you watched that game we were the better side right up until woods got sent off then we succumbed to 2 late goals when going for it with 10 men. Weren't battered by the much better side at all we had more shots and possession. Cambridge we lost 2-0 and came up against our old nemesis the low block sides we just couldn't at the time break down. We had more possession. We weren't battered off the park by a far superior team at all. Wycombe we lost 3-2 and we were woeful after a heavy period of fixtures. We weren't battered off the park by a far superior team at all and we should of got a point if jevani brown had put away the easy chance at the end. I'm still waiting to be told a team we have played this season who have absolutely battered us and we have walked away feeling fair play there a great side. Reason. There isn't one. It's an awful league this year. Wycombe bullied us off the park up until they went down to 10. You can't say that our result at Burton was impacted by a sending off and then in the same sentence not recognise that the reason we nearly got a draw against Wycombe was that they went down to 10. I thought the first 15 to 20 mins on Saturday, Barnsley showed the size of the gulf between the two squads then they backed off a little. Controversially, I thought we rode our luck to get the win at Bolton.
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Post by stevek192 on Jan 14, 2024 20:11:52 GMT
Those who have played in goal i would be very interested how good you were to think Cox should save that. The ball came from the other side and was passed across leaving their winger clear to shoot. I played hundreds of games in goal and no way whatsoever was he going to get in a position to save that shot. in fact he has let in very few goals that you could blame him for. To those who think otherwise try watching a few other games and see how many keepers manage to save shots from a similar position and being passed across from left to right.
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