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Post by stapletongas on Aug 4, 2021 11:34:59 GMT
Should scrap squad numbers and make players genuinely “play for the shirt” 1-11. Making earning the shirt and keeping the shirt a big thing.
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 30, 2021 20:44:12 GMT
What a shame the home shirt isn’t the same template but just swapping green for blue and yellow for white.
That would have been a decent home shirt
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 30, 2021 8:56:42 GMT
What’s the matter with 4-4-2 these days?
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 21, 2021 16:45:34 GMT
This will be interesting…
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 21, 2021 6:24:53 GMT
Stapletongas was invented late 90’’s on the old Rivals Forum hosted by Antony Addy. Still the best, chat was decent and you could hop around on the forums of other clubs on the same network. It was great chatting to fans from opposition clubs before and after matches.
Been logged into all forums since. On Gas Guzzler too but never go on there, get the impression they could meet in a phone box!
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 19, 2021 20:09:31 GMT
Moving forward, each club needs to take care of itself.
Question is will our club issue the kind of “we don’t want you” statement Kane came out with re England or Klopp re Liverpool?
I hope so, blunt and straight to the point.
Are we the fans prepared to do our bit in and around the ground and take the pride in making the Mem a respectful place watch football? Which I would swiftly add by and large it is.
The club need to work with the fans, the fans need to work with the club. A reporting system needs to be put in place.
Like many initiatives in football clubs, the fans tend to own it more when it’s there initiative.
Time to be brave.
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 16, 2021 20:06:39 GMT
Well provided the latest incubents that have to wear aren’t also a shocker and get us promoted then for all I care they can wear bin liners. Won’t be buying, I mean, where do you start? The club should consult the fans next time Tg: “What would you like next season?” supporter: “I’d like it to be a bit like a retro kit, maybe 99/00 or a season we got promoted in. I don’t want a solid blue back, I want proper quarters. I don’t want the sponsor too far down because I like to tuck my shirt in. For gods sake, no red on the shirt like in 13/14. Oh and can you mix it up a little as I’m bored of it just being blue and white quarters.” tg: “Ta da” supporters : “don’t like it” At least don’t come up with something that hardly ticks any boxes. It’s crap!
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 16, 2021 16:40:14 GMT
Well provided the latest incubents that have to wear aren’t also a shocker and get us promoted then for all I care they can wear bin liners.
Won’t be buying, I mean, where do you start?
The club should consult the fans next time
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 8, 2021 17:49:07 GMT
How about waiting until the Euro's are over before starting this thread? Regardless it's not like Southgate has a squad of world class players at his disposal, particularly with Kane off form and Stirling also not in the best of form and Henderson unlikely to be match fit. Because I can see we are going to limp out of the tournament. I thought Southgate said he would play players in form? This gets better and better 👍
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 8, 2021 6:51:32 GMT
There’s no excuse for this behaviour towards any Country.
Booing national anthems is an embarrassment and we should be striving for a reputation as a respectful nation, which of course many people are in the UK. It’s a minority as always that drag us down.
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Post by stapletongas on Jul 7, 2021 12:30:07 GMT
A fit and confident Hanlan with decent support and service that all good strikers need, will be too much for a lot of League 2 defences to handle. Let's hope that pans out.
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 28, 2021 13:42:52 GMT
do you have personal experience of this or do you know somebody it who had this happen to them ? Sounds very undemocratic and maybe against there own club rules an regulations I was the one it happened to and It was against their own constitution too according to John Malyckyj. But you’re coming up against people who tried to embezzle the owner on a false accusation of child safeguarding such is their desperation for some kind of control so perhaps I’m better off out of that and I’ll bid whomever takes it on the very best of luck because they will need it. If the SC are alleged to be acting unconstitutionally, stand as candidate for Chair.
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 27, 2021 9:40:53 GMT
Thank god for that. Look forward to playing against 10 men Stevenage team You do love talking about him ❤️
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 25, 2021 12:36:33 GMT
Always worries me when new players talk of excitement as if it’s the biggest club they’ve played for. I’d rather they didn’t because they’ve been elsewhere at similar or bigger clubs. Kind of indicates a more experienced player.
Still, welcome to the club, I hope you prove yourself.
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 24, 2021 19:54:32 GMT
So I realise as a bit of a newbie on this forum that I might be opening myself to accusations ‘of not being one of us’ etc ect, but please hear me out as I just want to depart my tuppence on the ownership situation. When Wael arrived we were all but a league one club. Not having any argument that he took us up in 2016 because he didn’t. That was DC and Higgs’s success and he made a point of very publicly glorying in it. Fair enough I suppose. We now find ourselves a league two club so he’s taken us back a division as far as league position entails. Devolution not evolution then. Stadium? No progress. However more alarming for me is the way it appears Wael is easily led. Feels like he bought too much into the Garner project, we got punished. Influenced too much by Widdrington and Starnes to appoint Tisdale, didn’t go well. Now we’ve allowed the next manager to have control to appoint members to the board, fire entire departments, bring a whole host of figures including Jennings who I’ve heard is next. Who let’s a new manager wield that kind of power? Like Joey and want him to do well, but if the high bar he’s set himself this season isn’t reached which lets be fair is a possibility considering our struggles in L2 in the past, it’ll all end up with tears. You may think its benevolent that Wael appears to be handling the debt situation but asked yourselves why did we rack up that amount of debt just to achieve 0 footballing success, no progress off the field and ultimately relegation in the first place? Even the beloved training ground is having issues, with planning having to be amended halfway through construction after the architects found that the building would not be fit for purpose for a football club. The result? A smallish building designed in the 1990s with a comically lack of windows, a small dingy shed for the gym, a couple of nice pitches and nothing much else. Will they be in for the start of next season? I encourage people to look at the training facilities of Oxford or Fleetwood, or MK Dons, to see how much of a downgrade this is to equivalent football clubs. Rovers fans lap it up due to the lack of progress thats ever been made off the field which is fair enough, but this development has not yet levelled the playing field to other modern football clubs around us, not by a long stretch. Then lets analyse his management of managers shall we? 3 managers have left with clouds over their heads amid rumours of friction with the board in GC, DC and PT. Does that smack of good management to you? The other manager BG got sacked after an atrocious record and the current manager JB, although I’m willing to give him time, has a pretty abysmal record too. Then there’s been fallings out with Ken Masters, fallings out with Steve Hamer, poor treatment of Mansell, embarrassing spat with the supporters club. Not exactly great headlines to accrue. I’m concerned about our future, genuinely concerned. It’s hard to say that but as the football club is close to my heart I’ve just got to speak out and say it. I’m concerned that Wael is rapidly running out funds and has bitten off more than he can chew, I’m concerned about the power we’ve randomly let one manager wield over the club, I’m concerned that an aging fan base and a run down stadium means trouble down the line too. So let me ask you this, say an alternative group of investors came forward, they had funds, reputable contacts in the game, genuine plans for improving the football club. Would this be a ripe opportunity for Wael to step aside? The man has the club at heart as he professes and I’ve not got many bad things to say about the man as a person, so I sincerely hope he considerers his future at the club long term and if the offer is right, steps a side and becomes one of us, a fan. Utter sh**e! He’s kept us in existence.
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 24, 2021 15:41:55 GMT
Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw up front with Gordon Jackson supporting. That would be a professional line up. (I've already got my coat and am heading out the door) Driving sponsored Capri’s !!! No it was definitely an Almera 😉
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 24, 2021 13:01:54 GMT
The days of Mike Bassett “we play 4-4 f’ing 2” type England managers is long gone. The England senior team head coach is appointed to fit in to the whole England DNA strategy as are all coaches at all age levels, men’s game and women’s game. Gareth Southgate was pretty much the first in. The England DNA is partly about breeding not only international footballers but also coaches for international football, recognising that international football is different as are skill sets. Education is a good thing before criticising the professionals in the game www.thefa.com/news/2014/dec/04/england-dna-launchThis is all well and good but it's all academic talk. It's the sort of thing we would have used to back Ben Garner's appointment. Listen, I don't think Southgate has done a bad job, far from it. Better than I thought when he took over to be honest. I'm just not sure he can take us to that next level of winning something. We have a great chance with the way the draw has panned out and I'm prepared to back Southgate and see where we end up. Best of luck to him and the team and excited for the game on Tuesday. Maybe this is one to park up and discuss at another point. Well make your mind up, you started this thread and you did it saying it was time for him to move on!
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 24, 2021 12:54:10 GMT
Why do we never the first game of the season at home? I know the second week often clashes with the balloon fiesta at Ashton Court so City can't be at home that second week, but there is no balloon fiesta this year!
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 24, 2021 11:43:19 GMT
The days of Mike Bassett “we play 4-4 f’ing 2” type England managers is long gone. The England senior team head coach is appointed to fit in to the whole England DNA strategy as are all coaches at all age levels, men’s game and women’s game. Gareth Southgate was pretty much the first in. The England DNA is partly about breeding not only international footballers but also coaches for international football, recognising that international football is different as are skill sets. Education is a good thing before criticising the professionals in the game www.thefa.com/news/2014/dec/04/england-dna-launchA good job the FA got rid of Aidy Boothroyd before he had a chance to follow the DNA path in to the full England Head Coach role. And it does make you wonder who does follow Southgate at whatever point down the road if the DNA strategy is also about developing head coaches for international football? Taking a big name from club football may not follow the strategy. Could we see someone who has come through the age groups with the players who is not a particularly big name in world club football?
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Post by stapletongas on Jun 24, 2021 10:47:39 GMT
My own opinion of course, but I dont think it matters if its Southgate or any other English Manager. The problem lies squarely at the door of the English FA and has done for years. We haven't produced a World Class Manager or Player since well forever (Robson, Gazza I guess). No one springs to mind like a Messi, Ronaldo, or Pep. Sack the FA not the manager, Bellingham, Sancho, Trippier all seem to have benefited from a different FA process, idea and strategy. Our lot just clueless. Terrible Academy syllabus, shocking Manager training process with badges and cost. Unbelievable decision's such as ditching the Futsal program after just a couple of years, Zero interest and regard for Grass roots or young players ability to play on proper readily available pitches, the list just goes on and on. It wont be until 2166 before we stand a chance again of Silverware, the way that its continuing to go. English FA fully accountable for the state of the English game. If the England DNA was launched in 2014, it's only in the last couple of years that some players who are products of that strategy are starting to make the senior squad, but none will yet be in their prime. This is though a very young England squad and i would expect the real test of the DNA strategy to emerge in the next 2 WC's or Euro's. What has to be understood by everyone knocking Gareth Southgate though is that this England DNA strategy is much bigger and wider than Gareth and if it wasn't him in position then it would be someone else working exactly the same mandate for structure, strategy etc etc. Fans of our national game need to get their heads around the whole concept when criticising the team's performance.
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