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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 10, 2015 17:39:51 GMT
Gutted our game with Braintree will have to be postponed. ANOTHER weekend without football in a fortnight's time. The scheduling for the FA Trophy is a joke. Hardly when it's non league's own FA Cup, the joke is that we're in non league whilst averaging 6K gates in the first place. At no point have I said it isn't the non-league FA Cup Topper. Have you seen the schedule? It's a joke how they start the competition (first round proper) in December and squeeze loads of rounds in together just a couple of weeks apart up until the final. From a supporters' perspective (across the board in the Conference), the Trophy is a nothing competition - as the attendances show - and yet it has to take priority ahead of league games, which is disappointing.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 10, 2015 16:54:10 GMT
Gutted our game with Braintree will have to be postponed. ANOTHER weekend without football in a fortnight's time.
The scheduling for the FA Trophy is a joke.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 10, 2015 10:42:45 GMT
Excellent news, cheers DD. Sky Sports journos reported similar last night so it looks increasingly likely that you are going to be proven absolutely spot on.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 9, 2015 18:23:12 GMT
Thoroughly deserved. DC has been superb for Rovers and our form in December was very good.
Well done to the team and everyone involved.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 8, 2015 21:34:08 GMT
I don't want Rovers to loan LDV. I want us to offer 50k to sign him on. Not a hope in hell they'd sell him for £50k Nobby! He's a talented youngster - they're either going to want to keep him long-term to see how he develops or demand a much bigger fee I'd imagine.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 8, 2015 14:12:29 GMT
I don't think it will be, but I'd be disappointed with Rendell. He scored a few for Woking early in the season but since they've been jittering over the last month or so he's done nothing.
Besides, even if he can score a few at this level, isn't the plan to sign players who can step up with the club to play in League Two? Rendell, whom we had on loan in the division above, did not look like a goalscorer (albeit we didn't really attack too much back then) and offered very little. He worked hard, without a doubt, and put himself about a bit but he isn't a finisher and I don't believe he is as good or better than what we currently have.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 7, 2015 12:24:47 GMT
I have absolutely no doubt that DC was interested in signing Tubbs and made an offer to bring him here. We've seemingly been pipped to the post by Pompey late on but that's the way it goes in football sometimes.
A fair few people were saying they'd heard it was a 'done deal' and are now going back on their word by making excuses that simply do not ring true. Norton, I'm afraid you're losing any credibility you had by spreading further rumours that are clearly false.
Most people who say they have sources actually just pick up their rumours from Twitter or elsewhere online... shock horror!... and pass it off as being something they've been told.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 6, 2015 22:31:22 GMT
in fairness to him hes picked up 2 injuries which has restricted his chances here Can only judge what I see. Which was an overweight footballer when he joined us and someone who didn't give his all to chase the ball down in his previous game. Didn't interpret it as a bad attitude myself GGMI, I thought it was purely down to the fact he has never quite been fully fit and thus wanted to conserve energy. Angelo has disappointed so far; admittedly he could do nothing about his torrid luck with injuries but upon his recent return he didn't set the world alight on the flanks when I thought he would do. Very rarely did he get the ball down and run with it, which is what I thought his game is all about. I am more than happy to trust DC on this and if AB gets some game time in the coming weeks then I hope he can show us what he's all about.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 6, 2015 20:06:47 GMT
LDV is the game changer we currently lack. He is pacey, direct, tricky and makes things happen and I have no doubt Darrell would absolutely love to take him back on loan.
Unfortunately he played well enough for us previously to attract admiring glances from other clubs and that makes it difficult for us to re-sign him. I'm hoping Fulham will leave the decision in LDV's hands once he's fully fit because I think he'd jump at the chance to return to a team that are doing well and playing for fans that appreciate him.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 6, 2015 12:06:36 GMT
Wimbledon have already confirmed they've offered him a huge (in relative terms) contract to remain with them and Portsmouth have openly admitted their interest in signing him. All over social media the speculation is that he is set to join them in the next 24 hours, so it isn't like the EP have plucked this out the air. McNamara isn't trying to put the kibosh on anything - he's just saying it as it is.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 3, 2015 18:58:58 GMT
I won't pretend to know the ins and outs, because I have no idea what some of the senior players in. DC did, however, tell me during the summer the likes of Taylor and Sinclair were on between £500-£750 per week.
When you think about it, that seems like absolutely tremendous business. I like DC's new way of doing things.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 3, 2015 13:17:49 GMT
Would love for that to be right Norton but AFCW play Liverpool on Monday night so it isn't likely. Tuesday/Wednesday, maybe?
Fingers crossed.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 2, 2015 18:11:24 GMT
The standard of loanee up to Christmas may not have been great on the most part but that was always likely as nobody knew how Rovers would fare in this division. A better quality of player may have seen a loan move to Rovers as too much of a gamble a few months back, thus we had to go for Martin, Cunnington, Wall etc.
Now we sit in second, people will see we are genuine contenders. We are a much better proposition for players now because they have a chance of bringing the extra bit of something we need to go for promotion. Anyone who plays a significant part will be very popular amongst Rovers supporters and will, hopefully, have a promotion on their CV. It could swing deals in our favour.
Fingers crossed for a successful transfer window because it could be absolutely vital.
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Post by UpTheGas on Jan 2, 2015 13:13:26 GMT
I like how his only response is 'mind the gap', because he knows full well that Barnet are a non-league yo-yo club with very few supporters and a manager that likes to jump ship whenever an offer comes his way.
No doubt it will be tough for Rovers to catch The Bees but it is still all to play for. With such poor attendances I can't see Barnet being able to strengthen too much so if we are able to get the two or three players in that we need to step it up a gear then we have a chance.
Nothing has been won yet, son.
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Post by UpTheGas on Dec 29, 2014 23:42:20 GMT
I have never rated Brown at all when others have done and for that reason I wouldn't have him back in even when he is fit - not yet anyway. We haven't exactly done badly without him so I wouldn't unfairly drop Leadbitter or Lockyer to accommodate his return. He is a very nice bloke and 100% committed to the cause but I don't see what the fuss is all about to be honest.
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Post by UpTheGas on Dec 29, 2014 19:08:43 GMT
I really, really, really don't want to see us go down the route of paying vast sums of money on wages for a player like we have up until this season. It has condemned us to failure before and after all DC's hard work in the summer to build a squad capable of promotion without handing out silly contracts, we shouldn't ruin it by going gung-ho on one player.
However, Matt Tubbs is a goalscorer at this level and the one above and those types of player are not easy to find and sign. We are told Tubbs is good friends with DC, has lived/played locally before and is after a permanent contract somewhere and if that puts us in a position where a deal can be agreed that suits BRFC, MT and Bournemouth then we are on to a winner in my opinion. Signing a striker isn't as essential as it was a couple of months ago but Tubbs could well be the difference between play-offs and automatic promotion.
A 2 year deal (edit: 18 months) on fair wages would be suitable because if we do go up we will have a proven League Two scorer already in our ranks. Then with Blissett and Matty Taylor we have two other strikers who are only going to get better and better and that would give us a very good strike force that would need little improvement in the summer.
Of course, it's all speculation at this point but the rumour refuses to go away and I do now wonder whether there is something in it. Roll on January.
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Post by UpTheGas on Dec 29, 2014 16:10:46 GMT
A mid-season team bonding trip to sunnier climes is absolute pie in the sky stuff! Maybe if we were owned by a multi-billionaire or something, but not when we are in the Conference.
The lads have done superbly well so far this season and the last few performances have been top drawer but they haven't achieved anything yet. Let's keep them grounded and fully concentrated on the job they are so admirably tackling right now.
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Post by UpTheGas on Dec 24, 2014 16:41:27 GMT
I have been to every away game and I have lost count of how many more times we should have won. In the draws we did more than enough to win most of them (Welling, Chester, Forest Green) but just couldn't squeeze a winning goal - which is obviously the story of our season. At Welling we just needed one goal to go in but met a goalie in fine form, at Chester we scored twice but our usually reliable defence let us down and at FGR we dominated the game but just couldn't force a second goal.
There is no doubt we need to be more ruthless and take our chances but we've also not had much luck in front of goal either. I'm sure that things will click into gear for us once Bliss and Taylor get more game-time together - fingers crossed our away form improves as a result.
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Post by UpTheGas on Dec 21, 2014 11:47:42 GMT
In regards to the OP, I remember that game vividly.
We were in complete control of the game and midway through the second half we carved through their defence like a knife through butter. Danny Senda was one-on-one with the goalkeeper 18 yards out and he rightly opened his body up to slide the ball home, but inexplicably he got his foot underneath the ball (slightly bobble if we're being generous?) and the ball sailed over the crossbar.
I was on my knees, I couldn't believe it. If we'd gone 2-0 up I have no doubt we'd have won the game and that could have been the catalyst to keep us up in League One. The horrible thing about it was that Senda was a very decent player and he loved playing for us so for him to be the one to spurn the chance was disappointing.
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Post by UpTheGas on Dec 20, 2014 12:57:26 GMT
In terms of his all-round play, Ollie Clarke offers very little and is prone to making too many mistakes (a la Gateshead's second), but there's no denying he has scored some crucial goals so far this season and they have tended to be absolute beauties. His goal yesterday was a terrific strike.
I think those few minutes around the hour mark summed him up. Scored a good goal but then dallies on the ball too long, trips over and gifts Gateshead a counter attack inside our own half which they go and score from.
I would never have him ahead of Mansell or Sinclair in the team but he did a decent job yesterday as DC changed the shape and fair play to him for that. It was a great second half performance and sums up what this group of players is all about.
Well done Gas.
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