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Post by LJG on Feb 2, 2021 11:51:32 GMT
Not sure what the obsession with signing a striker is. We've scored 12 goals in our last 10 matches. We're currently averaging a goal a game this season. It's not like we can't score. It's pretty obvious the problem is the 35 goals we've shipped at the back. Solving that problem will change our fortunes far more quickly than a new striker. 7 of those goals came against Wimbledon & Plymouth. 6 of those games we didn’t even score in. I don’t actually think a goal a game is a good ratio. A striker wouldn’t have automatically made us better, but it would have given us options to play players in their natural positions and take the ease off of other players. If Hanlan picks up any niggle then were beyond doomed. Sorry, I can't see that scoring more goals is the answer to shipping 1.5 goals per game on average.
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Post by LJG on Feb 2, 2021 8:59:51 GMT
Not sure what the obsession with signing a striker is. We've scored 12 goals in our last 10 matches. We're currently averaging a goal a game this season. It's not like we can't score.
It's pretty obvious the problem is the 35 goals we've shipped at the back. Solving that problem will change our fortunes far more quickly than a new striker.
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Post by LJG on Feb 1, 2021 18:57:29 GMT
Checked your crystal ball before taking to the keyboard? I asked a question. Paul Tisdale is the one who brags about predicting at the start of the season that his own team would be relegated.
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Post by LJG on Feb 1, 2021 16:43:54 GMT
So we can sack him and just pay for a database then? We literally need a subscription to a scouting database?? No.
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Post by LJG on Feb 1, 2021 16:11:41 GMT
I will always remember that transfer deadline day back in Ian Atkins time when we brought the like of John Andersdon, Ali G and Bo H. I remember going to the game after they signed and it was a real buzz at the Mem, I wonder what the atmosphere would be like now even if we could go? To quote Mr Buckle I have lowered my expectations every year since, so now they are non-existent! Bo Henrikson - absolute quality. In my mind he came in under Russell Osman and Kevan Broadhurst.
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Post by LJG on Feb 1, 2021 15:29:14 GMT
So ... according to this thread the guy makes terrible signings but he should have made more of them before the window shut?
If his signings are so bad why are you not all cheering that we haven't brought anyone in?
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Post by LJG on Feb 1, 2021 14:10:05 GMT
It’s not a cheap swipe. The facts and stats are there for all to read. Tisdale has had 12 league games and 3 or 4 cup games to get us ship shape, stronger mentally and on the field and to improve us as a unit. Facts also show that we look worse now than we have ever done. That takes some doing. Yes he inherited a squad that wasn’t his which was unbalanced and lacked various skill sets, but he’s a football manager who’s seen it all and if his management consultant videos are anything to go by, he should have whipped this lot into shape on week 1. We had no new manager bounce and neither have we had any progressive improvement to give us any evidence we are going to stay up. You can't turn mutton into lamb, doesn't matter how good you are. The people to blame are Garner and the board that bought into his ridiculous and inexperienced plan. Cheap swipe blaming Tisdale. Judge him when he's been able to build his own squad.In League Two?
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Post by LJG on Feb 1, 2021 8:58:16 GMT
This place just gets better: - the players need to change - the manager needs to change - the head of recruitment needs to change - the board needs to change - the stadium needs to change - the match day announcer - the song they play after matches needs to change - the pasties need to change - the radio commentators need to change "Proud to be a gashead ... literally everything about the club I support should be different ... Rovers till I die ... once they've sorted out the tannoy". The alternative is revelling in mediocrity. Sorry but I spent most of my teens, twenties and thirties celebrating being a sh** football team in a shithole of a stadium (spending a good wedge on it too) and now I’m in my 40’s I’m not having it any more and will call it out if only because staying silent or happily clapping along is passive acceptance and, crucially, has never resulted in a new stadium or championship football. Sounds like you should just go and "support" a team playing championship football in a new stadium ... you'll feel much better.
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 23:27:59 GMT
This place just gets better:
- the players need to change - the manager needs to change - the head of recruitment needs to change - the board needs to change - the stadium needs to change - the match day announcer - the song they play after matches needs to change - the pasties need to change - the radio commentators need to change
"Proud to be a gashead ... literally everything about the club I support should be different ... Rovers till I die ... once they've sorted out the tannoy".
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 23:12:44 GMT
Don't you normally post that good players not appearing in the squad during the January window is a sure sign they've been sold? No, not when the player in question is clearly out injured? Ah, so if you didn't see the injury happen then you start the rumour?
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 18:30:54 GMT
PT knew what he was working with when he took the job. If he couldn't hack it he shouldn't have applied/accepted the position How could he know the experienced players couldn't do even the basics right? Although if any of us were unemployed would we turn down a decent job offer, posters saying he should walk are just talking nonsense, as nobody walks away from a decent contract in this age. Even if he did walk, or was dismissed, who's available who can do a better job with such a disjointed squad. I think he thought of himself more as self-employed rather than unemployed.
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 18:16:14 GMT
Didn't he disappear with a injury the same time last season 🤔 Suffered a nasty shoulder injury at MK Dons requiring an operation, so what point are you trying to make Don't you normally post that good players not appearing in the squad during the January window is a sure sign they've been sold?
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 12:49:32 GMT
Walks into our current side. Oh how we miss you Tommy Do you think his one league goal per season is the one that might keep us up?
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 12:37:13 GMT
Well he didn't recruit them for when they left us did we? He recruited them to be in that team that was at the top end of the league. Why should he or anyone else at Rovers care where they go next? Spoiler alert- we shouldn't. I think you're directing your criticism in the wrong direction, Will. If the players aren’t good enough who’s fault is that? Not the head of recruitment? In his time here Widdrington has presided over one saleable asset whilst we lost money on the likes of Payne, Bennett and Nichols. I’d be very surprised if the JCH money means we are in net credit vs the poor signings that cost us good money. The only consistency to the players signed under his watch is that for every good one there is one or two poor ones and that’s become even more stark this season. It’s not good enough. Unless of course you disagree and agree with the assertion that this is the best squad since promotion? Look at Accrington, they compete for promotion on their budget. How on Earth is our recruitment acceptable when we can’t compete with Accrington? Accrington are a much better run club than we could ever hope to be judging by relative success since we both got promoted. I wonder if they would give Widdrington a job? I think we're going in circles here, Will. The recruitment was good enough for 4th. He was clearly told to recruit for the future and that's clearly what he's done. Plenty of the squad are good prospects they're just not ready. For me the bottom line is BG was allowed to turn everything on its head for his ideology that hasn't worked and now PT is out of his depth.
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 11:50:20 GMT
We're either saying he has to take responsibility for recruitment or we're not. If the failures are his so are the successes. For every JCH there is a Payne, Reilly, Nichols, Abraham, Jakubiak, Adeboyejo and Ayunga. Just like for every Luis Suarez Liverpool had Iago Aspas and Fabio Borini. What club doesn't? Also, you're trying to blame Widdrington who joined in 2018 for Nichols who joined in 2017? And what was wrong with Jakubiak? Good player who wasn't given a chance for us who proved he could cut it at Gillingham who finished above us in the league. You're trying to blame him for Nichols who joined in 2017?
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 9:27:38 GMT
Are you Wayne who rang Twentyman going mad about Widdrington last week? Didn't Widdrington recruit the players who got us into 4th in December 2019? Didn't Widdrington recruit JCH who we just sold for over a million? Was it actually TW who brought in JCH, of GC? Reading the stories at the time, it sounds like a GC signing tbf. TW most likely did add quality to the squad to get us up to 4th, but he also has to take responsibility for the players now as well and in the past year, it seems evident that he's done a poor job. We're either saying he has to take responsibility for recruitment or we're not. If the failures are his so are the successes.
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Post by LJG on Jan 31, 2021 9:26:08 GMT
Are you Wayne who rang Twentyman going mad about Widdrington last week? Didn't Widdrington recruit the players who got us into 4th in December 2019? Didn't Widdrington recruit JCH who we just sold for over a million? I’ll give him his due for us being in 3rd but the flip side of the coin is you have to ask yourself how many have gone on to better things if they were that talented? How many of them are playing at league one level or higher? Spoiler alert: only JCH. So as a team they surpassed the sum of their parts, as individual signings they obviously weren’t considered league one standard when they left us. Widdrington himself has spoken about GC’s certain type of player and how we were trying to move away from that- in that sense he hasn’t covered himself in glory in picking out players to play a more progressive brand of football. He’s also said that this is the “best squad since promotion”, would you agree with that endorsement? If we want to continue down the path of playing good football with youth as Wael seems to want then Widdrington hasn’t exactly made a case for why he should be the man to scout the recruits (arguably the most important aspect). I mean why on Earth was Ayunga offered to Garner, let alone allowed to sign? Harries too. They all seem to have powder puff attitudes, not a leader amongst them. How could such a criminal error be made by Garner and Widdrington between them? Well he didn't recruit them for when they left us did we? He recruited them to be in that team that was at the top end of the league. Why should he or anyone else at Rovers care where they go next? Spoiler alert- we shouldn't. I think you're directing your criticism in the wrong direction, Will.
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Post by LJG on Jan 30, 2021 23:16:48 GMT
If you want to talk about Sh1!heads go back to OTIB.
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Post by LJG on Jan 30, 2021 23:11:55 GMT
He picks the managers though, just wondering how the DNA is now ! Wael, nice guy though he is, doesn’t seem to be the best at running a football club. He’s in charge of the purse strings though and his main role in so far as the football side of things goes is to bankroll the team- fair enough. As such you’d think he really needs better people that he can entrust to run the football side of the club efficiently and successfully. If Martin Starnes is the best we can do then we might as well accept relegation now. Since Coughlan left every decision seems to have backfired. Can’t pick a manager, can’t spot a player and yet Widdrington gets a promotion! What sort of message does that send out? The whole lot needs an overhaul from the board down to the team. Are you Wayne who rang Twentyman going mad about Widdrington last week? Didn't Widdrington recruit the players who got us into 4th in December 2019? Didn't Widdrington recruit JCH who we just sold for over a million?
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Post by LJG on Jan 30, 2021 23:05:35 GMT
For all the issues we have being a gashead this season it beggars belief to read what those tossers have to say about their current manager/players! Yeah shoot me down for having a nose at their forum but when you read how they feel about their team that's only 3 points off the playoffs it makes my blood boil. They slate their manager and players something rotten and yet their a top 10 championship club now! I think for all the negative things people say on here about our club it's a damn lot less than those inbred twats south of the river so yes feel free to have a dig but I'm proud to be a gashead who sticks by their club through thick and thin unlike our trashy neighbor's How about anyone who wants to en-dumben themselves by reading anything those detritus breathing in-breds have to say goes on their forum to read it for themselves instead of getting a match report on it on here ... a Rovers forum?
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