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Post by socrates on Mar 19, 2023 10:17:51 GMT
Let’s just hope him giving up on another season doesn’t end with another relegation. weird behaviour when he called out a player on Tuesday for not trying. It’s ok for him tho If you think Barton criticising Collins was bad have seen Contes rant yesterday,makes Barton look like an angel. Bottom line is all mgrs do it to a greater or lesser extent,don't why folk get so vexed about it. Personally I find Barton calling out individual players in his post match strange but acceptable if that’s his way fair enough. What I find bizarre and surely damaging is talk of how he wants the season to end now. That honestly has really watered me off. Hopefully the players don’t feel the same and because we are not 100% safe.
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Post by socrates on Mar 19, 2023 9:58:48 GMT
Have you suddenly had enough Percy ? Or have you been in the Barton camp out a while ? Genuine question it’s just that we seem to agree on most things and I’m starting to really go off him myself after his post match comments yesterday particularly about him wanting the season to end now.
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Post by socrates on Mar 19, 2023 9:55:58 GMT
Gordon is a waste of space. He can't tackle, he keeps getting caught out of position and can't kick with his right foot. You were equally scathing in your assessment of Tom Lockyer. Hopefully you’re wrong again and Gordon will also be chasing promotion to the premier league and be picking up international caps in a few years !!! I agree writing off Gordon is crazy , this is his first full season of professional football ffs !
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Post by socrates on Mar 19, 2023 7:07:49 GMT
Barton’s post match interview was as embarrassing as the officials performance today. “I just want the season to be over …. “ - Still hasn’t accepted we aren’t safe yet. … Just don’t know if I still back him - bored with him blaming everyone constantly. Effort error for Joseph Barton. You cant call out a player on Tuesday and then on Saturday say you cant be arsed with the season no matter how watered of he might be Very good point.
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 21:35:06 GMT
What the hells he playing at saying he wants the season to be over ?!! If he really said that then that’s gross negligence with a 5th of the season left. Also As a player that’s the last thing you’d want or expect your manager to say. I don't think the players listen to, or read, Barton in the media. If you see your manager at work every day, would you want to listen to him on the radio and read about him/her in your spare time? Dunno but if that’s his opinion then obviously it will come across in his mentality regardless so therefore it’s irrelevant whether the players watch the post match interview. To be fair we’ve been here before haven’t we ? Ten games left - weren’t going down - Barton writing off the season and we lost pretty much every game. And went down. He’s a very strange man.
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 19:32:37 GMT
It just feels like we’re playing against 12 men (14 if you include the linesmen ) in pretty much every game with Barton as manager. It’s doing my bloody head in. Agree but not sure it’s the Barton effect. I remember referees being a problem under Coughlan too. For some reason they don’t seem to like Bristol Rovers. Wasn’t there today but honestly every game it seems that the first time a foul gets given against us the chant goes up “ sh** ref weve got another sh** ref “ These officials are not professional and I have absolutely no doubt that this chant works against us. Why water the ref off early on ffs. I do think there is a Barton effect too though 100%
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 19:29:14 GMT
Hardly anything new in Barton not engaging brain before gob He sets us up all wrong, that’s the problem. He needs to concentrate on the basics and making us hard to beat rather than chucking on endless forwards in the vain hope we score first and hold on We are by no means safe yet, and our home record is abysmal. Keep your mouth shut Joey and get the work done on the training ground. Are you a good coach or not? Not on recent performances at home. You have some talent in this squad no doubt but throwing players under the bus and blaming everyone else is wearing thin with me UTG I spent the first half of last season pulling my hair out and saying on here every week that he was setting us up wrong and that we had the players to play four at the back not 3 because we had no natural wingbacks and coutts and Finley were perfect to sit in front of a back four with Evans as an attacking midfielder in a 4231 formation. He stumbled upon that formation around Christmas and stuck with it and we won promotion. This season we’ve blatantly looked at our best with the same formation , it’s basically 451 without the ball and 4231 with the ball, the squad has changed a bit yes but we’ve still got the players for it and when we’ve played that way we’ve been decent and picked up results. Footballs a simple game made complicated by coaches is a saying and I think at league 1 level it’s more easily complicated than at the higher levels.
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 19:19:20 GMT
It just feels like we’re playing against 12 men (14 if you include the linesmen ) in pretty much every game with Barton as manager. It’s doing my bloody head in. At times it makes me feel I wish he wasn’t manager which generally goes against how I feel because I think he’s done well. He has done well. Albeit in a strange way. Strange times.
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 18:58:27 GMT
Barton’s post match interview was as embarrassing as the officials performance today. “I just want the season to be over …. “ - Still hasn’t accepted we aren’t safe yet. … Just don’t know if I still back him - bored with him blaming everyone constantly. What the hells he playing at saying he wants the season to be over ?!! If he really said that then that’s gross negligence with a 5th of the season left. Also As a player that’s the last thing you’d want or expect your manager to say.
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 16:39:04 GMT
Should be safe. But we do have a tough run-in....
I said last week we probably need another 3-4 points. I think we’ll get them but until we do we’re not safe.
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 15:29:12 GMT
More shocking officiating. Sounds like we were playing well before the goal too.
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 14:17:15 GMT
Looks like a narrow 433 again. Not keen on this formation at all.
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Post by socrates on Mar 18, 2023 12:39:38 GMT
Subbed on at HT last night and made a huge impact. Felt for the lad as his first prem goal was chalked off for offside though. Amazing second half performance. Should have had a stonewall pen, then a terrific volley which the keeper managed to palm over the bar and his goal should have stood, I cannot believe they chalked it off, it was a brilliant header. Full of running, his positioning and passing was first rate. The kid will play for England no doubt about that. Or Scotland.
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Post by socrates on Mar 17, 2023 0:03:48 GMT
Collins hasn’t been playing well lately but I haven’t seen a lack of effort , things just haven’t been coming off for him. Perhaps making him captain when he’s clearly not captain material has effected his game? Probably. So far I like the majority of what Barton has done here but I’ve got a gut feeling that soon things are going to go tits up. To be honest I’ve always thought that they will and I’ll hold my hands up and say he’s held things together albeit in a rather strange way longer than I thought he would and I’m delighted with that because it means we’ve been reasonably successful but I just think Barton is the kind of character that will never last long in one particular place / job just because of the kind of bizarre character he is. But if he left tomorrow then he’d have been a fairly successful manager by Rovers standards. And probably the strangest one too.
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Post by socrates on Mar 15, 2023 15:00:28 GMT
Seems to me that we’re a better side when we play less forwards not more. 4-5-1 is our best formation which becomes more of a 4231 when we’re attacking. 433 narrow worked v FGreen but they’re crap it doesn’t seem to work against anyone half decent.
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Post by socrates on Mar 14, 2023 21:47:36 GMT
I f*cking hate Wycombe! We should be out of sight! I don’t see how we should have been out of sight tbh. Did their keeper have to make a save all game ? Strange changes at half time , I thought we were playing quite well first half and it was only Bogarde mistake that had cost us. We didn’t seem to have any shape in the second half at all. Barton guilty of going too attacking again, when is he going to learn that going so attacking player heavy doesn’t work against the better sides !
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Post by socrates on Mar 14, 2023 20:39:48 GMT
Poor mistake caught in possession for the goal but other than that I think we’ve been marginally the better side. Got to make sure we keep the ball moving they’re quick to close us down as the goal showed. I don’t like this wing backs formation I don’t think it gets the best out of the players we have available.
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Post by socrates on Mar 14, 2023 20:37:22 GMT
Belshaw also at fault for that goal. Seemed to go straight through him/ beat at near post. Not a League 1 keeper in my view. Smashed past him in a one on one from 8 yards.
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Post by socrates on Mar 12, 2023 13:12:44 GMT
That we take our fair share , we process asylum applications quickly and fairly . We open up processing centres in France ( they’ve offered but we turned them down) . It’s not difficult. The thing is to *some* people ( Farage and his ilk ) , whatever number we take will be too high . Be that 100,000 a year or 10 . They’ll still be up in arms claiming we’re full up or they’re taking our jobs or all the other bullshit lines they trot out . Brexit has made it more difficult. But if we had a competent government it could still be done. We’ve got less control over our borders than before brexit and a bunch of facist clowns running the country.
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Post by socrates on Mar 12, 2023 13:06:52 GMT
Swap the words ‘illegals’ and ‘immigrants’ for the word ‘Jews’ and then read it im not talking about Jews, I’m talking about the illegal immigrants, that have no right to be here. It’s not illegal to seek asylum. Get your facts right.
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