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Post by kylegas on Jul 27, 2023 16:16:55 GMT
What position does he play? Seems like he’s a midfielder based off of pre season. Unless he’s a defensive midfielder I’m not sure we really need him 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by kylegas on Jul 27, 2023 14:31:20 GMT
Anyone else starting to think that we’ve let Teo move on? What position does he play?
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Post by kylegas on Jul 27, 2023 14:05:55 GMT
Apparently the same poster also said the same about May being "close" when Gills never even met Cheltenham's valuation? Unless JB is desperate to cut the playing budget then why would we loan him out and so still have to contribute towards his wages? it may be out of the clubs hands and that he wants to move back closer to home ? Would we be playing him in friendlies if he had a foot out the door tho 🤔
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Post by kylegas on Jul 26, 2023 22:54:31 GMT
Rich? Richard? Is that you? Promotion thread - time to bump the ground breaking poll. 😂 Quite curious to see how other rate our chances at the moment 🤔 1 or 2 good signings could sway opinions massively still tho
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Ward
Jul 13, 2023 14:19:07 GMT
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Post by kylegas on Jul 13, 2023 14:19:07 GMT
Is Grant Ward injured? Don't seem to have been mentioned much pre season. Apologies for putting a football related theme on a football forum. This seems to be quite rare recently. As long as it’s just niggles I’m never bothered, as long as it’s not the same serious problem reoccurring, after weeks of no football I expect a fair few minor injuries here and there
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Barton
Jul 13, 2023 0:16:43 GMT
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Post by kylegas on Jul 13, 2023 0:16:43 GMT
Started listening and … I was interested in what was being said. Doesn’t mean I agree with it though, nor even the interviewer with Andrew Tate. I only got a minute and a half in before getting bored as I don’t have the hour and a half to listen to this. The theme was young lads are struggling to find motivation. Which by any metric seems to be true. I understand Andrew Tate is controversial for misogynistic statements. However not personally seen any evidence for this and to be fair I’m not interested in seeing it. What I will say though is it is possible to explore peoples ideas without encouraging or agreeing with them. And that a broken clock is right twice a day! Even if it’s wrong for the rest of the day. Seems to me we need to encourage critical thinking and taking each argument as it comes. This way is the only way to truly suppress extreme thoughts. On a side note, the thing with Joey on social media is he reposts what can only be described as sh** trying to come across as intellectual but it fails. From what I understand, the best way to train a dog is to praise the good rather than punish the bad, maybe the same can apply with people? Lol in all seriousness though very good post
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Post by kylegas on Jul 12, 2023 22:26:07 GMT
I wouldn't be surprised if he moves on this summer as you do wonder how much game time he'll get again this season now we've signed LT. He can play in deeper positions tho which Thomas doesn’t so his arrival won’t necessarily effect Luke’s game time? I think we’ve all seen LM perform much better than what he served up last season, I really don’t understand what was up with him but I for one have seen him play much better than that in previous seasons, surely people can agree on that?
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Post by kylegas on Jul 12, 2023 22:20:08 GMT
So as 'not having a pre season' was used as an excuse for McCormick's poor form last season, does this mean the same will apply to Rossiter. I am no expert but i'd have thought you can catch up pretty quick during the season Rossiter didn’t actually have a pre season last year when we signed him did he? he caught up very quickly which really impressed me, I guess it’s not the same for every person tho of course
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Barton
Jul 12, 2023 22:12:47 GMT
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Post by kylegas on Jul 12, 2023 22:12:47 GMT
Not quite sure of your point but I would say. Mr Barton is the face of the club, and I get annoyed with some of his comments that eventually make the press. He is reported as Joe Barton Manager of Bristol Rovers, this alone leads to people asking me about stuff as they know I support Rovers. I therefore think that people have consequences when posting on social media, and those consequences will be greater the higher profile one has. I am not sure what planet some people are on. The guy is a football coach at Bristol Rovers - he is not the Pope or some moral crusader whose very voice influences many young minds. He doesnt ask people to follow him or obey his every word - You could even argue that the negativity that generally surrounds him in the media would put people off listening to him. He is absolutely entitled to a private life and to his own opinions. Why shouldn't he flag articles or debates that he may find interesting - he is not alone as over 768, 000 people have watched that clip, 147 have shared it and 205 even liked it - are you trying to tell me that they should be rebuked depending upon who they are and what their job is? The irony is that he hasn't says he agrees with anything only that he finds it interesting and you know what he was right to say that . if more people took the time to understand the views of people they may not agree with then perhaps there would be more compromise and less confrontation Actually a great point in my opinion, even disagreeing with someone’s opinion is taking an interest in the point they’re making, and thinking something is worth debating isn’t necessarily agreeing with it either, it doesn’t look like Joey has posted anything that’s worth losing your head over
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Barton
Jul 12, 2023 21:39:17 GMT
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Post by kylegas on Jul 12, 2023 21:39:17 GMT
Is there a link to what has been tweeted? I’ve not gon through the whole thread
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Post by kylegas on Jul 10, 2023 18:20:02 GMT
Are people expecting us to sign a left back?
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Post by kylegas on Jul 9, 2023 6:39:35 GMT
I’ve sat on this information a long time now but I think it’s become quite relevant, my former security company had the contract for Pam Pam night club between 2015 and 2019, most of the rovers players frequented the club on a regular basis ( where I also took a hands on roll as head doorman) as soon as JCH signed for the gas he came with his girlfriend every weekend and hired a private both, never bothered anybody I might add. one night a drunk woman decided to join his table and refuse to move, JCH stepped towards her and without touching her received a punch in the mouth splitting his lips and causing fairly significant blood flow down his face, he pushed the woman to the floor fairly hard at which point she screamed assault 🙄 after viewing the cctv I personally found Johnson’s actions to be justified, the woman then attacked his girlfriend at which point he launched her away again causing her to fall. My team administered first aid to Jonson whilst the woman was completely unharmed and therefor removed from the venue for violent behaviour. As I stated, in my experience I felt the action taken by Jonson in this situation was justified. But with such a wide range of opinion shown on a matter such as the brown case I am curious to see how people will judge this situation Since he’s not our player anymore I no longer feel the need to hush anymore lol Pushing someone away from your personal space which has been invaded, especially if you have been assaulted is a perfectly acceptable form of self defence as is getting between two people and pushing them away/apart to break up an incident which seems to be the case you mention. What isn’t acceptable is lashing out with intent to harm especially if it’s a blindsided attack or unnecessary hit, which in the case of Brown has proven to be. Of course we have no evidence from what you say to be able to judge thoroughly but it seems to be JCH was reasonable in his actions. All I will say about the brown case is that if it purely was a case of 6 of one and half a dozen of another, the police would have dealt with it most likely under section 5 public order and no more would have been said or made of it. The fact it’s been tested at CPS level and they have deemed it to be 1) a serious enough of offence 2) with strong enough evidence that it would result in a conviction 3) in the public interest to send it to magistrates says to me Brown is absolutely guilty and his actions were excessive regardless of any provocation. I’m not necessarily suggesting suggestions between the two incidents don’t get my more, my intention is to see if everyone else can see the differences or will put them in the same category, just thought it would be interesting to see the opinions of the same people whether they be right or cast case their opinion over a fairly similar case with just a few details changed
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Post by kylegas on Jul 9, 2023 6:07:05 GMT
I’ve sat on this information a long time now but I think it’s become quite relevant, my former security company had the contract for Pam Pam night club between 2015 and 2019, most of the rovers players frequented the club on a regular basis ( where I also took a hands on roll as head doorman) as soon as JCH signed for the gas he came with his girlfriend every weekend and hired a private booth. never bothered anybody I might add. one night a drunk woman decided to join his table and refuse to move, JCH stepped towards her and without touching her received a punch in the mouth splitting his lips and causing fairly significant blood flow down his face, he pushed the woman to the floor fairly hard at which point she screamed assault 🙄 after viewing the cctv I personally found Johnson’s actions to be justified, the woman then attacked his girlfriend at which point he launched her away again causing her to fall. My team administered first aid to Jonson whilst the woman was completely unharmed and therefor removed from the venue for violent behaviour. As I stated, in my experience I felt the action taken by Jonson in this situation was justified. But with such a wide range of opinion shown on a matter such as the brown case I am curious to see how people will judge this situation
Since he’s not our player anymore I no longer feel the need to hush anymore lol
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Post by kylegas on Jul 2, 2023 18:55:30 GMT
Old school cafe fry ups are hard to come by these days, they just aren’t the same as they used to be. I’ve eaten at the house cafe on Gloucester rd a fair few times now tho, it’s very consistently not to bad lol
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Post by kylegas on May 13, 2023 19:25:25 GMT
Lee Brown and Chris Lines were far to good for that game lol
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Post by kylegas on Apr 18, 2023 17:20:10 GMT
Connolly to keep his place and a two nil win to keep the run going, I’d drop Sinclair and bring in Loft to start. Lofty is vastly undervalued on here, like Marquis great work ethic 100 % er. Just needs to find the net more, strikers are judged by their goal tally
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Post by kylegas on Apr 4, 2023 18:51:29 GMT
I think sometimes the tactics can maybe be right and seem ok, but even 1 or 2 players in key positions unable to play to the necessary standard can make a mess of the whole thing. But also maybe coming from a high level Sinclair likes the way we’re TRYING to play.. we’re just not good enough to pull it off? Just guesses of course but some teams know exactly what they can and can’t do so play what is seen as rubbish football, I think that’s what GC did with us The manager's job is to put a team together with tactics to extract maximum points. Nothing else. I think that’s where Barton falls, rather than playing to our limitations he’s trying to get us to play like a top flight team, again just my thinking tho
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Post by kylegas on Apr 4, 2023 15:38:25 GMT
Good interview with Scott Sinclair (sorry that it's a Daily Mail link) Interesting to read his comment at the end as to why he signed for Rovers. It's interesting. I wonder why then they, on the face of it, under perform / are so inconsistent? If the players are so happy, have the abilities and the tactics are right. I don't understand it. I think sometimes the tactics can maybe be right and seem ok, but even 1 or 2 players in key positions unable to play to the necessary standard can make a mess of the whole thing. But also maybe coming from a high level Sinclair likes the way we’re TRYING to play.. we’re just not good enough to pull it off? Just guesses of course but some teams know exactly what they can and can’t do so play what is seen as rubbish football, I think that’s what GC did with us
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Post by kylegas on Apr 4, 2023 15:30:45 GMT
That was a really good read, I did find it amusing how over the course of the article he described both his time at Swansea and Celtic as the best of his career… one or the other Scott lol
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Post by kylegas on Mar 22, 2023 0:24:24 GMT
I may have got Anderson being the second player wrong then but what I’m saying about grant is 100% what I read, maybe the situation has changed already I don’t know? I’m just repeating what was written in an interview article with Barton. It’s just what I read, maybe the article was bullshit lol www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/season-over-bristol-rovers-defender-7701527This article is probably the one you are referring to. Doesn’t explicitly state they’ve offered terms to Grant but clearly if he gets fit he’s likely to be offered a deal of sorts for next season I would imagine. That is the one yeah, thanks for finding it “but Barton says Rovers plan to hold discussions with the player about securing his future.“ it was this bit that gave me the impression an offer was pretty much a dead certainty. I guess that’s still just my personal interpretation though
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