|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 24, 2024 9:01:07 GMT
To put this post into perspective I had the pleasure of meeting Paul and his family a few times. Paul is very knowledgeable and through his work meets lots of people in the game. I pulled away from the club quite a few years a go, once sorted out was going to come back but changed my mind at the last minute. I am not an insider so can’t comment on what happened but will say one thing I respect Paul’s opinion. I can appreciate that and have no reason to disagree.👍🏾 My point remains - on here has admitted and enjoyed telling other posters he comes on to intentionally wind others up. Those are the facts , people can be knowledgeable as well as annoying in life, in person he may be a nice person, on here more often than not he is a trouble maker by his own choosing 👍🏾 Do unto to others as you want them to do to you... Roadman has often been the butt of peoples jokes/insults/wind ups/ and yet people get sensitive when they get a little back. I'd expect such people to be a bit thicker skinned than that. Everyone goes to far with each other at times which is why we end up getting involved, locking threads and giving some time outs.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 24, 2024 8:56:55 GMT
I wouldn't be surprised if Vale comes back, I think we would defo enquire about having him again.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 24, 2024 8:55:59 GMT
Any of Taylor's Exeter boys out of favor at their current clubs? Seen Matt Jay mentioned, though it doesn't seem he's set the world alight at Colchester. Sam Nombe at Rotherham hasn't scored many, saw him recently made stefan payne look like Harry Kane, a million pounds, Exeter must have been laughing! He was in the same sort of boat as Collins was. Good business to move him on but not really a championship player.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 24, 2024 8:54:34 GMT
What about Matt Jay. Ex Exeter and thought was well thought of. Can't seem to buy a game at the moment Went to Colchester. Not for us.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 21, 2024 19:11:39 GMT
I'm glad we don't have Var. Clubs will be afraid to celebrate a goal soon! Offsides under VAR are ridiculous. The offside law was brought in to stop goal hanging and attackers gaining an unfair advantage. How can the length of a toenail determine whether you’ve gained an advantage? May have been one of the FA Cups greatest ever moments when the competition is possibly at its lowest ever point. I've always said that if the whole of the ball has to cross the whole of the line to be a goal, corner, throw etc, then how can an arm that's used to sprint power forward that's forward of the last man but the rest of the body that's level or behind the last man be be offside? It makes no sense. Especially as with VAR we're drawing straight(ish) lines to determine the offside which may or not be as level as we think because of camera angle. Offside should always be if the whole man is offside not just his nose, finger or any other part of his anatomy that may protrude more slightly than the rest of him. What's even more ridiculous is that we're having 5 minute discussions on offside but completely ignoring other aspects like diving and faking injuries or play acting.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 11, 2024 13:48:56 GMT
Keep him and my money would he on relegation next season. This season hasn't even finished and I'm already dreading the next one. Sad times. With how things are with incompetent owners, reduced budget, strengthened division, first time DoF, Barton's mate as HoR, disaster of a manager...everything screams relegation next season sadly. 😔 I had more dread under Barton following relegation than I do over MT heading into L1 next season. The die was cast back in August. I remember you and I chatting about the signings of Wilson and Friend and saying they were poor.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 11, 2024 12:48:38 GMT
To add a bit more to this across the last 7 games our xG has been 5.014, I'm not a huge fan of it in one game but over the course of 5+ it does add a bit more context. Over the course of the season so far our xG is 55.44 and we've scored 48 so before this run we were only under performing xG by 2.426, now it's 7.44. Like I said, not a huge xG fan but it's a bit interesting here. I think your phrase "we've created some good chances in the last seven games" (without scoring) sys everything we need to know about where we are as a club and what our expectations are And also that we dont have the right personnel in the squad to finish the chances. What other team would have a strike force of Brown, Marquis and Martin and think it is good enough? Would they get in a team in the top 10? You could make a case for Martin but not the other 2. Going back to the op title, it seemed most were quite happy to let Barton relegate us in 20 games without question, going from 18th 3 points clear to 24th winning just 3 games because it was just accepted that he couldnt do anything to keep us up. Lets be fair, all we had was JB's word that we would get promoted, and after getting battered 4-1 by Exeter the following season, who were managed by *checks notes* Matt Taylor, it didnt look very likely until the Geordie cheat code arrived. In some ways this is a parallel situation. We've got a team full of Barton and Mangan generals who have downed tools. An imbalanced squad full of crocks and pensioners that arent the present, let alone the future, but we have got a couple of players we can build a side around. Lets get to the end of the season, rid ourselves of the expensive dead wood and rebuild. There is little point in changing managers now as we would only be looking at free agents again and theres not many candidates that would be an upgrade who would consider coming to us.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 9, 2024 12:51:38 GMT
Do you think he would be able to run the channels and create for the midfield streaming forward? It looks like MT likes the 1 up top approach of modern football. If we dink balls over midfield for him to run onto (like we did with Azza) would he be useful? Yeah, I have seen him do it and is Something the Oxford Manager wants him to do. Unfortunately they aren't that good at hitting the Channels! lol We cant even control tv channels so what hope do we have?!
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 9, 2024 10:52:40 GMT
Ouch x.com/joey7barton/status/1777390357153546579?s=46They were Dam crap lad.(about Matt Taylor’s Rotherham)So is what he’s done at Bristol so far. Stop gaslighting people. You absolute divvy. He’s taken a progressive, football playing team. Not fought like a lion to keep his major source of goals. You’d have had to kill me to have gotten Aaron Collins out of that building. Then questioned the players bottle in the media? That they’re not good enough? That they can’t do the basics? He just wants people to launch it. Plus, he’s a right boring man. I personally can’t bear him from our skirmish’s at Exeter. That’s on the record already. Where he built a good side. Credit to them. A very direct but good side. They were kriptonite for my Rovers team. They should have won League 2 actually that season. Rob Edwards Forest Green were stumbling. Exeter lost at home. Matt done a great job that season. Can’t remember who finished 3rd? But in our game you get paid for winning. He’s hasn’t done anything but regress the group. No goals. Never a good sign for a football team. (AARON Collins?) There are lots of good people and good players in that group. I know because I built most of it. And those brought in on and off the park, will be good people no doubt. But a team eventually reflects their manager. I don’t want to see Matt Taylor get sacked btw. Even though as stated early, I don’t like him. I hope Bristol win at home tomorrow because it’s a great club. Wael is a diamond. #UTG 💙 Can’t really disagree with him here. He’s only said what many fans said on Saturday at the mem about Taylor. We have gone backwards but let’s see what he can do after the summer. No we havent, we have more points than we did this time last season and JB signed a crap squad on good wages and multiyear contracts. It was the AS that cashed in on Aaron Collins not MT. We have now stagnated as we have let one of our best players go and not replaced him.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 9, 2024 9:45:53 GMT
Yes he can can be recalled at anytime, at the end of the day he is a Signed Rovers player so as long as Oxford are okay with it is not a problem and Seeing they have been relegated then i cant see it being one. I heard that Oxford City's Goalkeeper is on loan from Wigan, he is not being recalled but apparently playing the last game of the season as National league finishes a week earlier! Wigan's last game happens to be Us at Wigan! The thing is with Greenslade is he is quick, and would play well of Martin and is also very creative so would cause different problems. It would be worth a look as we never know what we have got until to give him a chance at this level. The reason in Putting Greenslade in that Oxford team was to see if he could cope Physically. The Defender from the Clip is on loan to Barnet from Leyton Orient and has played over 150 league games. The Goalkeeper is Tottenham's under 21 Goal keeper so he can mix it against good players. I think if Taylor has an idea that a couple of players wont be there next season then it wouldn't harm playing him and seeing what he has got! Can it be any worse? I thought we wanted to play a youngster on the final day before, but we couldn't as he was out on loan before. I thought you had to be recalled during the transfer windows to play?? It might be different, when they are playing at a lower level. I always thought that you can always recall from 1 month or emergency loan deals but not 3 month or season long loan deals unless it fell inside of a transfer window.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 9, 2024 9:24:45 GMT
Sometimes it can be a numbers game. We are desperately short up top and another option would be welcome especially if it adds to the all round team game.
Essentially what Gasify has highlighted is that you'll likely only sign strikers that havent been good enough at their previous club or they have had a stuttering season and theyll hope to kick start it in the winter.
Someone like Joe Edwards at Luton was a nailed on decent loan signing having got 11 in 25 for Col U last season and had Luton not been promoted, would have probably played a lot of Championship Football this year. Its an Elliott Anderson type of signing for them and its why we need a decent footballing department that is club oriented not manager oriented which is what we had and why we have suffered with our recruiment.
Isn't it funny how our best players, Aaron Collins and Anthony Evans were recruited by a footballing department sacked by JB..??!!
Facts are, crap squad which needed more components in Jan than we could physically sign.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 8, 2024 14:03:16 GMT
So JAB in response has said that:
Jamie Hedges is a fantasist and a spy.
Tommy W is a known liar and a charlatan.
Starnes was incompetent.(fair)
And hes threatened to sue everyone.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 8, 2024 8:08:25 GMT
Far play to the club encouraging fans to attend the pre-season matches this summer but £250 a night with no hotel transfers (or flights) seems a bit expensive? Try and find a hotel in peak season that's less than that sort of money. I recently had to stay in a ramshackle hotel in Llandudno and that was £180. It was so bad that at 2am I drove to the local premier inn to see if they could help but that was going to cost the same for effectively 5 hours sleep. Edit: Just read the deal, it's also an all inclusive hotel so no spend on beer or food. That's pretty reasonable I'd say.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 8, 2024 8:03:47 GMT
It shows that, at times, stats mean nothing. Outplayed totally. This is a manager issue as a good manager would get a performance out of this squad. I accept he’s going to be given a transfer window. I hope he uses it well. I thought he did get a performance out of the team. The forward line let him down by not putting the ball in the back of the net. I thought we played some good football at times. They score from their first shot on target in the 2nd half. That kind of says it all really. I had to watch from the iPad on Saturday but at the time I said this is the sort of game where we will have all the chances and lose 1-0. As soon as I typed it Collins scored.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 8, 2024 8:01:44 GMT
as a life long supporter of Bristol Rovers I think it possible we been given another dud to go down with other recent appointees. I'll let you consider those failures. Maybe Joe Barton did have his failings which is none of my business here, but I always felt confident in getting some sort of result.So for those happy with the present regime I have seen it all before. a word to the wise, please get used to the saying when results and performances are bad, please remember that "This is work in progress" How did you feel confident when JABs record read 9 wins in 30 games from Jan to his sacking? Was it because we played like Barcelona to the centre circle and back again without actually getting into the other half let alone threatening the opposition goal? JAB certainly had his failings, he is a failed L1 manager.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 7, 2024 22:44:45 GMT
I have no agenda. DC took us down as did Barton but they were both given a chance to bring us back up. Taylor has us in mid table and many seem to want him gone. That was my point. Patience is key but most fans and owners have none these days unfortunately. We were virtually relegated when DC was appointed, Wael clearly decided to stand by JB when even DM at Peterborough was saying he would have dismissed him. Plus JB inherited a shocking squad thanks to BG then lost Nicholson to injury, I'm not sure this is a poor squad just poorly managed. We weren't nearly relegated when DC took over, we capitulated in the last 8 games and went down on a record 51 points. JB did inherit a shocking squad but he also pretty much threw the towel in. This squad is a bang average squad which is devoid of any strength despite the bluster JB gave us about it being the toughest squad we'll ever see with leaders all over the pitch. Ward, Hunt, Wilson and Friend have an average appearance ratio of 23 games a season. He handed each of them contracts, in some cases 2 years or more. Rossiter and Grant were already a permanent injury cases. That's 6 players taking up budget who only play half a season. It's a madness so bad I can't believe someone actually signed off on it. Marquis was never good enough and should have been replaced, he wasn't. He gave a contract to Trevor Clarke then didn't want him and went on holiday to Ireland but we still didn't get another left back. Another load of budget. Crama, injured or incapable. Finley no longer good enough. Ostracised Belshaw and brought in a duff replacement in Cox. Woods and Bogarde too busy living off their PL earnings to give a rats arse. None of those players are getting in a team in the top 10 and yet some are deluded enough to think that this squad should have punched into the play offs. I'd bin off every player I've just mentioned if they haven't gone already.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 7, 2024 15:40:04 GMT
I have no agenda. DC took us down as did Barton but they were both given a chance to bring us back up. Taylor has us in mid table and many seem to want him gone. That was my point. Patience is key but most fans and owners have none these days unfortunately. Playing devil's advocate Socrates we haven't scored a goal in 10 hours of football. How bloody patient should we be?! That's what happens when you don't sign strikers, you don't score goals. Especially when you sell your prized asset striker mid season and don't replace him.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 5, 2024 17:52:06 GMT
Great thread this and some retro posters on it and some sadly no longer with us (Gregs).
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 4, 2024 9:52:42 GMT
Personally I couldnt stand it. As regards the Wembley play off final, it seemed like everything had been put on red and everything hung on the result of that game.
We were very lucky indeed.
|
|
|
Post by gashead1981 on Apr 2, 2024 20:25:10 GMT
What is going on mainly is a lack of personnel or what is available being half fit.
It really isn't that hard to see Topper and you seem to be looking for something that isn't there. Accept it, it's just a bang average squad which isn't bad enough to go down, but isn't good enough to be anywhere near the top 10.
We'll have a couple of purple patches but aside from that we'll mainly be inconsistent.
|
|