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Post by gashead1981 on Apr 2, 2024 10:50:35 GMT
So you don't rate Conteh Topper? As I said did we really need spend £250K on just Conteh when we were lacking in so many other areas. Personally I'd start with yesterday's midfield, if Ward can't play 90 mins, rather than recall Conteh. Yes because we only had 1 DCM which was Finley because Bogarde had suddenly forgotten how to play football and was awful. Finley then got injured so it was a fortunate signing as well as a good one. Truth is topper were lacking in every area, there isn't one part of the team where its strength matches its depth. Across our whole squad only about 3 players would make it into a team in the top 6. The rest of them are bang average players and some won't even be playing L1 football next year. That's the reality.
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Post by gashead1981 on Apr 2, 2024 10:09:28 GMT
The Barton fan boys turning on Taylor is no surprise. Those with common sense realise he needs a full window to undo all of the horrific actions taken by JB on this club - bye-bye to the Liverpool mafia and the defined benefit playing pension scheme, and in with young and hungry players with ambition who can be arsed to play for the club. Once we've ripped out the final dross of the racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, wife-beater thugs' signings we should be in a place where we can finally move forward. Absolutely spot on mate.
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Post by gashead1981 on Apr 2, 2024 10:08:42 GMT
100% we are. We play Bolton next week and who will the whole defence have an eye on? Aaron Collins. Why? Because he scores goals, he creates goals, he drifts into areas to pick the ball up and run at defenders, he has pace, skill and it will likely take 2 defenders to mark him out of the game. What Aaron Collins does for a team is also create the space for others and bring them into play. Hes almost as much as a threat by being a distraction as he is being in the penalty box. It was 100% the right decision to sell Azza but we needed to replace him straight away in Jan to keep the season alive as we didn't have enough in the team without him. The new owners weren't wiling to spend and here we are, exactly happening what I thought would happen. Facts are that JB and his crew blew the best budget we had in years on players that were too old, not fit enough to play a full season or not good enough. The real problem for the fanbase is that some fell hook, line and sinker for the BS and bluster that JB used to spout about how good he was tactically and how good we were as a team that he made people believe we were better than what we actually are. MT is just giving everyone a massive reality check that did fall under the Scouse spell and showing everyone this team is a just a mid table squad and there components in it that really aren't good enough to be where we want or where we all think we should be. Why does everything have to go back to slagging off JB, you've identified the issue we didn't replace AC in January and also ignored the fact Marquis is well beyond is best, a pacy winger (where's Vaughan gone?) and striker would have dealt with both of those issues but the owners decided to bank AC's transfer funds. JB had no control over those decisions. I'm not really sure why they needed to spend £250K on Conteh as however good he might become we hardly missed him yesterday and he was part the poor performances in the last two away games. I'm slagging of JB because he was a sh** L1 manager and it goes back to JB because JB and Jennings signed this whole squad of players bar Conteh, Vaughan and Aquilera, so I don't really need to pick out certain players(Marquis) when the collective squad isn't good enough. £250k on Conteh was a cracking piece of business and he was excellent when he first came in. I'm not sure of the excuse on Saturdays absence but he's going to be sold on and I wouldn't be surprised if that happens in the summer. Incidentally I thought he was the only player against Lincoln that actually tried and made things happen and he was the only one who came out with any credit.
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Post by gashead1981 on Apr 2, 2024 6:32:08 GMT
Are we missing Aaron Collins? I know he had gone of the boil but he is still top of our assists chart 📈 and contributed to a more exciting style of play. Scored a hatrick for Bolton today. God help us next week! 100% we are. We play Bolton next week and who will the whole defence have an eye on? Aaron Collins. Why? Because he scores goals, he creates goals, he drifts into areas to pick the ball up and run at defenders, he has pace, skill and it will likely take 2 defenders to mark him out of the game. What Aaron Collins does for a team is also create the space for others and bring them into play. Hes almost as much as a threat by being a distraction as he is being in the penalty box. It was 100% the right decision to sell Azza but we needed to replace him straight away in Jan to keep the season alive as we didn't have enough in the team without him. The new owners weren't wiling to spend and here we are, exactly happening what I thought would happen. Facts are that JB and his crew blew the best budget we had in years on players that were too old, not fit enough to play a full season or not good enough. The real problem for the fanbase is that some fell hook, line and sinker for the BS and bluster that JB used to spout about how good he was tactically and how good we were as a team that he made people believe we were better than what we actually are. MT is just giving everyone a massive reality check that did fall under the Scouse spell and showing everyone this team is a just a mid table squad and there components in it that really aren't good enough to be where we want or where we all think we should be.
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Post by gashead1981 on Apr 1, 2024 19:33:25 GMT
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 27, 2024 10:04:23 GMT
The SC once upon a time had some influence, sway and experience from individuals on a level with our then owners. That changed when football started getting more expensive and the levels changed and the SC voted away their rights. So now its nothing more than token gesture system when it comes to being able to influence to get the club to do anything.
Has to be said they did a great job of arranging the evening with the owners and we need more of that kind of thing. It will create much more of a togetherness between supporters and owners rather than a them and us sort of situation.
The SC needs to be more dynamic in getting some younger members on board at club level which then can move into the executive ranks and only then will it become more of a force again. The last time the directorships were available JC blackballed everyone he didnt like or who questioned his ability to chair. I'm not saying Steve and Helen were poor picks, but it was a good opportunity to advertise it to ones who could bring experience and skills which would help modernise the club and draw a younger audience.
Hopefully that could happen this time around.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 22, 2024 20:08:36 GMT
Think in view of todays announcement, it would be appropriate to remove this thread from the forum asap. Let’s wait for the original posters apology, first. Pfft...good luck with that.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 22, 2024 20:06:38 GMT
The faux outrage seems extremely out of proportion with this. Given the offence you take at most things there's a massive slice of irony here.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 22, 2024 18:09:53 GMT
Doesn't look quite so clever now does it...
I hope Kate makes a speedy recovery.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 20, 2024 21:46:59 GMT
Rovers girls were nailed on for promotion 3 weeks ago with the game at the Mem confirmed at least 2 weeks ago and yet here we are, 4 days before the game scratching around with poor marketing campaigns to drum up some interest.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 20, 2024 21:43:41 GMT
According to some our training facility is not fit for purpose, especially if you read the remarks of a certain someone on the other forum...
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 20, 2024 21:41:22 GMT
So 4 pages because the guy who told the OP got it wrong then? He is still employed as CEO. Fact. He is still a free citizen. Fact. He has tried his level best whilst employed by the Club. Fact. He has great affinity for Rovers. Fact. He doesn't please 100% of the fan base and never will...as someone could always do his job better... Much respect but some of that post is opinion, not fact. Tried his level best? No one can ever know that apart from the man himself. A few here can point out mistakes and issues that have led on to costing the club more time and money to rectify. Affinity? That implies a natural leaning towards Rovers... he's only here for the beer. His natural leaning was always Brighton and Hove Albion and when last in his company, some of his family had season tickets. When the policy is to outsource, invariably the affinity to a club is sometimes compromised. It's the first time we've experienced this on a wholesale basis - of course there is still a skeleton staff employed at the club - but even Brighty, the most nepotistic of appointments has jumped ship. A while back. Like you said no one will ever please 100% of fanbase, which is a good point, but I think he could do better and more: Just his idea of policy of cashless Mem has marginalised a few to say the least. It's obvious this was factored in to the decision, and it appears he doesn't care. So he hasn't tried his level best. Or have affinity with Rovers. He's made decisions that appear to negate this, and litigations against our club, some of the like have never been heard before, not including unilateral change of the club badge before outcry, sponsorship deals messed up, the lack of 1883 club and eroding it's value, blue diamond having to host somewhere other than the mem because of 'costs' lead me to think quite the opposite of some of the more positive posts here. David Bright was sacked I believe, rather than working a notice period. In fact he emailed me 2 days before he went and the next thing his Twitter went dark, his email bounced back and he wouldn't return any calls.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 19, 2024 22:20:50 GMT
Who's making it a forum rule?
I just have a different opinion to you.
Ffs. What is it with people on here tonight.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 19, 2024 22:18:59 GMT
Is that really the best marketing we can come up with? Blimey, scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
If we are going to cheap shot then better to have done it a week ago when the topic was relevant and we might have shifted a few more tickets which would have had a knock on effect to some good marketing and sponsorship.
Obviously last minute.com. Again. 🤦🏼♂️
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 19, 2024 22:14:57 GMT
I think it's quite disrespectful to speculate about whether someone has lost their job or not, no matter what you might think of them. Kind regards John Malyckyj I disagree on this occasion. He's the CEO of the club and if someone has some kind of evidence he's no longer on the board then it's a valid topic for discussion. I disagree. If he has left, the club can tell us and then we can make his tenure and his successor (should there be one) a valid topic for discussion.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 19, 2024 20:42:15 GMT
I think it's quite disrespectful to speculate about whether someone has lost their job or not, no matter what you might think of them. Kind regards John Malyckyj Spot on.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 19, 2024 18:33:39 GMT
Still listed as a Director of 1883 Ltd which is the holding company.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 14, 2024 10:42:51 GMT
MT style is to be a bit slower with the ball but make the correct pass. Hes also utilising (or was until Collins went and LT was injured) in winning second balls by not being afraid to use a route 1 pass from a goal kick.
It's a similar style to DC actually who liked a cross field ball to Bodin or Brown and utilising a fix in the box approach.
We just don't have the players to utilise it fully yet as we could do with someone in the Matty T mould up front, a couple of decent full backs and a left winger who isn't Javani.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 13, 2024 22:37:21 GMT
How can he upgrade the side in one window when JB and Jennings blew the budget on the bunch of crocks and Grandads? You get the JB comments back at you because you are having a go at MT everytime we lose or draw and making the comparisons with JB. We have to learn to be tight at the back because we cannot rely on scoring one more than the opposition even more so now we dont have Collins and LT is injured and Javani, who only makes the odd contribution every 10 games, means that we'll lose more than we will win/draw. Losing Collins and LT means we have lost all of our pace and attacking threat that makes teams think and double mark leaving space for the likes of Evans to get into the pockets of holes in attacking play which then gives Martin time to get into space. MT has come into a midtable squad full of poor squad players and fragile players that cant play 20 games a season or more and that is the fault of Jennings and JB not MT. Players like Wilson, Hunt, Ward, Gordon and Hoole will hopefully be on their way at the end of the season and we can sign some quality that can actually last more than half a season to replace them and the signings of Conteh and Baggot show the type of player we will be after. Let me put it another way, all of JBs summer signings bar Martin and Vale are either not good enough (Cox, Crama, Brown, Woods, Bogarde), Retired (Friend) or broken (LT, Wilson, Hunt, Taylor). What is it you're expecting MT to do in 4 months and 1 window with this bunch? Sorry, are you saying Luke Thomas isn’t good enough and Connor Taylor? I have used Graham coughlan as an example as I have DC so it’s not about Barton at all… Barton has gone.. and I understand why, let’s move on mate. If you read my previous comments you will see. Yeah, I can’t say I’m raving over Taylor but he needs time and the first 10 games of next season will show what he is about 👍 I'm not saying that at all, you have misread my post. I'm saying look at the summer signings and all bar 2 are either injured or not good enough. I sought to clarify who was in which camp by the brackets.
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Post by gashead1981 on Mar 13, 2024 11:15:38 GMT
Is Baggott a realistic target this summer? Can't see why not. He played 2 games for Ipswich 4 years ago and has played at a lower level (if at all), ever since. He's not (yet) a top end Championship or lower Premier League standard, so why not play for a third division side regularly? I think if they get promoted they extend his contract by a year and loan him to a championship club next year. He could be one of those players like Quansah that would thrive higher up the leagues. I do agree that he could do with a full season in league football somewhere though. I wouldnt mind having him here next year. He's more capable than Wilson IMO and also fitter.
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