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Post by tinner on May 14, 2017 18:04:47 GMT
Makes me laugh those trying to belittle FGR as a club and their crowds......FairPlay to them and good luck, wtf would anyone want a plastic scouse team in the league in preference to an excellent local non league team......it gives hope to all.
For those mocking their crowds you are no different to the Ci*y fans who take the water out of our attendances........And just as l say to sh*theads, wtf has that got to do with anything!!
So FairPlay to them, hope they do well next season, and some on her should stop trying to be superior......it is embarrassing!
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Post by tinner on Apr 22, 2017 14:26:36 GMT
We're the biggest bottlers in the league! I assume you were out of the country when we won promotion on the last day of the last two seasons??!
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Post by tinner on Apr 19, 2017 16:32:08 GMT
Really not sure what that has to do with us.Anyway from the hightlights I saw on tv it looked like they had 1500 up there at Blackburn. Nothing, but would just be amusing how we could take more to a meaningless game than they take to their biggest game of the season. 1300 they took, p**s-poor really considering... Big deal......where it matters i.e home games where we get all the revenue, then City crowds are double ours.....so doubt they will give a sh*t.
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Post by tinner on Mar 23, 2017 2:30:11 GMT
I think Darrell has done a great job for us, I question some of his decisions but in general he has got more right than wrong and helped, along with Stewy and Yates to put the pride back into our club HOWEVER I think he is at his best working with non/lower league players and helping them improve, I think he would struggle to deal with bigger name and higher quality players! I have no doubt if Norwich did make him a good offer he would take it but I think that would be a mistake for him certainly at this stage of his development! So back to back promotions, potential playoff place in Div 1............and "in general he has got more right than wrong"....bloody hell that is magnanimous of you! On what basis do you believe he will struggle to deal with bigger / higher quality players??!
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Post by tinner on Mar 23, 2017 2:03:14 GMT
So we go to the 33,000 capacity Ricoh Saturday, 8th in League 1, with 4,000 fans. Two years ago this weekend we played away at Macclesfield in front of a 2,500 crowd with those of us in the away end being handed anti Sainsburys Orange T shirts to show the millions watching on TV what a despicable company we thought they were for depriving us of our new stadium! If anyone then would have told us where we'd be playing and how many fans we'd take 2 years on, and that we'd be in with a chance of promotion to the championship and that we didn't need Sainsburys money to build a new ground or redevelop what would we have said? Cloud Cookoo land? Well that's where we are! Cloud Cookoo Land! And yet some people on here have still spent most of the season moaning and finding fault...........
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Post by tinner on Mar 19, 2017 0:56:26 GMT
I will leave the judgement to DC, but I would say this is a typical knee jerk reaction and I do not rate the views of the majority of fans. Every single member of the squad has had a bad patch. First Taylor, then Gaffney - a few weeks ago he wasn't good enough either. Strikers who don't score for a few games at the start immediately become league one standard when they score, like Rory has found recently. If you watch the game you will see lots of things James is doing which appear pretty league one to me. Then again, if you don't run fast and skin players then simplistically minded fans cannot keep track of what's happening - they need sound bites. They need tricks. They cannot see things like hold up play or unselfish layoffs, or even assists. He's set up 2 of Rory's but did he do it with a Cryuff turn? No? Well he can f**k off then! Why bother taking a balanced view or a grown up assessment when he missed a penalty? Missing a penalty is a big clear thing that people can understand. Clarke was clearly unsupportive in his comments on the radio and sounded like he wanted to chuck him. The crowd too, I think bood him off didn't they? Let's write him off before he's even really started. Sarcasm aside, thank god we have a manager and team who work with players and bring them on. The difference has been in working with players who work hard. Ollie Clarke would be gone, Byron Moore, Montano, Snake, Gaffney, Bodin earlier this year, Tom Lockyer earlier this year, Sinclair isn't league 2 standard, Mansells too old, Lee Brown out.... All of these players were considered not up to it at points. Hey presto, with a bit of effort and work they adapt and improve. It's almost like we have a really healthy ethos where we support players and players play for each other. I would like to see a bit more of James before we write him off. The team and manager seem to see something in him. My analysis is, like Taylor, and Gaffney, LJ is lacking in confidence. He's not shooting, he is laying everything off. Taylor towards the end did one thing - shoot. LJ smashes it every match. I say if the manager has worked this long on him, take that into account and don't write another player off as a bit of work pays off - as we have seen consistently. Absolutely spot on.....top post
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Post by tinner on Mar 12, 2017 8:53:32 GMT
To be honest we are a football manager dream right now. A large fanbase with huge potential for growth from one the UKs premier cities.A humble,charming yet fiercely ambitious chairman that wants to take us to the top that DC has A wonderful relationship with.A top class training ground being built,and the UWE right around the corner also. He is also the legend beyond all legends here.He has his own Roy of the Rovers story here in our clubs greatest ever comeback - From being screwed during those last 8 games when we went down,then taking us up at Wembley,to last year's promotion... to this season's efforts..Etc.. He is at the perfect club for him as he can build us up from the ground up, and will be given the time and resources to do that. As a club we are as progressive as any club in English football outside of the premiership right now.And I include our very ugly and toothless sister from bs3! Ummm, not really, still only 9000 crowds.....despite best season in abut 25 years! Also, pretty sure this forum was in virtual meltdown for 6 months whilst a number of idiots on here took great delight in constantly complaining about Dc's failure to make good summer signings, rehiring last seasons squad, daring to retain Ollie Clarke, not playing 4 4 2, not improving our players, too many loan players, not playing our loan players, resting players etc etc......I have absolutely no doubt that These same people plus others would be demanding his sacking if we were struggling.
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Post by tinner on Mar 6, 2017 10:15:26 GMT
And yet if we review the posts on here over the past 9 months, you will find ridicoulous amounts of comments from many on here, challenging DC's decisions, inability to improve players, sticking with 'useless' players (ollie Clarke), offering last years squad contracts, poor rotation policy, not playing 442 every week, etc etc..........all during a season which is likely to end with our best position in 17 years!!
It is clear there is very little loyalty in football, as we all know that if Rovers had struggled this season, those criticism's will have been multiplied massively, and I have no doubt those same people will have been pushing strongly for DC's sacking, and DC will of course be well aware of this, and the fickle nature of support.
Therefore, whilst I would like to think that DC would never cross the river, he is certainly not niaive enough to believe his role here is safe for any prolonged period, and therefore I believe he would be mad not to consider a suitable offer should it come, whilst his stock is so high....given even the perennial moaners on here are finding nothing to moan about at present!
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Post by tinner on Mar 1, 2017 7:23:05 GMT
J Clarke has never done much wrong for us though, in fairness. His only bad spell coincided with a massive bad patch for the team defensively. James and Moore are talented individuals who have been low on confidence. Hope we see more from all of them before the season ends. No he hasn't but he is a player of limited ability and definitely not a LB. I just hate how people criticise and present it as fact. Please tell me your definition of 'limited ability' as in your words he has done little wrong, therefore what more are expecting from a full back?
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Post by tinner on Feb 26, 2017 8:24:47 GMT
exactly. No brainer TBH. Dover know they'll lose him this summer for free so they would have been happy to agree to £100/200k maybe, but why would the player want that even if the club agreed. In the summer he can try to get that sort of money given to HIM as a signing on fee and/or via wages. a simple example of how hard / cost effective it is to get decent players in january.It is, unless you have given them a stupidly low release clause. Twentypence said this is common for strikers these days so assume there are plenty out there if you know the right agents? Are you deliberately being thick? As is now well known MT's release clause was driven by him/his agent......it was that or see him leave for nothing in the Summer.....therefore the release clause we 'gave' was not stupid it was a simple and at the time sensible business decision.
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Post by tinner on Feb 3, 2017 10:22:06 GMT
How on earth can a "small" club like Exeter hold out for huge fees on their players yet we can't? Have you been on the moon for the last week? Please select one of the following options: 1. You top goal scorer leaves for nothing in the summer ...or 2. You top scorer leaves for 300K in January having scored 19 goals in the first half of the season. Now if go back further, then the wider issue is that MT's contract actually ran out.......but of course as we all know, for the past 5/6 years we have suffered heavily offering long contracts, (Blizzard, Kenneth anyone?) and many on here were adamant that we should no longer offer out such contracts...which is the successful route we have gone down, leaving a squad full of players with the right attitude etc. With regards to MT, promotion from the Conference was the opportunity to have extended his contract to avoid what has happened, but of course, at this point he still had many doubters on here, and I believe the club was quite right in not breaking their new policy of keeping players hungry on shorter contracts. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I would suggest given we have had B2B promotions are new approach is working overall as evidenced by our position in the table compared to Exeter!
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Post by tinner on Feb 3, 2017 9:11:08 GMT
This really shows up some of the rubbish spouted earlier this week by certain other posters whose arses and elbows are indistinguishable. Two promotions in two seasons, and a squad still heavily-based around Conf players who are a few points shy of the play-offs. Currently higher than all the other promoted teams from last season. No wonga loan hanging over heads. New training ground, improved facilities and extra specialist backroom staff for DC. Not bad for 11 months (WAQ) and just under 3 years (DC). Of course, some people will never be happy...life's moaners. That's me most of you are just happy to wallow in league 1 when we have the potential to be a championship club so as long as the majority of you are happy why should we with ambition stand in your way yawn "wallow" .......we have been back in Div 1 for 6 f*cking months....I really despair of some people
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Post by tinner on Jan 28, 2017 17:39:54 GMT
Not saying Colkett wont do any damage today (lets be honest, anyone can against our defence!), but the few Swindon fans I do talk to think he has been largely anonymous in games so far (sound familiar?) with odd flash of quality (sound familiar?) and although he got MOTM in their last game he was very average in a bad bunch. Their goalie Vigo is excellent by all accounts though, lets try and put him off today! But of course some on here were outraged that we did not play him more, and that DC should effectively let Chlsea pick his team. The simple fact was that our midfield 3 were each far better than Colkett......and based on that it would seem that once again DC has got it right, despite a fair bit of criticism around this......though of course you will hear no apology from the moaners, because they are already looking out for the next thing to take issue with!
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Post by tinner on Jan 26, 2017 10:54:03 GMT
No more than if we fail to sell out...which I guess is likely. I don't understand your comment here tinner, why is it embarrassing for us not to sell out? It will be between 10 - 11,000 for league 1 that's very good in my book and I'm sure a lot of other clubs will be envious of this size attendance, which we have achieved on 4 or 5 occasions this season already? UTG. Because this is our first home game in about 3 weeks, despite our cr*p away form our home form is still up there with the best in the country, we are currently playing at our highest level in the last 5/6 seasons, it is our closest derby fixture in this division, I keep hearing that our support is superb.......and actually because I think the club deserve 11k rovers supporters making the effort to support the team.
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Post by tinner on Jan 25, 2017 22:32:41 GMT
Embarrassing for Swindon if they can't sell out No more than if we fail to sell out...which I guess is likely.
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Post by tinner on Jan 24, 2017 13:45:03 GMT
This is why I really can't understand all the moaning on here. If someone told me the day we went down to the conference that within 2 1/2 seasons we would be a top 10 L1 side I would never have believed them and would have snatched their hand off. If you'd then told me that people would actually moan about it I'd have said, no way, we would all be overjoyed. When the inconceivable has actually happened there are people on here who still are not happy. Some football fans really are unbelievable. Brilliant post......so true. The reality is that had we not sneaked promotion last season, and were up round the top in div 2 this season, then all the moaners would be happy. Instead, we are at least 15 places above this and people are moaning!!!
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Post by tinner on Jan 20, 2017 21:41:15 GMT
I have said it on other threads, and will say it again now, the comments from some here and on the FB appreciation page are an absolute embarrassment.
To remind people, promotion last season was an absolute bonus, I am sure nobody truly expected it to happen, and given the struggles of the previous few years, I think most were happy to have a season without relegation worries.
It is high likely that had we not been promoted, then based on the performances this year, we would have been at the top end of Div 2, and presumably everybody would have been happy!
Instead we got promoted, I would say ahead of schedule, and instead of some people seeing this as a bonus, they now moan and complain because we are only 9th!
On this basis, I can only assume that if by some miracle we got promoted again this year, then the usual suspects would have a field day next season, as it would be highly likely that we would struggle, and I am sure they would be oh so quick to voice their disatisfaction!
As I see it, we are at least one season ahead of plan, without breaking our budgets. The squad is evolving, some of our less experienced players are gaining vital experience, we have one of the best home records in the country, and may yet sneak into the play-offs which would be incredible. Therefore, I for one am enjoying the season and long may it continue.
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Post by tinner on Jan 19, 2017 17:28:33 GMT
This thread sums up the usual suspects on here, who look for any opportunity to moan or find fault! Not so long ago people were moaning that the squad was too big, with people sat in the stands. People were also moaning that some of our younger players were not being given an opportunity.
Now when this is being addressed, people now moan that we have not got a big enough squad.......jesus, DC just cant win.
As I see it, this gives a clear and straightforward message to the 6, so surely good for them, but also gives a positive message to others, that DC thinks they can be part of his squad, e.g Broom, Lucas etc.
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Post by tinner on Jan 13, 2017 0:48:37 GMT
IMO, one thing is for sure when DC either leaves or gets the sack, we will still be here supporting the Gas, his opinion currently is all that matters and to date he has done a great job; that said, it does not mean I have to agree with every thing he says or does. For me, Charlie is the most gifted, talented and technical player I have seen in the quarters since Gary Mabbutt, he has played for England and is contracted to Chelsea who just happen to be top of the premier league, they let BRFC have Charlie for twelve months and BRFC do not play him regularly, FFS, and Boateng, not sure what was going on there, all I do know, when he was subbed at Sheffield United, he was my man of the match, and soon as DC changed the formation, we concede a sloppy goal and lose 1 nil, and DC admits to date it was our best performance of the season,doh. You are surely having a laugh, a young lad who did ok during a 5 month loan is the best you have seen in nearly 40 years......bloody hell I must have only dreamt about players like Mickey Barrett, David Williams, Gary Penrice, Mark Walters, Andy Tillson, Vitas Astafjevs, Nathan Ellington, Barry Hayles, Marcus Stewart, etc etc.......Jesus, I have heard it all now!!
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Post by tinner on Jan 6, 2017 18:04:54 GMT
Tinner excepted I respect the opinions of everybody who has participated in this thread whether or not they agree with me - If you are happy with constant changing then fine. I don't think we have seen the best of a lot of players because of DC's methods I will repeat for those who only seem able to pick out my criticisms of DC- He gets results and over the seasons his methods have on most occasions worked but I just feel that players when they do play well deserve to keep their place and I ask people just to think - How many of our players have cemented a place in the side? So despite getting b2b promotions, you do not believe we have seen the best of his players.........on the contrary I believe DC's management style has got the most out of his players, and our achievements surely prove this. In an early thread you say he has not developed the players...............when watching the Coventry game 8 of the team were 'good players' in the conference, those same 8 are now 'good players' in Div 1, so surely that is further proof that they have developed, and that must, in part, be down to DC's management! I asked you earlier what you would deem as success.......any answer, or are you one of those who will always look to find fault?
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