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Post by pirate on Sept 1, 2017 10:12:05 GMT
I mean, we haven't been playing a formation where wide midfielders are required. So why do we require a wide midfielder? To give options and allow a change in formation when necessary. Precisely.
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Post by Marshy on Sept 1, 2017 10:22:04 GMT
I mean, we haven't been playing a formation where wide midfielders are required. So why do we require a wide midfielder? To give options and allow a change in formation when necessary. And to cover our international call ups including Chris Lines when he gets called up for England. Because we're gert brilliant!
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 1, 2017 10:38:47 GMT
I am amazed. We have kept Billy Bodin, kept Tom Lockyer, got Sweeney for a year, added Liam sercombe and retained the rest of the squad who got us to 10th in their first season in league 1. Why the hell are people dissenting - we are Bristol Rovers and this is absolutely fantastic news. We don't have to sell and we can attract talent. Because so many clubs are flinging silly money around it does not mean we must. I guess the board would back DC if he really wanted a specific player but it appears he will not break his wage structure and rightly so. Stop moaning, continue supporting and start rejoicing - we are slowly but surely evolving. Great post! UTG!
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Post by Kingswood Polak on Sept 1, 2017 10:55:52 GMT
Bullshit from Steve 192 Delusions of grandeur I think over his pontificating match reports. Go get a life How about you write up a match report and we then critique it ? Steve gives those of us who can't go, a decent write up and I certainly enjoy his efforts. It's easy to criticise, I look forward to your superior effort
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Post by Kingswood Polak on Sept 1, 2017 11:04:12 GMT
We have had the whole summer to get a decent defensive midfielder and a winger and yet we leave it to the last minute as usual and then the usual excuses. i find your lack of faith disturbing With all due respect, every single gasheads has been running on faith since their first game and we have never let the club down. It just gets hard sometimes and especially when we keep on getting so close yet so far, to a new stadium. I don't think faith is in question, not with our fans but we all have periods of doubt and we need to question those who run the club at times. Remember, this is the clubs whose attendances went up when we got relegated to NL. No, there is no lack of faith but a worry over ambition, that's how I see it in any case
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Post by Kingswood Polak on Sept 1, 2017 11:24:47 GMT
Some people make me laugh. So what if we signed no one! our second team just smashed Wycombe I'm more then happy with what we got!!! And for the ones that feel we haven't got cover in certain positions Darrell is very good at switching formations and working with what we got I trust him and so should the ones that P1ss and moan 2 promotions in 3 but apparently we know better!!! After watching posh give us a tanning and nearly clinching a draw or defeat from the jaws of victory at Bury, I think we have some concerns to be addressed. Hopefully we will sort it but we certainly have room for improvement if the intent to be top six is to be realised
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 11:37:10 GMT
My take on things When SH stated that Rovers had a top 6 budget I think it raised a lot of peoples expectations and it gave the impression that Rovers where going to spend big this window bringing in Marque names. But given how the market has been over the last few weeks even I dont think SH and DC could of predicted how inflated the market has been, with stupid prices being paid for players. Its not just in league one but right across all the divisions and Europe that have seen inflated prices, and this has had a knock affect, thinking back we were linked with Godden at one point but there were reports that Stevenage were asking 1.5 million with this was true I have no idea. DC said we missed out on a couple of players if I had to guess I would say one of those was Wheeler again down to money
Just because we haven't spent big money on big marque signings doesn't mean its been a poor transfer window keeping hold of Bodin was probably our best bit of business this window and its going to be struggle to keep hold of him in the next window if he continues his form.
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Post by mehewmagic on Sept 1, 2017 11:50:03 GMT
Haven't had time to read all this thread but with pointing out that -
DC doesn't like panic buys
DC always saves budget for Jan
The loans this season look far better than last season (so far...admit it's not been long) so maybe they could get more game time / he had more confidence in them
And possibly most importantly maybe he's saving a bit more of the budget to improve / extend a few contracts...? 😎
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Post by Gas_Quarters on Sept 1, 2017 12:33:43 GMT
Some people make me laugh. So what if we signed no one! our second team just smashed Wycombe I'm more then happy with what we got!!! And for the ones that feel we haven't got cover in certain positions Darrell is very good at switching formations and working with what we got I trust him and so should the ones that P1ss and moan 2 promotions in 3 but apparently we know better!!! After watching posh give us a tanning and nearly clinching a draw or defeat from the jaws of victory at Bury, I think we have some concerns to be addressed. Hopefully we will sort it but we certainly have room for improvement if the intent to be top six is to be realised Of course there's always room for improvement for any side in the world, but our budget isn't bottomless and DC obviously didn't find something out there that he thought was a good deal. Peterborough gave us a good tonking admittedly but I think that was just an off day for us and a good day for them. Bear in mind as well that they have won 4 out of 4 so far and scored 12 goals in the process. We also gave Fleetwood a drubbing after they had previously won 3 out of 3 and not conceded a single goal. So far we've played 3 out of the top 5 teams in the league and it wouldn't surprise me if those 3 teams as well as Bury were in and around the top 6 come the end of the season. I can understand a very minor concern about the first 2 fixtures, but I think there is a lot more to be encouraged about than discouraged at the minute.
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Post by faggotygas on Sept 1, 2017 12:38:51 GMT
I mean, we haven't been playing a formation where wide midfielders are required. So why do we require a wide midfielder? To give options and allow a change in formation when necessary. For me, for the odd occasion when we need to do that, Broom would be fine
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Post by irenegas on Sept 1, 2017 13:34:27 GMT
After watching posh give us a tanning and nearly clinching a draw or defeat from the jaws of victory at Bury, I think we have some concerns to be addressed. Hopefully we will sort it but we certainly have room for improvement if the intent to be top six is to be realised Of course there's always room for improvement for any side in the world, but our budget isn't bottomless and DC obviously didn't find something out there that he thought was a good deal. Peterborough gave us a good tonking admittedly but I think that was just an off day for us and a good day for them. Bear in mind as well that they have won 4 out of 4 so far and scored 12 goals in the process. We also gave Fleetwood a drubbing after they had previously won 3 out of 3 and not conceded a single goal. So far we've played 3 out of the top 5 teams in the league and it wouldn't surprise me if those 3 teams as well as Bury were in and around the top 6 come the end of the season. I can understand a very minor concern about the first 2 fixtures, but I think there is a lot more to be encouraged about than discouraged at the minute. like nottsgas said Peterborough have pretty much smashed everyone this season sometimes you have just got to accept that some teams will be better then us. I think we learnt a lot from that game if your not at the races then teams like Peterborough will tear us a new one and to be fair since then we have upped our game and haven't lost. As for the Bury game I think we were to comfortable with our lead and we let them in at the end thinking we had already won it but again a good lesson to be learnt. All I was saying is I think there is a lot more to look forward to then be negative about going forward. UTG
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 14:13:36 GMT
I mean, we haven't been playing a formation where wide midfielders are required. So why do we require a wide midfielder? To give options and allow a change in formation when necessary. 🤣🤣🤣😠I bet DC hasn't thought of that
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 14:14:39 GMT
Bullshit from Steve 192 Delusions of grandeur I think over his pontificating match reports. Go get a life How about you write up a match report and we then critique it ? Steve gives those of us who can't go, a decent write up and I certainly enjoy his efforts. It's easy to criticise, I look forward to your superior effort Done. Can't get to Bradford, next home game
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Post by Nortongashead on Sept 1, 2017 15:04:13 GMT
All in all a very good window for us. The disappointments come from expectations set from SH and DC back in June ie top 6 budget and signing 10 new players. But then the climate changed. Still think we have a squad that can challenge top 6 with DC at the helm. Lots of free agents potentially available if we get injuries, and most likely a bit of Wonga left to spend in January. Pleased DC has turned us into a club that wont spunk cash at the wrong player just to appease the fans.
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Post by faggotygas on Sept 1, 2017 15:07:22 GMT
After watching posh give us a tanning and nearly clinching a draw or defeat from the jaws of victory at Bury, I think we have some concerns to be addressed. Hopefully we will sort it but we certainly have room for improvement if the intent to be top six is to be realised Of course there's always room for improvement for any side in the world, but our budget isn't bottomless and DC obviously didn't find something out there that he thought was a good deal. Peterborough gave us a good tonking admittedly but I think that was just an off day for us and a good day for them. Bear in mind as well that they have won 4 out of 4 so far and scored 12 goals in the process. We also gave Fleetwood a drubbing after they had previously won 3 out of 3 and not conceded a single goal. So far we've played 3 out of the top 5 teams in the league and it wouldn't surprise me if those 3 teams as well as Bury were in and around the top 6 come the end of the season. I can understand a very minor concern about the first 2 fixtures, but I think there is a lot more to be encouraged about than discouraged at the minute. How could Bury be both in the top 6, and around the top 6?
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Sept 1, 2017 15:56:56 GMT
Of course there's always room for improvement for any side in the world, but our budget isn't bottomless and DC obviously didn't find something out there that he thought was a good deal. Peterborough gave us a good tonking admittedly but I think that was just an off day for us and a good day for them. Bear in mind as well that they have won 4 out of 4 so far and scored 12 goals in the process. We also gave Fleetwood a drubbing after they had previously won 3 out of 3 and not conceded a single goal. So far we've played 3 out of the top 5 teams in the league and it wouldn't surprise me if those 3 teams as well as Bury were in and around the top 6 come the end of the season. I can understand a very minor concern about the first 2 fixtures, but I think there is a lot more to be encouraged about than discouraged at the minute. How could Bury be both in the top 6, and around the top 6? When they're there or thereabouts.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 16:09:48 GMT
Of course there's always room for improvement for any side in the world, but our budget isn't bottomless and DC obviously didn't find something out there that he thought was a good deal. Peterborough gave us a good tonking admittedly but I think that was just an off day for us and a good day for them. Bear in mind as well that they have won 4 out of 4 so far and scored 12 goals in the process. We also gave Fleetwood a drubbing after they had previously won 3 out of 3 and not conceded a single goal. So far we've played 3 out of the top 5 teams in the league and it wouldn't surprise me if those 3 teams as well as Bury were in and around the top 6 come the end of the season. I can understand a very minor concern about the first 2 fixtures, but I think there is a lot more to be encouraged about than discouraged at the minute. How could Bury be both in the top 6, and around the top 6? When ShrewsBURY are up there as well?
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Post by BrightonGas on Sept 1, 2017 16:28:12 GMT
Mods - lease rename this thread! How about "Not....."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 16:39:04 GMT
In an ideal world it would have been nice to have signed another striker ,central defensive midfielder and a left winger or two. However its not an ideal world ,but the squad has plenty of cover in most areas. Im sure watching the highlights of the Wycombe game that Moore hit the post coming in from the left and Broom was on the left side for at least one of the goals. Maybe they are being trained up to play that side as well.
For those with long memories. How many midfielders did the Francis team that won the league have ?
Mehew ,Purnell ,Nixon ,Holloway ,Reece...any others ?
compare that to
Moore , Bodin , Broom , Sercombe ,Lines , O Clarke ,Sinclair
I don't think D.C. will play 4-4-2 on a regular basis until he has a centre forward that will score 20+ goals a season .Even then he may not. Perhaps going for 4-3-1-2 or 4-2-3-1.
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Post by toddy1953 on Sept 1, 2017 16:48:32 GMT
Of course there's always room for improvement for any side in the world, but our budget isn't bottomless and DC obviously didn't find something out there that he thought was a good deal. Peterborough gave us a good tonking admittedly but I think that was just an off day for us and a good day for them. Bear in mind as well that they have won 4 out of 4 so far and scored 12 goals in the process. We also gave Fleetwood a drubbing after they had previously won 3 out of 3 and not conceded a single goal. So far we've played 3 out of the top 5 teams in the league and it wouldn't surprise me if those 3 teams as well as Bury were in and around the top 6 come the end of the season. I can understand a very minor concern about the first 2 fixtures, but I think there is a lot more to be encouraged about than discouraged at the minute. like nottsgas said Peterborough have pretty much smashed everyone this season sometimes you have just got to accept that some teams will be better then us. I think we learnt a lot from that game if your not at the races then teams like Peterborough will tear us a new one and to be fair since then we have upped our game and haven't lost. As for the Bury game I think we were to comfortable with our lead and we let them in at the end thinking we had already won it but again a good lesson to be learnt. All I was saying is I think there is a lot more to look forward to then be negative about going forward. UTG Spot on. We are possibly going to have to learn a few more lessons on the way too. But I think it also demonstrates DC's abilities to learn & put things right. We might not have the best squad in terms of cost & or technical individuals, but the squad we have tend to respond in the right way & have the resilience & togetherness that DC demands. Carry on DC I have every faith in you, but please make one or two cock ups along the way so that us lot can play football managers between us on here, we promise to be nice to each other now.
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