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Post by gashead1981 on Feb 9, 2019 23:41:54 GMT
Agreed, GC's loyalty to last week's winning team cost us today, this was a game for JC & Clarke-Harris/Jak, given GC watched the Shrews at Wolves then why didn't he see that? Probably because he didn't have the opportunity to go forward in time. Agree. Their back line is tall and strong. Always liked Beckles as a defender. Horrible side to his game but so effective. Gets his head on everything. JCH should have started. I thought it was refreshing to have a centre forward on the field that could jump and win headers. I think he won about 7 headers in the time he was on. Which was about 5 more than Payne managed in 6 months. |
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Post by mehewmagic on Feb 10, 2019 0:25:13 GMT
I don’t th8nk I will be. Might go to a few home and a few away games and do a few other things of a weekend. Have to love the loyalty... Don't really think it's your place to judge a fellow Rovers fan. |
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Post by mehewmagic on Feb 10, 2019 0:35:47 GMT
Both Portsmouth and Sunderland failed to beat relegation contenders today so maybe we should be more optimistic about our chances against them. The players need to feel they can match them and it would help if we can the rub of the green and a decent referee for a change. utg If we replicate that first half performance against Sunderland and Portsmouth we will get f**king hammered in both games. General point though... Pompey not in good form. Star MF, on loan, has returned & Whatmough out for rest of season. Train back from Exeter was fun of Pompey fans coming back from Plymuff - they are worried about their slump. |
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Post by kylegas on Feb 10, 2019 4:59:54 GMT
The subs were how we should have started, GC did his homework (apparently) and knew of there size and stength... and left our most physical players in the bench, not blaming Reilly and Nichols at all today, long balls pumped at them and they were expected to compete with a back four of monster defenders, the front subs made a massive difference to our physicality and got us going as an attacking threat. We weren’t in the game in the slightest for 50 minutes, how JCH didn’t start I don’t know, to much loyalty to the previous winning team and not enough. Smarts in countering the next teams threats. DC changed it to much everybody knows that, but sometimes tactical changes of personnel are needed imo, we had one change in the first half and other than that we were little boys... but unfortunate not to win it in the second which is crazy really, what would the game have been if the subs made would have been on from the start... I guess we’ll never know.
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Post by baggins on Feb 10, 2019 6:10:52 GMT
Can we drop Partington now please? Permanently. And if that's the best Ogogo brings, he can be dropped as well.
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Post by wakeman(bell)ender on Feb 10, 2019 7:00:23 GMT
Ogogo looks as if he will fit in just fine at Bristol Rovers. Did really well for us at Shrewsbury last season but this season at both Coventry and Rovers he has looked Division two standard at best. This is where Rovers are headed so he should have a reasonable season next season with his clogging and consistent moaning. Rovers are worst team I have witnessed this season. They play very little football and depend to a large extent on a bear baiting crowd putting pressure on poor referees. Luckily we wont have to put up with them next season. Theres no wonder Rodman hasn't fitted in. He is a footballer with a brain and it was a bad move for him to move to a club like this.
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Post by baggins on Feb 10, 2019 7:29:36 GMT
Ogogo looks as if he will fit in just fine at Bristol Rovers. Did really well for us at Shrewsbury last season but this season at both Coventry and Rovers he has looked Division two standard at best. This is where Rovers are headed so he should have a reasonable season next season with his clogging and consistent moaning. Rovers are worst team I have witnessed this season. They play very little football and depend to a large extent on a bear baiting crowd putting pressure on poor referees. Luckily we wont have to put up with them next season. Theres no wonder Rodman hasn't fitted in. He is a footballer with a brain and it was a bad move for him to move to a club like this. Morning. |
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Post by wakeman(bell)ender on Feb 10, 2019 7:55:03 GMT
Morning. And another thing. Shrewsbury are not much better and could possibly be joining you next season.(Before anyone else says it)
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Post by William Wilson on Feb 10, 2019 7:59:01 GMT
Another home game and we were clueless for the first 45 minutes .... easy game plan for the opposition Press them high and they will just lump it to two little guys up front. At home JCH should start ... then at least we have some presence up front. I’m not a fan of OC but we misssed him alongside Ogogo today ...Upson May have been a better call than Lines as at least we could have won the midfield fight. Reilly and Nicholls were getting kicked and pushed off the ball constantly and we need our War Machine JCH tto at least keep the ball and lay it off. Crowd was poor today ... lots of moaning and groaning right from the start and it gets to the players for sure .. wish these people would stay away as shouting at players isn’t going to keep us up. We deserved a point just ... and are looking better away when teams come at us with the ball rathe than at home when they press us when we have the ball and panic! Agree with all that, apart from your comments on the crowd. Thought they did all they could, to lift the team. |
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Post by axegas on Feb 10, 2019 8:08:16 GMT
Ogogo looks as if he will fit in just fine at Bristol Rovers. Did really well for us at Shrewsbury last season but this season at both Coventry and Rovers he has looked Division two standard at best. This is where Rovers are headed so he should have a reasonable season next season with his clogging and consistent moaning. Rovers are worst team I have witnessed this season. They play very little football and depend to a large extent on a bear baiting crowd putting pressure on poor referees. Luckily we wont have to put up with them next season. Theres no wonder Rodman hasn't fitted in. He is a footballer with a brain and it was a bad move for him to move to a club like this. Do us a favour and give it a break. The second half showed just exactly why Shrewsbury are in the relegation zone, glad I don't have to put up with that every week. Oh and Rodman has more than fitted in, is our current top scorer and has acquitted himself admirably since Christmas, but let's not get facts get in the way of a good old rant. Enjoy League 2 next season. |
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Post by baggins on Feb 10, 2019 8:10:47 GMT
Morning. And another thing. Shrewsbury are not much better and could possibly be joining you next season.(Before anyone else says it) You can go away now. |
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 10, 2019 8:12:54 GMT
Ogogo looks as if he will fit in just fine at Bristol Rovers. Did really well for us at Shrewsbury last season but this season at both Coventry and Rovers he has looked Division two standard at best. This is where Rovers are headed so he should have a reasonable season next season with his clogging and consistent moaning. Rovers are worst team I have witnessed this season. They play very little football and depend to a large extent on a bear baiting crowd putting pressure on poor referees. Luckily we wont have to put up with them next season. Theres no wonder Rodman hasn't fitted in. He is a footballer with a brain and it was a bad move for him to move to a club like this. How many times have you watched us this season? |
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Post by worrelsterlingalbion on Feb 10, 2019 8:24:29 GMT
I think we need to play our tallest strongest and quickest forwards in these games so that when we’re forced to launch it because they’ve pressed high up the pitch we can win those balls and with the opposition so high up the pitch we can hurt them more. Not pretty but much more effective than launching it to Nichols and Reilly which as we saw today won’t really work. Jak and Harris for the games against high pressing teams. Suck them up in to our half then hit them quick with a long ball to either Harris in the air or through ball to Jakubiak. Agreed, GC's loyalty to last week's winning team cost us today, this was a game for JC & Clarke-Harris/Jak, given GC watched the Shrews at Wolves then why didn't he see that? In hindsight it was probably a mistake but how many of us thought that before ko ? I certainly didn't disagree with the starting 11 GC has said since he took over if players play well they'll keep their places so to me after the Southend performance those players deserved to play. Having said that the first half we just weren't in the game credit where it's due though we changed our system and deserved at least a point. Not sure we really did enough to win but the fight is certainly there. On to Pompey with our away form & their blip I don't see anything to fear. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 9:05:18 GMT
Have to love the loyalty... Don't really think it's your place to judge a fellow Rovers fan. It's a simple observation. A significant number of people moan on here about the owners, lack of signings etc yet are preparing to roll back their support for the club after the first poor season in a good while. Totally their decision to make but I value loyalty as a trait. |
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Post by oldgas on Feb 10, 2019 9:44:52 GMT
Agreed, GC's loyalty to last week's winning team cost us today, this was a game for JC & Clarke-Harris/Jak, given GC watched the Shrews at Wolves then why didn't he see that? You cant tell your team and everyone else that you will keep the shirt if you do well and then go back on it. Why don't you see that? Listening to the audio Bris on the way to the game GC admitted he had had sleepless nights, or noights as he said it, over whether to keep certain players in the team for Shitsbury. I think he was referring to TN & GR. He's a new manager and so yesterday will have been a lesson learned. I suspect he was concerned those dirty bastards would press high and hard, and that our 2 smaller forwards would get very few chances, so hopefully he will be prepared to adjust his selection in the future. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 9:52:36 GMT
Probably because he didn't have the opportunity to go forward in time. Agree. Their back line is tall and strong. Always liked Beckles as a defender. Horrible side to his game but so effective. Gets his head on everything. JCH should have started. I thought it was refreshing to have a centre forward on the field that could jump and win headers. I think he won about 7 headers in the time he was on. Which was about 5 more than Payne managed in 6 months. Yes I think JCH should have started ... War Machine did very well I thought against a tough and spiteful defence. |
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Post by Gassy on Feb 10, 2019 9:53:57 GMT
So GC's league form has been the following:
LWWWDDLDWD
In total:
16 points/ 10 games. If we maintain that current form of 1.6 points per game, we would end on 57 points, which should see us in L1 next season.
However our last 7 games:
7 points/ 6 games. Obviously not good enough.
Last 3 games:
5 points / 3 games. A bit of a better turn of form.
So where does that leave us? A definite improvement overall on DC (which pains me to say) but we're frustratingly inconsistent - the marks of a typical team in and around relegation.
Our next 2 games could quite easily (and most likely) see us with 0 points at the end of it and put us a good 3/4 points from safety. However we could also easily get a couple of points out of the 2 games which would be a welcome addition in the final table.
Overall though, we're definitely a harder team to beat.
Squeeky bum time indeed.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 10, 2019 9:57:52 GMT
However our last 7 games: 7 points/ 6 games. Obviously not good enough. I dunno. That would put us on 50.5 points, and we need 50.3 to stay up. |
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Post by oldgas on Feb 10, 2019 9:59:38 GMT
Ogogo looks as if he will fit in just fine at Bristol Rovers. Did really well for us at Shrewsbury last season but this season at both Coventry and Rovers he has looked Division two standard at best. This is where Rovers are headed so he should have a reasonable season next season with his clogging and consistent moaning. Rovers are worst team I have witnessed this season. They play very little football and depend to a large extent on a bear baiting crowd putting pressure on poor referees. Luckily we wont have to put up with them next season. Theres no wonder Rodman hasn't fitted in. He is a footballer with a brain and it was a bad move for him to move to a club like this. You've got some balls coming on here and accusing us of being a dirty league 2 standard side. You gave a stand-out display of anti-football yesterday, you should have had 3 players sent off, and the only side I've seen rival your lot for fouling, cheating and play-acting was Wycombe. That arsehole with the chin Ricketts went on record afer the game moaning about the ref, our tactics, blah blah blah. Classic deflection tactics because he knew his team had acted like a bunch of c unts, on his instructions, all game. Contrast that with our managers comments that the ref was the wrong choice because he is a newbie, he actually said he felt sorry for him. What he didn't say, because he is a Gentleman, is that he was the wrong choice as a newbie to referee a bunch of cheating arsehole c unts like you. A team that would spend the whole game fouling, cheating and getting in his face the whole 90 minutes. You're nothing ing but a horrible little League 2 club from Wales with a sh** team, soulless stadium and sh** crowds. |
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Feb 10, 2019 10:00:24 GMT
Agreed, GC's loyalty to last week's winning team cost us today, this was a game for JC & Clarke-Harris/Jak, given GC watched the Shrews at Wolves then why didn't he see that? In hindsight it was probably a mistake but how many of us thought that before ko ? I certainly didn't disagree with the starting 11 GC has said since he took over if players play well they'll keep their places so to me after the Southend performance those players deserved to play. Having said that the first half we just weren't in the game credit where it's due though we changed our system and deserved at least a point. Not sure we really did enough to win but the fight is certainly there. On to Pompey with our away form & their blip I don't see anything to fear. I did. Nichols is still utter sh** and Reilly is starting to match him. |
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