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Post by comptondandogas on Apr 22, 2019 22:43:03 GMT
Two league goals in 75 appearances Prolific - extend his contract before we lose him in the summer How many goals has he been involved in compared to Jakubiak? Nichols output whilst poor is still much better than the others. But how many minutes has Nichols had compared to others? Jakubiak has had comparatively little opportunity. i'd happily bet that Bernard Mensah would have done better for us this season than Nichols has
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Post by Icegas on Apr 22, 2019 23:32:15 GMT
100% if we keep the same squad we are down by Christmas. Strange logic given the league table since GC took the helm. Not really as we are completley sh**! Im a fan of GC and he has done a good job,and think we have 5/6 good L1 players here.And some how GC has pulled this sh** squad to a position of almost safety even after todays result. But this squad wont be able to do the same next season as they have done since DC left on grit and desire alone.If left just to that we are going down in 24th place.
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Post by socrates on Apr 22, 2019 23:57:28 GMT
This post is my first for god knows how many years and having spent enough time up and down the M4 in recent months and further afield, I am lost for words to describe this excuse for a footballer. In my 44 years of going to watch My favourite club I cannot think of a more ineffective forward or come to think of it, a footballer. Opposing Managers must see our team sheet and rub there hands in glee. The Rochdale managers last minute instructions to his defenders would have been ‘double up on JCH, the other guy is useless’ And yet again he did not disappoint. He falls over more than Lewis Halsane ever did,. Wear some studs rather than slippers, it will help.. Can’t hold the ball up, can’t win a header and can’t beat a man. It therefore begs the question what in God’s name is he doing on the pitch. Today’s performance was probably the worst of many woeful this season but when you start a game with effectively 10 men what is to be expected. We ain’t out the relegation woods yet and it is scary to think that should we stay up there are at least four teams worse than us Best part of today was the well deserved applause for Lindsay Parsons. The scariest thing is he’s our second best forward player. Nichols has actually played quite well this season and has mostly put himself about and been our most creative player. Just goes to show how lacking we are in midfield creativity. A lot of what Harris has done well has been alongside Nichols and they’ve built a decent partnership together and that’s shown in all the games they’ve played together other than today. He’s our top assists player this season and going back to what I was saying on another thread we just simply haven’t got any kind of playmaker now lines has been dropped, so that is why Nichols is there, he generally hasn’t been as poor as he was today and if we’d gone with the lightweight and out of his depth Reilly or the head down run in to trouble Jakubiak in every game rather than Nichols we’d be relegated now because literally no one would have created the space or chances for those goals. Tom Nichols goal record is water poor and last season pretty much everything else he did was poor too I couldn’t stand him, he spent more time combing his bloody hair with his hand than getting involved with play. But this season he’s been decent and linked up play in the final third when nobody else has looked most of the time either interested or capable of doing it. Tom Nichols isn’t the reason we’ve been in trouble this season he’s one of the best technical players at the club and without him we literally wouldn’t have anyone capable of keeping possession and bringing people in to play ( yes I know he was crap today I’m talking about the whole season ). The reason weve been sh**e this season is because we’ve got no wide men , the wide men we have all run in to the middle the second we win the ball. Inside forwards. We’ve got very little pace in our squad. Weve got very little creativity ( playmakers ) Nichols at least gives us a bit of creativity without him in the team we are much worse. That doesn’t mean he’s great it means this squad and formation has no pace no width and no creativity either if neither Nichols or lines start.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 0:03:42 GMT
Hasn't worked out for Nichols here, his record is abysmal, having said that he is not complete sh**e, we've had worse but he's on a par with Mickey Evans for what we paid for him. Evans had a better record tho
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Post by CrispPusher on Apr 23, 2019 1:35:23 GMT
Will probably be remembered as the worst player to ever play for Rovers, due to fee paid and goal return and boy did he show it today.
Not all bad though as he provided some laughs at the pub as I tried to explain how he still gets selected to a bemused City supporter and his mate.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Apr 23, 2019 4:19:40 GMT
I sh!t you not, there are some Gas that still believe Nichols should be in the team and he'll come good one day..
Unbelievable.
One of them is GC.
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Post by oldgas on Apr 23, 2019 5:01:48 GMT
What is even more difficult to understand is this: There is no need for anyone at the club to save face over Nicholls. The 2 men responsible for his recruitment have left the club. I believe that DC spent a considerable amount of money on recruiting Nicholls on Marcus Stewart's recommendation. Coughlin doesn't have to prove anything regarding Nicholls, in fact for him it's a case of Mo mea Culpa.
Who knows, perhaps GC knows Nicholls is a pile of crap and is only playing him because at the moment he has little option. Perhaps he thinks that most of the previous managers forward are sh1te and once the season is over and we are hopefully safe, he will have a clear out of the forwards department and bring in some who can actually stick the ball in the net. And on a regular basis.
For a renowned forward himself, Stewart was pretty sh1t at spotting talent, his legacy includes James and Nicholls!
And before anyone starts on about The Snake, that was no more than a cheap, speculative punt. He hadn't done anything before, and we got lucky there. What they didn't spot was his Trecherous, disloyal attitude. The little Lady Garden.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 5:37:02 GMT
What is even more difficult to understand is this: There is no need for anyone at the club to save face over Nicholls. The 2 men responsible for his recruitment have left the club. I believe that DC spent a considerable amount of money on recruiting Nicholls on Marcus Stewart's recommendation. Coughlin doesn't have to prove anything regarding Nicholls, in fact for him it's a case of Mo mea Culpa. Who knows, perhaps GC knows Nicholls is a pile of crap and is only playing him because at the moment he has little option. Perhaps he thinks that most of the previous managers forward are sh1te and once the season is over and we are hopefully safe, he will have a clear out of the forwards department and bring in some who can actually stick the ball in the net. And on a regular basis. For a renowned forward himself, Stewart was pretty sh1t at spotting talent, his legacy includes James and Nicholls! And before anyone starts on about The Snake, that was no more than a cheap, speculative punt. He hadn't done anything before, and we got lucky there. What they didn't spot was his Trecherous, disloyal attitude. The little Lady Garden. So, the poor signings were the fault of the manager / assistant, but the good ones were just lucky... Ok.
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Post by chilly1883 on Apr 23, 2019 7:01:13 GMT
The whole squad needs major improvement, I’m a little disappointed in myself for already buying a season ticket. £560 of my hard earned cash, on 3 season tickets. I really hope that we’re given more entertainment than this season, because most of it has been pretty pathetic.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Apr 23, 2019 7:07:51 GMT
I sh!t you not, there are some Gas that still believe Nichols should be in the team and he'll come good one day.. Unbelievable. One of them is GC. We don't have anything better to work with JCH and how we play. Maybe there is a better way of doing it. Maybe some way of just playing with JCH up front, or with Jak or Reilly up there with him in some way, but we haven't found it despite looking. I don't think anyone is still saying he'll come good (in the sense that he'll start scoring goals for us) but I think it's a reasonable position to say that we haven't got anything better atm. I sh!t you not. What would you play that is better?
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 23, 2019 7:10:34 GMT
What is even more difficult to understand is this: There is no need for anyone at the club to save face over Nicholls. The 2 men responsible for his recruitment have left the club. I believe that DC spent a considerable amount of money on recruiting Nicholls on Marcus Stewart's recommendation. Coughlin doesn't have to prove anything regarding Nicholls, in fact for him it's a case of Mo mea Culpa. Who knows, perhaps GC knows Nicholls is a pile of crap and is only playing him because at the moment he has little option. Perhaps he thinks that most of the previous managers forward are sh1te and once the season is over and we are hopefully safe, he will have a clear out of the forwards department and bring in some who can actually stick the ball in the net. And on a regular basis. For a renowned forward himself, Stewart was pretty sh1t at spotting talent, his legacy includes James and Nicholls! And before anyone starts on about The Snake, that was no more than a cheap, speculative punt. He hadn't done anything before, and we got lucky there. What they didn't spot was his Trecherous, disloyal attitude. The little Lady Garden. So, the poor signings were the fault of the manager / assistant, but the good ones were just lucky... Ok. Looking at his big signings once we made it to Div 1, Nichols, Bennett, Mensah, Parts, Payne you do have to wonder if he found himself totally out of his depth, whether GC/TW can turn sort the mess out over the summer will be interesting to see.
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 23, 2019 7:14:39 GMT
I sh!t you not, there are some Gas that still believe Nichols should be in the team and he'll come good one day.. Unbelievable. One of them is GC. We don't have anything better to work with JCH and how we play. Maybe there is a better way of doing it. Maybe some way of just playing with JCH up front, or with Jak or Reilly up there with him in some way, but we haven't found it despite looking. I don't think anyone is still saying he'll come good (in the sense that he'll start scoring goals for us) but I think it's a reasonable position to say that we haven't got anything better atm. I sh!t you not. What would you play that is better?
That's the question anybody who slags off Nichols can't answer, at the Mem Reilly plays like a kid lost, Jak just head down and runs into opposing players, Sercs behind JCH didn't seem to work, so TN is the best we have, I guess that must make Reilly & Jak even more scary?? I still feel GC has somehow pulled off a miracle keeping us up but fans still slag him off.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 7:20:09 GMT
Strange logic given the league table since GC took the helm. Not really as we are completley sh**! Im a fan of GC and he has done a good job,and think we have 5/6 good L1 players here.And some how GC has pulled this sh** squad to a position of almost safety even after todays result. But this squad wont be able to do the same next season as they have done since DC left on grit and desire alone.If left just to that we are going down in 24th place. Don't agree with that. Yesterday was poor but this is just OTT and black and white thinking. Clearly we need additions to push on however.
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Post by Henbury Gas on Apr 23, 2019 7:21:09 GMT
Will probably be remembered as the worst player to ever play for Rovers, due to fee paid and goal return and boy did he show it today. Not all bad though as he provided some laughs at the pub as I tried to explain how he still gets selected to a bemused City supporter and his mate. So you think he is worst than that idiot DC signed from Shrewsbury at the beginning of the season...... At least Tom N try's which is a dam sight better than that lazy twat Payne
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Post by blueblood1883 on Apr 23, 2019 7:29:38 GMT
Joebananas, now there's a blast from the past! Good old Joe, quite a controversial poster on the old forum if I've got my timelines correct, otherwise it was ages ago on here. Anyway, despite some pretty heated discussions I always respected his opinions even if a lot of the time I disagreed with them. Welcome back Joe...
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Post by farmygas on Apr 23, 2019 7:42:11 GMT
You'd think he would've made efforts to work on his lightweightness over almost two years but apparently not and now he's forgotten how to stand up. He's not the worst player I've seen at Rovers but he is the most bafflingly long persevered with bad player. Over two managers as well! Don't think it does anyone any good to have him here next season.
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Apr 23, 2019 7:44:17 GMT
So, the poor signings were the fault of the manager / assistant, but the good ones were just lucky... Ok. Looking at his big signings once we made it to Div 1, Nichols, Bennett, Mensah, Parts, Payne you do have to wonder if he found himself totally out of his depth, whether GC/TW can turn sort the mess out over the summer will be interesting to see. For balance, he also signed Holmes-Dennis, Craig, Bonham and Sercombe, who didn’t turn out so badly. It’s true that recruitment could have been better and the strikers have been really poor, but he hasn’t only signed duds. Nichols has been done to death, but looking at his previous record and the type of player he is, it’s easy to see why we signed him, having just lost the snake. He appears to have lost any confidence even to get into shooting positions. A lot of that must be psychological. Maybe the right coach could make him tick again but it might be too ingrained now. Shame.
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Post by kabatiti on Apr 23, 2019 8:04:00 GMT
I have found it frustrating that our younger strikers haven't been given more of a chance. We paid money for Kavanagh a couple of years ago after he scored lots of goals for Newports youth team. He has looked good in development games and scored goals for Hungerford in a relegation battle. Moore has looked decent every time I have seen him and he was in Peterboroughs first team a couple of years ago and didn't leave for footballing reasons. Some might say a relegation battle isn't the time to bring in youngsters however GC said post Doncaster Moore asked to come on when 4-0 nil down and Kavanagh has already played in a relegation battle in the Conference South this season. People will say the coaches will know when they are ready however I wonder if it has more to do with the coaches not being brave enough to drop senior pros for youngsters?
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Post by markczgas on Apr 23, 2019 8:36:56 GMT
I have found it frustrating that our younger strikers haven't been given more of a chance. We paid money for Kavanagh a couple of years ago after he scored lots of goals for Newports youth team. He has looked good in development games and scored goals for Hungerford in a relegation battle. Moore has looked decent every time I have seen him and he was in Peterboroughs first team a couple of years ago and didn't leave for footballing reasons. Some might say a relegation battle isn't the time to bring in youngsters however GC said post Doncaster Moore asked to come on when 4-0 nil down and Kavanagh has already played in a relegation battle in the Conference South this season. People will say the coaches will know when they are ready however I wonder if it has more to do with the coaches not being brave enough to drop senior pros for youngsters? You can't throw them in when every point is vital near the end - it could ruin them. Yes give youth a chance but needs to be done at the start or middle of the season. Jakubiak will be going back, possibly Payne and Nichols off-loaded so yes one of those young lads could be no.4 striker. BUT JCH needs a new partner who can take the goal scoring load of his shoulders next season.
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Post by William Wilson on Apr 23, 2019 9:01:04 GMT
We don't have anything better to work with JCH and how we play. Maybe there is a better way of doing it. Maybe some way of just playing with JCH up front, or with Jak or Reilly up there with him in some way, but we haven't found it despite looking. I don't think anyone is still saying he'll come good (in the sense that he'll start scoring goals for us) but I think it's a reasonable position to say that we haven't got anything better atm. I sh!t you not. What would you play that is better?
I still feel GC has somehow pulled off a miracle keeping us up but fans still slag him off. "Somehow"? We all know how he`s kept us up. He bought a striker in January, who scored vital goals, ( sometimes pretty much independently of the rest of the team ) that have taken us out of the bottom four. Without Harris, we`d be down now.
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