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Post by yategasman on Jun 17, 2020 18:21:20 GMT
Top bloke really enjoyed watching him play and getting stuck in. I will never forget the volley he scored at Blackpool Cracker!!đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ť
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Jun 17, 2020 19:52:33 GMT
Top bloke really enjoyed watching him play and getting stuck in. I will never forget the volley he scored at Blackpool Cracker!!đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ť And his bullet header at Home Park.
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Post by lpgas1 on Jun 17, 2020 21:50:36 GMT
With AK, Harries, Rollin and Tom D for CHs I suspect that will be it and the hope is that Tom D steps up to be the dominant “TC-type” leader. On the basis of his performances in the first half of the season I’m sure he can do it. Sorry to lose TC but with those 4 and after the Covid stuff can’t believe there’s money rattling around esp with the training ground starting. I suspect that it may be as much a financial decision as a football one. UTG! Supposition on the financial front, if Milwall Tone wanted to move closer to home it would be wrong to try to keep him here at the club (my supposition). In my opinion a fit Tom Davies can fill that role with Alfie and Rollin as the other centre-backs, time will tell on this one we need 4 centre backs
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Post by socrates on Jun 17, 2020 22:22:16 GMT
SteveK92 will be throwing a right wobbly at this. Craig should have been permanent captain. I am with SteveK92 on this one. Ollie was not a good example last season to his team mates and certainly wasn't inspirational. Whereas Tone was. He should have been captain even though many may argue the position holds little responsibility. Had Tone been given the role might he have considered staying on for another season as the senior pro. We will miss him. It certainly looks like that on matchdays but a fairly consistent run of managers have made Olly Clarke captain and there is more to a football club than what the fans only see on match days . DC , Coggers and now Garner have all made Olly captain. Thing is with those experienced players who have that natural leadership quality it doesn’t matter if they’re wearing an armband or not they have that quality and are of that personality anyway. An armband or not doesn’t make any difference to them. We do need more toughness and experience in the squad though I feel and with that comes leadership , Olly might struggle to captain the side through difficult spells without experienced professionals like Tony Craig around.
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Post by socrates on Jun 17, 2020 22:37:54 GMT
Lockyer? Funny - I didn’t actually rate him too highly as a captain Macca was a better player and a better captain than Craig. Lots of dewy eyed rewriting of history on this thread. We have been water poor for 2 seasons during which captain fantastic has clearly not been the inspiration that many are claiming. He was an aging player who was no better than decent for us. Not awful, but certainly not the best Captain in 10 years! Lmfao Mc Crystal was pretty poor and made mistakes and looked too slow and not good enough for league football at times and struggled in a poor side in our relegation season but was decent in the conference, however nowhere near as good a centre half as Tony Craig who even in his final years held his own in league 1 and played much of his career in the championship by all means correct me if I’m wrong. Don’t get me wrong I love Macca for helping us get back in the league but while he was doing that Craig was playing in the championship. Tony Craig was a much better defender for us than Mc Crystal. And overall in his career Played higher level and delt with better strikers not only with us but throughout. To go out in your mid 30s playing in league 1 and still playing well and pretty much captaining a side as he has with a pretty poor side to league 1 mid table is something Mc Crystal would have dreamed of doing. And that by no means is an offence to Mark McCrystal he was a very good honest hard working professional and I’m so glad we had him there in our conference season he was just the kind of player we needed. And for what my opinion is worth isn’t only my opinion it’s based on facts and statistic too. Winning promotion from non league is Mark Mc Crystals biggest honour as a professional and that day was arguably our most important day as lifelong supporters, look at Tony Craig’s seasons for us , the division that we were in during those seasons and then think about dewy eyed re- writing of history.
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Post by spiess1 on Jun 18, 2020 7:03:07 GMT
Just the 600 games.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 8:09:16 GMT
Loved Big Tone - a great mentor for our young defenders. I would have like him to be Captain - he certainly had the credentials, captaining Millwall when they were promoted to the Championship.
Good luck to him + thanks for the memories.
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Post by teanbiscuits on Jun 18, 2020 8:21:12 GMT
The way we won that night shows the respect the lads have for him.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Jun 18, 2020 8:42:19 GMT
Macca was a better player and a better captain than Craig. Lots of dewy eyed rewriting of history on this thread. We have been water poor for 2 seasons during which captain fantastic has clearly not been the inspiration that many are claiming. He was an aging player who was no better than decent for us. Not awful, but certainly not the best Captain in 10 years! Lmfao Mc Crystal was pretty poor and made mistakes and looked too slow and not good enough for league football at times and struggled in a poor side in our relegation season but was decent in the conference, however nowhere near as good a centre half as Tony Craig who even in his final years held his own in league 1 and played much of his career in the championship by all means correct me if I’m wrong. Don’t get me wrong I love Macca for helping us get back in the league but while he was doing that Craig was playing in the championship. Tony Craig was a much better defender for us than Mc Crystal. And overall in his career Played higher level and delt with better strikers not only with us but throughout. To go out in your mid 30s playing in league 1 and still playing well and pretty much captaining a side as he has with a pretty poor side to league 1 mid table is something Mc Crystal would have dreamed of doing. And that by no means is an offence to Mark McCrystal he was a very good honest hard working professional and I’m so glad we had him there in our conference season he was just the kind of player we needed. And for what my opinion is worth isn’t only my opinion it’s based on facts and statistic too. Winning promotion from non league is Mark Mc Crystals biggest honour as a professional and that day was arguably our most important day as lifelong supporters, look at Tony Craig’s seasons for us , the division that we were in during those seasons and then think about dewy eyed re- writing of history. But it's not a like for like comparison. I understand that throughout his career Craig was a better player than Macca and I also get that at the end of his career he was able to be a reasonable L1 player. None of that is relevant because I am only interested in what they did in a Rovers shirt. It's just my opinion that Macca was a better leader,more commanding at the back than and much more vital than Craig albeit at different levels. I'm sure there is an argument to be made that if Craig had played at Conference/L2 he would have been outstanding. But he didnt. And he didnt play 600 games in the championship for Rovers either.
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Post by wilmslowgas on Jun 18, 2020 10:15:04 GMT
I'm not really bothered about comparing the two players although an analysis of both careers will show that Craig was the better player.
However, in a Rovers shirt both were really effective defenders and leaders. Both players were appreciated by the majority of fans for their commitment to the cause and both players will be fondly remembered.
McCrystal was also an useful goalkeeper!
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Post by philbemmygas on Jun 18, 2020 11:02:28 GMT
Supposition on the financial front, if Milwall Tone wanted to move closer to home it would be wrong to try to keep him here at the club (my supposition). In my opinion a fit Tom Davies can fill that role with Alfie and Rollin as the other centre-backs, time will tell on this one Stick to what your good at Phil. Drinking warm beer. Pffft, at least you believe I am good at drinking warm beer - lol
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 7:04:06 GMT
Post will be publishing an interview later today - apparently he wasn't offered a new contract.
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Post by daniel300380 on Jun 24, 2020 7:23:42 GMT
Supposition on the financial front, if Milwall Tone wanted to move closer to home it would be wrong to try to keep him here at the club (my supposition). In my opinion a fit Tom Davies can fill that role with Alfie and Rollin as the other centre-backs, time will tell on this one we need 4 centre backs We have 4 centre backs. We had 5 and were suprised when we signed Harries from Swansea. Maybe the club already had an idea that Craig would be leaving.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Jun 24, 2020 7:35:20 GMT
Post will be publishing an interview later today - apparently he wasn't offered a new contract. Tony Craig has revealed he was not offered a new contract by Bristol Rovers this summer, but the veteran centre-half holds no grudges over his exit. The 35-year-old was released this month after a fine two-and-a-half years at the Mem. Centre-back Craig, who earned fan-favourite status among Gasheads for his throwback style and passion on the pitch, leaves the Mem with more than 100 appearances for the Pirates – missing just one league game during his tenure. The Londoner – revered for his no-nonsense “Millwall Tone” persona on the grass – has confirmed he has no intentions of hanging his boots up just yet, but he will not don the blue and white quarters again. “It was a discussion between me and Ben Garner and he said there wasn’t a contract there for me next season, so I didn’t have to make a decision,” Craig revealed exclusively to Bristol Live. “Obviously with the way Ben and the club want to go next season, they want to go in a different direction and that’s football. “Players come and go and at the end of the day they’re just a number and in my years in Bristol I’ve seen a lot of players come and go.” Despite Garner deciding against offering Craig a new contract, the centre-half believes the Rovers boss – who secured two wins in three months prior to the season being curtailed – has the tools to deliver success at the Mem. “Ben’s come in with his own philosophy of how he wants to play, and I suppose that’s very different,” Craig said. “It will be shown when he gets the boys back for pre-season. “Christmas is a difficult time to come in. The side was settled and we weren’t in a bad position, so it was a difficult one of whether he should stick to the way we were playing or does he go to his own philosophy. "It was tricky. There were some players stuck in the mindset of how we used to play and the best thing for Ben is to do his pre-season, get in the players he wants and take the club wherever he sees fit. “He’s a very good coach and his training sessions were very good. It’s one of them with the rut that we were in, we weren’t clinical enough or we weren’t getting the rub of the green.”
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Post by bluebiro on Jun 24, 2020 8:20:48 GMT
Should have been kept on as player coach with a new manager in place
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Post by chewbacca on Jun 24, 2020 8:29:17 GMT
There we go then. The months of "he wants to move back to London" quashed. To be fair, he's not really a Garner style of player what with him being competent at football.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Jun 24, 2020 8:42:03 GMT
He just got on with it.Rarely ever injured.Great memories like Mark Mc Chrystal. P.S.Crewe have announced this morning that none of their players are expected to be leaving them this summer.
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Post by singupgas on Jun 24, 2020 8:42:21 GMT
Let's be honest TC, along with Sercombe and Nichols was probably amongst our highest earners. The wage bill probably had 10k plus a week shaved off it.
Shame Tony had to go though, hard to replace that experience, great organiser and mentor for the younger players.
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Post by chewbacca on Jun 24, 2020 8:44:30 GMT
Let's be honest TC, along with Sercombe and Nichols was probably amongst our highest earners. The wage bill probably had 10k plus a week shaved off it. Shame Tony had to go though, hard to replace that experience, great organiser and mentor for the younger players. I mean, we didn't offer him a new deal on reduced terms so he clearly wasn't wanted. The new policy is to sign young Football Manager regens.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 8:45:54 GMT
Disappointed.
A dignified exit interview - best of luck to him for the future.
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