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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 17, 2020 21:55:55 GMT
Your just acting like a total kn0b now, you now as well as the rest of us who look good signings on paper, whether they actually play well in the quarters is anybody's guess. Ok,i will try with you. Which signings are quality? Define what you mean by "quality" and I'll do my best to answer your question if you can't work it out for yourself.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 0:44:59 GMT
Ok,i will try with you. Which signings are quality? Define what you mean by "quality" and I'll do my best to answer your question if you can't work it out for yourself. Others on here keep saying "quality" i imagine relative to rovers so i just wondered who is prepared to name these quality players? I do not know any of them?
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 18, 2020 5:47:24 GMT
So you've never previously heard of Gillingham's ex captain Ehmer or Coventry's Westbrook even though you follow Rovers to the extent that you've attended Development Squad games?
As other posters have said none of us know how these players will perform for Rovers, but on paper they at least look decent quality signings, although Nichols also did 3 summers ago!
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Post by Jomo on Aug 18, 2020 6:53:29 GMT
Define what you mean by "quality" and I'll do my best to answer your question if you can't work it out for yourself. Others on here keep saying "quality" i imagine relative to rovers so i just wondered who is prepared to name these quality players? I do not know any of them? I named two of them for you yesterday and you responded. You really are on one aren't you? Whatever it takes for you to get some release and chill out, maybe go off and do that before you come back on here on the windup.
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 18, 2020 9:11:00 GMT
Blimey, this is a bit of a circular argument in a square box isn’t it? The signings this year have been the best for many summers. But at the moment everything is on paper and as ever, there are no guarantees. But to criticise people for being optimistic and expressing that optimism is somewhat puzzling. This is a football forum for fans from BRFC. What are we meant to do? Not mention them for a few few months until they start playing when we can see what they are actually like? Are we not allowed to talk about until September 1st? Bit unrealistic isn’t it? It’s all about opinions and people differ. Of course we’re going to talk optimistically about them but no one is saying we’re going to p*** this league. (Well one or two might be but I’m sure it’s tongue-in-cheek) But we can look forward to a season where we might challenge in the top half if the signings play to their potentials. To expect gasheads not to be optimistic after this summer makes no sense, be wary by all means but don’t try and poor water on our hopes. Let’s enjoy the ride and where it’s taking us! 😉 UTG!
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Post by stevek192 on Aug 18, 2020 11:05:40 GMT
I answered your question on quality players. If you leave it right near the end this year there is no guarantee they will want to sign for us,there is no guarantee they will be cheaper and no guarantee they will be better. As I said before BG has confirmed we are still in a profit on wages compared to what we had last season ie the players we have in have cost us less than the ones who went out. We have already played two friendlies with the new players here and will probably get another few friendlies in to bed the players in which if we followed your method we would be throwing a team together for the first game. Nothing is guaranteed in football but I personally don't think you can get much better than Ehmer, Baldwin, Grant, Nicholson and Westbrooke.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 11:15:12 GMT
So you've never previously heard of Gillingham's ex captain Ehmer or Coventry's Westbrook even though you follow Rovers to the extent that you've attended Development Squad games? As other posters have said none of us know how these players will perform for Rovers, but on paper they at least look decent quality signings, although Nichols also did 3 summers ago! Well, quite. Riordan was talked up, Mathews was talked up, Nichols etc etc. If I had a quid for every signing that’s been talked up to death on here and then flopped I’d be a very rich man. I would have thought people would learn their lesson and just let the proof be in the pudding so to speak but it does seem to be the job of the football fan to act as hype merchant for their club’s transfer dealings: “ZOMG! This is our best transfer window since...the last one!!!11” etc. In fact IIRC history tells us that the unheralded signings (JCH, guilty of rubbishing that one myself I admit, Jaakola, Lambert) have a way of causing bigger waves than the ones considered great buys at our level. There might be something in that.
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Post by philbemmygas on Aug 18, 2020 11:29:35 GMT
Like every season, until we get going we won't really know how good these signings are. However there is undisputed quality on display there.
Not many weeks and we will find out either way - UTG
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Post by baggins on Aug 18, 2020 11:33:27 GMT
Like every season, until we get going we won't really know how good these signings are. However there is undisputed quality on display there. Not many weeks and we will find out either way - UTG So bottom 4 by Christmas then.
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Post by philbemmygas on Aug 18, 2020 11:41:36 GMT
Like every season, until we get going we won't really know how good these signings are. However there is undisputed quality on display there. Not many weeks and we will find out either way - UTG So bottom 4 by Christmas then. Being pragmatic, mid-table. Would like to think top six
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Post by baggins on Aug 18, 2020 11:45:31 GMT
So bottom 4 by Christmas then. Being pragmatic, mid-table. Would like to think top six Depending on how much you've had to drink?
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Post by Hudson1883 on Aug 18, 2020 11:58:59 GMT
Let’s just go back to bringing in the likes of Alex Wall & Brad Goldberg and keep these doom merchants happy.
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Post by Marshy on Aug 18, 2020 12:01:08 GMT
Let’s just go back to bringing in the likes of Alex Wall & Brad Goldberg and keep these doom merchants happy. They weren’t as good as Andy Bond & Kevin Street.
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Post by baggins on Aug 18, 2020 12:04:57 GMT
Let’s just go back to bringing in the likes of Alex Wall & Brad Goldberg and keep these doom merchants happy. Who the hell?
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Post by Marshy on Aug 18, 2020 12:07:15 GMT
Let’s just go back to bringing in the likes of Alex Wall & Brad Goldberg and keep these doom merchants happy. Who the hell? Jamie White?
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 18, 2020 12:10:53 GMT
So you've never previously heard of Gillingham's ex captain Ehmer or Coventry's Westbrook even though you follow Rovers to the extent that you've attended Development Squad games? As other posters have said none of us know how these players will perform for Rovers, but on paper they at least look decent quality signings, although Nichols also did 3 summers ago! Well, quite. Riordan was talked up, Mathews was talked up, Nichols etc etc. If I had a quid for every signing that’s been talked up to death on here and then flopped I’d be a very rich man. I would have thought people would learn their lesson and just let the proof be in the pudding so to speak but it does seem to be the job of the football fan to act as hype merchant for their club’s transfer dealings: “ZOMG! This is our best transfer window since...the last one!!!11” etc. In fact IIRC history tells us that the unheralded signings (JCH, guilty of rubbishing that one myself I admit, Jaakola, Lambert) have a way of causing bigger waves than the ones considered great buys at our level. There might be something in that. We paid £250K for Lambert which was decent money for an L2(?) player from Rochdale, Jaakola was an international goalie and JCH an ex Championship young striker, not sure those players are the best examples of players with no previous pedigree before we signed them! Ogogo was also an experienced L1 player. Not sure why certain fans only seem content to look for negatives, if we hadn't signed any players they'd be posting Wael's a fake and not it's a clever move to wait nearer to transfer deadline day, although how can we really wait until late September to sign a CB and CM anyway.
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Post by baggins on Aug 18, 2020 12:32:37 GMT
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Post by Marshy on Aug 18, 2020 12:39:55 GMT
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 18, 2020 12:50:00 GMT
Hindsight’s a wonderful thing. I always thought Jamie White was the kind of player we should be signing. We’d been crap up front, we’d just gone out of the league, he had a very good record for non league, DC knew him. It could have been great. What we didn’t realise was his injuries had taken a toll and he wasn’t the player DC remembered. But to be fair to DC once he realised he cut his losses. Feel sorry for the lad because he had a great record as a youth player at Southampton and his scoring record was excellent. Just didn’t work out. He was at least talented I’m not sure some of the others were. UTG!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 14:26:21 GMT
So you've never previously heard of Gillingham's ex captain Ehmer or Coventry's Westbrook even though you follow Rovers to the extent that you've attended Development Squad games? As other posters have said none of us know how these players will perform for Rovers, but on paper they at least look decent quality signings, although Nichols also did 3 summers ago! At most i see the players when they play rovers and then only odd players really stand out and if they do it might not be representative of their season. Coventry looked really good against us but it was the city loan player who stood out for me. I am a bit baffled as to why people think this seasons signings are better than say last seasons? I hope they are.
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