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Post by bluegas on Feb 21, 2021 13:39:21 GMT
TW claims he disagreed with BG that 3 strikers were sufficient, if BG was going down the inexperienced route not sure there's anyway TW could sign say Pitman and then say "there you go play him" forget this inexperienced nonsense. TW is getting grief for a direction BG decided to take the club, I assume with Wael's full support. Interviewer: “Are there the goals in this team to stay up” Widdrington: “100%” 18 games left. If we do manage to stay up, he will have been right. Not sure what you expect him to say. |
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Post by kingswoodpirate70 on Feb 21, 2021 13:43:42 GMT
Thought it was a game we should have been winning by time they scored. Also thought hanlan was favourite to win the ball in the build up to there first and should have won the ball. If he had of done they wouldn’t have scored at that point. We seemed to get jittery after that could have won the game though with the chances we made
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 21, 2021 14:23:54 GMT
TW claims he disagreed with BG that 3 strikers were sufficient, if BG was going down the inexperienced route not sure there's anyway TW could sign say Pitman and then say "there you go play him" forget this inexperienced nonsense. TW is getting grief for a direction BG decided to take the club, I assume with Wael's full support. Interviewer: “Are there the goals in this team to stay up” Widdrington: “100%” I’m glad he’s saying that. What do you expect him to say really? He’s the manager and has to face the players in training, I would hope he is showing confidence in them. Tis, perhaps didn’t, and look how that went. Yesterday I thought Hanlan and Ayunga were a handful for Gillingham and we should have got something. We didn’t so all it all goes a bit mad on here. I hope TW is keeping his cool and building up the players in all ways for this weeks matches. UTG! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2021 14:39:16 GMT
Interviewer: “Are there the goals in this team to stay up” Widdrington: “100%” 18 games left. If we do manage to stay up, he will have been right. Not sure what you expect him to say. I was responding to Topper saying he thought 3 strikers wasn’t enough- he’s obviously changed his mind since judging by the unequivocal way he responded to that question. He thinks that we have all the tools to score the goals we need. Past performance (including Saturday) suggests he’s wrong. But we’ll see on Tuesday. If we can’t score against Wigan, well, no more needs be said... |
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Post by bluegas on Feb 21, 2021 14:41:23 GMT
Interviewer: “Are there the goals in this team to stay up” Widdrington: “100%” I’m glad he’s saying that. What do you expect him to say really? He’s the manager and has to face the players in training, I would hope he is showing confidence in them. Tis, perhaps didn’t, and look how that went. Yesterday I thought Hanlan and Ayunga were a handful for Gillingham and we should have got something. We didn’t so all it all goes a bit mad on here. I hope TW is keeping his cool and building up the players in all ways for this weeks matches. UTG! I listened to the iPlayer commentary by local Kent guys. BH and JA certainly had them worried. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2021 14:47:08 GMT
Interviewer: “Are there the goals in this team to stay up” Widdrington: “100%” I’m glad he’s saying that. What do you expect him to say really? He’s the manager and has to face the players in training, I would hope he is showing confidence in them. Tis, perhaps didn’t, and look how that went. Yesterday I thought Hanlan and Ayunga were a handful for Gillingham and we should have got something. We didn’t so all it all goes a bit mad on here. I hope TW is keeping his cool and building up the players in all ways for this weeks matches. UTG! Well there are ways of answering that question aren’t there that don’t involve putting your balls in a guillotine! I think they’re called “politician’s answers”. It came good against Portsmouth...but on yesterday’s evidence his rampant bullishness with regards to the strikers looked rather more misplaced. Have they honestly got the goals in them? Hanlan has 8 which is a good return considering by trade he’s more of a winger and not a goal scorer...but on the flip side he’s not scored in an age. Nicholson does not traditionally score more than he has already in a season. Ayunga and Daly Unknown’s. At the moment you’d be pretty ballsy to put money on all four getting 10 goals or more between them between now and the end of the season. The problem is that the rest of the team isn’t exactly chipping in either so if the strikers don’t score the 0 next to Bristol Rovers is not likely to be troubled. The one ray of light that is an improvement (and why Widdrington should carry on) is that at least we seem to be creating chances. The strikers need to step up now or we’re ******, frankly. |
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Post by bluegas on Feb 21, 2021 14:49:07 GMT
18 games left. If we do manage to stay up, he will have been right. Not sure what you expect him to say. I was responding to Topper saying he thought 3 strikers wasn’t enough- he’s obviously changed his mind since judging by the unequivocal way he responded to that question. He thinks that we have all the tools to score the goals we need. Past performance (including Saturday) suggests he’s wrong. But we’ll see on Tuesday. If we can’t score against Wigan, well, no more needs be said... You mean TW said it, not Topper. I take your point and we certainly aren't prolific scorers, but it's all we've got now and Tommy, as Wareham says, has to instill confidence in them. They didn't look too bad against Pompey. They're young/inexperienced and are going to be erratic, but we've got no-one else. |
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Post by alanrg on Feb 21, 2021 14:51:52 GMT
Unfortunately can not c us staying up we won’t score enough goals and the defence seem incapable of keeping clean sheets
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2021 15:02:07 GMT
I was responding to Topper saying he thought 3 strikers wasn’t enough- he’s obviously changed his mind since judging by the unequivocal way he responded to that question. He thinks that we have all the tools to score the goals we need. Past performance (including Saturday) suggests he’s wrong. But we’ll see on Tuesday. If we can’t score against Wigan, well, no more needs be said... You mean TW said it, not Topper. I take your point and we certainly aren't prolific scorers, but it's all we've got now and Tommy, as Wareham says, has to instill confidence in them. They didn't look too bad against Pompey. They're young/inexperienced and are going to be erratic, but we've got no-one else. Totally agree with your appraisal of the situation, for whatever reason we didn’t get anyone in and we have to soldier on and support the team. As I said to Wareham my issue is just with his response of “100%” because if they don’t score the goals we need (on form it’s more likely that they won’t and we will need goals from the rest of the team) and we go down that quote will come back to haunt him massively. He’s put his reputation on the line |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2021 15:03:53 GMT
Unfortunately can not c us staying up we won’t score enough goals and the defence seem incapable of keeping clean sheets Given that’s the case I’m hoping that whatever happens we have plans to bring in striker and defence coaches for the remainder of the season. Surely there are some former Rovers players who could help out? Byron Anthony is at the club so you would think he would be involved in defence coaching? |
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 21, 2021 15:31:39 GMT
TW claims he disagreed with BG that 3 strikers were sufficient, if BG was going down the inexperienced route not sure there's anyway TW could sign say Pitman and then say "there you go play him" forget this inexperienced nonsense. TW is getting grief for a direction BG decided to take the club, I assume with Wael's full support. Interviewer: “Are there the goals in this team to stay up” Widdrington: “100%” What would you prefer him to have said 'no as I'm not a magician', I can see that going down well amongst both the fans and players. I don't know where you get this nonsense BH was a winger from as he played at No 10 last season for Gillingham and he's never given the impression playing for Rovers he'd be suited to playing on the wing rather than down the middle. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 21, 2021 15:34:29 GMT
"Midfield 4 Nicholson Oxtumer McCormick and Rodman."
Our defence hardly has any protection in front of it as it is, with that midfield we may as well just can't concede the rest of our matches 3-0. Plus neither Nicko and Ozt are fully fit anyway.
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Post by peterhooper57 on Feb 21, 2021 16:20:59 GMT
"Midfield 4 Nicholson Oxtumer McCormick and Rodman." Our defence hardly has any protection in front of it as it is, with that midfield we may as well just can't concede the rest of our matches 3-0. Plus neither Nicko and Ozt are fully fit anyway. We watched yesterday as three defenders stared at a ball coming out of the sky, not one of them made any effort to try and head the thing, and then stood back and watched Akinde walk into the penalty box and miskick the ball into the net. For me, Harries, Baldwin and Ehmer are three of the worst defenders to ever wear the quarters, when any of them play they simply make mistake after mistake. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2021 16:34:17 GMT
Interviewer: “Are there the goals in this team to stay up” Widdrington: “100%” What would you prefer him to have said 'no as I'm not a magician', I can see that going down well amongst both the fans and players. I don't know where you get this nonsense BH was a winger from as he played at No 10 last season for Gillingham and he's never given the impression playing for Rovers he'd be suited to playing on the wing rather than down the middle. You’re the first person I’ve seen to say that- it’s been said numerous times previously that he was used as a wing forward in a three by Gillingham. His goal tally certainly lines up with that of someone who is more of a support striker |
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Post by kentgas on Feb 21, 2021 16:53:37 GMT
And he wore the No 7 shirt last season.
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 21, 2021 18:39:17 GMT
I’m glad he’s saying that. What do you expect him to say really? He’s the manager and has to face the players in training, I would hope he is showing confidence in them. Tis, perhaps didn’t, and look how that went. Yesterday I thought Hanlan and Ayunga were a handful for Gillingham and we should have got something. We didn’t so all it all goes a bit mad on here. I hope TW is keeping his cool and building up the players in all ways for this weeks matches. UTG! Well there are ways of answering that question aren’t there that don’t involve putting your balls in a guillotine! I think they’re called “politician’s answers”. It came good against Portsmouth...but on yesterday’s evidence his rampant bullishness with regards to the strikers looked rather more misplaced. Have they honestly got the goals in them? Hanlan has 8 which is a good return considering by trade he’s more of a winger and not a goal scorer...but on the flip side he’s not scored in an age. Nicholson does not traditionally score more than he has already in a season. Ayunga and Daly Unknown’s. At the moment you’d be pretty ballsy to put money on all four getting 10 goals or more between them between now and the end of the season. The problem is that the rest of the team isn’t exactly chipping in either so if the strikers don’t score the 0 next to Bristol Rovers is not likely to be troubled. The one ray of light that is an improvement (and why Widdrington should carry on) is that at least we seem to be creating chances. The strikers need to step up now or we’re ******, frankly. I don’t disagree with that 365, except I don’t want politicians answers. But at this point in time our attackers are all we’ve got so I hope TW keeps what we’ve got playing with confidence and hope we get a few more “Portsmouth performances”. As you said the whole performance was better against both Pompey and Gillingham. What you’ve said is perhaps fairly accurate but I don’t want our manager wringing his hands, shaking his head and giving negative vibes. I want him upbeat and positive. And tbf the two performances this week, not the result yesterday obviously, has given most of us some hope. Hasn’t it? And at the moment there aren't too many other options are there? UTG! |
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Post by lpgas1 on Feb 21, 2021 18:49:53 GMT
Hanlan isn't a regular scorer, Ayunga Non league and Daly a youngster. We needed a direct replacement for JCH although Garner said "We dont necessarily need an out and out striker". Well in this league, we do.
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