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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Aug 6, 2022 16:28:35 GMT
Hard to comment fully without knowing the full context. Any chance to have a dig though at Joey, fair play. Not “any reason to have a dig” at all. Joey has completely had a balls up here and now our already thin squad is looking even worse. His handling of situations is questionable every single time Yet we win 4-0 away today and DC loses 4-0 (Apologies DC 🙇♂️) 🤣
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Post by CrispPusher on Aug 6, 2022 16:45:08 GMT
We can't say we've had a poor summer as the window isn't over yet,let's wait to the end and be a bit more objective,personally,I would much rather have quality over quantity just to satisfy our rather irrational fan base. I wonder if JB's usual approach is to wait until the window is about to close and then pick up a few bargains? Didn't he say last season Evans was on a ridiculously low wage, and he signed on deadline day. What do posters want JB to sign 4 players on silly money now, DC style, or 6 or 7 just as the window is about to close? If that's his philosophy best not to announce them 11 days before the season begins? Wouldn't you agree?
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Post by bidefordgas on Aug 6, 2022 20:28:20 GMT
I see Egan has joined Gloucester on loan.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Aug 6, 2022 20:29:03 GMT
I see Egan has joined Gloucester on loan. How many players has Mansell took there from here now?! 🤣
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 6, 2022 20:47:32 GMT
I don't see anything wrong with what Bartons saying, a pretty clear explanation for those wondering why. I think hes totally trashed him. He talks about his physical state which can be seen as him not being in the shape he should have been. He basically says he isn't good enough on the ball. He talked about him not carrying out instructions in another interview. Theres even a little dig about playing in the league of Ireland and says he cant become someone elses problem, problem is not a good choice of words in describing a player. We need to shift him on and all the comments in the press don't paint a good picture of Clarke as a player. The new lad came in today and had a cracking debut. We won 4-0 away from home. Granted the Red Card after a minute helped our cause, but we looked a hell of a lot better today. Let's all get behind the manager, he's won me round big time and he's delivered with pretty much all his decisions so far.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2022 0:26:42 GMT
I think hes totally trashed him. He talks about his physical state which can be seen as him not being in the shape he should have been. He basically says he isn't good enough on the ball. He talked about him not carrying out instructions in another interview. Theres even a little dig about playing in the league of Ireland and says he cant become someone elses problem, problem is not a good choice of words in describing a player. We need to shift him on and all the comments in the press don't paint a good picture of Clarke as a player. The new lad came in today and had a cracking debut. We won 4-0 away from home. Granted the Red Card after a minute helped our cause, but we looked a hell of a lot better today. Let's all get behind the manager, he's won me round big time and he's delivered with pretty much all his decisions so far. I am behind the manager.
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 7, 2022 1:09:30 GMT
The new lad came in today and had a cracking debut. We won 4-0 away from home. Granted the Red Card after a minute helped our cause, but we looked a hell of a lot better today. Let's all get behind the manager, he's won me round big time and he's delivered with pretty much all his decisions so far. I am behind the manager. Fair enough. I think Joey’s been open, frank and honest about the whole situation. I don't think his comments will impact anybody wanting to take Trevor Clarke. He said a lot worse about Max Ehmer, he managed to go back to Gillingham, pretty sure Jack Baldwin, Brandon Hanlan, Jonah Ayunga etc were on the end of his harsh words too, they all ended up at clubs at a higher level or in Baldwins case playing in front of 50k fans a few times in the SPL. He may already be in contact with another manager whose willing to take him. Who knows? I trust Joey, he's earnt it in the last 6-7 months. If his debuts anything to go by, it looks like we may have another gem in Lewis Gordon.
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 7, 2022 7:50:53 GMT
I'm not sure he needed to go as far as to say he might need to return to Ireland, when he looks more than good enough for at least L2.
It still seems odd that it took JB and the coaching staff over a full season to work out that he wasn't up to L1 football.
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Post by peterhooper57 on Aug 7, 2022 13:21:26 GMT
I'm not sure he needed to go as far as to say he might need to return to Ireland, when he looks more than good enough for at least L2. It still seems odd that it took JB and the coaching staff over a full season to work out that he wasn't up to L1 football. We can all change our minds. Joey is a brilliant football strategist, not afraid to make difficult decisions, lets Clarke go, and brings in Lewis Gordon, who was imo superb yesterday, and his team win 4-0. Joey "knows exactly what we need".
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Post by peterhooper57 on Aug 7, 2022 13:27:52 GMT
Seems to me 4 posters are chucking their toys out the pram having been desperate to do so for a while but have been grossly disappointed that a promotion under extreme circumstances having been achieved. Come back in September when the window has closed and complain then. Plenty of business still to be done. Things looked gloomy last September. Come May it looked rosy. Absolutely no one is disappointed that we got promoted. The thing with some people on here is that they can’t have a discussion so just revert to bringing up unnecessary and irrelevant points and steer well off track because there’s no actual explanation to back up the points they’re trying to make. By the time we’re 13% of the way through the season hopefully we’ll have signed the 8 or so players we need. Nothing like being prepared We have just played our second game won 4-0, Joey has brought in a superb left back, not sure why you are moaning about Joey, who knows what he is doing.
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Post by oliverhelmet on Aug 7, 2022 15:43:45 GMT
Let’s not forget,David Tutonda looked very good in his early games for us.Very promising debut for our new lad but a bit early going overboard about his ability just yet.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Aug 8, 2022 8:10:35 GMT
So with the Gordon news we’re net only down Westbrooke and Rodman. Whom most supporters would have been disappointed to have seen in the squad anyway. I'd reinforce that post by saying Gordon appears to be higher quality potential than TC, so we've actually upgraded. It's early days to be confident of that though. I take the point about 2 year contract, but if TC wants to play football, he'll definitely have opportunity to find another club, and our financial obligations will be extinguished....if he wants to be all Kyle Bennett about it, that would tell me JAB was right all along. All we need to do now is find suitable or upgrades on Westy and Rodders and not let MS negotiate contracts again...
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Post by lisbongas on Aug 8, 2022 17:57:50 GMT
So with the Gordon news we’re net only down Westbrooke and Rodman. Whom most supporters would have been disappointed to have seen in the squad anyway. I'd reinforce that post by saying Gordon appears to be higher quality potential than TC, so we've actually upgraded. It's early days to be confident of that though. I take the point about 2 year contract, but if TC wants to play football, he'll definitely have opportunity to find another club, and our financial obligations will be extinguished....if he wants to be all Kyle Bennett about it, that would tell me JAB was right all along. All we need to do now is find suitable or upgrades on Westy and Rodders and not let MS negotiate contracts again... Westbrook and Rodders allowed to leave for AFC Wimbledon as make weights in us signing McCormick. (Add in TC as well).
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 8, 2022 17:59:52 GMT
I'd reinforce that post by saying Gordon appears to be higher quality potential than TC, so we've actually upgraded. It's early days to be confident of that though. I take the point about 2 year contract, but if TC wants to play football, he'll definitely have opportunity to find another club, and our financial obligations will be extinguished....if he wants to be all Kyle Bennett about it, that would tell me JAB was right all along. All we need to do now is find suitable or upgrades on Westy and Rodders and not let MS negotiate contracts again... Westbrook and Rodders allowed to leave for AFC Wimbledon as make weights in us signing McCormick. (Add in TC as well). Why would Wimbledon consider signing either player?
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Post by lisbongas on Aug 8, 2022 18:06:35 GMT
Westbrook and Rodders allowed to leave for AFC Wimbledon as make weights in us signing McCormick. (Add in TC as well). Why would Wimbledon consider signing either player? I still think there is a lot to be said for the use of Irony!!
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Post by Claremont Gas on Aug 8, 2022 18:32:02 GMT
Westbrook and Rodders allowed to leave for AFC Wimbledon as make weights in us signing McCormick. (Add in TC as well). Why would Wimbledon consider signing either player? Westbrooke is about the right height to be a ball boy maybe … I’m assuming you mean the tennis club as the football club won’t touch him.
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Post by percy on Sept 1, 2022 19:21:11 GMT
So Trev and Westbrooke (surprisingly!) havent found clubs and Joey now says they are back in the fold. Pleased for Trev but this whole thing has been very poor from Joey. Needs to keep some thoughts in his head
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Post by bidefordgas on Sept 1, 2022 19:31:00 GMT
So Trev and Westbrooke (surprisingly!) havent found clubs and Joey now says they are back in the fold. Pleased for Trev but this whole thing has been very poor from Joey. Needs to keep some thoughts in his head Where did Joey say that? Just seen it on Bristol live but would appear in the case of Westbrooke he did not mention his name. Was that Frostie surmising the same would apply to him?
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Post by percy on Sept 1, 2022 19:35:08 GMT
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Post by Topper Gas on Sept 1, 2022 19:58:38 GMT
So Trev and Westbrooke (surprisingly!) havent found clubs and Joey now says they are back in the fold. Pleased for Trev but this whole thing has been very poor from Joey. Needs to keep some thoughts in his head Where did Joey say that? Just seen it on Bristol live but would appear in the case of Westbrooke he did not mention his name. Was that Frostie surmising the same would apply to him? Sorry, but I can't believe Westbrook has any future at Rovers even if he can't find a new club, particularly when we're not exactly short of players in central mid like we are in defence. As far as Clarke's concerned, Barton's made himself look a bit of a fool, given the players always given the impression he's trying is best and seems a decent player.
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