Jevani Brown incoming (Now signed)

be interested to read his reply

You get shot down instantly and called over-sensitive for having an opinion that contradicts their own.

Absolute sh** show from top to bottom. They would have seen the backlash and still went ahead with it.

Not my football club.

I think most posters who have expressed their reservations have by and large been respected by those with a different opinion. Those who accuse fellow posters of being morally corrupt and the like or compare Brown’s signing with us giving a contract to a rapist are bound to get a more prickly response. 

It wasn't anyway with Barton at the helm was it? Not sure why signing Brown makes any difference

Everything you wanted to know about

JEVANI JASON BROWN

b 16.10.1994 Letchworth, Hertfordshire

5’ 9”; 11 st 11 lbs F

Career: MK Dons; 2011 Stotfold; 2012 Letchworth Garden City Eagles; 2012 Peterborough United (professional, 1.7.13; released, 8.11.13); 2.1.14 Langford; 20.7.14 Barton Rovers; 1.9.14 Wingate and Finchley; 3.2.15 Arlesey Town; 8.7.15 Kettering Town; 6.2.16 St Albans City (trial); 1.7.16 Stamford; 30.12.16 St Neots Town; 7.3.17 Birmingham City (trial); 16.7.17 Cambridge United (trial); 2.8.17 Cambridge United (free) [75+9,13]; 4.7.19 Colchester United (£350,000) [33+18,7]; 4.1.20 Forest Green Rovers (loan) [5,0]; 29.6.21 Exeter City (free) [66+4,19]; 26.6.23 Bristol Rovers (free).


It was not a straightforward signing when Jevani Brown joined Joey Barton’s Rovers side ahead of the 2023-24 campaign. Whilst supporters were well aware of the striker’s goalscoring prowess, there were moral concerns ahead of the young man’s ongoing court case for assault against a woman in Exeter city centre in February 2023. Brown had pleaded guilty to one charge and not guilty to a second, with Exeter City refusing to field him again and releasing him at the end of that season. He had also been released by Peterborough a decade earlier following an off-the-field incident. Nonetheless, he arrived with glowing praise for his performances on the pitch; “he’s got pace, power and wants to stretch defenders”, his former Grecians’ manager Matt Taylor had said. Jevani Taylor was well-known to Rovers’ supporters; “the archetypal mercurial talent”, as he was described in Cambridgeshire Live, he had made his Cambridge début in their League Cup defeat at The Mem in August 2017 and had played four times (including the August 2021 encounter when Rovers found themselves 4-0 down inside 24 minutes at St James’ Park) for Exeter against Rovers, scoring equalisers past James Belshaw in two of those games. Club form had earned a 2022 call-up to the full Jamaican squad, following on from five Under-17 caps in 2011, the first being in February 2011 when he played the first seventy-five minutes of a 1-0 victory over Guatemala. A regular at youth level at Peterborough, he had played Southern League football for several clubs (two goals in thirteen games at Barton Rovers, one in nine at Arlesey, an incredible nineteen in nineteen matches at St Neots and fifteen goalless games with Kettering, although he did score against Market Drayton Town in the FA Cup) and his three goals in fifteen Northern Premier League appearances with Stamford included a brace in a 2-1 victory at Rugby Town in August 2016; he also helped Stamford to a rare appearance in the FA Cup proper, where they lost 3-0 at Hartlepool United. A brief trial at St Albans City featured a Hertfordshire Senior Cup game against Hitchin Town. Brown scored his first Football League goal for Cambridge against Chesterfield in November 2017 and, joining Colchester on the same day as Paris Cowan-Hall, played alongside Harry Pell. Having not scored at all during 2020-21, he was named League Two Player of the Month for November 2020, the month in which he scored two Colchester hat-tricks, after eleven, 57 and 81 minutes of a 3-1 League victory over Stevenage and the following week in a 6-1 drubbing of Southend United in an Essex derby in the Football League Trophy. However, after eleven goals to this point, he was not to score again that campaign and moved to Exeter City. Brown was a player in demand at St James’ Park, helping his side to promotion, alongside Rovers, from League Two in 2021-22, when a final-day home defeat to Port Vale deprived the Grecians of the divisional title, and scoring a forty-minute hat-trick away to his former club, Forest Green Rovers, in September 2022. Thereafter, disciplinary issues stalled his career, prior to his arrival at The Mem.
Profile compiled by Stephen Byrne Bristol Rovers History Group

Oh dear.