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Post by eric on Nov 20, 2023 18:40:49 GMT
Looking forward to Mangan getting us promoted and proving many of you wrong . I sincerely hope he does prove the doubters like me wrong…..if it happens I’ll be the first to admit I got it wrong. No problem doing that.
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Post by pucklegas on Nov 20, 2023 18:49:32 GMT
Looking forward to Mangan getting us promoted and proving many of you wrong . I sincerely hope he does prove the doubters like me wrong…..if it happens I’ll be the first to admit I got it wrong. No problem doing that. Eric, totally agree, we all want the club to do well, I'm in the same boat as you, want to be on Rich s promotion bus, just can t see Mangers achieving that.
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Post by madgas on Nov 20, 2023 18:55:04 GMT
On the only beaten easy teams and performance haven't been spectacular. Probably true, but...
I think people are forgetting that sometimes it's hard to get the passing game against route one coming back at you. Also, the weather has been dogshite. Northampton wasn't fit for ducks. I think Derby will try and play, and in return you'll see us play. Whether we get a result- that'll be tough but I don't buy our style being too different long term.
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Post by Topper Gas on Nov 20, 2023 19:02:37 GMT
On the only beaten easy teams and performance haven't been spectacular. Probably true, but... I think people are forgetting that sometimes it's hard to get the passing game against route one coming back at you. Also, the weather has been dogshite. Northampton wasn't fit for ducks. I think Derby will try and play, and in return you'll see us play. Whether we get a result- that'll be tough but I don't buy our style being too different long term. According to the commentary it was a lovely sunny afternoon at Carlisle? I just think AM's realised that we're not going to out play teams with big budgets like Pompey so have to become harder to beat. There's little point in going to teams like Oxford and having most of the possession and outplaying them but still losing.
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Post by madgas on Nov 20, 2023 19:04:28 GMT
On the only beaten easy teams and performance haven't been spectacular. Probably true, but... I think people are forgetting that sometimes it's hard to get the passing game against route one coming back at you. Also, the weather has been dogshite. Northampton wasn't fit for ducks. I think Derby will try and play, and in return you'll see us play. Whether we get a result- that'll be tough but I don't buy our style being too different long term. According to the commentary it was a lovely sunny afternoon at Carlisle? I just think AM's realised that we're not going to out play teams with big budgets like Pompey so have to become harder to beat. There's little point in going to teams like Oxford and having most of the possession and outplaying them but still losing. Weather was more a Northampton comment. I hear AMs post match interviews and ultimately believe he wants to tweak things not move too away from what we were doing.
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Post by wallywalters on Nov 20, 2023 19:32:00 GMT
For all this talk of “best squad ever” there’s not many of them I’d be rushing to renew contracts on Of the 16 out-of-contract or on loan I'd probably only offer a deal to Hoole. It is a fantastic opportunity in the summer for the new manager to reshape the squad how he sees fit. I agree although I'd possibly keep Gordon as a back up left back as I'm sure there's a player in there somewhere. Of the loans I'd have bogarde back in a flash and maybe crama depending if his silly mistakes iron themselves out in the second half of the season.
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Post by orville on Nov 20, 2023 19:56:52 GMT
It shouldn’t be forgotten that as well as the recent unbeaten run Mangan was unbeaten in the first three matches of the season against Portsmouth,Barnsley and Charlton Athletic when standing in for Barton
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Post by gashead1981 on Nov 20, 2023 20:11:46 GMT
It shouldn’t be forgotten that as well as the recent unbeaten run Mangan was unbeaten in the first three matches of the season against Portsmouth,Barnsley and Charlton Athletic when standing in for Barton That is a very good point indeed. Although Barton was managing things from ifollow at the quarters and probably had an input into the decision making.
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Post by meadgas on Nov 20, 2023 20:19:09 GMT
It shouldn’t be forgotten that as well as the recent unbeaten run Mangan was unbeaten in the first three matches of the season against Portsmouth,Barnsley and Charlton Athletic when standing in for Barton JB was at Charlton, if i recall correctly MCcormick running over to him when he scored at the death. We lost at Ipswich in the cup
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Post by madgas on Nov 20, 2023 20:23:53 GMT
I had a trial once... is a podcast that I've been drawn too recently. From a Rovers perspective:
- a couple of recent guests have been "candidates" during our managerial search. Karl Robinson and Dean Holden.
- in the KR episode he talks about the only time hes "bit" to sideline antics was to Andy Mangan back in non-league. But he admits that Mangan is great- "you can see why Joey has taken him everywhere, he's been"
- there's also a Calvin Andrew episode where he really praises ex assistant- Keith Hill.
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Post by Topper Gas on Nov 20, 2023 20:31:02 GMT
It shouldn’t be forgotten that as well as the recent unbeaten run Mangan was unbeaten in the first three matches of the season against Portsmouth,Barnsley and Charlton Athletic when standing in for Barton JB was at Charlton, if i recall correctly MCcormick running over to him when he scored at the death. We lost at Ipswich in the cup Most Championship teams have lost to Ipswich, they must have been on some run since around the turn of the year.
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Post by Topper Gas on Nov 20, 2023 20:33:32 GMT
According to the commentary it was a lovely sunny afternoon at Carlisle? I just think AM's realised that we're not going to out play teams with big budgets like Pompey so have to become harder to beat. There's little point in going to teams like Oxford and having most of the possession and outplaying them but still losing. Weather was more a Northampton comment. I hear AMs post match interviews and ultimately believe he wants to tweak things not move too away from what we were doing. We seem, at least away from home, to be playing completely different football and have reverted back to 4-4-2. We seem to have gone back to last season's style of play.
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Post by meadgas on Nov 20, 2023 20:37:20 GMT
JB was at Charlton, if i recall correctly MCcormick running over to him when he scored at the death. We lost at Ipswich in the cup Most Championship teams have lost to Ipswich, they must have been on some run since around the turn of the year. I know and agree, i was just pointing out Mangan's last game without JB
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Post by richhertford on Nov 20, 2023 20:38:33 GMT
Does anyone on here have any inside knowledge of the next steps in our decision? The decision makers are holding their cards close to their chests leaving us to speculate. It’s frustrating. Do they hope to decide this week? Just a bit of info would help.
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Post by madgas on Nov 20, 2023 20:40:18 GMT
Weather was more a Northampton comment. I hear AMs post match interviews and ultimately believe he wants to tweak things not move too away from what we were doing. We seem, at least away from home, to be playing completely different football and have reverted back to 4-4-2. We seem to have gone back to last season's style of play. Not in disagreement, overall we have. But we didn't in the cup and I think we'll see more patient entries into the opposition third against passing teams.
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 20, 2023 20:43:51 GMT
We seem, at least away from home, to be playing completely different football and have reverted back to 4-4-2. We seem to have gone back to last season's style of play. Not in disagreement, overall we have. But we didn't in the cup and I think we'll see more patient entries into the opposition third against passing teams. If AM really wants the job then he's likely to be more cautious and set up not to lose. If he gets the gig he may well feel emboldened to play less conservatively.
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Post by stapletongas on Nov 20, 2023 20:52:34 GMT
We seem, at least away from home, to be playing completely different football and have reverted back to 4-4-2. We seem to have gone back to last season's style of play. Not in disagreement, overall we have. But we didn't in the cup and I think we'll see more patient entries into the opposition third against passing teams. Maybe this is Kevin Bond's input
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Post by yattongas on Nov 20, 2023 20:56:01 GMT
Not in disagreement, overall we have. But we didn't in the cup and I think we'll see more patient entries into the opposition third against passing teams. If AM really wants the job then he's likely to be more cautious and set up not to lose. If he gets the gig he may well feel emboldened to play less conservatively. Hope we don’t go to Derby looking to sit back and scrape a draw , think that would be the wrong way to go .
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Post by phillistine on Nov 20, 2023 20:59:18 GMT
We seem, at least away from home, to be playing completely different football and have reverted back to 4-4-2. We seem to have gone back to last season's style of play. Not in disagreement, overall we have. But we didn't in the cup and I think we'll see more patient entries into the opposition third against passing teams. One major change for me is that Mangan is praising all of the players and remaining positive even when we haven't played well. JB didn't do that and could be very negative blaming everyone but himself when things didn't go well. Positivity will breed self belief and with that comes resilience and we will have a much better mental attitude under AM
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Post by madgas on Nov 20, 2023 21:16:51 GMT
Not in disagreement, overall we have. But we didn't in the cup and I think we'll see more patient entries into the opposition third against passing teams. If AM really wants the job then he's likely to be more cautious and set up not to lose. If he gets the gig he may well feel emboldened to play less conservatively. I think keeping the ball can be conservative? I think we will try this.
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