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Post by singupgas on Nov 26, 2023 9:33:27 GMT
What league is impossible to get promoted from? Point is he has never got promoted as a manager, which means consistently winning over 46 games. Appreciate he had one good season, but that is it. Again, he inherited a decent squad. All our fans love DC, but never looked like getting us out of league 1 either. Towards the end of March 2017 we were three points off the playoffs with seven games to play. The defeat away to Coventry knocked our momentum at a crucial time and instead of ending in the top six we finished 10th. But before that game I bet a lot of us were thinking three promotions on the bounce was possible... How many consecutive weeks were we in the play offs that season?
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Post by singupgas on Nov 26, 2023 9:37:27 GMT
We’re now a month without a manager, bet the club hierarchy are delighted with the timing of everyone getting excited with the new stand. Another shambles. Don't get me started on how the club is run.
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Post by pirate on Nov 26, 2023 9:37:47 GMT
We’re now a month without a manager, bet the club hierarchy are delighted with the timing of everyone getting excited with the new stand. Another shambles. Only at Bristol Rovers could you have someone overseeing the recruitment process that previously appointed 4 managers in a single season that resulted in a relegation. 😆
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Post by bravosierraseven on Nov 26, 2023 9:43:06 GMT
If you analyse any manager they are going to have good and bad spells at different clubs. We could hire one with an amazing record but it doesn't mean to say they will be any good for us.
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Post by supergas on Nov 26, 2023 9:49:48 GMT
Towards the end of March 2017 we were three points off the playoffs with seven games to play. The defeat away to Coventry knocked our momentum at a crucial time and instead of ending in the top six we finished 10th. But before that game I bet a lot of us were thinking three promotions on the bounce was possible... How many consecutive weeks were we in the play offs that season? Do you get promoted for the most consecutive weeks in the playoffs? Anyway, that wasn't the point you made. You'd have to be a proper pessimistic fan to claim that being three points off the playoffs with twenty-one points to play for meant we had no chance of being promoted that season....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:07:15 GMT
We just make problem after problem for ourselves.
By this I mean, if Mangs was appointed in the break it would be a complete positive on the negative from Yesterday, we’d be saying “it was his first game in proper charge, you can see what he’s trying to implement, we were unlucky and the better side, the future looks good, he needs time now”…………but because of incessant stalling, it’s now “Mangs isn’t the man, same as Barton really” all this and that now reverts to pressure back on the club to not appoint him now. And if he gets the job there will be an element saying, we saw at Derby he wasn’t up to it if he goes on a bad run.
LEADERSHIP, we have none, I’ve/We’ve blamed so many in the past, Hamer, Starnes, Tommy, even the Sargent major and Jennings are gone, they can’t be blamed!
We are like a nurse being asked to be a surgeon and he/she is looking at the patient in the operating theatre wondering where to start and what to pick up first! They don’t know what to do, 5 weeks the Burton game was when they said their decision was made.
Great post by GGMI as well, he’s right but then who is causing all the speculation and indecision?
“Everything rises and falls on leadership”
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Post by chewbacca on Nov 26, 2023 10:08:46 GMT
If you analyse any manager they are going to have good and bad spells at different clubs. We could hire one with an amazing record but it doesn't mean to say they will be any good for us. So we just don’t hire anyone. Now it makes sense!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:10:10 GMT
It’s pretty difficult to get promoted from a division that’s impossible to get promotion from. Depends what your expectations are for Swansea as a premier league club? A Birmingham fan I know loves the bloke and was gutted he left. Ky concern with him would be around his agent and the fact he hasn’t worked for 3 years. What league is impossible to get promoted from? Point is he has never got promoted as a manager, which means consistently winning over 46 games. Appreciate he had one good season, but that is it. Again, he inherited a decent squad. All our fans love DC, but never looked like getting us out of league 1 either. The premier league is impossible to get promoted from
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:11:21 GMT
Then failed to do so multiple times with Oxford. I think he’s an okay manager but I have a gut feeling he’d be a bad fit here. Don’t know why I just don’t see it working. Whilst he failed a few times at Oxford at least he got them there, you can't see Mangan doing that this season, our season could effectively be over if we lose to Crewe next week. The board really needs to make a decision this weekend, either back Mangan for at least the rest of this season, or appoint somebody else. Playoffs were never happening this season whoever was in charge. The squad is miles short of being that quality.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:13:24 GMT
We’re now a month without a manager, bet the club hierarchy are delighted with the timing of everyone getting excited with the new stand. Another shambles. Only at Bristol Rovers could you have someone overseeing the recruitment process that previously appointed 4 managers in a single season that resulted in a relegation. 😆 For what it’s worth I don’t believe just Wael is heading up the process. The Kuwaiti’s are involved heavily but nobody can agree on what/who they want.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:13:57 GMT
If you analyse any manager they are going to have good and bad spells at different clubs. We could hire one with an amazing record but it doesn't mean to say they will be any good for us. Paul Buckle for example
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:15:10 GMT
Whilst he failed a few times at Oxford at least he got them there, you can't see Mangan doing that this season, our season could effectively be over if we lose to Crewe next week. The board really needs to make a decision this weekend, either back Mangan for at least the rest of this season, or appoint somebody else. Playoffs were never happening this season whoever was in charge. The squad is miles short of being that quality. What you mean that squad Topper said was the best since Holloway’s?! 😂👏 Hoodwinked, some of us were not taken in by it, no good having a great ingredients for a wedding cake if you haven’t got any icing to put on it, our strikeforce 👍
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Post by gasandelectricity on Nov 26, 2023 10:35:06 GMT
The reason we’ve fallen short is because we haven’t filled the position of the spear of the attack. If JCH had been signed Barton would probably still be in a job and we’d be having very different conversations on here.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:35:31 GMT
The reason we’ve fallen short is because we haven’t filled the position of the spear of the attack. If JCH had been signed Barton would probably still be in a job and we’d be having very different conversations on here. I think we need more than that.
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Post by Topper Gas on Nov 26, 2023 10:40:29 GMT
Playoffs were never happening this season whoever was in charge. The squad is miles short of being that quality. What you mean that squad Topper said was the best since Holloway’s?! 😂👏 Hoodwinked, some of us were not taken in by it, no good having a great ingredients for a wedding cake if you haven’t got any icing to put on it, our strikeforce 👍 We out played, or at least matched Derby yesterday and were good value for a draw until Grant intervened, similar story at Oxford, we're probably a goal scorer and a slight up turn in form from being top 6 contenders plus yesterday we probably had our two most consistent CB's missing. It's also baffling why the player of the season before his "injury" started on the bench but one of the most disappointing starts every game.
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Post by Topper Gas on Nov 26, 2023 10:44:07 GMT
The reason we’ve fallen short is because we haven’t filled the position of the spear of the attack. If JCH had been signed Barton would probably still be in a job and we’d be having very different conversations on here. I think we need more than that. We're normally only losing by the odd goal so perhaps we don't? Although all teams sign players in January, probably a decent LB & DCM are needed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:44:27 GMT
Topper, if, but and maybes, Oxford, Posh first 20 minutes, it’s been like this all season and the league table doesn’t lie.
Our top scorer was unemployed and thank god we got him in desperation. The midfield rarely score goals, we don’t have a Bodin, Disley, just admit your statement re best squad since Holloway was a major mistake, we all make them!
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Post by DrFaustus on Nov 26, 2023 10:51:11 GMT
Gut tells me Mangan ain't the right pick. But it's the pic I'm most happy to fail with. I like the guy- so if it is him, I'm happy. This is me, he’s winning football matches, the best of the uninspiring lot, Taylor maybe the top of the pile. No to Robinson, I only said him due to what the chairman wanted. Gassy above replied to me, we are splitting hairs now on if it was 4 weeks today they decided Barton was going, come Monday it’s night on 4 weeks if they make a statement then. Got to be my last post on this thread unless someone is sacked in Div2 this weekend and the bookies take the p**s again and fire in a new favourite! Last post you say? 🤥
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 10:59:23 GMT
This is me, he’s winning football matches, the best of the uninspiring lot, Taylor maybe the top of the pile. No to Robinson, I only said him due to what the chairman wanted. Gassy above replied to me, we are splitting hairs now on if it was 4 weeks today they decided Barton was going, come Monday it’s night on 4 weeks if they make a statement then. Got to be my last post on this thread unless someone is sacked in Div2 this weekend and the bookies take the p**s again and fire in a new favourite! Last post you say? 🤥 Best of it, we said in my group, let’s see if Shane comes looking for you 😂👍 Dusty 👏
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Post by gasandelectricity on Nov 26, 2023 11:01:35 GMT
The reason we’ve fallen short is because we haven’t filled the position of the spear of the attack. If JCH had been signed Barton would probably still be in a job and we’d be having very different conversations on here. I think we need more than that. Sorry I must have missed that - you’ve only shared your thought that the squad is crap on every page of the last 30 odd of this thread
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