Cheltenham - Match Day Thread

I think we have some good individuals but the make up and balance of the squad is all wrong for me.


Even with JCH I am not sure that we beat teams often enough.


Taylor has a huge job on his hands to avoid a Dave Penney style revolt over the fact Mangan didn’t get the job

Some on hear say we were playing hoof ball, I thought we played too much across the back in a painfully slow way meaning we had to hoof it. If we played with more urgency, created space to pass quickly, we would not meed to hoof the ball. Having said that, hoof ball can work on occasions if you have a good target man but we don't.

Without the GO

Just got back...

Where the weather is as miserable as our support.

Fantastic seeing some of you again, one esp from down saffff....hey, time takes its toll on all of us!
Nice to plan for next week too, but that's a different story.

Onto less important things:

Transition.
Patience.
Acceptance.

These words will be used a lot during the coming weeks and months, but from what I saw today the show was sorry as I've seen in a while.

Get to the Mem quick.
We're seeing the acceleration of the start of the end of some players careers with us, and perhaps that gas exodus might be more painful than others because some individuals are on borrowed time.

We are still lacking in some key areas, and too predictable with the ball at the back, but I liked how we tried to move it forward quicker - just we rarely found our man. This led to another disjointed, dysfunctional bundled result, a fair result, but where there was little to shout or sing about because too many players just didn't turn up or appeared to be going through the motions.
You can feel the apathy around the place, it's oozing with negativity.

A real shame, because for all the criticism on and off the pitch, the new stand is a genuine sight to behold. It looks fabulous empty, which if we carry on playing this way will be more common than full.

And a wonderful celebration of our history. This should be celebrated with passion and pride.
It comes to something when Stanton, Jones (mentioning the s!) and Hayles appear to get more applause and crowd going than the new manager? His team was booed off at half time....the 3 formers were applauded.

Ok...my m o m Connor Taylor. Again.
Closely followed by, Luke Thomas.
Jack Hunt played his part, and so did Harvey Vale and Evans bit part, but as for the rest.....well for me, each and every one of them have had form inconsistent, didn't turn up today and wouldn't give a fig if they left tomorrow.

But at least MT is playing most of the senior player and giving them a chance. Which the majority don't appear to be taking.

I think many Rovers fans are exhausted with being patient, but in this case it certainly will take time for MT to sort out whom he wants to stay.

We've gotta roll with it and take our time someone sang once....well next week we enter up that way twice and at this rate I can only see a zero return.

Don't book your Norfolk broad new year just yet!

On a different note did anyone see Whelan today? Bond, Ventre and Jaakola were all there.

A certain Man City centreforward who is meant to be better than sliced bread, kept doing that last week and then blamed the ref!

Or perhaps they didn't have a clue how they were supposed to be playing in the first half, given in the second half we seemed to revert back to playing out from the back? 

It's baffling how MT though Gibbons would make a good LB when he's struggled all season at RB and even managed to get a red card in his last match, perhaps if MT had started with Grant at LB and not tried to totally change our style of play overnight we might have won our 140th commemorative match. 

Bit of context, happy with a point against Cheltenham having been 1 down at half time and one of the worst overall performances in years.

Not pick an out of from RB to play at LB seems the obvious answer? I'm not sure Grant has let us down when he's started at LB?