Cheltenham - Match Day Thread

I've been watching since 1961. And of course I can agree. That today was up there with some of our worst performances ever. Especially the first half. I was also at that 4-0 at Huish as well as the 9-0 at Spurs the 6-1 at Cambridge. So don't tell me what I can agree with or not.

Tactics were awful yesterday. Plan A hit the ball long to Martin who was treading water yesterday. Davies at 38 must have been in dreamland when he saw the teamsheet at 2pm. Should have put on collins so much earlier and had a frontline of pace targeting their defence. Instead as the game went on the more cautious the tactics became not to lose the game. Against a team bottom of the table and at home is a worry.

Yesterday’s first half was very poor, with only Conner Taylor & Vale looking up for it, second half at least we started to look like a team & started to provide a few openings
But the new manager needs to be given time, he’s walked into a side where some of the staff has moved out & players were letting it made known previously that they wanted Mangan to become the new boss, so it was never going to be easy for him to get the dressing room onboard.
Hopefully when Matt Taylor can bring in some of his own back room staff, things should settle down & improve & IMO a talented squad of players will start showing what they are capable of, which at the moment is well short individually & collectively .

I support whoever the Directors deem fit to manage the club, do you?

The only way the club is going to improve is by a near clear-out. I am tired of seeing umpteen dreadful performances with players seemingly having little enthusiasm! As for the loanees, for goodness sake ship them back to parent clubs. It’s a pity a club never put in an acceptable bid for Aaron Collins. Would be hard pressed to sell him for 100,000 now. A very disgruntled Gashead.
UTG.

From where I’m standing, both sides are as bad as each other - you’ve got the “haters & bashers” on one side giving it - “See, we told you he was a wrong ‘un. We were RIGHT!”, and on the other side the “fanboys/fangirls” giving it “See, we shouldn’t have sacked him, the new bloke’s not as good. We were RIGHT!”
It’s like being in a bloody playground. Barton’s gone, he’s not coming back, bad man gone now, no more bad man. Just because some people supported Barton when he was our manager doesn’t make them fanboys/fangirls, bad people, or somehow lesser than or inferior to anyone; by the same token, just because some people didn’t agree with us hiring Barton, because of his past record, past behaviour, perceived personality, etc., doesn’t make them better than anyone else. So can we please just move on and leave all the sneering, the triumphalism, the defensiveness & the whataboutery behind and just get back to supporting Rovers?

In principle yes, but if they appointed someone who would bring the cub in to disrepute, someone with criminal record of violence, someone who was a convicted sexual predator....no, absolutely not.

Blind faith is not appropriate is it?

Of course.

That has been the issue from Feb 21. We haven't been pulling in the same direction.

Match Day threads this season has been:

1) We are world beaters, we are going up.

2) We are sh*te we are facing a relegation battle.

Complete polar opposites.

I am concerned that between now and the rest of the season, the MDT will be:

1) See, I told you we shouldn't have sacked JB.

2) See, I told you sacking him was the right decision.

This is just going to compound any animosity between posters.

As a group, the Mods need to work out how to police this. Maybe as some have mentioned, from now on JB threads need to go into general chat.

Maybe any mention of JB on a MDT needs a 24hr ban. Otherwise the toxicity is only going to increase whether the results are in our favour or against us.

It's a perfect summation.

It's getting tedious.