Thank god i dont do match reports anymore

the worry is after the next run of fixtures we could be about 20 points of the play off spots.looking down may be more of a concern. We will need some definite bounce over the festive period.

I do miss your match reports Steve, though I generally felt you were way too mean to Ollie Clarke back in the day as he wasn’t that bad. And we’ve had many worse.

Goodness knows what’s going on at the moment but I hope Matt T can fix it briskly, or at least hold us steady until the summer.

I’m pretty crestfallen really and losing a bit of interest.

Now, I note the new directive on JB, but when we had him appointed I thought - this is different . It’s someone high profile who might have some contacts higher up. A bit unique.

Now we are back to “vanilla L1 manager” and unless we have a big budget, we aren’t going anywhere. Back to percentage football it looks like and the tedium this promotes. Boring post match interviews, we are back to being any other club and most likely will have 2 years of “wait until the next window” until we appoint another boring L1 manager with an average budget and average performance.

DC had a bit about him and wasn’t afraid to rock the boat, this was the last manager to make me feel like we had any chance of something different.

I’m going to always support the manager, MT gets the backing but it’s like going from Hollywood back to Christmas panto in terms of excitement. Has to be said, even Neil Warnock or someone like that might have roused a bit of enthusiasm.

I’ll always be a gashead and I’ll always go when I can and I’ll always be behind every single person at the club while they’re in charge as I’m loyal to the end, but I haven’t been this uninspired for a long time.

Forget this season too, we’re brought in a percentage manager with a load of cultured footballers so yet another “rebuilding” job until about 2025. Yawn.

If you read the directive then you’ll know full well this is well within the bounds of the rules of engagement.

Hate to break this to you, but you aren’t the spokesman for Bristol rovers, you’re a lairy lady garden on a football forum and you don’t get to say what this club needs. You read into whatever you want.

It’s lady gardens like you who can’t stop your gums flashing and wind your neck in which is why the moderators had to put rules in place for a start. Just wind your neck in and let it go.

Here is a 🪞

It's the abuse that people are throwing at each other that has made the mods put rules in place.

Due to people not being able put their view across without resorting to name calling.

Pleasant.

Someone seems to have misinterpreted the rule as “you can’t say anything positive about the Barton era”

You may well want to pull up the drawbridge. When he was here it was a-ok to drone on and on about how he needs to leave. Now they have what they wanted, banning any discussion of Joey now seems to be what they want; so if we bomb they can stick their fingers in their ears and rely on banning and shutting down of debate.

It’s not the broad sunlit uplands they described yet is it.

For the record I was getting pretty tired of the football and I was pretty non plussed either way. We were getting predictable and I was 50:50.

I’m fed up of these lady gardens jumping down your throat, taking conclusions which aren’t there because they’re so partisan and amped up about this issue you have to tread on eggshells. So yes, I refer to my previous “wind your fking neck in” I don’t see why I have to explain myself every time because there’s so much sand up peoples cracks.

I referenced DC being another big Character, if they’d fking read what I said instead of immediate blind rage that someone said something which wasn’t entirely anti Joey they’d know this . Just give it a fking rest.

And yes, you get an appropriate response, if you don’t want to be spoken to like a lady garden don’t act like one.

And another thread descends into a shouting match about Barton.