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Post by bidefordgas on Apr 10, 2024 14:59:12 GMT
Anybody know the attendance last night ? 💙Utg 7,951 Who are the club kidding? No way were there 6500 home supporters, loads of ST holders not attending including us two. You only had to look at the North stand, North terrace, Thatchers and South stand on ifollow to see what a low turnout it was. Next Tuesday with Cambridge coming it will be far less as they won’t be bringing anywhere near the away support that Reading did last night. |
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Post by lj on Apr 10, 2024 15:00:12 GMT
please keep he is doing a great job along with agent chris martin(only banter chaps)
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Post by SleepyGas on Apr 10, 2024 15:06:03 GMT
Depends how the summer window goes. Hopefully a number of new faces to watch in pre-season and we'll have something to get excited about. Or find something else to do 😂 Already renewed my season ticket - so not an option for me…. 😬 |
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Post by SleepyGas on Apr 10, 2024 15:07:25 GMT
Who are the club kidding? No way were there 6500 home supporters, loads of ST holders not attending including us two. You only had to look at the North stand, North terrace, Thatchers and South stand on ifollow to see what a low turnout it was. Next Tuesday with Cambridge coming it will be far less as they won’t be bringing anywhere near the away support that Reading did last night. Apparently season ticket holders have their attendance counted regardless |
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Post by melrosegas on Apr 10, 2024 15:10:16 GMT
I don't buy the "we can't afford to sack him" argument.
You don't instantly have to pay out his contract, he would be kept much like a long-term injured player, until another club sign him or his agreed contract with us expires.
I would argue what we really can't afford to do is let him rebuild the entire squad full of long-ball, anti-football merchants, only to sack him 10 games into the 2024/25 season.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Apr 10, 2024 15:10:49 GMT
Who are the club kidding? No way were there 6500 home supporters, loads of ST holders not attending including us two. You only had to look at the North stand, North terrace, Thatchers and South stand on ifollow to see what a low turnout it was. Next Tuesday with Cambridge coming it will be far less as they won’t be bringing anywhere near the away support that Reading did last night. Keep your wig on. ST holders are included regardless. |
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Post by timsburygas on Apr 10, 2024 15:11:15 GMT
Have to keep him until January, then we finish paying Barton and we can then pay Taylor to sit at home.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Apr 10, 2024 15:13:56 GMT
I fully understand the argument that a manager shouldn’t be judged until he has his own players under him, unfortunately the values he treasures: run a lot, roll your sleeves up, reliability over flair etc, means he’ll be signing exactly the types of players I don’t want to see week in week out in the quarters …the Cotterill Shrewsbury players, the Evans Stevenage players, the Brady Northampton players and the Ainsworth Wycombe type players.
I always buy a season ticket to support the club, for various reasons I find it harder to make games these days, I’ve seen very little from MT to suggest that if he hangs around I’ll be tempted to journey down the M4 much next season even if I’m fit and able to. Hence I vote sack so that I might use the season ticket occasionally!
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Post by melrosegas on Apr 10, 2024 15:20:03 GMT
I fully understand the argument that a manager shouldn’t be judged until he has his own players under him, unfortunately the values he treasures: run a lot, roll your sleeves up, reliability over flair etc, means he’ll be signing exactly the types of players I don’t want to see week in week out in the quarters …the Cotterill Shrewsbury players, the Evans Stevenage players, the Brady Northampton players and the Ainsworth Wycombe type players. I always buy a season ticket to support the club, for various reasons I find it harder to make games these days, I’ve seen very little from MT to suggest that if he hangs around I’ll be tempted to journey down the M4 much next season even if I’m fit and able to. Hence I vote sack so that I might use the season ticket occasionally! 100% Wembley. More often than not this approach gets you exactly where Cambridge and Shrewsbury are in the table. My worry is that will be us under Taylor next season, crowds of 5/6k, hoofball and relegation scrap. With some luck you can do a Wycombe (covid season), but they fell away and were saved by points per game. Similar is happening to Stevenage, falling away and will be lucky to get the playoffs now. It isn't a long term sustainable way to get success in modern football and certainly doesn't attract the crowds. |
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Post by bidefordgas on Apr 10, 2024 15:21:37 GMT
Who are the club kidding? No way were there 6500 home supporters, loads of ST holders not attending including us two. You only had to look at the North stand, North terrace, Thatchers and South stand on ifollow to see what a low turnout it was. Next Tuesday with Cambridge coming it will be far less as they won’t be bringing anywhere near the away support that Reading did last night. Keep your wig on. ST holders are included regardless. I know that! Just pointing out there were probably less than 4500 gasheads at the game last night. Hopefully the owners could see that and rectify it asap by getting rid of Taylor asap! |
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Post by A Source (aka Angry Badger) on Apr 10, 2024 15:37:59 GMT
Who are the club kidding? No way were there 6500 home supporters, loads of ST holders not attending including us two. You only had to look at the North stand, North terrace, Thatchers and South stand on ifollow to see what a low turnout it was. Next Tuesday with Cambridge coming it will be far less as they won’t be bringing anywhere near the away support that Reading did last night. Apparently season ticket holders have their attendance counted regardless Can't sell my East stand ticket on anymore via Ticketmaster and had to have an enforced few days away from the world. If the club say 'tickets sold' I wouldn't argue. Saying it's the attendance is wrong. Can I reserve the right to not be counted if I don't go. A bit pedantic I know. East stand v Shrewsbury didn't have a few missing, it was sparse. 1st 2 or 3 rows in my block had more empty seats than occupied. |
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Post by playtowin on Apr 10, 2024 16:01:30 GMT
Last season.
17th 53pts -15 gd.
Currently
16th 51pts -15 gd.
The lowest expectation should be to finish above 17th with more than 53pts and a better goal difference.
You could argue that if that was achieved the club had moved forward. Long term if thats done year on year we climb the leagues.
Losing Collins was massive .
I guess Aguilera was supposed to replace him.
What everybody knew was we were getting bullied on the pitch by bigger stronger players.
So signing Aguilera and Vaughan seemed bizare.
Conteh has been a good signing but he is still someway off being a league one mainstay. A good one for the future for sure.
Baggot has been good in the air for us and if signed could be one for the future .
I do blame myself for the mess we are in.
I have been asking for cleansheets for a long time . We virtually scored in every game so cleansheets would see us rocket up the league.
I think MT must of read my request and obliged.
I should have made it clearer he did give us the clean sheets every game...but for the opposition.
I apologise.
MT had a window and a lump of cash to spend.
No excuses for this dire run.
If i was in charge i would certainly be unofficially looking at potential replacements.
In the meantime i would not have a new manager associated with the mess we are currently in.
Let MT stay for the remaining few weeks of the season.
Then sack him and his sidekicks.
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Post by The Equaliser on Apr 10, 2024 16:04:53 GMT
Who are the club kidding? No way were there 6500 home supporters, loads of ST holders not attending including us two. You only had to look at the North stand, North terrace, Thatchers and South stand on ifollow to see what a low turnout it was. Next Tuesday with Cambridge coming it will be far less as they won’t be bringing anywhere near the away support that Reading did last night. Apparently season ticket holders have their attendance counted regardless So effectively, if every single supporter boycotted a game we’d still have an official attendance of 4-5k! 😂 |
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Post by Somersetgas on Apr 10, 2024 16:07:37 GMT
Apparently season ticket holders have their attendance counted regardless Can't sell my East stand ticket on anymore via Ticketmaster and had to have an enforced few days away from the world. If the club say 'tickets sold' I wouldn't argue. Saying it's the attendance is wrong. Can I reserve the right to not be counted if I don't go. A bit pedantic I know. East stand v Shrewsbury didn't have a few missing, it was sparse. 1st 2 or 3 rows in my block had more empty seats than occupied. There was nobody near me and my boy on the East last night, tbh I’m struggling to find the motivation to drive home from work and back to Bristol with the boy, that will change when they sack him though. I’ve got more angrier through the day with the performance and his pathetic after match interview, the same dross game after game. Makes you wonder why he applied, I thought Pearson came across bad after matches on Radio Bristol but he’s up and beyond. Also who’s that new guy presenting on Radio Bristol, equally awful with his patronising about the club and fans. |
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Post by socrates on Apr 10, 2024 16:09:01 GMT
I get why people are saying sack him the last 7 games results are awful but prior to that we were doing ok.
Also if we’d sacked Barton when we went in to free fall would we have come back up the following season?
Same with DC and we didn’t sack him either we won back to back promotions.
I’m in the don’t know group to be honest because when I look at our squad it’s slow, unbalanced and average at best.
I think if I was the owner I’d want to see his list of players he’s trying to recruit for next season , who he wants to keep and where he wants to take the club and how.
Only then could I decide.
Obviously we don’t know any of that so it’s too black and white to say keep or sack.
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Post by The Equaliser on Apr 10, 2024 16:20:00 GMT
I get why people are saying sack him the last 7 games results are awful but prior to that we were doing ok. Also if we’d sacked Barton when we went in to free fall would we have come back up the following season? Same with DC and we didn’t sack him either we won back to back promotions. I’m in the don’t know group to be honest because when I look at our squad it’s slow, unbalanced and average at best. I think if I was the owner I’d want to see his list of players he’s trying to recruit for next season , who he wants to keep and where he wants to take the club and how. Only then could I decide. Obviously we don’t know any of that so it’s too black and white to say keep or sack. If I’m honest I wouldn’t want any of our owners judging the merits of football players we may sign. You have to have complete trust in your manager to do that, otherwise 1.You should never have appointed him. 2. You can’t keep him in charge. |
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Post by kovy on Apr 10, 2024 16:32:51 GMT
I'm undecided but leaning towards he needs to go. It feels to me that sometime around the Lincoln game the majority of the squad were told they were not going to be offered new deals and have completely checked out. I don't trust him to get the summer recruitment right and we'll start next season with the same type of performances we're having now. I'd rather sack him now and start fresh. Can we afford too? I have no idea.
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Post by smudge1 on Apr 10, 2024 16:42:17 GMT
I won't be going to the last 4 games. It is not enjoyable to watch, I haven't felt this way since the conference relegation.
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Post by axegas on Apr 10, 2024 17:12:40 GMT
This was a fairly talented bunch of players, not the best squad we’ve ever had by no means, but not a squad that should be performing the way it has been over the last couple of months.
If the players have checked out, you give them a rollicking, you promote youth players and you try new things. It’s a pretty grim time to be a supporter with nothing to play for and no connection to players, so naturally we look to the manager to instil confidence that better things are around the corner.
I’ve not seen anything from Taylor that inspires confidence in me that even if we have a good summers recruitment, he’s going to get the best out of the group. Utterly tactically inept and clearly he hasn’t connected with the fan base either.
Feel sorry for the bloke but he’s got to go.
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Post by Strange Gas on Apr 10, 2024 17:13:52 GMT
I’m pretty reluctant sack but feel that once the slide starts, it’s pretty irreversible, regardless of new players / summer break etc. And even if he can stop it in time, I’ve not seen or heard any indications here or what he’s done in previous roles he’s the right man for the job. Go now!
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