Gas v Shrewsbury Match Day Thread

There’s been a notable shift in the tone of Dan Hargreaves’ reports. Apparently Lindsay bundled home the goal last night!

The board need to clear this up - back your man say he’s going nowhere and tell us how it is, or get rid, so the fan base can be clear. As mentioned previously I think a 4-0 loss would’ve pleased a lot of “gasheads”.

The whole narrative of “lose this game and he’s gone” isn’t fair on anyone. Yes he may not be a flamboyant and charismatic manager, but he’s also a human being.

Good post daniel

I feel the same. If he goes I won't lose any sleep. If he stays then il keep going and watching this turgid football as long as we keep picking up points. It's far from enjoyable to watch though.

I think the problem Taylor as is he's not Barton. Whoever came in after him was always going to struggle. Like him or loathe him Barton was loved for his passion and he galvanised the fan base at times with his passion and the siege mentality he created where every team hated us because of him.

The atmosphere on the whole under him was fantastic home and away and he knew how to work the crowd. Taylor doesn't. He is alienating himself now and the writings on the wall.

More comments from him about the crowd again last night were not needed.

And so he should. I always thought we were "Faithful and true". Clearly that means nothing to some.

It wasn't a classic, but we just about deserved the win. We did hit the post/bar three times after all. MoM has to be Josh Griffiths for making so much fuss about their "goal". From the camera behind the goal it looked like Marquis was deliberately trying to get in Griffiths' line of sight until he saw a shot about to come in when he went the other way, so if that helped the linesman put his flag up then that serves Marquis right.

Conteh was pretty solid, as were Moore and Wilson. Promise O ran his socks off, and played a part in the goal by holding the ball up well, and Shaq looked lively too. Another good goal from Lindsay. Good to see Luke T on the pitch.

We do seem to sit too deep for the last 15 minutes of games, whether we are one up or three up (Charlton), but we have done this on countless occasions in my 55 years of watching so nothing new there.

Yeah, sad really. Never wanted Rovers to lose for any reason. Even under JB, I never wanted us to lose.

IMHO Connor Taylor really did have a game of two very different halves. In the first he gave the ball away twice and we could easily have conceded two goals from them, but more concerning for me, is his speed of thought / passing. He seems slower than the rest of the defence to decide what to do with the ball, thus when he passes (normally sideways) he gives his fellow defender less time on the ball until they are closed down.

In the 2nd half he was much better. No slips, won most headers and was either able to shepherd balls out or get a foul. Getting free kicks from being fouled seems to be quite a big part of his game, but that's a challenge when you get a ref like last night who gave little 

I agree with the stats and it’s a concern.
However it’s not time for change, yet. It’s still a team in development and Taylor is still working out how to get the best out of this team, I.e move to a back 4.
At times, I see a team, that plays like his Exeter team, which we would all happily support. Last nights goal was a prime example.
Also results, if they continue to improve will bring the crowds back. Just look at Coughlin. Terrible football but decent crowds as it was successful.

So definitely to early to be all doom and gloom.

Valid point guys but some of you need to put the business head on, I really stress this.

Promise 600k
Forde 400k
Conteh 300k
Hutchinson 250k
Taylor 300k
(Estimates, add in agent fees, all of it, we’ve spent well last 12 months)


We’ve got £1.5 million quids worth plus in that squad last night.

The new Sky Deal should be factored in top of a gate a year ago, 7,200 etc and not used as an excuse. If we are going by this excuse, we don’t ever need new stands, let’s make life easier just shut a stand as well 😂👏🏼

Exeter had 500 more than us last night, Stockport v Northampton, no needle, 8,500 plus.

A club we should be looking at and aspiring to be is Oxford United who sold out 11,500 last night in the Championship. We need to stop making excuses, if we were playing attractive winning football then we’d have had 7,000 plus last night, we are winning at home and the customers don’t like it!

All good objective points btw, however I think there is a bigger picture also to consider.

I remember very well the Graham Coughlan era and lower attendances with a more direct brand of football together with a quieter and less engaging demeanour as the reason we were happy (as fans) to let Cogs walk. I remember the grumbles about route 1 football and how unnattractive it was, and the space on the terraces where we were averaging 6500 a game 2 years after DC got us promotion back to L1. People just didn't appreciate what Cogs was doing, how well he was doing as well as what he was putting up with off the field, and I do feel there is a bit of that now.

The overlay on the 2 periods of time are remarkably similar.

A promotion from L2, the expectation we'll walk L1 within 2 seasons followed by a crash (or humbling) and a reappointment of manager where the personalities of the managers are so different people thought that we were in a tougher spot than we actually were.

So when Cogs hung himself on radio we were happy to let him walk went and got Garner, then Tisdale, then Barton and we ended up relegated within 12 months.

Could it be a case of be careful what we wish for if we sack MT?

I know that we seem to lack identity which we clearly had with Cogs and by this time in October we had 22 points and sat 8th.

However the differences with Cogs and MT are the wholesale changes that MT has had to make. This is a brand new side which will need to gel and I know the football isn't great but we are able to beat enough people to stay in this tough division this year currently. Is the squad better than what Cogs had? Id say so, but also those players had been together a lot longer than this group have.

Am I happy with that, not really, but my worry is that I have no confidence that Hussain and Abdul are able to get someone else in that would do any better than what we are now and there being no guarantee of better football and any current changes to management will end up with us getting relegated.

Its a pattern we have seen before and fallen prey to and I for one do not want to end up back in L2.