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Post by warehamgas on Apr 12, 2024 8:05:17 GMT
SACK!!! I have absolutely no confidence in him what so ever, reminds me to much of Garner Poor BG, his career has fallen off a cliff over the past two years. He suffered because van shufflehof had a disastrous home game when it was pouring down against JB and Fleetwood. WAQ lost his nerve, put two and two together, sacked BG appointed Tis before losing his nerve again and appointing JB. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 12, 2024 7:45:57 GMT
Thanks Sir T, great research. But DC won two of his matches when he took over before we dropped out of league didn’t he? Morecambe home, his first match and Wycombe away penultimate match of season.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 11, 2024 13:30:19 GMT
I thought we announced that the FM was not happening. Not that it was. I agree with you about the South Stand but the announcement of the FM happening was much earlier surely? That was my point. UTG! 6th of April 2023 was when they released a silly little video and a statement that they wanted someone else to build a stadium for them. Last year. Ok. But the original announcement of the FM was much, much earlier wasn’t it? UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 11, 2024 13:25:37 GMT
6th April we announced the FM then the south stand on the 12th ish if I remember right. At the time it seemed like a simple temporary stand but looking back with what we know now it all seems a bit comical! I thought we announced that the FM was not happening. Not that it was. I agree with you about the South Stand but the announcement of the FM happening was much earlier surely? That was my point. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 11, 2024 7:50:35 GMT
Now would be a good time to throw a dead cat on the table. We were on 8 points from the previous 10 games when Wally and Tommy Gulag announced our move to the Fruit Market a year ago this week! You sure? UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 9, 2024 18:10:22 GMT
Tonight when our fourth goes in ,the cheering will be heard in Bulawayo!!!!!!!! Blimey. Dr F, it’s not Sir Trevor who’s been drinking it’s Colyton! 4 goals in a match! 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 9, 2024 15:58:28 GMT
8222 with 1280 away.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 21:42:37 GMT
I find your question really interesting and I went and had a look. All data is from www.transfermarkt.co.uk/league-one/transfers/wettbewerb/GB3/plus/?saison_id=2023&s_w=w&leihe=1&intern=0&intern=1So a few teams didn't sign any centre forwards in January, they were: Barnsley Blackpool Peterborough Portsmouth Port Vale Reading Then there was the one we know about: Bolton - Aaron Collins played 15 scored 6 (not sure about assists, he has 10 but I thought he had 10 with us and I'm sure I saw him cross the ball in his first game for a goal). Burton: Antwoine Hackford - 6 games 0 goals Kyle Hudlin - 5 games 0 goals Ademola Ola-Adebomi - 13 games 1 goal and 2 assists Joe Hugill - 14 games 1 goal and 3 assists Cambridge: Lyle Taylor - 1 game 0 goals Macauley Bonne - 11 games 0 goals Carlisle: Georgie Kelly - 3 games 0 goals Luke Armstrong - 17 games 3 goals 2 assists Charlton: Freddy Ladapo - 14 games 1 goal 1 assist Connor Wickham - 1 game Cheltenham Town: Matty Taylor - 8 Games 4 goals Joe Nuttall - 10 games 1 goal 1 assist Derby: Dwight Gayle - 6 games 3 goals 1 assist Exeter: Mo Eisa - 11 games 1 goal Fleetwood: Tommy Lonergan - 4 games 0 goals Ronan Coughlan - 11 games 2 goals Leyton Orient: Daniel Adu-Adjei - 8 games 0 goals Khan Edwards - 6 games 0 goals Lincoln: Joe Taylor - 15 games 9 goals and 3 assists Northampton - No centre forwards signed Oxford: Will Goodwin - 8 games 1 goal Tyler Burry - 5 games 0 goals Shrewsbury: Tom Bloxham - 14 games 2 goals Stevenage: Vadaine Oliver - 14 games 0 goals 1 assist Wigan: Charlie Kelman - 10 games 1 goal 1 assist Wycombe: Richard One - 4 games 1 goal 1 assist Gideon Kodak - 6 games 0 goals So, the top three are: Joe Taylor - Storming it for Lincoln (Loan from Luton) Matty Taylor - FFS Luke Armstrong (bought from Harrogate town. Should have done a swap deal for Belshaw!) Based on goals and assists (not a per game ratio) I would therefore say that the value isn't really there in January and personally, I think waiting until the summer is the correct strategy (assuming we do sign one or two) Perhaps you need to tell the 16(?) teams who signed strikers then that they wasted their money, as you clearly know best. It's hard to believe 16(?) other L1 clubs signed strikers, some even more than one but we couldn't manage to sign one, even though we banked £750K from selling one. Or, alternatively, well done gasify, thanks for doing the research and posting it. It doesn’t look as if any League 1 club got good value for money on their striker signings in January. Which tends to confirm what is often said about not getting real value for money in January is probably true. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 21:22:34 GMT
I should of course said Connor Roberts was on loan with us in 15-16. My error. Apologies.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 21:03:59 GMT
Who the **** are Bristol? He obviously learnt nothing about us when here. UTG! Calling us Bristol is the last thing we need to worry about from that tweet, JH has really stirred things up. x.com/jamiehedges76/status/1777308335986868377Thanks Topper. I’m not worried at all. 😉 And not sure that JH, after keeping shtum for a few years has stirred it up by giving an account of his sacking. Doesn’t take much to stir some people up. But you’re correct in so far as JB is ‘annoyed’. But not sure you shouldn’t tell your version of something for fear of what a bully might do. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 20:38:59 GMT
Ouch x.com/joey7barton/status/1777390357153546579?s=46They were Dam crap lad.(about Matt Taylor’s Rotherham)So is what he’s done at Bristol so far. Stop gaslighting people. You absolute divvy. He’s taken a progressive, football playing team. Not fought like a lion to keep his major source of goals. You’d have had to kill me to have gotten Aaron Collins out of that building. Then questioned the players bottle in the media? That they’re not good enough? That they can’t do the basics? He just wants people to launch it. Plus, he’s a right boring man. I personally can’t bear him from our skirmish’s at Exeter. That’s on the record already. Where he built a good side. Credit to them. A very direct but good side. They were kriptonite for my Rovers team. They should have won League 2 actually that season. Rob Edwards Forest Green were stumbling. Exeter lost at home. Matt done a great job that season. Can’t remember who finished 3rd? But in our game you get paid for winning. He’s hasn’t done anything but regress the group. No goals. Never a good sign for a football team. (AARON Collins?) There are lots of good people and good players in that group. I know because I built most of it. And those brought in on and off the park, will be good people no doubt. But a team eventually reflects their manager. I don’t want to see Matt Taylor get sacked btw. Even though as stated early, I don’t like him. I hope Bristol win at home tomorrow because it’s a great club. Wael is a diamond. #UTG 💙 Who the **** are Bristol? He obviously learnt nothing about us when here. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 16:07:53 GMT
Topper, that’s rubbish. We beat Morecambe in his first match, last weekend on March I think. We’d been poor all season following a familiar ‘let’s recruit but stop at recruiting any good strikers’ transfer policy. The two full backs getting injured and a combination of other crap things meant we went down. DC took his share of the blame and started to do something about it. But, we were never ‘virtually relegated…’ That’s possibly re-writing history as supergas said or just rubbish. JB didn’t have a good squad perhaps but it was unforgivable the way he gave up, stood with his arms crossed and blamed the players. MT fortunately hasn’t given up, though some of the players may have. Has to be given time to recruit and get the team playing his way. Of course it may not work out, there are never any guarantees in football but we’ve got to stop thinking the answer to everything is ‘sacking the manager’. Not only is it financial stupidity it really will make us even more unpopular than we’ve been since appointing JB, no other serious manager would even consider us. UTG! Why do we have to stop thinking that sacking the manager is the answer when most other league clubs don't seem to worry? What's the better option, dismiss MT now and pay him a year's salary, £150K(?), or hand him thr entire wage budget of £5m(?) and just hope he gets it's right? I'd say the latter is financial stupidity! I doubt any out of work manager would worry too much about how our last manager departed if we offered them a decent contract. Seriously, who cares what other clubs don’t worry about it. Obviously no idea about details in contracts but MT has been allowed to build his backroom staff and anyone coming in will want their own staff so when a manager leaves it’s not just the manager who has to be paid off is it? So it will cost another large pay-off if the MT team are sacked which will be happening as we still pay JB ltd. If you think that doesn’t matter when money is said to be tight then you must have invented a new economic system …..Topperenomics??? You may be right about managers not worrying about what happened before but that’s why I put ‘serious managers’. I think some managers who look to improve would be put off by what happened before. It can be a career and I do think serious managers will consider the owners they will be working for. It’s ok if you don’t agree. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 15:29:02 GMT
We can find his stats for the whole season with a bit of searching and a spreadsheet... ...1336 mins in the league (so approx 15 full games). Seven league goals which is one every 191 minutes. Not prolific, not disastrous. Probably not the solution to a team that needs a fit, prolific striker... You forget that Gashead scouting on the whole is "has he played for us and was he good before?". But chewy you also forgot that we sign defenders and midfielders and think we’ve completed our recruitment until someone notices we haven’t signed any strikers….. and the window has closed. Happened so often now it must be policy! 😢 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 12:56:28 GMT
No I dont know best but probably as much as a lot of others. When i say couldnt manage in League 1 or above i mean that although he took us to League 1 and took us to 10th,he did that with the majority of players that he acquired in the non league season. He did not have sufficient knowledge to get players of League 1 standard or better and this showed itself the season after finishing 10th when we were terrible and he should and probably would have been sacked earlier but for his previous achievement with us. I do agree however that although he was in charge when we went down it was John Ward who was clearly to blame for that event. Steve I respect your opinion and view regards DC but to say he couldn’t manage in League 1 as you originally said and then qualify it by saying that we did well in League 1 only because he had had good players that he recruited in non-league is way off. DC did manage well in League 1, it was only when he had to replace those players and like every other manager we’ve had, he found it hard to do so for whatever reason. On that argument AFCBournemouth should have ditched Eddie Howe in ‘14 because after their first season in the Championship they had some hammerings with a team similar to the promotion team. But they didn’t, he was trusted, built a great team and got to the promised land. Difference was they had an owner prepared to spend and support the manager. I can remember watching AFCB in the PL in those first 2 seasons with 7/8/9 players playing who’d been in League 1. EH made mediocre players much, much better, just as DC did imo.But it could have been so very different if they’d used your argument. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 12:44:06 GMT
I have no agenda. DC took us down as did Barton but they were both given a chance to bring us back up. Taylor has us in mid table and many seem to want him gone. That was my point. Patience is key but most fans and owners have none these days unfortunately. We were virtually relegated when DC was appointed, Wael clearly decided to stand by JB when even DM at Peterborough was saying he would have dismissed him. Plus JB inherited a shocking squad thanks to BG then lost Nicholson to injury, I'm not sure this is a poor squad just poorly managed. Topper, that’s rubbish. We beat Morecambe in his first match, last weekend on March I think. We’d been poor all season following a familiar ‘let’s recruit but stop at recruiting any good strikers’ transfer policy. The two full backs getting injured and a combination of other crap things meant we went down. DC took his share of the blame and started to do something about it. But, we were never ‘virtually relegated…’ That’s possibly re-writing history as supergas said or just rubbish. JB didn’t have a good squad perhaps but it was unforgivable the way he gave up, stood with his arms crossed and blamed the players. MT fortunately hasn’t given up, though some of the players may have. Has to be given time to recruit and get the team playing his way. Of course it may not work out, there are never any guarantees in football but we’ve got to stop thinking the answer to everything is ‘sacking the manager’. Not only is it financial stupidity it really will make us even more unpopular than we’ve been since appointing JB, no other serious manager would even consider us. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 8, 2024 11:53:25 GMT
Yes I’ve followed his career , always rated him personally but Darrel had a bt of a prob with loanees 🤔😂💙 I just think he saw them differently to other managers we’ve had since. DC trusted ‘his’ squad and always preferred them. He used the loanees, as Tilly has said, for cover/injuries /suspensions. McBurnie like Connor Roberts (I think) was here but didn’t play. Both gone on to have good careers elsewhere. Perhaps it’s me but I think DC preferred a smaller squad and he certainly knew his best team ‘14-‘17. Something I don’t think I’ve seen a manager know since. (Although tbf JB in the run in to promotion did probably know it). It was only when the squad started to leave that DC found it hard to replace them. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 5, 2024 21:34:07 GMT
Fulham v Newcastle. 1-2 Luton v Bournemouth. 1-2 Wolves v West Ham. 1-1 Cardiff v Hull. 3-1 Gas v Bolton. 1-1 Exeter v Stevenage. 1-1 Accy v Crewe. 0-2 Bradford v Gills. 1-1 Tranmere v Walsall. 2-1 York v Eastleigh. 1-2 Boston v Brackley. 1-2 Darlo v Southport. 1-1
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 5, 2024 21:19:21 GMT
9555 with 1333 trotters.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 5, 2024 18:07:58 GMT
That'll be TG's answer when Abdulatiff asks him why he didn't give Bolton more tickets! No wonder we lose £5m a year if we build a stand we can't even fill to capacity because it seems to have been poorly designed. Are you starting to realise why I have been on a one person TG out campaign now? Don’t be daft. Two more regular posters come to mind without thinking, Chewbacca and o2. I’m sure there will be others. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 5, 2024 15:02:55 GMT
Thought the second article didn't have much substance. The bartender was outside and saw the woman punch the horse, and was then inside to witness her coming in to finish her drink. Surely there would have been cctv inside and outside the pub? Great stuff, so we still only have one horse puncher. Phew! But I bet every club has at least one of most unpleasant things. Doesn’t define me or most others on here. The whole argument is rather like that of “my dad could beat your dad….”. UTG!
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