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Post by warehamgas on Apr 27, 2024 21:44:25 GMT
Thanks again Russ for your time given and for a great competition. I feel a bit embarrassed because we all play to the same fixtures and both you and Rodders beat me comfortably. Well done to both of you.👏👏👏
And to Sir Trevor well done and I’m glad you won the attendance league.👏👏👏
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 27, 2024 19:07:28 GMT
Fair dos for 14000 turning up for a match with nothing on it in the 3rd division. And well done to those 700+ gas going all that way not to see a shot on target. Blimey,our fans are PL, it’s a shame our team isn’t as good.
And well done to Sir Trevor, well deserved. 👍
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 27, 2024 17:24:21 GMT
Why would players brought to the club by Joey want to stay and play for monotone Matt when they could live in their native north west of England and at the very least for Dave Challinor, and in Antony case play for a nearby Championship club. I really hope the haters messiah can convince Jordi and Antony to buy into his vision of turning frail players into, well I don't know exactly what, and stay. Let’s hope he can convince a bloke in his late 20’s who’s made of glass to stay. I’m glad you aren’t in charge of recruitment. There’s a rumour that Mangan is on his way to Stockport this summer hence the rumours of the other scousers joining up with them. What as? Coach or Assistant Manager? Obviously as well as Challoner not instead of? Is he replacing Clint Hill? Perhaps Tranmere are a more likely destination given their end of season is nearly as bad as ours. UTG! |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 27, 2024 17:01:20 GMT
No great improvement year on year, few points and a couple positions up, I suppose never really in trouble but expected a top 10 finish so a disappointing season on and off the field. The last couple of months have been about as uninspiring as I can remember as a very long time Rovers fan. Yes I suppose that’s what it seems like reading this place. I agree with most of what you’ve said. It’s been a strange season in that 57 points and our final position is up there with our best seasons this century yet there is a huge negativity surrounding the club at the moment. If JB did anything he certainly raised the expectations of the fanbase on here. I’m not sure that’s realistic but seeing who’s in the play-offs we should at least be challenging. And we haven’t. Please MT when you start recruiting, invest in some pace and start by recruiting 2/3 strikers. I’m sure we’d look and play better and certainly defend better with some balance in the team so that we’re not always on the back foot and being forced on the defensive. Our current defenders would look much better without being forced back. Its all a far cry from that opening draw at Pompey when we looked good and Pompey maybe fortunate to get a draw. UTG! |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 27, 2024 8:34:20 GMT
9333 with 456 gas.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 27, 2024 8:19:01 GMT
Fulham v C Palace. 1-1
Blackburn v Coventry. 1-2
Cardiff v Middlesboro. 2-1
Huddersfield v Brum. 1-1
Millwall v Plymouth. 2-0
Watford v Sunderland. 1-1
Wimbledon v Walsall. 1-1
Accrington v Tranmere. 2-1
Barrow v Mansfield. 1-2
Salford v Harrogate. 1-1
Swindon v Morecambe. 2-0
Wrexham v Stockport. 1-1
UTG!
Thanks Russ. All the best today.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 26, 2024 18:09:12 GMT
I actually feel sorry for MT. What a job he's got trying to sort all this mess out over the summer. I'm sure he will try and just get abuse from many for his efforts. Admittedly McA situation, if true, is partly down to him as he appointed him. The ghost of Barton seems to hover over this club. I don’t feel sorry for MT though I do sympathise with the position he’s in and he could well feel let down. Not sure, if true, it is down to him just because he appointed him. Presumably all who attended the event were adults and people you would expect to know how to behave. Surely adults need to take responsibility for their own actions, their own behaviour. Don’t they? Poor MT, just when he thought he’d got through to the end of the season (or nearly) this happens. Although tbf, I haven’t seen it mentioned elsewhere, yet. UTG! |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 25, 2024 15:05:50 GMT
If Grant is offered another deal it will demonstrate just how little the owners respect the fans, how little they know about football and really lower the bar on any expectation for next season. Isn’t that likely to be a manager’s decision not the owner’s? And if it is MT’s, more a reflection on what he thinks he can get player-wise with the budget available. UTG! edit: sorry Gassy you beat me to it. |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 24, 2024 22:41:16 GMT
No worries about teams coming up or teams coming down. It always happens and all we can do is hope that our new owners stick to their plans to improve us and that the backroom staff that MT has been given are all capable of doing their jobs well. It sounds as if there is some kind of proper structure is being put in place and all we can do is hope it works.
As to recruitment I hope we go for players on the way up instead of players on their way down. And that’s not meant unkindly. Wrexham, Stockport may do well, Rotherham and those coming down will probably do well. I’d expect Mansfield to do better perhaps with a decent manager who looks to play good football and who has built his team gradually over the past few years.
I want us to improve and get better. If we do that then we could be as good as most clubs and I don’t care how the others do. We’ve got to think how we can improve not worry about others.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 24, 2024 10:23:06 GMT
I can appreciate that and have no reason to disagree.👍🏾 My point remains - on here has admitted and enjoyed telling other posters he comes on to intentionally wind others up. Those are the facts , people can be knowledgeable as well as annoying in life, in person he may be a nice person, on here more often than not he is a trouble maker by his own choosing 👍🏾 Do unto to others as you want them to do to you... Roadman has often been the butt of peoples jokes/insults/wind ups/ and yet people get sensitive when they get a little back. I'd expect such people to be a bit thicker skinned than that. Everyone goes to far with each other at times which is why we end up getting involved, locking threads and giving some time outs. Another thread that percy started as informing us about what happened is turned a tad toxic 4/5 posts later. And then it goes downhill. Perhaps don’t start rumours or actually explain what you mean when you post. Without that explanation…… And if you don’t want to explain don’t start it. Oh well soon be the close season. You’re right 1981, “do unto others as…..” Great advice not taken by some. UTG! |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 23, 2024 22:57:50 GMT
It’s a strange world we live in now … As a Dad to two 18 year olds I genuinely fear for how things / behaviours will continue to evolve and how their lives will be affected. I don’t understand many things that are deemed normal speech or behaviour now. I have no concept of what is being said when listening to the Sunday dinner chat now … my own identity has morphed from Daddy to Dad to Bro - I put a stop at Fam though. Thankfully it’s returned to Dad. All that said … I can’t stand bullying or bullies - abuse of any sort and especially when said to an isolated person is wrong. The more we can do to recognise it and call it out as wrong is surely the right way to go. Much the same as it’s always been then, the older generation wondering about the generation under them. You are correct though, see wrong call it out. UTG! |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 22, 2024 22:00:51 GMT
Kieron Bowie and Marc Leonard from Fulham been on loan with Northampton could be of interest having done well over two seasons.Jayden Stockley probably won’t be staying with Fleetwood now they’re going down but he hasn’t been great. Did his and MTs time at Exeter overlap?
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 21, 2024 20:39:08 GMT
Best wishes to Wareham. Runners up over a complete season is a magnificent achievement. Wow. It is very close. You could be in a for a double Sir Trevor. And in the end we’re both trailing Russ and Rodders! Good luck everyone. UTG! |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 20, 2024 23:16:09 GMT
Am I the only one who gets the feeling that football is at a breaking point? Agree. It's not the people's game anymore. More like a rich persons plaything. Chairman, agents and mega rich players are a world apart from local heroes like Alfie and Harold. That went in 1992 when the PL came in. Those big 5, Liverpool, Man U, Arsenal and Tottenham, Everton (in hindsight that’s laughable) wanted a bigger share of TV revenue and thought that a PL of the best clubs could get more and keep more. Greed was good! I don’t think Chelsea was part of the group who initiated this and Man City certainly weren’t. Which is all very ironic considering where we find ourselves now. Whats happening now is just the result of that greedy decision. It’s not even the culmination because it will get worse. UTG! ps. I think I’m right about the original 5 clubs who started it all. I’m sure someone will correct me if wrong. I always remember it as the two Liverpool clubs, the two north London clubs and Man U. |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 20, 2024 23:03:46 GMT
Regarding this decision can anybody explain to me the reason for no replays in rounds one and two when premiership clubs are not involved Exactly. It doesn't affect them does it so it is all bollox.It is. And if the PL/FA are thinking that there are too many games and not enough dates they are stretching the truth. By the time the group stages of the European competitions are completed the FA Cup for them hasn’t even started. The knock out stages don’t start until March when only a few clubs are involved. Is it 7 clubs involved in Europe? After the group stage this season it was down to 5. So what they’re really saying is that the FA Cup is sacrificed for 5 clubs. Shameful. Their response is pathetic. I think it showed they were angry that their plans are being questioned and their integrity is als being questioned. The responses of Tranmere and Exeter in saying they were not consulted showed the FA up for misleading or even lying about consulting with clubs. Now the EFL have said they were not consulted properly and had not agreed to the proposals have made the FA look very poor. Their response was printed in capitals because they are furious. This is not going away. The FA will either have to back down and stop their plans with replays continuing or tell the EFL clubs to lump it and ignore the noise the EFL are making. What will the clubs do if this were to happen? If they all decide to boycott the cup I think it would bring the FA down. But all clubs would need to do it, not just a few as the FA would be able to punish a few but not all of them.The leaders would have to resign and a brand new governing body created. They’ll probably postpone the change and re-consult having made a pigs ear of this one using their 30 pieces of silver to try and bribe the clubs and the EFL to agree. Blimey, this new Football Regular is going to have a very large ‘In-tray’ to deal with. UTG! |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 20, 2024 11:51:51 GMT
9001 with 922 away.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 20, 2024 8:23:54 GMT
Who cares they get a £100 million a season just by being in the Premier league. They still play in a tinpot stadium that has been updated since their rise to the dizzy heights. And if I’m not mistaken they were one of the clubs in the Premier league who voted against the cash hand out to the EFL clubs. They have handed the begging bowl out in their recent past so I await them doing something similar in the not to distant future. I agree, who cares, they are in the PL so live in a different football world than us. No comparisons. But the stadium hadn’t been updated since being in the PL. The last major improvement, the South Stand was completed in summer ‘13 when still in the Championship. They had to do some cosmetic changes esp to media facilities to meet PL regulations, but nothing that improved the actual ground. Unless you count an enlarged shop. The stadium hasn’t changed since being built back in early noughties. Some call it tinpot (esp other PL clubs) but it doesn’t half generate an atmosphere like no other in the PL. I haven’t been to Luton recently to compare. And that was/is a concern of fans wondering about the legacy of being in the PL. What legacy? I guess this new training ground is that legacy. What I find interesting, if you want comparisons, is that like us AFCB see providing a training ground for the team and manager more important than a shiny new ground. Much the same as Wael and Rovers regarding the Quarters and all the stuff about a new ground for us. Keeping a focus on the team and football perhaps. UTG! |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 19, 2024 21:45:52 GMT
Luton v Brentford. 2-1
Sheff utd v Burnley. 1-1
Huddersfld v Swansea. 2-0
Blackpool v Barnsley. 2-1
Gas v Posh. 1-2
Donnie v Barrow. 3-1
Grimsby v Swindon. 2-0
Tranny v Wimbledon. 1-0
Blyth v Brackley. 1-2
Hereford v Boston. 1-1
Scarboro v Alfreton. 2-1
Aveley v Bath. 1-1
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 19, 2024 21:38:09 GMT
Hard choice for the club.
Whatever they decide will be wrong for some. The. problems with Jordan R has been made worse by Ward, Hunt, Wilson and Josh Grant being very injury prone. It’s meant a large number of the squad out, 20% (?) of the total. No way can we allow ourselves to be left so vulnerable by knowingly having so many players prone to long lay-offs.
I’m sure they’ll do something about assessing Jordan R after the season has ended by which time he’ll have had another two games to see how his body reacts. Then decide after taking medical advice. And I’m sure Jordan R will have his own opinion. It may be that he would rather relocate to the north and be nearer his family even if he has to drop down a league or two.
Of those 5 Jordan R is the best player and, if fit, would be most valuable to us. I’d say give him a year contract with conditions and look to replace the others but not an easy decision for MT ultimately.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 18, 2024 21:04:03 GMT
Oh dear a late winner for Weston. Taunton are down.
A shame but after a good year last season and a great start this, they were top in September, their best players were attracted away to other teams which together with their ground condition problems and their financial stuff were just too much to overcome. Perhaps they can do something next season.
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