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Post by warehamgas on Mar 17, 2024 12:27:47 GMT
Bang out of order , Roady posts what he genuinely knows and has proved it to be true numerous times , wouldn’t say that was tedious Some don’t like the hearing the truth. When we never had a mid week game, everything was set up and engineered around the two Mercedes Veto’s pulling back in at the Quarters ar 2pm on a Tuesday, even the players living local got used to the Bank Holiday Monday’s most weeks! No doubt in tomorrow being coached how to defend or 9am Tuesday. The apple cart has been well and truly upset. The difference now is Taylor is moving to the area and McAllister has left his son up at Hibs on his own back done here. Wayne Carlisle is local as well, all committed to the club, the Veto days are over. Three managers, one thing remains consistent, an inconsistent squad which has learned bad habits from the start. “I” hope “I” haven’t offended again telling the truth. You may well be right roady. The living away from your home to work probably only works for a short period and in football when things aren’t going well questions on both sides are asked. Good to hear club staff are becoming more local, it must be a positive change for the club. It may work in the short term but over a period of time it becomes more difficult. And of course you’re right about the only consistent thing about us is our inconsistency. But boy, roady, your posting ‘style’ really gets some on here going. You love a good wind-up. 😉 It’s entertaining to read and it gives me a good chuckle, seeing the difference between what you say and how you say it. 👍 And the bottom line of it all for me as a fan is that this season we’ve beaten some top teams when we’ve played well. Not sure we did that last season and now we are on for one of our best finishes this century. Someone has done a great job at lifting expectations amongst the fan base so that when we have a bad day like yesterday, the MDT reaches 39 pages with several meltdowns. Pure entertainment!! We have no relegation worries, owners are slowly putting plans into place and we have moved on with a decent (I think) manager in place who I hope will be helped to recruit some decent players to help us improve next season. It’s BRFC so nothing will ever be perfect buts it’s as good as it can be perhaps. MTs short term problem is managing players who know they may not be here next season and getting some pride into them to do a decent job over these next few weeks. I hope what you said a few weeks ago roady, that certain targets are likely to sign when the window opens happens. It won’t help MT in the next few weeks though and I don’t envy him managing those players. But we stick with him and the owners and plan towards the big picture stuff and not get sidelined by players who don’t perform. Should be an interesting time at least. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 17, 2024 9:29:41 GMT
It will be interesting to see whether he does or not. Football is a very closed world and if someone has an attitude problem, there are few [unlike, in fairness, Barton] who would take them on. As you say he has hardly played and Peterborough are a grow and sell club. They would usually put someone like JCH on the pitch and in the shop window! The fact they haven't speaks volumes and potential clubs will ask themselves why..... His goal record over the last 4 or 5 years will guarantee him plenty of good offers. There are not many goal scorers out there these days. P’Boro we’re working on the basis he was leaving last August and had committed to signing new players and adopting a different playing style - when our owners screwed up he was left in limbo (that’s how I recall events anyway!) Plus the big possibility that Posh were expecting Brentford to sell Ivan Toney last summer which would have given them a huge percentage of a very large fee. I think Posh thought they could play more difficult which in a sense backfired on them with JCH these past windows. When Toney is sold in the Summer they will get their share of the transfer but they will have a large loss on what they could have got from JCH. But I doubt they will worry, having this huge windfall in the background. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 16, 2024 18:26:03 GMT
Can someone from the intelligenceie (I'm sure they will pull me up on spelling hmmmn). What is getting our club back mean? Who knows? Losing 0-5 at Lincoln? 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 16, 2024 14:27:50 GMT
I defended this absolute spunk stain for god knows how long , How on earth did I fall for his bullshit , Made a right tit of myself. Like many okebourne. Don’t beat yourself up about it. When he was manager I supported him because he was our manager and I don’t demand BRFC managers should be paragons of virtue, I don’t look for my role models in football! No tit okebourne. Unfortunately I think what’s happened since October has shown that JB probably needed us more than we needed him. Without a football focus the guy is a bit out of control and it could lead him to some dark places. He needs help, I hope he finds it somewhere. But it’s good to have a decent human being managing our club even if I don’t demand that our managers are decent people. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 16, 2024 9:02:06 GMT
8888 with 545 gas.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 15, 2024 22:56:41 GMT
Burnley v Brentford. 1-2 Luton v Notts Forest. 2-2 Birmingham v Watford. 1-1 Derby v Bolton. 2-1 Fleetwood v Charlton. 1-1 Lincoln v Gas. 2-0 Posh v Pompey. 2-1 Accrington v Notts Co. 0-1 M K Dons v Crewe. 3-1 Eastleigh v Rochdale. 1-1 Hartlepool v Southend. 1-2 Darlington v Posh Sports. 1-0
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 15, 2024 20:56:09 GMT
And of course going back 15 years or so Conference clubs were in the 3rd/4th Division Cup whatever it was then called. I remember watching Gravesend and Northfleet in it. ( they are now Ebbsfleet)
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 15, 2024 20:53:30 GMT
It’s been said before when this same argument (PL greed v EFL need) comes up but I think it was all set in motion in 1992 when the PL began. It was created out of greed. Once foreign owners came in and got involved in the PL they only see the balance sheet and what they can get out if it. There will be no consideration of “looking after” our lower league teams. It’s why the idea of a super league was floated. Pretty sure well over 15 clubs in the PL are foreign owed, it may be more. Foreign owners have little idea of what went before in the PL. I’m sure AFCB have taken their position because Foley, their American owner, has no memory about the position the club were in years ago when they had to go and get the begging bowls out, literally. He has no idea about what went before they got to the promised land. When one of the architects of Bournemouth’s rise died recently, Eddie Mitchell he warranted two sentences on the club website and no mention on a matchday as far as I’m aware. Very poor imo. No Eddie Mitchell, no AFCB in the PL. but it’s all been forgotten and that will be the case with most PL clubs. It’s a business opportunity to make money not a stewardship of a club being part of a bigger family. Why worry about something that’s not important to them? And if we are relying on this government to put something in place like a Football Tsar, as has been mentioned, then we are desperate and very likely to be disappointed. That will not happen before the next election, it’s already resting in the long grass. Greed will win as it always does and the lower league clubs will accept some small crumbs of comfort. But it will be what the PL clubs are prepared to give not what is needed. And just for clarity I’m not against foreign owners because they are foreign. I’m against them when they don’t understand what they’ve bought into and see it as a means to make money. WAQ has been a very understanding and aware owner of us. He ‘got’ us I think and whilst I think he made some poor errors his commitment to us and what he did in lockdown will always deserve respect and gratitude. UTG! Bounemouth know the history but ultimately it's a business. Their fans do but not sure the owners do. But you are right, it’s a business. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 14, 2024 17:00:20 GMT
It’s been said before when this same argument (PL greed v EFL need) comes up but I think it was all set in motion in 1992 when the PL began. It was created out of greed. Once foreign owners came in and got involved in the PL they only see the balance sheet and what they can get out if it. There will be no consideration of “looking after” our lower league teams. It’s why the idea of a super league was floated. Pretty sure well over 15 clubs in the PL are foreign owed, it may be more.
Foreign owners have little idea of what went before in the PL. I’m sure AFCB have taken their position because Foley, their American owner, has no memory about the position the club were in years ago when they had to go and get the begging bowls out, literally. He has no idea about what went before they got to the promised land. When one of the architects of Bournemouth’s rise died recently, Eddie Mitchell he warranted two sentences on the club website and no mention on a matchday as far as I’m aware. Very poor imo. No Eddie Mitchell, no AFCB in the PL. but it’s all been forgotten and that will be the case with most PL clubs. It’s a business opportunity to make money not a stewardship of a club being part of a bigger family. Why worry about something that’s not important to them?
And if we are relying on this government to put something in place like a Football Tsar, as has been mentioned, then we are desperate and very likely to be disappointed. That will not happen before the next election, it’s already resting in the long grass. Greed will win as it always does and the lower league clubs will accept some small crumbs of comfort. But it will be what the PL clubs are prepared to give not what is needed.
And just for clarity I’m not against foreign owners because they are foreign. I’m against them when they don’t understand what they’ve bought into and see it as a means to make money. WAQ has been a very understanding and aware owner of us. He ‘got’ us I think and whilst I think he made some poor errors his commitment to us and what he did in lockdown will always deserve respect and gratitude.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 14, 2024 16:35:43 GMT
Being a Torquay fan I knew the deduction was coming. Don't know how they're going to get out of it. Looking to go down there now Reading is off. They still aren’t in the bottom 4 so it’s still in their own hands to avoid relegation. Hard to say but it was always going to get worse before it gets better and perhaps what’s happened will be a new start for them. Avoid relegation, which they will, and hopefully new owners come in and give then some stability and a basis to start building again. I’m sure the crowds will be maintained and may even grow in their hour of need. I’d say a fans owned club might be for them but they’ve tried that before and I don’t think (others will know the story better) it worked that well before their lottery winner took them over (?) and it wasn't able to be sustained when he died. (?) Good luck to them. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 14, 2024 9:08:39 GMT
Trouble may be that we are at least two generations on from the ‘real’ hooliganism of the 70s. Those that were there and caught up in it don’t want to ever see it again. People getting seriously hurt, coaches having their windows put in so everyone froze on the way back from Cardiff, trains wrecked so BR stopped running football specials. Nobody can drink in sight of the pitch anymore because of those dark days. Those causing most of the trouble now have no understanding of the realities of those days, neither did their parents who enjoyed relative calm after the mayhem. Too much ‘entitlement’ and learnt selfishness and I’m all right Jack, very little belief in ‘society’ any more. UTG! Margaret Hilda Thatcher is culpable here. She changed the mindset of the UK, and not in a nice way. Yes, she did say something like that. But wider is correct and perhaps add to that people not taking responsibility for their own actions and always looking elsewhere to blame. Everyone owns their own behaviour, no one else. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 14, 2024 8:59:56 GMT
And they lost to Taunton Town, who have their own problems, at home 0-3 last night. Well done Taunton. 😀 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 13, 2024 22:30:44 GMT
After that match I hope Tom is ok. The second half was enough to give any Luton fan a heart attack. Great game but Luton distraught at the end. But well done AFCB.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 13, 2024 20:30:31 GMT
Good to him again. Luton actually worse than us at defending Not tonight they aren't. But AFCB are. Tom had a great reception from all the crowd tonight. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 13, 2024 11:05:07 GMT
The same AFC Bournemouth who I remember begging for money with collection buckets when they were having financial difficulties? Yes, in the Winter Gardens, was there with my nippers. For them, of all PL clubs to object, is shameful. UTG! edit: And it seems many Cherries fan share that embarrassment. The podcast Up The Cherries on YouTube has talked about the fans being embarrassed that AFCB of all clubs oppose it. They do remember their history!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 12, 2024 19:49:46 GMT
Thank you - Got the last two tickets for Cheltenham. Think i got a grunt of approval from my Son ... Of course may have been indigestion!! That’s pretty good Claremont. You’re doing a good job. 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 11, 2024 23:58:16 GMT
3003 with 287 gas.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 10, 2024 19:51:42 GMT
Except for the fact that some didn’t think he was useless. And of course the fact that surrounded by better players he looked very secure and likely to be a decent PL centre back. But then again some may think that a teenager or 20 year old playing his first few league games shouldn’t be expected to be the finished article, albeit in L1. Just an alternative pov of course. 😉 UTG! Love to see Cox go onto to be a champ/prem number one after the grief he received around here. Fair comment dude. But I guess a CH is far more part of a team and how he plays will be influenced by the players around him. And of course playing alongside Virgyl Van Dyke might be a bit more helpful than playing alongside…… For a keeper I always think it’s about handling, positioning, catching with a safe pair of hands and can be a very individual position. And you may well be right. And also remembering back to Luke Daniels time here in 2011(?) I never thought he’d be a Conference level keeper but he’s had a decent career overall. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 10, 2024 18:51:13 GMT
Just watching this Liverpool game with my Father, and Liverpool brought on Salah and Robertson. Obviously we don’t have their money! But I flippantly said, we bring on Marquis and Brown…….and that tells me how weak our squad is. No game changers on the bench, pace or match winners, I think our bench in a lot of cases makes us weaker in what we bring on. I sense most Gasheads watching that game sat wondering how Quansah has gone from looking unless in L1 to marking Haaland. Except for the fact that some didn’t think he was useless. And of course the fact that surrounded by better players he looked very secure and likely to be a decent PL centre back. But then again some may think that a teenager or 20 year old playing his first few league games shouldn’t be expected to be the finished article, albeit in L1. Just an alternative pov of course. 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Mar 9, 2024 9:39:22 GMT
10333 with 1355 away.
UTG!
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