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Post by warehamgas on Feb 9, 2024 20:57:55 GMT
8777 with 207 brewers.
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 9, 2024 20:54:12 GMT
Blackburn v Stoke 2-0 Cardiff v P N E 2-1 Blackpool v Oxturd 2-1 Gas v Burton 2-0 Reading v Charlton 1-1 Wimbledon v Barrow 1-1 Doncaster v Tranmere 1-1 Swindon v Salford 1-0 Walsall v Newport 2-0 Chester v Scarborough 1-1 Warrington v Boston 1-1 Chippenham v Braintree 1-2
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 8, 2024 22:07:30 GMT
Change our strip? Change our club song which everyone knows is ours, something very distinctive? Blimey, did we lose at home on Tuesday night? I presume we did because had we won it wouldn’t have come up. We lost, now concentrate on Burton.
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 6, 2024 18:29:10 GMT
Game at a time. All eyes on Fleetwood & Charlie Adam’s mob for me. No further than that Spot on dude. No expecting 10 from 5 or 13 from 7. The most important match is the next one. Concentrate on beating Fleetwood then train and plan to beat Burton. One match at a time. 👍👍 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 6, 2024 9:26:48 GMT
8480 with 111 from the north.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 4, 2024 16:54:13 GMT
Only saw parts of the 2nd half today, but Jed Ward take a bow. Not sure if our standards have been lowered so much, or he’s truly an excellent keeper, but honestly, every time Exeter were 1:1 or through on goal, I just immediately assumed goal. I’d forgotten what it was like for our GK to actually pull off a save where you expect the striker to score. It’s so refreshing. Looking forward to seeing him develop in the 1st team Yes. Watching yesterday it was the first time I’ve seen JW live. Watching him I thought: … he commands his area well, not afraid to come out and claim a ball when they were pressing. Sometimes he was well outside the box … his handling was very good, I don’t think he mishandled at all (but I may have missed it but I don’t think so). … when the ball was crossed into a busy penalty box he either caught it or punched it clear. (Sometimes it went straight to an Exeter player because all out players were still in the box.) … the defenders were comfortable passing back to him and had confidence in what he was doing. … having seen the kicking of other keepers watching JW’s kicking was far better. He didn’t kick a ball out of play though some of his kicks went straight through to the Exeter keeper. His kicking was excellent and he often found the wingman. … his shot stopping was very good and his positioning equally good. … he dealt well with all the 1 on 1 situations and shots. Having seen the Exeter match at the Mem as well it’s a tad unfair to make direct comparisons esp with the different weather conditions but it looked as if his concentration yesterday didn’t dip at all and he was ready for whatever Exeter threw at him. Well done JW. He’s a young lad so there will be games where he makes an error which costs us a goal but overall it’s a great position to find ourselves in. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 4, 2024 16:28:10 GMT
From the Exeter forum; "Rovers were bitches when it came to going down and cheating - how the ref gave just minutes is beyond me....his should have been a home win to build our points up for a difficult period coming up" "Rovers are boring and play anti football with giants in defence. A goal that should never have stood, along side hitting the crossbar twice and a rovers goalkeeper who was MOTM." "Unlucky I thought, deserved a point. Taylor desperate to get a win and didn't care what it took" Lovely, cry some more you c .unts! I think that may have been the bloke I was sat next to. He liked the word ‘bitches’ using throughout the afternoon. Near the end when we were looking to manage the time down he turned to me and said ‘Bristol were cheating c****.’ I asked him if he was at the Mem 10 days ago and he said ‘what’s that got to do with it?’ I said Exeter did exactly the same thing and that every side when they are only leading by a goal will try and waste time. I felt I was reasonable and said it’s frustrating but we all do it. He just huffed and puffed. He didn’t like MT either….. In the end he left without a word. I said to his mate, with whom I’d been having sensible conversations throughout the game, I think I upset him and he just said he always walks out early and was always like it. The other fans I was talking to were perfectly friendly. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 4, 2024 15:56:13 GMT
Always a summer rebuild at this football club when there is no joined up thinking and succession plans in place. Yes, hopefully that will be changing and as MT seems to have got his way over the coaching staff perhaps his opinion will be given more importance. It is also not helped by the way many, if not most, contracts in the lower leagues are two years with just the occasional three year contract. That can’t help. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 4, 2024 15:45:51 GMT
Thanks percy!! But you are right. 👍
Blimey Marshy I never had you down as a dobber!!! Two seasons ago you did me the same way you’ve tried to do Sir T when I was spot on. I posted within the time from a hospital waiting room but lost my points. Not important but I was surprised.
You obviously want to win.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 4, 2024 15:33:23 GMT
First game Sept 1952 against Torquay Utd Well done. So you must have seen some of those games in the 50s and the season when we nearly made Division 1 only to fail in the last few games. You must have seen some changes. I hope you still get as much enjoyment from it. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 4, 2024 15:27:54 GMT
Born a Rovers fan as Grandad played under Bert Tann in the 50s. First game was at Twerton against Birmingham in late 80s I think, although it might have been Portsmouth... Started going regularly with School mates around 92/93 and was called up by Rovers for YTS at 16 but didn't make it. Did the 'lads' phase for a bit.. Left home at 20 so lost momentum, got to travel and meet other people and realised that English football and the emotion attached, isn't as important we might think it is. The Internet has changed behaviours between football fans, with the ability to comment immediately rather than reflect and address over time. The game is now a complete business rather than a pastime/hobby for supporters. Those players do not care about us although they make out they do. The owners only want to maximise profit rather than do it because they genuinely care.(there is a small handful of owners who have a bond but it's rare) It's a distraction. We have an older fanbase who see us as rivals to the teds. In reality we are a Vale to Stoke, an Everton to Liverpool, a County to Forest a Walsall to West Brom. Miles off. I'm just hoping that the new owners can tidy the club up a bit, because it's grubby. They could start by encouraging new local talent with affection for the club to join in unofficial capacity. Agreements with local schools and businesses. Fans groups and a footprint across the City for people who don't live close to the ground to feel connected. I can identify with a lot of that. (Just don’t tell the Everton fans that!!) Some players do care but from a more personal pov perhaps. And of course when we were at our highest place in the 50s with the maximum wage there was little incentive to move clubs. And until the advent of the PL the wages difference between Division 1 and lower leagues were not so large, now they are massive and players want the wages even if they sit on the bench. Very different mind-set then to now. Your last paragraph spot on but I’m not hopeful. 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 3, 2024 23:30:54 GMT
Just short of 60 years supporting and still enjoying it as much now as then. The biggest difference for me is the travelling. Went to Exeter today by train.long way with 4 changes but the driving esp in the dark has become much harder. Loved it today but boy am I tired!! Biggest difference in the football for me is the advent of social media.i know so much more today by folliwingcthis place and a few others and too many people expect us to be Man City, they have no grasp on reality. I dontcreally mind if we get to the Championship or not. Of course it would be great but I've enjoyed the 6 promotions I've seen and I've had a lot more excitement from our promotions than most PL and even Championship clubs. So I wouldn't change it. I just enjoy watching the football and the wins against Scunthorpe, D and R, Grimsby, Shrewsbury amongst others have given more memories than other bigger clubs. And at the end of the day its just a game and you come home and family life is going on around you and sometimes needs more of your time. Or at least mine seems to!! But what a great day for Jed Ward and Brandon Aguilera one I bet they remember. Well done to both. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 2, 2024 23:50:32 GMT
Perhaps just give credit where its due. The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that costs have been cut. And MT has a complete team to work with him, the South Stand is nearly completed and filling up, all something tangible and real. First time in decades that we appear to be implementing a ground plan. Of course not everything done but enough to give us some hope that after Wails inability to say no to JB we may have a more considered team in place. I may be way out but ....credit where its due. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 2, 2024 20:51:46 GMT
7888 with 1265 gas. (Although I'll be sat with other lot in their main stand so I won't count.)
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 2, 2024 13:19:56 GMT
Sorry but not happy, we sell Collins and bring in three loan signings until end of season why ? what is the point ? all young players with little or no league experience, they will go back to their clubs and we will have to have yet another reset, which will mean yet another season of adjusting etc etc, loan signings are not the way to build a team for the future, and now desperately short up front, Oh well sure our new owners know what they are doing, Oh to be a Gashead eh !! What gets me is the contradicting. On one hand we have £1 million to spend in the last window and hopes are raised for a play off push. Fast forward a few months we shelve the £ 1 million bonanza and sell our striker and Loft for £850 k. For the above to be genuine . The club would need to make up to £1.5 million avaliable in the summer on fees alone and continue a budget of over £4 million. We know this simply won't happen. I have NO issue with the club making cut backs and accepting we are a mid table side in all departments eg : attendances : budgets : fees. But why spin and portray an image that we are a Bolton Pompey Derby or Peterboro ( along with the other top teams)?. I think a lot of fans feel that expectations were raised very high and now they feel deflated. I'd agree but of the 4 teams you mentioned: Bolton went bust. Derby went bust. Pompey went bust. So I'm very glad we're not like them when it comes to spending money. I just think of all those non-football firms who were left without those clubs paying their debts. And all the fall out that must come to the area when clubs spend someone else's money. I get the frustration but as was said above its a game and knowing Rovers its not much different than its ever been. League 1/Division 3 club. And I'm looking forward to seeing the new ones tomorrow at Exeter. Really excited. COYB! UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 2, 2024 8:48:49 GMT
Burnley v Fulham. 1-0 Huddersfld v Sheff Wed. 1-1 Preston v Ipswich. 1-1 Swansea v Plymouth. 1-1 Bolton v Barnsley. 2-0 Exeter v Gas. 0-2 Fleetwood v Port Vale. 1-1 Barrow v M K Dons. 0-1 Crawley v Morecambe. 2-1 Mansfield v Notts Co. 1-1 Solihull v Altrincham. 0-2 Southend v Gateshead. 2-0
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 1, 2024 20:48:27 GMT
That’s really poor from DC IMO. He did nothing in L1 and did even worse in L2. Have to say, this is where DCs contact book really lets him down But didn’t DC sign MT on loan for Port Vale last season so it’s something he’s used to. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 1, 2024 20:13:48 GMT
Undoubtedly he was loyal to us - he could have scarpered after the wonder season but signed a new contract enabling us to be protected when the time was right for him. He is a great player and with more to come, his form has suffered but our tactics and line ups havent helped him. Thanks Aaron defo a gashead to be remembered for the right reasons. Not sure he could have scarpered Simon, after that season he still had one season left having joined on a two year contract. He signed a new one which presumably upped his wages considerably. No problem, he deserved it. And we have messed him around with our tactics changing. Thanks AC for being part of that promotion team, you were a good player when you stayed on your feet. But your attitude wasn’t the best this season and whilst you may have been frustrated you were paid a fair chunk. Giving 100% is a given for all professionals but you obviously thought differently over the past few weeks. But good luck in the future. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 1, 2024 19:53:00 GMT
Why do we always leave it until the last minute if at all to do any business in the transfer market, every time it’s the same. Why does anyone? But they do. 🤔 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 31, 2024 14:22:40 GMT
Never boring Topper. Last window, that evening with JCH will he /wont he was magic, reading the stuff on here that evening was just like gogglebox or whatever. Brilliant entertainment. I’m hoping for something similar this time. BRFC may be many things but boring, never. 😉 UTG! With mabey a differnt outcome , never been so stressed out after a transfer window , still giving me nightmares now. I can understand that gingerandwhite. I was glad but can appreciate others with different opinions. 👍 UTG!
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