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Post by warehamgas on Jan 7, 2024 0:19:10 GMT
I'm told he's on 6k a week I would be staggered if he’s on this but I’ve been told Sinclair is near on this. We were going to offer Chris a deal until 31st July but AlSaeed Jnr pulled the plug on it until end of Jan. Now Martin has all the cards, clubs all over him but he wants to stay but rightly, he’s playing hard ball now. His interviews give this away, he’s really cool on it all, Notts County rumoured, he’s ideal for a side needing promotion in Div2. *DC gave Liam Lawrence the same sort of deal, he was with us in Div2 and into 1. *Oxford paying Brannigan £10k a week, wages in Div1 are mental now, Barry Bannan was on £20k a week last season at our level! Wow! Some mental wages there. But, if we want to compete seriously then we will have to pay what the best clubs are paying. And that is a question only the owners can answer. Perhaps the other thing to consider is how much are we paying players who have long term injuries or who were signed with question marks over their fitness or even players who are on the fringes of the first team but seem to feature rarely nowadays. Players can’t help being injured and it might seem unfair or a tad harsh on them but we seem to have more than our fair share. I’m sure MTs approach in recruiting may be different. In other words get better value for what we spend perhaps. Whatever, we will have to pay good wages to compete and to think otherwise is unrealistic. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 7, 2024 0:00:56 GMT
To be fair I don't think we were "that bad" before. We were usually more fouled than fouling under JB... But- it was clear in the first match that MT wanted the players to focus less on the ref, and focus on themselves. Caught him several times against Cheltenham encouraging both staff and players to move away from the ref think about the next bit... until around the 75th minute when he lost it. Certainly where some of the small gains have come. Yes, agree. I don’t know all the stats but we always seemed to be more fouled by the oppo whoever it was. Yet we definitely got more red and yellows. And that immediately gave us a disadvantage and Finley was always a red card going to happen. Things have certainly turned around. The manager seems to have a very down to earth and real approach to all things, it’s up to us to deal with stuff. No blaming refs, no blaming individuals, at least in public. ( I’m sure he does his boll***** in the dressing room or training pitch, as it should be.) Refs are only human and they must have disliked knowing they would be pilloried after the match if we lost. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 6, 2024 23:37:31 GMT
Ok I've just deleted about 15 posts. Can we please keep it civil?
What people don't get is that when it gets personal with the insults, you set a standard to others that it becomes ok to do so. Which breeds more of it and it slowly spirals.
I'm recovering from a pretty nasty lung infection for the past few weeks and I'm amazed that adults are going at each other like this on a Saturday night.
Hopefully I can close my laptop now and get back to sleep. Goodnight all. Get well soon Gassy. 👍 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 6, 2024 21:11:36 GMT
Slight change to the FIRST ELEVEN fixtures. Now reads: * Crawley Town * AWAY * Lost 1-2 * Cheltenham Town * HOME * Drew 1-1 * Crewe Alexandra * AWAY * Won 4-2 * Bolton Wanderers * AWAY * Won 2 -1 * Blackpool * AWAY * Lost * 1-3 * Portsmouth * HOME * Won 2-1 * Charlton Athletic * HOME * Won 2-1 * Wycombe Wanderers * AWAY * Lost 2-2 * Norwich City * AWAY * Drew * 1-1 * Barnsley * AWAY * Norwich City * HOME So 7 of the first 11 matches for Matt Taylor are still AWAY. Scoring in every game so far and unbeaten at HOME. So far so good. Just the clean sheet issue. You are right and I don’t know the stats but a number of those goals we’ve given away have been individual mistakes. I know it’s easier to say and harder to do but players need to cut those out. The defensive system MT and Kevin B (?) has used seems to be comfortable, more or less, to the available players currently. We seem to have discovered a system to score and developed a resilience to score late goals and recover from setbacks. Perhaps not promotion or play off stuff but certainly the best we’ve seen in League 1 in the last two seasons. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 6, 2024 19:35:35 GMT
My granny could have scored that I’m sure your granny is a very good footballer goa.👍 Its just a shame that JB couldn't do it 20 minutes later. Obviously not as good as your gran! UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 6, 2024 13:44:32 GMT
Roadman, yourself and Gasdust and a few others seem to be getting wound up by it. To want to post about how nasty and vile Joey is. Speak to the club if you're that concerned about the clubs image. I don't think anyone else in the world, sees a picture of Joey Barton in Rovers track suit, followed by sexist, mysogonist and associates that with everyone at Bristol Rovers. You are just winding yourself up and trying to rally support and persuade people you were always right like you need reassurance. Keep moaning about an ex manager if you like. I really don't care it is amusing, just saying im not sure its even helping you. I’m not wound up, I’m just saying it how it is. No. Perhaps you’re saying it how you see it or how you want to see it. Your pov. But it’s certainly not clearly ‘how it is.’ Others have different pov perhaps? I enjoy many of your posts gasdust but they are opinions just like the rest of us. And let’s face it, if you and Roadman are on the phone to each other, presumably congratulating yourselves And trying to wind other gasheads then it probably says more about you than the rest of gaschat. Oh well, let’s hope for a good performance today and a goal or two.👍 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 6, 2024 9:20:47 GMT
Clucking hell, we have to look past whether this guy was our manager or not, or whether he may at one point have said some things that you could broadly have agreed with. For whatever reason, possibly the potential of financial gain, he has completely changed his outlook. I would urge anyone to forget any misplaced sense of loyalty to someone once attached to the club. What is coming out of his mouth now is absolutely abhorrent. Even if you were to agree with him about there being too many women commentators and pundits, the way he is framing his points has lost him any credibility and he is frankly coming across as completely unhinged. The fact that there are people who will lap this stuff up is pretty disturbing. Thing is mate probably around half the men in the country lap this stuff up I reckon. He’s got a very wide audience of blokes that think he’s great and that he tells it like it is unfortunately. He’s also got a very wide audience of people slating him. You’re right he does seem to be becoming more and more unhinged by the day and I can’t see him ever getting another job in football certainly not as a manager anyway. Wasnt a bad manager for us but I’m so glad he’s gone. If he was still at the club and saying these things then serious questions would have to be asked.I actually think there’s probably more chance of him ending up in prison or a mental hospital than as a manager right now. If he was still at the club socrates I don’t think he’d be saying these things. It’s the fact he’s gone that he is saying them. He will never be a football manager again and he knows that, and he’s desperately searching for relevance, a place where he can still be heard and listened to. I don’t believe he believes any of what he’s saying, he just wants fame or if not that infamy will do. Very, very sad. He has serious mental issues that need addressing. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 20:56:12 GMT
At the moment I’m sure he’s too busy praying Brentford will sell Toney for megabucks. The sell on % will keep him busy for years spending it. UTG! Signed another non-league gem today for their development setup. Indeed. Whatever you think about Darren Mac and BF they have a successful recruitment policy which they stick to and works well for them. No lack of an infrastructure there. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 20:51:49 GMT
Norwich v Gas. 2-1 Stoke v Brighton. 1-2 Sheff Wed v Cardiff. 1-1 Burton v Wycombe. 2-1 Exeter v Carlise. 1-1 Port Vale v Charlton. 0-2 Barrow v Tranmere. 3-1 Mansfield v Crewe. 2-0 Swindon v Colchester. 1-1 Altrincham v Barnet. 0-1 Southend v Halifax. 1-1 Banbury v Posh Sports. 1-2
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 20:34:09 GMT
18222 with 980 gas.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 20:23:21 GMT
Oh dear! The guy wants to be relevant but end up being a nasty misogynist of the highest order. He’s going to go too far soon and end up in court….. again. Apart from being a horrible little gob***** he’s just proved that he needed BRFC more than we ever needed him. The guys finished with anything to do with football.
And some come on here and try and ‘wind up’ other gasheads! Blimey, what has that got to do with anything?
Well done the AS for biting the bullet and ditching him.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 17:29:59 GMT
Anyone paying £700k is mad. Dont even believe DMac that they have turned down £450k I dont think we should sign him, but if the club want to spend 450k then I'd be excited what it could mean If we give £700k to Peteboro I'd be too mad to be excited! DMac is full of crap but what he does seems to work. He bangs on about how much he got for Dembele in the same situation, even though he was a lot younger than JCH is, and had resale value At the moment I’m sure he’s too busy praying Brentford will sell Toney for megabucks. The sell on % will keep him busy for years spending it. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 17:17:03 GMT
How did Williams compare to the likes of Craig Stanley, Matt Gill, Dom Blizzard, Zain Westbrook etc? You are joking aren’t you. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 13:20:36 GMT
So many to choose from but fwiw: Eadie Trevor Jacobs Mark Mc Chrystal Steve Elliot Aaron Lescott. Stuart Campbell Frankie Prince Tom Stanton David Williams Richard Walker Ellis Harrison
Missed out the players I didn’t see too much of, all the ones I choose I saw a lot of. I think Ellis only one who we sold for a fee but always felt he was underrated by fans and by the club so I put him in.
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 9:33:39 GMT
And TVP seem to think we have a rivalry with Oxford seeing the times they make us play each other.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 9:32:23 GMT
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 9:27:11 GMT
A product of a generally unglamorous era in the clubs history frustratingly, like wsmjohn said it was a time of real decline at the club off the pitch and declining attendances. I'd be interested to see everyone's thoughts on an Underrated XI, especially as Williams was a bit before my time. Yes, it was a fairly unglamorous era for us at a time when football hadn’t become the all-embracing game it’s become. As to an underrated XI I suspect there’d be a few candidates from that era, if only because we were always challenging but didn’t really appreciate how good some were. Had social media been around then we’d have been talking about how good some of those players were as opposed to nowadays when we seem to be talking about players, managers, BoD, owners and their shortcomings! UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 5, 2024 9:19:00 GMT
Thanks phillistine, that’s a good read and was a well-written piece. He was one of my favourites and was a cultured player with a very unassuming character. But to have managed over 100 games with a 50% win ratio is almost staggering esp at a time when we in a bit of a trough (though the league table probably tells you we weren’t). Things can’t have been easy Eastville being what it was at the time. Thanks.
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 4, 2024 17:34:26 GMT
I think there are some fans who think every Loanee has got to be an Elliot Anderson get real folks True, but they surely need to be better than what we already have otherwise what's the point in having them? Bogarde might be better in the Championship with more time on the ball, as he usually thought he had more time with it than he did in L1 Perhaps but when he is surrounded by better players he may play better. Expecting a young player, playing league football for the first time, to be the finished product and out perform older more experienced players is a tad unfair. Jerel Q is a similar case, looking very comfortable when he plays alongside the Liverpool stars. UTG! edit: Apologies LMW. My reply was meant to be a quote to another post. You’ve made a very similar point to me. Apologies.
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 4, 2024 17:13:56 GMT
Or been found out that they have a certain level, and L2/L1 is it. Wouldnt want them here tbh. Seriously 1981, how were they found out? I get the idea that you might not like them for their style of football or whatever reason but I’d suggest that if they’d been appointed here in December ‘19 after GC went we’d might have had a calmer and more successful time. And given what they did at Huddersfield in less than a season I think you might be wrong as to their level. Only my opinion of course. 😉 UTG!
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