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Post by warehamgas on Jan 4, 2024 17:08:18 GMT
Championship managers at one point. For less than 1 full season. But given where Huddersfield were in September 2019 and where they were when they got the boot I’d say it was a successful season. At one point looking clearly relegated yet the Cowleys managed to survive. And since Huddersfield have continued to struggle and still are. Not just you GGMI, so it’s not a dig at you but a few comments on here that I don’t altogether agree with. They’ve done a decent job wherever they’ve been. A direct style of football perhaps but I’d have had them here considering the very decent job they’ve done at different places. Because they have such an individual approach and usually a different style of football most clubs they’ve taken over have changed approach mid season and that’s always harder than having a whole pre-season to alter the team. Yet they did it successfully at Huddersfield. As to Colchester, I’m not sure that it’s that much of a surprise. The reason for them not accepting the Bradford offer in September or October was that his daughter (?) was in the middle of GCSEs and he didn’t want to disrupt her or be too far away from family. Or at least that was what I read. That being the case, good for him putting his family before football. I bet Colchester can’t believe their luck getting them. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 4, 2024 12:55:17 GMT
Absolutely agree. No point in tinkering with the East stand with bolt-ons now that we are staying, it is the part of the ground with the biggest potential and we must maximise that. Agree. Nowadays a club's image and status potential is defined by it's stadium and fan's facilities. BRFC needs an image uplift probably more than any other EFL club.Build a brand new impressive East Stand that will look great on TV and a new generation of fans will want to go there. Businesses will want to sponsor, advertise and be associated with the club. Bodge extensions to the current 'Chernobyl' monstrosity and the image will remain as it is, good players will be reluctant to sign, young football fans will prefer to go to Ashton Gate. Improvements to the rest of the ground will naturally follow as the club's stature develops. Of course we need stuff doing to the ground, and have done for some time. But…… Dont be so dramatic! ‘More than any other league club.’ Really that is plain daft. There are plenty of other clubs below us in many, many ways. Not least football-wise. When it comes to grounds I can think of many which are pretty poor and certainly worse than ours. Our problem has been over the past 7 years since the AQs is that they spun a yarn that finances weren’t a problem to getting a new ground when in reality money is always an issue and certainly was. There’s always been a slight ambiguity to the new ground. Many of us wanting to stay and develop the Mem, Wael wanting something shiny new, saying consistently that developing the Mem wasn’t going to happen. And then he started to develop the South Stand last year and it looked more desperate than a well-thought out plan. But give Wael credit for that although it was completely against what he’d been doing for 7 years. This uncertainty meant that some improvements like the need to sort out the toilets have been forgotten and fans facilities aren’t as good as they should have been with some maintenance plan going on. Some things have been done but I think the uncertainty has meant the last 7 years ground-wise has been wasted. But as for ‘an image uplift more than any other EFL club….’ 🤔 The new owners, and I’m just going on what they’ve said, appear to have a simple plan, continue to develop the Mem, stand by stand. Good. Might not be everyone’s favourite but at least we have a plan to move forward with. For clarity I hope they can work out a new East Stand and keep the best things about it as well. Best view from that stand of many, many grounds I’ve been to, so not all bad. Well done the ASs. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 3, 2024 21:10:22 GMT
In the middle of the season with us unlikely to seriously challenge for the play offs getting CM to sign an extension seems a no-brainer of an idea. Of course we should sign him until we have a better option. And at the moment we don’t have a better option than him and JM as options for No. 9.
It’s a bit of a continuing story getting a No. 9 with some pace. We haven’t had one of those for a few years. JCH was an excellent striker but he wasn’t really that mobile but it never stopped him being effective. If MT wants a pacier forward as some say then I’m sure he will have a list that he will be chasing. But until we have that forward sign CM on an extended contract until at least the end of the season.
UTG!
edit: thinking about it I suppose Saunders might have been pacier but he wasn’t an out and out striker was he?
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 3, 2024 18:24:26 GMT
My nephew who is a Palace fan says he is a very good player My mate's a Palace fan and also rates him but says he's injury prone 🥺 He should fit in well then! 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 1, 2024 23:06:17 GMT
Totally agree , Friend, what a waste of money, another over the hill signing. I get called a hater but you look at Pitman, Leon Clarke, Trev Clarke, Mark Hughes, Harry Anderson and Loft couldn’t stay fit, Rossiter, Gibbons, Hunt now, Friend now, Wilson now. This isn’t coincidence stuff, I think the owner has to protect his investment and the club. The fitness tests and background research couldn’t have been good enough, Friend is 36 and played 46 games in 3 years at Birmingham, it’s as if it was fraud and were doing agents favours or just know idea of who to sign. I was told the owners son pulled the plug on the JCH deal, I am starting to wonder if he was right as well. £800k for a 29 year old with no resale value. Overweight as well, likely injuries now getting older, I think we did right pulling out, I also think we did right sacking Jennings straight away. I won’t agree regarding Pitman because he did score a few goal without which we would not have get promoted. But your wider point about recruitment I can agree with. That has come from not having a decent football structure within the club. Handing over the football stuff completely to JBs mates was wrong and was likely to end up where it did. Whatever your views about Tommy W at least when DC brought him to the club it was an attempt to build a proper football structure. Haven't heard much yet about any overall DOF appointment yet and perhaps we won’t be having one, but we do need a clearer recruitment process with responsible people. Perhaps MT is seen as a safer pair of hands than JB. The next few months should tell. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 1, 2024 20:43:42 GMT
We are what we are , A bang average league 1 team and for the moment I’ll take that, Absolutely nowhere near a playoff team at the moment. Consistently inconsistent. At last some common sense. Disappointing today and a few players had a nightmare, I’m sure Taylor will not play as badly again this season. But he’s been excellent so far so I’ll give him some slack for today. Overall we looked a bit tired after several games recently. I know Wycombe have had the same but looking at their results I bet after who we played and how we had to battle it took more out of us than Wycombe have expended recently. I’ll put today down as a bad day at the office. Cox played very well but he was caught out on the first goal being wrong footed. Had he dived Im sure he’d have turned it over the bar. But a good day for him. Another two goals for Chris M but we do have to play a certain way for that to happen and we didn’t do that enough early on today. We have fought ourselves into a decent position on the edge of the playoff challengers but we are as you say okebourne, a bog standard mid table League 1 team. With anspirations to be better!! And of course we can still challenge if we can repeat the wins we had before today. Tbf I thought Wycombe played well today after a bad run and produced the kind of effort we all want our sides to give. Their keeper played well but I thought he was booked earlier and then when he was booked after trying to hold the ball after our first goal I was expecting a red to be shown. Presumably it was someone else. The ref did ok although Vokes was lucky to be still on the pitch after avoiding the second yellow. I would imagine the Wycombe player sent off will be in even deeper trouble after refusing to leave the field and he’ll miss an extra game for that. But the team came back well and had Jevani B not shot just wide with the last touch we’d have completed the best comeback of the season. So we need to take that into the next match. Instead of inter passing on the edge of our own penalty area this time I thought we overdid the passing around on the edge of their box. We saw at the end what happened when we crossed and got the ball into their box. Had we done that more often earlier on we saw that they struggled with Chris M and John M in the box. Sure that Matt T would have learnt something today, more bad than good but we’ve got a bit of a league gap now so time to have time coaching them into his ways. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 1, 2024 9:44:42 GMT
Can we get all the results from all the last 4 matches updated please' we are missing some tbf Tbf it’s hard to get accurate figures esp on away figures. Our website atm is rubbish and if clubs don’t release figures…… UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 1, 2024 9:42:42 GMT
5555 with 707 gas.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 31, 2023 18:06:15 GMT
Norwich v Southampton. 1-2 Swansea v West Brom. 0-2 Carlise v Port Vale. 1-1 Charlton v Oxturd. 2-1 Derby v Posh. 2-1 Wycombe v Gas. 1-2 Colchester v Gillingham. 1-1 Morecambe v Harrogate. 2-0 Stockport v Mansfield. 2-1 Wrexham v Barrow. 1-1 Halifax v Altrincham. 1-1 Weymouth v W S M. 1-0
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 31, 2023 17:45:15 GMT
Perhaps but it doesn’t matter how many agree with you, you surely know there are no guarantees that it would pan out like you’ve suggested. If it were that easy to get a top two spot then everyone would do it. It’s a good thing that we didn’t buy him given we’ve changed managers and our current one doesn’t seem to want him. Just an alternative view.😉 UTG! I’m all for alternative views 👍🏾 but you’ve replied to something you’ve made up out of thin air! I didn’t mention top two. 🤦🏾♀️ I apologise if you feel I misquoted you. I would never want to do that. But, I think by you saying that signing JCH it would have ‘Literally changed our season’ makes me think the clear implication was that we would have been promoted. I can’t think what else you could have meant by saying it would ‘literally changed our season.’ But apologies anyway and given what Posh have said and what’s been coming out this end it seems unlikely and so we may be arguing over something that isn’t going to happen. Best wishes for 2024, I’m sure we can agree that things are looking a bit more positive than 2/3 months ago. 👍👍👍 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 31, 2023 16:30:55 GMT
Or he's got the £1m(?) JB wanted to waste on JCH but doesn't want agents to know that he's got still £'s to spend in the January sales? Good to see he's rolled out the usual "you don't get value in January" even though most clubs still sign up to half a dozen players! “Wanted to waste on JCH” ! At least make it sound real Topper, JCH was a missed opportunity down to awful club administration, it would have been one of our biggest ever statement signings and most agree would literally have changed our season and been the icing on the cake of a very good squad. Perhaps but it doesn’t matter how many agree with you, you surely know there are no guarantees that it would pan out like you’ve suggested. If it were that easy to get a top two spot then everyone would do it. It’s a good thing that we didn’t buy him given we’ve changed managers and our current one doesn’t seem to want him. Just an alternative view.😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 30, 2023 21:45:02 GMT
T f if we were promoted this season we'd come straight back down. I'd rather build and get promotion in 2025 Not being funny, but we'd probably be relegated even then. Realistically the best we could hope for would be to yoyo for a few seasons, learning and building each time, before eventually establishing ourselves. If promotions on offer, you take it (albeit I think we're probably going to fall just short this season, because of the work left to do following Joeys shambolic stint this term). Of course you do. In today’s age of 1/2/3 year contracts at the most you have to take it when you have the chance. Of course plan for promotion but stuff happens, injuries, suspensions and other stuff. Years ago you could plan for it. Don M had a good team in the season before our 73/74 promotion and then added Warboys and Eadie in the Spring before the end of the season and then added Green and we knew we had a decent side. Not sure you can do it like that nowadays. Be good if you could but you just have to take it when the chance arises. And of course you have the play offs now which opens promotion up to half the division until late in March. So everyone wants it straightaway now. Good job when we needed a 7-0 result we didn’t say we’ll be ok next season! 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 30, 2023 17:14:07 GMT
That takes some doing to be sacked twice in the first half of a season 😂 Agree. Not many League 1 clubs have 3 managers a season and it ends well! 🤔 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 30, 2023 14:54:01 GMT
Never good for anyone to lose his job and I suspect the difficulties at Fleetwood go deeper than their inability to win football matches. Not LJs fault. When the former owner got sent to prison you felt that there would be ripples in the water that would affect them in the end. I know they did some sharing round of his shares, responsibilities in the family (I think) but can’t keep moving stuff around. In the end it settles and it doesn’t seem to be going well.
Having said all that I was always surprised when they signed Marriott and Stockley this year. They wouldn’t have come cheap yet and they don’t seem to have settled well. I'm surprised they are so low given some of their players but perhaps there’s not the money available now with the jailed owner out of the picture. And there is a ceiling for every club as Yeovil, FGR and Rushden and Diamonds have found.
I’m sure LJ will get another job. He did ok at City and even Sunderland and just ok at Hibs but he tanked at Fleetwood and will need success at his next post. I think I can say good luck to him!
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 29, 2023 22:24:53 GMT
Well done the team. Well deserved win with everyone putting in a shift. Taylor and Thomas were MOM, can’t decide who but it doesn’t matter, both immense. Vale’s inexperience at full back gave the goal away but he had a great game otherwise, always pressing on that side and his delivery matches that of Evans. AC had a decent game I thought and his awareness in the box made the assist to score the winner. Grant Ward does so much without too many plaudits but you can see the difference when he’s not there. And Finley looks a rejuvenated player, always a down-to-earth, straight talking player who has responded well to Matt Taylor’s straightforward approach.
Strangely I thought the referee had a decent game, let the game flow, didn’t make any major errors that changed the game. I wasn’t sure about the penalty, others closer to it might have seen it better. He could have been a bit harder on some of the Charlton tackles but I’ve seen far worse.
Great attitude to overcome the disappointment of giving the goal away and come back and win it. Well done Matt Taylor to have galvanised someone else’s squad and get 3 wins against good sides. Must be doing the right things. 👏👏👏
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 29, 2023 16:23:54 GMT
Some on here could start an argument in solitary confinement. …..and frequently do. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 29, 2023 16:19:13 GMT
Blimey so we’ve turned on Ollie now have we? One of our most successful players, football played under him as manager very good until Spring 2000 when it went wrong. I wouldn’t want him back but some of the posts on here well……. Loyal and true eh? UTG! I’d have agreed with you prior to his dig at MT and seeming bitterness that he didn’t get the job. Why did he feel the need to have that published ? Well KP, I don’t need to read the book to know that Ollie can be a bit flakey but whatever his faults he’s one of us and has been for over 40 years, faults and all. And let’s face it I’d never approach him for a serious, considered discussion about most things, he’s not that sort of guy is her? He is what he is and his time has been and gone and every time we have a vacancy the lazy media always go to him for a comment, because they love his one-liners. Did you really believe what he said about wanting the ‘82 ers in the PL? I didn’t. He said it because he was trying to be serious and relevant and came over as neither. And anyway Bristol probably does need a PL club, just not them. Been, done, gone. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 28, 2023 19:31:01 GMT
9155 with 744 away.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 28, 2023 14:42:36 GMT
Blimey so we’ve turned on Ollie now have we? One of our most successful players, football played under him as manager very good until Spring 2000 when it went wrong. I wouldn’t want him back but some of the posts on here well……. Loyal and true eh?
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Dec 27, 2023 21:45:20 GMT
No. I haven’t. But that was my point wasn’t it? Some balance. He’s one of only a few managers who gave us promotion. And as I said he was neither a genius nor was he useless. But he’s gone and we seem very fortunate to have MT who has made a good start. UTG! It absolutely was, I was just helping you to keep that balance. When JB came in, we weren't in the relegation zone. When the season ended, we were. It's quite factual, JB got us relegated. JB was part of a complete farce of managers that season and he played his part in our relegation but it wasn’t all on him. And of course you’ll know that I moaned about his ‘give up attitude’ towards the end of the season esp after that pen at Northampton to give them a draw. His attitude was awful, as I said at the time. Thanks but I think I’ll just about keep a balanced view, just as I had over the 20/21 season when several managers and others needed to accept their share of the responsibility. 👍 UTG!
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