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Post by warehamgas on Sept 8, 2023 11:38:54 GMT
Following Scott Brown's dismissal, I see Karl Robinson has rejected job at Cod Army. I would love Robinson here in the future, class L1 manager. Little Lee Johnson now favourite for the role! Couldn't disagree more about Robinson. In my opinion a truly awful manager. I know he had a few decent seasons at Oxford, but they always fell short in terms of getting promotion, and last season he totally lost the plot, and his post match interviews were absolutely laughable (I live in Oxford, and used to tune in for the entertainment value). Think that 90% of Oxford fans are of the same opinion. As well as the ‘few decent seasons at Oxford’ he had several very good seasons at MKD. I agree westfield, a decent manager at this level as the stats show. And of course what we should learn is that for managers and players, previous performance is never an indicator of future success or failure. We of all people should know that. I think Karl R is similar to JB, he divides opinion and I’d never use the Oxford fans as a true indicator of what someone is like. Istr they had a pretty low opinion of Chris Wilder!! UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 2, 2023 21:10:51 GMT
Blimey eric! That’s a bit of a stretch expecting DMac to tell us what happened. He may tell us what he wants to tell us but I doubt it will be anywhere near what really happened. 🤔 UTG! I'm sure if we were completely at fault, he would have been all over X trekking everyone about it.... As he hasn't I suggest they are culpable Yes, I think that’s nearer the truth. I guess once the dust has settled everyone will have to take a share of the responsibility for this not happening. Blimey this transfer window has been open for more or less 3 months why leave it all until the last minute? UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 2, 2023 21:03:37 GMT
But hugely entertaining. 😉 I couldn’t give a monkeys about JCH coming back, remembering that he had trouble with his agent last time here and thought it wouldn’t be straight forward so kept away from the whole thread. Had a drink and followed the thread, it was far more dramatic and entertaining than anything on the telly. Seeing the meltdowns last night and some of the comments on here blaming everyone at BRFC when nobody had a scooby-do about what was really happening or who had done what was pure comedy. And using Twitter or whatever it’s called now as evidence to prove points made it even better. Everyone looking for a scapegoat and someone to blame. Over the next few days I think we’ll get Part II with Darren Mac trying to blame everyone except himself about why it didn’t happen which should be entertaining once again. If what TG said is true, as told by 1981, and I have no idea if it is or isn’t then it may be interesting to hear Posh’s opinion of JCH/ Agents role in all of this. Though of course as he is still their player MacAnthony may not want to blame him. UTG! We've already got Posh's version of the events, basically we had 90mins to get the signed contracts to the EFL. Umm, Topper, we’ve got their version. But I guess you’re correct, Part II has started. I’ll just get a drink and watch the next part. 😉 If the leadership at Posh told me today was Saturday I’d check a calendar first. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 2, 2023 20:58:03 GMT
Do we even have a secretary? We once had a good one but let him go, his young successor left because he was a naughty boy. It’s such an important but under appreciated role. Will we find out if this played a part in the JCH deal failing? I doubt BRFC will provide an explanation so love him or loathe him McAnthony is probably our only hope of finding out what happened!! Blimey eric! That’s a bit of a stretch expecting DMac to tell us what happened. He may tell us what he wants to tell us but I doubt it will be anywhere near what really happened. 🤔 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 2, 2023 19:26:22 GMT
Surely JB can have no complaints about how the club is run. Approaching his year 3 anniversary in Feb and the club is run as he wants it, Most staff have gone from that time and new appointments appear to be with JBs approval. Although after last night I hope the failure to appoint a new Club Secretary hasn’t been forgotten It is now his club. I’m sure he knows he needs to turn around our home form in particular asap.
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 2, 2023 19:13:13 GMT
This is what I was told today by Tom when I bumped into pre match. He said they agreed a deal at 5:30pm verbally with JCH and P’boro. Jonno arrived at 8-8:30pm and then changed what he wanted. They agreed terms which took an hour of discussions. His agent is banned from representing any players on valid contracts the validation has to go to a 3rd party who didn’t travel with JCH. By the time it was emailed, ratified and sent back ready for JCH to sign and then submitted to the EFL missed the deadline by 4 seconds. He said that if Jonno had said what he wanted when he was in the taxi rather than when he arrived they could have negotiated when in the car and had all the paperwork good to go. Well there you have it. Shame too many of our own fans want conspiracy and negligence by our club to throw rocks at. Total embarrassment some of our so called "fans".But hugely entertaining. 😉 I couldn’t give a monkeys about JCH coming back, remembering that he had trouble with his agent last time here and thought it wouldn’t be straight forward so kept away from the whole thread. Had a drink and followed the thread, it was far more dramatic and entertaining than anything on the telly. Seeing the meltdowns last night and some of the comments on here blaming everyone at BRFC when nobody had a scooby-do about what was really happening or who had done what was pure comedy. And using Twitter or whatever it’s called now as evidence to prove points made it even better. Everyone looking for a scapegoat and someone to blame. Over the next few days I think we’ll get Part II with Darren Mac trying to blame everyone except himself about why it didn’t happen which should be entertaining once again. If what TG said is true, as told by 1981, and I have no idea if it is or isn’t then it may be interesting to hear Posh’s opinion of JCH/ Agents role in all of this. Though of course as he is still their player MacAnthony may not want to blame him. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 1, 2023 20:12:44 GMT
7919 with 388 imps.
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Post by warehamgas on Sept 1, 2023 20:09:23 GMT
Middlesbrough v Q P R. 2-1 Blackpool v Wigan. 1-1 Bolton v Derby. 1-1 Gas v Lincoln. 2-1 Northampton v Wycombe. 1-0 Morecambe v Salford. 1-1 Newport v Wimbledon. 2-1 Southend v Kidderminster. 2-0 Boston v Blyth Spartans. 1-1 Aveley v Torquay. 1-1 Bath v Havant. 2-0 Yeovil v Chelmsford. 3-1
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 31, 2023 21:37:49 GMT
Topper, if you’re unsure about how playing regular football, albeit in a lower league, is going to help him or any player play for BRFC then why do you think we loan out any players if it’s not for that intention?
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 31, 2023 20:41:15 GMT
Good luck James. At Pompey he played well and although sometimes played into trouble with the tippy-tappy passing at the back he always showed composure and got out of trouble. Trouble all came from the other side that day. So I was surprised he’s been only a bit-part since although having been substituted that day before they equalised I shouldn’t be. Not sure about this decision. But at least it will give him game time and hope he comes back next season better and ready to play a big part in playing for us, not someone else.UTG! Apart from ex Academy players how many Rovers players come back from loan spells a better player, most never return? But that has got to be the intention hasn’t it? We paid money for him, he’s an experienced defender who’s versatile and plays with a good deal of composure and goes under the radar imo. I would have liked to see him gain from Wilson’s experience. Of course you maybe right, a great season for us and with Taylor, Wilson and Crama likely to have played well it may well be the last we see of him but I hope we see him again. I may be lucky but I’ve not seen him have a bad game for us so I’m genuinely surprised by this development. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 31, 2023 18:34:37 GMT
Good luck James. At Pompey he played well and although sometimes played into trouble with the tippy-tappy passing at the back he always showed composure and got out of trouble. Trouble all came from the other side that day. So I was surprised he’s been only a bit-part since although having been substituted that day before they equalised I shouldn’t be. Not sure about this decision. But at least it will give him game time and hope he comes back next season better and ready to play a big part in playing for us, not someone else.
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 30, 2023 22:02:32 GMT
Indeed. Watched the match with a household full of Everton fans. Everton were complete rubbish until they brought on their new signing who at least gave them some energy, but despite winning I’ve never seen such an awful display from a PL team. Players couldn’t make simple passes, couldn’t trap a ball and couldn’t shoot straight. They were lucky to get away with it. But at least the grandkids went to bed happy!
Westbrook wasn’t too bad and Darren Moore was praising him at half time but disappeared in the second half. Surprise, surprise !
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 30, 2023 14:53:30 GMT
A shame we can’t get GC back just for games against Wycombe … he’d out-Wycombe Wycombe! Yeah he would 🤣. I think Barton is building one hell of a team , I really think that if we got the ball forward quickly we’d destroy most teams in this division , it’s all set up for us to have a great season. I really hope we don’t tika taka our way to a lower half finish this is probably the best chance of promotion since Holloway was manager or ward Mk 1. I really hope you’re right socrates but I fear that JB is making a collection of very good players without it looking like a team. In this league whenever we’ve been successful the manager has always known his best team. I’m not sure JB knows what his best team is. I’ve seen two games so far, away games at Pompey and Charlton and we played well and deserved what we got. But from reading and listening to what’s been said about the other games all the different departments, defence, midfield and attack have been shuffled. No momentum. The sooner JB decides on his best team the better but he really needs to mould these individuals into a team and not just 11 individuals asap. I agree with you about it being probably the best chance of putting a challenge for promotion since Holloway’s time. Though tbh GC did a great job in moulding a ‘team’ without as many great individuals as we have now. It’s a shame he didn’t/ wasn’t allowed to see it through. Anyway, I hope you’re right and we can turn the potential of the individuals we have into a real team like Megson and Francis did. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 29, 2023 11:18:27 GMT
There’s two players at his own club more likely to get an England call up than he is for a start Exactly, plus it's not like most of the attacking players England have are old. Saka is only a year older than Anderson, Foden is still only 23. Look at the quality in the under 21 side, then you have players like Mount and Bellingham that can play anywhere across the midfield or out wide. Bellingham is younger than Elliot. Loads of established top flight players, that are of a similar age. He's miles off an England call up. Spot on. Good choice to go for Scotland. At the moment England have a surplus of talented, young players who are all playing regularly. Elliot will get his chance with Newcastle this season with all their games to come. So, a good choice to select Scotland esp at a time when Scotland seem to be coming good again. Those suggesting he puts in a transfer request are way off. We’re still only in August, just! He will be looked after by Newcastle and Eddie H and he is in the right place to improve. Not sure there’s another manager with a better record of improving players than he’s with at the moment. I’d be surprised if, by the end of the season, he hasn’t made at least 15-20 starts. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 28, 2023 21:56:58 GMT
50 years ago we went on a run from the start of the season in Division 3 that went on and on. Losing our unbeaten sequence at Wrexham. Around February time. Leeds UTD were on a similar run at Div 1 level and lost theirs shortly afterwards. I sense another run similar to 73/74. I was on the bus to most matches that season. The new bus is even more exciting. UTG We did tbone. My favourite season ever. Like you I did loads of games that season home and away. We started at Bournemouth and I was there. In the first half we were lucky to go in 0-0. Bournemouth hit the bar and post and we should have been behind but in the second half scored 3. It could have been very different but we never looked back after that match. We then returned to Bournemouth to lose 1-0 3 days later in the League Cup before winning against Charlton on Saturday. I knew then that we’d go up. We were really strong and in a different world then we didn’t rotate and used the same eleven for most of that season. Very few changes. Don Megson knew his best team and played it. At the moment JB doesn’t know his best team so let’s hope he doesn’t take too long deciding what it is. In 73/74 we were a true team with a few good individuals. Seems now we have quite a few very good individuals but I’m not sure we have a team…..yet. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 27, 2023 18:59:41 GMT
And yet he is now picked in the Liverpool match day squad and came on and played well. And our genius of a manager who, reading this place has signed new players who are going to help us “p*** this league” can’t even beat Wycombe at home. You may have ‘burst out laughing,’ I didn’t. For clarity, I hope we can do better and ‘p*** the league’ but JB needs to do much better than he’s done so far. And I hope the loan signings we’ve made will get better support than some seem able to give Quansah. Well done to him, I hope he has fonder memories of us than some seem to have of him. 😉 UTG! What you rabbling on about mate. He was sh** for us, and the commentator claimed otherwise. That is all. In your opinion…. Other opinions exist. 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 27, 2023 18:47:11 GMT
I burst out laughing when the commentator said he had a “successful loan spell” with us. He was utterly f*cking w**k🤣 And yet he is now picked in the Liverpool match day squad and came on and played well. And our genius of a manager who, reading this place has signed new players who are going to help us “p*** this league” can’t even beat Wycombe at home. You may have ‘burst out laughing,’ I didn’t. For clarity, I hope we can do better and ‘p*** the league’ but JB needs to do much better than he’s done so far. And I hope the loan signings we’ve made will get better support than some seem able to give Quansah. Well done to him, I hope he has fonder memories of us than some seem to have of him. 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 26, 2023 13:12:17 GMT
6888 with 345 away.
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 25, 2023 22:22:42 GMT
Paid. 👍
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 25, 2023 22:19:45 GMT
I’ve not been on here at all recently and having just posted on the prediction league saw this thread and have read it. Reading the posts from Jon, Hugo etc. just about summed up where I’m at. So I’m happy to go with what is being suggested about supporting Nick Anderton.
Thanks guys for all you’ve done for BRFC I’ve enjoyed it all and have been happy and proud to support the cause. Have just signed up for this season and know that you’ll use the funds wisely.
I’ve never known anyone on here personally and wouldn’t know anyone even if I passed them on the street but thanks for always being inclusive and friendly. 👍👍👍
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