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Post by warehamgas on Apr 26, 2023 23:09:10 GMT
Pretty standard for a club in the Championship. UTG! I very much doubt it's standard for one individual to spend £240m without getting promoted. I’m sure they’ve got promoted under Lansdowne but I’m happy to be corrected if wrong. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 26, 2023 20:20:55 GMT
Imagine spending £240m on a football club and all you've got is a mid table Championship side. Pretty standard for a club in the Championship. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 26, 2023 20:19:39 GMT
The issue is that it all revolves around the two owners, if they ever get bored and moved, the TV series would finish and nobody will watch their TicToK channel and they'd probably go back to being a poorly supported Welsh side. Living not far away it is getting very tedious,Ryan this ,Ryan that, freedom of the City,we're going to win league 2 next year (everybody else's team talk done).blah blah blah …..before you realise they have Phil Parkinson as manager. 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 26, 2023 16:12:06 GMT
I wouldn’t expect us to be on a par with where Argyle have been this year for a few years yet. I hope next season will be a relegation worry-free season and moving around the upper mid table area with a challenge at the play-offs. I wouldn’t take too much notice about what JB says in post match interviews, he says lots of things, some of them contradictory. Well done for this season but he’ll need time to recharge, reflect on this season, the good and the bad and come back refreshed. And of course we will need to have at least half a new squad with those mentioned going and the loans going back. We will need to take our allowed quota of loans and I bet some of them will be players we’ve not heard of and there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just the way things are. I’m sure we’ll make some new signings though whether we pay for them or sign players out of contract who knows and whatever it will all be “undisclosed” anyway. But we will need to get defenders, midfielders and a couple of attackers who are first team ready, hope they make a good start (for once) and give us all some optimism by the time September comes.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 25, 2023 21:12:29 GMT
Well just finished watching that. Although not the best of games they gave everything tonight and the defence played well, mostly. No problems with the effort. Argyle far the better side and they concentrated on football and trying to get forward. The overhead kick was a great goal, hard to defend against it despite what the commentators said. Argyle were focussed on promotion and deserved the win. Collins needs to stop the diving and use his strengths to try and get a shot or pass in. Obviously not a penalty. Evans two clear yellow cards which more or less decided the game. Hate to say it but I thought the ref got all the big decisions right. Let the game flow (unfortunately!). Well done James Belshaw, MOM I think. Finley when he came on tried to get us moving and did well as did Gordon and Gibbons. It was a shame Coburn was sacrificed because he was giving the CH an uncomfortable evening before he went off.
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 25, 2023 8:34:46 GMT
I can't understand what JB/Rovers gain from coaching Premiership youngsters, surely signing a player like Gibson and coaching him means, firstly, that he'll be here for a few seasons and, secondly, we might eventually get a decent transfer fee for him. The fact Newcastle nor Stoke didn't loan us any further players this season suggests the Premiership clubs don't really have much interest in how JB coaches their youngsters. Try telling that to Burnley with Nathan Tella from Saints and Middlesbrough with Cameron Archer from Villa. Both players have helped both clubs to promotion and possible promotion to the PL. I bet both clubs are happy to coach ‘Premiership youngsters.’ Topper, loans are a big part of every clubs (with a few exceptions) squad in all leagues. We would be further behind the others if wr didn’t take advantage. Iirc when we didn’t use loans so well other managers took a hammering in here. And I presume your last sentence is a wind-up to get a reaction. Of course clubs have an interest in how clubs coach their players. Don’t be daft! UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 23, 2023 21:51:58 GMT
Well done Aaron. Congratulations also to his team mates and the coaching staff who would have been important in his achieving the award. And well done to whoever gave him the contract extension last summer. It’s not usually something we do!! 😉
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 23, 2023 18:06:21 GMT
Thanks for the info pirate. It’s going to get a lot worse by the sounds of it. Although ripping it up and starting again may be in Yeovil’s interest, ultimately. I suppose the worry at the moment is the possibility of Priestnall still being around with his links to the ground. A bit of a mess!!
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 23, 2023 17:29:06 GMT
Definitely in favour of 3 up, 3 down between the national league and league 2. I’m in the minority here I think, but I disagree. Unless it becomes EFL league 3 it should remain as is. It is still “non-league” and fewer promotion slots reflect that. I agree Percy. League football has to be the absolute prize for non league clubs. They have two slots, that seems about right. In football terms I can see why the NL is seen as Division 5 football-wise but financially it shouldn’t be. There’s little enough money for clubs in Leagues 1 and 2 as it is, add the NL clubs to the pot and the share gets even less. (And I’m sure there would be few L2 clubs wanting 3 up 3 down. If I was in that league I wouldn’t.) It shows the depth of football in this country but winning the NL and play offs is the ultimate for non league. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 23, 2023 17:21:21 GMT
Agree Dr. F. Rochdale have achieved way over what they should have done on their fanbase but they have had an awful last 3 seasons. Covid really sucked everything away from their budget. Really sad that they’ve lost their league place but looking at what’s happened over the past 10 years or so the northern clubs seem to have been hit badly. Hartlepool have lost their place twice as have York. This season Morecambe, Accrington look likely to lose there League 1 place and the clubs in the greater Manchester area have all had bad times esp the north of Manchester clubs, Rochdale, Oldham and Bury have gone out of the league. And it’s taken Stockport a holiday in NLN and over 10 years to get back. Too many PL clubs perhaps or something else?
Now and again when we have threads about signing players esp in the windows some say it’s easier to get the loans and signings if we were in the north west. I guess it might be but but would be a lot harder in many other ways. The big PL clubs in these areas monopolise all the football and suck all the attendances away from the lower league clubs.
I hope Rochdale can come back quickly and I suppose with Wrexham going up it will help the clubs to be more of a par without the Hollywood money bags!!
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 23, 2023 0:01:01 GMT
Given JB's seen all the players, apart from Ward, all season I don't get the notion he learn a lot from a handful of end of season games, personally I wouldn't offer contracts to any of the players out of contract this summer in order to fee up room for newcomers. JBs got some decisions to make certainly but I wouldn’t put too much on today. We’re safe, had a good last month and overall have done ok after promotion. As to not offering contracts to any out of contract player that would be wrong. We’re already going to be losing our loanees so we will need to keep some of our players. Iirc PT did something similar in 2010 (?) and exchanged some trusted players for the likes of Blizzard, Reagan, Wright etc.thinking they could do better, it didn’t end well, we went down in 2011. We will need some calm minds looking at recruitment, not an over reaction after a poor game with nothing on it. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 21, 2023 22:34:49 GMT
Many thanks Nick you have been a great player for us who always gave nothing less than 100%. Who can forget those celebrations on Glos road.🍺 I wish you & all your family the very best for the future.👏👏 Says it all. 👍👍 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 21, 2023 22:18:10 GMT
I'm more interested to learn how the club historian thought that we were formed 10 years before we were actually formed? Who said you won't get an answer? My Chinese abacus let me down LOL but like Martin Peters look it up if not old enough. I am considered to be ten years ahead of my time. Chemotherapy and three life saving surgeries has affected my mental arithmetic but on a much more happier note I have just had fantastic news following my latest CT scan. I am now cancer free. That's better news for me personally than a new stadium to be honest. I sincerely hope I shall be around to celebrate the clubs 150th anniversary in 2033. Great news. 👍 News like that puts everything else in the shade. Stay well. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 21, 2023 22:04:57 GMT
Brentford v Aston Villa. 1-2 Cardiff v Stoke. 1-1 Hull v Watford. 2-1 Norwich v Swansea. 1-1 Peterborough v Ipswich. 1-1 Port Vale v Gas. 1-2 Doncaster v Newport. 1-0 Mansfield v Stevenage. 2-1 Altrincham v Torquay. 0-2 Maidenhead v Barnet. 1-2 Banbury v Spennymoor. 1-1 Buxton v Brackley. 2-1
UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 20, 2023 12:53:24 GMT
I don’t have any ill feeling for FGR. Unlike Yeovil their fans have never taken the pi5s out of us or proclaimed they are the future and us the past. In fact many FGR fans actually like the gas which is strange considering our two catchment areas are bordering each other. I wonder if Yeovil fans gave it large to the Sh1!heads in the one season they were a division higher than them? Agree, not sure if the hatred towards FGR is needed. Most of their supporters just want to watch a game of football. Just a couple of over excitable fans at the end of last season that wound things up. They don't see us as rivals. The 'green' issue means as much to their regular supporters as it does to most people. They just have some distant supporters who follow them because of their green credentials. 'Best foot forward' on BT sport shows Stale Mince in a different light. Seems to have stopped preaching and just wants people to do their bit. He did say he literally takes the p155 out of away fans as their urine is used to water the pitch. Granted he could do a bit more to make away fans more welcome. As for Yeovil, that one fan 'Could be worse, could be Bristol Rovers' just sticks in peoples memories. Thought it was quite funny at the time, now the jokes on the other foot. It is what it is. I assume the rivalry was them just finding a team local - difficult where they are - to have a rivalry with. Exactly. Phew! We’re lucky none of our fans are like that. 😉 And you’re right it was funny but because it was aimed at us, we couldn’t see the humour. Take us out of it and we’d have thought it was funny. Still, all’s well that ends well. 👍 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 20, 2023 9:23:15 GMT
Interesting that this has happened less than 2 weeks since this video was released; Thank Goodness we have Wael and Tom and not this OCD Grannie who would be better served starring in a video on how to make jam.No wonder DC fell out if that bell end Flitcroft had total charge over everything relating to football - Awful decision. Nice pay off for him now though - enjoy your summer DC and you will no doubt 'dust yourself down and go again' hopefully somewhere that respects you a little more. Blimey! 🤔 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 20, 2023 8:43:45 GMT
Some time ago, I recall Gloucester City elected to join the North section rather than South due to travel costs. Assuming they dont win promotion via the play offs are they able to switch back to the South? I am sure the amount of local derbies would make it profitable. I think that which league they play in depends on the geographical positions of the clubs which are relegated from the National League, it isn't a choice which the club can make/ I think you’re right Tilly. I believe there is a Committee of the NL that looks at League make-ups and they always have a problem when deciding upon the lines to draw regarding NLS and NLN. Bishops Stortford, Gloucester have been in NLN despite being southern clubs because of the high number of clubs further south. If clubs don’t like it then the FA act as a final arbitrator. I think! 🤔
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 19, 2023 12:37:20 GMT
In all the many years I’ve supported Rovers (since the early 70s) most of them we haven’t given a second thought to Yeovil. We didn’t have any feelings for them either way, they were an irrelevance. Most of our fans were probably quite pleased when they got themselves promoted into the Football League in same way as we’d be pleased if Bath City ever managed it. However at the pinnacle of their success many of their fans couldn’t but help give it the ‘big un’ to us especially when their absolute highest point coincided with our absolute lowest. What goes around comes around. You go back to where you’ve been for most of our existence and the gap goes back to where it’s mostly been to. You are an irrelevance only this time there is a lot less goodwill towards you. There’s every chance we’ll never play you again in anything but a pre season friendly. 👋 Exactly how I feel. Their fans largely were as arrogant as you could imagine with a massive chip on the shoulder when they got into the league (and turned us over at every opportunity) They initiated the ‘rivalry’ if you like so they can have it as we laugh at them all the way down to a league match against Chippenham & Tonbridge Angels next season. Yes, some of them were arrogant, perhaps just acting like dicks. But tbh most fans would have done the same to another ‘local’ club which had overshadowed them for over a hundred years when they were beating us for a few years. Just like we would to a certain club south of the river. All clubs have them! But now they are just an irrelevance to us, a club whose results we may remember to catch at about 7.30 on a Saturday night….if we remember! Not strictly linked but it’s why you must always hold the owners to account and really question them. Yeovil were basically asset-stripped when they had very few assets. A downward spiral very difficult to escape from. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 19, 2023 12:29:13 GMT
The NLS will be a great league for local football next season with some big local matches. As to Yeovil, I have real sympathy for them but tbh they were our rivals for 7/8 years but I can now revert to my liking for them. Their story was a remarkable one, and lots of myths surrounding their rise to the Championship. The man with the money left just before they got there so it immediately became harder. Fry and the subsequent owners didn’t have the resources to maintain them there and they’ve now reverted to being a small town club in the NLS. The pandemic hit them harder than most with that cancelled season ending when they were 4th in the NL. A real fight to return to the EFL destroyed by Covid. And they’ve never recovered. (I don’t expect others to have my sympathy for them by the way) As has often been said, thank you Wael, esp for the Covid years. There for the grace of……. could have been us. UTG! The "subsequent owners" (Scott Priestnall) was corrupt and only interested in the land. Spot on pirate, hence my comment re Wael. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 19, 2023 8:33:54 GMT
The NLS will be a great league for local football next season with some big local matches. As to Yeovil, I have real sympathy for them but tbh they were our rivals for 7/8 years but I can now revert to my liking for them. Their story was a remarkable one, and lots of myths surrounding their rise to the Championship. The man with the money left just before they got there so it immediately became harder. Fry and the subsequent owners didn’t have the resources to maintain them there and they’ve now reverted to being a small town club in the NLS. The pandemic hit them harder than most with that cancelled season ending when they were 4th in the NL. A real fight to return to the EFL destroyed by Covid. And they’ve never recovered. (I don’t expect others to have my sympathy for them by the way)
As has often been said, thank you Wael, esp for the Covid years. There for the grace of……. could have been us.
UTG!
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