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Post by wiaww on Nov 18, 2016 15:33:39 GMT
A colleague just asked me what I was up to over the weekend so I told her that of course I'd be "watching the mighty Gas". "Who's that", she asked? "Bristol Rovers of course!" She then proceeded to sing a rhyme/ditty I'd never heard before, which features several bizarre verses one of which makes reference to Bristol Rovers playing at home! It's all very strange but has anyone heard this before? Lyrics can be found here.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 18, 2016 13:23:07 GMT
Past it is very harsh. Not the player he once was but you don't lose the sort of footballing brain Lambert has and that's really what separates him from some of the other strikers we've had over the years. The man thinks like a top level footballer which is why he got as far in the game as he did. Has 2 in 8 for Cardiff in the Championship and I think he could convert that to a 1 in 3 ratio for us in League One, not to mention the chances he'd create for MT. Would welcome RL back with open arms myself. At 34 I would much rather we tried find another non league striker. The wages wouldn't be justifiable and he's scored 5 in his last 53 games. I love Lambert as much as any Rovers fan, but I would be disappointed if we brought him back. Or 2 in his last 7, depending on how you want to look at it. I think that if we're top 6 at Christmas then a gamble on Lambert would be well worth it. I'd also like to see us continue to make the best of the non-League scene though. It's all massively hypothetical though, as I can't imagine we'll get more than £2 million for Taylor.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 18, 2016 11:30:45 GMT
I'd take £6 million and a loan back until the end of the season. That way we can bring back Lambert to partner him up top and score us the goals to win the league. Lambert is past it. Past it is very harsh. Not the player he once was but you don't lose the sort of footballing brain Lambert has and that's really what separates him from some of the other strikers we've had over the years. The man thinks like a top level footballer which is why he got as far in the game as he did. Has 2 in 8 for Cardiff in the Championship and I think he could convert that to a 1 in 3 ratio for us in League One, not to mention the chances he'd create for MT. Would welcome RL back with open arms myself.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 18, 2016 10:50:01 GMT
I'd take £6 million and a loan back until the end of the season. That way we can bring back Lambert to partner him up top and score us the goals to win the league.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 18, 2016 9:38:34 GMT
Pull the other one! I've lost count of the number of threads he's started that have misleading titles or such a tenuous Rovers connection that they should be started in another part of the forum. Don't be fooled, he absolutely knows what he is doing and is a very calculated wind-up. Any grief he gets is very much self-inflicted, although I doubt he minds as he obviously gets off on attention.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 17, 2016 22:26:25 GMT
More likely to see Honey G rapping at half-time than stevie. What a coincidence!
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Post by wiaww on Nov 17, 2016 18:21:15 GMT
Can't imagine he'll be in charge of the team, but quite plausible he'll be in the crowd if he is taking the job. Bit of a pain for us, that. He's not so he won't. There's more chance of me managing L.A Galaxy than Steven Gerrard taking the MK Dons job.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 17, 2016 18:02:39 GMT
Yeah,no.
What a waste of bandwidth. Jesus.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 17, 2016 12:27:24 GMT
This is really boiling my water. The EFL Trophy has been an absolute shambles of a competition from start to finish. One of two things has happened here; gross incompetence or actual corruption, and it’s up to Shaun Harvey to decide which before he hands over his resignation for his pathetic role in this whole farce. How can you have a format whereby 25% of competing teams are playing by entirely different competition rules; EFL clubs were required to play five “first team” players while the so-called academy sides, participating in order to develop Young English Talent for the Good Of The English Game, are only required to play six U21s – with no specification given to nationality.
With the fining of Luton Town for the fielding of their academy players against Gillingham and West Brom (games they won) the EFL are effectively saying that development of Young English Talent for the Good Of The English Game in the EFL Trophy is the reserve of only those clubs with Category One academies and that those clubs in League One and League Two who wish to develop Young English Talent must find other ways to do so. For the Good Of The English game.
As Luton’s Chief Exec said, “we accept that we would be fined for [fielding the academy players]. While we don’t feel we should be paying ‘fees’ to get our youngsters experience, we view that as an investment in their development.” So, essentially Luton took the view that the blooding of their Young (primarily) English Talent in a competition supposedly reformatted in order to develop Young English Talent for the Good Of The English Game but yet whose rules prevent 75% of participating clubs from doing so was worth a £15,000 ‘investment’. Full credit has to go to Luton Town for their commitment to the development of Young English Talent for the Good Of The English game, despite the EFL’s best attempts at making this as difficult as possible for clubs that don’t currently hold academy one status, I just can’t help but feel that the £15,000 the EFL will be withholding from Luton’s £20,000 prize money received for advancing in this ludicrous competition (helped in part by goals from 18-year-old Englishman Frankie Musonda, 20-year-old Englishman Alex Gillead, and 20-year-old Englishman Jake Gray) would have been better spent… you guessed it, developing Luton’s Young English Talent, for the Good Of The English Game, of course.
It’s absolutely obscene that clubs get fined for playing young players in a competition that the EFL has argued has been designed specifically in order to give young players a taste of competitive football, but what’s equally disgusting is the EFL’s, and in particular Shaun Harvey’s, disgusting attitude towards the fans and clubs who have treated this competition with the utter contempt that it deserves. The reaction from Harvey has been that of embarrassing denial and in an interview given back at the beginning of October Harvey tried to insinuate that the first round games attracted more than the previous year’s when in fact the average crowd was down nearly 25% year on year. When pressed about the conspicuous absence of United, City, Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool and the fact that this underlines just how fatally flawed the competition’s new format is if it really has been redesigned in order to develop Young English Talent for the Good Of The English Game (it hasn’t) Harvey had the nerve to reply flippantly that it would only be a problem “if someone has a crystal ball and can tell us where the next best young players are coming from.” There is an enormous contradiction there; on the one hand nobody knows where the next best young players are coming from, and on the other, the only way to ensure the future of Young English Talent is if only those clubs with Category One academies (read as: Premier League) are allowed to play their academy players in the EFL Trophy. Therefore it's clearly not about developing Young English Talent for the Good Of The English Game(!), or Harvey's logic is fatally flawed and he should absolutely not be in the position he is in.
The whole thing absolutely reeks and something needs to be done about it.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 16, 2016 11:41:27 GMT
Good finish from Matty Harrold... seen him miss those
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Post by wiaww on Nov 15, 2016 19:38:51 GMT
Which Crawley player's name did Rovers spell wrong....... Matt Harrrrrrrrrrold. Also, I'm hoping the ref tonight isn't a Bent One. Err.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 15, 2016 19:37:19 GMT
Which Crawley player's name did Rovers spell wrong....... Matt Harrrrrrrrrrold.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 15, 2016 14:17:45 GMT
Which brings to mind that game at Torquay on Boxing Day of the Conference season, so Fabian Spiess and Bradley Goldberg have to get a shout.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 15, 2016 14:13:58 GMT
Alex Wall was good...
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Post by wiaww on Nov 10, 2016 13:13:25 GMT
RB Leipzig have bent every rule in the book. The RB doesn't stand for Red Bull, as teams are not allowed to have titles like that. It stands for RasenBallsport (translation - Grass Ball Sports). They get round the Fan Ownership rules by having thirteen employees of Red Bull owning 51% of the Shares. German fans hate them........although I can't get anyone to explain Bayer Leverkusen, with Bayer being one of the biggest chemical companies in the world ! That's interesting actually. I had no idea that Bayer Leverkusen had links to the pharmaceutical company until I read your post but a quick glance at their Wikipedia page shows that the club was formed by Bayer employees so it's a bit like if Metropolitan Police FC made it in to the Prem I guess. Presumably a rule change regarding corporate team names came in to effect after the club was founded in 1904. Apparently there are similar controversies with VW's ownership of Wolfsburg. Anyway, with regards to RB Swindon: initially it seems hysterical that a poxy, cheating little club like Swindle would get their pointless Robin's head torn off and whatever feeble soul they have ripped out through its lifeless neck but... actually, no, that would be hilarious
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Post by wiaww on Nov 9, 2016 12:23:03 GMT
The highlights are an absolute joy to be honest...
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Post by wiaww on Nov 8, 2016 23:36:41 GMT
Any club that voted against the changes and operated at a loss for any of these fixtures should be billing the EFL for the lost revenue. This competition has been a demonstration of the governing body's sheer and utter incompetence.
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Post by wiaww on Nov 8, 2016 12:17:19 GMT
Caught two whoppers especially Bish. Well done. I assume that's about all you've achieved today?
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Post by wiaww on Nov 7, 2016 21:16:45 GMT
yeah, it's still roughly a 1 in 4 chance it'll happen but was bound to after I did some loopy maths.... What are the chances!? Wait, no, don't answer that
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Post by wiaww on Nov 7, 2016 16:50:18 GMT
I'm not entirely sure why Taunton away is causing a stir on here.... firstly we aren't in round 2 secondly neither are they so basically we got a 1 in 39 chance of the fixture coming out x 2 x 2 of and it's then got a 50% chance of us being away so I make that a not so bad 312 to 1 chance of this fixture actually happening.... Am I missing something? I'm pretty sure people aren't picking the draw they think will happen but rather the one they'd like to happen.
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