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Post by Squiffy on Oct 4, 2021 13:18:26 GMT
The 7th game was a cup game vs Oxford on the 6th October, ten days before the window closed. Just read what he said again and he explicitly said he was sacked after 11 games so the 7 games must surely mean only league games.Something changed after 7 games he states so I don’t believe it was about a blocked signing he wanted.Much more likely is what Roverdrive said about Tisdale being approached,Garner would know that somebody else might be watching games prior to taking over as that apparently happened with him before Coggers was ousted.Anyway it’s all speculation and unless Garner clarifies exactly what he meant,then we’ll never know. So we all need to keep our eyes on the boxes on Saturday and pray that Flynn is in one of them. 🤞
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 4, 2021 9:40:00 GMT
Wasn't it the police that limited the Swindon allocation? Maybe it was the police that decided how many officers had to attend? Maybe their actions all afternoon was to try and justify the number of officers on duty (and therefore the massive bill to the club) I did speak to one copper who said that they had had to deal with violence all afternoon. I was in the area from 12pm and was unaware of any? Like Tilly said for those with disabilities the barricade after the game would have caused distress and discomfort but for the rest of us a mild inconvenience at most Sounds like there is someone new in charge of policing Rovers games, who hasn't got a scooby doo.
In fairness, previous games against Swindon at the Mem have been relatively light on crowd incident. So really not sure what prompted this response.
Maybe they secretly monitor Gaschat…just saying! 😂
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 4, 2021 9:11:04 GMT
Recently discovered that my source where I get my data from gets updated a second time midway through a Monday so I need to go back and adjust all my historic individual stuff then wait til the Tuesday to pull the most recent week. There will be a delay going forward. Not that anyone really wants to see or talk about stats right now. Still I think it's important to use both stats and the eye test when reviewing performance - both resulting in sh!t so far... Here a couple of visuals in the meantime: So we over performed,…terrific! 🙄
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 2, 2021 15:30:55 GMT
FFS what a time to come on to the forum. Be cool guys - remember last week. I am a mega optimist tho so probably best to ignore my comments. Hmm…not sure that you will fit in here with that much positivity, but I’m sure that we can bring you down to our level sooner rather than later (possibly by 5pm). 😂
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 2, 2021 8:40:23 GMT
I think that the best outcome for the club would be for JB to get us up towards the top end, with some momentum, fall foul of the law, WAQ have no option but to dismiss him and then we are a more attractive proposition for another ambitious and hopefully unifying manager to take us up a level. I am hoping for a win for the club, although a draw would be the least contentious result.
Edit:…what Worrel just said, lol.
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 2, 2021 7:03:34 GMT
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 1, 2021 12:41:02 GMT
Even I managed to fall foul of West Midlands Police at Fellows Park - they love to treat an easy target with a heavy hand. Yeah, I remember the L1 promotion day (pics above) we had to go and visit friends at the bottom of Gloucester Rd at about 7, so left the Mem to get ready. We start walking down Gloucester Road and it is absolutely heaving outside the Vic, with both sides of the street packed and it all spilling on to the road, there's a traffic jam where the cars are trying to crawl past the Vic, and we walk through the crowds, and some twat PC decides to shout at us for walking in the road. We're kinda dressed up, and looking civilised so he takes out his fear and loathing of the Gas by shouting at us. There's five hundred Gas in the road but this lady garden doesn't have the courage or nous or whatever to do anything about it (and why should he?) but decides to take out his frustration on two middle aged 'respectable' civilians (he would have had no idea we were actually Gas) doing our best to walk down the street. Still remember what an absolute prick that guy was. Respectable? That’s not what I’ve heard! 😉
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 1, 2021 12:36:24 GMT
Maybe that nimby over the fence takes a baseball bat to them when they climb over to retrieve the wayward balls.
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Post by Squiffy on Oct 1, 2021 7:57:44 GMT
A Friday pre-match bout? I haven’t seen it advertised. Is it at the Empire Club or just in the car park? 😂
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 29, 2021 14:54:58 GMT
apply that logic to every discussion and you'd have a very quiet forum. Fans think that JB should be gone - so perhaps they dont know best? I like many, form my own opinions an players based on what I see and comparing to others and my own expectations. I'd be first to admit that my expectations at times are out of sync but based on the last few years I expected better.I agree, that’s a fair reply. I do the same, look, see, compare and make a judgement to form an opinion. And I think Grant is ok and will improve. ”It's a funny ol’ game.” 😉 UTG! I have deduced that there are two,…no, wait,…three empiricists on this forum. 😉
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 29, 2021 9:28:16 GMT
I more concerned about General Malaise. Major Fuckup My reading of the above is that this all revolves around Private Showers. 😂
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 28, 2021 7:51:54 GMT
Irrelevant to the first team squad so couldn't care less tbh. They will pick up others jobs. Seems obvious with manse and tom gone that the academy and youth teams will be scrapped and we will use the B team model that Brentford have used successfully. Watch this space.........It will happen. I can the logic of a small London club scrapping their Academy not so sure it makes sense in a two club city like Bristol, as that basically means why youngster will now have to join City I thought we had already outsourced our youth recruitment to a London base. 😉
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 24, 2021 15:23:18 GMT
Damn. I really thought with Rodman, Nicholson, Trevor Clarke out the picture and Anderson carrying a bit of injury too, that it would be Thomas’s chance to step up and prove he’s the player we thought we were signing. Hard to pinpoint where the chance creation and pace is going to come from in forward areas now. It's rush back goalie tomorrow. ..ah, so you too listened to last week’s Having a Gas and Twenty Pence’s interview with Belly where he said he could have been a box to box midfielder but chose to specialise in playing between the sticks. He also came across as uncommonly erudite with his superlative academic qualifications and IT business management skills. From the sound of it he could easily redefine the player/manager role into an omnipotent player/CEO role later in his career. I don’t think I’ve been so surprised by a football player’s predilections since I read that Graeme Le Saux collected antiques back in the nineties.
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 24, 2021 8:07:59 GMT
I thought I'd take one for the team, and pick up the poisoned chalice this week. I'm being very optimistic and going for a 2-2 draw - just don't ask me who are goals are going to come from. So, we have either scored 1 or 0 in all our previous league games this season. The scorers of our last 2 league goals from open play Clarke and Nicholson are both out injured. So what is causing the optimism that we could actually score 2 goals in a single league game? Epidemic hysteria or “mass hysteria” refers to apparently contagious dissociative phenomena that take place in large groups of people or institutions under conditions of anxiety. QED! 😉
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 22, 2021 15:41:07 GMT
I posted our stats in a different thread following the Hartlepool defeat so here is the updated stats: Following our game on the 21st December 2019, we were 2nd in League 1. Since then, we have... Played 68 league games. Won 13. Drew 13. Lost 42. Scored 53. Conceded 107. Won 52 points from a possible 204 points available and have the goal difference of -54. I am positive that no one on here find these stats acceptable. I am showing them here again so we can compare them to Southend from the same date onwards. I have selected Southend because I think we all can agree that they have been in all kinds of mess on and off the pitch for a long time. They just suffered a double relegation and already are struggling in the National League near the bottom. They are truly a club in crisis. So here are Southend's stats since their game on 21st December 2019. Played 66 league games. Won 14. Drew 20. Lost 32. Scored 49. Conceded 91. Won 64 points from a possible 198 points available and have the goal difference of -42. So this crisis club have won more than us, drew more than us, lost less than us, scored just less than us, conceded less than us, won more points than us and has a better GD than us. What does this make us if we've actually got a worse record than them over the last 21 months? It seems we’re not the only ones in trouble: Derby County officially enter administration and are deducted 12 points www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58649432…or: Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58643421
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 22, 2021 15:04:01 GMT
After watching BRFC for 55+ Years it takes a lot for me to be offended. just look at our stadium and thats offence to call it a stadium, more like a collect of tents with grass between them It's damned fine grass though. …although the going, instead of being good to firm, is hard; just like watching the team. 😉
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 22, 2021 14:34:22 GMT
Didn’t JB say that he spoke to his mate Duff about what was required to get out of League 2, even before the end of last season (but after relegation was confirmed)? I believe that is partly behind the reason for temporarily abandoning the buy young and cheap, sell for vast profit approach and why a few wise old heads and, allegedly, steely northerners have been recruited. On paper the signings appear to meet the brief but the reality is that they haven’t settled and, as has been mentioned before, the proposed style of play/tactics don’t seem to suit the fit and available personnel. I think it’s a little bit of everything going wrong which adds up to the situation we are in now but I don’t think it is for the lack of vision, just the execution of it combined with detrimental external factors.
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 18, 2021 1:23:25 GMT
I was feeling a bit pessimistic about this one (a requisite predisposition for a Gashead) but having just watched Josh Grant’s prematch interview I am somewhat reassured that the squad are not as highly strung as the fan base. He looked calm, confident and reiterated the same sentiments as Sam Finley; namely that the team just need to believe in their ability, reproduce what they are doing on the training pitch and stop giving the opposition too much respect.
I think that we will definitely see Luke Thomas in the starting lineup at 3pm and his threat will make space for other players to exploit. I predict we will go for a fast start, will be 2-0 up by half time then hang on until the final whistle with a dogged and confidence boosting defensive display that will give a lift to the whole club.
I’m off to see my therapist in a few hours! UTG
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 18, 2021 0:50:31 GMT
Yeah, the same year I believe pulp stepped in for the stone roses.... I don't believe a word about squires collar bone, I reckon they just knew they weren't prepared.... Pulp were fantastic though.....
Pulp were/are one of the few bands of that era that I never saw live and would jump at the chance if they ever reformed; even though I know it would never be the same. I watched lots of that Glastonbury on Channel 4 - must have been a few more years before it ended up on the BBC. The good lady did about 12 Glastos on the bounce. Had tickets for the 50th anniversary in 2019 which got cancelled - were supposed to roll over to 2020 so assume they will for next year.
I've been lucky to see some great stuff over the years; but I can't wait to see some of the rescheduled gigs that I've got coming up over the next few months. A bit like getting back to Fratton Park - it's not so much the performance as the chance to see the performance.
Although the Glastonbury 95 performance was seminal there’s a YouTube video of Common People at Reading 2011 which I think is even better as, sixteen years later, it has even more energy and is a masterclass of stagecraft and musicianship. I love the intro from Jarvis who says that if Pulp are only remembered for that one song, he doesn’t care as it’s a good song, and it could be worse as Black Lace are only remembered for Agadoo! 😂 …and just in case the forum police are monitoring for thread drift, does anyone have a good recipe for pulp fritters with peanut sauce?
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Post by Squiffy on Sept 17, 2021 23:34:05 GMT
I'm surprised. Any fan of Dylan should know he has a habit of being a complete dick at live shows. He has a long history of deliberately P?!sing off audiences. Shame, because he is a good artist. On the other side of things, I saw The Cure about 20 years ago and they were absolutely amazing. They played 2½ hours and it was like listening to a recording of every song you would ever wish them to play. (If you are a fan, obviously ) I saw the cure at Glastonbury in 95 (I think) and they were awesome.... I'm not a massive fan so I sat at the back under a tree, but it was a great show.... …just the one tree, or a forest? 😉
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