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Post by Hugo the Elder on May 4, 2024 17:05:03 GMT
Surprised if the ladies team will play that many games on it. As regards the pitch, I thought it was pretty decent at the end of the season after all the rain on it. Apparently being ripped up this week or next and the top four inches being replaced and seeded. Ready to cut in a few weeks according to MT. He said one pitch had already be done at the quarters last week and the other one this coming week. 40 home games at home? Blimey. Add in away fixtures and the Gas Girls will be playing twice a week all year!!??
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Post by Hugo the Elder on May 4, 2024 11:35:21 GMT
I struggled to list 3 positives about the club. I didnt! The community trust and work in the community in general bringing back the gas girls and attracting more families We own our ground and have plans to improve it for all. Would normallty add "our fans" but not so sure these days. Dont get me wrong, listed lots of things to improve and negatives too. But not sure we all need to be quite so down as many seem right now. The CT and Gas Girls were the 2 I listed
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Post by Hugo the Elder on May 4, 2024 10:45:35 GMT
hope everyone has filled / is filling in the end of season survey Should send a consistent message on this topic I struggled to list 3 positives about the club.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on May 2, 2024 9:04:42 GMT
Lots of posters saying they don't support Taylor and won't be renewing their season tickets. Some of them were the same ones giving out at those who refused to back Barton. Where are all the "get behind the manager" brigade when you want them? a lot of posters also said they wouldn't go to games whilst Barton was here but we had sell outs nearly every game, I don't believe a word of it. I don't either.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on May 1, 2024 20:45:05 GMT
Lots of posters saying they don't support Taylor and won't be renewing their season tickets. Some of them were the same ones giving out at those who refused to back Barton. Where are all the "get behind the manager" brigade when you want them? In fairness you said you would have sacked him in the recent poll 👍🏾 Yep and then changed my mind! I'm still mostly undecided. My point still stands though. My position has always been that everyone has something that tips them against a manager at some point but I was told that we should back the manager no matter what.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on May 1, 2024 20:19:47 GMT
Lots of posters saying they don't support Taylor and won't be renewing their season tickets.
Some of them were the same ones giving out at those who refused to back Barton.
Where are all the "get behind the manager" brigade when you want them?
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 30, 2024 18:51:41 GMT
The prospect of a MT squad overhaul terrifies me. He made a complete pig’s ear of Rotherham’s squad last summer, signing a load of over-the-hill crocks. He is blamed by many for Rotherham’s shocking season. I also vividly remember his speech to the Rovers players when he arrived about how good the squad was and that’s why he took the job etc. Does this guy know a decent player when he sees one? I’m not convinced. Seen this a few times. Somebody made it up and then everyone uses it as fact. I double checked earlier and at least 50% of messages on Twitter when he was sacked, said he should have been given more time and that they could see what he was doing. Over the hill? Only two players signed in the summer were in their 30s. One was 30 and the other was 31. That's way over the hill!!! They have the smallest budget by far in the championship and last season was smaller than some League 1 clubs including Plymouth who went up with not that biggest budget. They had an injury crisis and had to sign that player we had on trial and start him straight away. His time there wasn't as bad as many make out on here. They were expected to finish bottom. He left them third from bottom with an injury hit squad. He might be rubbish for us, but stop making stuff up and saying stuff happened that didn't. Hush you, with your facts and reasonable thinking. We don't like your sort round here.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 30, 2024 18:27:48 GMT
Monotone has been telling everybody and anybody who would listen that all the players are frail and its not his fault that during the past six months he has been unable to get a squeak of a tune out of them; finally after taking another walloping at the hands of the high flying Wigan last Saturday, he sticks his head out of his shell claiming by the order of the peaky Gasheads the retained list would be published today, ffs he cannot even deliver list of names on a scrappy piece of paper. The irony of name calling “monotone Matt” when every one of your posts reek of the same tone. Peter Pooper is much more boring than Taylor.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 16:04:32 GMT
That is what I think MT is being asked to do. How do you think he can do that ? I believe our current (players) annual wage bill is £7m+ and if MT has to save 25%, that is £1.75m+. If we believe the rumours that Finley was on £4k per week, Marquis on £5k and Martin on £6k, that is only £0.75 million saved. Pure guesses - Collins, Gordon, Hoole, Sinclair, J Grant, Rossiter, Gibbons, Jones & Greenslade total £25k a week, or £1.25m in a year. Plus probably some savings on back room staff So, if all of the out of contract players leave, he would have £250k (or £5k per week) to offer as wages to additions. I'm sure my numbers aren't exact, but it certainly shows the scale of the challenge he has, unless he can ship some relatively high earners, under-performers out. Answers on a postcard as to how he works that miracle A smaller squad that is actually capable of 40 odd games a season would be a start. Half the first team in the treatment room is money wasted and we have to get extra cover and loan players in to cover them, effectively meaning we are paying 2 wages per starting position.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 10:32:35 GMT
But Taylor had a window and brought in more midfielders and no strikers despite that being an obvious problem. Taylor also has persisted picking Brown, effectively setting us up with 10 men. Yes, some of the squad appear to have downed tools but it's Taylors job to sort that. Unfortunately he was told to pick Brown by the hierarchy as they were hoping to sell him in the summer 😂😂 Is that for real???
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 10:20:00 GMT
Lol. Some irony in the 'boring' James Milner meme being named I think that's why we appointed Taylor. They just wanted someone boring in charge for a bit!
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 10:18:18 GMT
Not sure you need lessons, but OK. "We've got our Rovers back" was the fatuous claim when Super Matt was appointed. Just as well he's made us so much fun to watch again, got the best out of the players and has us scoring for fun, otherwise the very real prospect of relegation next season could be on the cards. As for his substitutions, yesterday was a prime example of your point. He brought on (loanee) Vaughan and left Lawrence on the bench. If it's true he didn't want the job, but Rovers hounded him, it beggars belief to imagine his salary. Have a fun summer. 🏴☠️ "We've got our rovers back" because it was no longer governed in part by the head of the Scouse mafia and his cronies Jennings and the colonel. I was overjoyed because it meant we could clap a manager and sing his name with a clear conscience and not supporting a violent, wife beating, misogynistic sewer rat of a person. Also, after half of last season and the first 13 games of this season it was clear that after spending £4.5m that 4 wins (1 win in 6) with a squad full of pensioners and crocks that we were going to be more relegation fodder than we were play off contenders. Once the real effect of the mafias spending spree took hold, Ward, Wilson, Hunt, Finley, LMc, playing their regulation 20-25 games, the rest of them that weren't good enough Cox,Grant (did he make 20 games) Crama, Gordon, Javani, Collony (conceding goals for fun in L2 at Morecambe and not making the starting 11 there and couldn't even dislodge Grant from CB 😂) Were massively exposed. Add in the sale of Collins and basically you're turning up with 5 players good enough. Are you surprised at MTs frustration? I mean, at least he kept working at it unlike wife beater who came in and because he decided the players were what he liked, gave up and got us relegated. So yes, having a proper person in charge, by proper I mean a decent human being who's ego isn't the size of wife beaters admittedly, is kind of like having a part of Bristol Rovers back where we would have never employed such a repugnant piece of 💩to begin with. Say what you think mate, don't hide behind innuendo and hyperbole. 😉
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 10:15:04 GMT
In the annual accounts for 23, it says: "Throughout the 2022/23 season we fielded a minimum of 2 club developed players in 100% of team sheets for the second season in a row." "The average number of club developed players on a team sheet for us was 3.26" That all sounds really progressive. Then it clicked. They might be using Siclair in that statistic. Ward and Hoole. Also, what does club developed actually mean? Are players under a certain age like Thomas included too?
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 8:58:09 GMT
Unless the players he's been picking are totally ignoring his instructions then it appears it hasn't got a clue about either. Or they just aren't good enough? Surely even you can see that we have limped to the end of the season, quite literally in some cases. When was the last time we couldn't select a striker? It's been the theme of our season. The problem is, Matt Taylor doesn't have selection problems. The team has literally been picking itself as there are no other fit players. Then surely as manager you select your formation and tactics based on what players you have available rather than constantly trying to impose your own system onto players who are unable to play that way?
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 8:53:11 GMT
I guess Sinclair is the most obvious as he's a current player.
I must admit, I'd expected a bit more from him than we've had.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 8:47:45 GMT
“The grass is always greener” . If Ipswich go up and lose their first 6 games Ipswich fans will be calling for a more experienced manager who knows the premiership. MT’ s points haul from his first 29 games in charge is better than either DC or JB. Have people forgotten how bad it was when we had JJOT as the scapegoat in the team and players rumoured to be taking drugs.People were on the pitch calling for the heads of the Baord members . 12 months later…… Lewis Hamilton will never win a formula one race at the wheel of even the fastest and most luxurious, expensive tractor in the world. How is Taylor expected to field a resolute hard working and pressing team when he does not have the players to do it. Need I go in with other silly analogies But Taylor had a window and brought in more midfielders and no strikers despite that being an obvious problem. Taylor also has persisted picking Brown, effectively setting us up with 10 men. Yes, some of the squad appear to have downed tools but it's Taylors job to sort that.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 8:39:22 GMT
Hugo, you're a mod and you're forever banning people, so I'll type slowly so you don't get confused...it was nothing to do with Barton. Again, slowly...I'm glad he's gone and wish Taylor was gone too. Clear enough? UTFG 🏴☠️ I don't ban people, they ban themselves. If you could be a little more patronising that would be good, and possibly indulge me with what you mean when you say "we've got our Rovers back" in relation to Taylor. As for Taylor Out, I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with you on that, but obviously you've watched a lot more games than I have this season. I think Taylor inherited a lot of problems that were out of his control but I also watch how he sets us up and makes substitutions and wonder what on earth he is doing. I'm not fully Taylor out, but I'm leaning that way because he really hasn't helped himself.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 28, 2024 6:27:53 GMT
Just because Taylor is doing poorly, that doesn't mean it wasn't right to sack Barton. I'm still glad he's gone and once there has been a clear out of the fantastic top 8 squad he assembled then we will be a lot better off. You're a mod, so...OK then. Who the heck mentioned Barton? Not me. He was sacked rightly. Taylor is dogshit. What does me being a mod have to do with anything? You didn't mention Barton explicitly, but the "we've got our Rovers back" mantra that you have used several times sarcasticly in reference to Taylor certainly implies a reference to Barton.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 27, 2024 20:33:23 GMT
In the last 18 league games, we have gained a whopping 23 points. We've scored 18 goals and conceded 37.* Thank goodness we "have our Rovers back" as it would be terrible otherwise. Taylor out and UTFG. 🏴☠️ *Stats provided by the one non drinker in our group of 10, who've been here (Manchester) since yesterday. It's still freezing. Just because Taylor is doing poorly, that doesn't mean it wasn't right to sack Barton. I'm still glad he's gone and once there has been a clear out of the fantastic top 8 squad he assembled then we will be a lot better off.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Apr 27, 2024 9:25:36 GMT
Are you unable to attend a function where drinks are served without head butting someone? To be fair, I've only ever escaped a works do with free booze twice without making a tit of myself... What, by assaulting someone?
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