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Post by fanboy on Mar 18, 2017 19:32:35 GMT
i would guess that Easter will be here next year and James will not.... I'd bet on the exact opposite!
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Post by fanboy on Mar 16, 2017 9:05:42 GMT
Sinclair always flies all over the place but I think that's more his rapid style of play than diving. Tiny man running at ferocious pace is always gonna end up falling over a lot!
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Post by fanboy on Mar 13, 2017 19:23:56 GMT
Definitely correct decision.
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Post by fanboy on Mar 10, 2017 10:40:54 GMT
Dc made an enquiry for him and decided 300k was too much when he was available for free in summer. Don't think that suggests he doesn't rate him. In the summer we will be in the mix with every other team that wants to sign him. The £300k or whatever it really was is the price to jump the queue and reduce the competition. For whatever reason the club were not prepared to pay the price which in effect was only the Taylor money.. Potentially sensible given we could take him in the summer for free. Hopefully we have a plan either way. But definitely don't think 'Darrell doesn't rate him' is correct. He obviously rated him enough to enquire!
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Post by fanboy on Mar 9, 2017 10:51:08 GMT
This whole thread about Miller is bizarre! It's almost as if he's the only forward out there to sign in the Summer. People seem a bit obsessed with him. What I think is of no consequenc but if DC thinks he's good then ok but I'm not sure he's DCs kind of player character-wise. This whole thread reminds me of the Summer 2013 when Magoo spent the whole of it chasing Constable from Oxford but never got him and didn't have a plan B. So we started the the season without a new striker. All our eggs were in one basket and we didn't get it. The same with John Ward in Summer 2013, spent all his time chasing JJOT, got him and then realised too late we had no strikers and didn't get one. That ended up well didn't it? This thread is reminding me of those times. Thankfully now DC is in charge of our transfer policy and and not some of us!! UTG! I gather DC may not rate him, even taking into account his record of goal scoring. Dc made an enquiry for him and decided 300k was too much when he was available for free in summer. Don't think that suggests he doesn't rate him.
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Post by fanboy on Feb 23, 2017 17:46:47 GMT
Nooooooooooo
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Post by fanboy on Feb 17, 2017 9:00:11 GMT
Thanks, but Gasheads is a bit pompous and cliquey (imo) I want a Forum thats a bit like talking to your mates in the pub or on the coach / train,factual but not talking about spelling / grammar (Gasheads) talking cr@p (banter) like on here... What you're after is a WhatsApp group.
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Post by fanboy on Feb 14, 2017 8:59:53 GMT
The Gas web-sphere is split over a number of sources. Two forums, the official site, the Supporters Club site, Gasopedia, the BP, the podcast site (is that still going?), and then there's the national/global level stuff that contains some Rovers stuff, like the stat sites, that football kits site, BBC, Sky, wiki, youtube channels, etc. and probably some more. All of them have excellent stuff (even the BP) and most of them have loads of crap, too. It's all there to be waded through and used. And most of them contain expert knowledge of their particular narrow purview. Istm if you can find a niche you're interested in, you will still need to make it excellent, for it to be useful. Eg the History idea above is a great one, but there's no point just copying and pasting from various sources, you would need to put together proper, excellently researched, definitive versions for it to be very useful (there are excellent paper versions around). And similarly, just putting up articles of the moment might work, but they would need to be as good as say, Mehewmagic's articles, which get put up on the BP, and forums, etc, for it to be worthwhile. I suppose, what I mean is, unless it's going to be its own excellent, complete resource there are any number of places to stick it, atm. And if it is a complete resource then that is probably going to be a massive job to fill any significant niche. gas-cast.co.uk Yup!
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Post by fanboy on Feb 13, 2017 15:42:05 GMT
The EFL are resolving their failure to cash in on the 'Player' thing by streaming games, so yes this is happening.
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Post by fanboy on Feb 12, 2017 23:06:24 GMT
It's just not the same at all though. Chelsea are in the middle of a title challenge, we are mid table and are happy with mid table. It would take some major change of form to go down, and we are not ready to go up. Why would we sign a replacement for Taylor in January when we can get better in the summer for a better price? We can save the money from now until then, too. And at the same time, we can also give Luke James a chance who was brought in in the first place to replace Taylor?! I don't understand how you have tried to compare our situation to Chelsea. It's just not the same, at all. Rovers are in the middle of a play-off challenge,we sold taylor[costa] and signed nobody but were asked to believe luke james[long] would be just fine. Its comparable. We're not really in a play off challenge though. I'd like to think so but I believe DC will be very happy with our current position. We just got promoted twice in a row and must be on course for our highest L1 finish in, well god knows how long but certainly 10 years?! Can't we just wait until the summer to strengthen properly instead of panicking we may not be promoted three times in a row? We are not ready to go up, the stadium needs sorting before that.
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Post by fanboy on Feb 12, 2017 21:58:56 GMT
Some people have hammered me for this thread but if chelsea sold costa and replaced him with shane long there fans would go mental. Well thats exactly what we have done but 2 divisions down It's just not the same at all though. Chelsea are in the middle of a title challenge, we are mid table and are happy with mid table. It would take some major change of form to go down, and we are not ready to go up. Why would we sign a replacement for Taylor in January when we can get better in the summer for a better price? We can save the money from now until then, too. And at the same time, we can also give Luke James a chance who was brought in in the first place to replace Taylor?! I don't understand how you have tried to compare our situation to Chelsea. It's just not the same, at all.
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Post by fanboy on Feb 12, 2017 14:46:18 GMT
He's a very similar type of player technically, albeit hasn't hit hit stride in goals yet. He's only 21 which is unbelievable really. DC see's something in him and brought him in to replace Taylor at the start of the season, thus far he's basically started two games. It took Taylor 8-10 games to score and that was in the Conference.
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Post by fanboy on Feb 1, 2017 23:37:44 GMT
100% believe he was tapped up. But don't believe we can prove it.
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Post by fanboy on Jan 31, 2017 8:59:51 GMT
Thought he was a major reason we had them on the back foot on Saturday! Awful!
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Post by fanboy on Jan 25, 2017 10:38:21 GMT
DC has a budget for this year and is likely keen to stick to it. Next year he can hopefully justify increasing it with a new end goal. Realistically I imagine this budget was to get midtable and he's doing that and more. If he believes he can make a promotion push next year no doubt Wael will increase his budget. All about justification though. Sensible.
Previous years when we've gone way out of budget it's because we were desperately trying to escape relegation, with a new manager who believes he needs more. DC knew his budget, agreed to it, and therefore will keep to it.
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Post by fanboy on Jan 18, 2017 19:37:00 GMT
DC is of course the man to take us forward and is an absolute legend already but I just don't get his signings for goalkeeper. Very surprised by this, can only see it was a cheap one to get us to the summer to then try and push for play offs next season. Don't think DC is interested in going for it this year.
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Post by fanboy on Jan 12, 2017 22:58:07 GMT
Sounds the right kind of character and rated very highly by all Eastleigh fans. Hopefully we've got a bargain here. James Clarke wasn't rated highly at all by Woking fans and he was a great asset in L2.
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Post by fanboy on Jan 11, 2017 8:03:21 GMT
'thoroughly disappointed' is a curious turn of phrase to describe a trialist that's only trained 4 times. Attitude, application, ability to fit in with or disrupt team spirit, acceptance of the code of conduct. There's a lot to see in addition to whether he punches or catches, spills it or gets it safe, kicks well or badly, comes for crosses or stays put, etc etc. Trials are as much about the person as the performance. Definitely, but to be 'thoroughly dissapointed' after like four training sessions must be pretty tricky.
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Post by fanboy on Jan 1, 2017 22:37:41 GMT
Anyone else think Monty's booking was a ridiculous decision by the ref? Looked to me like a blatant dive from the wombles player. I couldn't believe it was a free kick, let alone a booking. Ref was pretty shat all game. Agreed - for both teams I thought. Useless.
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Post by fanboy on Dec 22, 2016 11:32:00 GMT
Can't possibly see how you can believe it to be a good save. When judging saves I like to imagine what it would have looked like if he had failed to save it. If that shot had gone in he would have had to literally dive out of the way of it. I assumed we were talking about the one where he got his arm to it with a pure reaction save, not a routine diving save, everybody around me agreed it was a decent save, even those previously calling him a "useless w....." (not sure what shouting that does for a goalies confidence!) Ok, I'm starting to think I had drifted off for this save!! I must be on about a different one... whoops
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