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Post by mrgasman on Mar 29, 2024 16:14:23 GMT
Taylor’s here with no idea.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 29, 2024 14:43:03 GMT
You do realise Cheltenham fans don’t like us rovers lot…? I like DC but I won’t be cheering on Cheltenham.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 29, 2024 13:01:29 GMT
Perhaps Tilly should create a second log in ID - she could then like her own posts and not rely on people like me having the audacity to like some of her posts !!! I love it, same 💩🏠’s again liking your posts, I use the word 💩🏠’s because you are, next home, name the meeting place, I will trust you, put my phone in your hand and will ask Dusty to post at say 2pm and you can check the forum with my phone in your hand. I’m not Paul Daniel’s nor a sh**ter, happy to meet any of you, I think the Mods will confirm this with the IP addessss as well. Bank Holiday Monday 1st April, reply on here or PM me, we will put this one to bed. 👍 Are you Ronnie Pickering?
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 29, 2024 9:15:35 GMT
Really cannot see a Rovers win here today. It feels like Taylor has lost the dressing room so not expecting much.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 28, 2024 22:31:31 GMT
Not to put a downer on it, but when his contract finishes he will be over 24 and can leave on a free. (he is 21 in May). However, if he keeps on improving at his current rate, we will sell him for big money well before then. How have you still managed to find a downer with Jed Ward, our prized asset, signing a basically-five-year contract!? This forum is something else. Nice to see Ward has signed an extension. I’m glad Taylor’s motivational positive approach hasn’t scared him off.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 16, 2024 19:26:11 GMT
5 of the previous management team still being paid. Let’s sack Taylor, McAliister and Carlisle, that’s 8 on gardening leave, potentially 9 if we got rid of Friend as well. Bring in another 3 management team, a club with 5,000 season ticket holders is paying a management team of 11/12. He’s had one window and spent only once, the lad Conteh in my opinion will got for 2/3 million in the future………the other 3, Baggott is decent as is Aquilera. Give him the summer window, if it’s like today and some of the results coming October, maybe he is sacked then. Too much hysteria here, some players already know they are not being resigned. Some already are looking for moves back nearer home. Madness to sack a manager again and pay a combined management team of over £1.5 million for the next year. For once we agree 👍. Very valid points you’ve mentioned there. It’s 💩 but giving the man time and the summer is the best option.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 16, 2024 19:04:08 GMT
Well that was disappointing. Sorry folks. I’ll not bother again. Bye then. A mid table finish having sacked that mental case with us in 17th at the time will be a good finish. If the board had signed the wrong manager we’d be in the relegation places now. Taylor inherited an injury prone unbalanced side just before the winter months kicked in and has got a better points to game ratio than Barton ever had for us in this division. Taylor has done ok , not great but he has done ok the league table doesn’t lie. I’m happy to give him the summer window and at least 10 games into next season before I really judge him on what he’s done so far and what I feel that he’s going to do at our club. Barton inherited a similar crappy squad in around the same position that Taylor has and took us down bottom that season of league 1. Patience is needed in my opinion but clearly you’ve washed your hands with it , shame as mid table league 1 is riding high compared to the last 25 years. You really think we will finish mid table? Probably finish 15/17th. We should be safe from relegation.. thankfully as it looks as though this group don’t want to play for our manager.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 16, 2024 17:01:39 GMT
Then employed the manager and then failed to back him in January, perhaps they need to consider what they are doing themselves? Lincoln just highlights what can be done by changing their manager and backing him in January, are they really in a better position than Rovers to survive in the Championship if they go up? Have they failed to back him? They gave him money to sign Conteh and they collectively decided to keep the Collins money for the summer to avoid overspending. Makes sense to me. Me too, hardly didn’t back him, he brought in loan signings too which haven’t got up to speed unfortunately. Taylor is out of ideas and it’s evident.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 16, 2024 16:17:29 GMT
Awful decision by AlSaeed senior to announce that the team was being ripped apart in the summer so early. Why should the players give a toss? Ah, right, I see. It's all Al Saeed's fault. Apparently so 😂
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 16, 2024 16:16:27 GMT
I hope Taylor (M) is big and honest enough to say he got the starting 11 and formation wrong, especially Crama Not holding my breath, he'll blame the previous regime and the squad assembled (the same squad he told us was full of quality and potential) Highly doubt it, he talks the talk and doesn’t seem to deliver. Has a free pass this season but the show begins next season, first 10 games as his excuses won’t bode well then.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 16, 2024 15:25:07 GMT
Said it last weekend and I’ll say it again, Taylor isn’t the man for the Job and I expect him gone after 10 games next season. We shoukd have just stuck with Mangan until the end of the season. Cant see anything this guy has done so far and yes I agree Barton had to go, before all these comments start again. So if we concentrated on defence against Fleetwood one can only presume this week we were concentrating on attack 😂
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 16, 2024 15:19:50 GMT
This is an absolute mess. Organised chaos. There’s no way this is moving in the right direction as Taylor says all the time I agree 💯. Would have rather stuck with Mangan.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 16, 2024 11:19:34 GMT
3-1 win to Lincoln. Hope I am wrong but they are flying at the moment and unbeaten in 11 games I believe.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 14, 2024 8:43:27 GMT
Personally I don't see the Coughlan comparison, his side was built around a strong defence and a midfield set up to stop the opposition playing. On Tues we mixed things up yes played some direct stuff but the majority of those passes were diagonal. They played with wing backs who were both very high, we looked to get Vale & Sinclair into the space they left. We have good technical players in our midfield, Evans & Conteh both had plenty of touches, in a Coughlan side they'd have spent most of the game watching the ball go over their heads. It was blatantly obvious we needed to tighten up defensively but I certainly haven't seen any indication that we've gone ultra defensive, 2 clean sheets in 3 but we've also created plenty of chances. Basically what I said, it’s not Cogs, it’s a mix of three styles as Moyes did at Everton and what Trollope and DC did. I can’t see the resemblances I’m sorry. MT has a completely different character to DC. I’m not even sure what MT’s style is yet. Hence why it’ll be interesting next season to see his real style of play and tactics.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 13, 2024 22:46:17 GMT
Sorry, are you saying Luke Thomas isn’t good enough and Connor Taylor? I have used Graham coughlan as an example as I have DC so it’s not about Barton at all… Barton has gone.. and I understand why, let’s move on mate. If you read my previous comments you will see. Yeah, I can’t say I’m raving over Taylor but he needs time and the first 10 games of next season will show what he is about 👍 I'm not saying that at all, you have misread my post. I'm saying look at the summer signings and all bar 2 are either injured or not good enough. I sought to clarify who was in which camp by the brackets. My mistake. apologies. UTG 🔵⚪️
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 13, 2024 22:16:23 GMT
Some understand football, some just see it two ways, hoof ball or passing football. MT is very much like DC in his style, it’s a similar version to which Moyes played at Everton with no money and now at West Ham. A proper mix of percentage football, passing, strong full backs, happy to get the diagonals in early. All three of these managers have never played a possession based football game like Garner did and Barton and failed spectacularly this season at the likes of Burton. Trolls also got the ball early into Lambert and Walker, this was lot of time on the floor feeding off them and DC with Ellis and Gaffeny. You watch the top possession sides, Arsenal don’t even use a striker at times, City never did last season. Bristol Rovers don’t ever have the budget in Div1 to assemble a side like Derby who can go back to front, press and pass the ball constantly. In my opinion MT is the perfect fit for us just as Moyes was for Everton. Are you MT's Gashead mate he referred to in a recent interview, as your continued praising of him is a bit strange. I can't see any similarities with DC, they really are like chalk and cheese. As far as strong full backs, that falls at the first hurdle when they are Gordon & Grant on the one wing and Hoole & Hunt, when he's ever fit, on the other. Yeah, I mean I often look at Matty Taylor and think how lucky we are to have a manager who is compared to David Moyes, not only that but a manager who has managed Manchester United, Everton and West Ham. This is hilarious! Stay off the ciders mate!
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 13, 2024 17:18:30 GMT
Hmmm, shame. It’s good to hear other people’s views and ideas of the game, all I seem to get back is Joey B comments, as I’ve said above I understand why he was sacked, we’ve moved on from that but right now I cannot see how Taylor has upgraded our side. I hope he does recruit well in the summer and the Gas can do well as that’s what we all want. How can he upgrade the side in one window when JB and Jennings blew the budget on the bunch of crocks and Grandads? You get the JB comments back at you because you are having a go at MT everytime we lose or draw and making the comparisons with JB. We have to learn to be tight at the back because we cannot rely on scoring one more than the opposition even more so now we dont have Collins and LT is injured and Javani, who only makes the odd contribution every 10 games, means that we'll lose more than we will win/draw. Losing Collins and LT means we have lost all of our pace and attacking threat that makes teams think and double mark leaving space for the likes of Evans to get into the pockets of holes in attacking play which then gives Martin time to get into space. MT has come into a midtable squad full of poor squad players and fragile players that cant play 20 games a season or more and that is the fault of Jennings and JB not MT. Players like Wilson, Hunt, Ward, Gordon and Hoole will hopefully be on their way at the end of the season and we can sign some quality that can actually last more than half a season to replace them and the signings of Conteh and Baggot show the type of player we will be after. Let me put it another way, all of JBs summer signings bar Martin and Vale are either not good enough (Cox, Crama, Brown, Woods, Bogarde), Retired (Friend) or broken (LT, Wilson, Hunt, Taylor). What is it you're expecting MT to do in 4 months and 1 window with this bunch? Sorry, are you saying Luke Thomas isn’t good enough and Connor Taylor? I have used Graham coughlan as an example as I have DC so it’s not about Barton at all… Barton has gone.. and I understand why, let’s move on mate. If you read my previous comments you will see. Yeah, I can’t say I’m raving over Taylor but he needs time and the first 10 games of next season will show what he is about 👍
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 13, 2024 11:28:29 GMT
For a load of mainly older people on here that have apparently been supporting Rovers for decades I am amazed how little some seem to understand about lower league football! iFollow is probably a bad thing for fans for tough midweek away games. Too much belief that we should turn up and walkover them. Taylor identified we were soft at the back and rarely kept clean sheets. He is fixiging that. Most good managers sort that first and then look to be more expansive and attacking once you have a solid defence to build from. As for the comments from the same few about Gordon, and especially Hoole each week. You clearly dont understand the game. Stats based and unbiased views scored Hoole well yesterday (and against Derby) but people love to pick on a player or two until they are hounded out... and then are probably the same ones that say why dont we have more youngsters coming through etc etc. Maybe head off to your summer holidays and come back refreshed next season. I agree with you in regards to Hoole and Gordan. Although isn’t this why the new owners want a premium grade training facilities so we can then have an under 21’s squad? So at the moment there isn’t many youngsters coming through but certainly something that will change in the future.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 13, 2024 9:23:47 GMT
I have to admit the football being played is dire. A few times we got caught in possession trying to play out from the back. Whats the point when all we did all night was kick and rush? I completely agree, coughlan got wins and even said himself it isn’t attractive but it’s getting us the points, I’m all for that if it’s doing the job but this is dire! DC took over a Cheltenham team who hadn’t scored in 11 games, miles off play offs to it being possible of staying up and scoring goals again. Even lost 2 of his strikers during this period. He’s clearly put his own character into the side. Taylor… I struggle to see what has changed. He deserves the time/ summer to rebuild of course but when us fans are paying good money to watch them ect we have absolutely every right to voice our opinions so long as it isn’t insulting.
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Post by mrgasman on Mar 13, 2024 9:17:20 GMT
Matt Taylor reminds me of a particular type of paint. Flat Matt. It does the job covers the cracks uninspiring and dull Don’t let roadyreturns see you say that… he’ll have a meltdown 😂
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