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Post by markczgas on Mar 14, 2020 16:01:34 GMT
Theo Widdrington is playing in Conf South for Hemel Hemsted at Dorking this afters. (0-0 ht) ex-player Deon Moore is a sub for them.
Any other Gas players in action today ?
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Post by markczgas on Mar 12, 2020 19:09:52 GMT
I am a believer if you hit hard and low and its on target 99% of the time it will go in the 1% was against Fleetwood then, let's see if he takes 100 pens for the Gas
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Post by markczgas on Mar 12, 2020 19:06:49 GMT
I agree with OP (was thinking the same yesterday) that JCH is not a great penalty taker. He was lucky on Tues and also hit a poor one v Fleetwood which cost us 2 pts. Would like to see BG give the honours to someone else. In recent years Lambert and then followed by Jeff Hughes were both fantastic penalty takers.
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Post by markczgas on Mar 12, 2020 18:55:07 GMT
Garner has much more to prove and this most welcome performance v Sunderland is a small and hopefully significant step. Tony Craig's comments about the showdown after the Southend disgrace was overdue. Are we to assume that Garner took on board the concerns form the Team? probably ! Hopefully !
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Post by markczgas on Mar 12, 2020 18:54:18 GMT
2 wins from 20 is where Ben Garner is at right now. Fact. UTG (But not with you Ben). His record is poor so far, but it's 2 wins out of 15 league games to correct you. (Also I think there were 1 or 2 games in the middle there where he was with his sick kid and not at the match. UTG !
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Post by markczgas on Mar 12, 2020 18:41:58 GMT
Has Tony Craig been an ever present since he joined us? It certainly seems so and what a fine Player he has proven to be, guiding the young defenders who have come into the Team with such expertise. Whatever Tony decides to do at the end of this season his influence will be felt for some time to come. Well done Tony Craig on reaching 600 appearances. I think he lost his place in the side early on in the season but GC brought him back in pretty sharpish after a defeat ?
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Post by markczgas on Mar 12, 2020 18:39:02 GMT
I think a lot of it was pride after losing to Southend and having a big game against a team like Sunderland. Well done for winning a big game and virtually confirming survival but I can’t help but feel a lot of gasheads are being extremely fickle and changing their views on the manager, chanting for him to wave, when after Shrewsbury they were baying for his blood so to speak. Zero consistency. He has won one more game and that brings his total to 2 in 20, 10%. That still keeps him well towards the bottom of the table for win ratios as Bristol Rovers manager. He did not take over a team losing game after game on a downward spiral, he took over a team on a significant winning run which placed us in 4th in the table and set us on a form which over the first half of next season could see us in a Southend situation. He has to do a lot more than beat Sunderland on a one off and beat 10 man Blackpool to prove he’s worthy of managing Bristol Rovers. I fear this win papers over the cracks and makes it more likely he will see through the summer where there’s a great chance he’ll do damage to what good is left of our playing and coaching teams, as so far he has still proven nothing in terms of his ability to affect us as a team through recruitment and tactical changes. It was a bitter sweet result, was fantastic to beat Sunderland whose management and players I have no respect for and to remain 13 points ahead of Tranmere; however it further enables Ben Garner to be in the position to relegate us next season. Give it a rest !
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Post by markczgas on Mar 12, 2020 18:37:05 GMT
Quite right. When we go on a run and form begins to turn on a consistent trend don’t worry I’ll be one of the first to say I got it wrong. After one game I’m not gonna flip flop and act as if I’ve been backing him all along. 80% wanted him gone after Shrewsbury, 93%ish after Southend so it seems to me quite a reversal for the majority of the forum and support base to be hounding those who are consistent and still aren’t convinced. One game doesn’t make a manager. 93 % of who ? 2 dozen angry keyboard warriors on Gaschat ?
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Post by markczgas on Mar 11, 2020 9:16:50 GMT
Let's see if they carry on the same on Saturday when they's no pre arranged team photo to take at the end of the game, I'm starting to think it's player power the issue not down to BG. I think a lot of it was pride after losing to Southend and having a big game against a team like Sunderland. Well done for winning a big game and virtually confirming survival but I can’t help but feel a lot of gasheads are being extremely fickle and changing their views on the manager, chanting for him to wave, when after Shrewsbury they were baying for his blood so to speak. Zero consistency. He has won one more game and that brings his total to 2 in 20, 10%. That still keeps him well towards the bottom of the table for win ratios as Bristol Rovers manager. He did not take over a team losing game after game on a downward spiral, he took over a team on a significant winning run which placed us in 4th in the table and set us on a form which over the first half of next season could see us in a Southend situation. He has to do a lot more than beat Sunderland on a one off and beat 10 man Blackpool to prove he’s worthy of managing Bristol Rovers. I fear this win papers over the cracks and makes it more likely he will see through the summer where there’s a great chance he’ll do damage to what good is left of our playing and coaching teams, as so far he has still proven nothing in terms of his ability to affect us as a team through recruitment and tactical changes. Why don't you go to games, support the team and see where we are at the end of the season ? This is a transition time - GC left us in the lurch. The club addressed the supporters' concerns about playing style etc. brought in a young hungry manager who is trying to bring more ball players through. Let's review at the end of the season.
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Post by markczgas on Mar 11, 2020 9:03:01 GMT
It was brilliant tonight but I am concerned about the players attitude. What we had tonight was effort and determination, was it just because we were playing Sunderland? A good team has the right attitude against both high and low sides. We need to see it against the Southend's too. JCH was a different player tonight. Mitchell- Lawson was pushed right up to support JCH last night. Also, JCH wasn't fit for Southend. We need him badly even when he's not on his game. We need another big striker as back up - Timmy looks a long way off being that.
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Post by markczgas on Mar 11, 2020 8:56:54 GMT
I may be wrong but I thought the 3-5-2 was originally played because of injuries, a complete lack of wingers, and a surplus of central midfielder/defenders. It was a happy revelation and credit to GC for then seeing that it worked and sticking with it. Keen not to over analyse one game but I agree tonight backs up the view that too much was changed too quickly when you compare it to Southend. So had it only been Craig's 599th appearance we'd have lost ? Good job GC wasn't counting them then. That's my fear, did the players just do it for TC's big game, if so, will it just be back to normal on Saturday when there's no team photo to take at the end of the match? Last night would have fallen a bit flat for the players team photo if they'd lost 3-0 as we all expected. . I actually heard they did it for you Topper, fearing you were going to bring your giant GARNER OUT banner. Honest.
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 23:39:56 GMT
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 23:18:48 GMT
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 22:54:32 GMT
Parkinson's verdict Phil Parkinson admitted Sunderland lost their way and ‘stopped playing’ after getting frustrated by a series of refereeing decisions at Bristol Rovers. Parkinson was unhappy with referee Charles Breakspear’s erratic decisions, and also pointed to an incident just in front of the Sunderland bench when Jordan Willis was flattened by Luke Leahy as the moment when Sunderland lost their cool. The ref, I'm sad to say, was all over the place with some mega baffling decisions. Ironically, he favoured Sunderland in the 1st half (when Willis was fouled) and then calmed down a bit in the 2nd. Sunderland do too much weights and don't play enough football - Parkinson will surely be sacked if they don't go up - rightly so !
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 22:47:26 GMT
Fair play he got everything spot on tonight. If that conman Upson gets near the midfield again this year I’ll go nuts. The energy that Hargreaves bought to the midfield allowed OC to do what he does best which is break up play, simple passing and look to move the ball forward. It was exactly what we were missing for the last X number of games. Bar putting Hare back in at RWB when he’s fit then he needs to stick with this side, keep it simple and demand the same work rate and it will get results. One swallow and all that, but there were promising signs tonight. Oh dear ! why spoil a great night in an up and down season.
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 22:43:02 GMT
The thing with Bennett is that he was really good when he first joined, but has been useless since the start of the season, so we know he can do it but just seemingly isn't bothered.
Same story with Portsmouth - lots of ability but severe lack of desire and application
Should be in his prime now. Bennett is L2 at best - not much pace, no strength and not enough game sense. BG putting him on bench only cos a lot of players out - Upson, Ogogo, THD, Little etc
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 22:29:29 GMT
How can we go from getting comfortably beat by a team consisting of academy players to easily beating Sunderland tonight? I just don’t get Rovers sometimes. Basically he went back to what was working before he took over. Tonight was 3 centre half’s with Kilgour , Craig and harries ( who’s arguably better than msyenese) Rodman right back Leahy left back JCH wasn’t on his own up front like he has been mostly these last three months , he had Hargreaves backing him up every time just like Nichols did and Hargreaves is a similar kind of player. It was like going back to the first half of last season. Solid defensively , get it up to JCH , get players around him - it works. We don’t have the players to play 4-3-3 and get it down and pass around and through teams , most of us could have told Garner that from day one. Tonight hopefully was the turning point , a complete 360 and back to playing to our strengths. I’m not convinced but time will tell. UTG Agreed buddy. Our first goal was a very good passing move - best moment of the game by miles.
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 22:26:30 GMT
The beauty of football ! thoroughly deserved win. well done the players. well done BG and the staff. UTF***ingG !!!
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 22:24:20 GMT
Legend
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Post by markczgas on Mar 10, 2020 22:22:58 GMT
Blackman 6
Kilgour 7 Craig 7.5 Harries 7
Rodman 7.5 Clarke 7.5 Hargreaves 6.5 Sercombe 5 Leahy 6
Mitchell-Lawson 8.5 Clarke-Harris 8
Subs: Daly 6 Hare 5.5 Kelly -
Crowd 8 Ref 1 - The worst ref I think Ive ever seen !! Sunderland 5 cheating bunch of tarts !
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