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Post by markczgas on Nov 2, 2019 15:55:37 GMT
ht 1- 2 but 7 mins added time - what happened there ? How are we playing ?
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Post by markczgas on Nov 2, 2019 14:41:29 GMT
Rovers: Anssi Jaakkola (G), Mark Little, Tony Craig, Alfie Kilgour, Michael Kelly, Abu Ogogo, Ed Upson, Ollie Clarke, Alex Rodman, Liam Sercombe, Victor Adeboyejo. Subs: Jordi Van Stappershoef, Luke Leahy, Rollin Menayese, Kyle Bennett, Cameron Hargreaves, Tom Nichols, Tyler Smith. Looks like a 4-4 -1- 1 or 4-5-1 . very sensible as our strikers have not ben very threatening - hopefully this formation gives Sercs licence to attack from midfield. UTG ! I can't work the line up out as who's playing left, or right, mid if Sercs is playing a deep No 10, or is is 4-3-2-1 with Rodders & Sercs both supporting VA? Surprised Kelly gets another run out over Leahy after his performance v Bolton. you've got a point - Sercs may be asked to come in off the left in a 4-5 -1 - he can still do a good job from there imo. We shall see. UTG !
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Post by markczgas on Nov 2, 2019 14:38:57 GMT
Rochdale's Luke Matheson (no.41 in pic) is only 16 ! Credit to him but obviously hope he has a stinker today .
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Post by markczgas on Nov 2, 2019 14:17:50 GMT
Mark Little's first start since ......... Blackpool ?? Good luck ! hope you play a blinder !
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Post by markczgas on Nov 2, 2019 14:16:47 GMT
Rovers: Anssi Jaakkola (G), Mark Little, Tony Craig, Alfie Kilgour, Michael Kelly, Abu Ogogo, Ed Upson, Ollie Clarke, Alex Rodman, Liam Sercombe, Victor Adeboyejo.
Subs: Jordi Van Stappershoef, Luke Leahy, Rollin Menayese, Kyle Bennett, Cameron Hargreaves, Tom Nichols, Tyler Smith.
Looks like a 4-4 -1- 1 or 4-5-1 . very sensible as our strikers have not ben very threatening - hopefully this formation gives Sercs licence to attack from midfield. UTG !
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Post by markczgas on Nov 2, 2019 14:08:32 GMT
I'll never forget Ken Masters having a go at me (for no reason except that maybe he felt threatened - his position ) at a Fans' forum at the stadium that we demanded after our fall from the football League. Ken is a fossil.
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Post by markczgas on Nov 2, 2019 13:59:05 GMT
No wins in 3 but think we'll get a draw today. Good luck to all The Gas there - get behind them !
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Post by markczgas on Oct 31, 2019 15:39:26 GMT
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Post by markczgas on Oct 31, 2019 0:24:25 GMT
little question for you Mets. Since the departure of Locks and the introduction of Davies and Kilgour, to the backline, do you think we "lump " it more ?
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Post by markczgas on Oct 30, 2019 17:39:13 GMT
Do not shoot the messenger as I was sent this today by text by a media colleague in the Midlands. Whether it has gone out today or somewhere on the net I don’t know. I guess it has miles but in parts a wee bit of creative journalism. ‘Saddlers boss Darrell Clarke is in talks with former club Bristol Rovers in an attempt to sign out of favour striker Tom Nichols on loan in January. A lack of goals from his strikers is giving Clarke cause for concern and it has hoped Nichols, 26, could be the solution to this problem. Having signed the striker from Peterborough in the summer of 2017, he has failed to set the world alight in just under 100 league appearances. He is a player who holds the ball up well and runs the channels, which suits Clarke’s style of play.. It is hoped a loan deal can be struck for the player who is out of contract in the summer. Kiaran I have to say this is complete rubbish, no way can they afford £3 or 4,000 a week in wages so it would mean us being prepared to take a loss on his wages for 5 months, more likely is a settlement and him being released. I’d also find it ever so strange after the media leaked the off the record conversation last season with themselves and DC, he mentions Nicholls in it “I don’t know if he will ever recover”..........he hasn’t recovered. Oh and I get hearsay thrown at me, how do I know his rough wage, I do. I took 2 forum members on here as guests for the first game of the season last season at Peterborough and Barry Fry was VERY open to us about Nicholls and said in a full room with microphone “lovely lad, couldn’t score in a fecking brothel” Charis May who some of you know as well was also sat next to me, no shithousing here clubs loaning from clubs above them in league pyramid would unlikely pay even half his wages.
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Post by markczgas on Oct 30, 2019 17:35:42 GMT
Well done to Rovers U18s winning in The FA Youth Cup 1st round, 3 -1 at Swindon ! You may remember the name Luca Hoole, he was in the side. I remember watching our scorers Hulbert and Phillips banging them in as young academy players - good to see they're still doing it now. Our Welsh U18 captain, Luc Noble - not in side - guessing he must've been injured. www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2019/october/fa-youth-cup-report/
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Post by markczgas on Oct 27, 2019 20:58:04 GMT
DC = LEGEND , gave me and my kids the best memories we have ever had as gasheads , if that makes me a ‘Banned word’ then so be it. Kind regards , Alex. Aka okebournegas. I’ve been a Gashead for 36 years and have lots of memories and that includes some brilliant ones with DC. But a club established in 1883 deserves some honour and respect like Holloway and Trollope gave us when they left and no man is ever bigger than the club. If you think it’s acceptable in his first press conference with Walsall to mention this great club and ridicule our training ground and ground then that’s your choice, he never needed to do this. He didn't, he stated a fact - have you ever been up there ?
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Post by markczgas on Oct 27, 2019 20:54:55 GMT
Great fightback by the quarters yesterday, they never gave up and were rewarded with a point. I think we have to accept that Graham has a very limited squad as regards creative ability at his disposal. Probably 75% of our attacking threat comes from JCH, 20% from Sercombe and the rest contribute to the other 5%. With JCH and Sercombe out of the team Graham's options are very limited as has been all to clear with some of the recent results. As Wilmslowgas says get those two fit with THD and Little as well and I think we've got a side capable of a top half finish. PS going back to Steve K's OP sorry can't agree about Phillips being a good keeper - absolutely clueless with crosses and didn't command his 6 yard box. yes agreed. I'd say JCH about 60% (stats show 7 in 11 I think), when Leahy and Hare (sadly missed) are playing well they give us another 10-15 % as they both can put in the ammunition for JCH and possibly others. I also think Ed Upson is more creative than some think. On another note, re. fightback - Pompey had only conceded 12 in 12 games so we did brilliantly to pull it back to 2 - 2.
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Post by markczgas on Oct 27, 2019 13:35:03 GMT
It wasn;t a great game to watch but I do disagree with some of the comments made within the post. I do believe that the 3-5-2 formation fits our current squad better than any other as it gives us a bit more stability at the back. However, two things have made that formation more questionable in recent games: 1 I think that GC is trying to play the wing backs too high up the Pitch and, although this gives us width going forward, it does expose the back 3 when playing against quick counter attacking teams. 2 Our injury problems are massive at the moment. In reality, when Sercombe is unfit, we have no natural attacking Central Midfielder and no option but to play Upson, Ogogo and Clarke in unison. This combination just doesn;t seem to work. In addition, we no longer have the natural personnel to fill the Wing Back positions since the injures to Hare (signing of the Season for me), THD and Little. With those three up and running we will look a much better outfit. I didn;t see the signs of the "Long Aerial Ball" that you described in yesterdays game. However, we don;t have the type of midfielders that naturally look for space and demand the ball is passed to them. In the last two games I have been astonished by our lack of movement and inability to find or create space. This is the reason our play looks so laboured and until this is resolved we will continue to play the boring style of football that you refer to. I actually quite enjoyed the last 20 minutes of yesterdays game. We were forced to attack and that forced the midfield line closer to the attack (have any of you noticed the gap between the two lines!!!!!!). This enabled us to keep possession higher up the pitch and the introduction of Sercombe then added impetus to the attacking side of things. Taking Craig off wasn't a punishment for his mistake it was simply a way of changing things to a 4-4-2 and getting Rodman much higher up the pitch. good stuff. you talk a lot of sense. Getting players like Sercombe and Little back and playing regularly will increase the quality of our play - plenty to look forward to with JCH also back in 2/3 weeks. UTG !
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Post by markczgas on Oct 27, 2019 13:30:32 GMT
I wish this would stop.
DC was a very good Rovers manager who struggled the longer he was a L1 manager but he still got 2 promotions for us and 2 comfortable L1 finishes. I would only wish him success at Walsall - so I'm sad for him he's struggling and some Gasheads giving him stick - this is INSANE !!!!
On the other side of the coin. GC has come in and did a brilliant job to keep us up AND he has carried this on this season. He has had massive bad luck with the long list of injuries and yet we are in a healthy mid table position. Let's not compare the 2 managers BUT support GC and the Rovers boys - get our injured players back and we can still challenge for the top 6 and have a very exciting finish to the season.
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Post by markczgas on Oct 27, 2019 13:23:08 GMT
Anssi Jaakkola whata keeper !
2 Ss, 2 As and 2Ks in his name - you can't beat The SAK !
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Post by markczgas on Oct 26, 2019 18:17:53 GMT
Baxtinho you talk nonsense - we played it to feet today - did you actually go ? Amusing. We never looked like scoring before we fluked two from set pieces. I get that you're desperate to defend GC, so I'm glad you're happy. Have a nice evening. Not really -he just happens to be the current Rovers manager but I think some supporters like you keep banging the drum that we are crap but you don't back it up with anything. We didn't hit high balls to the forwards today - we played it to feet.
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Post by markczgas on Oct 26, 2019 18:12:46 GMT
How were we terrible ? We had 3 on target btw - the 2 we scored and the one tipped round the post from Upson's shot in the first half. We had more corners, more territory and more possession. Annoyingly I can't show you the stats from BBC sport website (as I'm on my phone), but we had 1 shot on target. Our second goal was a definite own goal. If you don't think we were terrible then I can't talk to you about football. Yeah I've seen BBC stats too - but it must be wrong - it does happen sometimes doesn't it ? we scored 2 - they must have been on target and Upson had a shot tipped round the post in first half - ref gave a corner - that makes 3. Why were we terrible ?
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Post by markczgas on Oct 26, 2019 18:06:45 GMT
I thought first half was marginally better than Tuesday and could have been more than 1-0. Second half we played well and deserved the point. Sercombe coming in helped massively but that wasn’t down to just him individually it was because it gave us width with rodnan pushing up and meant we had two wide players on each side rather than one. 3-5-2 is so narrow and it makes it so hard to play football, it works ok in terms of results with JCH in but with him out out we need to have more width and play football. I like your insight Socrates but how can 3- 5 - 2 be narrow ? Leahy was hugging the touchline all first half watching from the east terrace.
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Post by markczgas on Oct 26, 2019 18:03:16 GMT
So what did either of the front two offer today that Tom Nichols (note the spelling Bananaman) doesn't? This is the point. Playing tactics that suit JCH when he isn't there is nonsense. We had one shot on target today, we're hopeless. Baxtinho you talk nonsense - we played it to feet today - did you actually go ?
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