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Post by LJG on Jun 30, 2021 8:38:35 GMT
So pretty soon the f**king Basketball franchise is going to have better facilities than us? We are a joke. Studs would absolutely wreck a basketball court though. I wouldn't worry about it.
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Post by LJG on Jun 30, 2021 8:35:36 GMT
It’s still wrong. It’s disrespectful and unnecessary. Makes us look like a bunch of sad and rude idiots. It’s just a really infantile way to act. PC gone mad. Literally nothing to do with PC and not really much to do with morals, it just makes us look like twats who can't differentiate between different parts of the proceedings of an event.
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Post by LJG on Jun 29, 2021 21:59:30 GMT
Watching from Home,going in for hip replacement tomorrow so need to keep blood pressure down😊,fat chance of that!!. What's your favourite type of music? Hip op? All the best.
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Post by LJG on Jun 29, 2021 21:30:19 GMT
Never a red. That’s all I have to contribute after watching just 5 mins of Swe Ukr Yeah totally agree , he’s slid in got to the ball first cleared it and clipped the player who ran in to him after. If that’s a red we might as well pack up and play tiddlywinks winks. How can you send a player off for fairly winning the ball and colliding with a player after who’s run right at him. Ridiculous. Thing is half the commentary and studio lot talking about how it was” high” It wasn’t high at all he played the ball below knee height got the ball not even a foul . tiddlywinks winks - so good they named them twice.
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Post by LJG on Jun 29, 2021 18:42:34 GMT
Fairly sure we gonna beat they Germans this Monday Yup. Germans at Wembley. Kane to come back into form and Southgate to put some ghosts to bed. BOOM!
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Post by LJG on Jun 27, 2021 16:36:08 GMT
Ffs...number 9...🥱 Why can't we just say we need a big target man instead of a false 9 or whatever lingo Sky and Pep has pushed into our mind in the past few years! No offense to you, I just hate terms like " a false number 9" or number 10 etc.. Oh how I long for a return of the Fergie and Keegan days of football! A number 9 has nothing to do with the modern “false 9” and has been long established in post war football. Number 9 is centre forward - the big target man. A number 10 is a skilled playmaker type. There is nothing sky sports about it, these are long established terms, and nothing to do with the “false 9” or “second striker” modern terms. Indeed. It goes back to the day when there were no squad numbers rather your number indicated the position you played. I'm not old enough to remember but I believe, in the early days of substitutions being brought in the player coming on would have the shirt of the one departing the field for that reason.
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 20:22:38 GMT
So just a wum or is this part of a concerted effort to undermine the club and divide the fanbase? The former is annoying, if the latter then it shows something could be brewing. Given it was the same old nonsense that's already been raised and proven to be BS on here I would suggest it would have been one of the usual suspects. He was an obvious troll from day one which was clear when in his very first post he cited how hard done by the SC have been. Do mods have the capability to spot if his is a duplicate account from one of the Swiss, Fanatical, Knowall crew?
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 20:14:44 GMT
Sigh… can’t believe I am contributing but…Here Will Puddy puddy puddy.. Shoot me now. We have a winner, surely!
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 16:52:02 GMT
Well, my other account was banned, so I had to use this burner account that has been provided to me.A shame really but it is what it is. My concerns about Wael are legitimate and won’t go unheard. I will reply to all the responses I was working on before somehow being banned for contravening some invisible rule, in due course. So who are you posting in collusion with to the degree that someone has set up an account on your behalf in readiness to bypass any ban on your IP address? What is their motivation for assisting you in posting in this manner? Why are they not posting in their own right? Is it because they have undermined their own credibility? Is it your friend who wants to buy the club?
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 15:16:19 GMT
I tried and then I thought to myself, I’m on an echo chamber and that’s exactly what I sought to abolish by posting on here. I want to create an environment where people like me, Swiss, Knowall can feel comfortable about posting critical thoughts about the ownership and not be shouted down by a 100 different people with views that can’t accept my own. People have said stop responding, he wants a reaction. But that’s exactly what I want, for views such as mine to go without response all the time so that they gradually begin to be accepted on this forum once again. But the evidence points in different directions. Your one-liners or two-liners just criticising doesn’t create any sort of environment where anyone feels that comfortable. You stifle debate with your prejudice. You are trying to wind-up and get others to rise to your barbs. Had you started with a genuine wish to debate you may have been more successful in engaging others, but you didn’t. And the manner in which you post makes any debate impossible. Best not to think you’re similar to Swiss. Although I don’t agree with all he says I do respect his well-argued views and the evidence he uses. Others on here will disagree with me over that which is fine. Lots of different opinions, respectfully listened to. Thinking you’re on the same level as him is delusional. And in the end I’d say it’s Wael who has stopped us becoming another Swindon perhaps. So very, very different. UTG! Sorry to carry the debate on a bit longer than needed and I'll drop it after making this point but re Swissgas - there was a time when he dedicated significant word count to telling us all that Wael was siphoning money out of the club to put towards "another asset Wael owns personally". That was specifically designed to give the impression that Wael was benefiting personally from club money. The truth, which he later admitted, was that he was referring to the training ground which is an asset owned by the holding company of the group of companies that own the club and its other assets. That's just one example of the deliberate misrepresentations he has made. He also deliberately misrepresented the debt figure - he was so successful in that one that Sam Frost has printed his lie in the post. For those reasons, I'm sorry, but I really see no difference between Swiss and the likes of Harry, Knowall and Fanatical.
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 14:10:04 GMT
Harrystokegas get off this forum and join the misery brigade on the AF forum I tried and then I thought to myself, I’m on an echo chamber and that’s exactly what I sought to abolish by posting on here. I want to create an environment where people like me, Swiss, Knowall can feel comfortable about posting critical thoughts about the ownership and not be shouted down by a 100 different people with views that can’t accept my own. People have said stop responding, he wants a reaction. But that’s exactly what I want, for views such as mine to go without response all the time so that they gradually begin to be accepted on this forum once again. Swiss doesn't post critical thoughts he posts distortions of the truth masked behind accountancy jargon in the hope that there is no one on here who understands what he's saying to call him out on his misrepresentations. Knowall repeatedly posts a mantra that the owner has run out of money without offering any evidence of that and without even offering evidence of what has lead him to believe that. As you do he claims that spending money is evidence of no money and not spending money is evidence of no money. I suggest that both can't be true. Also, I would suggest that what you post isn't couched in terms of a "view" - for example above you state that the owner is running out of money. You don't qualify that as your "view" you offer it as a matter of fact. I hope that if you continue to do that people continue to respond as they have. If you offer your view, that's a different matter.
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 14:05:02 GMT
Can you explain in clear terms please why you believe that. Our owner has cleared tens of millions of debt - remember we explored that before? For the first time in the history of the club we have a privately held training facility owned by the holding company of the club group. We have an increased budget which is allowing for a clear out of many of the players who failed at League One level resulting in our relegation. Your friends who wish to buy the club attempted to have Wael removed by the FA but this was dismissed out of hand. With all of that in mind are you able to be more clear about where you see the similarities between our situation and Swindon please. The owners running out of money, hence the strive for sustainability which has now gone out the window so that Wael can save face. That’s a paradox I don’t like at all and one which shows all the hallmarks of bad business leadership. I’d have much more respect for Wael if he stuck to his sustainability goal, especially coming out of the pandemic. Then there’s the viability of the club playing at the mem for decades to come. The aging fan base and facilities that will be falling apart in 10/20 years time really worry me. If you look carefully both Swindon and Rovers share many of the same problems. Just as Swindon took no steps to remedy them, I see Rovers making the very same mistakes. 1. Can you provide evidence for the claim you make in bold above please. A move towards sustainability is not an indication of running out of money, it is simply good practice in any venture. You seem a bit confused on why you're criticising Wael here. The move towards sustainability seems to be offered as some sort of evidence that he is running out of money then you criticise the spending of money as unsustainable. Can you be a bit clearer on what your expectations are in that regard please? 2. I don't want to look carefully, you have made the claim so I'm asking you to illuminate that point - I'm sorry I don't have the time to dedicate to detailed research today so I must rely on you please. 3. I don't think Swindon Town's problems have anything to do with their facilities does it? If you can point me to a news article on that I'd be grateful. My understanding is that there are clear administrative issues within the club - "mistaken" sales of shares. Money missing from directors loan accounts. Is that not their problem? Please explain how this relates to their facilities.
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 13:44:24 GMT
Don’t laugh at their demise guys, sadly I fear we may be next. Can you explain in clear terms please why you believe that. Our owner has cleared tens of millions of debt - remember we explored that before? For the first time in the history of the club we have a privately held training facility owned by the holding company of the club group. We have an increased budget which is allowing for a clear out of many of the players who failed at League One level resulting in our relegation. Your friends who wish to buy the club attempted to have Wael removed by the FA but this was dismissed out of hand. With all of that in mind are you able to be more clear about where you see the similarities between our situation and Swindon please.
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 10:11:53 GMT
I'm with you and it's been done to death on here. The reply always comes that "it wasn't his squad of players" which completely ignores the fact that recruitment is probably only about 10% of the management job - with team selection, tactics and motivation (all of which Barton failed at spectacularly even when compared with the other two) making up the majority of the remaining 90%. I await SteveK's robust rebuttal ("He says it like it is") with bated breath. Truth is it all started with Garner. Taking a team from 4th to 14th in half a season with a team of seasoned proffesionals showed that he was incompetant, and they should have got rid of him then. Next he signs a load of layabouts and softies, and then quite rightly gets sacked. Then of course we have Tisdale, 2 promotions and 2 relegations and a 13 year stint at Exeter, that alone shows a total lack of ambition. Again his 2 signings weren't what we wanted and he had to go. Barton comes in 4 or 5 players injured the rest unfit and slow, still no one can score a goal. Hanlon cant stand up for more than 10 minute without falling over and Ayunga is still non league.Too many coaches and unimportant people for a club of our size as well. What chance did Barton have? Barton had plenty of chance to try and motivate the team instead of just slating everyone publicly. His actions in the media, his tactics and substitutions were nothing whatsoever to do with Garner or Tisdale - they weren't operating him by remote control. Joey's actions were his choice (like sitting on the advertising hoardings instead of engaging with the game from the dugout for example). He had hundreds of chances to act professionally and missed them all. Look, I actually can't be bothered to go over all this again. Please see all the other many threads on this topic for details. Cheers.
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 9:55:13 GMT
Thats going about as far as you can go without breaching any intellectual property laws.... The irony is that if the club now produced something similar (which would be cool) that the claim would now be the other way round.
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 9:46:33 GMT
Doesn't matter about the number of games-Tisdale had a huge advantage in that he had the January window and he failed miserably bringing iin both a goalkeeper and a full back who were no better than what we had.I think had Nicholson stayed fit then JB would have kept us up.Him and Rodman getting injured in the same game was really the nail in the coffin. Lets wait and see what happens- JB has stated his intentions and now the test begins to put the action where his mouth is. I certainly have bigger faith that he can do it. Waheyyy - I didn't even have to wait a minute!
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 9:43:27 GMT
Managers do it all the time. DC did it at Walsall by poaching JC and signing Sinclair. Proportion is the important element though. As for not getting the cult of Barton, some of us felt that way about BG and got a pelting for it for being ‘pessimistic’. Yeah I totally get that, I think the reason a lot of people were pessimistic about Garner was that they enjoyed (/endured?) the ugly football under GC because we had a good run of results and didn't like the style Garner was going for - this newfangled passing to each other.
Barton hasn't shown us any kind of style or tactic or, well... anything since he's been here. And if Tisdale is partly to blame for our relegation, Barton definitely is as he was only in charge of one fewer game.
(not a personal attack, I don't know which of these camps you fall into - you just replied to me.) I'm with you and it's been done to death on here. The reply always comes that "it wasn't his squad of players" which completely ignores the fact that recruitment is probably only about 10% of the management job - with team selection, tactics and motivation (all of which Barton failed at spectacularly even when compared with the other two) making up the majority of the remaining 90%. I await SteveK's robust rebuttal ("He says it like it is") with bated breath.
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Post by LJG on Jun 25, 2021 7:44:59 GMT
The previous redevelopment plans which were viable and had planning permission were for 18,000. Funding was the problem when the student accommodation company pulled out. Problem is things change, part of the rugby training ground and car park were sold off and built on that was a big mistake by the club, it creates less land to build on and more houses with nimby objectors. Those houses were built in the car park decades before we had planning permission for the 18,000 redevelopment.
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Post by LJG on Jun 24, 2021 21:49:47 GMT
when i have met with directors regarding the mem in the past, which included spending most of a morning walking around the Mem, i was clearly told that the club would not be developing the stadium because it is poorly located within a residential area and the transport links are poor, although there was talk about introducing a park and ride scheme to the Mem. Design of the stadium is very poor and 80% of it would have to be flattened and rebuilt under any re-development. In view of this and the fact that fans are coming on here saying they don't think the club is going to build a new stadium it looks like we could be stuck at the Mem in it's present form for along time yet, depressing and not want i want to hear. If the club fail to find a site away from the Mem to develop a new stadium, (vegi site sounds very costly, could cost nearly as much to purchase as to build on) and we stay at the Mem any re-development would not be huge and maximum capacity we could get bearing in mind location would not be more than 15,000. The previous redevelopment plans which were viable and had planning permission were for 18,000. Funding was the problem when the student accommodation company pulled out.
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Post by LJG on Jun 24, 2021 19:25:29 GMT
Been reading a bit about Collins, I have to admit I didnt know much about him until recently I'm not that impressed to be honest... Can anyone change my mind? He wrote the dictionary and that drum solo on In the Air Tonight is pretty good.
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