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Post by Dr Gas on Feb 28, 2020 14:42:08 GMT
I too used to travel from 'artcliffe (I live in the posh end, not the bit by Toddy, BTW ) I started going to games on my own in 1963, when I was just 9 years old. I was the old un of our group and used to take my younger brother, when he was just 4 years old, as well as having younger mates coming along. I can remember one Boxing Day game against Swansea in 1970 when our entourage of about 10 walked to and from the game. I was 17 by then and my next door neighbour was 16 but the rest, my brothers and their friends, were all under 14.
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Post by Dr Gas on Feb 23, 2020 14:17:03 GMT
We obviously have different views on the ref. In the first half he gave you every thing and allowed foul after foul on Sunderland players. It looked like he was bending over backwards to prove that he was not influenced by the home crowd. After half time he lost control of the game and this resulted in players from both side’s getting to involved. On the red card, I was sitting on the halfway line on the side of the pitch where the incident happened, the ref got it both right and wrong. The Sunderland player did give a bit of a shoulder barge, and it was a deliberate, for that it should ha e been a free kick to Rovers and a yellow card. However there was a clear kick from the Rovers player and that is violent conduct and a straight red. We have had much worse refs up here in the last two years who seem to want to show that they are strong enough to resist calls from a big crowd. However all they have done is give the benefit of the doubt to the away teams. We have been had a formal apology from the FA, especially ruling out a goal in a nil nil draw for no good reason. Good to have an opposition viewpoint.
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Post by Dr Gas on Feb 23, 2020 0:55:48 GMT
You can all laugh and pun all you want. However looking at the science side, I think we have found the DNA that makes us all Gasheads. That is our Genome, right there. Great bit of detection. Are you Sherlock Gnomes?
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Post by Dr Gas on Feb 22, 2020 1:24:22 GMT
Well I will own up to having one! Bought it to go on new patio but it is indoors now out of the rain! Might get this new one to keep it company! Make sure the new one is female. Then you can have them perform Gnomeo and Juliet.
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Post by Dr Gas on Feb 16, 2020 12:15:06 GMT
Born Romford.
Lived in 'artcliffe since 1959 (broken by a brief spell in Detroit - 'artcliffe with guns).
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 31, 2020 17:57:44 GMT
I am puzzled by the transfer needing international clearance. He is British. What I have I overlooked? Football Association of Wales. Thanks Pirate. I did not realise that the home nations were also subject to international clearance. It proves that one is never too old to learn.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 31, 2020 13:50:23 GMT
I am puzzled by the transfer needing international clearance. He is British. What I have I overlooked?
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 15, 2020 23:24:42 GMT
This thread is hurting my head.
Free da pain.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 12, 2020 2:39:43 GMT
JB seems to need to have a scapegoat.
His hounding of Chris Lines was laughable, even pitiable.
Hopefully, his early disapproval of BG will prove as laughable.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 11, 2020 22:41:36 GMT
Reilly could also go to a Scottish team.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 8, 2020 5:00:38 GMT
Over the moon. Bg may come across a bit wet but christ - someone knows what they are actually doing! Very excited! I had that feeling when Buckle arrived...........it very soon passed. I think Ben Garner is cut from a different cloth though and has far more integrity, much more technical know how and ideas, more contacts and much less arrogance than Buckle.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 7, 2020 14:10:52 GMT
2 1/2 year deal When was the last time we announced the length of a deal?! Ben Garner Also 2½ years.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 7, 2020 14:01:52 GMT
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 6, 2020 21:28:46 GMT
As the Mitchell-Lawson signing was out of the blue. I am looking forward to finding out who the other player that BG said we would be getting is. It would not surprise me if it was not any of those touted on this forum so far.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 5, 2020 3:23:21 GMT
Anyone know the names of the 2 players likely to be joining us very soon ? Jamie cureton and Luke James STREWFF! There's a name from the past! Luke James used to be a hot topic on Rovers' forums.
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Post by Dr Gas on Dec 29, 2019 13:04:57 GMT
So you think a young manager for his first job would set himself up for a fall? At least we agree that he has struck lucky with the league position he takes on. He's been out of work for the most of the last 2 years, assuming he has a mortgage to pay & partner to keep happy he's hardly in a position to pick and choose work. I bet he couldn't believe his luck when we offered him a job. He was out of work for just over a year. While that may be "the most of the last 2 years", he did have the chance of employment, with Bradford City but turned it down as they did not have the ambition that he had. The fact that he was able to do that does not suggest to me that he was struggling to pay a mortgage etc. He has been working in India for the best part of the last 12 months.
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Post by Dr Gas on Dec 29, 2019 11:11:27 GMT
I agree. Who, in their right mind, would come to a club where the board effectively say, or give the impression that, "If we appoint you, you must not win too many matches because we do not want to get promoted."? The board have to sell the club as having great potential. This particularly applies to Rovers, as Wael has not had a piggy back for some time and is starting to mope, which is irritating the family. This is even more borne out by the fact that a young manager, especially one in his first managerial role, would most definitely not take on a job where he knew he could not enhance his worth. Indeed, I would opine that he would look at it as jumping on a partially made chance of gaining promotion. This is an old chestnut that does the rounds every time a team stutters and chokes. He wouldn't take a job where he would enhance his worth? I strongly suspect it's a case of taking what he can get, and would assume he's applied for numerous lower league managerial roles over the years and always been overlooked. We would have held all the cards in the negotiation and I think it's fair to say he's entered management in a lofty height he wouldn't have dreamed of. So you think a young manager for his first job would set himself up for a fall? At least we agree that he has struck lucky with the league position he takes on.
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Post by Dr Gas on Dec 29, 2019 1:38:53 GMT
The cheapest option with zero experience at this level hardly suggests they are gunning for a promotion push. What utter nonsense! The cheapest option would have been to promote from within. Do you seriously think the ALQs are deliberately trying to sabotage a chance of promotion? I agree. Who, in their right mind, would come to a club where the board effectively say, or give the impression that, "If we appoint you, you must not win too many matches because we do not want to get promoted."? The board have to sell the club as having great potential. This particularly applies to Rovers, as Wael has not had a piggy back for some time and is starting to mope, which is irritating the family. This is even more borne out by the fact that a young manager, especially one in his first managerial role, would most definitely not take on a job where he knew he could not enhance his worth. Indeed, I would opine that he would look at it as jumping on a partially made chance of gaining promotion. This is an old chestnut that does the rounds every time a team stutters and chokes.
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Post by Dr Gas on Dec 28, 2019 11:41:48 GMT
He was attacking his own family? Who said that? 100% of all city followings are family. Corrected that for you
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Post by Dr Gas on Dec 27, 2019 15:19:32 GMT
Sorry, I should have put that in my original post. Yes, he said that it was his family he was attacking. So, why did they not step in to explain that he has a condition that causes him to act like that? Gotta be honest pal, normal family behaviour up here. Yeah, I know that, having attended many parties in Bellshill
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