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Post by Somerset Blue on Feb 1, 2015 14:10:07 GMT
Another draw and people starting to accept the 'play offs' which to me feels about right for this team.
However I still think we need to strengthen and the next few days / weeks is crucial I believe.
We have been crying out for some midfield guile.... what on earth is happening with Sinclairs injury I don't know . I wont get started on our medical team as people on here take real offence but personally I think they are crap as their turnaround time for injuries is woeful. We desperately need someone in the Midfield to support .... NOW !!
I think Easter will be out well into March and again that begs the question about another striker coming in .... or making do ? I sense it will be the latter !
Why oh why we are not giving Dawson a run is beyond me .... I just hope DC knows something we don't and he is maybe staying with us for the rest of the season.
Time to be upbeat .... I sense people are getting frustrated when we celebrate 'keeping the run going ' drawing a game we should really be winning. It frustrates me to be fair but we have learnt to accept it over the years.
We need a run of wins ... stating the obvious I know .....but to me 4th / 5th place looks about where we will finish .... its a great effort in our first season but I cant help thinking what could have been or could still be with some incisive movements in this next week.
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Post by LPGas on Feb 1, 2015 14:11:44 GMT
We will win the play offs
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Feb 1, 2015 14:14:17 GMT
Istm everything we do from now should be about preparing ourselves to win the play-offs. Imo, the worst way you can go into the play-offs is gutted that you missed out on automatic promotion. Just scraping in and feeling that momentum is good. But being comfortable play-off qualifiers, and being comfortable with the idea that we are in the play-offs is ideal.
I'm not particularly confident this team will win the play-offs.
Obviously we should still try to get as many points as we can in the meantime.
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Post by Westcountry Gas on Feb 1, 2015 14:17:37 GMT
Lets not forget that for first third of the season the abuse of DC and some of the team was a disgrace, the opinion of the majority was that we had a s*** team, s*** manager and would rot in this league or even lower for many years to come. Then suddenly overnight that has turned into people banging their hands on the table demanding we win the league. IMO you can't have it both ways, and the fact we are cementing a play-off position should be enjoyed and not looked on with such negativity. A play-off finish in our first season in a tough league that is totally unknown to us, on the back of 4 years of misery on and off the pitch, and with a budget slashed by 30% equals over-achieving IMO.
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Post by LPGas on Feb 1, 2015 14:22:25 GMT
Lets not forget that for first third of the season the abuse of DC and some of the team was a disgrace, the opinion of the majority was that we had a s*** team, s*** manager and would rot in this league or even lower for many years to come. Then suddenly overnight that has turned into people banging their hands on the table demanding we win the league. IMO you can't have it both ways, and the fact we are cementing a play-off position should be enjoyed and not looked on with such negativity. A play-off finish in our first season in a tough league that is totally unknown to us, on the back of 4 years of misery on and off the pitch, and with a budget slashed by 30% equals over-achieving IMO. Agree, you only have to look and see where Torquay are to see that, and then look at how long Luton were here, a bigger club than Rovers and yet it took them years to go up |
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Post by Royal Blue on Feb 1, 2015 14:24:04 GMT
I agree with WCG personally, a play-off place would be a good achievement this season. A lot of people predicted we wouldn't get top half let alone be in with a shout of promotion, so overall I think we are doing really well. It is frustrating though that we aren't winning games away from home after going in front - it COULD all be so much better than it currently is if we weren't making individual mistakes and had a bit of luck for once.
I don't think Easter will be out until March (at least I hope not), the way he walked off suggests it shouldn't be too serious. Fingers crossed he's only absent for a couple of weeks.
I do think we need to strengthen though and I think we will tomorrow. A journalist who covers Southend is saying on Twitter that we are interested in their creative midfielder Conor Clifford, who came up through the ranks at Chelsea. He would be a great signing for us if it came off.
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Post by Peter Parker on Feb 1, 2015 14:55:09 GMT
The run to the end of the season is going to be frustrating for sure.
We have done far better than i expected we would this season and getting in the play-offs will be an acheivement.
Hopefully Easter wont be out to long, but maybe he will be our trump card going into the playoffs.
We badly miss Sinclair when not in the team. His drive and determination sets the tone for the team and the fans i feel and is not an easy thing to replace or replicate
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 1, 2015 16:08:36 GMT
Assuming last season's budget was around £2.5m how can we be over achieving with this season's budget of over £1.5m, when the Macclesfield manager is claiming their budget is just £0.2m??
Although I'd accept finishing 2nd or 3rd is a reasonable outcome to our first season, it's just irritating we've effectively thrown away 4pts in the last 2 away games. You do start to wonder if the players want promotion as much as the fans/management?
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Feb 1, 2015 16:19:08 GMT
WCG is a complete and utter w****r, go on show us the evidence of the 'majority' you never have so far tosser. Testing days ahead for DC mostly this season he has passed the test, hopefully he will do again. The play offs an expected minimum from here, forget cheering the undefeated run from here its all about points turn half the draws into wins except some draws will be defeats and we'll be better off points wise.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 16:34:23 GMT
Its going to be a close right to the end with very little, points wise, between the top 5 clubs. IMO. Considering the state of the club when we went down and the cutbacks regarding wages, contracts etc I personally thought this season was all about stopping the rot and consolidating. Promotion would have been a minor miracle, considering all factors which I wont go through for the 1,000 time. We all know the realities but some just don't want to accept them. Darrel Clarke has done a good job in my eyes and will continue to do so, IF allowed!! This inexperienced manager is putting right the wrongs of a few Experienced ones who went before him don't forget. So its exciting times ahead and a solid footing for the future, no matter what happens this season. Onwards and upwards!! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 17:54:44 GMT
WCG is a complete and utter w, go on show us the evidence of the 'majority' you never have so far tosser. Testing days ahead for DC mostly this season he has passed the test, hopefully he will do again. The play offs an expected minimum from here, forget cheering the undefeated run from here its all about points turn half the draws into wins except some draws will be defeats and we'll be better off points wise. Nice |
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Post by DudeLebowski on Feb 1, 2015 18:03:33 GMT
No home game for over a month has been an absolute b****rd. Get a couple of home wins under our belt in the next few weeks and see what Barnet do.
Macclesfield away & Gateshead away in Feb will two huge matches.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 19:48:37 GMT
I was more optimistic but the last couple of weeks have sadly wiped most if it out, we desperately needed a striker even an old knackered one would have done at this level, sadly not to be and could adversely effect our play off chances...remember this time last year relegation wasn't an option.
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Post by nailseaglassgas on Feb 1, 2015 20:22:23 GMT
Get real, we never had a realistic chance of catching Barnet, we are not good enough to kill teams off. Nevertheless we have a great chance of a playoff position and most fans would have bit your arm off at ths if offered in August.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 20:51:20 GMT
Get real, we never had a realistic chance of catching Barnet, we are not good enough to kill teams off. Nevertheless we have a great chance of a playoff position and most fans would have bit your arm off at ths if offered in August. I would have, in fact I posted such, however just assuming it will follow is now our greatest threat. Complacency will kill us. |
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Post by The Gas on Feb 1, 2015 21:15:47 GMT
Assuming last season's budget was around £2.5m how can we be over achieving with this season's budget of over £1.5m, when the Macclesfield manager is claiming their budget is just £0.2m?? Although I'd accept finishing 2nd or 3rd is a reasonable outcome to our first season, it's just irritating we've effectively thrown away 4pts in the last 2 away games. You do start to wonder if the players want promotion as much as the fans/management? I wish the budget was £1.5m, it is well under £1m. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 1, 2015 21:49:54 GMT
That's still 5 times Macclesfield's! Probably only FGR & Eastleigh have a similar budget as neither Barnet nor Grimsby don't give the impression they are big payers.
I don't think the season's over but even if we have to accept the Play Offs if everyone is fit by then it's going to take a very good team to beat us.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 2, 2015 10:31:23 GMT
Lets be honest there are 14 GAMES to go and we are 7 points behind Barnet. Hardly the time to be giving up!! Yes I agree it is unlikely but we are still in the position where, if we turn a few draws to wins away from home then we could catch them. We should still be aiming for the top and if we do that and fail then we still have the Play offs and if we go into them on the end of a long unbeaten run then we will be in good shape for them. If we can get 4 points from the next two games then that will set us up for the chance of a great run in.
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Post by Wilkimania on Feb 2, 2015 14:13:46 GMT
So things have gotten a little bit harder than a few weeks ago when things were all looking good for Rovers and people want to settle? NO, now should be the time when we get behind the boys again cheer them on to a home win Saturday and remind the other teams around us that we're not just here to make up the numbers. Barnet have had some dodgy results lately and yet us going and drawing away is the reason we should just give up looking upwards? Nonsense. I was brought up on the adage that winning your home games and drawing your away games will see you there or there abouts come the end of the season, and that's exactly what we've done for the most part recently. Do I think we're the finished article? Of course not, but there's no team in this league that is. But we do have a factor that a lot of the others are missing and that is us Gasheads. Sure, we're not all going to be 100% positive all the time but we support the team in our numbers and we can be that added factor that helps us close the gap. We've seen some terrible things over the years both on and off the pitch, so lets now cheer about the fact that on the pitch we're doing the right thing. Let us remind the players who they play for and strike fear into the opposition players and fans. Barnet's next three games are Woking (H), Wrexham (A) and Grimbsy (H) so there's games where it wouldn't be a surprise if they dropped points. We in that same period play Lincoln (H), Grimbsy (A) and Altrincham (H), why can't we take more points than Barnet in that period? Onwards and Upwards my fellow Gasheads. Sorry for the rambling nature of this post.
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Post by kingswood Polak on Feb 2, 2015 23:43:09 GMT
WCG is a complete and utter w, go on show us the evidence of the 'majority' you never have so far tosser. Testing days ahead for DC mostly this season he has passed the test, hopefully he will do again. The play offs an expected minimum from here, forget cheering the undefeated run from here its all about points turn half the draws into wins except some draws will be defeats and we'll be better off points wise. Why do you feel a need to get so personal ? I get that posts can wind is all up but is there really any need to name call ? |
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