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Post by eppinggas on Nov 28, 2018 0:49:35 GMT
Can you imagine, Columbo, and Wael with his 'First Big Book All About Owning A Football Club' trying to recruit a replacement. It would be frigging hilarious if it was somewhere else. If the rumours that our owners looked seriously at Gillingham are true, I wonder how many of their fans know just how lucky they are? BTW. Gorringe's Bing Bong boxes are broken again, just about sums us up, try to upgrade, do it on the cheap and end up with money spent and a system not working. He can go as well, he's done nothing that a semi-conscious 16 year old 6th former couldn't have achieved, but he's probably a lot more expensive. He obviously hasn't read it yet. What ever the rights and wrongs DC has been let down like the rest of us. I think we are in the end game now though, can't see how someone that obviously de-motivated and beaten can carry on. Hope he has it out with owners before he goes and tells them exactly what he thinks of them. Any f******g rose-tinters left?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 1:22:18 GMT
Nobody gets relegated in november.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 6:07:45 GMT
My eyes bled in the first half. Second half though...We didn't deserve to lose.
The ghost of past managers hangs over Gillingham. Dirty, cynical cheats.
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Nov 28, 2018 7:15:16 GMT
First 45 minutes, someone with two hands trying to take off a bra, and getting nowhere. Earnest fumbling but their defences remain firm and their goalie well supported. Someone asked me, what exactly are we doing wrong, I replied we keep turning up. It was billed as 4 3 3 but it played like 4 5 1 Rodman and Bennett pretty deep, Nico the one. So when we did get the ball, and we saw quite a bit of it Gills let us play for all the 14,446 minutes of this match, we had the ball deep with little moving around forward of the player with the ball. You know in pro evo and you are looking to hit the green triangle button as you get in their half, but you only can if you have options in front of you making a move. You know you are not going to create or score much if you don’t get that green triangle button going, like it’s your mojo, but you can’t just hit it, it’s success depends on the movement of the other players. Rovers, English footballs comeback kings from last season, have lost that green triangle button during the close season. Chapter one of the second half wasn’t anymore convincing. The over weight and under athletic Payne was brought on for the woeful Rodman, fourfourtwo with Nico now pretty deep as Support striker. We only seemed to gather belief and urgency with the man advantage. Why couldn’t we have shown that belief and urgency from the first whistle? I partly answered this above, 4 5 1 with not enough movement off the ball. But for the most part, who Knows? Noone knows. Manager, coaches, players will be awake at first light staring at the ceiling asking that same question. They won’t know either. Get your forefinger down the back and snap your fingers. You can do it one handed. Just have faith it’s as easy as that and stop making the simplest thing into hard work. That’s pretty much how I saw it but at least we laid seige to them and I bet that possession was very high. I’ve seen much worse performances than last night and we had 2 very poor goals conceded. The first was a country mile offside and the 2nd was down to Smith not even seeing the ball let alone saving it, it was Smith who was at fault. We are guilty of trying to walk the ball into the oppositions net and it just isn’t working. As I say, I’ve seen much worse performances and much worse support. No one booed and the team got clapped off. We really did play like we used to, in the last 30 minutes of the 2nd half. We were easily the better side but, we have all said it before, we do not have the one player, to finish off what we’re some good bits of build up play. We can consider ourselves very unlucky last night. We had a ref who really didn’t do his job and at least one assistant who also seemed to miss several offsides. DC sounded at his lowest ebb. Said it was his team and his fault but that his goal scorers were sold and,again, threw the owners under the bus and rightly so. It very much sounded like a man suffering severe depression. The atmosphere was the best I’ve heard this season. Always said that when we get down to the lower crowds, the atmosphere is better. Only 6.5K last night but we can consider ourselves unlucky, in my opinion. If we can play like we did, in the last half hour, but from the start, I will have little to complain about other than finishing but the woodwork saved them a couple of time as did their freakishly big GK. He was just lucky to be in the right place, on several occasions. We should have won that but when you are playing the opposition plus the ref, it’s a tough ask. I’ve never heard DC so low. Didn’t mention projects or dusting ourselves down but said he would be seeking the owners, to clarify several points. I really wouldn’t be surprised to hear he is gone by Saturday, going on his post match interview. Once again a game where we just don’t have the one player to finish off what we’re some neat moves and where players will not have a pop outside of the box but not a game where any of us can say that we didn’t try. There is now an air of expectation of us going down and the crowd numbers reflected that. I found myself feeling sorry for DC but he cannot keep blaming the owners, it’s his team, he paid out on this squad but decided we needed a team made up of midfielders and an unfit for purpose fullback. I’ve seen much worse performances this season and we can consider ourselves very unlucky. Obviously just my opinion but many said the same and we had no booing at final whistle. As I see it, I don’t see DC going but he sounded as low as ever I have heard him. The owners, I believe, will not be giving him any kind of budget to buy the strikers DC said we need,so we shall see what happens in the next couple of days. My high point was seeing a female,behind the bar,that took my breath away and it was worth going just to see and chat with her.
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harrybuckle
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Post by harrybuckle on Nov 28, 2018 7:38:29 GMT
Five narrow defeats is not all bad. We have scored goals and progressed to the Checkatrade knockout stages.
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Post by laughinggas on Nov 28, 2018 9:22:03 GMT
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Post by fatherjackhackett on Nov 28, 2018 10:11:03 GMT
Five narrow defeats is not all bad. We have scored goals and progressed to the Checkatrade knockout stages. yeah, but you would be spouting the same anaemic platitudes if Rovers were in the Glos County League.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 10:14:34 GMT
Five narrow defeats is not all bad. We have scored goals and progressed to the Checkatrade knockout stages. yeah, but you would be spouting the same anaemic platitudes if Rovers were in the Glos County League. Mike doesn't count non-league games as real football.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 11:07:37 GMT
yeah, but you would be spouting the same anaemic platitudes if Rovers were in the Glos County League. Mike doesn't count non-league games as real football. Unless we change something, he's going to have some more games to not count. That shower that we witnessed last night would get muscled off the park by most L2 teams, but Sercombe, quite rightly, won't hang around to play Newport, Crawley and Forest Green, he's too good to lower himself to that. We are in deep, deep trouble. Blue Oyster Bloke. You are right, nobody gets relegated after 20 games, but this has been going on for 3/4 of a season now, we were no better for the last 1/3 of last season when we still had Ellis and Lee Brown.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 11:20:44 GMT
Not offside when the ball was played
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 11:30:15 GMT
Not offside when the ball was played I was in line with it, clearly off, the camera angle is deceptive.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 11:43:48 GMT
Not offside when the ball was played I was in line with it, clearly off, the camera angle is deceptive. Not disputing what you say but most times we only notice a player when he gets the ball bit like the claims that 2 of Charlton goals were offside unfortunately without var.at all games some decisions are controversial and will remain so because unless we want games to last 3 or 4 hours then that is what you must accept. It's like the marks given to officials good when we win rubbish when we lose
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 12:02:23 GMT
I was in line with it, clearly off, the camera angle is deceptive. Not disputing what you say but most times we only notice a player when he gets the ball bit like the claims that 2 of Charlton goals were offside unfortunately without var.at all games some decisions are controversial and will remain so because unless we want games to last 3 or 4 hours then that is what you must accept. It's like the marks given to officials good when we win rubbish when we lose Add to that absolutely no mention of it by DC during his post match interview.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 12:20:59 GMT
Not disputing what you say but most times we only notice a player when he gets the ball bit like the claims that 2 of Charlton goals were offside unfortunately without var.at all games some decisions are controversial and will remain so because unless we want games to last 3 or 4 hours then that is what you must accept. It's like the marks given to officials good when we win rubbish when we lose Add to that absolutely no mention of it by DC during his post match interview. He couldn't have seen from where he was, his defenders don't look exactly 'up for it', after the goal they didn't do what the opposition always do, go and tell the lino what they think, then raise their game, they just shrugged their shoulders and carried on playing at a ponderous pace. Teams playing us are probably a bit confused at just how easy it is. If Ian Alexander was out there last night would have ended up fighting this limp wristed bunch of bottlers during the match.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 12:23:46 GMT
Add to that absolutely no mention of it by DC during his post match interview. He couldn't have seen from where he was, his defenders don't look exactly 'up for it', after the goal they didn't do what the opposition always do, go and tell the lino what they think, then raise their game, they just shrugged their shoulders and carried on playing at a ponderous pace. Teams playing us are probably a bit confused at just how easy it is. If Ian Alexander was out there last night would have ended up fighting this limp wristed bunch of bottlers during the match. Can you imagine Vaughan jones or ollie as well
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 12:24:59 GMT
He couldn't have seen from where he was, his defenders don't look exactly 'up for it', after the goal they didn't do what the opposition always do, go and tell the lino what they think, then raise their game, they just shrugged their shoulders and carried on playing at a ponderous pace. Teams playing us are probably a bit confused at just how easy it is. If Ian Alexander was out there last night would have ended up fighting this limp wristed bunch of bottlers during the match. Can you imagine Vaughan jones or ollie as well Looking at the body language of the players I think DC has lost the dressing room.if that is the case he is gone
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 12:29:15 GMT
I was in line with it, clearly off, the camera angle is deceptive. Not disputing what you say but most times we only notice a player when he gets the ball bit like the claims that 2 of Charlton goals were offside unfortunately without var.at all games some decisions are controversial and will remain so because unless we want games to last 3 or 4 hours then that is what you must accept. It's like the marks given to officials good when we win rubbish when we lose Well, referees seem to regard part of their job as being to create 'talking points', I disagree, my view is that they should apply the rules fairly and consistently over the entire game. Have said it endless times though, we are in the 3rd division, so we'll get 3rd rate officials. Lino last night had big blobs of fat hanging down over the sides of his shorts, he's supposed to be a professional sportsman for goodness sake. You have to conclude that these are the best people they can find to do the job.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 12:37:08 GMT
He couldn't have seen from where he was, his defenders don't look exactly 'up for it', after the goal they didn't do what the opposition always do, go and tell the lino what they think, then raise their game, they just shrugged their shoulders and carried on playing at a ponderous pace. Teams playing us are probably a bit confused at just how easy it is. If Ian Alexander was out there last night would have ended up fighting this limp wristed bunch of bottlers during the match. Can you imagine Vaughan jones or ollie as well Yep, there would be serious scenes in the dressing room with frauds like Partington.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 12:39:25 GMT
Not disputing what you say but most times we only notice a player when he gets the ball bit like the claims that 2 of Charlton goals were offside unfortunately without var.at all games some decisions are controversial and will remain so because unless we want games to last 3 or 4 hours then that is what you must accept. It's like the marks given to officials good when we win rubbish when we lose Well, referees seem to regard part of their job as being to create 'talking points', I disagree, my view is that they should apply the rules fairly and consistently over the entire game. Have said it endless times though, we are in the 3rd division, so we'll get 3rd rate officials. Lino last night had big blobs of fat hanging down over the sides of his shorts, he's supposed to be a professional sportsman for goodness sake. You have to conclude that these are the best people they can find to do the job. Apparently they have to take a fitness test pre season to see if they are physically fit well that always was the case whether it is now I am unsure but he did appear to be struggling at times.but then again if you recall Roger fits Patrick from the 80s he was rather rotund and didn't look fit but he could run backwards faster than a lot of players could forwards so what I am saying is appearances can be deceptive. A lot of our problems are that most teams and managers in this division are a lot more streetwise than rovers counterpsrts
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 12:41:21 GMT
Not disputing what you say but most times we only notice a player when he gets the ball bit like the claims that 2 of Charlton goals were offside unfortunately without var.at all games some decisions are controversial and will remain so because unless we want games to last 3 or 4 hours then that is what you must accept. It's like the marks given to officials good when we win rubbish when we lose Well, referees seem to regard part of their job as being to create 'talking points', I disagree, my view is that they should apply the rules fairly and consistently over the entire game. Have said it endless times though, we are in the 3rd division, so we'll get 3rd rate officials. Lino last night had big blobs of fat hanging down over the sides of his shorts, he's supposed to be a professional sportsman for goodness sake. You have to conclude that these are the best people they can find to do the job. Apparently they have to take a fitness test pre season to see if they are physically fit well that always was the case whether it is now I am unsure but he did appear to be struggling at times.but then again if you recall Roger fitzPatrick from the 80s he was rather rotund and didn't look fit but he could run backwards faster than a lot of players could forwards so what I am saying is appearances can be deceptive. A lot of our problems are that most teams and managers in this division are a lot more streetwise than rovers counterparts
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