eppinggas
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Ian Alexander
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Post by eppinggas on Apr 29, 2019 10:40:28 GMT
Haven't a clue to be honest but if you say it with enough conviction someone will believe you. Well, we keep employing them, admittedly we never hear of them again, but we keep employing them. There's an office somewhere with a team of stadium building experts locked away in it. So THAT's what the London office is for. 5 New Street Square, London, United Kingdom, EC4A 3TW
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Apr 29, 2019 11:33:18 GMT
It's not rocket science. The likes of Liverpool and Man City aren't where they are purely through having lots of lolly, but having more than one player who scores regularly. I know the PL is a different planet, but it's comparable to all leagues in that respect. If you don't score enough you struggle. Our team this season has been totally lacking in the final third and been stuffed full of defensive midfielders. The only creative midfielders have been left out, shipped out on loan or played out of position. Listening to GC's post-match interview, he asks for a bit of patience in the build-up to next season so I guess we'll have to wait and see if he adopts a more adventurous approach. He should stop taking a jab at what he calls "keyboard warriors" though. Some of us have been watching Rovers since before Liverpool got promoted to the top flight and have earned the right to our opinion. Man City very much are where they are purely because of money. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching them play, but Ian Atkins could challenge for the PL title if he was allowed to invest, what is it, £1.5 billion and counting? Take that money away and what's left? Man City are just another big City club, no different to any other, similar to Villa, Spurs, Everton. The day that someone works out how to properly enforce FFP rules the whole Citeh thing will fold in the blink of an eye. In my opinion the PL could adopt the same kind of rules as they do in American football. It would certainly level the field and you don’t see the same teams going to the Super Bowl eh.
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Apr 29, 2019 11:43:24 GMT
Well, we keep employing them, admittedly we never hear of them again, but we keep employing them. There's an office somewhere with a team of stadium building experts locked away in it. The slowly decaying body of Archibald Leitch in a broom cupboard we pay £340,000 a year for in West London. Blimey, I thought 250k was bad enough. I guess you know more than me but that is really unacceptable for a club in our position.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 11:55:09 GMT
The slowly decaying body of Archibald Leitch in a broom cupboard we pay £340,000 a year for in West London. Blimey, I thought 250k was bad enough. I guess you know more than me but that is really unacceptable for a club in our position. It was just an arbitrary figure I made up, could be closer to £600,000...
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Apr 29, 2019 13:35:02 GMT
Blimey, I thought 250k was bad enough. I guess you know more than me but that is really unacceptable for a club in our position. It was just an arbitrary figure I made up, could be closer to £600,000... got to admit, it took me awhile to get your humour but you do come out with some funny stuff. You obviously do know your football, unlike me
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Post by Curly Wurly on Apr 29, 2019 17:27:56 GMT
Thankfully that's over. Does anyone have any positive thoughts for next season please, because if what we have to offer is the most negative manager since Atkins, a striker who scores loads then stops and no sign of progress, we're goosed. Thank goodness for our back 5, Tareiq, Ollie,JCH and on occasion, Liam Sercombe and Nichols' support work. That's not enough to make any discernible attempt at the play offs and is only just enough to stay up. Don't get me started on Linesy and not being played. I'm by nature an optimist, but this season has been woeful. Anyone fancy giving some reasons to look forward to next season?I'm hopeful.
As I posted on the other place:
Under Darrell Clarke - Played 21 Pts=17 Pts per game=0.81 F=17 A=25 GD=-8 (i.e. certain relegation form) Under Graham Coughlan - Played 24 Pts=34 Pts per game=1.42 F=28 A=24 GD=+4 (i.e. close to play offs form) Only the top 5 teams in the division have conceded less than us and we've now got a very good goal scorer.
Coughlan has admitted himself that it has not been pretty. This self-awareness is a good sign IMO.
I haven't agreed with all his selections, but I get the feeling he'll not waste time in separating the wheat from the chaff and hopefully strengthening in key positions.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 20:48:52 GMT
According to tommy widdrington at some rovers dinner earlier in the season over 90% of the squad are out of contract. I think that's a really positive thing as it gives us a chance to get some under performers out and better players in. Also i believe the squad will be smaller which makes sense imo.
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Rex
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Post by Rex on Apr 30, 2019 4:52:01 GMT
It's not rocket science. The likes of Liverpool and Man City aren't where they are purely through having lots of lolly, but having more than one player who scores regularly. I know the PL is a different planet, but it's comparable to all leagues in that respect. If you don't score enough you struggle. Our team this season has been totally lacking in the final third and been stuffed full of defensive midfielders. The only creative midfielders have been left out, shipped out on loan or played out of position. Listening to GC's post-match interview, he asks for a bit of patience in the build-up to next season so I guess we'll have to wait and see if he adopts a more adventurous approach. He should stop taking a jab at what he calls "keyboard warriors" though. Some of us have been watching Rovers since before Liverpool got promoted to the top flight and have earned the right to our opinion. Man City very much are where they are purely because of money. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching them play, but Ian Atkins could challenge for the PL title if he was allowed to invest, what is it, £1.5 billion and counting? Take that money away and what's left? Man City are just another big City club, no different to any other, similar to Villa, Spurs, Everton. The day that someone works out how to properly enforce FFP rules the whole Citeh thing will fold in the blink of an eye.True, but for that to happen, the authorities would have to want it to happen. Don't hold yer breath.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 9:29:22 GMT
Man City very much are where they are purely because of money. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching them play, but Ian Atkins could challenge for the PL title if he was allowed to invest, what is it, £1.5 billion and counting? Take that money away and what's left? Man City are just another big City club, no different to any other, similar to Villa, Spurs, Everton. The day that someone works out how to properly enforce FFP rules the whole Citeh thing will fold in the blink of an eye.True, but for that to happen, the authorities would have to want it to happen. Don't hold yer breath. I think they do, but Citeh have smarter legal people. Don't know about you, but it's the 2 tier justice system that we end up with that grates for me. Boston relegated 200 divisions for a technical offence, Citeh have emails surface that explain, in detail, how they intend to breach the rules and they don't care because they know they can get away with it.
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Rex
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Post by Rex on May 1, 2019 5:42:30 GMT
True, but for that to happen, the authorities would have to want it to happen. Don't hold yer breath. I think they do, but Citeh have smarter legal people. Don't know about you, but it's the 2 tier justice system that we end up with that grates for me. Boston relegated 200 divisions for a technical offence, Citeh have emails surface that explain, in detail, how they intend to breach the rules and they don't care because they know they can get away with it. No different to modern life generally then. Big business does what it wants but woe betide the little man who breaks the rules. Come the revolution, Premier League football teams will be first up against the wall
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Post by dido on May 2, 2019 17:16:27 GMT
I think they do, but Citeh have smarter legal people. Don't know about you, but it's the 2 tier justice system that we end up with that grates for me. Boston relegated 200 divisions for a technical offence, Citeh have emails surface that explain, in detail, how they intend to breach the rules and they don't care because they know they can get away with it. No different to modern life generally then. Big business does what it wants but woe betide the little man who breaks the rules. Come the revolution, Premier League football teams will be first up against the wall Alongside their administrators and financers, Rex (aka Wolfie).
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Post by irishrover on May 2, 2019 21:46:06 GMT
Man City very much are where they are purely because of money. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching them play, but Ian Atkins could challenge for the PL title if he was allowed to invest, what is it, £1.5 billion and counting? Take that money away and what's left? Man City are just another big City club, no different to any other, similar to Villa, Spurs, Everton. The day that someone works out how to properly enforce FFP rules the whole Citeh thing will fold in the blink of an eye. In my opinion the PL could adopt the same kind of rules as they do in American football. It would certainly level the field and you don’t see the same teams going to the Super Bowl eh. It would only happen if (like in US Sports) you took away relegation. For years I've been worried about the super elite in European football taking their ball away and going to play in a European Superleague with a license to print money and, presumably, a more level playing field run on US style grounds. Increasingly though I think the current situation favours them even more. The top clubs get to rack up the trophies, prestige and premusably global PR marketiability in increasingly uncompetitive Leagues (most top European Leagues make the PL look positively wild in comparison) in which they are negotiating increasing disproportionate chunks of the TV and sponsorship money. Why give that up for the risk of becoming also rans in a geninely competitive league? Surely you get the best of both worlds this way?
Oh-and the upside for next season is that at least we won't be having anything to do with any sort of bulls**t European Superleague anytime soon - so there is that.
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