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Post by tanksfull on Nov 30, 2021 19:20:31 GMT
When Jeff said last year that he was giving up running the forum I was glad (no offence to Jeff) because the forum was past its sell by date and had degenerated into forum 'personalities' arguing. I thought that once this forum closed there would be enough interest to set up a new forum. Recently things have become much worse on here,I know that I am not the only one who his sick of every thread being hijacked by court case/B*****/armchair legal experts. Why not lump all that **** on the non football part of the forum ? Bristol Rovers were mentioned 5 times in a short piece, in a newspaper, about upcoming court cases. Is that what you are looking for? Have you taken a look at the Bristol Rovers BBC ( SPORT) webpage? I see very little about football; just someone dragging the, once proud, Bristol Rovers name through the mire. Is that what you are looking for?
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Post by tanksfull on Nov 24, 2021 20:20:56 GMT
You do realise, of course, that we were probably all wife - beaters in a previous life and our Karma sentence in this life is to support Rovers. There are a few who are trying to gain parole by pretending to detach themselves because of B*****, but it won’t work I’m afraid. I'm just about seeing the funny side of the first comment. With respect to the second "I'll be back"; no pretence there at all. In the mean time I'm in solitary confinement and very happy to be there but looking forward to getting out once the idiot, hopefully, goes in.
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Post by tanksfull on Nov 24, 2021 6:31:17 GMT
When Jeff said last year that he was giving up running the forum I was glad (no offence to Jeff) because the forum was past its sell by date and had degenerated into forum 'personalities' arguing. I thought that once this forum closed there would be enough interest to set up a new forum. Recently things have become much worse on here,I know that I am not the only one who his sick of every thread being hijacked by court case/B*****/armchair legal experts. Why not lump all that **** on the non football part of the forum ? Bristol Rovers were mentioned 5 times in a short piece, in a newspaper, about upcoming court cases. Is that what you are looking for?
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Post by tanksfull on Nov 17, 2021 19:01:27 GMT
I too feel happy that Gasheads have fun. I care about that still. Them I support. I don't support the team though. The team winning prolongs the tenure of B*****. So winning is not in the club's interests. I don't support it. It's sad, but true. B***** is unfit to manage Bristol Rovers. This year has been a disaster for us lot. You want us to lose? Good grief. I do if it gets rid of B***** quicker.
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Post by tanksfull on Nov 17, 2021 18:13:50 GMT
Until B***** goes, I'm not sure I qualify as a Rovers supporter. I want what's best for the Club, but that isn't what we've currently got. I'm glad people had a good night at Rovers last night. I also had a good night, but I was somewhere else. In a cynical kind of way I'm happy whether we win or lose.
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Post by tanksfull on Nov 17, 2021 7:00:25 GMT
Particularly a Bristol Rovers supporter?
B***** OUT and should never, ever have been in.
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Post by tanksfull on Oct 24, 2021 8:04:29 GMT
Okay. We are both on the same side then. Bung B***** the lovely lolly this week, don’t wait weeks for a chance to sack without much compo. It would be distasteful behaviour of the club, and not a right way to treat a manager. We need to get some momentum behind: “be fair to our Joey B*****, sack him now - no waiting to avoid compensation.” Why should the Club be "fair" to this despicable human being and thoroughly incompetent manager. The longer this pathetic sh*t show goes on - the weaker Wael al-Qadi appears. FFS Wael. There is just about time to save face. Prepare your mea culpa and unite the Football Club. Get rid of the scouse parasite. And if we lose the moronic minority "in B***** we trust" brigade then so be it. Good riddance. We can still start again. It is often darkest before the dawn. Depends on the wording of the contract.
I'm sure there may have been a few opportunities where it may have been breached but we appear to have done nothing.
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Post by tanksfull on Oct 23, 2021 19:50:46 GMT
If we're talking about language, the freak of a manager we currently have, described our performance as a "holocaust". Good grief. B***** out and now. What a c**t. Good fu*king grief. He said that? I can't listen to him. Thanks for posting DrF. #disgustedandembarrassed The context is that he is referring to the "musical chairs" of the team with players in and out and speaks of a player having a "holocaust a nightmare".
The man is a grade A prat.
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Post by tanksfull on Oct 21, 2021 20:51:01 GMT
Just points out that there are a lot of thing wrong at the club - I think somebody else said something similar recently, and got pilloried for it. Not sure if you mean me Bath Gas but don't worry I have a very good pillory immune system ! Paul Tisdale has now confirmed that the premature move to the training ground on October 26th 2020 was a catastrophic mistake which, IMO, was one of the major causes of our managerial turmoil and eventual relegation. There's not much point in going over all that again other than to tie it in with something I've been told this week which is that Wael has been asking anyone who will listen to try to get Gasheads to stop criticising him. But he doesn't seem to be succeeding because I've just read a post on Gaschat from Jomo, who is usually a very reasoned contributor, which describes Wael's leadership as "shockingly bad, unprofessional and embarrassing". It appears Jomo will be joining me on the John Major like list of "b*st*rds" but can't Wael see that it is us "b*st*ards" who are trying to help him and it is the flatterers who are dragging him down? When B***** talks all the time about the "superb owner" I think he is taunting Wael not praising him. He has identified the weakness and is exploiting it to his own advantage just as a long line of players agents, other club owners, suppliers of goods and services, contractors and assorted hangers on have done for the past five years. Paul Tisdale is the kind of genuine person we needed at Rovers just as Lee Atkins, Steve Brookfield, Mike Turner and Steve Hamer were but instead, because of the weakness, we've gone in a completely different direction. Swiss It is very unusual for me to disagree with much that you post on here and I definitely don't on this one.
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Post by tanksfull on Oct 6, 2021 10:11:32 GMT
IMO a manager that is on around 40% win rate is doing a good job, if we look at our managers for just this century these are the stats: 1..Gerry Francis in two spells was 39.6% 2..John Ward in two spells was 40.4% 3..Ian Holloway 36.9% 4..Garry Thompson 29.8% 5..Ray Graydon 27.2% 6..Ian Atkins 30.9% 7..Paul Trollope 37.3% 8..Dave Penney 15.4% 9..Paul Buckle 27.5% 10..Mark McGhee 26.6% 11..Darrell Clarke 42.3% 12..Graham Coughlan 44.6% 13..Ben Garner 18.2% 14..Paul Tisdale 26.3% 15..Joey B***** 23.3% Out of those 15 permanent managers for only this century, only 3 have that 40% figure. There is something fundamentally wrong with the BRFC BOARD over the years choosing managers. For the whole of our managerial history only 4 others have got to that 40% mark, they are: Ben Hall - 42.2% Bert Tann - 41.1% Bill Dodgin Sr - 44.2% David Williams - 47.2% My heart kind of sinks whenever there is a mass clearout. I can recall when Graydon took over he ditched everyone, I think literally every player was out of contract. Buckle did the same. As did Garner And now JB. It never goes well. The problem with this is that its well known only a % of new signings ever come off, say 6/10, so if you change the whole squad there will always be a significant number of players who don't work out /dont settle/take time etc. And in ditching the manager at that point you then potentially make the problem worse by having a new bloke with different ideas. if you think back to last season, Garners players ended up with Tisdale then B*****, both with different ideas. No wonder they were all over the shop come the end. Anyone thinking just sacking JB fixes things may find they are disappointed. The personal issues surrounding peoples thoughts on JB just make it all the more complex. The whole idea of having a Rovers "DNA" (which I totally agree with) is (was) surely to stop the ridiculous clear outs when a manager changes. Bring in a manager that fits the style of play and Club philosophy. You can then have a squad of players with Rovers characteristics. Yes there will always be slight adjustments and anomalies but there should never need to be wholesale changes.
Even at our level managers should be far more sophisticated than need to change everything. If everything needs changing it's not the manager that's wrong.
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Post by tanksfull on Sept 12, 2021 10:30:53 GMT
I remember him fairly well. A really good player with 1 Welsh cap, I think. He was part of our great League Cup wins and runs and was a really good attacking player. Not so good, iirc, defensively. But he was an important part of our near promotion challenges in 69/70, 70/71 and 71/72 before getting a career ending injury. Against Brentford. I think but may be wrong. Our midfield always looked good with Wayne Jones in the team but I guess the midfield which developed after his injury, Stephens, Prince, Stanton and Dobson was much more solid and earned us that promotion in 1974. UTG! Outstanding and very gifted. Why would you need to do any defending from midfield when you have Frankie Prince alongside you? Times were very different then.
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Post by tanksfull on Sept 1, 2021 7:37:46 GMT
I guess I was basing my knowledge of League Two on memories that are 25 years out of date. Either way, we probably have a reasonable mix of young and older players now. I just hope B***** has signed capable professional footballers that deliver, not necessarily for his sake but for BRFC. Don’t want B***** but also want us to win. A horrid conundrum Agreed but perhaps we need short term pain for long term gain? Or maybe keep our figures crossed for the right Judge.
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Post by tanksfull on Aug 28, 2021 17:35:30 GMT
I even want him to go based on results now.
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Post by tanksfull on Aug 18, 2021 11:54:21 GMT
It's not possible to get any worse, we are losing every game we play. It can only get better or stay the same. We beat a team that are 2nd favourites for relegation. 1-0, with the help of a deflection. It doesn't matter if we win every game. Joey B***** is unfit to manage Bristol Rovers. I'm pleased for the long-suffering supporters that went yesterday. Those that are able to separate their feelings about 'the manager' from 'the team'. I cannot separate the two and I'm not exactly sure how anyone could.
Yes there might sometimes be "grey" areas and it be possible to tolerate something or someone to continue support; B***** is not one of those "grey" areas.
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Post by tanksfull on Aug 15, 2021 15:15:58 GMT
The best way forward is to lose the next 6,7,8... shame you didn’t say 5 as well then you could say that we are taking things one Steps at a time. I’ll get my coat… I didn't want anyone to think I was just taking the PI55.
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Post by tanksfull on Aug 14, 2021 16:42:12 GMT
I have supported Rovers from 1966 to February 2021.
I really hope we lose the next 6 games and sack the manager, if not before!
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Post by tanksfull on Aug 14, 2021 16:30:33 GMT
JB latest P21 W3 D2 L16 F14 A30 14.3% Miserable ain't it. Eagerly awaiting JB's post match comments. Who will he lay the blame on? I'm not. I don't want to hear anything from him except his resignation.
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Post by tanksfull on Aug 14, 2021 16:27:50 GMT
The best way forward is to lose the next 6,7,8...
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Post by tanksfull on Aug 7, 2021 16:28:59 GMT
Well one thing’s a definite; B***** is making a great job of splitting the Club and fans.
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Post by tanksfull on Jul 28, 2021 9:01:45 GMT
With hindsight, do you think it might have been better not to appoint JB in the first place, Basel? Hmm,well there's more than one way of looking at that. I like the idea of giving people a chance.To a certain extent.Pipe eg ruined that blokes life eg,difficult to forgive.I would of sacked the ch rom Weston that went to Stags and GC,if he was a hit and run driver. With the benefit of hindsight purely on football ability,I would say giving JB a chance fair enough. After now seeing our season under threat from 'it all',it does'nt necessarily look the wisest move. I think - not sure - I'm the only one on this forum that has suggested helping JB,therefore his family and therefore Rovers. Thing is,these chats seem to run under the premise JB is guilty. He is'nt.At least not yet. A course to get his head straight,avoid the drink etc might do the job.Some people stop being violent. It's a hot potato that's for sure. I love the idea of giving people, who are genuine, a chance.
Bearing in mind the past record of chances...
If I did the contract would put him in a straightjacket so that if something went wrong I could easily (or as easily as possible) get him out.
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