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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Apr 15, 2015 18:56:07 GMT
I've loved it this year - but one season is enough !!!
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Apr 9, 2015 13:04:47 GMT
I loved that - good job Sir !!!
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 28, 2015 22:01:35 GMT
It's an individual's opinion, it's why this forum was founded when others were closed down. s*** OP though. Entitled to his opinion just we all are, but if our opinion is that he is a trouble maker and should shut up then we gave the right to express that opinion as well. My opinion - I think he is talking rubbish and is being a trouble maker.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 28, 2015 21:17:38 GMT
When the going gets tough.....
....let's all panic like teenage girls.
Coastalgas, I cannot believe anyone could even think your suggestion was appropriate at this point. Some of us may be having doubts, but voicing them like that - well I really, really feel that's inappropriate.
There's been a debate about whether you are a supporter or not. Clearly you are not as the word inplies a level of support. I don't doubt you are a follower. Just try to be a supporter will you?
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 21, 2015 12:25:04 GMT
Agree with comment on the ref. When he went back to book their left back after about 3 minutes some guy started chanting "You do know what you're doing". Never heard that before and its a shame it didn't turn into a full chant. 8 out of 10 for the ref. 9 if he had given the penalty for the foot up. Thought Halifax were pretty poor with the ball but typically robust without it. I would give them a four. Easter is CLASS. Easily my MOM. Share your concern about Macca who is looking tired. I have heard that Trotman has a niggly knee injury so that back 2 may need to see us through. Only thing to add to your report apart from that Steve is about our shape. First 20 the back 4 were 20 yards in front of the box. The midfield were 10 in front of them. We dominated as Halifax had to play from the back, Easter and Taylor worked hard to close them down and it was one way traffic. Same happened at the start of the second half. The second and fourth quarters we fell into the trap of dropping back deeper and deeper. At times the back 4 were defending the Edge of the box and the midfield were no more than 5 yards in front of the . They had acres of space in the middle but fortunately weren't good enough to exploit it. We HAVE to push up more- a better team would have punished us. even ALDERSHOT? Oops !!! Quite right
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 21, 2015 10:36:13 GMT
Agree with comment on the ref. When he went back to book their left back after about 3 minutes some guy started chanting "You do know what you're doing". Never heard that before and its a shame it didn't turn into a full chant. 8 out of 10 for the ref. 9 if he had given the penalty for the foot up.
Thought Aldershot were pretty poor with the ball but typically robust without it. I would give them a four.
Easter is CLASS. Easily my MOM.
Share your concern about Macca who is looking tired. I have heard that Trotman has a niggly knee injury so that back 2 may need to see us through.
Only thing to add to your report apart from that Steve is about our shape. First 20 the back 4 were 20 yards in front of the box. The midfield were 10 in front of them. We dominated as Aldershot had to play from the back, Easter and Taylor worked hard to close them down and it was one way traffic. Same happened at the start of the second half.
The second and fourth quarters we fell into the trap of dropping back deeper and deeper. At times the back 4 were defending the Edge of the box and the midfield were no more than 5 yards in front of the . They had acres of space in the middle but fortunately weren't good enough to exploit it.
We HAVE to push up more- a better team would have punished us.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 7, 2015 0:52:06 GMT
Is that Bristolian for midfielder or forward as I have no idea ? i think he is technically Welsh as he was born down there when his Brummie Dad was working down there. They're are now back in Brum. He is a hard working, never-say-die striker who will chase and close down all day long. He also is a great finisher by the sounds of things,. The family now live in the wonderfully named Lickey End which is of no significance at all but I just wanted to share it as it is on the list of the top 5 rudest place names in the Country. And it makes me smile - a lot !!!!
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 5, 2015 15:14:49 GMT
Ellis is just 21 for gods sake and has a year of his contract to run therefore it is irrelevant at this time and so it should be.He is one of the few youth players to actually make the first team squad regularly and all his goals this season have been important ones. How he does between now and the end of next season when he will still only be 22 will define whether he is offered a new contract. He could still be the next Marcus Stewart but he could also be the next Ben Swallow or any of a long line of young players who did not make it. It is our job to get behind him and give him a good chance to make it noy criticise his every move and only praise his goals. Well said Steve.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 5, 2015 8:12:03 GMT
Oldie, you are priceless. Who isn't guessing? Thankyou, my wife thinks so, but surprised you do. I am not guessing when I ask the question why any director / shareholder confident of a winning position would take out a loan at onerous interest rates when they could fund it themselves? And, if they do not have the capacity to do so then the directors statements in the accounts re going concern are going to sound pretty hollow very soon. What do you think? My guessing comment was a general one, loads of speculation which in reality is just guesswork. I think you may have nailed it bringing wives into it though, i know what my wife would say if I wanted to put my hard-earned fortune into a football club. Particularly if I was having to risk my money to pay back someone else who was asking for their money back. And just when you need everyone to keep a steady nerve. It's could all get quite nasty at the next Valentines Day Ball. Purely guesswork of course !!!!!
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 5, 2015 0:26:49 GMT
Signed
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 5, 2015 0:15:34 GMT
I vote for complete guesswork slanted to support an agenda. That seems to be most common around here. Who is guessing? Please confirm Oldie, you are priceless. Who isn't guessing?
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 4, 2015 19:16:39 GMT
We should start a poll. Which is best, rumours or conjecture? I vote for complete guesswork slanted to support an agenda. That seems to be most common around here.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Mar 1, 2015 15:49:18 GMT
Winning ugly is something that successful sides do.
We have learned to win ugly when we are not playing particularly well. How anybody sees that as a negative is completely beyond me.
We couldn't do it last year, we can this.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Feb 22, 2015 14:05:26 GMT
Don't know. Don't care. Don't know why anyone would bother asking unless they were looking to cause trouble?
Leave it out. Things are going OK at the moment moment.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Feb 10, 2015 16:10:39 GMT
I enjoyed your blog today - a good read.
Thanks
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Feb 9, 2015 21:44:47 GMT
We lost at Barnet - Lockyer missed all but 8 mins of the second half. We lost at Altrincham - Lockyer missed the game through injury We lost at home to FGR - Lockyer missed the game through suspension. 4 league defeats all season, Lockyer missing for 2 & 1/2 of those. If available I'd pick him! He also missed the Bath game through illness which was a humiliation. We are more solid with him in the team than without him. It's as simple as that. It would be brave to leave him out.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Jan 21, 2015 21:43:55 GMT
I absolutely agree, I am of the opinion that the hidden agenda often referred to in actual fact means whereas all want us to succeed, there are those who would prefer we succeeded without the present BOD, just an opinion. That would make it personal which its not. Its clear to anyone that knows them that most of the current board are fans and not in it to act as some of the other owners of clubs have done. That, I think, is obvious. Its about whether they have the capacity to actually deliver success in any area of the club. Is that question even debatable? And, to counter the myopic views of some, you cannot look at any current event in isolation, when there is a pattern of poor decisions and practice covering a number of years. Once is a mistake, twice is careless three time is incompetent.
To satisfy those that want this thread to be debated within a narrow boundary, does anyone feel, believe, that we will be able to build the stadium to its full specification with all the commercial revenues that are the crucial element and be debt free as was the original proposition, one which was the guarantee of the future of the club? Even if Sainsburys cough up the full contract value?
If not, what then? So Nick wins his case in the courts, whats Plan B? There is nothing commercially sensitive about that surely, unless the contract value stated that the funds could only be used for stadium development (and if it does, which I doubt, then that would be inept) so why not be open with the fans about it, that kills speculation stone dead. Why not?
Oh dear Oldie. You are clearly a very, very intelligent man. However, the way you manage to talk such nonsense with such eloquence is a gift and a mystery at the same time. The last paragraph, written in perfect prose, has the logic of a 5 year old. I apologise for the personal response but you do have the habit of spoiling otherwise intelligent and sensible debates. When I see you "off on one" it fills me with dread as the thread just nose dives. This is a case in point.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Jan 15, 2015 11:41:07 GMT
Top marks to Stan for the 'heads-up' and then the article. But let's be honest - this makes our Club look a complete and utter shambles. We are now so desperate we are hawking the Club around the middle east to no specific buyer like a latter day Del Boy. The lack of professionalism around how Higgs and the Board operate is absolutely stunning. I wonder how good the prospectus looks. Very professional no doubt (if there even is one). What a total joke. Thank f**k Gasheads have a sense of humour. Very easy to criticise (and over react it appears) but how would you go about looking to get investment.? I don't see much wrong with this. It costs nothing and is worth a try. Probably come to nothing but you just never know.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Jan 13, 2015 11:12:32 GMT
We all make mistakes at 17 and more often than not we get given a few kicks up the backside and get back on track. But there's only so long that you put up with it without seeing any improvement in attitude. By all accounts Hunter was a big time Charlie who didn't give a toss about Rovers and consistently turned up late and disrupted training. If he's not committed to changing his ways and being a part of the culture the club are trying to create then we were bang on in getting rid of him. If he's changed now then good for him. But while he was here he took the piss out of the club that we all love and support. So I'm inclined to agree. f him. Don't see how that is classless. The lack of class comes from the disrespect shown to the club by him in the first place. That's as good a summary as I could have written. He didn't deserve to be here when he was shown the door and I know many in the squad were surprised it didn't happen earlier. However, people change. If he has ditched the ego, found some humility and is prepared to work hard then good luck to him. Everyone deserves a second chance.
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Post by stig-of-the-gas on Jan 12, 2015 21:41:20 GMT
Surely he's just saying that he thinks that Ellis is probably as good a player as some of the newer boys? I guess that they're mates, so what's wrong with him bigging EH up a bit? Spot on - good for Alefe sticking up for his mate
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