Coaching external / internal / players or tactics?

I think the players need a defining moment to 'get' Rovers and it's supporters. An away game where the noise levels are high, there's a big following and support is from the off. I feel that off the pitch and in players heads Monday could be huge.

Hmm, let me see - failed as assistant, failed as manager during the last 8 games of the season (where he only had to collect a paltry 8 points). See the tactical shambles against Torquay and Mansfield last season for examples of his naivety.  He's admittedly struggled in the transfer market and found it difficult to attract players. Need I go on?

Like Dagenham and Redbridge two seasons ago? Oxford last season? D*cked on we were. Got naff all to do with what we do on the terrace.

Indecisiveness, tinkering with his tactics every 5 mins, pumping long balls up to Gillespie/Beardsley (Torquay) and similar tactics most games, out-numbered in midfield etc etc.

Of course we lump it long, we're in the Conference and that's the right tactic for this league.
Messing around trying to play fancy Dan pretty football won't work, we need hard tackling mid fielders, no nonsense safety first defence and hard running forwards pressurising the channels and making their defence and midfield work hard in their half not ours.
Physicality, hard work and commitment is what's need, not attempted deft touches and incisive passing from donkeys

Historically at both Eastville and Twerton, it was always the unwritten rule that supporters did not get on players (or the teams) backs. I have witnessed on many occasions a supporter shout something that was intended not to be complimentary, and the people around him would tell him forcefully, and in no uncertain terms to be quiet. The general rule was that the team (and players) were doing their best and it was the job of the supporters to support them. That alone created atmosphere. But it's also fair to say that at the time we may not have had the best players in the Football League, but they were all trying to do their best for the good of the club. You've only to look at the list of players that have represented BRFC to realise the passion for the club that they had. 

Similarly with the managers, and I'm thinking particularly of Gerry Francis and Bobby Gould, they both used the limited resources that were available to them and produced results that should have been well beyond them and the team. But all of this seemed to produce an atmosphere around the club, that sadly appears to me to be missing today. There always seemed to be a siege mentality about the club, us versus them, and out of that adversity came fight and determination.

Sadly that all seems to have passed into history now, and the end of that particular era was (in my opinion) when Gerry Francis finally gave up the ghost and left for QPR, and in doing so also took some of our best players with him for good luck. Now I do realise that there have been highs since then, but truth be told we were always going ever-so-slowly downhill from that point.

I suppose that it could be argued that for many years the club was punching above its weight, and that the supporters became conditioned to watching successful teams. But with the passing of time, and managers and players, things have radically changed . . . but the expectation has not. 

But in any event we are where we are, and only results on the pitch can affect that, so it's a matter of of simply hanging on and hoping for the best because only the Board of Directors (aka the Custodians of BRFC) can affect that. We must trust that they can employ a manager (perhaps they have him already, who knows?) who can recruit, train and motivate a squad of players capable of restoring some of the ''feelgood factor'' to the club.

My thought is that whoever the manager (or Board) of the day is, then he/they have a fair bit of ground to make up . . . in all respects.