eppinggas
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Post by eppinggas on Jul 25, 2023 13:58:00 GMT
I think you are being facetious. Or is the reasoning behind that blocked by a pay wall? |
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Post by swissgas on Jul 26, 2023 14:55:28 GMT
I think you are being facetious. Or is the reasoning behind that blocked by a pay wall? I can't reveal anything till you send me that postal order. (Harry Buckle knows my address) |
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basel
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Post by basel on Jul 29, 2023 21:21:56 GMT
I'll go with 5th.
Rovers to finish in 5th place.
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JeffNZ
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Post by JeffNZ on Jul 30, 2023 3:45:56 GMT
Avoiding the pre season enthusiasm trap I fell into last season, I'm going for a predicted finish of 15th.
After which our manager will blame the poor season on lack of investment, poor player attitude, the pitch, the weather, the pasties and lack of atmosphere due to the south stand still not being built.
He will then promptly leave, accusing the club management of forcing his hand.
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trymer
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Post by trymer on Aug 3, 2023 9:45:58 GMT
17th. More drama with the new temporary stand. Fruit Market stadium to join list of other stadium projects that never happened. Barton to go. The season hasnt started and I am on one correct prediction..... I will add another one,with the stand debacle the owner will disappear again for months (or years) like he did after his Blackpool pronouncement of a stadium at the Fruit market. |
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TaiwanGas
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Post by TaiwanGas on Aug 3, 2023 12:59:10 GMT
17th. More drama with the new temporary stand. Fruit Market stadium to join list of other stadium projects that never happened. Barton to go. The season hasnt started and I am on one correct prediction..... I will add another one,with the stand debacle the owner will disappear again for months (or years) like he did after his Blackpool pronouncement of a stadium at the Fruit market. I reckon all 4 of your July 23rd predictions are realistic, and you have already called no 2 prediction, the most difficult of the 4 imo, correctly. |
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Post by laughinggas on Aug 3, 2023 19:24:04 GMT
The season hasnt started and I am on one correct prediction..... I will add another one,with the stand debacle the owner will disappear again for months (or years) like he did after his Blackpool pronouncement of a stadium at the Fruit market. I reckon all 4 of your July 23rd predictions are realistic, and you have already called no 2 prediction, the most difficult of the 4 imo, correctly. Do you still think no 3 will happen? Or does today mean fruit Market looking more viable? I think 11th in the league. |
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Post by Mrs V Smegma on Aug 3, 2023 23:06:54 GMT
21st. Aaza and Barton gone by the new year. Prigozhin new boss but fails to stop the rot and few are bothered by us having a war criminal in charge Revised to 12th on the back of signing Taylor. Yes I do think one player can make that much difference for us and genuinely excited by this news |
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Post by Foran for England on Aug 3, 2023 23:25:48 GMT
16th after an average start, hopeful middle and a collapse at Easter.
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bluetornados
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Post by bluetornados on Aug 4, 2023 1:14:17 GMT
I am still confident of my 6th place prediction and final play-off place, we have got a half decent team that can challenge.. Not all our team are featured on the link below, but the majority are...Clarke & Ward are out on loan & Connor Taylor has returned. www.bristolrovers.co.uk/teams/first-team/ |
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Aug 4, 2023 6:21:02 GMT
Morning gentlemen, and gentlewomen and gentleinbetweeners ...
I plump for 10 th.
Some flirty play off moments, but a competitive historically average of where we should be: top bit of third tier footy.
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eppinggas
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Post by eppinggas on Aug 8, 2023 9:39:27 GMT
Morning gentlemen, and gentlewomen and gentleinbetweeners ... I plump for 10 th. Some flirty play off moments, but a competitive historically average of where we should be: top bit of third tier footy. Yup, slicing and dicing the data (always tricky with what to do with 3rd div north and south) the historical average performance of Rovers is around 10-12th in the third tier. |
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Post by eppinggas on Aug 8, 2023 9:56:55 GMT
Predictions as follows: Swiss 1st (Update available due to perceived sarcasm) Basel 5th Bluetornadoes 6th Richmace 6th Bamber Gashead 7th o2o2bo2ba 10th Warehamgas 11th Laughinggas 11th Cheltgas 12th (Suggested top half, edit available chelt_gas ) LIS 12th Oldie 12th Mrs V Smeg 12th Delsy 13th Taiwan 14th JeffNZ 15th Cheshire 15th KP 15th Foran for England 16th Trymer 17th Epping 17th Cabbage Patch Blues 18th Rowdenhill 25th. (Yes, I know. But this means that 22nd, 23rd or 24th would grasp victory). A predicted overall average finishing position of 12.3, or 12th, if you prefer. |
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eppinggas
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Post by eppinggas on Oct 22, 2023 9:42:02 GMT
Predictions as follows: Swiss 1st (Update available due to perceived sarcasm) Basel 5th Bluetornadoes 6th Richmace 6th Bamber Gashead 7th o2o2bo2ba 10th Warehamgas 11th Laughinggas 11th Cheltgas 12th (Suggested top half, edit available chelt_gas ) LIS 12th Oldie 12th Mrs V Smeg 12th Delsy 13th Taiwan 14th JeffNZ 15th Cheshire 15th KP 15th Foran for England 16th Trymer 17th Epping 17th Cabbage Patch Blues 18th Rowdenhill 25th. (Yes, I know. But this means that 22nd, 23rd or 24th would grasp victory). A predicted overall average finishing position of 12.3, or 12th, if you prefer. Current position 17th (though with a game in hand over those behemoths of League 1 Exeter, Shrewsbury, Port Vale and Orient). |
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Post by swissgas on Oct 22, 2023 10:13:30 GMT
Predictions as follows: Swiss 1st (Update available due to perceived sarcasm) Basel 5th Bluetornadoes 6th Richmace 6th Bamber Gashead 7th o2o2bo2ba 10th Warehamgas 11th Laughinggas 11th Cheltgas 12th (Suggested top half, edit available chelt_gas ) LIS 12th Oldie 12th Mrs V Smeg 12th Delsy 13th Taiwan 14th JeffNZ 15th Cheshire 15th KP 15th Foran for England 16th Trymer 17th Epping 17th Cabbage Patch Blues 18th Rowdenhill 25th. (Yes, I know. But this means that 22nd, 23rd or 24th would grasp victory). A predicted overall average finishing position of 12.3, or 12th, if you prefer. Current position 17th (though with a game in hand over those behemoths of League 1 Exeter, Shrewsbury, Port Vale and Orient). But when you look at those clubs have you ever considered that Rovers are spending . . . . . . . No, shan’t bother  |
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 22, 2023 10:25:43 GMT
Current position 17th (though with a game in hand over those behemoths of League 1 Exeter, Shrewsbury, Port Vale and Orient). But when you look at those clubs have you ever considered that Rovers are spending . . . . . . . No, shan’t bother I keep hearing that the club has backed the manager to the tune of 4.5 million. Do you think this is close to the truth ? I find it hard to believe personally but, if true then we really should have been to go, from the very first match. |
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Post by swissgas on Oct 22, 2023 10:50:20 GMT
But when you look at those clubs have you ever considered that Rovers are spending . . . . . . . No, shan’t bother I keep hearing that the club has backed the manager to the tune of 4.5 million. Do you think this is close to the truth ? I find it hard to believe personally but, if true then we really should have been to go, from the very first match. I think 4.5 million is on the low side. And that’s without the cost of the training ground or back room and medical staff which together will be well over a million. We are probably spending more on our football operation than some of our rivals entire budget. But the way JB operates was well known before he was appointed so it shouldn’t come as a surprise. No discipline either financial or otherwise. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2023 11:35:20 GMT
I keep hearing that the club has backed the manager to the tune of 4.5 million. Do you think this is close to the truth ? I find it hard to believe personally but, if true then we really should have been to go, from the very first match. I think 4.5 million is on the low side. And that’s without the cost of the training ground or back room and medical staff which together will be well over a million. We are probably spending more on our football operation than some of our rivals entire budget. But the way JB operates was well known before he was appointed so it shouldn’t come as a surprise. No discipline either financial or otherwise. Frightening, for those of us that saw the carnage of Flook and Bradshaw and watched the club teetering on the edge of extinction in the early days at Bath these kinds of speculative dealings don’t bode well at all. Thank goodness the JCH idiocy fell through, after all he couldn’t do it for Peterborough in far more favourable circumstances than we have here. ‘Pep’ Barton reminds me of Mark McGhee inasmuch as he doesn’t understand this league nor what is required to stabilise let alone get promoted from it. s**t or bust is no way to run any business but that seems to be what we are witnessing here. |
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Post by Mrs V Smegma on Oct 22, 2023 17:55:48 GMT
He is an inveterate gambler. Just can’t help himself. “If I only had this player I’d romp the league”. Gets this player and cycle repeats. “If only I had that player”.
If he was any good at being a football manager he would get the best out of the hand he holds. He has some decent cards in there but has assembled a lop sided squad with too many journeymen.
Desperately need a Coutts/Rossiter replacement far more than JCH
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Oct 23, 2023 7:43:18 GMT
I keep hearing that the club has backed the manager to the tune of 4.5 million. Do you think this is close to the truth ? I find it hard to believe personally but, if true then we really should have been to go, from the very first match. I think 4.5 million is on the low side. And that’s without the cost of the training ground or back room and medical staff which together will be well over a million. We are probably spending more on our football operation than some of our rivals entire budget. But the way JB operates was well known before he was appointed so it shouldn’t come as a surprise. No discipline either financial or otherwise. That is mind blowing. I did read about the money spent while at Fleetwood but if those who run the club keep spending and see no end product then what next. I had thought it must be way too high a figure. |
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