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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Sept 1, 2024 9:44:31 GMT
I guess we should just roll with it...
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Post by laughinggas on Sept 1, 2024 9:48:02 GMT
When did we train at Clifton Rugby, thought it was at the Sun life/AXA/Cribbs ground?
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Post by rideintothesun on Sept 1, 2024 11:05:14 GMT
It's a blessing that last season wasn't a month longer else MT, could have either walked or been pushed out. So thankfully, it's enabled the manager to put together a team of very hardworking, gifted individuals epitomised by Luke Thomas who produced an absolutely blinding performance today. It actually starting to feel like a real football club, from top to bottom, gone are the days when our training facilities was Clifton Lughy Club at Cribbs on bog of a pitch and the Stadium included several stands made up of scaffolding, canvas tents and a joke of a family stand. With the South Stand up and running it could create a 'Millwall type cauldron' where no away team will fancy their chances with the amosphere giving us a twelfth man. Anything is possible this season, if the team keeps producing, and we get back the a few thousand gasheads that went Awol after years of mediocrity then promotion is a genuine aspersion. So while the world is going mad let’s be positive, get promotion and let’s get it on with the dark side before we become permanent armchair followers in a Bristol nursing home near you. UTG What I most like is that we seem to be putting in solid performances against the poorer sides, like Northampton and Cambridge. Going back to the Trollope era, we have had problems putting away bottom half sides at home, with this reaching its apogee under Barton, when we made extremely hard work of very poor sides at home. I remember under the first incarnation of Ward, we would put away the poorer sides very easily at home. In his second coming, of course, we were the poor side. With regard to talk of promotion, what about the implications of the Jay Stansfield transfer? 15 million, possibly rising to 20 million, for a 21-year-old who scored 12 goals last season. Can we honestly compete with this? |
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Post by bluetornados on Sept 1, 2024 11:36:35 GMT
Definately maybe our players should be standing on the shoulders of giants...
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Post by Icegas on Sept 1, 2024 11:58:41 GMT
It's a blessing that last season wasn't a month longer else MT, could have either walked or been pushed out. So thankfully, it's enabled the manager to put together a team of very hardworking, gifted individuals epitomised by Luke Thomas who produced an absolutely blinding performance today. It actually starting to feel like a real football club, from top to bottom, gone are the days when our training facilities was Clifton Lughy Club at Cribbs on bog of a pitch and the Stadium included several stands made up of scaffolding, canvas tents and a joke of a family stand. With the South Stand up and running it could create a 'Millwall type cauldron' where no away team will fancy their chances with the amosphere giving us a twelfth man. Anything is possible this season, if the team keeps producing, and we get back the a few thousand gasheads that went Awol after years of mediocrity then promotion is a genuine aspersion. So while the world is going mad let’s be positive, get promotion and let’s get it on with the dark side before we become permanent armchair followers in a Bristol nursing home near you. UTG What I most like is that we seem to be putting in solid performances against the poorer sides, like Northampton and Cambridge. Going back to the Trollope era, we have had problems putting away bottom half sides at home, with this reaching its apogee under Barton, when we made extremely hard work of very poor sides at home. I remember under the first incarnation of Ward, we would put away the poorer sides very easily at home. In his second coming, of course, we were the poor side. With regard to talk of promotion, what about the implications of the Jay Stansfield transfer? 15 million, possibly rising to 20 million, for a 21-year-old who scored 12 goals last season. Can we honestly compete with this? No and neither can anyone else in this league, realistically it shouldn't be allowed and it's abit of a joke situation but it's a one off and they will be gone within a season or two then will be spending £50/60million in the championship. If that joke of a club Wrexham are near the top come January then I guess they will spend also. I'm sorry, If clubs like Rotherham, Oxford, Wigan ,Reading and Luton can get to the championship or beyond then so can we, especially now we have a board with ambition. |
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Post by toteend3 on Sept 2, 2024 9:32:14 GMT
Spending big bucks like Wectrum doesn't, always guarantee immediate success D’ you know what i mean., you only have.to look at the millions spun#ed by Chelsea.
You are spot on in pointing out that there are a lot of clubs with similar set ups.to us who make it to the higher echelons, I woluld also include non league drummer boy outfits such as Burton and Yeovil.
Some might say that iam a dreamer, what ever, our promotion is. Definitely Maybe!
UTG
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Post by harrybuckle on Sept 2, 2024 14:22:07 GMT
Just got to roll with it
It's still early days nothing is won in September
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Post by bluetornados on Sept 12, 2024 7:44:27 GMT
'One step at a time' - Sky Sports pundit Don Goodman offers view on Bristol Rovers and chances of success..By Daniel Hargraves
Bristol Rovers have had a solid start to the new League One season but remain a work in progress on the back of a hectic summer of recruitmenti2-prod.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article9543816.ece/ALTERNATES/s1176b/0_JS320338828.jpgSky Sports EFL pundit Don Goodman has claimed that he doesn't see a lot wrong with Bristol Rovers at the moment, adding that they're a "huge" club "craving" Championship football. Rovers have started the new season solidly, picking up seven points from their opening five League One matches while recording three clean sheets in the process. Victories over Northampton Town and Cambridge United at the Mem have seen the Gas secure a 100 per cent record at home so far while on the road they played out a goalless draw at Rotherham United before losing 2-0 and 2-1 to Stockport County and Barnsley respectively. However, this is very much a new-look Rovers team on the back of a summer transfer window that saw 16 players signed which evidently still needs time to gel. In what is being deemed by some as the toughest crop of teams in the third tier ever, the Gas aren't expected to break into the upper eschelons of the league this season but Goodman believes that a top-half finish would put them in a fantastic position. “When I look at them last season, they conceded 68 goals which is way too many," the former West Brom, Sunderland and Wolves striker told Betway. "They only scored 52 goals, too, with 15 teams scoring more than them. Pretty much, Rovers had a problem at both ends of the pitch. Home form was also an issue for them, winning just eight out of 23 games at The Memorial Stadium. “But this season they've won both home games so far and they've kept three clean sheets from four games after bringing in Josh Griffiths from West Bromwich Albion. There does seem to be a lack of creativity, however, so solidity will be important if they're competing in tight games. Before Saturday, only scored three goals from an low XG of 3.4, so Matt Taylor needs to try and find the balance. “Bristol Rovers is a huge club and they're craving the opportunity to play Championship football. I don't see a lot wrong at Rovers at the moment, they've only lost to the excellent Stockport County and Barnsley. They just need to improve that creative output. “It will be difficult for them in League One as there are some big teams and some good teams competing with them. But if Rovers can establish themselves in the top-half, then they're not going to be too far away from the play-offs. It's one step at a time for them.” The Gas haven't played in the second tier since 1992 and it's well-documented that promotion into the Championship is the club's long-term goal with chairman Hussain AlSaeed setting out a three-year plan to get promoted last season. Despite a promising start to the campaign, most supporters will see improvement on last term's 15th place finish as a success while breaking into the top half would represent an outstanding season given where this young team are at in their development as a unit.
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Post by rideintothesun on Sept 12, 2024 21:10:29 GMT
'One step at a time' - Sky Sports pundit Don Goodman offers view on Bristol Rovers and chances of success..By Daniel Hargraves
Bristol Rovers have had a solid start to the new League One season but remain a work in progress on the back of a hectic summer of recruitmenti2-prod.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article9543816.ece/ALTERNATES/s1176b/0_JS320338828.jpgSky Sports EFL pundit Don Goodman has claimed that he doesn't see a lot wrong with Bristol Rovers at the moment, adding that they're a "huge" club "craving" Championship football. Rovers have started the new season solidly, picking up seven points from their opening five League One matches while recording three clean sheets in the process. Victories over Northampton Town and Cambridge United at the Mem have seen the Gas secure a 100 per cent record at home so far while on the road they played out a goalless draw at Rotherham United before losing 2-0 and 2-1 to Stockport County and Barnsley respectively. However, this is very much a new-look Rovers team on the back of a summer transfer window that saw 16 players signed which evidently still needs time to gel. In what is being deemed by some as the toughest crop of teams in the third tier ever, the Gas aren't expected to break into the upper eschelons of the league this season but Goodman believes that a top-half finish would put them in a fantastic position. “When I look at them last season, they conceded 68 goals which is way too many," the former West Brom, Sunderland and Wolves striker told Betway. "They only scored 52 goals, too, with 15 teams scoring more than them. Pretty much, Rovers had a problem at both ends of the pitch. Home form was also an issue for them, winning just eight out of 23 games at The Memorial Stadium. “But this season they've won both home games so far and they've kept three clean sheets from four games after bringing in Josh Griffiths from West Bromwich Albion. There does seem to be a lack of creativity, however, so solidity will be important if they're competing in tight games. Before Saturday, only scored three goals from an low XG of 3.4, so Matt Taylor needs to try and find the balance. “Bristol Rovers is a huge club and they're craving the opportunity to play Championship football. I don't see a lot wrong at Rovers at the moment, they've only lost to the excellent Stockport County and Barnsley. They just need to improve that creative output. “It will be difficult for them in League One as there are some big teams and some good teams competing with them. But if Rovers can establish themselves in the top-half, then they're not going to be too far away from the play-offs. It's one step at a time for them.” The Gas haven't played in the second tier since 1992 and it's well-documented that promotion into the Championship is the club's long-term goal with chairman Hussain AlSaeed setting out a three-year plan to get promoted last season. Despite a promising start to the campaign, most supporters will see improvement on last term's 15th place finish as a success while breaking into the top half would represent an outstanding season given where this young team are at in their development as a unit. Huge? Maybe there is another Bristol Rovers that Don was thinking of. Stockport are a top ten side and I would view Barnsley in similar terms, as DC, with all due respect, isn't a top six manager - for me, his appointment signalled a lack of ambition from the Tykes. Even with sustained investment, the limit of our ambition for the foreseeable future is going to be championship survival. Thomas and Hutchinson in advanced positions will solve the creativity problem. The real question is if Omochere, Forde and Sotoriou can score enough goals (for me, we have to move on from Martin). I'm optimistic that they can. |
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