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Post by Surrey Gas on Sept 6, 2014 18:21:16 GMT
Well Gasheads, several fans from non league clubs and former non league clubs came onto this forum before the seasaon started to warn us we would struggle to adapt to this league. They spoke from experience so why is everyone so shocked we are struggling down here in non league football?
I for one was hoping we could buck the trend of relegated teams struggling in the conference in recent years but thats all it was, a desperate hope.
Its difficult to keep the faith and today's experience was as low as it has got (but we are probably not rock bottom yet) - the ground was so tiny you could actually hear what the players were shouting to each other down the opposite end of the pitch. No atmosphere, s**te football, s**te ground, depressing place all round.
As a lifelong Gashead for over 40 years I am really struggling to keep the faith. That was a real kick in the teeth today and another large dose of harsh reality.
Can we fast forward 5 years by which time we may have manged to climb out of this god awful league?
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Post by zfc on Sept 6, 2014 18:32:36 GMT
Or climb down out of it which may be the case while idiots continue to run the football club.
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Post by barnstaplegas on Sept 6, 2014 18:33:14 GMT
Like u say we were warned i think we may be here tad longer than 5 years!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 18:39:39 GMT
Soul destroying.Wish I could leave Rovers after years of under achievement,broken promises on stadiums mediocre football and lack of ambition or direction. -But I can't.
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Post by barnstaplegas on Sept 6, 2014 18:50:06 GMT
Soul destroying.Wish I could leave Rovers after years of under achievement,broken promises on stadiums mediocre football and lack of ambition or direction. -But I can't. Good on you for saying that but i fear getting to point that a lot will cant keep watching same s**t week after week year on year !!! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 19:15:58 GMT
Or climb down out of it which may be the case while idiots continue to run the football club. Care to suggest a way out of this hole apart from sack the board/manager/ball boy ?? |
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Sept 6, 2014 19:32:41 GMT
I for one was hoping we could buck the trend of relegated teams struggling in the conference in recent years but thats all it was, a desperate hope. Thing is, most of those teams didn't struggle. They didn't go straight back up, but they were often pushing for the play-offs. |
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Post by clockendgas on Sept 6, 2014 19:50:18 GMT
How do i put in for a transfer? or am i stuck at rovers
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Post by Surrey Gas on Sept 6, 2014 19:54:17 GMT
I for one was hoping we could buck the trend of relegated teams struggling in the conference in recent years but thats all it was, a desperate hope. Thing is, most of those teams didn't struggle. They didn't go straight back up, but they were often pushing for the play-offs. Stockport County now in the conference north? Wrexham, Grimsby and Lincoln certainly have not been perennial top conference teams. |
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Post by Topper Gas on Sept 6, 2014 20:05:23 GMT
It seems the only idiots who didn't understand the battle they would face are the 11 in blue & white shirts each match day. Why DC didn't transfer list all last season's players, bar Lockyer & Mildenhall, is beyond me as the rest clearly don't have the bottle for the fight.
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Post by supersteve73 on Sept 6, 2014 20:10:28 GMT
What is Dismal Darrell's record in charge now?
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Post by mehewmagic on Sept 6, 2014 20:11:49 GMT
the funny thing is is that we have done nearly all the things those fans told us to do / told us to expect.
we haven't gone for journeymen / higher lge players.
we have tried to get rid of as many big earners as we could
we haven't gone in to games thinking we were bertie big bollocks
we have tried to keep expectations realistic
we haven't tried to deny where we are or how we got here
yet we are still poor. so far. VERY long way to go yet. cambridge utd played 60 games last season. we've played 7.
the obvious problem has been recruitment, goalscorers and a very thin squad.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Sept 6, 2014 20:22:27 GMT
Thing is, most of those teams didn't struggle. They didn't go straight back up, but they were often pushing for the play-offs. Stockport County now in the conference north? Wrexham, Grimsby and Lincoln certainly have not been perennial top conference teams. Sorry, thought you were talking about the teams of the fans who have come here to tell us it would be hell. Iirc, Lincoln, Luton and Grimsby. |
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Sept 6, 2014 20:25:10 GMT
we have tried to keep expectations realistic I guess expecting better than losses away to Altrincham and Braintree isn't realistic enough. |
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Post by The Man from Del Monte on Sept 6, 2014 21:23:00 GMT
we have tried to keep expectations realistic I guess expecting better than losses away to Altrincham and Braintree isn't realistic enough.  This man knows his stuff about lowering expectations. He just didn't tell us how low we had to go... |
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