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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 18:22:28 GMT
hes the best manager we have had in years He is the first manager to be in charge when the club was relegated to non league, he does seem to be doing his best to put right a massive wrong or was it all John Wards fault.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 18:37:57 GMT
The only thing that I still find odd about Dartford, is why we played the ball on the deck more, than in games when we have played on a good pitch. Playing out from the back was very iffy at times on that surface Still I hope we play that way on Saturday,on a good pitch it should make for good viewing
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 18:56:47 GMT
hes the best manager we have had in years He is the first manager to be in charge when the club was relegated to non league, he does seem to be doing his best to put right a massive wrong or was it all John Wards fault. Trollope,Lawrence, Buckle, McGhee did a fantastic job with Higgs help. Along comes Darrel Clarke and undoes all that fantastic work in 8 f**king games and a day after the transfer window shuts!! Can you believe that? It was not a stitch up at all!! It was a master plan well thought out by educated people. I despair.
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Post by LPGas on Feb 4, 2015 18:57:04 GMT
I don't read his blogs either as life is too short to waste on hot air. However, based on his post I would be quite interested to know what his qualifications are for his comments on the football side of rovers. What level of football has he played at and what coaching qualifications does he have? He quite clearly doesn't understand the difficulty of playing on the poor pitch on Saturday, which was obvious to most spectators there. Man U moaned about a far better pitch than the Dartford one, which shouldn't have been deemed unplayable on the day. The team are giving 100% this year and appear to have an excellent team spirit. Whether you are a true supporter is irrelevant really but what you can't do if you don't go to many matches is know what the standard of the other teams are or how well or not rovers are playing. A number of people who are supporters don't go to matches for various reasons but they are still fans but only an idiot would take notice of an opinion on the current team from one who goes to few matches. One does have to question why the post prints a blog about the team from someone who rarely watches them but then they have an article about why Connor went to Barnet but not on why Doyle joined Cardiff. the Bristol Sports Post is crap
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 19:01:36 GMT
He is the first manager to be in charge when the club was relegated to non league, he does seem to be doing his best to put right a massive wrong or was it all John Wards fault. Trollope,Lawrence, Buckle, McGhee did a fantastic job with Higgs help. Along comes Darrel Clarke and undoes all that fantastic work in 8 f******g games and a day after the transfer window shuts!! Can you believe that? It was not a stitch up at all!! It was a master plan well thought out by educated people. I despair. TFFT, he didn't take the club down and Bobby Ewing is in the shower.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 19:05:47 GMT
Trollope,Lawrence, Buckle, McGhee did a fantastic job with Higgs help. Along comes Darrel Clarke and undoes all that fantastic work in 8 f******g games and a day after the transfer window shuts!! Can you believe that? It was not a stitch up at all!! It was a master plan well thought out by educated people. I despair. TFFT, he didn't take the club down and Bobby Ewing is in the shower. Ignorance is bliss hey? LOL. I suppose you are still going to the Elvis concert tomorrow night?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 19:13:37 GMT
TFFT, he didn't take the club down and Bobby Ewing is in the shower. Ignorance is bliss hey? LOL. I suppose you are still going to the Elvis concert tomorrow night? And wearing my blue suede shoes.
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Post by outwoodgas on Feb 4, 2015 19:57:43 GMT
Personally I'd give Darrell some credit for not taking the easy option many managers would have done in blaming the pitch, which was absolutely appalling. We do seem to be in an odd situation however, in so much that at the start of the season most of us would probably have thought second place at the beginning of February was more than we could reasonably hope for, yet despite having got there we are still questioning the team, the manager and his tactics. Just a thought about Lockyer too - ok his passing is more Andy Spring that Andrea Pirlo, but on Saturday the ball seemed to be attracted to him like a magnet so he deserves a good deal of credit for sniffing out danger, putting himself about and taking responsibility. I'd always have a bloke like that in my team.
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Post by fanatical on Feb 4, 2015 20:05:04 GMT
I know DC has a lot of love from fans and no doubt I'll take more flak, but I think he got it wrong on Saturday. I hadn't seen us for a while but we were pretty poor against part-time opposition. Our two goals came from defensive mistakes and, in fairness, Dartford had better chances. So when DC once again says how frustrated he was with giving away the lead, he should look at the overall performance. He thinks we deserved to win... I don't. Here's my Post blog www.bristolpost.co.uk/BRISTOL-ROVERS-BLOG-Frankie-Prince-s-Bovver-Boots/story-25966855-detail/story.htmlHe is a better manager than you will ever be! I have to ask why you consider yourself a supporter, all you do is moan and criticise, I know that this is a common trait for Bristolians but, we are second in the league, and we need to think about the years Luton and Oxford, both bigger clubs than us in terms of history and size and be grateful we are not in the bottom half as they were for many years. The truth is we are where we are because for the last 7 years we have been on a downward spiral, which at last has been stopped. You need to accept that it is DC who has done that. Perhaps had we not let LL go because so many on the forum were asking "What does he do for his money?" The spiral would not have started, but there we are what do supporters really know about what goes on at the club, the truth is, nothing. The rumours and the "facts" on here and in other places are mostly fabricated.
Your blog would be much more interesting if it sounded like you supported the manager and the team; you don't. Therefore you are a follower, not a supporter
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Post by buckrippers on Feb 4, 2015 20:10:18 GMT
So what qualifies someone to voice an opinion? How many games? Is that one season or 47 years of watching? What is a good cross section for which to gauge opinion on Darrell Clarke's management style, tactics etc. How many games am I supposed to see? Five, ten, 15... I have to go to them all? Or do you just want James McNamara's opinion as he goes to all the games. Mind you, he's not really giving a supporter's view is he? Mostly, he records the manager and players opinions. Just asking. People don't have to agree with me, as is pretty obvious the case on here, but what's the point in just writing platitudes through rose-tinted spectacles. I actually think people are scared on here because they know how fragile this "revival" is and are scared that any whisper of negativity will see it all go wrong. If you believe in DC that much he should be good enough to rise above a few critical comments on a website Anybody can have an opinion but your supposed to be writing a blog based on knowledge of the game and of how the team is playing this year. The number of years you have watched other teams are irrelevant to this team and if you rarely watch them to me your observations are as useful as a broken pencil. Perhaps you could inform us of when you watched a season of conference football in your cross section and which papers you have been aregular football correspondent for. As for whose opinion I like to hear. it is from ones, who go regularly even though I often disagree with some of their comments. I think the only thing thats fragile on here is your ego and you must be really sad that the bile you have churned out before hasn't yet come to pass. You come accross as a very bitter person but you never know we may not make the play offs and you can tell us all that if only JW was still mamager his pacy team would have got us back up. By the same token great newspaper sports writers like Patrick Collins and Hugh McIlvanney shouldn't be allowed to write opinions on anything unless they have scouted, coached, managed, played etc etc. That's perhaps why British football is so insular. By watching other football, and covering successful teams (I have reported on a lot of football in my time and interviewed many, many managers - not just at Rovers but all over the country) I feel I am far less insular and in a better position to comment. The fact I've only seen Rovers five times this season, and can only say we played really well in one half - against Gateshead - puts me in a better position than someone who has been conditioned to watching the same team week in, week out and perhaps comes to accept their "flaws".
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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 4, 2015 20:50:18 GMT
But as a Rovers fan, rather than just a football reporter, what are you hoping to achieve with your continued negativity towards Rovers in your B Post blogs, you can see from the vast majority of posts on here fans don't appreciate what you are writing each week? Surely you can appreciate DC has handed a very difficult task by NH and, so far, he's doing a reasonable job.
Perhaps the football isn't easy on the eye as we'd like but as none of us have managed in the Conference perhaps it's the most effective style? He's even got a squad of players all, mostly fit, and willing to fight for the cause and that must be the first since our promotion season?
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Post by me on Feb 4, 2015 22:38:01 GMT
Anybody can have an opinion but your supposed to be writing a blog based on knowledge of the game and of how the team is playing this year. The number of years you have watched other teams are irrelevant to this team and if you rarely watch them to me your observations are as useful as a broken pencil. Perhaps you could inform us of when you watched a season of conference football in your cross section and which papers you have been aregular football correspondent for. As for whose opinion I like to hear. it is from ones, who go regularly even though I often disagree with some of their comments. I think the only thing thats fragile on here is your ego and you must be really sad that the bile you have churned out before hasn't yet come to pass. You come accross as a very bitter person but you never know we may not make the play offs and you can tell us all that if only JW was still mamager his pacy team would have got us back up. By the same token great newspaper sports writers like Patrick Collins and Hugh McIlvanney shouldn't be allowed to write opinions on anything unless they have scouted, coached, managed, played etc etc. That's perhaps why British football is so insular. By watching other football, and covering successful teams (I have reported on a lot of football in my time and interviewed many, many managers - not just at Rovers but all over the country) I feel I am far less insular and in a better position to comment. The fact I've only seen Rovers five times this season, and can only say we played really well in one half - against Gateshead - puts me in a better position than someone who has been conditioned to watching the same team week in, week out and perhaps comes to accept their "flaws". So you've watched BRFC 5 times this season and you write a blog about them! Having watched all home games bar 1 and 4 away games (no I'm not looking for a medal) I do not accept the obvious 'flaws' but what I do appreciate is DC rebuilding the team to only include players who give 100% with less than 50% of last year's budget. Surely if you write about a football club, you need to express a balanced opinion? You mentioned Gateshead, surely as a football supporter of so many years you should have recognised how DC changed his formation early on against Gateshead and that was a major reason why we won that game. Apologies if you did praise for DC for that victory. I agree the performances this season haven't been that good , but managers are judged on results and 1 defeat in 25 games and being 2nd in the table suggests DC is doing a very good job.
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Post by alwaysgas on Feb 4, 2015 22:58:36 GMT
Anybody can have an opinion but your supposed to be writing a blog based on knowledge of the game and of how the team is playing this year. The number of years you have watched other teams are irrelevant to this team and if you rarely watch them to me your observations are as useful as a broken pencil. Perhaps you could inform us of when you watched a season of conference football in your cross section and which papers you have been aregular football correspondent for. As for whose opinion I like to hear. it is from ones, who go regularly even though I often disagree with some of their comments. I think the only thing thats fragile on here is your ego and you must be really sad that the bile you have churned out before hasn't yet come to pass. You come accross as a very bitter person but you never know we may not make the play offs and you can tell us all that if only JW was still mamager his pacy team would have got us back up. By the same token great newspaper sports writers like Patrick Collins and Hugh McIlvanney shouldn't be allowed to write opinions on anything unless they have scouted, coached, managed, played etc etc. That's perhaps why British football is so insular. By watching other football, and covering successful teams (I have reported on a lot of football in my time and interviewed many, many managers - not just at Rovers but all over the country) I feel I am far less insular and in a better position to comment. The fact I've only seen Rovers five times this season, and can only say we played really well in one half - against Gateshead - puts me in a better position than someone who has been conditioned to watching the same team week in, week out and perhaps comes to accept their "flaws". If you are a professional journalist I suspect if you reread this post you will be a little embarrassed. To compare yourself, hardly a nationally known writer. to Hugh McIlvanney is risible on any level and really calls into account your grasp of reality. I watch rovers week in and week out because I support them and I certainly didn't accept John Ward's last season that was dire and and condemned us to the conference. You can watch as many different teams as you like and comment on them but please don't pretend, that you are writing a blog as a rovers fan, that should be taken seriously when you have watched less than 15% of their games this season.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 23:18:38 GMT
For me the team has performed and achieved more than I thought they would after the debacle of the first game I witnessed at Barnet. But then I also witnessed the frustrating performances as well. The most recent for me was at Woking where the lack of width in our play appeared obvious against a very limited team who played much worse than their performance at the Mem, which I witnessed also. For me Clarke is a very negative manager who appears intent on not losing, rather than focus on winning. The only time that was not true was that I saw wascthe first half against Barnet at home when, with a player like LDV available, we tore into them and made them look like amateurs. I am not convinced that DC will lead the team much higher than we already are, but then I remember his interview after the Forest Green away game where he made the comment about ignoring the events off the pitchcand wonder sometimes to what degree his hands are tied. Who knows, and I hope I am very wrong. As fot the rubbish written slagging off a poster for expressing an opinion, well its unbelievable really. But it seems to happen on any topic where anyone dare point out the failings at the club. Its pathetic
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Post by dido on Feb 4, 2015 23:44:37 GMT
So, you've seen 4 games.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 23:55:33 GMT
Dido Who are you referring to?
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Post by pop up pirate on Feb 5, 2015 0:08:31 GMT
Watched us 5 times ? Frankie Prince's can't be bothered boots more like
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Post by cole on Feb 5, 2015 0:31:59 GMT
By the same token great newspaper sports writers like Patrick Collins and Hugh McIlvanney shouldn't be allowed to write opinions on anything unless they have scouted, coached, managed, played etc etc. That's perhaps why British football is so insular. By watching other football, and covering successful teams (I have reported on a lot of football in my time and interviewed many, many managers - not just at Rovers but all over the country) I feel I am far less insular and in a better position to comment. The fact I've only seen Rovers five times this season, and can only say we played really well in one half - against Gateshead - puts me in a better position than someone who has been conditioned to watching the same team week in, week out and perhaps comes to accept their "flaws". If you are a professional journalist I suspect if you reread this post you will be a little embarrassed. To compare yourself, hardly a nationally known writer. to Hugh McIlvanney is risible on any level and really calls into account your grasp of reality. I watch rovers week in and week out because I support them and I certainly didn't accept John Ward's last season that was dire and and condemned us to the conference. You can watch as many different teams as you like and comment on them but please don't pretend, that you are writing a blog as a rovers fan, that should be taken seriously when you have watched less than 15% of their games this season. I think your the one who should reread the post with embarrassment as you have obviously misread it. At no point does he compare himself to Hugh McIlvanney he was just using him to make a point about the right to express opinions. 15% of games is more than adequate to make a judgement along with reading reports and watching videos. It's obvious that Darell is making it up as he goes along reheating every old cliché in the book. He's been lucky so far because he has some good players who should never have been relegated and by and large the quality of the opposition in non league football is pretty dire. Let's wait and see will buckrippers be accurate in his comments come April. Personally I think he will.
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Post by alwaysgas on Feb 5, 2015 1:04:30 GMT
For me the team has performed and achieved more than I thought they would after the debacle of the first game I witnessed at Barnet. But then I also witnessed the frustrating performances as well. The most recent for me was at Woking where the lack of width in our play appeared obvious against a very limited team who played much worse than their performance at the Mem, which I witnessed also. For me Clarke is a very negative manager who appears intent on not losing, rather than focus on winning. The only time that was not true was that I saw wascthe first half against Barnet at home when, with a player like LDV available, we tore into them and made them look like amateurs. I am not convinced that DC will lead the team much higher than we already are, but then I remember his interview after the Forest Green away game where he made the comment about ignoring the events off the pitchcand wonder sometimes to what degree his hands are tied. Who knows, and I hope I am very wrong. As fot the rubbish written slagging off a poster for expressing an opinion, well its unbelievable really. But it seems to happen on any topic where anyone dare point out the failings at the club. Its pathetic AS pathetic as the rubbish written slagging off posters for positive posts.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2015 6:18:15 GMT
For me the team has performed and achieved more than I thought they would after the debacle of the first game I witnessed at Barnet. But then I also witnessed the frustrating performances as well. The most recent for me was at Woking where the lack of width in our play appeared obvious against a very limited team who played much worse than their performance at the Mem, which I witnessed also. For me Clarke is a very negative manager who appears intent on not losing, rather than focus on winning. The only time that was not true was that I saw wascthe first half against Barnet at home when, with a player like LDV available, we tore into them and made them look like amateurs. I am not convinced that DC will lead the team much higher than we already are, but then I remember his interview after the Forest Green away game where he made the comment about ignoring the events off the pitchcand wonder sometimes to what degree his hands are tied. Who knows, and I hope I am very wrong. As fot the rubbish written slagging off a poster for expressing an opinion, well its unbelievable really. But it seems to happen on any topic where anyone dare point out the failings at the club. Its pathetic AS pathetic as the rubbish written slagging off posters for positive posts. I dont think the right to post positive posts is disputed, in the way that this thread has descended. Whatever next, a minimum attendance percentage before an opinion can be expressed. Usually this sort of guff is used to divert from the blindingly obvious.
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