G Coughlan...

It's funny - I'm much more excited by the BG/training ground/develop 'em project

Which isn't to say it'll work, but I think it's a big step forwards

Never mind, it was only our best chance to get into the 2nd tier since 1990, we were right to throw it away on an untried coach.

I'm with Irish, with this, the way that the inertia Wael inherited was allowed to stall and ridiculous losses were run up, all secured against the club's home. 

Add to that, whether it's be design or not, apart from shop staff I think that everybody I knew at the club as been shown the door, one by one, everyone has gone. It's real difficult to recognise this as the club I've supported for over 50 years.

Nice one Wael.

Fine AMPG!. Perhaps I am becoming more cynical in my elder years!. The BG/training ground/develop 'em project strategy of Rovers becoming a selling farm for young players also concerns me as this seems to be the 'priority', I understand we need cash to operate, but I just have a sneaky feeling that Rovers will be content to stay in L1/L2 and try to sell to make profit, churning out the young players that Garner's snapping up, proof I guess will be if we 'find ourselves' in a lofty league position, what happens next.

I hear no War cry, or ambition from BG, just complaints about officials, for me he is not a leader or passionate motivator who's main aim in his Rovers life is promotion, it is clearly training ground and the development of youth. I had to stop watching his pre/post match interviews as they made me tense and angry, every question asked recieves a super lengthy waffle of a reply that you just have to wonder if he goes about his business the same way, how does he manage to get through a day's work.

I am very positive about the Quarters training ground, this is a wonder to behold, and will certainly improve the team and make us far more attractive going forward. I also think this strengthens Wael's hand regarding any future ventures.

GC - the most unpopular successful manager we ever had!

GC created a crap vibe for the majority, and our view of success is unfortunately skewed by the lack of it. At least we had some fun under Holloway and Clarke.

Agreed as long as I wasn't there watching it.

I think you have shared your views on GC as someone you admire and would like coaching your team and certainly I am very clear of your dislike of BG (and frankly your opinions of him are also far too personal, in my mind). I see some potential in the young playing squad, whether BG is the right man I certainly don't know as I'm also not convinced at this point. But in true Gas style I support the club. I even supported with GC at the helm, but I disliked it.

That’s about it, managers come, managers go but I (we?) support BRFC even when it’s poor. Blimey, I was at Yeovil in the noughties when our pub team rolled up and got thrashed 0-4 and at York in December 2012 when McGhee's masterplan involved defenders playing as attackers and we lost 1-4. But the fans still supported the club and we keep doing that. Mind you I seem to remember MCG getting stick that day. Not sure that managers in the past got the personal abuse that BG, and this week GC, have got. Views now aren’t confined to agree/disagree, should do this/shouldn’t do this, pick this player/ don’t pick this player. Nothing now is off limits and managers need a very thick skin to deal with it. On here it probably just stays the right line of acceptable imo. But we are all different and with that comes our own personal lines that we don’t cross. I’d disagree with some and feel that some comments are perhaps too personal and step outside the limits of acceptability. But that happens rarely and perhaps I come from a different time when tolerance levels of others were far higher than they are now. Perhaps!

Me, I like the position GC got us to. I don’t think we’d have sustained that as the football wasn’t very good and as has been said we ground teams down. But I can’t remember us beating any team we shouldn’t have been beating except Ipswich. That’s the only one. Our record under GC against the top teams was as woeful as it has been under BG and under DC in the last year. Our football now gives me hope that we’re moving in the right direction. I hope BG is the right manager but that’s more about hope than expectation at the moment but give him time. I guess we’ll know by the season’s end and even then would Wael do anything? I don’t know. But I switch on to watch now with more hope than I did last season. Time will tell.

Lets hope a win win at the weekend can revive us and make October a very good month. 😉

UTG!

Irish.

Swiss will most likely be along to confirm soon enough, but my feeling is that he was agreeing with you and him referencing what Starnes said was backing up your feeling that we were being treated poorly, namely by a statement being made which we can now see the club simply wasn't committed to. If they were then Garner would have been gone after half a dozen games and an old wise head would have been brought in to try to salvage our best chance of getting promoted to the 2nd tier for 3 decades.

And to those who say that we wouldn't have made it and that we were in a false position, just look who took that place in the end, Lightning Cheats FC, if they did it then I'm damn sure we could have.