Toxic turd Barton was unfit to manage Bristol Rovers

You’ve got it all wrong; the Moral Crusaders, fresh from slaying dragons have decreed that Barton’s dedication to Brian Williams is all a ploy to influence the jury at his forthcoming trial, of which the kangarooists on here have already decided the outcome.

Given your role, I am surprised that you have taken the stance you have. Bristol Rovers Football Club is an employer, the role of manager is one that needs to be filled. I am not forgiving anyone, I am merely stating what I consider to be the facts of the matter. I had to work with people and understand fully their backgrounds before I could take them forwards and sometimes that was incredibly difficult, but if they had served their time then that was it. In those days we would liaise with the Probation Service as some job seekers were precluded from certain employment, for reasons that you will be aware of.

I am not sure that you can be certain that "Barton doesn't want forgiveness", as we are back in the territory of people making assumptions about the intentions of the Al Qadi family without very clear evidence to back it up.

As I say to the people who I now employ with my wife in our business, "we are not hear to make friends we are here to make money, if we don't make money we are all out of work". (All our employees have to be DBS checked)

The role of a football manager is to organise the team to win matches. That is what most supporters want and the morals or political views of the manager are an irrelevance to most. It doesn't matter if people "like" the manager or not.

I fundamentally disagreed with the direction of the previous owner of the Football Club and called him to account at each AGM (and he really didn't like it), but I never stopped supporting the team. I could see what was happening and kept my counsel when people were falling over backwards to support the UWE folly. It was a waste of mental energy to fight a battle that couldn't be won. 

I have been covering matches for Hospital Radio this season and something had to change, watching in the flesh has been a strange experience and I pretty sure that Garnerball would have finished much earlier than was the case if there had been a crowd in. Tisdale was unfortunate because of the Covid-19 outbreak, but he clearly lost the plot towards the end.

Is Barton the answer, I don't know? Recruitment is not an exact science and we were not party to it.

Regards

John Malyckyj

Additional pedants note. It has everything to do with the jury because guilt is established by the jury before sentencing takes place. So, if the Barton on Out brigade are correct, the jury will be made aware during the trial of Barton’s philanthropic tendencies in an effort to sway them towards NG.

I don’t believe that is why JB dedicated the win to Brian. I think he did it because he is immersing himself in this club and learning everything he can about the club and it’s fans.

That is a far cry from the previous incumbents, the first of whom spent his entire time moaning about referees as a way of deflecting attention away from his woeful management and inept team performances. The second seemed more interested in keeping his hands clean and his head warm. 

Yet there are are people on here who say they should have been given more time. I wonder if they would feel the same if they were having to finance the horrible slow-motion car crash unfolding before them.

“I would like Wael and Barton to please go away at their earliest convenience, to preserve the club, that's the opposite of destroying it, isn't it?” 

exactly.   

But still the religious quote is a misstep from the Barton fan girls considering Barton’s militant intolerant views on this.  Are any fan girls actually aware of what Barton is seeking to do, do they really just not care alongs he keeps us up?      

Calling for the Church of England should be disestablished as the official Church of the U.K. maybe not so controversial in some people’s eyes, other people may see it that Barton is seeking to destroy what they like about their country, it’s close association to the tradition, authority and duty of the Anglican Church.     

Perhaps more serious, and a touch intolerant, Barton has called for religion to be privatised. All public money withdrawn from religion. 

anyway, as it went past the hour I started on the Welsh Cakes.   Those of us who still value Saint Days, like St George’s day should make most of them before the populist Barton and his Sally Army of wokist fan girls ban them.   

I’m surprised I have to explain this, but here goes.

My comparison with the hysterical Barton Out movement to religious zealotry is not saying the movement has anything to do with religion. I am using religious zealotry as a simile to describe the hysteria over Barton. I could have said it was medieval witch hunting, again a simile.
I would not be advocating Barton be put in a ducking stool and drowned, or burnt at the stake for that matter.

Did that really need explaining?

And I think he did it to try to ingratiate himself to the fans. It made uncomfortable listening for me. He would never have known Brian, never even have heard of him. My guess is someone at the club suggested it would be a clever move to make that dedication. Spin, pure and simple imo.

you are responding strongly today Townie, but you are picking and choosing which points to respond to - you haven’t touched the THIS ISN’T MORALISING THIS IS THE PRACTICALITIES OF THE MISTAKE post.     
e passion and empathy with the supporters
the main mistake you are making is putting too much blame for the car crash on managers.  The car crash was waiting to occur long before Garner joined the club.  I think performances and results were not so bad under him to be honest, but I would have been happier if he had a Lenny next to him like Trolls had, rather than just sack him.  I think we would definitely have stood more chance of survival in that scenario, but even with relegation be in better place to build back better.   Because the second big mistake you are not addressing, it’s not any of the three managers this season who took us down.   It was the inadequacy of the squad not addressed.    

Perhaps we have. I’m prepared to give him a chance, others aren’t. I hope it doesn’t end in tears a Ive said all along. Let’s hope for the best from the situation. The doubters may end up pleasantly surprised.