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Post by faggotygas on Apr 17, 2019 9:51:52 GMT
But it was overhit, Bambs. Luckily JCH leapt to his full 14ft 11inches to mishead the leather. I can't face the both of you together, Di. I wasn't there, as you will have gathered. But I'm glad be found his line and length. He didn't in my last two home games. 'in and around', the latest football cliche that I despise. I've heard, 'he's got to be in and around the striker there' - what, he's got to be in the striker? That would be a foul, surely. Whatever happened to faggotygas ? Still here. Mostly post when something bugs me for no good reason, which is becoming more and more often as I get older. Must get around to trying that yoga.
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Post by faggotygas on Jan 7, 2019 13:51:27 GMT
The Government PM'd me saying exactly the same thing. Did you check if theys ok hun?
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Post by faggotygas on Jun 19, 2018 7:50:00 GMT
The posh to date have signed 7 new players already. Surely it can't be that difficult. You are looking at probably 10 new players for them come the beginning of the season. We don't need a clear out but signing new players seems to come easy for some teams why not us ! Bury signed loads of players last summer.
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Post by faggotygas on May 23, 2018 11:30:01 GMT
Bennett, Sercombe & Upson for a combined total of 125k. Unreal business. Only a few months ago, people were saying how poor DC's transfer record was, and that it was a weakness
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Post by faggotygas on May 18, 2018 13:32:08 GMT
Where have you seen that claim on the OS please? I can't see it. You're not making stuff up to badmouth the club, are you? Good God,no!!!! He wouldn't do that! Good to hear.
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Post by faggotygas on May 18, 2018 12:42:00 GMT
Have any of you seen the OS claim that the addition of some 340 seats, in yet another tent, is the start of the redevelopment of the mem ? honestly, people wonder why the 82 ltd call us the gift that keeps on giving. Given the size of the so called redevelopment, don’t you think it would have been better to just do it and not draw attention to it. I know many got over excited when the AQ’s took over but this cries tinpot more than anything else I’ve seen reported on. Carry on and call me negative but when the addition of a canvas roofed extra 340 seats makes the OS, surely it must make you feel anything other than pride ? If this truly is part of the revitalising of the ground then I despair. Thoughts ? Where have you seen that claim on the OS please? I can't see it. You're not making stuff up to badmouth the club, are you?
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Post by faggotygas on Mar 19, 2018 13:01:03 GMT
The top sides in this division are invariably teams who keep settled sides. A clear assumption, so I though I'd have a little look at the teams put out by the top sides in the division, and see if this was 'invariably' true.
So far this season, 23 players have started for Rovers in the League. Taking the top sides in the division as the top 6:
Blackburn - 27 players have started Shrewsbury - 24 Wigan - 33 Rotherham - 24 Scunthorpe - 24 Plymouth - 22
So no evidence for your assumption there.
Another good source is www.thestatszone.com/2017-18-line-up-changes-in-english-football who actually analysed the number of changes per game for every team, in the League, up until 7 February.
Rovers - 2.7 changes per game.
Blackburn - 1.9 Shrewsbury - 1.8 Wigan - 1.1 Rotherham - 2.1 Scunthorpe - 1.8 Plymouth - 1.6
So a slight difference, but generally less than a player per game extra. Is this significant? I'm not sure. What we can see from this is that although Rovers do make (slightly) more changes per game, it is from a 'tighter' squad than most -the changes are from a regular group of players.
Another question is, if the top sides are more settled than Rovers - is this cause, or effect? In other words, are the top sides more successful because they are settled, or are they settled because they are more successful, therefore less pressure to change the team? If anyone has any ideas of how to prove this statistically, then please do let me know.
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Post by faggotygas on Feb 23, 2018 13:46:56 GMT
Don’t expect much apart from bench warming loans. I fully expect Harrison to go and I feel Lockyer could well go too. It’s going to be an interesting summer and we have 13 games left to hopefully improve our position and get a little more money. I’ve no delusions of a play off spot. I would like to see Telford get a run of games now as we have effectively been playing with 10 men with Nichols on the pitch. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see him prove many of us wrong but , right now, he looks like our most expensive folly ever That's still Mickey Evans for me. Net loss £220k, which in today's money, allowing for retail inflation, is about £350k. Allowing for transfer fee inflation, that's more like £1.2million!
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Post by faggotygas on Feb 19, 2018 11:07:09 GMT
The striker is backing in to Sinclair. You are allowed to hold your ground. Neither player is moving, it's impossible to tell. It shows a foul by Sinclair at least as clearly as it shows a handball by Henderson. So if it's impossible to tell, how can you say that it's a foul by Sinclair?
The still shows Henderson to have an outstretched hand, with the ball very nearly touching it.
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Post by faggotygas on Feb 16, 2018 13:49:41 GMT
Doesn't show it in this picture but he had a direct line of sight of this. Luckily it all worked out for us but it's piss poor decisions like this that can cost games or even a season! That picture shows a clear foul by Sinclair. The striker is backing in to Sinclair. You are allowed to hold your ground.
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Post by faggotygas on Jan 30, 2018 14:22:10 GMT
We'll have to wait and see, but......i thought if we just shored up our defence, we would make a formidable team as we seem to score goals freely from all over the park. So defence is priority as I see it. I personally think we need wide left midfielder, and another goalscoring threat (as Nichols doesn't cut the mustard) as cover. Maybe that's luxury. I wanted us to develop Broom. Dc obviously feels we need experience (if we sign this fella), but Monkey apart, when he gets in an old hand, it invariably doesn't work so well.. Invariably?
Easter (played his part) Mansell was brilliant Lawrence was signed as cover, and provided cover. Fallon was signed as cover, and provided cover. Bob Harris was signed as cover, and provided cover. Sercombe is 27, doing great. Slocombe is 29, played a few times, covered for Smith when he was injured, provides competition. Hartley was a free transfer that we eventually got money for. Lines?
DC often signs older players on free transfers to provide reliable cover, and to add their experience and knowledge to the squad. Just because they don't go on to play 100 times, misses the point.
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Post by faggotygas on Jan 30, 2018 8:45:44 GMT
Let’s say the rumours are true and the owners are cold footed about the investment needed to move us forward. As I see it, our asset is out fan base which has massive potential. Owners have come and gone but the same issue remained: We have shed loads of debt. Any investment is minus £12M on day one. Until Sergei Abramobicikov finds us, we will always struggle because of the millstone of debt sinking us to the fetid depths of the stagnant waters of mediocrity. So, could the answer be to go bust and reform, debt free? With 9,000 potential gates, and almost guaranteed 5,000, I think we would absolutely sail up the leagues back to pro football. I’m not saying we should, it’s a discussion point. What do you think? I guess the ground is the issue which would be lost if we were wound up. Also, I assume we have to play up leagues from Park football, but how did City do it? They never went back to bostick glue premier? A company doesn't necessarily have to be wound up to sort out debts. We could go into administration, and come to an agreement with creditors through a CVA, like so many others have. With the asset of the Mem, the fact that our creditors are our owners, and our relatively high attendances, that would be quite likely imo.
I believe the punishment for doing this is a 12 point penalty, plus 15 more points if certain criteria are not met. Not chucking out the league.
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Post by faggotygas on Jan 24, 2018 11:13:53 GMT
How have the other developments been paid for? Genuine question.
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Post by faggotygas on Jan 8, 2018 16:44:44 GMT
You forgot Zamora at £150k (he fell out with Holloway, as did Cureton) and the other not on the list is Hayles who went to Fulham for 2 mill We got a lot more than that with add-ons
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Post by faggotygas on Jan 4, 2018 13:53:33 GMT
I won’t discuss anybody’s wages on here. Articles can be published from any PC so the webmasters often post from Home if they are instructed to do so. Also articles can be timed to go live at any time the webmaster sets. Clever things these computers. ;-) NQSS is spot on. Having worked with two of the official website hosts before at Yeovil, I can confirm that you set stories up for whatever time you want. Handy for transfers where both clubs agree on a time and set the story to "go live" at that time, so that one doesn't gazump the other. Even the Pitchero websites, used at non-league and grass roots level, has the ability to set stories up to be released whenever you want. Even Facebook!
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Post by faggotygas on Dec 29, 2017 12:40:14 GMT
Just heard DC moaning about the Xmas fixtures bet he wondered how Bert Tann coped over 60 years ago. 22 Dec 1956 Doncaster Rovers home won 6-1 25 Dec Bury away lost 7-2 26 Dec Bury home won 6-1 29 Dec Stoke City away Lost 1-2 5 Jan 1957 Hull City away FA Cup won 4-3. Don’t forget no motorways in those days try travelling to Bury on Christmas Day The team didn't cope very well, based on those Bury results.
Bizarre results were common over Christmas and Easter back then as you will know, undoubtably due to fixture congestion. Would you like to return to a lottery?
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Post by faggotygas on Nov 23, 2017 13:53:56 GMT
The reason I brought the Colony training ground up again is because Wael is reported to have told supporters on Saturday that "it will get built" and then a rumour appeared about the development being downgraded to virtually the same as the amateur rugby club had gained permission for in the past. This all smacks of him not wishing to lose face on the training ground and not really having any defined plan of where we are going or how we are going to get there. As Padstow says above, when you have limited resources you must prioritize how you use them and to me the priority would be getting the club into profit or at least closer to break even as soon as possible. The alternative is to carry on losing money and having to loan even more from Dwane Sports in a vicious circle which can only drag us downward. What I am saying is that ownership of a training ground is not essential and that we should be able to find an acceptable facility to lease if we start looking now. An upgrade of the Mem is also not essential in the short term because if we have to borrow to make the upgrade (if that is even possible) the cost of servicing that debt will outweigh any extra revenue for many years to come. What is essential IMO is to reduce the trading losses as quickly as possible so that they do not overwhelm the club. Because of the way the EFL prize money is structured there is a huge incentive to get to the Championship and for a club like Rovers, which is financed by interest bearing debt, that seems to be the only way to avoid unsustainable losses. Once we are there, and turning in a profit, we are in a far better position to move forward with longer term infrastructure investments and source the funding for them. The general opinion of fans is that if you have a piece of land and spend £2 million on it then the developed land will suddenly be worth £3 million. My experience tells me that this is not the case and the sale value of the land may hardly increase at all. The reason is that the market for a sports training ground developed to amateur rugby club standard is limited and there may not be anyone around willing to pay £3 million for it. So the only financial benefit is a marginal saving on the cost of leasing a training ground from someone else. To me, spending £2 million on this would be a mistake when that money, if used wisely, could turn the club around completely. Interesting stuff. I'd love to see proper numbers behind either option.
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Post by faggotygas on Nov 15, 2017 16:01:38 GMT
Rovers will probably get the smallest home gate of the season v Wimbledon. Can't see much in the way of incentives for gasheads to turn up in numbers considering the teams current relagation form. Can't see buy one get one free on the pies that have come from the other side of the country helping much. Gorringe is employed to increase match day revenue he is needed big time for this weekend but it looks like he's gone missing again. Blimey.
1. The bloke's been here 5 minutes, give him a chance
2. His job is not to increase match day revenue, but to maximise the club's total commercial revenue
3. He can't change the results on the pitch
4. Our form is not relegation form. Over 6 games it is 18th in the league, over 10 it is 16th. You have to finish 21st or below to be relegated.
5. Once every season, we have our smallest home gate of the season.
6. Are you ok?
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Post by faggotygas on Nov 8, 2017 12:13:06 GMT
Interesting that people defend it or say it’s not a story as it’s “legal”. If we have a perfect legal system that needs no reform then yes, but the laws are changed continually and in some cases (refer to Panorama part 2) the rich are actually getting the regulation changed to suit them. That’s a bit like bribing the police to change the law so that you never get done for speeding but everyone else still does. Indeed, legally ok is not always the same as morally right.
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Post by faggotygas on Nov 8, 2017 8:59:22 GMT
If only we had some kind of independant fan's voice, perhaps a campaign group, to put these questions to the board.
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