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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 31, 2021 21:41:29 GMT
Rex - I am glad you mentioned that. We blooded Bater, Martin Thomas, Keith Curle, Ian Holloway, Gary Mabbutt, Paul Randall when they were teenagers. Personally, I think that squads are far too big which limits chances. Also,there is almost a meek acceptance that teenagers are ill-equipped for first team action. For example, Hoole looks a good player when I have seen him, but he is behind Williams, Little and Hare. He might be better than all of them, but he needs 10-15 games to prove it. The next test case is Tom Mehew? Joe Morrell at City looks like a missed opportunity for them. Add Tony Pulis to that list,debut at 17 in a derby game at AG. Tom Lockyer and Nathan Ellington too
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 28, 2021 13:18:07 GMT
Phil Bater would have been better than Barton
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 28, 2021 3:14:48 GMT
It all seems like an episode of the apprentice. After a failed project the team is summoned to the boardroom, individuals then take turns in blaming each other when in reality the judge is just as culpable by picking those people in the first place.
Perhaps Hamer was right all along. We needed to adopt a crazy gang mentality rather than think we were the league one Ajax given the deficiencies throughout the club.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 27, 2021 23:18:03 GMT
Or they feel as apathetic towards their employers as some fans do to the club.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 27, 2021 23:14:44 GMT
Barton’s agent probably trying to remind the rest of the world that he’s a sought after commodity.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 24, 2021 22:09:20 GMT
Playing for Sutton now, along with another nondescript Rovers player from that era who is so nondescript his name escapes me! Donovan Wilson. Wayne Brown was good, played in Aus for a season and scored a couple.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 24, 2021 6:57:26 GMT
These players have been sold a dream by Widdrington, then Garner. They then had to warm to the ideas of Tisdale, whilst still dealing with the coaches of the old regime, then Widdrington again, now the have Joey Barton and his merry men.
Covid must have placed burdens on those players too.
Scapegoating anyone is easy, I think a lot of these players would do reasonably at other L1 clubs.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 23, 2021 21:59:12 GMT
I don’t think many of the players are bad. Collectively they are substandard but I think this comes down to the culture at the club.
We could turn Ronaldo into Ramasut in less than a season. Certainly Barton is looking more Mike Bassett with each game.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 9, 2021 4:09:07 GMT
Brian Clough,on taking charge at Hartlepools had players painting the stadium. One of my favourite football personalities of all time. I'd at least put a number of players on airtasker in the hope we could at least recoup some money that was spent on recruiting them. I'm sure Alexis Andre could paint some walls and Liddle could offer garden services
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 3, 2021 22:27:56 GMT
We played better than Burton but it was still a team that looked susceptible. I can’t quite put my finger on it but there’s a fragileness about the way the team plays as a whole.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 27, 2021 10:27:07 GMT
Same here. That’s £20 already
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 23, 2021 22:06:07 GMT
If I played for the team I’d give it my all, I’d want it more than any other non-Gasheads player but, sadly, I’m crap. I’ll be the worst player in the squad. Worse than Carl Regan with a spot of gout. No amount of motivation or threats from a short-fused manager will make me run 100m in under 17 seconds or do more than 5 keepy-uppies.
Barton needs to adopt the dodgeball managerial approach!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 23, 2021 21:41:32 GMT
So far it's all secured against bricks and mortar, so as far as I can figure out he hasn't exposed himself to any risk whatsoever. All he's done is mess up everything he's touched. Maybe, I am frustrated as you. But you are not answering the question. Who is going to put up the money? Lots want him out but have no solution as to who will replace him. A clueless club with players who don't have the guile, ability or willingness to win games for their managers, club or supporters, in freefall. Where are all the Gasheads with the millions? It’ll be far more beneficial building a Phoenix club from scratch than trying to rebuild the mess left once AL Q exits. After all, without bricks and mortar, rovers are only a licence to play in the football league with a declining customer base and a withering brand. It’ll be more fun starting from scratch.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 23, 2021 21:02:01 GMT
Awful collective of players. Bizarre collection of backroom staff. Haphazard boardroom.
With this downward momentum we’re going to struggle even in league 2.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 23, 2021 20:32:48 GMT
This is so bad. This is worse than the Rob Quinn and Dave Savage years. I liked Sav. I saw Quinny recently and laughed when he told me that the players called him Rob Quinn Boo at Rovers because that was what he heard every time his name was read out. Luke Mc scores. Really good finish. Reminds me of Dave Savage
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 23, 2021 20:28:07 GMT
This is so bad. This is worse than the Rob Quinn and Dave Savage years.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 22, 2021 12:13:08 GMT
He’s got a special place reserved in the Hall of Shame
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 22, 2021 11:42:25 GMT
The board have shown with this appointment that the lunatics have now taken over the colony.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 22, 2021 10:43:09 GMT
It went like this. This squad you have put together is crap. No it’s not. It’s going down without some fresh players in this window. No it ain’t. Don’t need new players. It’s a brilliant squad. You having a bubble? Nope. Your talking rubbish. Your blathering like a crazy man. Wht evidence is there that this is a good squad? None as far as I can see. It's full of players who have looked massively out their depth at this level and it has no balance and no spine. It is a poor squad. Some of the players neither have belief in the coaches or the club, wouldn’t surprise me if they lacked self-belief too. But think about it - you’re sold a project, given the salesman’s most creative story then Covid happens, you realise the salesman is an idealist and your morale then takes a massive drop
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 22, 2021 10:37:24 GMT
I would have preferred keeping Tisdale and allowing him to move his back room staff in whilst clearly defining TW’s remit to work with PT’s skills...after all PT has achieved more in the game. Now we are likely to have Barton and his team, more redundancieshis, a wheeler dealer banned agent and a director of football who may not be directing as much football. This is almost descending into a lower version of when Mike Ashley appointed Joe Kinnear Perhaps this is the change that is needed. After all, the system you seem to be advocating hasn’t exactly been a roaring success, has it; or would you prefer to bumble our way to non-league by appointing a succession of short-lived ‘Yes Men’ who obediently bend the knee to Widds and Starmer? The last manager who brought his own back room staff in was DC. We didn’t do too bad then. I’d have much preferred DC been given a directorship to the board rather than TW. DC was a leader and a driver and United the supporters during his time.
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