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Post by chelt_gas on Sept 12, 2020 11:06:23 GMT
Definitely, in a heartbeat, so long as he is not a billy big bollocks.
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Post by chelt_gas on Sept 11, 2020 6:33:29 GMT
How it's in any way possible to assess that someone who was only assistant manager in that comically bad League has the tools to do a job as manager in L1 is absolutely beyond me. On that video, go to 6 mins 45 and watch the next passage of play. It's better than what you see on The Downs, but not much better. Garner's Wiki page claims that he was 'Metored by José Mourinho'. Laughable. Anyway, a quick Google search for 'Worst professional manager ever' has thrown this up, here's hoping that Ben gets more than one win in his next dozen or so games or he'll take the crown from Jim Fallon. Arsene Wenger was managing in Japan before coming to Arsenal. Roy Hodgson started at Halmstad. Graham Potter at Ostersunds. Benitez, Rodgers, Mourinho, Villas Boas, Sarri were all coaches with limited professional football playing background. India is a shocking standard but the ability to successfully manage footballers in whatever division is a good start. I hope he comes good and he has my full support. For now. I think it will come together but there some short term pain to ride through for now!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Sept 10, 2020 10:50:41 GMT
Garner is talking a good game, he’s definitely had media training. I think he has players that are all giving him attention without criticism given he has signed them all so I don’t think there’s division in the ranks. I even think it’s great he has a vision of playing strategy which he believes and is committed too. But my worry is the inexperience of the playing and coaching side that now runs through the club. The average age of the team v Walsall was 22 with Garner and his mate being first timers in a leadership role.
My unqualified opinion is that we firstly need more experience and a b'stard on the pitch and In the dugout we need more leadership instead of strategy from the management. I think Garner will come good I just think he needs a bit of Malcolm Tucker in him and us supporters need to stop wetting the bed so early.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jul 29, 2020 15:07:31 GMT
Yes first Kenyan to play for Rovers. If he is good as our only other Jonah....Wilcox who joined Rovers in 1925 from New Brighton he had a remarkable first and only season scoring 18 league goals in 32 appearances before leaving to join Queens Park Rangers. WOW!!! Peter Hooper made one appearance for the Kenyan National side in the 1950’s en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hooper_(footballer)
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Post by chelt_gas on Jul 21, 2020 10:59:57 GMT
The three signing look strong in ability, character and influence judging by the interviews and various forum posts.
It’s pleasing that good players seem to like Garners philosophy (as ‘Wael’ as the money being offered)
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Post by chelt_gas on Jul 18, 2020 9:17:24 GMT
well it never happened... move on !!!!!. your like a record stuck in a groove.....get the angry bit off your mind, and lets see what he can do next shot, all history now ffs!!! Angry? I'm not angry. You seem to be though. What's with all the sweary 'ffs' stuff? Chill out, it's only football. I'm a bit worried, mostly because we were hard to beat, then in the blink of an eye we became a soft touch and were horribly disorganised. But as said several times already, I hope Ben sorts it out, but I don't think he will, my thought is that he's a coach, not a manager. But will be delighted to be wrong. We'll know by the end of Sept. I didn’t think Ben was a great match of personality to the players he inherited, for the timing of his appointment, given his predecessor’s character and that he hadnt his own coaching staff. But this is just my instinct and nothing more. However, he has developed his own squad of younger players, has his chosen an assistant, a training ground and now a clear run up to a new season. I hope all this change compliments Ben’s philosophy. I’m definitely much happier with him at the helm than a Steve Evans or Martin Dobson
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Post by chelt_gas on Jul 18, 2020 0:46:51 GMT
This is appointment is thoroughly untried and thoroughly untested. I'm thoroughly uninspired. It's an experiment. Forgive me but the jury is well out atm, and starting from scratch is something we haven't been used to in recent years, yet appears to be a new era in our ongoing history. I'm normally naturally optimistic, but my faith in BG has been tested to the limits so much, am not expecting anything else but a struggle next season... Let’s be comfortable being uncomfortable. It’s a completely new approach for Rovers, young coaches schooled by premiership clubs, in for penny in for a pound. I quite like this era of unknown. The world has changed in six months so why not also adopt change for the future.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jun 16, 2020 22:31:22 GMT
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Post by chelt_gas on Jun 5, 2020 22:23:20 GMT
Given Vitalijs Astafjevs is the tenth most internationally capped player of all time surely he’s in the team by your definition of greatest?
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Post by chelt_gas on May 27, 2020 12:17:16 GMT
Keith is part of Rovers history. A likeable mischievous local guy, rough around the edges but was a smooth operator. Legend!!
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Post by chelt_gas on May 22, 2020 14:51:07 GMT
BTW. Out of this crappy virus, I have found a wonderful, kind, caring, intelligent and compassionate woman who I had been visiting over 5 months. I run out of adjectives to praise her, highly enough. We were both saying how we probably would not have had the time to be together if not for Covid. Just thought I’d share a little of my happiness. Great story, there are a lot of good people around.
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Post by chelt_gas on May 16, 2020 13:56:48 GMT
[ We should restart the season when it’s safe to do so, write off 19/20 season.
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Post by chelt_gas on May 8, 2020 21:51:42 GMT
I disagree! We can't be held responsible for feeling guilty about the past we can not control. We should learn from our past, not ignore it and embrace the future.. To follow your logic through, almost every country or civilisation that has had an empirical past should still feel guilty to this day and apologise more? That's almost the whole world! To counter your guilt, we were the first country to abolish slavery. By democracy. We weren't the first to introduce it, and we had massive help and coercion from black Africans that helped round slaves, so something as sinister as the slave trade has quite diverse roots for guilt.. These people are as mad as a bucket full of frogs, seriously. On one hand chelt gas wants to wallow in guilt for sins of our for-Fathers, yet at the same time he/she promotes integration without the caveat that those being integrated should be judged by the same standards. Maybe he/she should find out how many were enslaved by the Ottoman Empire and go after their descendants. Good luck with that one. History is a set of lies and misrepresentation that people then agree upon. Being proud ‘to be English’ is a construct - some people like the notion others disagree with the notion some have their own notion some have no idea what it is but just follow the herd.. Our island’s elite have been reprehensible over the centuries - even to this day. So the notion of being English living overseas has a very different meaning to a different audience, particularly where the English were responsible for tremendous suffering and injustice which is still very apparent in the present.
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Post by chelt_gas on May 8, 2020 11:38:55 GMT
Fair point Rex! I was just having a bit of a poke at a "Guardian reader" for a bit of banter... So on VE Day, here's another ramble. English people are generally quite proud of the country of their birth. Most nationalities are. I think the Leave campaign tapped into this. It particularly resonates with the older generation - as was born out in the demographic of the referendum result. 1. One could argue the older you are, the wiser you are. (Just kidding, no need to answer that). 2. The older generation identify much more with being English. The younger generation appear to be happy to identify with being European. The older generation are closer to WWII. Our parents and grandparents lived through it. What did you do when you played out as a kid? "Let's play war. England vs Germany". Alternatively cowboys and indians (Sorry cowboys vs indiginous native Americans). We also have (perhaps a rose-tinted) perception of the UK and it's former empire, when we really were a global super-power. It only takes Captain Tom talking, Darkest Hour, or even a Dame Vera Lynne documentary and I get all nostalgic and very very "English". Stiff upper lip and all that. Told you it was a bit of a ramble. Just trying to explain what it means to me to be English. On VE Day. Eisern Union and Up The Gas. Interesting take. I honestly think the notion of what it means to be English has lost it's identity and is culturally confused. Your generational observations are very general. There are many examples of opposites. But what it means to be 'English'?.... I'll give you an example, only inane and small but it makes a point: St Patrick's Day is acknowledged by mainstream media in UK and I would hazard a guess in other places around the world (Eire and US/Canada obviously). It's even celebrated here by some folk whom have no identity with Ireland. St George's Day is largely ignored. By everyone, except small pockets of folk whom identify with England. It's ignored by mainstream media, and up until very recently if you showed a Union or St George's flag you were either football hooligan it racist or both. My last sentence resonates with your perception of Leave/Remain debate that still carries on and is a thought process to this day. There should be nothing wrong with celebration of one's identity, but I think society has placed a huge guilt factor in celebration of everything English/British by bringing political ideology into a concept that is defacto is all about what is great about Great Britain and it's unity. I think there’s more to apologise for ‘being English’ than to have Pride if we’re basing the notion on our cultural history over centuries. Our ruling landed gentry has been responsible for millions of deaths, wars, destruction of cultures and plain exploitation through enslavery. So being ‘English’ overseas then talking about ‘pride’ in my heritage is something I avoid all the time unless I qualify what aspects I am proud of. And it’s not ‘my’ heritage - I’ve never been part of the landed aristocracy fraudsters intend on hoovering up capital at the expense of humanity so if that’s ‘being English’ I’d prefer to reject that label. I was proud of aspects of our current modern society - tolerance, integration, acknowledgment of past issues but Brexit and windrush quickly undid all that good.
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Post by chelt_gas on May 3, 2020 11:42:23 GMT
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 24, 2020 14:00:14 GMT
Airplane is value for money given the joke count.
Naked Gun since Leslie Nielsen just oozes comic timing and expression.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 23, 2020 7:30:04 GMT
I guess the aim of a true football club can often conflict with the aim of the owners. One wants success on a sporting scale whilst the other one wants money. When football is more a business than a sport then it's inevitable that it will feel pain during a recession/depression/vacuum.
Did we ever get the Pheonix club up and running? That's all we really need during such times.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 21, 2020 21:28:34 GMT
Australia is also beating the curve, some states have had no new infections for days. However, talking with family and friends back in Bristol is heartbreaking when hearing of people you know being infected or nearby cases in too-close-to-home areas. The economic and social repercussions will stay with us for a long time so I hope we all dig deep for the next few months to help everyone deal with the crisis. I have heard many stories of lockdowns now being ignored or shop staff being abused which is disappointing given the infection rates being reported are still high.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 7, 2020 2:06:17 GMT
This debate has so many layers. But, for me, it goes back to the essence of what we are all going through and trying to combat together, irrelative of wealth, class, ethnicity or creed. For me (sorry to sound all DC) if we face a societal problem then all areas of society are required to respond proportionately as without society we're all worse off.
So the big corporations who evade tax thus taking from society or the footballers who have become wealthy from the subscription of the masses do have a moral duty to respond proportionately.
I hope Lord Bath's estate pays their fair share of inheritance tax.
I hope countries and corporations who have exploited wealthier countries or have benefitted from the creaming of key staff such as nurses from poorer countries also proportionately compensate.
It's just about fairness and being able to feel satisfied that we all have a moral conscience.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 5, 2020 20:47:05 GMT
How convenient, some unfalsifiable evidence pops up, just at the right time. Not saying that plenty of players don't do good unpaid work, or support good causes, but if I understand this correctly, we are being asked to believe that this 'unnamed' player has given every penny of his income away for the last 3 years. Sure, why not. I thought that too, had a similar structure to the anonymous ‘gay footballer’ blog - also promoted in Football365.
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