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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 5, 2020 20:13:54 GMT
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 4, 2020 22:42:52 GMT
What a stupid idea.
Football as a hobby or interest is not important at the moment. That clubs and regulators feel they have right to play with the lives of football players and key staff to satisfy TV, gambling, sponsorship contracts is repugnant. When the CV issue is under control then we, as a football community, can then all decide the best way forward. As it is football is less of a priority than putting all our efforts and time/capital to minimising the effects of the horrible situation.
I do though have an idea. Why don't the government place emergency tax measures so that anyone earning an 'excessive' income pay 60% above a given threshold - say $2,000,000 per year. That way footballers get treated the same but don't have to decide how much, if any at all, to 'donate'. This would also apply to any other well remunerated individual in any industry as they must all recognise that their wealth is only worth anything in a country that functions and has a strong society.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 3, 2020 11:30:39 GMT
1989-2020 Lee Brown. The first player to pledge his future to Rovers after our relegation to non-league. There must be a God, because he was then rewarded with THAT goal. Barry Hayles. Took my son (aged 3 1/2) to his first ever Rovers game and it was Barry's first game (home to Plymouth). That hooked him for life. Stuart Sinclair. Embodied the Rovers fighting spirit for me. I miss him. I still want to buy him a pint. Rickie Lambert. I can't help myself - here it is again. Best Rovers goal ever.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 3, 2020 11:27:22 GMT
I’d say Gasheads United!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 3, 2020 11:25:06 GMT
Barry hayles. F’ing legend of the highest quality. I’d lick his boots even after a two hour ramble from Weston to Burnham on Sea
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 30, 2020 19:56:00 GMT
I hope everyone is good too.
I decided to ride this one out in Sydney although it’s very stressful knowing all your family and friends are 14,000 miles away and going through the challenges of isolation.
It’s interesting how quickly I’ve lost interest in parts of football already. The premier league, its culture and lack of self awareness is offputting to such an extent that ill discard post covid.
Once this is over it will be interesting to see how many rovers fans will revert back to habit and attend matches but how many will not. Particularly at the prices charged.
Football is definitely not bigger than life and death!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 7, 2020 23:28:10 GMT
He at least knows the problem. The players aren’t backing him. The best decision to make is for him to step up or step aside to let a parachute manager rescue a dire situation.
Warnock or Steve Cotterill please!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 1, 2020 0:03:29 GMT
One question is whether we will be in a better position in 12 months time sticking with the Garner plan or whether the plan is a just a theory that cannot be implemented in practice with the people and resources at disposal. This includes both skills of coaches and administration in addition to capital resources to provide the tools to achieve (training ground, recruitment, etc). If so do we stick with Garner but bring in a Warnock.
I’m in the camp that Holloway would have achieved with the resources given therefore the Garner plan is not working. Whether that’s solely due to Garner or that the accountability of failure should include Wael and Starnes, players or coaches is, IMO, the real question.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 10, 2020 8:35:28 GMT
No fan of giving hard working professional football players grief, but fail to see what Leahy and (unfortunately) Mark Little, bring to Rovers. I'm going Tuesday night as will be away with work in Chester. Big fan of the manager and what he's trying to do and honestly believe that will be the start of when it clicks. Gc initiated all of this. The Owners acted quickly and agreed with Gasheadwes’ recommendation of BG. He has a plan and a conviction so I also think it will come good. We are improving on a game by game basis whilst implementing a very different blue print focussed on income on transfer fees. The only thing that grates me is his likeness to David Brent
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 25, 2020 13:51:07 GMT
With players coming back, manager coming back, new players having come in we’re going to at least be unpredictable.
I think we’ll win this.
But then I haven’t seen us for six years so it’s less an opinion more a desire.
JCH nets two, a newbie also scores.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 19, 2020 11:48:59 GMT
Presumably, someone who cares for the club who has money to burn. Any lottery winners in today ? Would need to be a big win. Not sure what the buy in price would be, but it's going to be north of £15m. If accounts were drawn up to today, and liabilities over and above projected income for the next 2 years were factored in, I wouldn't be one bit surprised if it went over £20m. Obviously I don't have that money, or access to it, but even if I did I would point blank refuse to allow these reckless owners to walk away unscathed at my expense after 4 years of madness. If the football club is valued as a going concern then there is no asset of worth other than a licence to play in the football league and perhaps kudos of owning a football club. In fact DS may need to even offer an incentive to someone to take on the liabilities of the club assuming they will liquidate the stadium asset as part of a sale. What frustrates me is the ease at which our current owners just shovel further debt onto the club. They seem to have little regard for the future of the 137 year old club or it’s supporters if all their primary aim is to now escape without incurring financial loss. I hope this isn’t true but the absence of communication leads us to form our own conclusions on here say and instinct.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 11, 2020 8:59:48 GMT
Yes, agree, in total Tom Nichols has scored 9 goals in 115 games for us and 71 goals in 319 career games, good stats for a midfielder but dire for a striker. Steve White for us 44 goals in 150 games, Paul Tait 20 goals in 81 games, Martin Cameron 8 goals in 49 games & Mickey Evans 6 goals in 26 games for us. Plus Robin Stubbs (32 goals in 93 games) Graham Withey (10 goals in 22 games) Matty Taylor (61 goals in 118 games) all received abuse by some of the "faithful and true". Dave Gilroy had 0/18 games (Wikipedia) Mike Davis had 1/17 games (Gasopedia)
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 9, 2020 21:36:53 GMT
I'm more animated than Garner when I'm playing Championship Manager. That's obviously his style but my preference would be for someone who can lead and inspire and drag every drop of potential out of a what is a limited squad. I doubt anyone is feeling overly inspired. He needs results badly otherwise he won't get the opportunity to implement any of his fancy theories he no doubt has. Couple this with the malaise off the pitch and we really are in a rut. Listen to Garner. Listen to Wael. Peas in a pod. Wael chose this bloke. What with him having been at the top table in the Women's game and his FIFA contacts, what could possibly go wrong. I thought Holloway was the obvious choice. The squad seems to react positively to motivational coaches (see Southend HT/FT) which Ollie is made for. Garner is probably a good coach with the right audience. I hope he does well here, we need to give him time and support. The last coach we hounded our as soon as he walked through the door was Dave Penney - that benefitted no one.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 9, 2020 11:31:21 GMT
Defeat in a competition you profess to have no interest in, whilst using an experimental formation and blooding new signings, is absolutely dreadful isn't it? The manager must go. Or maybe not. That manner of defeat, against a team who probably could do without having to play another game, is seriously worrying. Whether I feel that the format of the competition is one worthy of support has no bearing whatsoever on Rovers' overall performances since this bloke arrived. I’m disappointed that we gave up on much needed revenue. Even the $40k for winning could have subsidised sausage rolls for the whole of next season.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 9, 2020 1:56:01 GMT
The last Barrett that played for us was a legend! A tough ask to be compared with.. "The 80's Barrett that played for us was a legend" Oh Mickey you're so fine.. That was Adam Barrett. Legend (at Southend).
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 30, 2019 10:27:29 GMT
Sounds as if Gavin Reilly is coming back from Cheltenham in Jan. I'd be OK with that. He seemed to know where the goal is and was never given a decent run in the side. It must have been shattering for him to have been shoved out on loan and considered a worse option than Nichols. To come back from that utter humiliation shows a great strength in character. Reilly: 8 goals from 46 appearances over the last 2 years. Nichols: 4 from 90 (actually think that might be 91 now). That's 4 strikers in the squad supporting JCH. At least two of them won't get any game time if everyone stays fit so I'd imaging we'd be returning at least one of our two loan strikers assuming we're paying their salary. Nichols' effort yesterday was great instinct and it was a shame it bounced off the underside of the bar. According to Footystats.org he has 4 goals in 24 games this season in addition to 3 assists.
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 29, 2019 9:26:30 GMT
Why are so many of us not accepting this guy is a fraud, a well intentioned fraud but none the less a fraud. He's appointed a choir boy as his manager, why because he can control him, nothing is going to happen in January, the till is empty. 6 months ago he took it upon himself to announce the fruit market as our guiding light for a new stadium, his live radio rendition on that famous day in Blackpool last August was juvenile and laughable, so much so none of us believed it at the time, but we knew what he was attempting to achieve, love me love my dog, that was the last we heard about it. He once said if he wasn't wanted at Rovers he would go, sunshine, I think after 4 years throwing all of us under a bus you have convinced the silent majority you are not wanted, please make way, we will soon forget you as an individual but never forget what you promised and couldn't deliver. I tend to agree, and I am just wondering if Coughlan's outburst of 'taking us as far as he can' was actually well measured bearing in mind that he probably knew that Jan would not present any cash for players and JCH would likely be departing, Tommy, Victor, and Tyler would not score enough goals to keep us on a high. So he believed he left taking us as far as he/we could go. Initially I thought his move was family related, but as the weeks creep by, I am more of the opinion that it was to do with lack of support, direction, spending and belief in our powers on high for the month's ahead, the Mansfield job came up like a crossroads, and he took another direction. I think it was an easy choice for Coughlan. (1) More money and better, longer contract (2) Owners who are geographically present, invested, capitalised and can make on-the-spot decisions (3) Geography and the hours saved (4) Gut Instinct. We may be a higher club with a greater profile but that means more to us than it would do for Coughlan.
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 24, 2019 2:40:09 GMT
Mid winter festival if you don't mind. I think Jimmy Carr made a good comment that it's about context and whether the intention is to give offence rather than for the audience to decide whether or not to take offence. As you say we cannot be in a state of paralysis if anyone decides to take offence to anything but that's not really the issue here. Taunting a group of people by insinuating that they are a stereotype and that that stereotype is something to be ashamed of is giving offence to a particular community or identity. Whereas exchanging banter with Welsh people about the fornication of sheep or northern people about whippets is absolutely a different context - with the audience also educated enough to distinguish banter from true intended offence. Understand? It's not about preventing Free Speech or to turn people into snowflake liberals. But it is about respect for one another and trying to build a community and a safe, enjoyable environment for everyone by not making prejudice a reason to make people feel alienated or an outside. After all we want to encourage an inclusive environment for the benefit of the club and the wider community - and it doesn't mean stopping banter, it just means you are just benefiting everyone in your community by being more self aware. In some cases you may be unaware until you get corrected/educated then, hopefully, learn and grow - particularly referencing the recent racism incidents at Tottenham and Chelsea. I'm like every typical bloke who jokes within their own crowd down the pub about all sorts of acute subjects which, if transcribed on a message board, would make me appear worse than Bernard Manning at the UKIP Christmas Party. But we all know the context and the audience to distinguish a joke from hatred.
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 23, 2019 12:50:26 GMT
We have rarely succeeded under managers with previous experience of league management. McGhee Penney Grayson Francis (2nd) Ward (2nd) Atkins Allison On paper, Penney and Grayson were excellent appointments. Ward and Francis had off-field issues and so perhaps unfair to judge them? Atkins did a reasonable job and put in place the foundations for the 2007/08 promotion team. That’s true, circumstance absolutely has it’s effect. But there is a symmetry about the kind of managers who are successful at this club and, sadly, ones that are not. I hope the players and Garner warm to each other otherwise it would matter how technically astute he is!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 23, 2019 12:35:37 GMT
Only time will tell, I have my doubts, looks like a cheap option and a gamble, one thing for sure he's not going to knock Starnes door down if players are sold in January which Coughlan would have done That's not Coughlan's style. He doesn't knock doors down.......he walks through them at the first opportunity. The board deserve some credit on this. Garner deserves a chance to show what he can do and the board have given it to him. We have rarely succeeded under managers with previous experience of league management. McGhee Penney Grayson Francis (2nd) Ward (2nd) Atkins Allison
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