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Post by chelt_gas on May 31, 2017 13:20:46 GMT
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Post by chelt_gas on May 10, 2017 23:09:43 GMT
The media allow clubs to create then capitalise on a brand or identity. Pre-Premier league football clubs were essentially local with an outer-concentric ring of fans from other areas of the country. Sky TV and international media then allowed overseas fans to access football and for the football clubs to access overseas fans.
Football clubs are companies, some have an international consumer base, others less so. Since football is a business and the community element and association is treated as a PR necessity by most clubs, then local game-attending fans are not a priority. Neither are smaller clubs that may be more community focused due to their media reach.
It's a dog-eat-dog world and the Premierleague are being as oppressive as the coca-cola and McDonalds of this world. The big clubs can crush the small clubs much like the Tesco's crush the Butchers, Green Grocers and Pub that has a far greater localised function but cannot compete on economics alone.
As far as I'm concerned Man Utd is no longer an English CLub. They may have their origins in Manchester but they're as English as Kraft-Owned Cadbury who felt no obligation to the community which served them when under a new, foreign regime.
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Post by chelt_gas on May 9, 2017 9:24:44 GMT
2016/17 League 1 13 debutants and 33 different players used
2015/16 League 2 21 debutants and 30 players used
2014/15 Conference 19 debutants and 28 players used (Conference)
so DC has signed 53 new players since becoming permanent manager (excludes his 8 games as caretaker)
Many have been loanees during this time.
Two of those signings Leadbitter and Sinclair are the only two former non league signings from that season in the Conference.
Currently just 15 of those are contracted so far for next season. With maybe 10/11 new signings how does this compare with clubs in the same division at the same time as Rovers?
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Post by chelt_gas on May 1, 2017 10:20:46 GMT
For once, I don't expect a high proportion of those linked with us will be current or 'ex' Bristolians. Both the owners and Darryl, through carefully media releases, are building Rovers up to be a promotion candidate next season in addition to a club growing.
Wasn't there soon to be a press release regarding the stadium update or was that Pure and Simple hearsay?
After a season in league one I'm sure DC has identified where both his squad and his coaching team had room for improvement. I don't know who we'll sign but I'm sure Darryl has an eye on one or two (relative) marquee signings so long as they have the right attitude. You never know there may be an overseas recruit hiding in amongst his wanted list (*whilst we are still in the EU)
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Post by chelt_gas on May 1, 2017 10:13:19 GMT
It's quite a loaded statement. I'm sure this season's top performers (Bodin and O. Clarke) now have licence to seek clubs that'll pay as well, if not better, when it comes to contract renewal stage thus working against DC's budget the following season.
Culture is as important, if not more, than money. Players have to want to play for Rovers, part of DC's job (which he is doing) is to make players want to play for Rovers. Too much money and not enough culture turns you into clubs like Sunderland, Bristol City or QPR (the Redknapp era).
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 30, 2017 13:04:43 GMT
Has Luke James the worst goals/appearances record on any striker ever to have played for Rovers? Martin Paul was up there whilst we had a few terrible loan strikers over the years. Jefferson Louis had 9 games without a goal.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 30, 2017 12:43:51 GMT
I love alliterative players. Billy Bodin, Darryl Duffy, Scott Shearer, Scott Sinclair. Is there any more?
Bodin is a class player at this level.
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 30, 2017 11:44:32 GMT
Five goal first-half thriller. 2-3. And it's Chris Lines (6/1 to score at anytime in this match)
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 30, 2017 11:37:49 GMT
jermaine releaster nets but Millwall get a 3rd. 1-3 to knees up mother brown
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 30, 2017 11:01:30 GMT
I like how DC has selected a strong first eleven so that Millwall's play-off rivals know we are not going to just roll-over (take note Huddersfield). I will go for a game with a lot of goals, Ellis is going to score and Millwall will see red in the first 30 minutes.
"Please stay off the pitch come final whistle"
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 29, 2017 8:47:12 GMT
i remember christian mcclean having the time to talk to me as an 8 year old in the Twerton bar, post match. Not seem or spoke to him since them but he appears a consistently top bloke!
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Post by chelt_gas on Apr 18, 2017 22:42:49 GMT
Happens in the corporate world too. Owners of companies have such ego that they will bring their own men in despite the existing regime having all the skill and experience needed to achieve success. Classic example were those yanks at Swansea who brought in Bob Bradley as they could only work with a fellow sherman.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 18, 2017 23:53:34 GMT
I particularly feel sorry for the supporters who have followed the team over 40 years. Whilst the Premier League has generated wealth for many involved in some way with English Football the drug of potential wealth has had an opposite effect with others. Coventry has had owners, foreign investors and certain players who have used the club for their individual need at the detriment of the essence of the club - the supporters. From having Highfield Road being sold off for a pittance to the whole Ricoh arena disaster the poor supporter has seen the identity of the club almost totally removed from them.
The FA should accept a degree of liability as they are the ultimate guardians of football (*which covers every aspect of football to grassroots) yet they seem to believe the free market is the best mechanism to allow football to progress. Well ask the Coventry fan, Morcambe fan, Portsmouth fan, Leyton Orient fan. Over 100,000 fans (probably more) just from those four clubs have seen how the FA have looked the other way when it came to approving new (foreign) owners to take over the running, The four clubs have over 400 years of history but what does that matter to the FA.
Saying that, I hope we get three points at Coventry but I also look at them and think they could have so easily been us. Higgs could have sold us to anyone and we were linked with all sorts of dodgy people before WAQ came along.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 14, 2017 22:06:42 GMT
At least Blackburn equalised to make it more palatable with the 💩 back in relegation spots. Some light reading but no consolation for us losing. Every cloud!! We'll move onwards and upwards
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 14, 2017 21:16:37 GMT
This much shows how important it is to have players who can win matches and also not to have players who could lose matches. I hope Sinclair was harshly treated rather than treated the match with contempt.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 12, 2017 22:40:33 GMT
I hadn't realised how little first team experience he has (until just looking it up). That includes quite a few non-appearing loan spells. He must be loving this - first team regular and highly thought of. Good for him. That must count for something if he has any say in what happens next: ever present in a good set-up in league 1, or returning to a championship club's reserves and hoping his day will come. I think he'll be crossing his fingers that we'll keep him rather than the other way around. Very good point SS, I'm sure JL would not want to return to the QPR bench or be loaned out to a lower league club essentailly regressing from his achievements with us this season.
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 5, 2017 7:29:21 GMT
It's refreshing that our supporters, our coaching team, our players and our owner have interchangeable values and conduct upon how a football club should be run. Our motivations as a club is to build organically, have a shared value and attitude system amongst players and to remain supportive of all facets of the club if we hit a rocky patch and we have hit many a rocky patch. At present the club has a buzz and feeling of contentment, togetherness and sentiment and it was great to listen to Darryl in his interviews as being positive, joking and feeling good about himself and the club.
Lansdown for his many millions cannot buy what we have. Sure he can invoke a minimum fee release clause, chuck money at a player who started his career late, but he cannot buy what we have.
Rovers are in a good place now and are still looking up yet even after three seasons where all have shared a fantastic sporting journey to get to where we are as of now, appreciating the recent peaks with some low troughs. Perspective makes the peaks seem even higher.
The s*** on the other hand are a different breed. The inbreed if you like. If ever there was a club that is breaking apart with a negative attitude in all areas then it's the mutants down south. The negativity is so great that their focus in January was more about what inconvenience they can inflict on someone else rather than on their own (many) urgent problems. It's a sign of desperation that people focus on stuff outside their club, company or oneself in order to direct attention away from the fundamental issues - themselves. Signing Taylor was almost a form of self-harm - a sensual deflection to stop thinking about reality - terrible manager, hundreds of millions spent to achieve less than the start and a club where there is no whole only parts.
s***heads must envy our club. And I love that feeling as much as I am currently enjoying our successes, every season and within every season. The only place for city is not upwards, it's (Lans)Down!!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 4, 2017 14:35:08 GMT
View AttachmentNo team news yet but to-day's early K.O.this wasn't even a yellow? ?? Latest: James,Byron Moore and Bodin up front to-day. That was one of the worst refereeing displays I've ever seen!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 1, 2017 20:38:26 GMT
They're not helped by West Ham Utd playing in their catchment area - shame really. In the Olympic Stadium given to them (for the same price they paid for Andy Carroll) by the taxpayers of both Greater London and the UK, making West Ham effectively a nationalised football club. West Ham's presence in 'London Stadium' (as they've tackily rebranded it) has ruined Olympic Park and Stratford. It cannot have helped little Leyton O either. A victory for 'might is right' and for 'bent is best'. The FA should share liability if any new owner passed the 'Fit and Proper' test then, after two years, the owners were both unfit and improper and evidence of misgivings prior to the transaction were reasonably obtainable. The FA are guardians but they are the ones that are unfit and improper. There should also be legislation or policy (or both) whereby no owners of a football club can divest the property assets from the club and then capitalise on selling said property separately from the club without a motion passed by fan trustees, local politicians or some body with a community interest. Finally, the idiot who owns Orient wants to dispose of the club recouping the sum he original paid to Barry Hearn. This is about 3-4 million. Given that West Ham received grants of 27 million and the rest to inherit the right to play at the London Stadium (funded by the tax payer) then I think the porn brothers should show good will and help Orient out and put back to the new community which they have moved into.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 28, 2017 21:58:53 GMT
And the little matter of the s*** also losing (with Blackburn winning) makes tonight another very good day in Bristol football!
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