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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 28, 2017 21:44:36 GMT
Get in!!! Byron! C'mon you Yellows!! Poetry that Byron himself would be proud of!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 27, 2017 1:23:47 GMT
Are these false facts or true facts? Rumour spreading is more about the reaction and attention generated by unsubstantiated scenarios rather than constructive discussion.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 24, 2017 3:57:30 GMT
We got money for selling Taylor who we acquired for nought, sold him to the s**t knowing that he'll struggle to cut it, won't score goals and even contribute to their ultimate relegation. Best transfer in the history of Rovers!!!
20,000 City fans depressed at relegation is a fantastic feeling.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 7, 2017 12:21:44 GMT
I don't want to be the forum police, and people can talk about what they like, but for your own peace of mind: Does it really matter that much that it needs a philosophical reinterpretation? Aren't there other things to think about? You needn't (but could) engage with something that matters, but maybe there's a nice video of a cat doing something amusing that you could watch to take your mind off it. Isn't it (long since) time to move on? I'm rather enjoying this childish mud throwing. It's a kind of therapy akin to catching a tennis ball and shouting 'I'm Confident..I'm Confident'. Sometimes the banal can be quite a positive experience but there is a time limit before it becomes a bit weird (except for the permanency of Judas as MT's new nickname).
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 7, 2017 3:03:18 GMT
If I were a Notts County player and Notts Forest offered to double my salary of course I'd consider it, despite the rivalry between supporters. However, he has to accept he'll be forever labelled a judas, plus he'll have to deal with the inevitable disappointment and lack of culture in the s**tpit.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 3, 2017 5:07:43 GMT
I don't reckon Taylor will score this season. To us he was worth more than $300k, to the s**t he'll be a burden on their wage bill come next season and he's not flavour of the month.
I can see Johnson having to go, a new manager coming in then doing a Mourinho to Taylor. At least he gets his wages which is what he moved there for.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 2, 2017 6:37:03 GMT
Trevor Morgan is currently manager of East Bengal in the India I-League where Darryl Duffy has been top scorer for the last two years.
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Post by chelt_gas on Feb 2, 2017 6:30:10 GMT
This is a waste of time, if we can afford to complain to the FA about conduct then we must have time on our hands.
Taylor has done Rovers very well, three seasons of goals, $300k and proof that we are a club for players who want to improve. He's now off the conveyor belt and it's time for the next person to step up.
Taylor scored a lot of penalties and benefited from a team shape that was adjusted to him. At the s**tpit he'll have none of that plus he'll have a manager eager to blame his shortcomings on anyone but himself. Taylor will be at Oxford in two season's time.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 31, 2017 22:13:16 GMT
What's said in the media is different to what's said to the players. I would wager a bet that Easter shall be playing in Easter.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 31, 2017 22:11:59 GMT
Burton at home to Fulham - well done Cloughie on staying.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 23, 2017 7:59:17 GMT
Did anyone think that Matty looked disinterested yesterday? Finished his goal well granted, but to me he seemed to be wondering about wandering... I think the same thing about my missus after lovemaking. It's as if she's thinking of someone else even though I'm the one that has scored!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 22, 2017 22:41:52 GMT
James 4 What does he bring to the team I really don't know. He neither appears to be a striker or a targetman and reminds me very much of Daryl Duffy but without the goals and that is not very mouth watering. Would have been much more useful to have brought Lucas on up top and kept Taylor alongside him. Another DC signing who just has not come off and yet he keeps persevering with him. "Double D" Darryl Duffy is again top scorer in the Indian I-League, this time for new club Mohun Bagan.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 11, 2017 22:17:09 GMT
I wonder what the ROI has been from the loan players that we have had from the start of the season. Considering salaries etc do we think it's a system that provides value and appropriate resource? Is it not necessary a reflection on the loan players skill but more so on their motivation or how we may treat them differently compared to 'permanent' players? I remember being a student and having loads of temp jobs (shout out to KTS Recruitment, Kingswood). The companies regarded temp workers as a necessity win times of peak work and where the existing resources couldn't cope (even with overtime). A lot of the temps were students or new graduates who were doing jobs above their 'skillset' at the time (it was really menial work). The thing was that temp workers always felt second class, had trouble setting in as both they and the permanent workers knew they were temporary and thus morale wasn't the same. We always left at 5pm on the dot. I wonder if loanees have a related experience to temps - they can perform better but they psychologically don't feel part of the organisation. Perhaps that's why loan players seem unrepresentative of the division of football their parent club belongs to.But Colkett's only a kid so you can't him to be playing at Hazard's level just because they both play in the same team, like wise you wouldn't expect Jamie Lucas to be at the same level as MT when he goes out on loan. I so wonder how Swindon are going to try and give Colkett more game time than us, or perhaps this deal was set up when Sherwood joined them hence why Colkett has seemingly lost interest in the last month or so, having looked a real prospect before that. Your last point is worth looking at further. Do loan players have different sensitivities due to their temporary situation and having essentially a different paymaster? They may have better skills and coaches but they often prove to be less productive for the team than our full-time players. I'd have preferred Easter in Colkett's role.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 11, 2017 5:09:25 GMT
I wonder what the ROI has been from the loan players that we have had from the start of the season. Considering salaries etc do we think it's a system that provides value and appropriate resource?
Is it not necessary a reflection on the loan players skill but more so on their motivation or how we may treat them differently compared to 'permanent' players?
I remember being a student and having loads of temp jobs (shout out to KTS Recruitment, Kingswood). The companies regarded temp workers as a necessity win times of peak work and where the existing resources couldn't cope (even with overtime). A lot of the temps were students or new graduates who were doing jobs above their 'skillset' at the time (it was really menial work). The thing was that temp workers always felt second class, had trouble setting in as both they and the permanent workers knew they were temporary and thus morale wasn't the same. We always left at 5pm on the dot. I wonder if loanees have a related experience to temps - they can perform better but they psychologically don't feel part of the organisation. Perhaps that's why loan players seem unrepresentative of the division of football their parent club belongs to.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jan 7, 2017 15:57:08 GMT
Proper hattrick right foot, head, left foot Football is unpredictable, when it's good it's great!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 18, 2016 22:52:00 GMT
I haven't watched Rovers in three years (being overseas). Therefore, your understanding of how the club is performing both as a collective and within departments is formed largely by reports, articles and the media streamed via YouTube.
Rovers have had a great 2 and a half years and we are continuing on an upwards trajectory. However, as we progress up the leagues then each success brings with it dilemmas for the club's administration, it's football management team and the players. In a way it's bittersweet that a team, whose greater than the sum of their parts, may achieve promotion to a higher level but then this increases the players job insecurity if they cannot perform at a higher level. In someways, the job security of a player is better if a team finishes in the same place in the same division over a number of years - for example, Mark Noble wouldn't last in a top 5 team but he'll always have a job in an average to below-average west ham team.
The current position being 5 points from the play-offs in league 1 is fantastic, it's better than any supporter would have imagined at the time Darrel first took over from Ward in that eponymous season. Most if not all supporters look at our position in this context. We are by no means a supporter base who wins the lottery in one week then agonises how our new boat suddenly looks so much smaller than the others in the harbour. However, as a progressive club we are having to face difficulties such as upskilling the squad but keeping the positive culture that has achieved so much. It's a hard task when the players who helped achieve that success are the ones that may end up having to leave and they may not entirely agree with the decision of the club. Darrel's task is to be honest, open and human to the players without suddenly losing the dressing room. I remember taking on a role at a company and identifying employees who did not fit the skill level of where I wanted the company to be yet had been there for 20 years - removing them could lose the will of the rest of the company yet continuing to favour their experience over ability could alienate new recruits - the job of a manager can be hard and needs a lot of emotional intelligence.
Darrell comes across as an honest guy who will fight for his players but will be very clear about his principles from the outset. At least any players who may be moved on will be in a position to command a wage of a promotion-achieving player and all will have the highest regards from the supporters.
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 14, 2016 6:37:07 GMT
With the January transfer window only a matter of weeks away it'll will be interesting to see what happens regarding the keeper position. We are paying for three keepers in Roos, Pudding and Mildenhall yet there is suspicion that none of these players are to the standard which DC is aiming for.
Therefore, will the club sanction a move for a fourth keeper? Will we see any of the current three keeps move on from the club? Who would perhaps come in?
I then remembered that Rovers once had an international (youth) class keeper in Matt Macey a few years back and wondered what of his progress. On reading his Wikipedia page I was surprised to read that he is 22 (23 in September) and has played a grand total of 4 games of first-team league football ever. And that was for Accrington Stanley in league 2 in 2015. Compare this to a few of our local young players in Lockyer, Leadbetter, Clarke and Harrison then the exposure of first-team football is proportionately greater. Therefore, which route is a better path to take: the premier league route of sponsored headphones and immaculate academy pitches or the lower-league first-team action where there is more relevance in each game played and therefore it helps the muscle memory.
If I were Macey I would be jealous of Lockyer et al since they are playing games. Perhaps Lockyer et al may be jealous of Macey sharing dressing rooms with the Premier elite but then it doesn't appear to be helping his career giving that he hasn't played competitive football since joining Arsenal.
It got me thinking to my job - I work for a small business but in a big industry. It's always been this way. I find the best employees over time are the ones that rise from position to position and are the proverbial David in a Goliath's world. Whenever I have recruited a person from a large company they seem to talk the talk but they don't necessarily have the appetite to succeed. If I were Macey I'd be thinking about my next move - having Arsenal on your CV is nice but having no evidence of achievement questions your ability for watching clubs. How about joining Rovers on loan to prove you are a good keeper and in the surroundings of a club you are familiar with and with players that can give you good grounding (so long as you lose those headphones!)
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 13, 2016 21:52:25 GMT
These types of headlines will appear embarrassing in 20 years time. As if a sexual persuasion suddenly differentiates person A from person B. It doesn't unless someone chooses to use it as a differentiator. The majority care more about the fact an issue is trying to be made from something that is irrelevant either by a minority element of Banter Jokeys in the crowd or the gay propaganda lobby.
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 5, 2016 11:11:28 GMT
I have a theory about modern life. We’ve been sold the idea that consumer choice is always a good thing. More choice is better. Choice will make your life great. Choice will deliver ever greater happiness because buying stuff opens up the golden road to nirvana. Buy more, get more happy. I fundamentally disagree. Why? Because I was in a supermarket and they had – I kid thee not – 48 different olive oils from which to choose. 40-f******g-8. I counted them. How do you choose? As I’ve got older I’ve found such choice increasingly oppressive. I’m asked to keep choosing between electricity and gas suppliers, between banks, phone deals and dishwasher tablets. Half of life seems to be comprised of choosing between things. Basically, I want a little but not much choice. My generation promulgated the materialistic notions which now oppress you, especially if you’re in your teens and twenties. Sorry about that. We tried to buy our way to happiness and ended up more depressed and anxious. Greater resources did not make us happier, in fact they destroyed our peace of mind as it turned us from citizens into customers. And it’s just the same in football. Back in the day, a top-flight football club manager didn’t have the luxury of choice. Even big clubs just had 14 or 15 players and a youth team, and had they to make the best of it and I’m a big fan of making the best of things. Making the best of things makes you happier, and is an art in itself, an art which, at the top end of football, has all but died out. Got an international out injured? Just bring in another from the squad. Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa won leagues and European cups with a squad of 14 or 15 players. There was no rotation. You turned up and played even if you had recently had your kneecaps kicked off by an Albanian tractor worker in a difficult 1st round game against FK Dinamo Tirana. Several sides fielded players who were technically dead, others were held together with gaffer tape and superglue. Ah yes, those were the days, but they are not the days any more. But despite this, whenever a manager is going through a tough patch, one of the familiar refrains you’ll hear, especially on Soccer Saturday, is that the manager “doesn’t know his best team.” This is usually accompanied by wild-eyed staring and a look of astonishment in the eyes of a pundit who stills thinks it is 1988, seemingly unaware that the concept of knowing your best team is totally outmoded in an age of huge resources. I heard Jose Mourinho criticised for this, which seemed especially ludicrous. He’s got a 32-man squad, the vast majority of which are internationals. Of course he doesn’t know his best team, that’s because there is no best team. He can slice and dice it in so many different ways depending on who his opponents are and where their strengths lie. As a criticism, it holds no water, just as it holds no water to use it as a reason for a failing side. This ‘best team’ concept has gone. There’s no such thing. It’s often thrown at a manager as a criticism, as though he should know his best team, but it is totally outdated. Because footballers are low body fat athletes whose thighs get bruised by a stiff northeasterly breeze, it’s got to be a squad game today, due to frequent injuries. Vast income has bloated the resources and choices available at every top-flight club. The only manager who knows their best team is the one with only 11 players. Even if you notionally did know your best side, surely it would not remain constant. Form and fitness rise and fall all the time. I reckon the idea of making a best one to 11 list, as some sort of hierarchy, is a certain type of man’s idea of how to live life. The sort of men who always want to know what the best album is, the best car, the best girlfriend, the best rater of best things. For them, things must be rated and slated into a definitive ladder. These are the people who obsess about newspaper player ratings, and trawl statistics for conclusive proof of how good or bad a player is, always searching for absolutes, rather than accepting that in football, as in life, all things are relative, many aspects are metaphysical concepts that can’t be measured, and change is the only constant. Contrary to the “best eleven” notion, chopping and changing your team is not a sign of weakness. Remember when the likes of Claudio Ranieri and then Rafa Benitez used to be routinely criticised for changing the team every week? They were mocked for not knowing their best team and for somehow undermining team unity. Today, such actions are entirely commonplace and normal, and yet still a large swathe of the punditocracy can’t seem to get with the programme and are till stuck in the “you play your best 11, Jeff” mentality. I do understand the craving for a settled side. I would rather it was the same players in the same team for a whole season at a club. It gave life a cozy familiarity, and it’s still how it is in the lower leagues, of course. Having 32 players in a squad means you have less opportunity to build up a vicarious relationship with all of them, the way we once did. They seem less like people and more like products on a shelf. The fact some come and go and you never even see them play has eroded the fan-club relationship. As with olive oil in a supermarket, being able to choose from a huge amount of options has not made manager nor fans any more happy. But it is where we are. And to think that any manager should know their best 11 is as pointless thinking there’s a best olive oil. John Nicholson www.football365.com/news/play-your-best-xi-if-only-it-were-so-simple
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Post by chelt_gas on Dec 5, 2016 11:05:04 GMT
Isn't it interesting how promotion can actually be not in the interests of many players who are not skillful enough to perform at a higher level. I bet some players rue promotion now as their work has become less secure!
Darrel war correct in rewarding all players contracts and for being upfront by stating that ability (or lack of) could lead to their disposal in the higher division.
The life of a lower league footballer is difficult.
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