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Post by chelt_gas on Nov 23, 2016 11:35:57 GMT
Thankfully we have a large squad to cater for such absences. Hartley, Lockyer and Billy McChrystal fit with James Clarke to come back to.
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Post by chelt_gas on Nov 20, 2016 1:22:34 GMT
What Clarke appears to have done well is build a real identity and culture in the players. Commitment, togetherness and a mentality where the team is greater than individual. That is becoming increasingly rare in a world where each player has their own agent constantly undermining a manager's attempt to build a team by making the said player focus on his next steps, likely to be away from the club should there be more commercial opportunities.
The culture of a squad is greater than any tactics or strategies that a manager may come up with. Even the most masterful tactician will get nowhere if he hasn't got a squad of players all sharing the same aims and ethos as the club.
I largely have confidence that any 11 players that Darrell put outs will achieve positive results over the season. In some games hindsight may expose certain game tactics but over the course of a season we will see all payers give their all for the club. That's a very rare thing in today's game and I am more that happy to see 11 changes in the next game so long as I know Bristol Rovers have a culture of commitment.
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Post by chelt_gas on Nov 8, 2016 8:15:34 GMT
I think Fifa is correct. Sport is about competition for the moment and should try to be seen as non-political, non-religious and non-discriminatory. In wars all sides suffer and we, as nations, should never forget our history. However, if all nations started commemorating historical war events using logos on football tops then this could serve as antagonism in the modern world. I wouldn't expect Kosovo v Serbia to be a calm event if both teams turned the football match into a greater political event by wearing religious and cultural symbolism on their sporting kit. Would we feel comfortable as englanders if the many countries that 'Brittania ruled' started visually symbolising the brutal acts of the British empire through their equivalent of a poppy. FIFA are absolutely not opposing remembrance but are trying to apply a rule to all countries removing politics from the game of football. The little englanders don't like being told what to do by an international body, they love a tabloid campaign and will follow the social-media herd in jumping on a bang wagon to destination nowhere. May as well ban the colours that a lot of international teams play in, and their crests whilst you're at it. Let's start with the 3 lions, all derived from standards carried in to battle. I see your 'social media herd jumping on a band wagon' and I raise you 'a clutch of hysterical SJWs all desperate to take offence to something, anything, as many times as possible every day'. You're absolutely correct. Nations colours, emblems and flags are nearly always based on historical politics but any debate can digress to the unsolveable if any or all sides take their argument to the nth degree. The compromise Fifa look to be achieving is in removing political symbols that have intentionally been used to evoke or provoke a reaction beyond the game of football. In the first world war the english and germans played a game of football to take their minds away from war, we shouldn't be using football to remind us of war. The FA should take the moral high ground and understand the wider objective of world football. There's a good article in today's football365 on this matter www.football365.com/news/fifa-right-on-poppies-they-are-political
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Post by chelt_gas on Nov 6, 2016 9:44:21 GMT
I've seen rovers fans kicking off at about 10am. does that count? Rovers matches generally start at 1am for the down under gas heads!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Nov 6, 2016 9:42:41 GMT
Think alot of it is common sense. If go in singing 'leave it aaaaat' I'm a c o ck ney w@nker, I'm a bow legged hen' 'millwall ran on panorama' or anything like that, it's only fair to say there may be some robust reprisals. Wearing colours too. Although that usually excludes you from Stone Island Burberry brigade, I would say it makes a target. Mate says on some high profile matches millwall banned meet up in pubs around London Bridge.. If genuinely not interested in aggro, drink away from stadium in family food serving pubs, cover up colours and keep mouth shut. Until get in the ground! There's very interesting politics involving the attempted compulsory purchase of land at the new den, offshore 'development' consortiums and very shady current and ex-councillors in bed with the outside investors. Milwall want to develop the nearby land for a football and mixed community function. The offshore hiding investors don't. It would be an olive branch to millwall to support their defence of land for the local community. After a further 20 years of gentrification perhaps the local supporter base may die out!?!
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Post by chelt_gas on Oct 27, 2016 7:19:05 GMT
The reason this subject is quite topical is due to the football media wanting a player who's gay and thus will serve up tabloid inches for the next three years. The media have no motivation towards equality, they just want to create content that creates attention. They actually love inequality.
Remember gone is the era when newspapers are papers of news. We are in a world where attention is the currency, how many likes can a paper get to generate advertising.
The gay footballer (UK) is the next reality celebrity, whether they want it or not. The British audience loves a bit of voyeurism and the media believes that the general football supporter (of which there's millions) would not be able to either show their disgust at a gay footballer or, more likely, publicly preach their acceptance to a gay footballer to score a cheap moral point. Either way the gay footballer will equal an increase in readership so the quest is to snuff him out and hope he's got market appeal.
The statistics these surveys produce are meaningless. I think it actually makes an issue out of a non-issue. There's been plenty of gay footballers already, there's been plenty of footballers who have had gay experiences, there are even plenty of footballers who may have gay experiences in the future and just don't know it yet. The media are the ones that care most and are trying their hardest to create this sense that the football environment has huge barriers and that a gay footballer is as special as a ghost unicorn. In truth there may be the few meatheads that shout offence as their own mini-audience demands a demonstration of repulsion from natural intimacy but no adult will suppress aspects of their life if the overwhelming majority are the supportive or just don't care.
Put another way would the gay footballer be such an issue if there was no such thing as tabloids? In Australia we don't have tabloids and there's a few sportsman who are gay but are known as sportsmen. No one cares, there's more important things in life to devote our attention to.
If rovers had a gay player it would be an insult to that player to support him for any other reason that he's a rovers player. This whole topic will look ridiculous in 20 years time.
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Post by chelt_gas on Sept 18, 2016 12:49:30 GMT
I'm puzzled by this bit:- Has the development already started? Yes
If Yes, please state when the development was started: 08/11/2016User error. I'd imagine that he's using some sort of American internal system since they write their dates with the month first then the day. He's probably copied and pasted it or just ballsed up that bit of the application. The main point is that we seemed to have started the enabling works of the development prior to delegated approval.
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Post by chelt_gas on Sept 18, 2016 12:45:25 GMT
Statistics are no substitute for judgment. If he looks dangerous and is contributing to the team then this has greater significance that a pliable statistic. Ellis is a product of the team as much as himself and has barely had a run of games at lower levels, let alone this one. He's a good team player and deserves that chance to show us (and himself) what he's got.
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 25, 2016 8:17:10 GMT
There's about 4 or 5 opinions on this thread but the subject of the thread is really interesting. I quite like it that it has worked up opinion as the subject is sensitive - it's about principles of the club, league and the supporter when choosing to spend money on their team on a game that has no/little/some merit.
Personally, the principle of the competition has been ill-conceived to give youngsters 'experience' but intentionally belittling professional footballers and clubs lower down the pyramid. Just as much as I'm against the notion of this competition I'm also against the notion of a Rovers B-Team in the Southern League or the FA Vase.
The greater question for the FA is how do young footballers get experience if there are too many foreigners in our domestic league. Before BREXIT my answer would have been that they either drop down a level where they would consistently play or they go abroad if they can't get in their local club. But encouraging every club in the top two tiers to have academies will merely mean more young people have a chance to be professional footballers up until they realise there isn't enough professional footballer jobs to go around. It's a bit like Blair's plan to quadrouple the amount of universities in the 90s
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 24, 2016 7:57:24 GMT
we still have some stupid idiot thugs at Rovers Took our seats refused to move and then abused and threatened us. These morons need sorting came close to punching a few of them. Young kids drunk and spent whole game taunting Chelsea fans and the subs...they had no interest in watching the match ...they had no idea who any of our players were....absolute pond life and ws all of them.Spoilt the evening.
Racial taunting is always unacceptable and they should have been arrested.
A real shame, but unfortunately I expect you'll get this behaviour in most clubs. I watch my local Rugby League team in Sydney. On entering the stadium every supporter is encouraged to text the ground management with their seat number/stadium location and reason for concern should they feel uncomfortable. The safety team will then move to the area and observe (not in fluorescent clothing) and act if there is clear unreasonable behavior. If they don't see anything immediately they will still stay at the location for a prolonged time. There's no 'thought police' mentality but any factors that make any person feel unwelcome are quickly nipped in the bud. Brilliantly, all supporters are encouraged to bring food into the stadium so long as it is purchased from a non-multi national (McDonalds etc) and ideally from the local independent stores. The behavior as HB mentions above seems so foreign to the behavior here. I would say the atmosphere at NRL games is very mute (almost silent) which may just be a correlation in stadium management or a result of lack of sporting identity at club level.
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 21, 2016 12:26:35 GMT
It will be less than two years ago that we were playing Bath City for a vase. It's great being a supporter whose been part of a long journey, will still a long way to go.
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 21, 2016 11:41:44 GMT
Conte will play a strong team, he's barely in the season and he needs to work out his best eleven still. This is likely to be the best eleven Rovers have ever faced in their history!
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 11, 2016 7:54:45 GMT
Looking at the Cardiff squad on Wikipedia, and presuming Trollope will play a weakened team, it may be chance for Darryl to broker a loan. There's a few decent players which they sent out on loan last season and, with Cardiff only over the bridge, it would make sense for a player to come on loan to us without disruption. Lockyer and Harrison could be translaters to any Dafydd's coming our way.
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 11, 2016 7:44:02 GMT
Andy Johnson?
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 11, 2016 7:42:57 GMT
It's on BEIN sports over here in Aus, there will be a live online stream for definite. It's a 5am start for me to watch essentially a reserve match but Foxtel will show this one!!
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Post by chelt_gas on Aug 11, 2016 7:40:57 GMT
Iceland v England. DC has motivation and team spirit on his side and let's not take away the fact that we have a few Welshy players who'd want to impress their hometown capital (and former club who cast them aside).
I'd be intrigued as to the conversation between the Russian oligarch and either a Jordanian Banker or a Channel Island W****r!
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Post by chelt_gas on Jul 24, 2016 9:22:11 GMT
can't see it myself still think we will be like a sinking ship if we don't upgrade in a few places "midfield""goalkeeper" I can understand anyone thinking that. After all we won't be that different from the Conference. I just think the squad is a very good squad and with Taylor, Bodin and perhaps Easter we have goals and a solid defence. If they signed a keeper and a central midfielder of quality, not just squad, I wouldn't complain. I hope you're not right but.... UTG! In think the board would be happy with stability and, come the end of the season, we can assess the strengths of the squad for the forthcoming season (whatever our division). With a few players in their twilight years and the majority of players unproven at this level then such approach falls within the evolution scope. I just hope we are not in a bad predicament come half way and there's a call for multiple transfer activity thus taking up a lot of personnel's time when there's a lot of items for the here and now that demand a lot of attention.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jun 26, 2016 12:41:27 GMT
Ultimately if we don't get equivalent access to the single market as we do now in Europe then that shortfall in trade, if there is one, will have to be made up elsewhere. As people are stating that will have to be with the Far East, China etc, Russia and all the States preciously defined as BRICS. Given the political situations in those countries, good luck with agreeing a legally enforceable legal framework with them. But back to controlled immigration. Brexiteers have promised to reduce the overall level of immigration. Lets say, for the sake of argument net immigration target is set at 100,000, and visas will only be issued to that number.. What happens if there is a labour shortfall because the labour market demanded 200,000? ?? We allow more refugees in as you need a residence card as a refugee? There will be a significant need to change the assumption that a growth in the economy will automatically lead to a need for a growth in the workforce. Globalization through telecommunications and ICT will reduce the need for jobs in real terms. Analysts have cited that 40% of jobs will become obsolete in 20 years, quite why a country will want to keep increasing their workforce is bordering on irrational when looking at forecasts in the change in production.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jun 25, 2016 6:33:08 GMT
Looking at this through the media over in Australia then the opinion is that the UK have been like Turkey's voting for Christmas. Australia's initial reaction is which country do we now use as the economic gateway to Europe. In fact the banks here froze all currency exchanges to the UK sterling for six hours this morning as the sentiment is one of such uncertainty. Now we have queues outside of banks where we're loading up on the UK pound hoping that there will be a rebound.
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Post by chelt_gas on Jun 18, 2016 9:43:42 GMT
If Harrison knows the way the players and the team play, and he also continues development (let's hope he's not going to large it up in Magaluf over the summer) then a 15-goal season in league 1, at his age, will see his value increase come season end.
I like Harrison and he's a local(ish)) boy too. Good signing!
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