Twas on a Tuesday night the gas man came to call, Bristol (H) 28/02/17 - KO 8pm

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Re: Twas on a Tuesday night the gas man came to call, Bristol (H) 28/02/17 - KO 8pm

Post by Nicko58 » Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:00 pm

We started well enough but were rarely in it after the first ten minutes. As has been mentioned, the transfer embargo is going to do us, and that was probably always going to be the case.

Bristol Rovers were very good though, and should really have won it.
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Post by Harry Genshaw » Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:03 pm

I think PT will need gas and air after that. Awful, woeful, one dimensional long ball 5hite. The worst I've seen us play in years. With that kind of performance and the injuries and suspensions racking up, I'm not hopeful we'll make the play offs
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Post by Tombwfc » Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:05 pm

TonyDomingos wrote:
Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:01 pm
The Scunny defeat has given us a glimmer of hope. Win our game in hand to go second.

While this may be true, we're surely only going to get so many chances to make a run on these teams. On Christmas Day we were four points behind Scunthorpe, they've taken 14 points from 12 games since (including losing to us) and we're still two behind.

We are still right in it, but at least one of us, Scunthorpe, Fleetwood, Bradford and Millwall are going to put together a run to the end of the season and take that second spot. For it to be us we'd have to be better than we have been at any point this season, given we've got the ninth best away record in the division and play 8 of our last 13 on the road.

Without Clough, Ameobi and now Spearing, that just seems implausible, barring tomorrow's big signing being a time machine we can stick ALF in.

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Post by officer_dibble » Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:08 pm

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Re: Twas on a Tuesday night the gas man came to call, Bristol (H) 28/02/17 - KO 8pm

Post by Peter Thompson » Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:02 am

Harry Genshaw wrote:
Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:03 pm
I think PT will need gas and air after that. Awful, woeful, one dimensional long ball 5hite. The worst I've seen us play in years. With that kind of performance and the injuries and suspensions racking up, I'm not hopeful we'll make the play offs
Nail on head, it doesn't matter who Parkinson puts out on the pitch we still end up playing this long ball shite, he's incapable of getting a team to play any other way, either that or the players are numb as feck and are not listening to him.

Apart from the first 10 mins the football was probably worse than ever before - come on I know that we have injuries but how is it that Bristol Rovers can play decent football and we can't - have they got better players than BWFC ?

Bristol Rovers looked a good team - much fitter, faster, had more desire, better movement, well drilled, well coached, looked like they knew what each other was doing - after the first 10 we just resorted to hoof ball even without Madine. We are just so disorganised....we must play some of the worst football in the league, so in that respect its a miracle that we are still 4th, but saying that I can't see us going up this season even via the play offs....we are an awful team to watch.

So have Bristol Rovers got better footballers than BWFC or is it that their manager knows how to get a team to play good, fast attacking football ? - answers on a post card....

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Post by Prufrock » Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:24 am

Our manager must surely be better? I mean they're fitter, faster, better on the ball, want it more, better drilled, and yet our man managed to get a point off them. Well done Parky.

Injuries really have f*cked us. We've got barely three-quarters of a season out of his first choice midfield "3" at the start of the season between them. Plus lost Clough and Ameobi. So the whole midfield has gone.

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Post by twilight » Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:32 am

Josh was being wound up last night and so was Long. We didn't keep our cool. If we had stuck to the task up to our goal, which was trying to play the ball on the ground we would have been fine. Instead, we started to play the high balls up in the air as though Madine was on the pitch....it's just not Long's game. Forget the midfielders, we don't need them because we don't use them.
But I can't even talk about the Referee, if indeed he truly was one, he was just making his own rules up as he went along....appalling.
By the way, I liked the look of Bristol's Number 23, he ran rings round us all game

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Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:00 am

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Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:24 am
Injuries really have f*cked us. We've got barely three-quarters of a season out of his first choice midfield "3" at the start of the season between them. Plus lost Clough and Ameobi. So the whole midfield has gone.

No pressure, Josh.
No pressure at all for the next two games, which he'll be watching from the naughty step having finally achieved his 10th yellow.

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Post by DJBlu » Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:02 am

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:00 am
Prufrock wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:24 am
Injuries really have f*cked us. We've got barely three-quarters of a season out of his first choice midfield "3" at the start of the season between them. Plus lost Clough and Ameobi. So the whole midfield has gone.

No pressure, Josh.
No pressure at all for the next two games, which he'll be watching from the naughty step having finally achieved his 10th yellow.
According to Iles, He's not banned as one of the yellows was from the Checkatrade Trophy.

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Post by Prufrock » Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:03 am

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:00 am
Prufrock wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:24 am
Injuries really have f*cked us. We've got barely three-quarters of a season out of his first choice midfield "3" at the start of the season between them. Plus lost Clough and Ameobi. So the whole midfield has gone.

No pressure, Josh.
No pressure at all for the next two games, which he'll be watching from the naughty step having finally achieved his 10th yellow.
Hooray. No idea what team we pick next time. Trotter and Derik in a two? Christ alive.

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Post by TKIZ! » Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:05 am

Vela not banned according to PP. One of the yellows was in Checkatrade.
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Post by DJBlu » Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:05 am

Prufrock wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:03 am
Hooray. No idea what team we pick next time. Trotter and Derik in a two? Christ alive.
It won't be long before we see Wheater up top and Dervite in the back four, dropping Le Fondre into Midfield.

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Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:00 am

DJBlu wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:02 am
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:00 am
Prufrock wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:24 am
Injuries really have f*cked us. We've got barely three-quarters of a season out of his first choice midfield "3" at the start of the season between them. Plus lost Clough and Ameobi. So the whole midfield has gone.

No pressure, Josh.
No pressure at all for the next two games, which he'll be watching from the naughty step having finally achieved his 10th yellow.
According to Iles, He's not banned as one of the yellows was from the Checkatrade Trophy.
TFFT. Cheers.

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Post by Dr Hotdog » Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:08 am

Wabara looked about 3 weeks off the pace. Derik made a bad career move in coming to England direct from Spain, he ain't mentally up to the task, should have taken it easy and gone to lower level Italy or Germany, or stayed in Spain. He'll see out whatever contract he's on and do one. Thanks for being absolutely soft as shite, positionally aware as a rabbit and t'ra sunshine. Howard looked like we'd given someone from the stand a try in nets. Laughable decision making that comes from being out for a few months.
Second half we literally did not have a shot on goal (someone pls clarify). Everyone is scared of the ball, hiding behind their marker. No-one is willing to stand up and play - because their confidence is shot to feck. Only Vela played alright last night. Playing C.Long up against the big boys at the back was like when we'd lump it at Davies and he was being marked by 6' 8" Haaaaaangeland at Fulham. Not so much TACTICS as LOLTICS. And We Pay for the Privilege.

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Post by DJBlu » Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:15 am

Funny you should mention Howard,

This was from the only Bristol Rovers fan I know,

"I was a bit worried when Le Fondre came on! where did you get your keeper from? he was dreadful!"

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Post by Peter Thompson » Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:29 am

Ok last night we had a team of Howard, Wabara, Wheater, Beevers, Taylor, Spearing, Derik, Vela, Morais, Henry, Long - with the likes of Le Fondre, Trotter, VSO, Dervite, Moxey etc on the bench.

All those defending Parkinson, his tactics, the embargo & the squad limitations / injuries etc, can you honestly say that Bristol Rovers had better players than BWFC did last night ?, and if not and they had inferior players (on paper) all over the pitch - how come they played us off the park (apart from the 1st 10 mins) with a style of attacking quick football that we should be able to play if we had a manager who believed in and could coach good football....are we saying that the players we have didn't play passing football at their previous teams.

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Post by DJBlu » Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:51 am

The better players? Maybe not. A season together? Yes. Knowing how other players play is as important as ones own skill. They had a team out there. Not individuals shoe horned into positions at the last minute.

You were on about throwing Long in up front instead of Wilkinson. That didn't work. What now? A team needs time to gel no matter what team it is. We haven't got time on our hands so hopefully we'll stay in the playoffs and the team will be on the way to playing the system and how each other tick.

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Post by n035209 » Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:39 pm

Gutless. Make the feckers go to the Reebok and stand there for 90mins watching the grass grow.

The defense and midfielder may as well of been sat in the first row of north stand they were that deep. Pathetic. Didnt get what we deserved and that was a tonking. God help us if we go up!!

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Post by dave the minion » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:08 pm

Jesus wept. Anyone coming in from the cold and reading this would think we are a team languishing in the bottom 3....

Can we have a bit of persepctive please?

Almost to a man on here everyone was predicting a hard struggle this season, with nothing to cheer about.

We are currently sitting 4th in the table with a game or 2 in hand, which if we win takes us to 2nd. Even if we don't win, there is currectly daylight between us and the teams below, so all is not lost is it surely?

Yes, we've had a fairly rotten run of it in recent weeks, but lets also not forget that we are up sh1t creek financially, which has led to the embargo not yet being lifted and massive restrictions on what we can and can't do. We couldn't re-loan our most creative player of the end of last year (Ameobi) and we had to sell Clough. We've also had a horrendous injury record, and as a result of players not being able to be rotated we are now suffering the suspensions form the inevitable accumulation of cards.

But f*ck me - can we all wake up and smell the bisciuts? We are actually doing alright you know? We are in the play offs, potentially 2nd, and have a manager who - for the first time in years - actually seems to know how to defend and how to win games. I notice those who are having a pop at the manager and the players haven't offered a better alternative yet either.....

Come on - quick straw poll - if you'd been offered to be in the current league position at the start of the season, given all the limitations we have - who wouldn't have taken it???

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Re: Twas on a Tuesday night the gas man came to call, Bristol (H) 28/02/17 - KO 8pm

Post by Peter Thompson » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:30 pm

DJBlu wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:51 am
The better players? Maybe not. A season together? Yes. Knowing how other players play is as important as ones own skill. They had a team out there. Not individuals shoe horned into positions at the last minute.

You were on about throwing Long in up front instead of Wilkinson. That didn't work. What now? A team needs time to gel no matter what team it is. We haven't got time on our hands so hopefully we'll stay in the playoffs and the team will be on the way to playing the system and how each other tick.

It's not all about individuals.
Feck me, it was never going to work with Parkinson continuing to play hoof ball to a 5ft 10" striker was it, the ball needs to be played quickly on the floor if Long is played as the lone striker - its simple tactics that several people on here just don't grasp.

Did anyone seriously think it would work with Long up front still playing hoof ball, we could have Linekar, Rush, Messi, Suarez etc in the team up front and it won't work whilst Parkinson continues his route 1 / hoofball system

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