Gert Mare

We definitely need to be better in the middle of the park. If you win those battles you dictate the game. As much as I like Alex Scott he is a luxury player who likes to be further up and draw fowls. He jogs about and isn’t aggressive to get stuck in and help out the two in the middle. When you are struggling to get hold of the game you need other players to come in and break up play.

No. You’re coming for us again, singing the blues. What is even more surprising is that you haven’t arranged an open top bus tour of Kingswood after spoiling Burton’s Cup Final and that you haven’t mentioned the numbers that went today because it’s what you do?!

Massengo might be a headless chicken who doesn’t know how to shoot, but a real positive is that he has massive hair. I think we should sing about it?

A positive I took from yesterday was that Massengo has massive hair.

I know every club has them, but my god it seems like every week something like this happens with the gappers. They really need to think seriously about disassociating themselves with the words ‘family club’ unless of course they are referring to the ******* Kray’s!

They could always sit on the white plastic chairs for £23 and enjoy a fake Fanta and a packet of out of date crisps? Then they’ve got the converted portaloo Santa’s Grotto and the condemned toilet block. What more do they want?!

Um, because you are a little Tinpot club? Small club playing a team from a village and getting battered. It’s not a surprise that you lost. All your loanees have ****** off back to their parent clubs leaving you with a team full of no marks in your little tented shit pit.

Cruel luck and poor refereeing decision. A game we should not have lost, but apart from Weimann’s goal we didn’t create much. Atkinson should have had a penalty. I haven’t seen a takedown like that since Swindon against Flint. Should have been 3 points today but we let Hull back into the game after we had started and kept possession so well. 45 games to go, but we should come away with something against teams like Hull.

I remember a Gentleman's Evening with Stoney. His opening line "What's your name son?". I can't say any more as people are offended too easily these days. What a laugh that day was!!! Legend!

Zak Vyner in my opinion is a liability. Flat footed, casual / lazy, ball watches, switches off, plays too many long balls which squanders possession. Mistakes have been made and then are repeated over and over again. Just not good enough. Would be a liability if given ANY game time.

Vyner in no man’s land with a half hearted ball watching jump….We’ve seen that numerous times now. Never learns

True. They always set themselves up for it and then throw their teddies out of the pram when it goes tits up!

Fair play ?? A Gashead that can own up and take the banter like a proper bloke.

The Sag had spent half an hour trying to convince the ‘Ted that Jaily Barton had put out a stronger XI against Chippenham. ? The Sag was clearly one of the ‘Tote End Era’

Brilliant. Last night I overheard a Sag saying that the loss against Bath City was only a friendly and Rovers had most of their second string out. I heard someone else say that it wasn’t what they had heard, it was most of their first team at Bath. The Sag denied that this was the case and referred to the other chap as a ‘Shithead ***’. Then about 40 minutes later another Sag turned up (who had actually been to Trumpton) and said it was a poor game considering how many of the first team Rovers had out. The bloke that had piped up earlier (The gurt ‘Ted) said “Yep that’s exactly what I had heard” Then the original Sag started losing his shit saying “Well it was only a friendly and you can stop ******* smirking you Shithead ***!” Love it! Deluded Sag brought crashing back down to earth by one of their own. ? The gift ? ???

28,000 capacity.......1k more than City. You just know that would be the one and only reason. They'll struggle to get a decent new stadium, and even if they did it would be less capacity than Ashton Gate. Build any bigger and they'll end up being the new Darlington. Mind you, if they did end up as the new Darlington it would be funny, so I would like it to happen.

Which one is Windass?

Code anyone?

Ooh yes! Jumpers for goalposts ?

Yep. It’s just that data doesn’t really work well where humans are concerned. I bet the data showed that Nahki Wells would score every couple of games before he joined City? That stat soon went out of the window.

Lee Johnson went way too far with the theory and bamboozled players (and the supporters).

I’m happy to do it. A good old fashioned scouting network will trump data analysis any day of the week.

Personally the only stats worth anything are the ones on the scoreboard and everything else is just utter tosh and I’ll state my reasons why:- Footballers are humans, not machines and therefore are prone to loss in confidence, illness, other issues such as whether they get on with certain players in a team or the manager. What about other player’s trust? They might not fancy passing to someone too much who might be a liability? Regardless of however many blades of grass a players covers if you don’t score goals the stats are worthless. Brian Clough had it right. Get in players heads, let them relax and rest at times, tell them that they are better players than they are, keep it simple. Football is such a simple game, score more goals than the opposition, but start from having a solid defence. Aim to keep the ball in the opposition’s half. The rest of the things you need you can see with a good eye. Stats just waste hours of someone’s life that they will never get back to produce pictures that are confusing to those trying to get any meaning from it….plus it ain’t winning you any more matches!

Blimey, the BBC actually reporting something factual for a change!

Right, that’s it, no more love-ins! They’ll be booking a weekend in Nottingham instead for a little trip to Derby where they can reminisce about their massive following when Nathan Ellington wowed the Derby fans and Derby adopted Rovers as their second club.