The Dolman Pragmatist

7 hours ago, Just Red said:

A bit of realism is needed here. Trollope was hounded out as he kept leading them to League One mid table obscurity and now they are celebrating being back in that league that they was so desperate to leave? #GasLogic

There aim once again is to catch up with us, a couple of years in league one will be a good achievement for them. However once again they will become frustrated as they are unable to catch up with us and will hound someone else out who's performing a competent job.

Two years ago they were so shite they were relegated out of the league. They have bounced back straight away but my concern if I was them would be have they bounced back to quickly? The whole club from top to bottom is simply not a league one club and I can see them quickly returning to League Two.

Had we won the Championship play off final without a doubt we would have finished bottom of the prem because of the rapid rise would have been too much for us.

To jump two divisions and to sustain that sucess you really need a good solid infrastructure and Rovers simply do not have that.

Despite their 'billionaire Chelsea supporting owner' they simply will not be able to compete financially with many of the club's at that level, their stadium is non league standard, no academy, poor training facilities etc. Being promoted is one thing button sustain it you need all those ingredients Rovers are sadly lacking, hence why I am not remotely concerned about their coming to get us claims. 

Just look at Yeovil. Getting to the Championship destroyed them. Sam's could happen to Rovers.

We'll see.  I confess to having found this thread increasingly depressing - particularly those posts which have said, in effect, ok Rovers have got promotion on the field, but who's got the better ground/richer chairman/better youth policy/etc.etc.  It's what happens on the field that matters and it's what happens in the moment.  Yes, we would probably have finished bottom of the Prem if we'd been promoted in 2008, but I'd still have taken that just for the excitement of winning at Wembley.

What Rovers have achieved is fantastic.  From a club in the depths of despair only two years ago, they have achieved two successive promotions, the second of them automatic.  I think that is pretty remarkable.  I think they deserve nothing but credit from us.  I suspect their biggest challenge may be to hang on to their manager, but if they do I doubt they will struggle next season and the notion that League One will destroy them is fanciful.  Yeovil had never been in the Championship before.  Rovers, on the other hand, have spent the majority of their existence in the third tier.

I admit I was hoping for a last minute Accrington goal, but then I'm a City fan.  It didn't come, so well done to them and I don't begrudge them their success.  If Forest Green could achieve a win in their play-off final, it will have been a pretty remarkable season for this part of the world.

What is the team?

7 minutes ago, Esmond Million's Bung said:

The good news you boys can enjoy a night of abusing one of the worst managers ever at BCFC

 

Not for me, mate.  I've always believed that we'd be in a better position now if we stuck with Pulis.  Of course we'll never know, but I have a feeling he would have got us up before 2007...

Just been on RB and again very short with the interviewer.  I know he is a bad loser, but he really needs to be polite with the interviewers.

Quite agree. He comes across like a petulant and rather unpleasant man sometimes. Interviewer was only trying to do his job, and Cotterill's behaviour was uncalled for. Man strikes me as a bit of a prat sometimes. We know he is a good manager when things are going for him, but can he come when the odds are not in his favour? I wonder...

I like the fact we still find them funny and are still basically taking the pi$$. So any of them come looking over on here thinking we're crying in our beer and are bitter and twisted maybe dissapointed

On the contrary, I think this thread has 'bitter and twisted' written all over it.  I hoped that Grimsby would win yesterday, but they didn't and I'm over that already. It doesn't matter what division you are in, or how you achieve it, promotion is promotion and if I were a Gas fan I'd be celebrating as if I'd won the Premiership.  Good luck to them, it's what football is all about.  It doesn't matter what division you are in, or what your history is, success is to be enjoyed.

Time to move on, I think.

What's happened to Saville?

We need to get something today. Lose and we could easily be dragged back into the relegation scrap.

It could be 4-4-2

Moore

Osborne Flint El Abd Williams

Elliott Pack E Thomas Cunningham

Carnet Baldock

Hmmm ... there was a whole paragraph that pondered on what would have been if we had lost.  Irrelevant.

I imagine you're referring to:

'Had Carlisle held on to the lead given them by Brad Pott's 36th-minute free kick, they would have opened up a nine-point gap on the Robins and disgruntled City fans would have been saying the honeymoon period was well and truly over for manager Steve Cotterill.  City would have remained one place off the foot of the table, even more deeply in relegation trouble and the mood ahead of Coventry's visit would have been decidedly downbeat.  As it is, Cotterill is being lauded for his game-changing substitutions, City are out of the drop zone and hitherto worried supporters are now prepared to contemplate a rise up the table. In short, City's players will approach their next assignment against the Sky Blues with renewed confidence and in the belief they can achieve back-to-back league wins for only the second time this season.'

That seems a reasonably interesting and balanced paragraph to me.  It places the win in context.

The elitist led BBC propaganda news and views agency hasn't stopped pumping the airwaves with Nelson Mandela sentimentalities for the past few days. I was trying to watch the end of a Cold War submarine documentary on BBC2 when they first started bleating about his death. I notice that the Lib-Lab-Con high command are all out in South Africa - including warmonger Tony Blair - all at taxpayers' (our) expense of course. The BBC are bigging up all these publicity merchants as well.

I think you'll find that this not limited to the BBC.  Independent broadcasters are doing exactly the same.