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2 hours ago, Ashton Hero said:

Quick question - if Rovers are such a tinpot club, why do we spend so much time discussing them. including their most recent game with Accrington? Over 3000 pages is a little embarrassing TBH. 

If we were genuinely massive, as our players and fans used to claim ad nauseam, we would have bigger things to worry about.

Just saying. 

 

Look son, it's not that we worry about them. It's  just that when we have the occasional down day, you can turn to this thread and immediately feel so much better. They could be moved to the written or visual joke pages or we could start a football "joke club" page. But it's easy to access where it is and it is actually funnier than the joke page. Hope that explains it to you in simple terms. Now go and colour in your Joe Barton picture book. 

We have 2 players , Scott and Semenyo ,  who may both be with us the rest of the season. 

Scott great,  because he's happy to stay here and develop. He will give 100% .

Semenyo, if he wants away will be less happy. Hopefully he still gives his best but if he sulks, neither him nor the club will benefit.

If we have to lose one now, it's Semenyo for me.

45 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Football has changed these days. 

Long gone are the days where a bid would be placed and then a player would go and discuss personal terms. 

These days the personal terms get agreed before the few even gets agreed. Now that could be with the selling clubs permission or it could be done in secret. But it's what happens now. The agents are heavily involved in making a transfer happen. 

I don't think the player is even involved.  Player tells agent what he wants, agent goes to interested clubs with players demands, buying club agrees wage demands, agent comes back to player with agreed wages. Then buying club contacts selling club with bid. No tapping up. All conjecture mind!!

3 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

My understanding, having spoken to him on one call in relation to the Heritage project - is that he's very unlikely to return to the BCFC board. He's happy to be involved as he is with projects that support the club, but full board membership isn't happening.

That's a shame imo.

20 minutes ago, sh1t_ref_again said:

Love these threads where posts state what SL or JL are thinking or planning all by people who i suspect don't know them, have no involvement with BCFC other than watching and probably never even met them, all total speculation 

I've met and spoken to Steve and Jon on several occasions.  Not pretending to be ITK but I'm not just a Saturday afternoon fan. 

7 minutes ago, Glen hump said:

what fee are we expecting, I’ll go for 5.5 rising to 8 million with add ons

I think we need to be looking at 10mil+  with add ons.

I think the lack of takeover/investment news is proof of SLs commitment to making sure the club is in good hands going forward. He won't want all his hard work undone by some hit and run organisation. The building blocks are in place for the club to progress but I think Steve probably thinks he's gone as far as he can but I'm sure he wants to see the club in the Prem.

One things for sure, he doesn't think Jon has the ability or the inclination to take it on. Jon was just his ears at the club when he was appointed chairman.  Jons absence and silence is proof of his lack of interest.

As an aside, I would like to see Scott Davidson back on the board if he was interested , but I've no idea if he is, although he is involved around the club with the ex players initiative. 

5 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

I know you’re right. But I also know he’s going to get better. I don’t know what I want. 

Me neither but I just want it sorted quickly. NP said doing business early but we're approaching mid Jan already. If it takes another 2 weeks to get someone in then another month to get them team wise with us, we are looking at March ffs.

7 minutes ago, frenchred said:

I'd have him!.............. That will upset a few haha

I'll go and pick NW up if he'll come here.

3 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

Having watched us in all 4 divisions since the late 60's there has been many a season when mid table Championship seemed like a distant dream. Even the past few seasons. Right now I would happily settle for mid table Championship for the next couple of years at least. Be careful what you wish for.

I think we were in 3rd division south (ask your dad) when I started watching mid 50s. That's almost 70 years of football and after this season,  which may be  my last,  we could be back in exactly the same place. What progress! You young uns are expecting far too much.

Too late now but imagine getting promoted playing "gamesmanship football",  as opposed to the brilliant stuff we have watched over the last few years.  Oh....wait...

3 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Definitely. Though I did think Antoine was less keen to get involved in physical contacts yesterday. All the speculation may be having a subconscious impact. 

Yeah . The powerful strong fast Antoine has disappeared. The present version seems to have his mind elsewhere..Although he has started scoring again which is a good sign.

18 minutes ago, spudski said:

I totally agree. And the execution of passing, distribution and throw ins has increasingly become lazy imo. Balls very rarely passed crisply to feet and to the correct side to receive. It's often having to be controlled like a hot potato being lobbed at you. We did in the past...it's become very noticeable of late.

Agree with this  Spud. I've been saying for ages that our passing is lazy. Watch next time we play it square across the back line. More often than not the pass goes behind the player forcing him onto the back foot. Our players always seem to be facing our goal when they receive the ball. It's why our play seems so slow and negative imo.

5 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

I’m bored of this mediocre shit what we have to put with. What is happening to our club. 

We have an owner looking to sell and a chairman whose got no interest. There are 2 problems at the very top.

Our dead ball taking in general is poor, including throw ins. I think if we had a penalty we would play it back to Max!

1 minute ago, BigTone said:

Jon seems to have fallen off the planet at some point.

Didn't he land in Bahamas or Bermuda when he fell?

I always thought Steves plan was to hand the reins to Jon and for him to take us forward (Or backward).

12 minutes ago, RedEd73 said:

LJ and Cotts for me.

Cotts benefitted from the groundwork laid by SO'D, and there wasn't a whole lot wrong when LJ took over from Cotts.

 

LJ said he needed 3 windows when he arrived to rebuild the team. Its what they all say. It buys them time if it goes pear shaped.

2 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

NP reacted to the question of why he persists with AW at WB and he replied that he scored a goal from there. 
Evidently he wants more from his WBs but I hope he calls time on the experiment with AW. Get him up top where he can score and make more than one goal.

So Nige wants his wing backs to score more goals so his master plan is to play his goal scorers there. Brilliant.

4 hours ago, adamski said:

Reflecting back over the past 50 odd years, I'd say the stability and continual improvement provided under the Landsdowns is unprecedented at this club. From 76 things went down hill(and let's be honest, things over the previous 60 years had been pretty average). We did not invest in future players, but tired old has beens. The board did not look at sustainability and we ended up at rock bottom. From that point we scrambled out of the 4th division and were a division 3 team, with short lived bursts into the second for nearly 20 years, apart from a couple of seasons the fare was shite delivered by an army of average players- with the odd exception.

Since 2002 we have had stability, now we have expectations, decent facilities and some hope, if they are a pox, what the hell have rovers got? 

Some people have shady memories or have not been around AG long enough

Agree with most of this but even you must agree that the club has now stalled where it matters most, on the pitch. Even when we win, I don't walk away from the ground feeling entertained or exited by what I've seen. 

I've met and spoken to all the Lansdown family in recent years and they usually come across as very enthusiastic about the club and its future.

However, the silence from the top is deafening at the moment and although the appointment of Phil Alexander is welcome, just where are the chairman and the owner. I find that quite worrying.

1 minute ago, GrahamC said:

Weird that he’s only started a quarter of our games, then.

What an odd thing to say.

Fair point but I meant recently at cb.

1 minute ago, Davefevs said:

I don’t think he’s been consistently poor at all.  But he has made mistakes, granted.  He’s been good…inconsistently though!

King has made some costly mistakes too but he's 1st name on the teamsheet..

An Ashton Martin?

Seasons greetings all. Peace and love, and points and pints.

Looks to me to be new deals for JD and Han. At least they get more time on the pitch.