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This nonsense about having a World wide network doesn’t wash .. It only works if you have sporting director who’s job it is to seive out the right players .. wasting money & resources when everything has to go through a dinosaur of a manager and he’s expected to take training and other things as well as find and watch hours and hours of player figures and videos ... just doesn’t work Last Transfer window on the last day he just gave up at 6pm and went home .. He looks a tired manager and it rubs off the squad .18 points
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Isn't that the truth? Tony looks weary and he probably realises he's taken the club as far as he can. If he were honest with himself, he'd resign.16 points
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I'll dress the situation up a different way chaddy. You go out Saturday afternoon and neck a good 18 pints of Stella. There's a naughty little blonde offering it on a plate later on so you take her home and do the deed. What a do, she's got all the moves. Later the next week you feel a bit tender downstairs and something ain't right, you go to the clap clinic and she's given you a nasty dose of chlamydia the slapper! A month later you're back on the Stella, even a few sambuca this time. Ey up she's knocking about again and looking incredible. Things start following the same route as last time. Do you stop and think maybe you should bag up this time or just not bother at all? Going into the season with Bell as left back and no new centre halves is going in balls deep, 3 times, and not washing for a month after.13 points
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No matter what bollocks is being fed down to us there is absolutely no excuse for starting the season with no more centre halves, none at all. He's got 7 days to sort it.9 points
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I'm with Chaddy on this one. Despite the throwaway remarks of others since last night, he's clearly not saying we shouldn't aim for a good start and it's unfair to suggest he is, but he is correct in the sense that it's a marathon not a sprint. A good start doesn't guarantee success, nor vice versa. On paper, our opening game is one of, if not the, toughest all season. We won't go up, stay in the Champ or go down depending on whether we win, lose or draw that match. If anything, the Wycombe game is more important in view of past experience, as that's the type of game we historically struggle with. In any event I'm 100% certain the aim is to go into the Bournemouth game with a new LB & CB. The club is clearly not just sitting their twiddling it's thumbs in that respect. Whether it happens or not remains to be seen, but good late arrivals did happen last season (Tosin, Cunningham) which supports Chaddy's premise that clubs on a budget can do their best business later in the window once realism dawns on a few players, agents and their parent clubs that their wage / transfer fee expectations need reining in. Oh and Chaddy, you forgot to mention that it was the much-vaunted Warnock who was in charge at Cardiff during their slow start last season. Just sayin'! ?9 points
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So this window is the same as all the others under Mowbray. Near misses and never gonna happens. These two are worthless.8 points
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Is Mowbray playing a game of trying to buy the unattainable here because that is how it's starting to feel? Then he can shrug his shoulders and say at least he tried?8 points
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I suspect they were a lot happier when Kean, Shebbie, Shagnew et al were at the wheel.7 points
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Waggott has betrayed any trust or faith i might have had in him. In May he went in the Telegraph, played on fans emotions to discourage people from even seeking any sort of refund for missed games they had paid for. In return he made it clear that he would look to address it next season with an appropriate discount on costs to even it out for struggling fans. To now go public less than 4 months later with a price hike just shows this man and his words cannot be trusted. He will say one thing to get out of a predicament and soon after deliver the opposite. Treat fans and customers with lies, disrespect and mislead them. Only going to end one way. I now have to think long and hard about whether I'm prepared to cough up £400 to fund his outrageous salary and antics, effectively vindicating and backing his approach into the future. Not sure i am prepared to in all honesty.7 points
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To be honest Rovers commercial operation is piss poor. No season ticket prices No home shirt on sale via roverstore or online No details as to the colours of the away shirt No efforts to link in with supporters other than a piss poor Waggy statement! its rank amateur and a very sad reflection on what BRFC have become!6 points
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Tony Mowbray and team are a bunch of dinosaurs when it comes to recruitment... they need to be serious hunters, to me just always feels like they are serious dilly dallyers... you snooze you lose and thats us all over!6 points
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No idea mate. But it makes as much sense as taking 8 transfer windows to end up with half a defence.6 points
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Wish people would strop rewriting history on Cunningham, he was bang average in his few games with us - just being an upgrade on Bell doesn’t mean he’s good enough. That’s not even mentioning that he’s had an injury that most would struggle to come back from, avoid.6 points
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It was that kind of mentality that cost us after lockdown despite winning the first game. Get on it as soon as you can and stay on it as long as you can. Winning mentality needed at all times not this well we'll have a look and see, if we lose we'll shrug our shoulders because it's ok there's always the next one.6 points
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More propaganda. It’s not about straplines it’s about how they treat fans. By putting theirs on sale they have had a revenue stream for months. We have had zero. People aren’t stupid and they didn’t treat them as such. They had the option to buy knowing the uncertainties around attending. Now they are treating their fans fairly and with respect. They will get loyalty in spades. Meanwhile we talk about loyalty while treating fans like monopolised customers. Would Waggott have offered what Bristol now have? Well considering we were one of a very small number of clubs not offering a refund last season, one would have to say no. It seems you will back whatever they do. Just like many many other short term posters we have had on this site in the last 10 years. The current plan is indefensible. Emotional blackmail and turning fans against each other. It had been a tactic used ever since Kean replaced Allardyce.6 points
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Thats a joke, right? Can you inagine Warnock spunking 12m on them two. He would get Boro up with 12m. I'd put a large bet on that. Quality manager. Yet again, defending the club no matter what. I was at nob end on that 4-1 , should have been sacked that evening. John Williams would have potted him ages ago.6 points
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They couldn’t run a bath. Every other club manages to buy players. We dither and prat about and then polish up the next sob story. And they talk about a recruitment department. They need their p45s ASAP if it does exist because our recruitment is dog sh@t.5 points
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I dont know about an enemy agent sent to ruin Rovers. But how about this for a conspiracy: Mowbray has been promising to sign proper defenders for over a year and has failed. Who knows why that might be but our current situation represents a recruitment failure without a doubt. It is cheap and easy to drip feed stuff to the media to keep the fans quiet and buy some time. The alternative is panic stations. It is in his and the club's interests for people to believe things are happening and that good players who would improve us are being chased. The Kipre one has bought him another fortnight. Now it turns out WBA were in the pursuit weeks ago so we were highly unlikely to get him unless that deal collapsed and nobody else came in We've form for this sort of thing. Remember Assombalonga whose pursuit took us through the entire January window in 2019 only to sign nobody other than Chapman. Remember last summers goalkeeper pursuits of Darlow and Hart. Again those links in the Telegraph came from somewhere close to home and convinced the masses that we were armed with cash to get a proven keeper whilst we ended up with Walton on loan. Maybe these attempts are genuine and not window dressing but either way we don't get them done and here we are.5 points
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If Waggott earns the reported £300k per annum we will have to sell 1,000 at an average of £300 each just to pay for him. That is probably ten times the average yearly earnings of people he is expecting to pay more. He has some gall to prey on our loyalty by increasing season tickets whilst taking a huge amount of money. I can't think of one area of the club which has improved during his tenure, not one. In December he will have been here three years and taken the best part of a million quid out of the club. An expensive flop.5 points
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They couldn’t have wanted him that bad if it took them 4 weeks and spent most the time chasing Duffy5 points
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Not a fan of Hanley, and I thought he was a poor captain, but he might have that fear factor that keeps others on their toes. If he could have the type of second-time-around impact that Hendry had it could be just what we need.4 points
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How is it possible to be manager of a club for nearly four years, be an ex centre half and to not have made, in that time, a permanent centre half signing apart from Paul Downing? We have the same leaky sh£t defence that we had under that moron Coyle apart from Amari Bell. Same sh£t, different window. It’s so frustrating and boring.4 points
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Sack them both ... shambles .. My Tip would be Mark McKenzie US Player ..Under a Million .. Center Back Hard as Rock .. Fast .. Within Our budget Prob End Up with some young raw Local lad who lives around the corner ....4 points
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It’s a great point. Our European Scouting Network always come to BRFCS first to get ideas for players. C’mon man, it makes no difference if we come up with names or not - and even if we did/do it just becomes another debate and realism vs lining up Mowbray to fail. Our recruitment woes begin and end with Mowbray. The manager. Like every club. Except at every other club failure to get it right results in dismissal - especially if you blow £12m that we don’t have.4 points
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We've come up with plenty on here. Unfortunately, it seems like the management of the club haven't got the where with all to sign any of them. Buck stops with the manager. They are his targets.4 points
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Mowbray is just doing here what he did at his beloved Middlesbrough. Steady away, comfy, happy campers, fans content knowing he is a decent honest bloke but also knowing he won't ever get them to the promised land. After 3 years at Middlesbrough of being nearly men Gibson got tired and decided a change was needed. He made a tough and potentially unpopular decision binning Mowbray off and appointed Karanka, but that's what proper chairmen and CEOs do because they act for the betterment of the club and know that you might have to upset one or two. Never going to get that here with our lot because Venkys would see this club in the Conference before sacking someone they like and the CEO is his best mate. So we've another few years left to run of this episode unless Mowbray hits the end of his tether before then, which with our performance in the transfer market might be sooner than we think.4 points
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mowbray,waggot,the coaching staff and half the team are in their cosy little enviroment,no pressure on them to achieve anything but a mid table finish,once you start buying better players the job becomes a bit harder,because they are ambitious and the fans will start expecting as well,i suspect that is why we keep missing out on targets,mowbray is contented in his own bubble,he does`nt want to try for promotion imo4 points
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Just caught up with the statement from Waggons 24 hours late. After I've been extremely critical of the Club for an apparent unwillingness to do anything at this crucial time I suppose any communication of sorts outlining their thoughts is welcome but as another poster said that's where the credit stops. So forgive me if I've misread it but my understanding of the statement is: - there'll be no credit carried forward for any supporters who weren't happy with or who were unable to access an I follow pass at the end of last season - prices for this season will be in excess of a full priced ticket for actual attendance at 19 games last year. Increases thinly passed off as necessary to compensate for a price freeze for younger fans. - no refunds on this year's full season ticket price if part or all of the season takes price behind closed doors. - "We're all in it together" but whilst supporters will be asked to shell out extra for a season ticket this season for games they may not even be able to see in person, there's no suggestion Waggott will be volunteering to take a small cut in his 300k p.a. salary to demonstrate that, like the fans, he will be doing his bit. I'm aghast, but perhaps not surprised, at the brass neck of Waggott. I've never met the bloke but he comes across as an absolute moron. John Williams was always very steadfast in his belief that the fans should show loyalty to the Club but I doubt even he would have the brass neck to come out with that pile of crap. I always thought that I would renew my ST no matter what the circumstances or even if I didn't attend (down to Mowbray rather than Covid) to help the Club out but I have to say Waggott is testing my patience to the absolute limit. On a minor note, how the fook can you buy a shirt to help out (which again I would have been willing to do) when they can't even be bothered to open the Club shop or come up with a date when they'll be on general sale? My better half has seen the Club statement and her response was "You're not getting one are you, you don't even know if you'll be allowed in". Have to say that's the pragmatic view but Waggott's response appears to be "You'll have to take that possibility on the chin AND pay more for the privilege" I'm astounded that anyone of full capacity could even utter the words "price increase" in the current climate. Prices should have been frozen across the Board from last year as a thank you for supporters who continue to support the Club at a difficult time with further refunds or credit given for any games that can't be viewed in person and have to be watched on i follow.4 points
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I can only assume that Mowbray still likes to be one of the best defenders at the club he's employed by. Let it go, Tony. It's over.4 points
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Even by your standards you're completely scraping the barrel here ? Maybe we should aim to go 3 nil down every game too, after all Liverpool did in Istanbul and still won the champions league final? ?4 points
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I love that the isolated example of Boro keep getting brought up. We might not be the only club lagging behind but we are always one of the slowest under Venkys and always will be. We started v Charlton last season with the usual dregs in defence and lost. The value of a fast start has been lost. Does anyone have faith that Mowbray is going to bring in the defenders we need?4 points
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Ain't that the truth. Strange really when our manager has asked his mate and our first team coach who has no particular standing or gravitas within the game to put a different hat on and moonlight by heading up transfer negotiations.......... Genius ! You can't understand why everyone doesn't do it!3 points
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