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Maybe Copps would be willing to play a few more games for our new manager if needed.
Hopefully Richie's strong personality and drive will go some way to picking us up out of this slump in the short term as well.
It must be just me then.How can you begin a post saying that 'it’s time for everyone to pull together and inject some ambition and positivity into the club'and then spend the next four paragraphs going over the negatives?
Now that the dust has settled and the board have got their men I think it’s time for everyone to pull together and inject some ambition and positivity into the club. From the Chairman and Chief Exec through to the manager and his support staff, marketing and social media team, supporters clubs and fans, everyone needs to be giving their maximum to pull in the same direction. It’s very easy to become stagnant as a football club and if you are stagnant you move backwards because too many of your rivals are trying to move forwards. This is an elite sport environment and there should be pressure to perform and achieve results on and off the field. That is something that feels to be lacking at times. My worry is that the employees at the club and even us the fans haven’t acknowledged how bad the situation caused by the omnishambles of the last few months actually is. We’ve been left with a skeleton squad made up of players that will be carrying the hang over of the this season with them, some that are mentally weak, young players that may be scarred by their dismal introduction into first team football and others that just are not good enough for League 1 football. In addition to this cocktail of potential disaster we’ve lost the leader of the dressing room, the talisman on and off the pitch, the conduit between the players and the manager (and often the fans for that matter) Mr James Coppinger. Replacing that presence with one man is impossible, a squad and environment has to be created which allows this void to be filled in other ways. It would be easy to brush the last few months under the carpet and convince ourselves that we finished mid-table(ish), we have a new manager and talent ID manager, we have a chance to build a fresh squad and move forward. That’s not how football works, it’s not that simple. That’s what Bristol Rovers thought after their dismal end to the 2019-20 season. The invested in the squad bringing into in pretty high quality players for the level, they though that would be enough, it wasn’t. The rot had set in and it needed more than recruitment to save them. League 2 beckons. The club need to recognise the issues that culminated in the collapse and put maximum effort into putting process in place to ensure a situation like that cannot arise again. They have already alluded to the fact they are to rethink the quota of loan players and the timing of contract expiries, which is positive, but there was more to that situation than that alone. Doing the minimum will not be enough. Next season will only be a success if there’s an improvement in every aspect. Bravery in recruitment from the board, good decisions from the manager, improved application and effort from the players and just as important as that, backing from us, the fans (god willing we can return from the start of the season). The new recruits need to feel part of something to enable them to bring the best out in them and a positivity around the whole club plays a big part in that, we can do our bit to set those standards inside the ground. When we are allowed back in to the stadium let’s turn up and support in our numbers making up for missing the whole of this season. Let’s get behind the manager, the players, the board and move together as one united force and get that snowball of momentum building from day one. Here’s to a fresh start, bring it on!
Not sure what else the club could have done in this window. They identified a player who was their prime target. They agreed a deal in principle, only for a third party to come in and gazump them. The manager asks the board for money to match the offer from the third party and they agree. The player then has a choice and decides to go to the bigger team who are currently further up the table and not struggling rather than go to the team who are bottom of the league. Following this disappointment the manager moves on to a secondary target - with little time to act - we agree again in principle only for the parent club to send the wrong paperwork.It might be disappointing, but it is hardly the board and managements fault. You can't force a player to sign and you cannot account for an administrative error... It may be a blessing in disguise as Will Grigg ain't going to be up and running for a number of weeks as he hasn't played consistently for some time. We have players coming back from injury etc, so let's all take a deep breath and see what happens. Sometimes things happen for a reason - and this isn't the end of the world....
Liam hoden tweeted last night that rovers had a free agent on the “possible” list. Does anyone know who this is ?
Quote from: normal rules on September 01, 2021, 03:18:52 pmLiam hoden tweeted last night that rovers had a free agent on the “possible” list. Does anyone know who this is ? Warren Feeney.