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Del Boy

Getting knocked out by Maidstone was a nightmare scenario. Getting knocked out by Sutton United was a nightmare scenario. Starting the season hoping to escape relegation was nightmare scenario. Losing to Port Vale while fifth in the division is not a nightmare scenario. Bury was a financial disaster...

Del Boy

"Only" two wins in the last six games would have been seen as a fantastic run a few years ago.

Del Boy

http://forum.fgrfc.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=103682 Wow. I agree with ihearye (shock, horror) - if the official statement is incorrect, I think you have every right to demand audience in the opportunity to view the CCTV and present your side of the story. What's the betting the CCTV mysteriously ...

Del Boy

Ihearye wrote:what a change from our former manager. Always makes it about the players, but not overboard when winning or losing. Same consistent message every week. Star signing

Just like one of our previous managers who Duff played for at two clubs. Could we be that lucky??

Del Boy

The same people bigging this up are the same ones who refer to that league as pub football where Gloucester are concerned. Good for Johnson - probably found his level now. Presumably he's only going to sign worse players than he's already got in the summer so he doesn't hurt their feelings. Shame we...

Del Boy

It was interesting how, the other night, Duff was on about how coaching the defence in the way he wanted them to play had taken time because it was not an easy system. I think Duff's coaching and top-level playing experience has been key in improving players who previously looked below par.

Del Boy

Horteng wrote:Great result

Think the club will go along way under MD

Fair play to him and the players for the turn around

Andy Wilcox deserves a lot of credit for his swift action. He got plenty of stick at the time but if it wasn't for him I'm sure we would still have the previous manager.

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Robin wrote:Mullins in my opinion is our best centre half. I suspect both are on high wages though and Duff wants to use the funds to strengthen other areas.

Let's hope so. It's going to be nice to go into the summer with a plan.

Del Boy

Robin wrote:
Nesty wrote:still no Long or Mullins
Both seemingly being frozen out.

Whatever the situation it's clearly working.

Del Boy

Robin wrote:We've been shite for almost ten years now with the one season under GJ being the exception.

I don't believe rugby was a major factor either we used to get 4000+ back in the day when Gloucester played at home so no reason why we still cannot.

We made the play-offs in 2012 and 2013.

Del Boy

Two-year deals for players unproven at the club is suicide at this level. You will get stuck with far more players you don't want than you will tying down those you do want.

Del Boy

Except your argument makes no sense, we were bidding £200k for strikers just before GJ got sacked so clearly he didn't blow the budget. Whilst I agree the decision to give McAlindon a two year deal was baffling (go back and see I was the only one calling this out at the time) to say the least and D...

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Sour grapes for not being signed by GJ to me. Also does Duff not have the same budget or was it all wasted by Russ? Sour grapes or the truth. Facts point to the latter. The mystery of the blown budget is a tricky one. Was it: a. The manager who had all summer, signed more than a dozen players, hand...

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horlickfanclub wrote:Duff stated in an interview that Mullins ankle was not right.

No, no, no - this is the Robins Nest. If someone isn't playing it's either frozen out, fallen out or shut out.

Del Boy

Funny how when Gloucester City is mentioned there are plenty of references to 'park football' but none when referring to Torquay in the same division.

Del Boy

NEW DATE: A new date has been confirmed for Cheltenham's postponed League Two fixture with Cambridge United at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium. The Robins will now host Cambridge on Tuesday 19 February with the match scheduled to kick-off at 7.45pm. https://www.ctfc.com/news/2019/february/new-date-announce...

Del Boy

And "l can only imagine it's his way of getting his 15 minutes of fame and as much free publicity as possible," he added. "He's probably achieved more air time and press coverage over the last few days than ever before. Good luck with that and well done." Pretty accurate assumpt...

Del Boy

That's what happens when you hand out silly 2 year contracts to players in the summer. We seemed to spend near enough all the budget budget in the the summer and now there's none left. I would imagine what we have to spend is only down to the money made in the fa cup and check a trade trophy. I fee...

Del Boy

Wonder if all these people who think the trust running the catering is a good idea would be willing to forego watching the match to serve drinks/food??? Or are they suggesting the same old volunteers spend their days prior to the game preparing everything and then serving while the rest watch the ma...

Del Boy

Yeah got to give Duff huge credit for drilling them into a team but this is largely GJ's summer signings which people wrote off quickly. Personally, it was the manager I wrote off not the players. The way Duff has got them playing is most impressive so credit has to go to the board and chairman for...

Del Boy

So if it's not racist, sexist or homophobic it's ok to scream abuse at someone yards away just because you've paid to get into a football match?? How pathetic. If it was done in any other scenario of life you would quite rightly get a smack in the gob. But you wouldn't dare because . . . you'd get a...

Del Boy

Can we move on?? They're all Duff players now thankfully and he'll be signing more in January and next summer.

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Of course the majority of the team is going to be made up of players signed by Johnson - he was the one in charge when the transfer window was open. It says a lot that our two strikers were not signed by Johnson despite him letting all our forwards leave in the summer without adequate replacements....

Del Boy

Of course the majority of the team is going to be made up of players signed by Johnson - he was the one in charge when the transfer window was open. It says a lot that our two strikers were not signed by Johnson despite him letting all our forwards leave in the summer without adequate replacements. ...

Del Boy

This will have to be my last reply - I'm wasting too much time I haven't got on this nonsense. Robin, if you can find anywhere I've said sacking Johnson was a magic fix for instant improvement I would be amazed. I haven't. He will need at least a season to sort it out. In the time between sacking Jo...

Del Boy

It was obvious Eisa was going to be sold. There was just no plan in place to replace him bar one player who clearly didn't want to come. The rest of the factors you've listed have nothing to do with the team. Yes we do need to ship out players. Johnson left a bloated, lop-sided squad. If those near ...

Del Boy

Again, Duff has been in charge for a month. One month. The very fact you're suggesting he won't last until January says it all. Despite two years of failure under Johnson you're not willing to give Duff two months. Johnson left a total mess. That is not going to be easy to clear up. Of course we hav...

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It's pathetic to be honest. It reminds me of Brexit, making stupid demands that cannot be realised only to self-harm ourselves in doing so. You think we've self-harmed?? How's that?? Have you seen the last few games, we've unquestionably gone from bad to worse. You expected instant improvement?? I ...

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Robin wrote:It's pathetic to be honest. It reminds me of Brexit, making stupid demands that cannot be realised only to self-harm ourselves in doing so.

You think we've self-harmed?? How's that??

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Nesty wrote:
of course, but all I want MD to do this season is keep us up, that will be an amazing achievement in itself.

Yes, quite.

Del Boy

Not sure why you think Milton should take some blame,. He's the coach. That's why. And why was he allowed to sign some of the players? Probably because Johnson had yet again done such an awful job in the summer we needed to do something. In three league games he got two wins - that's 2pts per game ...

Del Boy

Pure conjecture here, but one has been pondering the reason CTFC has let Kalvin Kalala go and not put him out on loan instead - bearing in mind he was on the bench for several recent games and was well worth nurturing. Part of this may of course be to reduce the squad size and to get him off the wa...

Del Boy

I doubt very much if anyone will be coming in any time soon. The first job is to try to shift on as many unwanted players as poss to free up funds. It's not going to be easy given the previous manager was allowed to hand out two-year deals to players unlikely to be in demand from any league clubs so...

Del Boy

Yates was sacked because, after two seasons in the play-offs, some fans said anything but the play-offs was failure. Really? Here was me thinking it started going shitty *well* before that second play-off... We were a side in complete free-fall by the time we played Northampton, having just managed...

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