LEICESTER V ROVERS MATCH THREAD

How sad that so much ill feeling has developed. I'm not quite sure how or why, but just to inject a sense of perspective - today a fan went to the game at Leicester and died. Condolences to his friends and family.

Try telling Hound that, he only cares about the Rovers, Bally has kept telling him that there is more to life, but he is always right and everyone else is wrong.

R.I. P.

First to yankee,
you know flock all about me except what your pal has told you and most of the time he doesn't even know whether he is DR Jeckyl, Mr Hyde or Mr Hydes more deranged brother so you shouldn't listen to too much of what he says.
I invited you back onto the thread the first time you quit but you had to start all the bad feeling again did't you.
Then, blow me, you did it again on this thread after i again suggested that you come back.
I understand that people on here will all have different opinions about all things Rovers but YOU seem to find that impossible to handle.
I don't like making personal jibes at people but find it difficult not to respond to your snidey little comments.
Perhaps if you don't comment on here then the 606 board will be a happier place for it, much like it was when you missed a couple of matches by sulking.
I hope you can handle some of the abuse which will be thrown at you on the VSC.
I remember you coming on here almost crying because someone on there had had a go at you.

I will look out for "yankees lets all agree with each other blog" and refrain from posting on it.

Now then donaldo, i don't consider the 606 board to be a majority opinion of the Rovers fans.
The crowd at the matches have never chanted for PD to go and that in my opinion is a majority.
When PD came over to the away section yesterday their was considerable support for him.
Incidently donaldo, i have never once said that i consider that PD is either a good or a bad manager.
I have said though that he has a difficult job on a very limited budget and that in my opinion, whoever had been our manager this season would have struggled to keep us up.
As the owners have apparently asked PD to stay on, perhaps they may this season allow him to put together a team to start the season, unlike last time around.

I bought my season ticket as soon as they were put on sale, and I have no regrets. I go to see Rovers play not to watch the manager. The board have faith in him and it is their call. I have some serious doubts about PD as a Championship manager of a small club on a tight budget, but I hope he is a revelation in Div One and finds us a squad full of free scoring bargain buys...plus a Jones.

You still here yankee?
Of course i don't only care about football and the Rovers.
Typical of you to say that seeing as you don't know me.

Of course too, your mate is correct that there is more to life than football and of course i feel for the chap who died in the last few minutes of the match, i saw it because i was there.
However, if football means nothing much to any of us then why get so het up about it?
Give a sensible answer if you can.

Albi, i agree with you wholely - whoever pulls on our shirt and whoever is in the dugout will get my backing all the time.
You are quite right albi to have concerns about PD as "a manager of a small club club on a tight budget".
I just watched the FL Show and Claridge said that when he looked at the list of teams in our division at the start of the season he would have expected us, The Dingles and Yeovil to go down for the reasons of lack of finance and playing budgets available.
Yankee, haven't i been saying that same thing all along?
Now if you know more than Claridge, a man in the pro game for 20 odd years you have been doing the wrong job.
Then again, you used to do paperwork for some club or other in Rugby League didn't you so perhaps that qulifies you to know more about the game than Claridge.

Albi, i will tell you why it go so personal with myself and yankee.
It began when bally started getting personal with me over trivial little things and as we all know, yankee and bally are friends and email and phone each other on a regular basis.
Because of that friendship yankee then started to post personal rants at me.
I admit that my return posts to bally were a bit hardline but that is because we just don't like each other but as for yankee, well he just goes along with stuff that bally tells him.
I tried really hard not to respond other than respectfully to yankee but relented recently when he too began to go too far and brought other posters into it.
I have always tried to understand other peoples point of view and always feel that i have the right to post my own.
When you posted the piece about the chap dying at the game yankee proved my point that he has to have a go at me with his response, as though it was a triumph for him to turn such a sad comment into a directive at myself, and then belatedly added an RIP.

Jesus effin Christ are you 2 still at it?
You argue like a pair of lovers!
Get over it both of you, grow up, grow a pair, stick 'em in a sack and eff off for the summer
If you were kids you'd get slapped and sent to bed early!

On to footy. I'm not of the Dickoff school of thinking, haven't ever been, but gave him the chance for 4 months til Xmas. He proved my thinking that he was clueless in this league.
He then had a little run of sorts!
BUT he then needed to get 3 points from the final 7 games of season and failed! 1 point from 21 is a stackable offence, it shows a man without any idea!
He has over the past 6 weeks repeatedly to the point of stubbornly stuck by a central midfield pairing that doesn't work. Keegan & Furman are the same type of player and cannot play together, it's like lampard & gerrard, too alike.
He has had bad luck defensively, but I'd say that's more to do with training techniques than anything else. It happens too often to be unlucky.

So we drop down a division, no great problem there, life goes on. But can it please go on without Mr Dickoff.

On a final note, gutted for the family of the gentleman who has passed away. Nothing has been said officially yet that I've read but all indications are the worst news.
He went to a football match and never went home, heartbreaking!

RIP FELLOW ROVER

DR4E, it is interesting isn't it that the last game we won was also the last full game that Wellens had for us.
Without him on the pitch we didn't seem to be able to control a match.

Thank you for the feud update Hound. As my ex-wife would tell you, some people just don't get on. I'm sure that losing Wellens was a big factor in us not scoring much, and although I like both Furman and Keegan I do agree that they are both more ball winners than creators of the exquisite through ball. That just left us with trying to create chances on the wings. Cotterill has shown flickers of last season's superb form and although he has tracked back manfully all season he hasn't won us many games. How sad that Coppinger, who has been immense all season, has ended up in a relegated side. He has played almost everywhere but in goal. I would have really liked to have seen him, or Duffy, replace Wellens in central midfield but perhaps he was too valuable to lose out wide. Quite what happened to Duffy during the run-in I really don't know. Will he return and be next season's Cotterill in Div One? Let's hope so. He clearly has talent but always seemed to want more a bit more time on the ball than Championship opponents were prepared to give him. In will be an interesting close season.

Hadn't realised that Hound, but I think it goes to prove the point, thank you!
I like Keegan, he's the most improved player at the club. I'm not convinced by Furman yet. I'm not convinced they can perform together. Keep them as double cover for 1 place on the pitch