Manager talked a right load of piffle
I NEVER thought I would ever read such a load of piffle as that stated by the Bristol Rovers manager Mark McGhee, pictured.
According to him, a certain number of his players may be struggling to come to terms of having to play in front of the Memorial Stadium crowd. He then goes on to say Bristol Rovers are a big club and there is always a crowd in attendance of around 5,000
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When I was a young man living at Eastville in the 1940s to 1960s it was nothing for a match at Eastville Stadium on a Saturday to attract a crowd of 20,000 to 30,000. There was never any problem with players such as Bradford, Biggs, Warren, Fox, Jarman, Samson to name but a few to play good football.
Ivor Pearce
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Comments
by A_Mushroom
Saturday, September 15 2012, 6:19PM
“After today's result, there should be ample opportunity for spitting out a few cliches. Come on, Mark!”
by A_Mushroom
Saturday, September 15 2012, 12:56AM
“Still Top Man.”
by A_Mushroom
Wednesday, September 12 2012, 9:24PM
“Top Man.”
by A_Mushroom
Tuesday, September 11 2012, 8:39PM
“Mark McGhee's appalling cliché record speaks for itself.
'There's no doubt that on paper that the team looked strong, and fair play to the boys, they never gave the club less than 110%,' McGhee has explained. 'We might even have pressed for a promotion spot late doors, but at the end of the day I was sick as a parrot rather than over the moon. That's not a great advert for the game, and certainly no way to run a whelk stall.'
Team Captain Matthew Gill agreed. 'If the boss had just once come out and said he was gutted, or that he was taking each game as it comes, it might have saved his us from choking. A simple observation that football is a game of two halves, or that the lads were working their socks off, might have saved us from an early bath, but it would have been too little too late. No one's too good to go down.'
Other Rover's players have admitted that week in, week out, McGhee has failed to hit the back of the cliché net regularly enough. 'I never even heard him observe that there are no easy games in this league, or that playing at home was like having an extra player on the pitch. In the modern game that's just not acceptable. He's been half a yard off the pace and it would have been a big ask to get back into the game from there. The gaffer's basically just lost the dressing room. He'll be getting the Chairman's full backing if he doesn't watch out.'
But the Pirates' squad agreed that McGhee will bounce back. 'Form's temporary, but class is permanent. He might have lost the dressing room, but he handled it well for a big man. We've got a mountain to climb if we're going to turn our season around, but I really think we can dig ourselves out of it.'
McGhee was philosophical last night as he arrived home. 'I've had a bad day at the office and I've been done up like a kipper. I've always avoided clichés like the plague, but you win some you lose some. It's a funny old game,' he told reporters.”