The Stevie Evans Relegation Thread

[eric read]

Mission accomplished by Power and Sheridan. If ever a relegation was manufactured, this was it. c*** of the highest order.

I'd like to say I feel sorry for you, but you'd know I was lying.

I still have the images in my mind of your fans celebrating in a pub, with champagne, when we went out of the league, and putting it up on social media.. I'm looking forward to doing the same in 12 months time when Power takes you into non-league.

 

[Indian Dan]

Power won’t be here too much longer. I understand your sentiments and it’s a shame social media was in its infancy when you bombed out of the league. I honestly don’t recall what caused your demise because, as we all know, it’s not all down to just being shit - everything stems from the top.

On a very flimsy personal note I look forward to you lot bottling the play offs - again!

 

[eric read]

Power won’t be here too much longer. I understand your sentiments and it’s a shame social media was in its infancy when you bombed out of the league. I honestly don’t recall what caused your demise because, as we all know, it’s not all down to just being shit - everything stems from the top.

On a very flimsy personal note I look forward to you lot bottling the play offs - again!

In a word Kassam. He raped the club and bled it dry, then when it had served its purpose sold it (while keeping his shit stadium) when it was too late to stop us going down. Does any of that ring bells with you lot? As it's probably not far from what you're going through.

But a word of caution. It took many years to recover from it, so you might have to get used to being shit for a good few years yet.

I'll take solace when we bottle the play offs that at least we're not Swindon Town.

 

[Indian Dan]

Certainly sounds familiar. It’s quite an eye-opener to see close up just how easy it is to make money from lower league clubs with seemingly few assets if an owner is prepared to run it into the ground. I suspect there are more than a few other clubs in a similar position right now in the process of being bled dry or being used for illegal purposes. Football clubs seem the ideal vehicle for all sorts of things other than kicking a ball. The problem is, nobody knows about it until it’s too late.

The gaps between the leagues are getting bigger all the time. It’s one thing getting up, quite another staying there without loading a club with huge debts.

Anyway, living over here I won’t have to feel guilty about being absent from a trip to Barrow!

 

[eric read]

Certainly sounds familiar. It’s quite an eye-opener to see close up just how easy it is to make money from lower league clubs with seemingly few assets if an owner is prepared to run it into the ground. I suspect there are more than a few other clubs in a similar position right now in the process of being bled dry or being used for illegal purposes. Football clubs seem the ideal vehicle for all sorts of things other than kicking a ball. The problem is, nobody knows about it until it’s too late.

The gaps between the leagues are getting bigger all the time. It’s one thing getting up, quite another staying there without loading a club with huge debts.

Anyway, living over here I won’t have to feel guilty about being absent from a trip to Barrow!

I don't envy a single thing about you being a Swindon fan, but I'll give you living in Kefalonia as a very good compensation.

I bet it's lovely over there at the moment, although probably a bit surreal without any/many tourists? We went in September 2019 and planned to return, as we loved it, but we all know what happened next. Such a beautiful island.

Fuck me, what am I doing? I should get back to taking the piss!!!

 

[Indian Dan]

Truth is, as much as you’ll deny it, for virtually every fan - bar plastics - the club you support is wholly an accident of birth. 20 miles further west and you’d be a Town fan!

A very nice 23C today, full blue sky and off to a BBQ this afternoon. Tbh, it’s nice without tourists on a completely selfish level.

 

[Luke Imp]

Commiserations to Bristol Rovers and Swindon. The latter sound like they have more pressing concerns than relegation. They need to make sure they don't do a Southend.

Rochdale the only team who might get out of it but it's a huge ask. AFCW and Wigan went on top of the table runs at exactly the right time.

Plymouth probably lucky the season is only two or three games from finishing.

 

[eric read]

Truth is, as much as you’ll deny it, for virtually every fan - bar plastics - the club you support is wholly an accident of birth. 20 miles further west and you’d be a Town fan!

A very nice 23C today, full blue sky and off to a BBQ this afternoon. Tbh, it’s nice without tourists on a completely selfish level.

You should always support your local team, nothing else counts.

A bloke from Surrey who decides he will be a Manchester United "supporter" misses the point completely. They could win the Champions League ten years on the trot, but he would NEVER experience the enormous high (made higher by the many lows) that you and I experience when our team wins something. That is what football is all about.

As for if I was born 20 odd miles west, I don't think I'd pass the six fingers, webbed feet, or hunch back test that is required to be a Swindon fan!

 

[Indian Dan]

Mr missus quite likes the fact I have 6 fingers! Not so keen on the hunchy though. The webbed feet means I save on purchasing flippers.

You’re right, though. It’s a bit pointless, to me, supporting a club you have no real attachment to.

I wonder how the Thames Valley Royals would have fared these past years?

 

[eric read]

Mr missus quite likes the fact I have 6 fingers! Not so keen on the hunchy though. The webbed feet means I save on purchasing flippers.

You’re right, though. It’s a bit pointless, to me, supporting a club you have no real attachment to.

I wonder how the Thames Valley Royals would have fared these past years?

I don't know, but I wouldn't have been watching them, I'd have been watching AFC Oxford United rise through the leagues.

 

[Claret Forever]

Almost made a go of at the end, but a lack of budget and attacking threat made our fate sealed before the final week of the season. Rochdale join us. Fair play to Wimbledon and Wigan for hitting play-off form at the right time.

 

[Agombar stool]

From a selfish perspective having moved to NN postcode, cobblers are my local away day next season.

 

[Luke Imp]

Almost made a go of at the end, but a lack of budget and attacking threat made our fate sealed before the final week of the season. Rochdale join us. Fair play to Wimbledon and Wigan for hitting play-off form at the right time.

A variety of things to blame or mainly Curle's tactics? Not replacing Oliver or Morton an obvious issue, too?

 

[EricSabin]

A variety of things to blame or mainly Curle's tactics? Not replacing Oliver or Morton an obvious issue, too?

Mainly Curle, with the handbrake off we’ve looked better but yeah the players we’ve not replaced have killed us.

Can add Charlie Goode and Scott Wharton to that list too

 

[Claret Forever]

It's difficult to assess properly, because when Curle left the football improved a little bit, but it was still very stodgy. Recruitment was poor, but Curle was convinced Oliver was going to re-sign and that we'd get Morton back and seemed to be operated on that basis, and was left in the lurch when they didn't. The tactics he played in League 2 definitely didn't translate up here (it just turned in to surrendering possession to such an extent I think one game we had about 20%?) and our top scoring striker got 4 goals, though hard to judge them fairly where there is zero service in the team - crosses from wingbacks was poor, passing from midfield is woeful, going long wasn't sucessful.

Also, special call out for Joe Nuttall for taking up fairly significant wages from us and playing exactly 6 minutes of football in pre-season before being rules out for the whole year, and well done Blackpool for making the loan contract watertight enough that we couldn't cancel it.

I personally don't blame Curle too much, though I'm very glad I'm not watching his football anymore. I don't think we have the budget or resources to compete at this level, and while you can get teams that hit way above their weight like Accrington or Wycome, they are the exception not the rule - it's very difficult if you don't have a backer who is willing to absorb losses to go out and get the quality you need to be succesful.

 

[PuB]

Hello again.

What’s worse than a knobhead manager who pisses everyone off and tries to sign everyone?

A knobhead manager who pisses everyone off but is under a transfer embargo.

 

[PuB]

Table looks extremely depressing tonight, it’s going to take nothing short of a miracle for us to stay up. May as well do a Dover 2019/20 and shut up shop.

 

[masi51]

Table looks extremely depressing tonight, it’s going to take nothing short of a miracle for us to stay up. May as well do a Dover 2019/20 and shut up shop.

Shut door on the way out cocker !!

 

[Gassy]

So I guess Sir Ehmer is still shit then?

 

[DearneValleyRover]

We are down just which 3 are joining us

 

[GFC4EVA]

3 places already taken
It just who's joining us, donny and crewe

 

[PuB]

So I guess Sir Ehmer is still shit then?

Never going to agree that Ehmer is shit, he isn’t. I don’t care that he didn’t bust a bollock for Joey Barton, I wouldn’t either.

Wafer thin squad, players playing when they’re still carrying injuries and having to play out of position when they return is what has fucked us over.

Tutonda, for example, played at left back today. Guess which side of our defence Ipswich targeted…

 

[GEORGE]

Max Ehmer is a totally waste of space -- Only came to Rovers for the money and was a fraud. Why the F*** did you take him back ? .

 

[Crewelad87]

Looking very bleak for Donny, Gills and Crewe. I'd be surprised if Morecambe don't join us, they looked woeful the other week and if they lose Stockton that could be the nail in there coffin.

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

Max Ehmer is a totally waste of space -- Only came to Rovers for the money and was a fraud. Why the F*** did you take him back ? .

Max has been OK.
You more than got your own back with Tutonda though.
Probably the worst defender I have ever seen in a Gills shirt.

 

[Gassy]

Never going to agree that Ehmer is shit, he isn’t. I don’t care that he didn’t bust a bollock for Joey Barton, I wouldn’t either.

Wafer thin squad, players playing when they’re still carrying injuries and having to play out of position when they return is what has fucked us over.

Tutonda, for example, played at left back today. Guess which side of our defence Ipswich targeted…

Max has been OK.
You more than got your own back with Tutonda though.
Probably the worst defender I have ever seen in a Gills shirt.

He didn’t perform for Garner, Tisdale or Barton. He was one of the laziest footballers I have ever seen, and I’ve seen some absolute crap at Rovers, as we all have.

The only time Ehmer looked alright was when he played at RB oddly enough. Tutonda was higher rated than Ehmer here as well, he was excellent going forward as well - funny how it’s worked out.

Someone on our forum posted some Twitter comments moaning about them both though, hence I wanted to check. But ultimately when you sign the defenders/back up defenders from the team who finished last in L1, to play in your first team in L1 - what did you really expect to happen?

 

[PuB]

But ultimately when you sign the defenders/back up defenders from the team who finished last in L1, to play in your first team in L1 - what did you really expect to happen?

Erm, I bumped this thread up in August, so exactly what I thought was going to happen is happening. But I’m not going to single out a certain player for derision when our problems are much deeper than that.

Ehmer is a capable player at this level, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

Today we had one the best young centre backs in the league playing midfield when we had three midfielders on the bench. This meant we played Bennett at centre back. I’ve seen milk turn quicker!
McKenzie has been playing well at left back so he was made to play as second striker. (Our new loan striker was on the bench). This brought in Tutonda at left back who looks like a rabbit in the headlights.
We were lucky Ipswich declared at half time or it could have been even more embarrassing.
None of this will be lard arse’s fault though.
Must be the chairman’s fault I suppose.
The sooner Evans fucks off and takes Rayner with him (who got booked again today by the way) the happier I will be.

 

[Gassy]

Erm, I bumped this thread up in August, so exactly what I thought was going to happen is happening. But I’m not going to single out a certain player for derision when our problems are much deeper than that.

Ehmer is a capable player at this level, nothing more, nothing less.

Geez calm down there. When I say ‘what did you expect’, it’s more speaking generally rather than you specifically.

Interesting though that you won’t single out a single player for your demise, but that’s exactly what you did for Tutonda against Ipswich..

What I will say is worth questioning though is your (Gills fans in general) standards on players. Hanlan apparently is useless yet is fighting for Championship football whilst Ehmer is a capable L1 player but is about to earn a 2nd relegation in 2 years on his CV at this level?

I know who I’d rather have in my team all day long.

 

[Gassy]

Today we had one the best young centre backs in the league playing midfield when we had three midfielders on the bench. This meant we played Bennett at centre back. I’ve seen milk turn quicker!
McKenzie has been playing well at left back so he was made to play as second striker. (Our new loan striker was on the bench). This brought in Tutonda at left back who looks like a rabbit in the headlights.
We were lucky Ipswich declared at half time or it could have been even more embarrassing.
None of this will be lard arse’s fault though.
Must be the chairman’s fault I suppose.
The sooner Evans fucks off and takes Rayner with him (who got booked again today by the way) the happier I will be.

Never understand why managers do this, are they trying to get sacked for the payment at this point?

Happens all the time with managers at the end of a job, playing random players out of position for no reason.