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[USABlue]

Three sendings off already and Souness is yet to condemn any of them. If this behaviour is condoned, what chance of it happening again? Pretty likely I'd say.

Good point, not something that many of us have considered.  He refused to criticise Lucas and is still make his feelings known on the Cole incident, instead he keeps hiding behind comments such as 'the general feeling is...'.  Strange comments from a man who is not afraid to say what he feels  

His analysis of the formation and general frustrations of being a Rovers fan at present are spot on too.

Fecking nitpicking omniscient yahoo's, you are really.  Just how many times have you EVER heard a manager come out and say anything against his player in a situation like that.

 He copped to Neill's sending off being righteous isn't that enough for you perfectionists.  What next, sack him cos he shaved his tash, sack him cos he ties the wrong shoelace first or pulls the wrong trouser leg on first.  Ridiculous.  Like the earlier poster said, he does you whine, he doesn't you whine.

[LeChuck]

Three sendings off already and Souness is yet to condemn any of them. If this behaviour is condoned, what chance of it happening again? Pretty likely I'd say.

Good point, not something that many of us have considered.  He refused to criticise Lucas and is still make his feelings known on the Cole incident, instead he keeps hiding behind comments such as 'the general feeling is...'.  Strange comments from a man who is not afraid to say what he feels  

His analysis of the formation and general frustrations of being a Rovers fan at present are spot on too.

Fecking nitpicking omniscient yahoo's, you are really.  Just how many times have you EVER heard a manager come out and say anything against his player in a situation like that.

 He copped to Neill's sending off being righteous isn't that enough for you perfectionists.  What next, sack him cos he shaved his tash, sack him cos he ties the wrong shoelace first or pulls the wrong trouser leg on first.  Ridiculous.  Like the earlier poster said, he does you whine, he doesn't you whine.

What the hell kind of post is that?  I have never once said we should sack Souness, not on that post or any other.

What I said was merely based on the fact that we don't have a great discipline record and maybe Souness publicly condemning silly suspensions now and again might help things instead of adpoting the Wenger 'I didn't see anything' approach.

If you want to assume the rest about my thoughts so that you can write childish replies about Souness' tash, leg or any other body part you care to mention then go ahead.

[thenodrog]

Wenger and the RFW are generally regarded as the best managers around so why criticise GS for emulating their stance?  IMO it smacks far too much of self righteous, holier than thou attitudes which we do not need at present!  The enemy within maybe?

BTW interesting hoe Wenger managed such a clear view of the Holland pen dive when always manages to miss so many of his own teams indiscretions.

[LeChuck]

Wenger and the RFW are generally regarded as the best managers around so why criticise GS for emulating their stance?  IMO it smacks far too much of self righteous, holier than thou attitudes which we do not need at present!  The enemy within maybe?

BTW interesting hoe Wenger managed such a clear view of the Holland pen dive when always manages to miss so many of his own teams indiscretions.

It doesn't really have anything to do with righteousness or whatever, just thought it could help stop a few suspensions.

Wenger is considered a great manager but not at keeping discipline on the pitch, I think he gets more stick than anyone.  But it was funny how he got a good view of that incident but never sees anything his players do  :'>

[Tony Diamond Inc]

Wenger and the RFW are generally regarded as the best managers around so why criticise GS for emulating their stance?  IMO it smacks far too much of self righteous, holier than thou attitudes which we do not need at present!  The enemy within maybe?

BTW interesting hoe Wenger managed such a clear view of the Holland pen dive when always manages to miss so many of his own teams indiscretions.

I think Ferguson has trained his players to resist retaliation, this could be done with in house fines or the threat of being dropped. Whereas the Arse players are too easily wound up.

I think our situation stems from having a manager who believes in putting 110% into every game, therefore our red cards tend to be for mistimed/ clumsy challenges.

[JonnyH]

BTW interesting how Wenger managed such a clear view of the Holland pen dive when always manages to miss so many of his own teams indiscretions.

He should have gone to SpecSavers

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

I have to agree with the point Jason made in the LET today, when he wrote:

"It's all well and good to talk about our dominance in possession but what's possession without penetration. If all we're doing is playing five-yard passes but not really going forward, the opposition needn't worry. It's too predictable."

Jason's full piece this week can be read by clicking on the link below:

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancash....N0.html

Edited June 2, 2004 by Anti Euro Smiths Fan

[Alan75]

Whose Lynne Boyes.

Has she taken over from LDrover

[roversWASmylife]

I think that most of Jason`s comments in his column have been correct.

I thought last week`s column was good, takes bottle to do that, and walk around knowing people read your opinions, and will either agree or slag you off after.

Keep the good work up Jason.

[philipl]

Congratulations to Jason on this week's column. Well written, well balanced and agree 100%.

[RevidgeBlue]

I trust you won't let us down this week Jason.

[Alan75]

yes, and you can quote me if you like.

With games being called off throughout the country, due to atrocious weather conditions,  Rovers players must have been under the impression that the game at Ewood had also been called off. The only people that bothered to turn up were Villa and the PAYING public

[FourLaneBlue]

Congratulations to Jason on the end of his first season putting forward the 'Fans' View' even if Sam Dingle probably still thinks he is a " dimwitted monkey". No pleasing them Yorkshire folk...

LD Rover's season view can be seen in the LET tonight and I would post a link to the story on http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk but I can't actually find the thing.

[Blueboy Downunder]

probably a fair while since i went on one regarding this subject and have probably mellowed out a little....but don't get me started, again!!!!

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

Excellent piece by Jason in yesterday's LET....

A strong dose of reality - which is needed in these troubled times.

When Revidge (unfairly I thought) got the chop, I was concerned that we might get a PR puppet in place to take over.

Fortunately that hasn't been the case at all.

Jason has proved to be a good writer with strong independent views - certainly not someone to put a glossy sugar-coated spin on a bad defeat.

A link to Jason's article is below:

It's Time To Get Real And Brave The Battle

[bellamy11]

Excellent piece by Jason in yesterday's LET....

A strong dose of reality - which is needed in these troubled times.

When Revidge (unfairly I thought) got the chop, I was concerned that we might get a PR puppet in place to take over.

Fortunately that hasn't been the case at all.

Jason has proved to be a good writer with strong independent views - certainly not someone to put a glossy sugar-coated spin on a bad defeat.

A link to Jason's article is below:

It's Time To Get Real And Brave The Battle

What did you say in your posts earlier on in this thread which you have now completely edited?

[CAPT KAYOS]

A link to Jason's article is below:

It's Time To Get Real And Brave The Battle

Ah...... bit of a major faux pas in his comments here though referring to the dog.

The problem we have here is that we have a puddle instead of a poodle

[92er]

I think he's doing better now but I often prefer his posts as LD Rover.

[Anti Euro Smiths Fan]

What did you say in your posts earlier on in this thread which you have now completely edited?

Nothing outrageous really.

But I did make some criticisms in previous posts about the changes that the LET made - chopping Simon and introducing Jason.

This wasn't intended to be a personal attack on Jason, but I was concerned at the time about the direction the LET were taking.

Others were critical and had concerns back then as well:

.... getting rid of Rev and replacing him with a hand-picked 'Yes Man'

Not long afterwards though, I came to realise that it wasn't the case at all that Jason is a 'Yes Man'.

I apologised to LD Rover about a year ago via PM, and when I took this thread back to the top of the board yesterday, I felt it was best to edit some of my previous posts.

The earlier posts, as I said, were not intended to be personal attacks on Jason, but others may have interpreted them as being so.

I'm quite pleased that in the 3 years or so that I've been on the the M/B, I've only ever once had a big spat/argument with another member.

I usually try to avoid making any personal attacks or insults on other members, unless strongly provoked.

[SouthAussieRover]

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In this week's column, Mr Whalley started off by talking about his attractive girlfriend running off with someone else. (I was not quite sure if Jason still had his problematic love life on the brain, when he went on in his column to describe the importance of 'good penetration'.)

Hah Hah good one..

For those not happy with the switch, it is as easy to voice your displeasure to the LET as it is to gripe about it on here.</font>

Smithy, are you still curious as to how Jason's love life is going?

Edited October 28, 2004 by SouthAussieRover

[blue phil]

I usually try to avoid making any personal attacks or insults on other members, unless strongly provoked.

Just as well Beckham doesn't post on here then....

[thenodrog]

Excellent piece by Jason in yesterday's LET....

A strong dose of reality - which is needed in these troubled times.

When Revidge (unfairly I thought) got the chop, I was concerned that we might get a PR puppet in place to take over.

Fortunately that hasn't been the case at all.

I thought yesterdays piece by Jason was excellent and forthright too aesf. In fact after I reading it I did wonder what the clubs reaction might be.

............It did cross my mind that maybe after a year and a bit of watching complete rubbish on and off the pitch he's simply pished off with doing it for buttons too! A case of constructive dismissal possibly?

The latest stat which has us top of the lost sport league says that we have lost 11000 supporters compared with the same time last year.......... maybe he intends to become 11001.