This is the sort of post which'll win you Christmas number one!austrianandygull wrote:Lets put our differences with PB to one side for the minute and look at the job he is doing at the Mem compared to our Lingy. We are 8 points clear of them and have beaten them AWAY at their place also. We both have had injuries and suspensions but as Rovers have a stronger and larger squad then you would assume they would be better equipped to cope. We have spent next to nothing yet PB has spent lots of money bringing players in. The same set of circumstances apply to both managers, both have joined pre-season, assembled a squad with the resources available to them and dealt with the inevitability of injuries and suspensions. Ling wins hands down and no matter how accomplished PB believes he is as a manager the stats don't lie. He has performed poorly and is being found out. I hold the belief that Torquay actually got to the play offs last season DESPITE Buckle. We had a formidable team spirit and perhaps thats what carried us through. The togetherness, the camaraderie and the trust. Look at Branston now, floundering at Bradford and Rotherham, Robinson, couldn't get a game at Cobblers - thats bad!, Zebs and Bevan not pulling up trees at Rovers, Kee is the only one doing well and there are reasons for that too. We scraped over the line in the end and we all watched week in week out when Bucks played players out of position, he is doing the same again at Bristol but this time his expensively assembled squad are so detached from one another that there is nothing there. No spirit and no fight. The team ethic he built at Torquay with mediocre journeymen and loanees is lacking from the big hitters he signed for big bucks. 8 POINTS behind us. That deserves the sack all things considered.
Matt.
see ya!
