Barrow - May as well be the Matchday Thread

You never mentioned an individual, but you mentioned both that role and a particular trait of the person most suited for it?      

I would never say that Ian Holloway is suited for a DOF role because he isn't. I might use him as a firefighter but never to build a club around.

There are a fair few ex gas who could do the job and without even bringing Ollie into it but Ollie has made it clear he would not work with Wael so absolutely no point in bringing his name into it. 
Andy Tilson would be my favourite but each to their own. 
Surely, you must see we have a team of ageing mercenaries now. I know I’m being nostalgic but we, historically, did better with coaches and staff with Rovers in them. 
I would even consider Stuart Campbell, even with what happened prior. 

I would be interested in knowing the name (s) of the agent(s) involved in bringing these players in. I think the list would be extremely short if you know what I mean.

it’s really simply to get.  If I would have preferred the club backing Cocko or Ben longer than they did, and if I find much about Barton, particularly his inability to cuddle his players and blame himself now and then, distasteful, and un Rovers - IMO a lot of it is his errors, the Exeter shambles wasn’t Baldwins fault, Barton’s set up left us exposed defensively on the flanks early on. Twenty games in, what does Barton Ball look like, can we see a consistent and convincing system being drilled in amongst all the player rotation and formation tweaking? 

I don’t want to come over Book of Job here. Book of Job. Do I feel like Job each time I open this blog? But these last few years must open our eyes to something stronger and valuable than merely gnashing teeth, wailing and waving skinny fists toward heaven.  Mango15 has put it beautifully and succinctly for us, I can’t do better than simply quote it:

“Before we pull the plug on him, can we not show we at least learned from sacking Garner too early by giving Barton twice the games with his squad that we gave Ben?”.    

To achieve this, fairness, you have to subtract dislike for Barton from before he even joined.  And answer questions like “why should such a scumbag be allowed such fairness we didn’t give better people?”         

It’s not the clubs fleeting and crazy dalliance with Barton, nor about anyone else.  It’s about us.  It’s about us as a tribe.  And the values of our own particular religion.    

Yes I saw that too. But, I don’t know where these “reports” come from as they don’t have dedicated reporters there, perhaps just local radio reporters. In the end it doesn’t matter, it is what it is, but I do certainly take these “reports” with a touch of salt. Whatever it wa sthe second half was poor.
UTG!

I wish I had your optimism mango. Atm, with his record it just looks like blind faith based on not much more than wanting something to happen rather than expecting it to. But it could have been worse, at least we got the point.

I agree with TWD, from looking at his record, the performances and the results it wasn’t good and I’d be more worried in that I’m not sure the players are playing for the manager. Yesterday it didn’t sound like it. But when you say “we still couldn’t beat flipping Barrow”, although I kind of agree with that sentiment, it also shows us what we’ve become. A bog standard lower league team like so many others. Us fans have an expectation, even a sense of entitlement perhaps that we should be beating teams like Barrow. We need to roll our sleeves up, metaphorically, and run our hearts out to outplay our opponents. But we seem to be a long way from that atm.
I’d like to say we were unlucky yesterday but it didn’t sound as if it was which was why a point may be ok. It is very sad and I wish I had the faith some have. 

UTG!

He's not even an emperor. He's an attention seeking fraud. He pretends to be Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the legendary 7th and final king of Rome.
But I'm pretty sure he is dead.

No we won't.

Barton, being what he is, has been so divisive we won't come out of this stronger.

And our national reputation is harmed.

It's the most calamitous decision since some bloke said, ''Oh look, how kind, our enemy have made us a huge wooden horse as a gift, let's drag it in through the City gates''.