Zebroski

[Fonda]

Fonda, thats the nature of football im afraid.

Brighton nabbed Will Hoskins of us for 500k, when he is worth at least double that, Gasheads dont start slagging of Albion.

Its funny that you claim Rovers nabbed him off you, and before he left, most of you were hoping he didn't leave, yet now he has you start slagging him off calling him all sorts of obscenities.

Football really is a fickle world.

I understand how football works, and we are well aware of our place in it. If Zebroski ended up in Bristol I d be disappointed but would understand why. That doesn t mean we appreciate having our noses somewhat rubbed in it , and whether that is your intention or not, that s how it feels with your continued presence here. As for Buckle, you ll find most people are annoyed about the manner of his departure rather than the fact he s gone.

[tufcbrett]

Fonda, thats the nature of football im afraid.

Brighton nabbed Will Hoskins of us for 500k, when he is worth at least double that, Gasheads dont start slagging of Albion.

Its funny that you claim Rovers nabbed him off you, and before he left, most of you were hoping he didn't leave, yet now he has you start slagging him off calling him all sorts of obscenities.

Football really is a fickle world.

Many fans of TQ i know and myself are not to bothered by Buckle leaving, if i say so i reckon it was the right time.

It was all about how it got about thats anouyed everyone. It was all done before the playoffs and it was massive for us the playoffs.
He plans to leave before and then in the final his subds just said it all, takes off the only two players that actually was making any chances for us.

You will have your views on our club and so do we, you wont ever agree with us as your a rovers fan. Your club is bigger than us i will agree, but your not that much bigger that every man and his dog will just get up and leave TQ. Zebs and a few others are very happy here and dont want to leave.
Money talks and its football, one or two may leave. But i cant see it happening yet if im honest.

[gasgasgas88]

I will agree, just a rovers fan with nothing better to do than wind up Torquay fans after he read who we reckon buckle may want.

At the moment you are correct, it is nothing more than a rumour. However come August the 6th, Chris Zebroski will be playing in the blue and white quarters. FACT. And i am not coming on here giving the "billy big bulls" and I can see why you guys are getting slightly fed up with some gas posts, however i was genuinley just trying to get some feedback to what type of player Zeb is. And for the record, you could do alot worse than Trollope.

[BritishGAS]

BritishGas, you stilllllll here? Bore off!

Banging on about attendances ZzzzzzZzzzzzzzZ change the record for once, so what if we took what we did to the Stevenage game, doesn't make us any less of a club.

I will bore off

I just dont like hypocrites.

Torquay fans crying over Gasheads apparently being arrogant, yet Gulls fans slag Rovers off left , right and centre.

I wasn't banging on about attendances, just stating a fact. If Torquay were a club on the up surely you would of mustered up more support to one of your biggest games for years.

I think that proved to everybody that watched the game that the Torbay area doesn't have much of a footballing interest.

Again a Gull fan takes it the wrong way, and gets all emotional.

I never said it makes you any less of a club, I have stated many times I like Torquay.

[tufcbrett]

I will bore off

I just dont like hypocrites.

Torquay fans crying over Gasheads apparently being arrogant, yet Gulls fans slag Rovers off left , right and centre.

I wasn't banging on about attendances, just stating a fact. If Torquay were a club on the up surely you would of mustered up more support to one of your biggest games for years.

I think that proved to everybody that watched the game that the Torbay area doesn't have much of a footballing interest.

Again a Gull fan takes it the wrong way, and gets all emotional.

I never said it makes you any less of a club, I have stated many times I like Torquay.

Just because we didnt have many fans to play off final does not mean we cant be a club on the up.
So Stevenage takes less fans than us but are now in league 1? Whats your point.

I agree we should be having more people through the doors but thats life. If we were a championship side we would have more people coming as the day trippers would be more intrested in the bigger teams rather than the barnets.

[kingsgull]

lets leave this discussion as its getting petty now....most of our players have been spoken to and have been offered contracts and im sure when our new manager is appointed most will put pen to paper ...hopefully including Zebs who is not worthy of one of your players left testicle it appears but in my books he has got more balls ...

cheers Mike

[Richinns]

I love the gasheads all saying "we are not here to offend but we are starting threads left right and centre about taking you manager / best players / coaching staff and would like polite feedback on what we are getting".

You know full well what you are doing - stay on your own forum and discuss it. This is not the place for you to be doing this.

[hector]

I don't think anything about the Rovers fans that are trying to wind us up. Naturally if they hear a rumour they may post on here about it. What is wrong with that? It was Rovers fans that alerted us to the dupliticous nature of Buckle and the FACT that he was leaving us for them even though he lied about it.

See his interview after the Stevenage game which I finally watched this morning. I sat in disbelief at him saying 'hand on heart' he didn't know where he would be, when everyone knew it was a done deal and the Rovers chairman confirmed that. If the same sources are suggesting that a deal has been done for Zebroski then I would like to know whether this was done also while Buckle was Torquay manager. Buckle spoke after the final of trying to keep the team together when we all can probably guess he was trying to think of ways he could strip it apart.

Don't waste ire on the Rovers fans...it is Buckle and maybe our board of directors for being so accomadting that deserve our flak.

[BritishGAS]

I am not going to start slagging you off, but some Torquay fans really do chat utter nonsense.

Be honest with yourself please, I dont really know much about Zebroski, but I am sure a guy like that would like to live in the bright lights of Bristol rather than in Torquay/Torbay where it is pretty misrerable until a few months in the summer, also he will earn more at Rovers. I admire your loyalty but why would you deny a player the chance not only to better himself but earn as much has he can also? Like you said he is 24 and might have a young family to support, playing for Bristol Rovers will give him better financial rewards, and also a better chance of playing at a higher level, No disrespect intended.

How are Rovers a sham? And a sinking ship? Dont mug yourself off.

Torquay are a club moving forward? Is that why for your biggest game for a number of years playing in English club footballs biggest and best stadium, you took less fans than our very poor average home gate? And the high quality long list of potential new managers? What the likes of Paul Trollope and Dave Penney?

Now like I said Im not here to slag you off, but a lot of Torquay fans on here start crying about Gasheads being disrespectful to Torquay, yet you write drivel like that? Talk about Pot, Kettle Black.

Dont be silly and think that Zebroski is worth more than 75k, he isn't, he is a decent League 2 player, nothing more. Will Hoskins went to Brighton for 500k and he has got more talent in his left testicle than Zebroski will ever have in his whole body...Again it is not a dig but an honest assesment.

I like Torquay and have no malice with you whatsoever but some of your fans need to chill out and be a bit more honest with yourselves.

with all due respect, i'm guessing you thought he was a high quality manager once upon a time ??

like you, i'm not interested in slagging anyone off here, it's just opinions, but just because we had a "small" following to old trafford doesn't mean we're not a club progressing and moving forward. you might get bigger crowds than us, but it won't win you promotion. just ask a bradford fan. i'm from London, lived here all my life, it's a great city, but i also respect that people may prefer living in Bristol, Torquay, Afghanistan, etc etc, and so will i one day, i'm sure. Some people need to realise there's more to life than size and money.[/quote]
No honestly Gasheads always new Paul Trollope was not a very good manager. The first 2 seasons it was all down to Lennie Lawrence. Paul Trollope inherited Ian Atkins side, and Lennie Lawrence signed the likes of Rickie Lambert to compliment it, to the outsider it may have looked like he was a good, young up and coming manager, but he had Lennie holding his hand doing most of the work. As soon as Lennie left, Trollope signed his own players who were nothing short of useless, on long, lucrative contracts and spent a lot of money on them, we spent more money than Millwall, Swansea, Peterbrough et al and look where they are now, and look at us, relegated to League 2.

I am just warning you, god help you if Trollope gets your job.

I agree there is more to life than size and money, but to a 24 year old lad, Big city life would appeal to him more than being down by the seaside which in all due respect is pretty dismal apart from when the sunshines for a few months.

[royalgull]

Zebroski hasn't done too well off the field in recent years, i'm not sure big city life would be in his best interests.

That won't remotely go through his head though, what will do is the offer of more money on a longer term contract. Same as any player.

[Boom Boom]

I will bore off

I just dont like hypocrites.

Torquay fans crying over Gasheads apparently being arrogant, yet Gulls fans slag Rovers off left , right and centre.

I wasn't banging on about attendances, just stating a fact. If Torquay were a club on the up surely you would of mustered up more support to one of your biggest games for years.

I think that proved to everybody that watched the game that the Torbay area doesn't have much of a footballing interest.

Again a Gull fan takes it the wrong way, and gets all emotional.

I never said it makes you any less of a club, I have stated many times I like Torquay.

Come off it, you're loving it. You must be enjoying the fact you've got Mr Arrogant & now by the sounds of things Zebroski.

Perhaps "the club on the up" was based on league positions?

I'm not emotional but you may well be if you're expecting Buckle is some lower league Mourinho.

No wonder you love Torquay if you keep nabbing all our players & staff of us.........

[BritishGAS]

No honestly Gasheads always new Paul Trollope was not a very good manager. The first 2 seasons it was all down to Lennie Lawrence. Paul Trollope inherited Ian Atkins side, and Lennie Lawrence signed the likes of Rickie Lambert to compliment it, to the outsider it may have looked like he was a good, young up and coming manager, but he had Lennie holding his hand doing most of the work. As soon as Lennie left, Trollope signed his own players who were nothing short of useless, on long, lucrative contracts and spent a lot of money on them, we spent more money than Millwall, Swansea, Peterbrough et al and look where they are now, and look at us, relegated to League 2.

I am just warning you, god help you if Trollope gets your job.

I agree there is more to life than size and money, but to a 24 year old lad, Big city life would appeal to him more than being down by the seaside which in all due respect is pretty dismal apart from when the sunshines for a few months.

[Boom Boom]

God help Bristol if Zebroski was there, you do realise he got arrested earlier on the season for knocking someone out over a car bonnet? Some city life just doesn't appeal to people, myself included, I'm happy living in my countryside town. Thanks for the Trollope warning & I'm warning you BritishGas, don't expect Buckle to perform a miracle because you'll be disappointed. Only thing you can count on is Zebroski will be class for you, however much I hate to admit it.

[BritishGAS]

Come off it, you're loving it. You must be enjoying the fact you've got Mr Arrogant & now by the sounds of things Zebroski.

Perhaps "the club on the up" was based on league positions?

I'm not emotional but you may well be if you're expecting Buckle is some lower league Mourinho.

No wonder you love Torquay if you keep nabbing all our players & staff of us.........

Im not loving it at all, just dont like people being contradictory.

I must admit I am confident in regards to buckle yeah, I think Rovers will bounce back at the 1st attempt, and I think Rovers have appointed the right man for a change.

Who has said that Buckle is some sort of special one? What I do know though is that for someone who has barely turned 40 he has been pretty succesful in his short career to date.

I am not happy that we are nabbing your players, because with no disrespect we should be aiming higher than players like Zebroski, Rovers need players with the pedigree to play at a higher level and I dont think Zebroski has that, Plus for 75k we could do a lot better.

[Boom Boom]

For 75K we could do better too. You are all wetting yourself at the appointment of Buckle being appointed, so much so you keep coming on the forum banging on about it. I doubt you would've paid attention but our run into the playoffs coincided with introduction of Craig Stanley (thanks Milton, no not you Buckle) which suggests some of the contribution to our recent success has been behind the scenes.

You've must have seen the laughable subs that Buckle used in the final, brought off our left back Kevin Nicholson who is our set piece specialist. You know, creates goals out of nothing due to his corner & free-kick ability. He replaced him with Rowe-Turner, another left back, who's featured about 5 times this season. We were chasing the game. I'm grateful for what he's done but sometimes he just quite simply leaves you scratching your head & I expect like the final he'll be outhought by managers like Westley so many more times next season.

Bristol Rovers to bounce back at the 1st attempt? Over confidence or arrogance......I'll go for the latter.