Are they going to be the surprise team going into the end of the season. Another great win for them last night they are only 6 points behind us game in hand they also play us at home in a few weeks time. I like the job Joey Barton has done I know he is not Mr perfect who is. I reckon it is going to be a tough end to the season are we good enough I am not very confident.
You seem to be confident about everyone bar us. Look at it another way - we are 4 points in front of them and have won more games than anyone else this year. We have scored more goals and have the best away record in the league. Away form is usually the best indicator of a confident team - able to perform under pressure in a hostile environment. So statistically speaking we are better. I think we are too. On Barton I am not a fan, he was a terrible player and a thug on the pitch. I suspect he coaches by fear too but have no evidence to back that up obviously.
I suspect Barton's presence at Fleetwood has been a breath of fresh air to the club, players and fans, which manifests itself on the pitch as a good run of form. Thats fine as long as it lasts; but it will run out of steam. But supposing they get promoted!!!! We're going to find it difficult if we're promoted; I suspect they'll be like a chocolate teapot and points donor for all the other clubs. If we dont have the set up to compete as some suggest than Fleetwood, even with Barton's influence, certainly wont have .
I don't go to away games I can only go on what I see at the NYS the last 3 games we have not played well I hope we can get back to form. I would like to mention Joe Mattock getting into the league1 team of the week he looks to be getting back to full fitness.
I like some character so Barton fits the bill. Saw him interviewed on quest recently he was modest on about bigger sides in league 1 incl' us. I'd have him here but can't see it.
So you think that facing a charge for assaulting an opposition manager is showing some character? Do you think that the Millers should look at signing Tom Lawrence and Mason Bennett after they put Richard Keogh out for at least the season by driving when p****d? Proper character they showed. You get more ridiculous with every passing day.
PS, professional footballers and managers are, whether they like it or not, role-models in society. Don't you think that that gives them a duty to act in a professional way at all times, or do you consider that decking the opposing manager to be that of a suitable role-model?
I like character. I dislike criminality. They are two very different things. I am a long way from perfect, but have managed to get this far in my life without breaching my professional code of conduct and without being sent to jail. I accept that people make mistakes and deserve second chances, but repeat offences are difficult to overlook.
TC & smiler they're laughable. Some of our away fans character is that acceptable then that makes our manager switch dugouts cause his wife got involved when they were having a go at Warney at Doncaster. That's a fact.
Gwru, please explain how Warne moving from an NYS dugout in front of one group of Rotherham fans to an NYS dugout in front of a different group of Rotherham fans could possibly, in any conceivable way, solve the problem of Mrs Warne getting stick at an away game. In what warped reality could there be any link between those two events? How does one result in the other? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It is a fiction that you repeat (a) because it fits your narrative and (b) because you know it irritates people that you keep repeating it.
smiler I believe it to be a fact what I was told. Tell me another reason for moving from were more of the home fans are. Character of certain individuals was being questioned on this thread. Blind eye being shown though to the character of some of our away fans. But I realise it's what society is today.
The move was absolutely nothing to do with PW's wife! He did it to place some distance between the away dugout and the away fans. We've seen many occasions at NYS when the opposition manager has provoked the away fans into a reaction (either hostility or enthusiasm) and PW considered that this might offer the opposition some level of encouragement or advantage. Being a game of fine margins, and PW being a very astute manager, he decided to remove that potential advantage for the opposition.
Can we now consign the wife conspiracy theory to the bin where it belongs please?
Gwru, please have another look at my last post. You havent dealt with it at all. I get that you say it is what you were told, but please tell me why that reason would make even 0.1% sense. Moving the home dugout from in front of one group of RUFC fans to being in front of another group of RUFC fans to get away from abuse directed at Mrs Warne at an away ground. Why would that answer solve that problem? Where is the logic in it? You tell me, because as far as I can see it makes zero sense, and Warne is (whatever else you think of him) not an idiot.
