Tisdale sacked

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

Looks like it is Barton then. Will be announced within 48 hours apparently according to Sam Frost.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

I hope he succeeds with us, I really do. But lets be real here, he won't. He may keep us up. But he will be provoked every game. He will mess up again. But this time, he will be taking our name with him. He could be in prison come June. Or doing community service. Total embarrassment to our club and now the club is an embarrassment to me. I am actually ashamed that our club has lost whatever integrity it had remaining by getting this thug in as manager. A lot of fans have said they won't be going again. I am one of them. Sadly on other forums and social media, some gasheads have taken delight in the news of Barton being manager and laughing at those who has been gasheads for years (decades) who have said they won't go anymore.

You all know my opinion on Barton. If you disagree, that is not a problem with me. We are all entitled to our opinions and I will respect yours. And I truly hope you are right about him. But for me, even if he is the best manager ever, I couldn't support the club while we have this deplorable person here.

 

[old timer]

Bristol Rovers will always have my support But Barton will NEVER have my support

 

[GreatWesternGas]

Looks like it is Barton then. Will be announced within 48 hours apparently according to Sam Frost.

If this is true, and Sam Frost hasn't always been correct, then it's very disappointing, As you say, it will be a miracle if this doesn't end in tears for him and us, and I'm surprised that the club are prepared to take such a gamble. I'm happy to be proved wrong, and he could turn out to be a hero for us, but it seems a heck of a risk to me. A bit of desperation may have crept in. I guess, when patience may have been the better option.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

Bristol Rovers will always have my support But Barton will NEVER have my support

Fair shout

I have always said "Through thick and thin" "Rovers till I die" "We're Rovers supporters, We're faithful and true" and "I will always support the club". I have been there for the good and bad times and I have never wavered.

But for me, the appointment of Barton has crossed the line which I thought could never be crossed and now to me, my club has sunk you new depths that I find impossible to follow. Yes we all make mistakes. I don't claim to be a saint or righteous in anyway. I don't claim to be anyone special. But I do have principles which I refuse to break, even if it means missing out on Rovers. Its a shame that club has put me into this position.

I will still be here on not606 getting involved as always. I will still look out for results hoping for 3 points. But that is as far as I feel I can go with support.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

If this is true, and Sam Frost hasn't always been correct, then it's very disappointing, As you say, it will be a miracle if this doesn't end in tears for him and us, and I'm surprised that the club are prepared to take such a gamble. I'm happy to be proved wrong, and he could turn out to be a hero for us, but it seems a heck of a risk to me. A bit of desperation may have crept in. I guess, when patience may have been the better option.

Its everywhere now, not just Sam Frost. It would be a miracle for this not to actually happen now.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

Out of respect to you all on here, I won't post anything about Barton past from now on as you all know where I stand so I don't want to bore you. Future comments on him will be purely based on what he does at Rovers. Not his past.

 

[Delsy]

Oh well, never a dull moment being a Rovers fan ! It will be interesting though if he does come in and keeps the team up what sort of reception he will receive from the fans at the start of next season when hopefully we shall all be allowed in to watch again .

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

Oh well, never a dull moment being a Rovers fan ! It will be interesting though if he does come in and keeps the team up what sort of reception he will receive from the fans at the start of next season when hopefully we shall all be allowed in to watch again .

Depends if he is in prison or not. He may get 200 hours community service to do on Saturdays

 

[Gastronomic]

I have stolen this from elsewhere....

December 2004
At a fancy dress Christmas party for Manchester City players, Barton, then 22, stubbed out a lit cigar in the eye of youth team player Jamie Tandy, causing damage to his eyelids. Barton and Tandy then became involved in a brawl that other players had to break up. Barton was fined £60,000 by City but wasn't sacked by the club.

May 2005
Barton breaks the leg of a 35-year-old pedestrian while driving his car through Liverpool city centre at 2am.

June 2005
Barton was sent home from City's pre-season tour of Thailand after assaulting a 15-year-old Everton supporter who had provoked him by shouting abuse and kicking his shin. Barton had to be restrained from continuing his attack on the boy by team-mate Richard Dunne. He was fined £120,000 and underwent anger management therapy.

March 2007
Barton is arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage following an alleged argument with a taxi driver in Liverpool. He was alleged to have ripped out the cabbie's radio because he would not wait at a MacDonald's drive-through while Barton got food. He was later found not guilty of vandalising the taxi because his cousin Joshua Wilson, who was in the car with him, admitting causing the damage.

May 2007
Barton is involved in a training ground incident with City team-mate Ousmane Dabo. Dabo said he had been hit several times, was left unconscious and required hospital for head injuries, including a suspected detached retina. Barton admitted the assault and in July 2008 was given a four-month suspended jail sentence. After further investigations, in November 2008, he was handed a six-match ban, with a further six suspended, after admitting an FA violent conduct charge relating to this incident with Dabo. He was also fined £25,000.

December 2007
Having sat out Newcastle's Boxing Day game through injury, Barton goes drinking in Liverpool city centre afterwards. At 5.30am, he gets into an argument in a McDonald's and CCTV footage shows Barton punching a man 20 times, knocking him out, before attacking a teenager and breaking some of his teeth. Barton spends New Year behind bars.

May 2008
Barton is sentenced to six months in jail after admitting assault and affray. He serves 74 days of his prison term at Strangeways in Manchester.

November 2008
After serving his jail term and the six-month ban for the Dabo incident, Barton is accused of making a racist remark to Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor. However, this is never proven.

May 2009
Barton is sent off in his first game back from a long-term injury for a reckless tackle on Liverpool's Xabi Alonso. Barton receives a three-match ban for the red card but is then suspended indefinitely by Newcastle. That stemmed from a dressing room argument with manager Alan Shearer and his assistant Iain Dowie following the game.

November 2010
Barton stayed at Newcastle following the departure if Shearer and in a match against Blackburn Rovers, he punches Morten Gamst Pedersen in the chest. He admits an FA charge of violent conduct and was banned for three games.

August 2011
Barton leaves Newcastle and joins Queens Park Rangers. In one of his first games for the club, Barton is involved in a physical confrontation with Wolves player Karl Henry.

January 2012
Is sent off for head-butting Norwich midfielder Bradley Johnson.

March 2012
Hits out at QPR fans who booed him for a poor performance in a 3-2 win over Liverpool.

May 2012
Barton is sent off in QPR's final day match at Manchester City for elbowing Carlos Tevez in the face, kicking Sergio Aguero in the back of the knee and then attempting to head-butt Vincent Kompany. His former team-mate Micah Richards drags him off the field. QPR goes on to lose 3-2 and only avoided relegation thanks to Bolton only drawing. Barton said after the match he was trying to get one of the City players sent off with him. The FA subsequently ban Barton for 12 matches and fine him £75,000. QPR strip Barton of the captaincy and fine him six weeks' wages, around £500,000.

January 2013
Gets into a Twitter spat with former Liverpool and Germany midfielder Dietmar Hamann, calling him a 'maggot' and a 'dog' after Loic Remy decided to move to QPR and not Newcastle.

April 2013
While on loan at Marseille, Barton calls Paris Saint-Germain defender Thiago Silva an 'overweight ladyboy' on Twitter. Marseille had to apologise to their rivals PSG and Barton is handed a two-game suspended ban.

February 2015
Back at QPR, he is sent off for the ninth time in his career against Hull for taking a swing at Tom Huddlestone's groin following a foul by Darnell Furlong.

September 2016
Shortly after joining Rangers, Barton says newly-appointed Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers is suffering a 'mid-life crisis' during a radio interview. In the same month, he is sent away from the Rangers training ground following a training ground argument with Andy Halliday. He was subsequently suspended for three weeks and Rangers terminated his contract two months later.

April 2017
Barton, then a Burnley player, is banned from football for 18 months after admitting a FA charge in relation to betting. He was also fined £30,000 and warned about his future conduct after placing 1,260 bets on matches over a 10-year period. Barton admitted he was addicted to gambling but contests the punishment was excessive. In July 2017, the ban is reduced by five months on appeal but his playing career is over.

April 2019
Police launch an investigation after Barton, who was appointed Fleetwood manager in June 2018, allegedly assaults Barnsley manager Daniel Stendel in the tunnel after a match, leaving him with damaged teeth. In November, Barton pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The trial date has been delayed until June 2021 by the Covid pandemic.


There is probably a lot more than this and don't forget he has been sent off twice as manager against us alone!

And some fans want this guy to be our manager!! I honestly would rather we get relegated than have him at our club.

Well said. He's proved he hasn't learned and moved on. He'll prove really toxic, and Bristol Rovers will be all over the press because of his trial in June.

 

[Delsy]

I wonder if he will have a go at the accent ?

 

[Bluebaldee]

I wonder if he will have a go at the accent ?

That was one of the most cringeworthy things I've ever watched - Barton at Marseille speaking to French TV in English, but with a French accent. Up there with Steve McClaren speaking to Dutch TV in English with a Dutch accent. Absolutely unbelievable.

 

[bcfcredandwhite]

Out of respect to you all on here, I won't post anything about Barton past from now on as you all know where I stand so I don't want to bore you. Future comments on him will be purely based on what he does at Rovers. Not his past.

Hope you don’t mind me popping over - not here to WUM.
It’s a difficult one this. The man is a c@ck of the highest order, but if he sorts your club out then he’s done his job.
What’s in the past should stay in the past - but I still would be uneasy if someone with his type of history came to manage my club.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

Hope you don’t mind me popping over - not here to WUM.
It’s a difficult one this. The man is a c@ck of the highest order, but if he sorts your club out then he’s done his job.
What’s in the past should stay in the past - but I still would be uneasy if someone with his type of history came to manage my club.

You are welcome here any time and the rest of your fellow red. We're an open forum
Yep, if he sorts our club out, fair shout to him but I am certain whatever he does with us, it will end in tiers on or off the pitch

 

[MassiveAttack]

*tears

 

[old timer]

Thought you would have been happy with Pearson Massiveattack did well for leicester and would have kept Watford up and saved you a thrashing if they hadn't panicked

 

[old timer]

Was told yesterday that Paul Tisdale is the favourite to take charge of the England U21s when Adie Boothroyd leaves in the Summer, Done well has Adie since he left us back in the 90s

 

[Bluebaldee]

Good luck to him. He couldn’t get a tune out our youngsters though.

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

How did he bluff his way into that position!

 

[old timer]

Apparently he convinced them he was good at bringing young players on was told he was the best of the 2 candidates the other being Frank Lampard