Steve Evans..Pre Match Comments

“It’s like the most poisonous snake in the grass, we can see it, but wherever you might move there could be a problem.”

Venomous not poisonous. But otherwise fair! Didn’t know he gave Jerry Yates his debut
 
He does say some very complementary things about us and gives a really good summary of our strengths. They are a decent side too and this will be our most awkward game for a long time. I’d be happier playing them away to be honest.
 
A decent manager that says it as it is👍🏻 Managers that speak their mind and say it as it is are not very popular for some reason.
but if you ask anyone why they don’t like him you’ll get the usual kind of answer’ cos he‘s a c**t’ !!!
 
Do other clubs have metaphors that are CONSTANTLY applied to them due to something their town is famous for.

Opening line of that article utilises the classic rollercoaster one!
 
Poultongirl said:
A decent manager that says it as it is👍🏻 Managers that speak their mind and say it as it is are not very popular for some reason.
but if you ask anyone why they don’t like him you’ll get the usual kind of answer’ cos he‘s a c**t’ !!!
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You got it in your last few words but omitted the word fat. Close but not close enough.
 
Master of anti football and shithousery. Ref needs to be on it from the start. The game in Sept was awful - Gills players were going down in a well drilled rotation. God I hope we win.
 
It will be very similar to the Burton game I'd expect with them pressing all over the pitch and giving no time on the ball. You have to battle through the first 30 minutes or so and then try and impose yourself as their energy drops. The question for Critch is whether we just go long straight away in response and play 4-4-2 or play 5 in midfield and try to match up in midfield to give more passing options. The first option didn't work against Burton so I'd expect 5 in midfield. Either way its going to be a battle and not pretty to watch.

If we go behind we will see the full anti-football gamut of players falling over at every opportunity, restarts taking an age, playersgoing down with injuries regularly but miraculously not needing treatment, tactical fouls to break up play if a player looks like he is getting free, etc. The usual Evans shithousery. Its going to be hard work and I'd be happy with a point. 3 points to us makes Gillingham's play-off places highly unlikely - they would probably need to win all of their remaining games.
 
a fair assesment of us, and he's hardly going to come out and say "in order to nulify them, everytime a blackpool player comes near us we are going to fall down and feign injury, the plan is an average of 1 in 3 times a player holding their face. This should create quite a few yellow card oportunities. Additionally we have been practicing sly kicks and elbows on their attacking players and every time a player goes down in a challenge we have been training hard on little digs at the opposition, scraping studs down shins and thighs, treading on fingers and such like. We think its a tactic that should draw a response from pool players and we should be able to get at least one of them sent off.
 
If we’re as good as we think we are we should win regardless of anti football shithousery
 
It's a results based business, and he's a manager that gets results. It's not his fault if the ref doesn't keep check of the players behaviour on the pitch.

Keep our shape, keep our discipline, and keep the ball on the floor and we have a good chance of winning.
 
Horrible tw@. We footballed them to death at their place but we had no cutting edge at all. They did what every team did around that time did, they soaked up pressure, let us play this lovely trippy tappy football in front of them and they hit us on the break. We have a midfield now who can battle but I can see them parking the bus and frustrating us and trying to nick it.
 
I look at him and wonder how he is only 4 years older than me - he's a heart attack waiting to happen!
 
Doc said:
Horrible tw@. We footballed them to death at their place but we had no cutting edge at all. They did what every team did around that time did, they soaked up pressure, let us play this lovely trippy tappy football in front of them and they hit us on the break. We have a midfield now who can battle but I can see them parking the bus and frustrating us and trying to nick it.
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We now have a cutting edge
Jezza
 
He’s a good manager end of story with a track record of getting teams promoted. I’d have been quite happy with us getting him to be honest. He’s already beaten us once and has them competing for the play offs on I would imagine a quarter of our budget.
 
He’s right in saying that we have 22 players who can interchange, all who can come in and not weaken the team
 
Dreading this game - having watched the game in Sept - awful shithousery. Good football tactical management etc...no thanks... not for me.
 
TangerinePeel said:
Do other clubs have metaphors that are CONSTANTLY applied to them due to something their town is famous for.

Opening line of that article utilises the classic rollercoaster one!
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Good point-we never have a problem like that in supporting 'Dirty' Leeds.

Forever dirty and biters of legs 😁
 
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