“Leicester were a class above us, but nevertheless this game should have removed any lingering doubts about Downing's ability as a manager.

I can't for the life of me understand why Townsend has been preferred over Gallinah, he's a penalty waiting to happen in every game. His only method of defending seems to be to wrestle the opponent to the ground and we a shipping goals from the resulting free kicks in dangerous places. For Gallinah still not to make the team with Duff injured just beggars belief, and the decision to play Armstrong as a central defender was loudicrous. Are back four on Saturday were so slow that any team would have run rings around them.

We have too much dross on our payroll. No other team in this league would pay Conner his wages. We should have offloaded more of this crap over the summer to leave room in the wage bill for better players.”

“time for my weekly rant,....Downing is simply not good enough and is taking us down to league 2. Hs substitutions were nothing short of inept and hs inability to attract players to the club will finish us off this season. Baker also had no intenion whatsoever of spending the money from the Gillespie transfer otherwise we would have brought in some quality by now. Lowe is a free tranfer, Russell was a free transfer and we have a clitch of loanees who's only motives are getting a pay day and getting themselves match fit to return to their parent clubs and fight for first team places. Anyone who thinks Baker's heart is still in the club is deluded. He is simply using this seaso as an exercise to recoup his losses before he bales out !!!!!!!”

“Chatting to a Leicester fan after the game, he said "if Leicster had the team they played yesterday last season they would not be in League 1. He thought Cheltenham did really well to carry on fighting against a Championship side". The lads have had three tough matches,. Come on you Robins you can and will stay in League 1.”

“The problem at the club is a town not bothered about League status football - its that kind of town; the youth system is rubbish any young local player going form U8's to U16's is discarded at 15/16 for so called better youth players from the so called bigger Midland clubs. They 16-19 year olds are then not coached properly and will not be give a chance. The COE coaches are not good enough to make the Club a "Crewe" its hoof it and chase it football played by big lads who can't play rugby either. Small lads with real techincal ability aren't given the time or patience to develop at 16-19 age bracket and are released or thrown out.. Not one player in 11 years has come through from say U9's to first team and won't. Bird and Duff are not great and wouldn't have got a chance at other clubs when they leave no one in the League will seek them.
Build a new stadium - share with Gloucester City - pay for better A licence coaches at COE - with local youngsters and be patient with them and there size and growing -sell the club to the public - attract the public to better facilities aiming for minimum of 5000 home support and then build up to 7-8,000”

“The best thing all round is to bury this result in the vaults and let it go. Leicester were as everyone who understands the game, far superior in every aspect (On and off the field). It's no good trying to blame everyone as to why we have not started as well as we would all wish. I cannot change anything and I am sure everyone who puts comments on this site cannot. The only way I can help is to keep going and supporting the Robins. Start judging when we have played a dozen games then we will have a better feel for how good or not we are going to be. A far better reflection maybe after next Saturday's game against another team who have not started as they would wish. Everyone who truly loves the Robins, knows that playing in league one with our resources is a phenomenal achivement. If we all start baying for heads to roll where will that leave us. As I see it we have a board that puts money in to the club, have money available for new players and a manager working his socks off to get players in. And whom we all said was fantastice for keeping us in league 1 last season. Unless one of us has the answer on how to bring in another thousand supporters, or who can contribute a couple of million pounds to give to the club, then I firmly believe the best way forward is to keep faith with the people running the club at the moment. Come on you Robins!”

“Here's the reality check, Chris of Stroud:
Played 4
Won 1
Lost 3
Goals for 4
Against 12
Right to moan? I think so. My season ticket pays the wages.”

“Some of you need a reality check. On gates of 3 to 4K your role model should be Crewe - develop and sell your young players to survive, and hope you can grow the club to average gates of twice what you get now. You have a good manager and a generous chairman. What would you prefer - follow Luton, Rotherham, Bournemouth etc. Get behind your club - if you want to do something about it, convince more of your mates to come through the turnstiles. Otherwise, quit moaning.”

“I for one do not blame Paul Baker at all. He loves this club but, quite rightly, is not going to bankrupt himself over it. Would you?
Most of the players are not that bad either, and quite capable of playing at mid Div 1 level.
It's also true that our budget is tiny due to small crowds.
The manager has worked hard to bring in some new, affordable talent which should gradually start to establish itself.
However, in any situation like this, the manager must carry the can if he has been given long enough to impose himself on the players and they are not responding to him.
We'll never know why Gillespie was allowed to leave so early or so easily, but without him (or Higgs or the underrated David Bird) we're nothing yet.
Hopefully, Hales and Low can at least help make our attacks more lively, wide at times and hence less predicatable.
But losing is one thing. Losing 4-0 more than twice, even to large clubs is not acceptable.
Maybe the basics should be worked on first with the maxim of keeping things simple and accurate. Less of those ridiculous, failed Hollywood passes for a start (lazy football) and using the flanks more often in attack instead of forever pumping long, hopefully predictable balls up the middle.
And please let's use the substitutes effectively and give them half an hour or so and not just four minutes at the end. And use the youngsters occasionally, particularly if we've already lost the game. That's what they're there for isn't it, the experience?
Maybe not much experience but a lot of frustration in forever warming the bench.
The Huddersfield game is going to be a watershed.
Here endeth the lesson!”

“Look at Leicester's history and crowd level compared with Cheltenham! People need to get real !”

“Paul Baker has to go!
Whats the point in having a wise chairman whos money management skills have stopped us from going into admin for years and puts thousands of pounds in the club every year?
Lets give Downing every penny this club has to spend on players who dont even want to join us.”