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Whenever those scumbag clubs from Glasgow get knocked off their perch domestically it's great.

You really need to remove yourself from this discussion. Your complete lack of ability to comprehend what people are talking about and your constant simping for the club is tiring, distracting and totally fucking embarrassing.

I don't think that Pickering is best suited by any means to playing as a wing back. But he is superior to alternatives in either position. He is defensively aware and decent on the ball. He wouldn't keep switching off like the useless De Neve who doesn't even offer anything going forward either. Pickering was a regular in a team that finished 8th as a wing back but still, it would be a case of not ideal, but a million times better than a bloke even a relegated Belgian side were happy to let go. Especially if Hedges is back, Pickering would be our best bet at left centre back. Ribeiro is crap and not only that, is very much a full back. Pickering has filled in at left centre back comfortably before.

He started one game just after his loan started, & then came off the bench in the next. He was then absent from their squad entirely for the rest of his loan spell https://fc-utd.co.uk/players/joe-boggan

There’s a good reason that two much better managers than Ismael have rated him. However, his swipe at De Neve post match went a long way for me to proving mine (and many others) theory that he cannot be selected for financial reasons.

Second non-league loan spell where Boggan played zero minutes? The signs are concerning that these clubs don't want to put him on the pitch. Keep him at the club and let him get some goals at U21s and have some starts.

I would always have Pickering down as competent. Nothing special but very rarely has a nightmare. I would always class De Neve as incompetent. How the latter plays before the former cannot be due to footballing ability.

The club are getting away with it having blocked the LET (although Jackson wouldn't have asked anyway) but it is absolutely crazy even for this club to have arguably our best available defender frozen out. Is he the solution to an absolute mess of a defence? Obviously not. But he should be starting either on the left side of a back 3 or at left back. He is steady, experienced, reads the game well and is good on the ball. Miller is crap, McLoughlin is crap and Ribeiro is crap.

You have claimed he is wrong then rehashed EXACTLY his point to disprove him.

The question was not why will you not protest to be fair, it was why are you bothering with a protest specific thread if you have no interest in it whatsoever. I totally get and agree that I wouldn't be running on the pitch, nor should people urge others to do so, especially in some cases when they dont go themselves, so wouldn't be taking on the same risks that they expect others to. But you also say it would piss alot of fans off. By this, do you mean that if other people ran onto the pitch, and lets say got a game paused, or even abandoned, embarrassing the owners/board, creating bad publicity and challenging the twats who are running our clubs into the ground. You would be pissed off about that?

Actually I would be happy with just Ba’ath at this stage. His arse is getting splinters on the Derby bench. He would have made a huge difference in our defence. He is probably not happy running his career down like this with Sanderson keeping him out.

Can you quote it please? Must have missed it

I like the early rounds just for stories like that Indian lad winning today. A single win in this tournament means more to players like him than reaching semi-finals and finals means to the more established players.

I thought that he was referring to De Neve this time

Can you tell me why it is beneficial to have anyone beside the manager deciding on the tactics, the style and the players to use? Forest this season is a good example of the point I am making. Theyve signed loads of players that none of the managers have wanted to use, which suggests that theyve been selected above the manager. They are doing significantly worse and keep changing manager and style. A director of football can be useful but they have far too much power now. They shouldnt be telling the manager which style to play, how many youngsters to use, or even at times decide on signings. Im yet to see you explain why it makes sense, you just say that I dont understand if I dont agree. All of the drawbacks and risk of such a structure are obvious here. And look at us. Also, feel free to have something against Gestede. Not only incompetent and overseeing our squad being saddled with shit, but also comes across as smarmy and arroganr.

Somebody British with some championship fire fighting experience would be my guess. Of course it would still need to be someone out of work and cheap and agreeable to the restrictions in budget.

Yep, Waggott/Mowbray was the Venky dream ticket - and the latter would certainly have stayed if offered an extension. One can only wonder if Suhail has been asked by his bosses at any point "why did we let that Mowbray fella leave again?" I'd guess not, as that would also assume the owners have any remote personal interest in the club, and there seems to be zero evidence that this is the case.

It would have been interesting to see Waggott would have appoint if it was sole responsible to do so

Not a Waggot fan either but i'd be more comfortable with him running it on his own rather than Suhail and Gestede. We wouldn't go anywhere but i think we'd have a better chance of staying in this league with peanuts for a budget. These lot have put the pursuit of buy cheap, play, then sell as number 1 priority when instead it should always be look at top ten bare minimum standard.

We will always be looking in all markets anyway whoever the DoF was. We always have

Expect Ribeiro to be dropped again with Val then hinting that he was referring to him with his comments…

Your posts suggested that players signed here is all down to Gestede when actually there is alot more to it than that. Wrong. Clubs have structures in play and a way they want to play or policies about signings, so you appoint a head coach that's fit into that structure, the squad he have to play. Look at the Forest situation this season as Prime example I think from what Ismael, JDT and Mowbray plus GB that you are picking a shortlist of 3 to 5 players that the scouting staff that fit the type of player you what from that position Ismael has spoken alot about profiles of players from each position he wanted a signing him and what qualities he wanted. Like the Morishita or Baradji signing I think a Director of Football/head coach structure is the right way to run the footballing side and build the club on that structure. on Gestede, Nothing against him but I think we need an experience DoF who has vast range of experience and knowledge of the European/World market in we are going to follow this path. That's fine

That means pissing around here for another year and a half though. A low ball clause would probably get him out earlier.

Mowbray was the perfect manager for Venkys. Not for Blackburn Rovers, but for Venkys. He was willing to work with their bonkers ways, traipse off to India and tell them how wonderful they are, handle more than a modern day manager should be handling, all the media, contracts, scouting, fans, even going as far as to appoint his assistant as director of football and Waggott as CEO to provide additional support. In return they got seemingly everything they've ever wanted in a manager - someone they trust who they could leave to get on with it, keep the fans quiet/content, perhaps most importantly plod for a few years whilst developing serious assets that would make a hefty profit in the transfer window and allow them to recoup cash from sales. I don't think we would ever have got promoted under him as he just isn't the sort of manager to go out and deliver that. But for a disgraceful operation like these owners want to preside over he was an ideal custodian for them to just sit there and do nothing and leave it to him. For reasons unknown they decided to cut him off. Whether that was them losing faith or middle men getting a hand on the controls again after a few years out of the limelight we will never know. My own suspicion is that dogsbody Pasha was annoyed at Mowbray usurping him in the chain of command as he did after relegation to League One and therefore set about ensuring Mowbray's access to the top table in Pune was severed. Ever since then it has been a gradual return back to the sort of skeletal joke of a structure that was in place from 2015-2017 when they removed good people from office (Bowyer, Myers, Biggar) and either didn't replace them or replaced them with dross. The parallels between then and now are startling. Whilst Ismael is undoubtedly a better manager than Coyle ever was he is working with a smaller and probably inferior squad. Either way the end / outcome of this is going to be the same. Last time around it took relegation being sealed for the idiots in India to summon people out there for a meeting, so I suspect the same this time around - they'll only even become aware of a change in league status after it happens. Unfortunately they've got even less interest and willingness to invest this time around so I'm not confident that anything will happen other than another radical round of cost cuts. Rudy will probably be the one sacrificed at that point.

It would be comforting to know he was under some pressure due to results and performances. However you get no inkling that he is under even the slightest bit from those above. Nobody at the club seems to give two shits about events on or off the field. It feels like fans are starting to feel the same way based on attendance and atmosphere.