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John Coddington for all his penalty aberrations was a lumbering beast though not in the same mould as McNamee. I witnessed McNamee's debut vs Tranmere away. It was breath-taking; he was a galvanising force for Rovers and against all opposition. I haven't seen a harder tougher competitor in a Rovers shirt before or since. Man's game in those days. Compare with the sneaky feigning modern tactics adopted generally in the game these days.

The issue with Leonard was that we sold him rather than proceeding with the initial loan agreement. End of.

The issue with Leonard was his dreadful injury record. I know very little about Cadamarteri but I see from Wikipedia that despite being over 18 months younger than Leonard he has managed to play significantly more first team games. Additionally from the above it seems that at least one other Championship team are interested in him whereas Leonard had to drop down a division to find a club.

The fact he leaves will be a positive

So he turns out for the first team a few times post January, doesn't look out of place - indeed has an assist - and we shuffle him off to Barrow? Meanwhile Ribeiro and Pickering still can't get a sniff. Make it make sense.

Why is that a positive? Rudy's incompetence will take us years to undo. Worst squad in decades. He'll leave with an even bigger bank balance than he has now and will get a nice role at a French club.

Very easy to see why Cadamarteri ticks all the Venky regime boxes. Wages unlikely to be an issue with him only recently emerging from the youth team at cash strapped Sheff Wed Transfer fee likely to be manageable buying from a club struggling to pay the bills and needing anything they can get Age 20 so a good season or even half of one will see a profit to be had. As others have questioned it really does lead to the question of why sell Harry Leonard if we are going to go and sign Cadamarteri for a similar amount. But then Leonard was 100% profit in and they'll be reckoning Cadamarteri can double or treble his valuation if he scores a few. Remember the percentages. Such a flippant attitude to our league position. Is solely investing in youth and projects really the approach of a club on the cusp of relegation?

It just goes to show there really was no plan at all. Jorgensen seems like there is logic to his signing but all the messages from Mr alignment (Ismael) before the window was that we needed a number of bodies and there was plenty of talk around them needing to fit into a 5-3-2. Now we're here at the closing of the window and center midfield hasn't been strengthened which was critical, then most of all a left wing back. The 5-3-2 simply does not work without someone who can play there. Conversely if we're switching back to a 4-2-3-1, it makes a little more sense, but why has Ismael be persisting with 5-3-2 for so long. All in all, we're told repeatedly there is a plan when in reality there isn't.

Brandon Powell set to join Barron on loan. Can only presume they didn't want De Neve.

But..... the bigger turnover of cheap players the more commission the tinpot middlemen make.

Let's hope Ismael does us all a favour and walks like JDT/Eustace did. Every cloud and all that...

I have a real fear that Jorgenson and Cashin will be our only transactions. With players coming back from injury I bet they are hoping to A. Save money on this window B. Limp over the line with players returning Or SpEsHuL oPsHuN nUMbeR 3 Pat themselves on the back for a league one season next season.

Yes that’s the issue they aren’t demanding or caring what actually happens but again any crap attention for Rudy I’m taking that as a win as he’s too arrogant to someone who has zero clue what he’s doing

I think he knows it too, didn't re reply directly to someone on Linkedin calling for him to step down? If you don't feel the pressure you don't reply to that, you just shrug and laugh! On the other hand, highly doubt he has any internal pressure from the top.

Jay Bothroyd anyone?

Think I said it the other day the only small positive is this really shows how far out of his depth Rudy is - promised the world and delivered on nothing

From targeting a player who their club value at £5m to one who will likely cost around the £1m mark. Life under Venky's, Pasha and Rudy. As I say, I'm convinced they're just shrugging their shoulders at this stage with life in League One looming.

This is turning into a worse window than last year.

If Millwall are also in for him, it's a no brainer for the lad. He won't come here to get relegated for less money. I suspect we don't but we'd better have some alternatives lined up.

Hello JPT, Condolences on your loss - we miss our mothers more than we anticipate, once they have gone... Do you know what school she went to? Was she Catholic or CoE? Mine was CoE, born in 1938 and went to St Hilda's (now St. Wilfrids). I'm sure there must be other Rovers fans on here of similar vintage to us (I'm in my 60s). The game must have been early to mid 1950s, I guess, based on your mum's year of birth. Different times, eh?! OC

Jackson reckons the focus now is on Cadamarteri. What a shocking window yet again!!

You log on everyday just for another small bit of hope to die when absolutely no news on incomings is apparent... Oh for a modern trio of Mimms, Dobson and Livingstone to get us over the line...

Okay Rovers history experts, can you help solve a family mystery for us? My mother has sadly recently passed away. In her youth she was a proper Rovers fan - born in 1942. Whilst she was at school, she organised for herself and friends to climb out of the classroom window to skip school and watch an important Rovers match? Other schools had been given the time off for it - but as mum went to a girls schools, they decided it wasn't for them. As the ringleader she was expelled when she returned the day afterwards! Any ideas?

Let's be honest Wednesday are going to try to get as much as possible for whoever right now (obviously that goes without saying when selling players) but even more so now than ever for them

I can't see him moving in this window... Palace have already had to sell lots of players, so they aren't desperate, so even if Wharton was keen to explore options (I can't see him demanding move, not his style) they would probably price him out of a move (for now) - plus with the terrible run Palace are on, he has hardly been in the 'shop window'.