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I'm not sure he would, certainly the installation of Gestede (no track record or experience) by persons unknown happened 2-3 months after Eustace arrived. When Eustace got the job officially Broughton was still Director of Football yet appears to have been a lame duck from January 2024 onwards and by most accounts Waggott was the one who gave Eustace the job. It's little wonder we are the shambles we are when you look at the number of different people and jobs there have been making decisions. Even in the last 18 months we've had Waggott, Pasha, Gestede, Broughton, JDT, Eustace and Ismael all applying their own thoughts and plans, and probably others in the background we don't get to know about. I don't think it is much of a stretch to imagine Eustace was told one thing when he joined in February 2024 and by the summer with Gestede in the driving seat something completely different was being pursued. Agree he will have known before he took the job what a shambles the club was and the ferocious appetite it had for cost cutting.

That’s what you’re doing to be fair. ‘Judge him after x amount of games’. So, no discussion in the meantime? T-Minus 90 days until we can discuss how we think Ismaël is doing, Goozburger said so. Just as you’ve the right to think we should be patient, other people have the same right to think we can give a view on him now. He’s been here what, 7 months now?

Gudjohnson first goal of the game and doing the helicopter celly lol

Plus i think Ismael has no time for him at all since he came in. Now we have Gudjonsen in I would not be surprised if we never see Gueye again.

Totally agree, we definitely need an experienced cm. If you can’t control midfield you tend to lose games.

On Ismael - he gives me Jim Iley vibes. Always has. The guy absolutely no-one wanted before he was appointed, and performing accordingly.

With the length of contract he has and the people who brought him in running the whole show he could well be similarly un removable and he knows it.

Listening to Elliot Jackson he said he doubted we would get a CM in. Feels like while we maybe just about have the numbers there (Tronstad, Tavares, Baraji, Montgomery) only one of them is definitely good enough. The other three all unproven, Tavares really struggling and Baraji injured. To survive 3 games a week we will be using all four of them. If we aren't signing another only other option is to put Cantwell in that pool and use one of our many other number 10s.

Got to wonder how they’ll reflect on finishing midtable come the end of the season after that outlay

They are ALL confidence players. When faced with adversity and a run of poor results, heads tend to go down, rather than these pampered primadonnas pulling up their socks and girding their loins. However, such is the nature of the game of association football, it can happen that a team on a downer meets another in an even worse state (e.g. Hull vs Rovers last week) and that can be enough to create a pattern interrupt that begins to spiral upwards, although apparently not in our case, based on yesterday's ragbag result. Anyway, the boss has a couple of weeks solid time with the lads to drill something into them, around whatever the new master plan happens to be. Let's hope that is long enough for some mettle to gel in the ranks. Buckle up Dorothy, Kansas is about to go bye bye...!

They're looking at Robert's on a permanent as well, that would be an unreal signing if they pull it off.

There's no problem with people having completely differing views on a message board, thats what it's all about, but your problem appears to be you can't be civil to those who dont have the same point of view as you.

No wonder Eustace left us, they've spent an absolute fortune this summer.

BBD would only be a good signing because are wingers are terrible atm, not good enough to play up top and doesn’t track back as a winger, one season wonder

He’s a confidence player and needs a run of games, unfortunately with our position in the league that would be quite a gamble when Ohashi is available.

Oh, apologies, I thought he was still out at Crewe I must have gotten muddled up. Fair enough, his last spell in League One was a fail though so no surprise for me he hasn't broken in here. If he does well for the rest of his loan he will surely get a chance here. If he doesn't, he shouldn't.

I mean six out of the seven weren't even Rovers players when Derby signed them, but that doesn't suit the somewhat unamusing narrative or the idea that somehow Eustace is trying to shaft us etc.

Diaz is a good signing for that lot he'll fit well into Eustaces style imo hitting on the break after sitting back all the time. He's a quality threat when he has a purple patch and it's now more evident than ever why Eustace wanted to go there.

Should be a great signing for them

Which also perfectly coincided with losing Travis and having no replacement as the squad was wafer thin. We then lost Baker and replaced those two with a guy who couldn’t get in bottom placed Plymouth’s team. Ismael will hit the same problems during the season, let’s hope he has points in the bank by then.

‘Twas moi. I guess Venkys don’t think so though. Maybe they believe they’re on top of the game here and can put together a successful team while paying sub standard wages. Or maybe they just don’t know what the hell they’re doing. They could tell the truth and explain they’re cutting their financial backing, then the question would be “why don’t you sell”. It beats me what they are trying to achieve now.

Not a chance on Dennis he has Leon Best written all over him he'll be injured pulling his socks up.

Mowbray seems to think everyones a good bloke. Whereas Suhail is helping to oversee the destruction of the club.

Then perhaps a message board isn't for you if you can't handle other people that are of the opinion that we should be patient. How about letting the discussion unfold instead of dictating how it should.