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The option is to buy of all things wrong this was one of the most sensible things done given the injury. If he performs and stays fit and meets their obvious high expectations for him then great we will take the option and sign him. If he doesn’t hit the heights or can’t stay fit then we won’t

He should have never been allowed back in the first place.

Think quite a few are getting carried away after our win on Saturday against an abysmal Hull team. This transfer window had been nothing but a downgrade replacing experienced championship pros with foreign gambles on low wages/low fees. Having said that the signings of Morishita and Baradji have stepped up the quality of incomings all of a sudden so perhaps the message has landed at the club somehow. If we can bring in one or two experienced or similar stature strikers then things would be looking a lot more promising otherwise I am still expecting a relegation scrap of a season.

Gestede should be on his way then.

Interestingly none from the last 15 years of destruction. I wonder why that might be. Best get used to it because as long as these owners remain memories from 20+ years ago are the best you'll get.

Id be grumpy too if I was given 100 things to do every day when it is only physically possible (apparently) to do 20-30 of said things

If only 😁 You can watch the court cases over the internet - he’s definitely sat there as grumpy as ever 😁😁.

To be fair, it was going to be permanent until injury. Nothing to do with rating him or not.

No one knows the option? If they really thought he was such a good player - theyd have made it a permanent transfer.

No he's absolutely correct on the John McGinn story. We had the chance to sign him very early in the window but Mowbray told him he was coming in as back up to what we already had (Smallwood & Evans). He did end up signing for Villa in that window, in mid August. We ended up with Reed on loan instead, who was miles better than those pair but as you say spent most of his time out wide. A very strange manager/character Mowbray, I personally dont particularly like or dislike him, but his constant sniping at the fans when in one of his many death spirals with "not 1995 anymore" ""I'm a development coach" " I dont work on set pieces" "I dont look at league tables" etc always left a bad taste in my mouth. Also the constant complaining that he was away from home all the time like he was doing us a huge favour, he took the job! Then ended up at Birmingham and West Brom years later that were even further away. Also encouraging his own staff leaving the club for Sunderland because "they are a huge tank coming past our knackered little car". People are too gushy over a 3rd division promotion when it comes to Mowbray for me. He did an ok job for around 24-30 months, then massively outstayed his welcome.

Does that mean he'll be training by himself? I'll get my coat.

With an option

How do we know this? Have you got spies in the Indian camp?

It absolutely does. Zero ambition for Tony. Happy with mid table.

They can want him all they like. He's only a loan.

It was sarcasm. I'm delighted.

Amateurs tend to do things with care and respect. They also tend to put in a lot of effort. Rovers certainly couldn't be described as either amateur or professional. I would describe them as corporate.

You have let the side down 😉 But it is ok, we can rely upon Elliott Jackson giving us a blow by blow account of events, with full and understanding view on the picture........... oh, nevermind, I see where I have gone wrong there

No. No it isn't.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-transfers-lewis-travis-10457032

That seems to me a huge difference. I would love the Venkys to be gone as the club will continue to decline if they stay. But they do meet their financial obligations to both the authorities and employees of the club. Lots of clubs (and other organisations) don't invest and many treat their employees badly - Man Utd, P&O, etc. So although we, as fans of the club, know what is going on, the wider football fan base doesn't see the problem in the same way as they view the Sheffield Weds situation. Did we display much support for Big Club, Coventry, etc. when they had their ownership issues?

I wasn’t awake early enough to know what/if anything happened but the judge is definitely there this time.

Norwich selling arguably their best player to Ipswich. Yank owners.

Some of what I have read makes it seem like the "family" club is being totally destroyed to be more like boot camp? There's good and bad in that but reading the names Garner, Faz, Sir Rog makes me feel perhaps more bad than good

Of course you're always gonna get people that don't have any backroom knowledge, ones that simple arent interested in that and people that are new, which is what I think half our fan base has now become