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Jimmy612

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  1. Question. How would an admin girl be aware that the paperwork hadn’t been submitted? I work in Asset finance on various proposal and documentation platforms, all protected by password and accessible for certain individuals. When I hit submit on a proposal, the status changes to submitted on the platform. I can then close the platform and it’s locked again. We’ve been told that only the secretary has the permissions and ability to submit and presumably see the progression of the documentation. Why, at precisely 11:04 would an admin person be aware that the proposal had not been submitted? What indication would she have? It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, and after last year I just do not believe that this was a case of incompetence. It stinks to high heaven. EDIT: apologies, I see that Jakey asked a very similar question. But as an integral part of the story, it needs some explanation. It’s all too convenient.
  2. I can understand what Jones Rover is saying. Without doubt, 6 weeks ago the squad was in a better place. IMO it was a shameful window, topped off by losing AW and never replacing him. BUT, we are in a better position than we were a week ago. JDTs job was untenable (as I said the night the McGuire transfer fell through), and we couldn’t have limped on with a head coach who simply had lost his spirit and with it I think his ability to turn around this awful run. Now perhaps we can have some semblance of a fresh start, in the dressing room and on the pitch at least. I’ve a feeling Eustace will be more pragmatic, take us back to basics and number 1 priority, stop conceding goals. He’s a relative unknown from a head coach point of view, but he knows the league and importantly, he knows what the bottom half of the league looks and feels like. I’m more confident of avoiding relegation than I was 48 hours ago. The club is a mess, the save/send fiasco stinks of sabotage, the AW money will never be seen again and the Indian court issue looms large in the background. But from purely a football point of view, I think we’ve given ourselves a fighting chance. JDT leaves with my thanks and a huge amount of respect. A good man and a decent coach sadly fallen victim to this charade of football club.
  3. Lots of people seemingly happy to swallow the version of events provided by the club. Absolute hogwash from start to finish if you ask me. As I suggested last Thursday, there was a stench around the initial half baked reason for canning the McGuire deal. The Wharton transfer did go through on Wednesday evening, I seriously doubt there was ever any issue around it, but certain individuals at Rovers saw it as the perfect excuse to cover for the owners who had pulled the rug again. Best guess, once the owners vetoed the loan fee as well, there was nowhere left to go but play the incompetence card. I simply don’t believe that this deal was ever truly meant to go through. I genuinely believe Broughton and JDT would have wanted it done, not at all convinced any of the money men would have. As for signing McGuire on a pre-contract…. What a load of absolute bollocks.
  4. Has anyone considered that by taking the flak last season, GB effectively made his position untenable SHOULD the same thing ever happen again. I don’t think many people genuinely believe it was him who made the ‘error’, but in an effort to either protect the team OR feeling as the DOF it was ultimately his responsibility, he took the bullet. 12 months on and through an extraordinary coincidence the exact same thing happens again, leaving GB with nowhere to go but resign. I’m not one for conspiracies but we know that there is clearly civil war ongoing between the old guard and the new….
  5. I keep seeing people alluding to JDT refusing to walk without a payoff. Where has that come from? My understanding is that JDT offered to walk for nothing in the summer and that the Raos would allow him to, as long as his contract was paid up by any future employer. IMO a shitty move considering the complete collapse of the project/vision he was originally sold.
  6. I agree. I think he’s probably come to the end of the road. He’s obviously begging to be sacked, results have nosedived and I don’t think he knows how to get this group out of it. The football side probably needs some sort of kick start, a new voice and some new ideas just to get us to 50 points or whatever the safety point is in this league. The problem is, it costs money to sack and appoint a new manager, money that this lot won’t spend. Our name must also be absolute mud within the football world. You’d be crackers to walk in to this, with the funding issue, the complete Horlicks that is every transfer window, the state of the squad. So it’s paralysis. A complete state of impasse whilst we slide closer and closer to L1.
  7. He rightly absolutely slayed them. JDT might be struggling with this group, but absolutely no wonder. 3 completely abysmal transfer windows in a row. If any fans think he’s the problem, they are in fact part of the problem.
  8. This too. LET are notoriously careful with their wording and reporting, never risking the possibility of a club ban. So why would Jackson use such strong terminology here? If he’s mislead or embellished in any way then he’s at risk of at least a slap on the wrist from the club.
  9. That in itself is not a non-story. Can anyone remember a scenario like this before? I find it bizarre that you’re calling it a non story when it’s clearly a very rare occurrence and the club gave no reason for it…
  10. 🤣 Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
  11. I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but I think this transfer window, and the current mood at the club draws pretty strong parallels to the Lambert era, obviously approaching the Coyle farce. That season we'd sold Cairney and Gestede, followed by Rhodes in the January window - total sum £20 - £25m. We'd signed the following; Doneil Henry https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/379_1464675286.png?lm=1464675287 West Ham loan transfer Simeon Jackson https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/349.png?lm=1574162298 Barnsley FC free transfer Danny Graham https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/289.png?lm=1485645633 Sunderland loan transfer Elliott Ward https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/989.png?lm=1457991811 Bournemouth free transfer Tony Watt https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/358.png?lm=1448178743 Charlton loan transfer Hope Akpan https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/1032.png?lm=1457723329 Reading free transfer Tom Lawrence https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/1003.png?lm=1472229265 Leicester loan transfer Fodé Koita https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/1162_1465134668.png?lm=1465134668 SM Caen free transfer Nathan Delfouneso https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/1181.png?lm=1407655321 Blackpool free transfer Danny Guthrie https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/1032.png?lm=1457723329 Reading free transfer Elliott Bennett https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/1123_1658217232.png?lm=1658217233 Norwich ? Jordi Gómez https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/289.png?lm=1485645633 Sunderland loan transfer Matt Grimes https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/2288_1658400144.png?lm=1658400145 Swansea loan transfer Modou Barrow https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/wappen/tiny/2288_1658400144.png?lm=1658400145 Swansea loan transfer £0.00 spent. This season, £25m brought in with Kami, Phillips and Wharton gone. A chipping away, obvious decline of the squad with assets being flogged to stop the ship from sinking. The only slight difference this time is that one of our prized assets (BBD) walked away for sweet FA. They're being replaced by short-sighted, no strategy loans and freebie has-beens. JDT, just like Lambert will be disillusioned, sold a cock and bull story that the club has serious aspirations. No surprise when he jumps ship this summer and we're left scrabbling around looking for a manager who will take a chance on this complete circus.
  12. Well, there was only one of them that ever took the ball off the defenders and got us moving. Dress it up any way we like, we’ve seriously weakened the midfield in this window. The recruits are depressingly uninspiring with 80% of them going back to their clubs in May. JDT must look at this shitshow and wonder what on earth he signed up for. It’s just another death by a thousand cuts degradation of the squad that will ultimately leave us in the same mess as the Coyle debacle.
  13. Yet we let two of our first team midfielders leave, and so far have replaced them with a youngster from Brighton, who doesn’t actually play the same position as them.
  14. This is underwhelming garbage. No strategy, no real direction, just desperately filling the squad with bodies. No way are we signing McGuire permanently if the figures are even close to what is reported. Just another loan to tide us over until May, and then the cycle will start again.
  15. And here we are, deadline day.... Wharton leaving.... absolute fucking debacle with McGuire.... no other real links or rumours. And the fans are squabbling amongst each other 🤣 Venky's wet dream.
  16. It's not honourable, it's downright barmy! Loads of transfers fail due to complications with other deals in a chain. It's the natural domino effect of the transfer window and it's why players are often haring up and down the UK motorway network (or in Odemwingie's case, sat outside a stadium) with very little time to spare. This notion of being honourable is bollocks, and in the unlikely event of it being true, would be astonishingly idiotic. PERHAPS Orlando were pressing for some sort of response before the end of the working day, but I can't see why, when McGuire was supposedly sat on an aeroplane already. No, something isn't right about this. My hunch is the Rao's have pulled the plug on it and Bayes' source is arse covering. Let's see if we spend anything like the value of the McGuire deal....
  17. Very sceptical about this. Okay, so the Wharton deal may have been stalling, I'm not going to speculate on that for the minute. Who knows why or how that would be the case. Why on earth would Rovers immediately advise Orlando that the deal won't be happening? Based on timeline of events, it can't have been much earlier than 9pm UK time when we advised them. He's supposedly on a flight here so there's a nice natural buffer there, and clearly the Wharton deal wasn't completely dead. If, today the Wharton deal is dead, we have a perfectly acceptable reason for not progressing the McGuire deal. Instead, we appear to be in a position whereby we've sold Wharton and conveniently, the McGuire deal is gone, to the detriment, embarrassment and ridicule of the club. Prove me wrong Rovers, but currently this stinks. It looks to me like we can anticipate another 'not our fault', hard luck story in the next few days. Question: Who is Bayes' source? Was it him who conducted the cosy interview with Waggott in August?
  18. This is such a strange take on the situation, I can’t really understand why you’ve bothered typing it out. The fact is, we’d negotiated a deal, presumably fee, wages and all that goes with it and organised travel for McGuire and his representatives, only for our meddlesome owners to seemingly take it upon themselves to veto all transfers in to the club at the 11th hour. Whether McGuire is any good or not is completely irrelevant at this stage. The only reason it would be relevant is if we’ve decided to sign another (seemingly better) option. At this stage it sounds highly unlikely.
  19. Disagree. JDT was livid with the O’Brien palaver last Jan, clearly angry about the slashing of funds in summer, and now has this shambles unfolding in front of him. He can’t work in these conditions, an almost constant erosion and downgrading of the squad, lies, backtracking, embarrassment. If he’s any sense he should pack it in now. IF Broughton is also blameless then I totally agree, his position is untenable too.
  20. If this is accurate then I can’t really see how JDTs position as manager is tenable. I’d be amazed if he’s still manager beyond the weekend.
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