I can safely say that I think we all hope you're right but one centre half isn't going to solve our full back issues too.

Just looked on twitter and people don't seem to be happy with the manager's lack of urgency to sort out our defence. Tweets from folk average folk implying that failure to sort it out would be mean things turning sour really fast. I can see the fans really tuning on him if he further neglects our defensive issues.

I think another issue that may arise is any possible free transfers we might look at could possibly command higher wage demands once the deadline has passed, agents will know clubs are desperate.

Difference is that one was rumbling on a while before deadline day. Now it appears we're scratching around looking at last minute deals which i just don't see happening with how slow and unorganised we appear to be to get deals done.

I really think if we don't sign someone by tomorrow then we won't be signing anyone on deadline day, we're not organised enough to get deals done in short time frames. Massive day tomorrow that will decide the fate of our season, we really need some decent defensive signings.

Take a bow.

Can someone pin this up in his office? Might help his next team selection.

That doesn't look good.

He worked for some pretty difficult owners at Birmingham though?

Darwen Rover was discussing the managerial position to which I responded. I hope that helps. As you were.

I can understand that. I think everyone's preference would be someone more established like Gary Monk, who would be a great fit IMV.

The Rothwell thing just has me in knots... Football is largely a stats focused business these days, so he swapped out a lad who scored 2 goals and numerous assists in a limited amount of games (Rothwell) for a 35 year old bloke who got 2 goals and 1 assist in 38 games. Not only that, what message does that send out to Rothwell? Everyone goes on about his man management but based on his treatment of him and Nyambe it looks like his man management skills aren't as great as people think... If you look at his treatment of Raya you could argue it's pretty poor actually.

What we could end up with is Johnson and I think many of us would be quite happy with that at this point.

Good. He'd be better off keeping it shut more often to be honest.

I understand that we've made moves for some players but originally my post was about us investing large sums into Sam Gallagher (who I like) as a priority before sorting out our biggest glaring issues (defence).

Don't think they will spend g a lot of money in that market, I think the whole point of it was to find low budget gems, based on what the manager has said.

Why pipe on about the foreign market then?

Adrian going to Liverpool after selling Mignolet.

A point some people find too hard to understand. Well said.

None of us want him to fail, he's a nice bloke but as you say if he doesn't sort out the glaring issues after openly admitting them and stating his intention to address them... Wow, that's a big slap in the face. Not only that but Joe Rothwell... What the fuck is he playing at???

Now I know this is just your opinion but if this is actually the case (which seemingly it is) then it seriously brings into question his signing of Gallagher. It just shows how little a priority the defence is to him and how unimportant it is that we're scratching around with whatever change we have trying to sign some defenders in the last few days of the window. Total neglect to the foundations on what you build a strong side on. Absolute incompetence.

Yeah, for the millionth time... IT'S NOT ABOUT ONE GAME.

I've no problem debating with you, many people having given you quite in depth explanations and reasonings but if you're just going to peddle the same words and phrases then there's no point.

Christ on a bike, you're still pedalling this argument of people being "reactionary" when some of us have been saying this over the past 8 months, you've been told this countless times. I'm not repeating myself to you, please learn to read posts yourself before telling others what and what not to read.

Finally someone who gets it. Good post.