The "human error" excuse is clearly a cover up. 

Thing that shocked me was we had a permanent deal agreed for £2.5m for Maguire, Venkys mess around with the Wharton deal, tell Orlando it is off, then a week later we're paying £3.5m for Maguire (plus probably a loan fee)! 

TBH I am sympathetic to whoever pulled the deal. Especially in hindsight Eustace might not want to sign him anyway.

3 hours ago, roverandout said:

Wharton promoted to the under 21s

Tyler Morton (yes him) actually started in CM last week for the u21s. A.Wharton wasn't even in the squad originally, get your head around that!

The England setup is far too biased to big clubs. There's no way Morton would be anywhere near the squad if he was a permanent Hull player, rather than on loan from Liverpool. 

GB has been in charge for the last 3 windows, which have all been disasters. There's only so much blame shifting he can do as DOF the responsibility lies with him.

I'm more convinced than ever that the Maguire transfer was pulled deliberately by suhail/Waggot. The interview didn't press GB on why extra controls weren't put in place after last year. 

No mention of the crazy decision to loan out Travis.

No mention of why sign injury prone  Fleck.

No mention of why we (still) haven't signed a striker.

No scrutiny over previous windows - Walhsted/teleovic 

Nothing on Dolan contract.

3 hours ago, Blue blood said:

Who are the 10 out injured? Is it really that many? Perhaps because in part those who are missing aren't that good either. 

Fleck- that injury was always going to happen. Was never going to play any meaningful part of our season. 

Pears - not a championship standard keeper. (His replacement is another issue mind.)

Hedges - charitably called busy. Looks great 1 in 7, poor in the rest. 

Leonard- potential admittedly but still only played a dozen or so games. Are we that desperate for an untested striker? 

Tronstadt and JRC the only big losses as far as I'm aware, of a good championship standard. And being honest JRC is both a huge loss but injury prone and likely to miss chunks of the season. 

Can't see how anyone can say the squad isn't poor! 

Carter is also injured.

The squad is poor compared to the top 6/8, but has more quality than most of the teams at the bottom, if motivated and organised properly. 

Finishing a must-win game passing the ball between THREE centre halves is enough. 

Said it many times, but Gallagher on the pitch makes us far worse.

JE OUT is the only chance of survival this season.

These players aren't playing for him, that's for sure.

So basically all week on the training ground they've been working on hoofing it long to Pickering who is up against someone a foot taller than him. Brilliant.

Get Ayari and Markandy on. Can't be any worse than this.

Like playing with 10 men with Gallagher 

I think I preferred playing pretty football and losing under JDT than this hit and hope dross before the inevitable Milwall winner.

Was it put to Waggot that the paperwork error was actually deliberate to avoid the fee?

I'm still struggling to believe that Silvester makes that mistake for the first time in 20 years, especially with the extra focus after last year.

9 minutes ago, J*B said:

To be absolutely clear I had no idea what the meeting was about or who was attending other than knowing Waggott had called it. I didn’t know five players would be there. There was a moment when I said to @Herbie6590 I might be going down for a telling off… I even said we might be getting sued here. There was zero agenda or format. 

There is of course a risk of being used for PR, but I had two options: 

1) Attend, find out what it was about, report back what I can. 

2) Don’t attend. 

Did Waggot take any questions on the transfer window?

Am I the only one concerned that the fee could have been up to £8million (with sell on clauses) for a 20 year old completely unproven at this level?

Typical Rovers.

Glass ceiling still in place.

Hard watching this. Rovers getting very little credit. Commentary wetting themselves whenever Brentford go forward.

Never a penalty.

Not surprised. Refs are awful in this league.

Sky commentators pretty much cheered that go in. 

Just now, SIMON GARNERS 194 said:

Sky don't like this score folks!!

 

HA HA!

I thought it was Brentford TV - so biased

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Tasty little ball by Buckley there. 

He's back in his proper position in the middle now, instantly looks better!

Buckley is not a winger.

Not fair on the lad to keep sticking him out there.

Helps that Buckley is playing in his proper position, not stuck out on the wing.

13 minutes ago, JoeH said:

Ran a few different simulations til the end of the season on the Table Predictor thing following the Hull win last night - both times I had us finishing 8th, with Bristol City clinching 6th spot, and PNE finishing in 7th place. 

As you say, 7 more wins is perfectly do-able, if we can get Rothwell back too it'll be a help. Depends whether Samuel & Brereton push on too. It's definitely the perfect season for it, and this kind of chance won't come around for another three of four, maybe five or six, seasons.

Makes it all the more disappointing we didn’t strengthen in January.

Next season could be a lot harder to be anywhere near top 6.