A young John Fleck, Waggott will be all over it!

For all of the mistakes that happened on his watch (and I suspect he was being deliberately undermined by Suhail etc), it's clear Broughton is infinitely more competent than Gestede. He was Head of Academy at Bodo/Glimt - and was part of the reason they've been punching above their weight for the last 5/6 years. When he was here, he's probably been the most visible and transparent communicator the club has had in Venky's time. He convinced JDT to join, understood the need to tie players down to protect their value and was part of implementing a playing philosophy that would support young players into the first team. He also fronted up when mistakes were made - even when I think he was sold down the river by the club (McGuire). If we had properly funded and supported Broughton and JDT, I've no doubt that we would be in the play off picture regularly and eventually make the step up. Gestede is just thankful he has a job at this level. He'll continue to pay lip service to his employers because he knows like Steve Kean that once this party is over, no club at any proper level will touch him. I guarantee in 10 years time he'll be running some no mark football academy in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia or Brunei.

Brilliant that the PASHA OUT sign is visible in the highlights posted on the official Rovers channel. Wonder if we'll see Gueye's chance at the end cut out and the highlights re-uploaded? 🤣

Bonkers appointment. 10 months ago Karthik Hariharan was doing an internship at QPR (assisting a recruitment analyst) and studying for a Masters. A few months later he's Head of Data Science and Football Insights at Rovers.

No mention about any money. Just that he's planning to "transform" the squad in the summer and that the games this season are just a trial to see who he'll keep in the squad. Honestly, it's just pure tosh.

1. What's the desired end game. Venky's selling the club and the removal of the club's senior leadership (CEO, COO and HOF) 2. What's the compromise position. I'd accept Venky's retaining a minority stake in BRFC, but selling the majority, removing the current senior leadership and handing over control of all football matters to new investor. 3. What's your general thoughts on our approach to date. Excellent, inclusive and not telling fans what they should or shouldn't be doing. Drawn the senior leadership out and got them panicking. 4. What's your thoughts on the Exec interviews yesterday. They are absolutely rattled and have no idea how to respond. They haven't learnt from their mistakes 15 years ago during the Kean era and they deserve absolutely everything coming to them. 5. Do you want to get more involved. Happy to help in any way I can.

The Trust need to recognise and call out that the club are not acting in good faith. They are being strung along and held up by the Board as examples of engagement with fans. No point engaging with Waggott as he doesn't have any power. They need to put out a statement backing the right to protest and explicitly call for Venky's/Suhail's removal.

I miss the days of someone on here giving a live commentary of a Delhi courtroom for 6 hours only to realise the Venky's case was listed in another court.

150th anniversary and they've done nothing to mark it. Offer the first 1000 season tickets at £150 or run a draw to get a £150 season ticket and offer a small discount to anyone who signs up but not successful.

If I was a Derby fan, I'd be most worried about the "winnable" home games under Eustace. The games where we should have being shown some initiative last season were the ones we struggled most in - Plymouth, Millwall, Sheffield Wednesday, Coventry.

The length of the contract is the thing that stood out to me too. Bizarre that he got offered a longer deal than Kargbo, particularly given his history for not sticking around too long.

If you're Gary O'Neil, you're 100% waiting around for the Boro job. A former club with a board that is willing to invest and some consistent ambition of being at top end of Championship and trying to get back to Premier League. I suspect he's probably had some conversations with Boro and told to hang tight.

If you've heard Big Sam speak recently, he's obviously not the character he was.

Also keeping Derby up is a harder task than keeping us up last season. After 31 games last season, we were on 37 pts and stayed up by skin of our teeth. Derby are on 29. If Eustace goes it speaks volumes of Waggott/Suhail and how club is being run.

You'd hope this would be a wake up call to Waggott/Suhail, but sure they'll only see it as chance to get some money in to pad out accounts for season.

I can see Siggy as the man being left out. I suspect he gets a move to Sweden/Norway in the next few weeks and Dennis will play across front 3 if required. Dennis to me seems like a massive risk. No football in 9 months...assuming he's been in full training for whole season, he's gonna need a good 6 weeks to build match fitness before he can play 90 minutes.

Bringing in a crocked Bamford on big money would probably be the only way this window could get worse.

All set up to rollout a 3rd choice GK as our marquee signing at 10:59pm...

My money is on no striker and a Billy Koumetio-style fifth choice Premier League left back on loan.

It's the Football Manager tactic where you have to sign a compatriot for your new signing to settle in properly.

We didn't see much urgency when we were in a precarious position last January.

Louie Barry going to Hull. They've had two pretty decent January transfer windows.

Not seen a proper link, but Thierry Small at Charlton wouldn't be a bad shout. He can play LB as well as midfield on the left and right. England U20s international, cheap as out of contract in summer, League 1 and SPL experience and wouldn't count towards the 25 man squad as under 21. But sure Rudy's got a mate playing lower leagues that he reckons can do a better job.

Looks like something is imminent: https://x.com/roversduff/status/1882807444306526274

From the Robbie Savage School of Birmingham/Blackburn geography.