Buckley certainly has the potential to become a play maker. He has flattered deceive at times, but there is a player in there.

It has to go hand in hand with a message that they must sell the club. The accountants make a statement each year to say the club is reliant on the owners funding the shortfall each year, otherwise it is insolvent. They can hardly apply that statement to the next accounts, if the court are stopping the funding.

Does it really matter what we got for him, as we are already told despite the record signing, we are skint. With the Armstrong money and now this, we have had well over £30 million in, but just wait until the summer, as we spend nothing yet again.

They are obviously under serious scrutiny here and those who think it is a formality that the funds are going to be approved (I include Waggott in that ), may be in for a big surprise

They are scared of someone doing a deep dive and finding out some serious issues. The Indian press article, already states they have made illegal remittances and I suspect they haven’t even scratched the surface,

I had just heard that too. Best wishes to him and his family and hope it is something me makes a full and speedy recovery from.

V ia Preston Northend?

Anyone abroad will get it.

A manged decline in every sense of the word.

They have tried to make out it was a simple case of the wrong button being pressed. In isolation that perhaps could be believed, but given what happened last year and also no person as yet has been held responsible, it beggars belief. It remains to be seen how Broughton dresses this up, but I can't see him admitting to it being deliberate sabotage, as that is exactly how it appears to me right now.

He was spending £3 per day on parking.

Well the project has changed again. Perhaps it’s changed for the worse, as playing the way we did will not add value to anyone, in fact the total opposite. Perhaps we will look back at the end of the season and deeply regret appointing Eustace, as I have a horrible feeling that the goals are about to dry up, big time. Yes, we were very exposed at the back under JDT but with the slick movement and quick interchange, we looked capable of getting a few and as already said by two different posters, that system led to Szmodics, being pretty lethal. He will not get many more if any, if we carry on playing like this and neither will Gallagher. Saturday has already become big and if we lose that, then I think the manager will be under a lot of early pressure and the fans may well be on his back, earlier than they perhaps should be. Its becoming a real concern for me and I can’t help looking down the league and seeing us slipping into the drop zone. We need a couple of wins and quickly, but I don’t see where the are coming from, especially after that performance.

in some ways Holt needs to be a bit careful, as the casual fan, who might want to see them do well, but are long standing Rovers fans, may well have second thoughts in future.

I suspect you are right about lots of fans not knowing who Suhail is. I have always been vey suspicious about him and I am pretty sure he is in regular contact with the owners and is the one who makes the key decisions on a day to day basis. I suspect for example that no signing can be approved without him giving it the green light and likewise withy a sale. I think he will continue to try to hide, so maybe putting some pressure on him, is the logical way to get some real answers.

The accountants will deem us to be trading insolvent, so you would hope the league would step in. If not then eventually we would go into administration. How long that would take is debatable.

Amazing really that we don’t know who pressed the wrong button!!! The cynic in me says that the owners order that no money has to be spent on transfers, so we switch the deal to a loan. That in turn ties us into paying a much higher fee for him in the summer, by which time we could be in league one. A very convenient mistake occurs (yet again) which means that the loan does not take place and now we don’t know who made the mistake and no one has been disciplined for it or dismissed. In the meantime a meeting is held, where some players ask a few fans not to boo any more as it is putting them off.

Let’s hope the judge sees what’s going on and tells them that no further funding will be allowed per se. If they are still being investigated and the illegal payments are proved, then maybe it will be ruled that they cannot be trusted.

I have to say there are some really good posts on the last couple of pages. Whichever side of the camp you are on, all well made and thought provoking.

I do think they have a major problem if they do that, especially if that means that no further funds will be forthcoming. Each year, a statement is made on the accounts, whereby, it is acknowledged that the business is trading as insolvent, but the accounts are signed off, due to the guarantees of the funding being forthcoming from the owners. Once this is no longer the case, the business is then insolvent.

Exactly what I thought. Thanks for clarifying.

That’s correct. Is it a hearing about the funds as I think, or about the investigation into VH?

Me neither, but it seems to have stopped the hearing about the release of funds, whatever it was.

Exactly what I thought too.

I stand to be corrected if that's the case, but from what I understood, the owners have to go to court every 3 months to get permission to send funds over to the club. The last one was done in November, just before my meeting with Steve Waggott, who was at pains to tell me that he had to provide a full breakdown of exactly what the funds were being used for. He also went on to tell me that the funds would be sufficient to keep everything paid until February, by which time another hearing would have taken place and he was expecting the green light would be given for more funds to be released. This hearing was adjourned though and therefore no funding has been sent in February. Perhaps others can confirm if this is correct or not, but that is my understanding of it.

One thing I will add to my suggestion that the court will not give permission to release the funds. If Waggott or the owners were sure they would, why when we have just broken our outgoing transfer record, are there no funds available? I suspect that Waggott already either knows, or strongly suspects that there are no funds coming.