Leonard Venkhater

Well, don't you think it is at least possible that his "convenient" request was a direct consequence of TM's actions/statements? Time will tell if this turns out to have been good management. Right now, I feel that Raya was not yet reliable enough to be our number 1...

Weird. Goes against all my instinct...unless it is some kind of pay-as- you- play deal. In all fairness, I guess we won't be able to judge until all the ins and outs are complete. Could we be about to shift Evans, for instance? There has to be a goalie/centre half lined up...doesn't there?...Sorry, delusions of normalcy!

I can call you Betty...

Lots of resonances! Go for it, Mr Gibson...

I think TM's public statements were a sign that Raya was being edged out. Like me(lol), he had clearly had enough of the mistakes!

I see what you did there!

"Respected football journalist", Alan Nixon said....

J'ai change cent fois de nom....

"Gnomic".. lol

I thank thee, God, I am not like other men!

No good for a message board, I know, but I preferred Rovers doing their business quietly and below the publicity line. No announcements until business was done etc. However, I do worry, when we hear nothing and then the window closes lol... Unlike some, I have enjoyed following this thread!

Oh fck off, Mowbray!

Deja transfer window Venky vu!

Inconvenient, but not surprising!

Maybe AAK was near us, behind the goal at Brentford?

Troll alert lol

Actually, I am coming round to thinking that most don't. Dack and Smallwood and, latterly, Rothwell, seem to be exceptions...

Bauer means Bauer!

Nothing would surprise me about the Venkygraph!

I was a fully paid-up member of the John O'Mara Appreciation Society and I kept hoping to the end. Nobody wants this lad to be a failure, but he looks as bad as Nuttall to me!

These are a great watch... Can anyone help? For ages, I have been trying to source a film of Watford v Rovers -1972 I think- the 3-1 away win, where Tony Field got that fantastic lob. My southern friends got to see proper highlights, featured on their Sunday afternoon Big Match, but Gerald Sinstadt et al gave us the obligatory 40 minutes of a Man Utd bore draw and only 30 seconds of Rovers at the end!

I have to agree, especially, when you consider where else that kind of money could have made a real difference. It looks like a major cock- up...or someone meddling behind the scenes. I remember John Williams saying that a mistake like that in the transfer market would have done major damage and that was when we were a stable, premier league club.

It certainly is a long, embarrassing list of no marks! ....and the purpose of all these shit signings is.......

Nice try, mate! I think many of us know it is different now for so many long term fans. Buying the season ticket is no longer an automatic thing for me-at least that is what I am telling myself! The Venky years has changed the unconditional nature of my own relationship with Rovers forever. Personally, I am waiting to see what happens in the window first...