Leonard Venkhater

My fault for turning on the radio in minute 89! The players sounded knackered and were giving the ball away in the last few moments-tired minds and legs according to KG. Their equaliser sounded like a total fluke though. A sickener in the end, but I'd have settled for that result at 3.00.

The question says it all haha

I agree with your analysis of recruitment.

Hahaha

All we need now is Shearer and a kiss!

I stumbled on a pdf. It is a massive document/ list of every player plus "intermediary" involved in a deal last year..not a list of every player's agent. I will pm it later,.....( if I can. I had to get help to copy the last excerpt!)

Very measured imv

Definitely a Simon and a Peter. I guess they will be starting a church next!

Not forgetting Simon Conning Consulting , which I saw in relation to a transfer deal in a totally different club last year. Crown football has one consultant called Peter Conning. No relation, I suppose! My own personal favourite would have to be Julius Caesar Consulting with that marvellous strapline: "I came- I saw-I invoiced"

Careful, when you go over the bridge!

Me too...but that is because I want it to! As someone else said, that McAnthony bloke is an attention seeking ****

I guess there must be a doubt, given his lack of goals and experience in the Championship. We'll see soon enough anyway..

A pretty fair summation, in my view.

Conning's the name.. You know those TV programmes they do about "Rock families", and how members of one group morph into another? I would love to see a similar programme about agents' "families" and their links to other agents, including some apparently dissolved. As you say.. Shyte players and on very, very long contracts...

Nail...head...

I prefer Venky apologist!

Easy. Blame the doom mongers..

Agreed. What was worse under Bowyer is that we had Gestede and Rhodes, banging them in, yet we were only ever in the play off positions for an hour or something!

I get your point. On the other hand, we'd have gone down in that first season without him!

Got to feel for Shrews fans. Echoes of Furphy, returning for Field, Garbett and Bradford....

Doom mongers lol..What will they say indeed?!

Yep. That is the worry I hope not to have by the end of the window!

Yes, if it ends, as it is now, I will be very disappointed. Given Mowbray's integrity and the amount of planning time he has had -since Doncaster at least -I still have hopes. I do share your concern, however, as It is definitely leaving it late to bolster a league 1 team minus Armstrong, Antonsson and Payne....

The loans that year weren't that great. I thought Emnes was pretty poor with a few all too brief flashes. Joao-he didn't have enough time to really convince. Gallagher..hmmm..I just hope he has improved, if we are going to rely on him again. In my heart of hearts, I am not sure that loanees have the stomach for the fight, when the going gets tough. I think that was a contributory factor to the last relegation. However, as you say, the muppet on the sidelines was the main problem. (What a shame Warnock and Jepson got that Monday morning phone call and said muppet appeared like the ghost of Steve Kean...)