Lol...Swagnew?

No..It wasn't a dig at you, but a silly social history joke!

Is there a Woolfenden Report or are we going back in time?

I never believed the one about telling them to put their wallets away. It was just company man, blowing smoke up Indian a**** stuff. I don't believe the evolution or the new style of play stuff either. Going nowhere, then the inevitable slide... I think TM and Waggott have run out of trust.

Maybe, Fleetwood can afford both, in view of the fact that Rovers are paying the lion's share of Mulgrew's wages?

It won't wash this time.

Agreed. TM's public comments on this have been exemplary, as far as I can see..Mulgrew's sniping is petulant.

Haha..I couldn't resist! In all seriousness, people have to be able to take a risk and post without recrimination. It is supposed to be a message board between fellow supporters after all... Maybe, there's still time for your plane to land...

Careful..Brace yourself lol!

That is how it should be and I would love that to be the situation now. However, I have the sense of a depressing, recurring pattern. So many on here have predicted it too...and not just in this window either....." We had our targets. They went somewhere else." Like others, I wonder whether the club merely likes to encourage the fans believe that we are seriously" in" for good players, when it is only ever window dressing.

If we start another season, not fully prepared, even the Covid cover won't be enough for anyone, who is not a citizen of Stockholm. How long have we been able to anticipate recent departures? The deficits at the back have been obvious for at least two years... Evolution, my arse!

I have reached the conclusion that his statement was just a convenient cover story. A hit and run appointee, whose football was absolutely dire and nearly got the club relegated a year early!

...unless someone is going.....

I had a feeling that Evans might have gone to Stoke last year, if not for his injury. Worryingly, he has been picked for NI again, so will probably be injured for the rest of the transfer window...

Let's have it right. Fck off, Kipre!

I think so too. I remember the malaise at the end of that season, when Lee first came in and everyone was sold to Furphy at Sheff Utd. It was all worthwhile the following season ..

Yep. Showing my age, but I enjoyed Tony Field with all his goals. However, selling him funded Rovers winning promotion the following year..

Haha..I felt the same about "My Rovers", when I was still smarting about having my club stolen from me. ( and I still am, by the way..) Certainly, the timing of this Covid thing is very bad for the club with all its recent history-straw/camel's back etc. Our fanbase is dwindling and much of it is running out of patience after a decade of Venky misrule and these stultifying "stagnation years". The club may simply have run out of goodwill. And it doesn't help one iota that many fans have no belief in our "leaders"/spokespeople. This statement by Waggott is obviously an attempt at advance warning. Treading very carefully here (remember my pen name!) the club is in a real corner here. Given there will be a significant reduction of supporters allowed through the gate, they have to find some way of increasing income or reducing costs/selling players etc. How the hell do they manage this crisis without piling on the antagonism with loyal fans? I don't want to see our best players sold and I can't think of a way of increasing income without some increase in ticket prices. But how on earth can Waggott sell that without specifying the contingencies, if there is another spike etc.-especially if so much recent history signals lack of ambition? Leadership is about hearts and minds. Would I be listening more favourably, if someone we trusted (like John Williams) laid it on the line? One thing for sure, this is not the time to sound patronising or to rub it in that fans' loyalty is being taken for granted...

Do you know this about TM marginalising anyone, who challenges him or is it just a hypothesis? I don't know what has gone on with Mulgrew and I have only heard TM's respectful, public comments, which seem quite reasonable to me. Mulgrew's tweets, on the other hand, seem self-indulgent and spoilt-a real disappointment from one such as Mulgrew.

Tony is friends with Stuart Ripley. Does that count?

Sorry, replied to wrong post..

...The Jordan Slew/ Ben Brereton thing has scarred me...My sense is that it is Investment 1- Urgent Requirements 0

cancelled..

Well, er...yes

Ralph McTell?