Again, you also have to ask why were these managers were appointed in the first place? To win promotion? Come on!

I think he claimed constructive dismissal. He jumped when he and Anderson thought they could extract a pay- off?

I think that is the issue, Paul. The people that represent Rovers in these meetings seem to do their best to answer questions, but they are only minions in this bizarre scheme of things. Mostly, I think they all come across as decent people. Cheston, you could argue, was merely playing the company man in persistently refusing to disclose what went on over the Warnock/ Coyle thing, while he was on holiday. However, as this was a particularly crucial, costly decision, I do see that refusal as dishonest. We know Suhail is a key person-said to be the direct link to Venky's-and he has never deigned to attend. The Raos, meanwhile, remain remote.

Lol. I am thinking 5 families....The Raos, Barzinis, Tattaglias..plus the MacDonalds and Campbells

We still recall his defence of Kean, one of his fellows from the same stable. Pulis was another(from the same stable) who came out in support. Many of us had read the Guardian piece about SEM's role at Bolton and Rovers. So, when Coyle said he had never heard of SEM, that said plenty. Later, he went one stage further before one of the supporters' meetings, as he sought to distance himself from the cockney wide boy." What's his name again?" I guess there were some, who believed him...... And so..to HSH....

And listen to the comments from Clark Carlisle (sorry, I know!) about the culture and amateurish training methods, even at Burnley. Similar stuff to what was said at Bolton and Wigan-well before he arrived here. Indeed, Carlisle gives credit to Cotterill for assembling that Burnley promotion side

BUT....results (his own performance) weren't even part of the recruitment criteria, when he arrived. Any fool could see that from a glance at his CV!

"I'm on your side.."

Oh, I know. It was a joke( which I couldn't resist) about the whole conversation, rather than a dig at you. I guess there is a serious point though. So many of us are so pissed off with recent events, I guess we have slipped into the blame frame, where everything is Tony's fault.

Does that mean they should have sent Dack and Evans to a psychiatrist instead of a surgeon lol?

So, so frustrating. And I felt last January was unforgivable. Then the injuries came in the Brentford game, immediately after the window of neglect. This year-I know we have had dreadful luck-but we knew about three of these injuries before the window shut-two of them before the window even opened. Now, I am looking back on this quote from TM earlier in the season. "If we’re in the top half of the table and threatening the top six around Christmas and the new year I can hopefully go to the owners and ask for some more help and that last little push to try and push us ultimately to where we want to be." Ambition...or playing us for mugs?

I am thinking Blonde on Blonde and one track, which is a whole side long...

But 2 of them were injured before the window even closed..No need for a medium there! Given that we all knew that games were coming thick and fast, surely not even you would have expected not to have lost at least one more player to injury by mid-February. Oh, the space between being Nostradamus and being in denial about the impact of no transfer business!

Sounds like a yes?

Tree surgeons...

Hmmm "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." Tell me you didn't see this coming!

Jesus, don't even go there!

Ask Mrs Lincoln how she enjoyed Our American Cousin..

On here?

I know the club usually ask for the questions in advance and pass them on to Andy Bayes in the chair. It is very hard to get the important, well-crafted questions asked properly and even harder to get the space to follow up on the "answers". One barrier occurs, when our Mr Bayes reads out and jumbles several questions at once, which tends to blunt the individual questions. Anyway, there are still a good few outstanding questions that they have never answered, despite the best efforts of some on this board. Starter for 10.. Where is Suhail?

...and we have already had two, even before the window closed!

That is what worries me. I can't remember a longer period without Rovers having " a right good go" at promotion from the second tier. God, we have never even been in contention. All that debt and in the playoff positions for what- 15 minutes! Instead of bolstering this team to push on, the club has routinely wasted the key moments. Now, in the summer, we will have to rebuild again.

A reasonable point ...in isolation. The problem for me is the heavy resonance with our trip to Brentford at the end of the last January window. The evidence points to standing still..then going backwards...AGAIN!

If they had never arrived, we wouldn't be in so much debt. Paradox or what!

Is that you, Boris?