I don't disagree. I was delighted to see him back, but I still regret the fact that he missed so many games.

Haha. But mostly, they don't work, I would say. The exceptions are Hendry, Berg and Byrom. Dunny never really hit the heights after his return imo. Lots of time out through injury and non-selection. I can easily add to the failures...Pickering, Metcalfe for starters..Carew?

Quite. Do we know how many of our player signings / extended contracts share the same criteria?

Anyone know a current employee, who might be able use his previous experience around the sale of a training ground?

The LT, Radio Lancs... no..wait

Picking the ball out of the net?

Every financial cloud...

Yeah. I don't think he is creme de la creme, even at our level, but I think we need him to ensure survival?!

...It could be Tosin? But Darragh is known to be coveted by the likes of Sheffield Utd!

Thanks . I will check that. It certainly does worry me. I guess I could do with working out a diagram of links between managers, players and agent "families". Is HSH really an SEM phoenix or just another agency, employing agents, some of whom happen to have been with SEM lol? Anyway, Coyle said he had never heard of SEM.........then he went to Mass!!

..or Lenihan outgoing?

So the "concern"-again- is around unhealthy links to individual agents and specific agencies. I can see the link between SEM and HSH and the link between Coyle and TM in terms of "agency". I can see the link between HSH and Middlesborough. Yes, I have been worried about the pattern of poor signings. I was also deeply suspicious about, who pulled the strings for the "outstanding candidate" to ditch the genuinely outstanding one. Previously, there were concerns about SEM/Kentaro's interests being "paramount" and later about the source of the "Portugueezers". However, I have yet to see the workings out, linking the recent crop of dud signings to particular agents/agencies and to the manager. Can anyone with more knowledge help? How many awful transfer mistakes can we observe without starting to become suspicious again?

As in The Indian Strawbs-"You won't get me, I'm part of the (Western) Union?"

Just hoping this trip to the Valley will see TM selecting our best eleven!

Surely, we all knew Dack was the insurance for FFP. TM has said it on multiple occasions. I think we do have real problems with 1)failure to hook enough match goers-partly a result of the poor fare(on top of recent history), 2) pissing money away on at least 2 very poor signings and 3) the fact that wages are so far ahead of income, so it's no surprise that FFP is a threat. I think there is a significant credibility gap too. If we are genuinely aiming for top 6 (lol), we must have a balanced squad and play appropriate players in key positions. There is a real, hopeless sense of the club settling for sterile, mid to lower table mediocrity.

I spoke to someone, who had been in last night's supporters' meeting and my impression was just a repeat of what TM had said previously..i.e. selling Dack was the club's insurance position for avoiding FFP...but in the summer- not this window ...only then he got injured etc

??

...and relegation?

We could always change our name to VRFC for a few million...Medicated Battery Hen Park, anyone? Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it..etc

I guess losing Mulgrew, Samuel and loaning out Brereton might make a small dent, but we must be nearing the FFP threshold. The end of January will be much like last year, I feel. Ambition 0 Cowdenbeath 3

Very poor budget management, indeed. Look at all the money pissed away and we have managed the play-off positions for one hour or something in the last 8 years. FFP about to rear its head again, so rinse and repeat of 2016 coming around the corner. Ambitious owners?-Rubbish

Well, I do and the only word for it is.."Shit"!

Hubris then punishment! My kids still laugh at me for over- celebrating Friedel's equaliser at Chartlton . I'm not sure how to say this, but this bloke grabbed me and we danced all the way down the aisle with a few others. It was only after we gathered ourselves together that I realised he had some form of learning difficulty and that he had a carer, who seemed a bit..well worried!

I was there. Freezing cold. Remember what happened a couple of minutes later. Plus ca change ...

But TM has been paying Harrods' prices in B&M Bargains!