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...

Don't stop posting until you are proved wrong. Then we can all read your contributions for the next ten years...

The Prisoner of Puna?

What is nagging away at me is whether TM's likeable, decent bloke stuff is merely being used as a front to reconcile us to the long term lack of Venky's ambition.

I agree, but most critics have not been "slating" him, have they? There was reasonable concern about the offer of a new contract to a previously good player, who was obviously past it. The real issue was what this implied about where the club was going!

As long as you don't confuse lack of class with facing up to facts!

Not for me. His time was up-end of! Failure to sign improvements would do nothing whatsoever to undermine that conclusion. It would merely confirm the fact that we are seriously underperforming, as a club.

Hahahaha

Rovers died today or maybe yesterday. I don't know.

Samuel Beckett?

I meant Travis kicking off. I had also assumed TM lost all trust/ found an excuse after one mistake at Portsmouth..

Really?

Deja Venky Vu!

I do so want to be wrong!

Hope so...but most of us would have said we were "stable" under Bowyer...going nowhere, though. I have learned to look for the overall pattern, rather than get suckered by the rule of optimism and "start again" syndrome....( so there may be a spectre coming to the feast lol)

A cursory look at our league positions since 2012 would seem to confirm that. Bobbing around in the bottom half,...with a few -all too brief- moments of optimism...maybe, even in the play off places... for a few hours.

Wrexham!

Quite. And just to add a bit more vinegar to the sponge in terms of how far we have fallen...most of our current side wouldn't make the struggling team from the previous season, that was heading for the drop until Jack's transfer deadline rescue package. Gennoe, Atkins, Moran, May and probably Sulley would keep their place, as would Sellars, Garner, Wilcox and probably Gayle..

My thoughts.... this time last year!