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  1. Just waiting for us to release Greg's clip from last year saying mistakes are made but it definitely won't happen again, with any mentions of "Lewis O'Brien" dubbed over with audio of Gregg saying "Duncan McGuire".
  2. Would have been playing it whether he signed with us or them tbh.
  3. Got to feel for McGuire. Should have just signed for Wednesday instead of giving us a second chance. Still, I'm sure he'll be well up for signing a pre-contract for the summer 🙄
  4. Mowbray never had to deal with the financial and recruitment insanity that JDT has had to put up with. JDT could only dream of having £7m to spend on a handful of players, let alone a single striker. JDT's biggest issue was an inability to adapt his tactics - but he's a rookie manager, you have to accept that he isn't going to be comfortable or confident enough at this point in his career to rapidly and decisively change direction when things aren't working. If he had been given the backing for the 'project' he had presumably been promised before joining, he would have likely been able to learn slowly by tweaking his preferred tactics as opposed to having to massively alter them due to the squad being repeatedly downgraded. He did make tweaks to his tactics here and there, obviously believing in himself and his methods, but too much damage had been done. You can't bring in an inexperienced manager, dump all of this garbage on them and expect everything to somehow work. It was inevitable that things would end this way. At a more stable club with stronger backing JDT will get his chance to grow and learn. Here he will have learnt some much needed lessons too - albeit mostly centred around how incompetence and neglect can torpedo any chance of success.
  5. As Rev says, the 'reasonable notice' part would surely invalidate that clause, as I can't imagine such a hastily cobbled together meeting, that didn't even have an agenda, constitutes reasonable. I'm also not sure if supporters groups constitute sponsors or commercial partners in the context of the clause, either. Regardless, what would Waggott have been able to do if the players had said no? Tell them he was very disappointed in them? Oh well. I don't see how he could have the power to make them attend something like this, and honestly the lot of them should have said no way, that's a bad idea and we aren't interested. I am baffled as to why they didn't, particularly as they looked like they'd rather be anywhere else.
  6. Maybe we gave Dunc that role as he won't be able to actually play for us.
  7. I'm curious as to why the players didn't refuse in the first place. It's surely not a contractual obligation for them to be forced to talk to supporters in a random meeting with no agenda. Just points to there being no proper leader in the dressing room who would stand up to Waggott and say 'no mate, that's a fucking stupid idea, we aren't doing that'.
  8. Which I believe was the Millwall match last season where the pressure was effectively off as at that point we only had a slim chance of getting into the playoffs. The same thing we saw under Mowbray - comfortable as underdogs, uncomfortable when there are any expectations.
  9. I could be wrong, but my understanding is that the loyalty bonus is only voided if the player specifically asks for a transfer listing. There's no indication Adam did this, so yeah, whether it's a typo or not the entire thing is nonsense and if we did refuse to give Adam his loyalty bonus then it's yet another shameful episode in what has been a ruinous week for the club.
  10. I've said my piece on the players' complaints and stand by it - I trust Josh and Glen to have made the situation clear to them, even though I highly doubt they weren't already aware. Ultimately they shouldn't have been dragged in front of the fans in an unscheduled meeting. It's incredibly unprofessional and I struggle to think of another situation at any other club remotely similar. It's embarrassing, and that's solely on Waggott.
  11. It is, and the players know that. As far as I'm aware there were no "you're not fit to wear the shirt" chants in the QPR match, just chants against Waggott and Venky's. It was, as far as I'm aware, extremely obvious where the anger is aimed. The players probably felt like they had to say something like this to try and defend themselves - but they simply should not have been in a position where they needed to do so. Not now, at the height of a club crisis, with barely any forewarning. Wrong time, wrong place, and any CEO with an ounce of respect for the players or fans would have known this.
  12. If we've not only pushed Adam out the door against his will but also presumably preyed on his love of the club to give him less than he was due then that really is unforgiveable. I really hope that isn't what happened - but why else would Adam compromise on something he was contractually owed?
  13. Don't really understand the reasoning in that post. Waggott's reason was that Wharton didn't want the move? Isn't that the whole point of paying a loyalty bonus - if he's sold against his will and hasn't asked for a transfer?
  14. Quite ridiculous really as nobody comes out of it looking good. If Waggott thinks it takes some heat off him then think again, as this seems like a very transparent ploy to put some of the heat onto the players - who shouldn't be in a position where they are sat down in front of supporters in an impromptu meeting in the middle of a club crisis. Absolute madness.
  15. If the players genuinely complained about the atmosphere and complained about young lads (of which there were only two, and Dolan, on the pitch in the first half) at the QPR game needing to be picked up at half time because of the crowd reaction then they deserve some constructive feedback on that. Sounds like Josh let them know exactly what the situation was in regards to the booing and atmosphere - as if they didn't already know. However you are right, they are just a distraction tactic and we only have a soft team making excuses because of the owners allowing such a squad to be assembled and given a message of "there is no ambition except staying in the league". Little wonder we don't have any winners in the team when that's the limit of our ambitions as a club. If you genuinely wanted to win things you wouldn't be happy sticking around after hearing that, would you?
  16. Have to say it is very hard to believe that after last year's fiasco something like that could have happened. As someone else said, Broughton would surely have been double and triple checking everything had gone through to ensure he wasn't embarrassed again. It's his reputation being given a battering if another fuck up happens, in his first appointment as DoF. I struggle to accept he wouldn't have been making 110% sure that everything had gone through exactly as it needed to. It leads me to believe he either talks a good game but is utterly incompetent, or that there's more to this than the club are telling us. I'm not one for conspiracies but it's a question of whether you believe Gregg is an idiot or the club are keeping something out of the public domain. Granted it could be both.
  17. The list of 'senior players' there tells you all you need to know about why we are where we are. Three who should be bench players at best and two who have barely been here for a cup of tea.
  18. Think Chrisene and Moran were the youngest out there, both are 20. Dolan's 22 but has so much experience at this point that I'd be shocked if he was affected. The rest old enough where they shouldn't need to be "picked up" because of a few scattered boos. If the mentality is that fragile no wonder we can't recover from going a goal down.
  19. Would have been interesting to hear from the likes of Gallagher why he thinks the players are incapable of coming back into a match when we go behind. Can't blame JDT as that was going on during the Mowbray years too, and can't blame the fans either as booing is pretty infrequent overall. He's the only one from the so-called senior delegation who would have been able to give a longer term perspective.
  20. So the basic takeaway of the meeting was "get behind the lads ffs". Wonderful.
  21. Fortunately in employment, and we don't hire employed managers. If he resigns in the next few days though...
  22. Not quite, it's actually the third with Ethan Brierley factored in.
  23. Sounds like they'll have a meeting to discuss a mutual termination and then he'll be off. God knows who we'll get to take the position.
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