Money in does one thing and one thing only - help Venkys pay their bills a while longer without the need to use (as much of) their own cash and thus making it easier for them to leave us on the shelf gathering dust and for Waggott and shadow man to cart on without needing to request cash. It certainly ain't going anywhere near a transfer kitty for Eustace that's for sure. Even if they pretended it was it would collapse and then disappear (O'Brien McGuire). So less money brought in the better for me. Lets crank up the financial demands on the Indians, they've had a couple of easy years by flogging the crown jewels and destroying 2-3 promotion opportunities.

I'm sure it isn't the root cause of the issue but I'm also wondering what sort of hindrance it is to have employed someone as Sporting Director who has never operated in any comparable role before and seems to have got the job because he's an ex-player and was happy to follow Waggott around for free for a few months shadowing him. Like I say, by no means the root cause but in their desperate bid to save money and take the easy route they've thrown a total novice into leading the sporting operation. He certainly wouldn't have got the equivalent job at a rival Championship club. I find myself wondering if any of the owners, directors, management team sit and ask themselves this or whether they just shrug their shoulders and congratulate themselves on navigating another window without spending or increasing costs.

All of what is said there is free. It costs absolutely nothing to 'try'. It costs nothing to 'hope'. It costs nothing to contact other clubs and ask if they will heavily subsidise things. It costs nothing to whinge about a potential target opting to move to a rival instead of coming here. It costs nothing to claim, usually after the event when it is too late to do anything about it, that we were interested in x.y.z and wanted them here. I would like a day where my football club is free from the shackles of Venky oppression, when we have trustworthy and honest people running the club. Unfortunately we don't always get what we want no matter how much we go on about it. What costs is transfer and loan fees, signing on fees, decent wages and offering more than other clubs to ensure we get our targets.

They're pretty daft if they are lining up incomings based on potential money by selling a player to us. They'd be wise to look at the last couple of January windows and learn a lesson - even if we agree to do something we backtrack and it breaks down.

I think when people see Luton Town and Plymouth Argyle, both fighting to survive in this division and certainly not what would be described as big or affluent clubs in this league, comfortably outspending and making more effort than us, it might make one or two realise what depths these vile owners are dragging us to. Then again maybe not. 'Punching above our weight' in the top 10 of the Championship I keep on reading.

Quite clear that Kargbo is a Gestede name. Doubt Waggott has anything to do with it. Even less likely that he's a player Eustace has identified as the 'top quality' that he said he wanted. It's another window-dressing signing. Even if he ends up being a good un, he's not going to come in and hit the ground running or immediately adjust to the rigours of the Championship. But it's cheap and an unknown so a few will get themselves excited about it.

Even if there was logic in waiting until the very end of the window, which there isn't if your priority and focus is on games and results rather than pounds and pennies, but even if there was, surely the painful experience of the ever so unfortunate fiascos in the last couple of years, both seemingly occurring under the time pressures of deadline day, would convince the 'powers that be' to perhaps not leave it to such chance and to avoid that outcome again this year? Lessons learned from past mistakes? Or maybe that's exactly how they like it - then they can trot out with the usual excuses with an ever willing legion of fans on standby ready to lap it all up - look at Luton spending millions on a League One striker 'we can't compete with that' etc. Well actually, we can compete with that, infact we did several years ago when these owners pumped in millions to sign Brereton, Armstrong and Gallagher, and could do so again now by releasing a fraction of the tens of millions they've brought in. As it has always been it is a Venky choice that is killing us. So instead they're just sat waiting for one of our 'targets' i.e. loans whose parent clubs are now willing to release and subsidise to a degree that we are willing to pay in return for basically guaranteed games as we've no depth not to give them guaranteed games.

Improved communication like he boldly proclaimed he was going to do in his in-house media interview about 5 months ago?

There's a logical argument to say that it is better for us if every player leaves on a free. Every pound that Venkys have to find from their own cash rather than from player sales is, in my view, a step closer to them throwing in the towel or being unable to do it. Whilst the conveyor belt of million pound sales continues it takes pressure off the vermin. I'd like them to be under immense pressure to the point where they buckle. That's only going to come legally through the Indian courts or financially if they can't pay the bills any more.

We've been here before. Late interest in one of our players from another club with the lure of hard cash on the table. No doubt at all that the scum will be interested in a sale. So they'll put it to Eustace that selling Pears for a few million will immediately and significantly enhance his transfer kitty. Out the side door he goes, admin errors come along, money doesn't get spent and is never seen again. Ready made replacement already here. I've never been a big Pears fan but do feel he has done a good job this season and I wouldn't even entertain selling anyone under these wretches as there's no chance it is getting reinvested. At best it's a couple of loans to placate the manager and fans for a while.

Because they made a poor managerial appointment in Walter whereas we got lucky with Eustace. Also they had a huge turnover in players last summer.

Nothing at all wrong with spending lots of money. It seems at some point to have become a negative around these parts, no doubt fuelled by an ownership and regime keen to avoid spending, and decorated with the old 'FFP' mantra. If you can do it and not break the rules then it is not something to be ashamed or embarrassed about, it is good and in theory will see you get somewhere in the game. Of course around Rovers so many have become indoctrinated with a fear of spending cash, created by Waggott and other charlatans employed by Venkys. If you are fortunate enough to have an owner with some ambition and a desire to invest then good for you. I wish we did.

Let's go back to Waggott's book of excuses , aka his 'update' statement released last week, may be Louie Barry wasn't the 'right type' of character for our special squad. Maybe they don't want to endanger the 'togetherness' of the squad by bringing external elements into it. Maybe Hull didn't get the memo about it being a 'limited' January window. Maybe Hull were prepared to pay the necessary to get their target and a quality addition in the building now rather than p1ssing away another week or two haggling and with it jeopardising the season. Maybe Hull actually want to sign decent players instead of owners and a board desperate to hide behind every excuse going

Even if it comes to fruition, and I'll have my doubts particularly when there's a fee involved until I actually see him in the matchday squad, it is in no way what Eustace has made reference to wanting. He's mentioned proven quality, big names. This isn't that. So either there will need to be other irons in the fire coming as well, or they're just not giving Eustace what he has asked for/wants/has been promised.

It goes one better in that they tried to persuade Mowbray to stick around at the 11th hour and, allegedly, he turned down that possibility as even he had suffered enough from their shenanigans and told them to do one. So potentially that's 3 managers in the space of 3 years that will have given it up

It's a familiar story isn't it? Lambert clearly agreed to the Rhodes sale and made plans of what he was going to do with the money. Then they sold him and pocketed the dosh and left him with loans like Simeon Jackson and signing Elliott Ward. Then 8 years later, similar situation this time the sale of Adam Wharton, JDT was clearly expecting or hoping to get some of that windfall to reinvest and got nowt. Leopards don't change their spots, they're as untrustworthy and vile as they were the day they arrived. All this 'bad advice, naïve' stuff a work of fiction created in people's heads to try and convince themselves that the evil has gone and all is fine, when it hasn't and won't be fine until they are gone.

Pretty unlikely anyone established in the first team will be signing new contracts. There's no reason, other than the words of a proven liar, to believe that we are even offering new terms or making an effort to try and keep them here. Even if we were there's even less reason to believe that we will be increasing wages or financial commitments to a reasonable Championship level. And then there's the latest betrayal of the manager and squad which is likely to see the manager move on soon and I'm sure any player who could attract interest elsewhere will be asking themselves the same question as most of us.....is there any point in being at Rovers?

Good point, I'd missed them but yeah imagine he'd jump at the chance. An engaged owner who actually wants them to get somewhere, a budget to work with, and he's an ex-player too...

No surprises at all. Anyone who has got anything about them quickly leaves one way or the other. Those who remain are wasters like Waggott who know full well this is the best they will ever get. The interesting part will be how they manage to construct a narrative that Eustace is the problem / unreasonable one here. They did a very good job of making out like JDT and Broughton were the problem last year and unfortunately a large portion of the 'fanbase' lapped that up and that continues to this day. If Eustace goes as well not even the most deranged of fans will surely believe that the problem lies in the dugout, but they may yet surprise me. Eustace may have missed the boat this year though. I can't see there being many more managerial changes between now and the summer unless a team has their own manager poached or plummets into relegation trouble and I can't see that happening now. Summer will be a different story but I expect a mass exodus of players at that point as just about anyone will want out of this cesspit .

I got angry before kick off when the club's social media were making the usual fuss about Isaac Dunn, O'Grady Macken and Litherland being on the bench. Whilst I can appreciate that it must be good for the players themselves and their families this should not be happening and it should certainly not be anything the club is boasting about. It is happening because the club has failed to do its job and ensure we have a sufficient squad for the rigours of the Championship. To end up in such a state where we are putting three kids on the bench for crucial league fixtures, then turning around and publicising this as though it is a badge of honour to be proud of, shows just how out of touch and amateur this outfit is these days.

This is important. It wouldn't have needed vast amounts of money. I doubt he wanted or expected that. The Venky defenders out there will play the old 'no money' 'FFP' 'Debt' excuses as they usually do but all we were looking for really was 3 or 4 seasoned players who could have come in and immediately played and improved us. That's all. Not £6 million outlays like Middlesbrough have made this week (though we could if we had wanted to) but just some sensible investment into gaps. The fact that they haven't even been willing or able to do that, such a relatively minor amount in the scheme of things, is a killer. Eustace would have had more backing at Plymouth Argyle sat bottom of the table than he has had here despite dragging us into an excellent position. If they wouldn't even back him with ANYTHING at that point, there can really be no recovery from that. A total disgrace and betrayal. They are scum.

Positives for Steve Waggott: Only 3 wins to secure Championship status Manager hasn't resigned mid-season (yet) despite the usual Venky shenanigans 3/4 of the way through a transfer window and £0 spent Wage bill lower than it was going into the window All good in the boardroom folks - it's us fools who want / expect better than that.

Not only have we failed to strengthen, we have weakened. They'll pretend that part of that is down to injuries rendering important players unavailable, I think that is an inevitable consequence of their decisions and recruitment. They'll also pretend that the departure of Baker was an unforeseeable and uncontrollable shock but it really wasn't when you rely on loans to fill up your squad. Hats off to Venkys, it takes some doing not only to refuse to help us strengthen but to actually make what was already a threadbare squad even weaker during a key phase of the season. Where would we be without them.

There's clearly an air of panic around now judging by Waggott's rare hastily cobbled together excuse laden 'update' that actually tells us nothing other than to reduce expectations even further. As we approach the final week of the window fans and manager will be awakening to the deception and getting very angry as a result and demanding answers. One of the reasons behind Waggott's existence is to keep the hoi polloi quiet and believing that all is well with the world and Venkys. The 'no impediment' to their funding line is part of this. When trouble starts he gets nervous. It happened this time last year so he schemed away and got senior players and 'fan reps' to sit around a table and discuss things. This is where he earns his Venky silver as he balances keeping things ticking over and doing just enough to keep us kind of competitive and keep the manager in place/fans quiet but nowhere near enough to involve spending money or committing to any sort of serious outlay. All whilst keeping eyes off India and the shadow man and on him. So out comes an 'update' just to keep people quiet for a few more days. The problem he has is that more and more people are slowly waking up to his games and tricks. He hasn't got many in his locker because he's not very good, so he just rolls out more of the same every time.

The club and owners have made their intentions and ambitions quite clear (again) for anyone in any doubt By next Friday the small remaining window to change course will have almost gone entirely. They've no right to expect anyone to hand over their hard earned money for YET ANOTHER televised non-Saturday 3pm home game.