hard to say yet, might be "growing pains" or similar, may be one injury which just needs time rather than being him being injury prone having not seen the injuries but having heard he had a "calf injury", in December, and then again in January, it may just be that he came back too soon? Remember that he missed out on a lot of game time for the U21s earlier in the season when he was travelling with the first team as the "21st man" just in case of injuries

For what it is worth U21s beat QPR 1-0 to progress to the knockout stages of the PL Cup. Boggan with a late winner Tyjon & Gilsenan still injured

The LT can reveal that Eustace asked Blackburn Rovers for a new contract and assurances over investment in the squad to continue their push at the top end of the Championship table. However, Rovers refused to extend his deal and provide those guarantees.

I'm sure his big fat pay cheque will soothe his ego

is it like when I was at Primary school, and the last day of term we got to watch a movie?

Waggott wont have finished his 2nd breakfast yet, so may as well let him take training 😉

I would be amazed if anyone in India even knows who Eustace is, let alone cares if he stays here or not

And they likely have a plan which involves more than reducing costs & crossing their fingers in the hope that they manage to avoid relegation season upon season. It can be seen that they sold Cashin for £9M, and immediately invested £5M of that into permanent deals for a new striker & a new centre back, and another centre back on loan Can we even dream of our owners etc investing over 50% of player sales back into the squad?

During the game on Sunday, the TV cameras panned towards Waggott more than once. I think it was Suhail was sat next to him the first time, but there was an empty seat next to Waggott from then on. He doesn't like the spotlight

Papers a probably a thing of the past, you would likely be better served paying for an advert on YouTube targeted to those with an Indian IP address

unless it was accompanied by the words "I" "wish" "was" "struck" & "by"?

From memory (so I appreciate I may be wrong), most short term appointments that I recall tend happen with teams struggling to stay up, rather than a team on the edge of the play offs, I think a short term appointment who is going to continue along the same lines of what Rovers already do well (keep it tight, nick a goal) would be a sensible option

and much less shit employers

Makes sense in a way Once people realise that those in charge don't give a monkeys, it becomes harder to drag yourself to see them every week. So many of those who pay attention lose interest and stop going, leaving smaller crowds made up of people who fall into one of 3 categories Addicts who cant give it up The willfully ignorant with their heads buried in the sand Casuals

The rest of this season is an attractive job, if someone gets the team to the playoffs (let alone promotion) they would be hailed a hero, failure to reach the top 6 is easily pinned on the lack of investment compared to Boro, West Brom etc. The new guy cant lose either way Once the transfer window opens and the head coach/manager has to deal with the lies and/or incompetence of those in charge, the job becomes much less palatable

Played for Birmingham in the previous round

We can but hope, the other possibility is that they got lucky with the past 3 choices, Before that there was a carousel of clowns and chancers

If Rovers were ambitious & sensible at this point (and also assuming Eustace does leave). It would make sense to offer a 6 month contract with a large promotion bonus to the likes of Dyche, Cooper, Allardyce or Warnock (man managers with a history of promotion out of this division based on the current strengths of the team.... being solid and hard to beat rather than free scoring) The most stupid thing they could do is offer the job to Russell Martin, Rooney, Gerrard etc, which is what I expect to happen based on who we have in charge

Its broken, cant give marks for 3 or 4 players

IF Venkys/Waggott/Pasha/etc were to make assurance to Eustaces, they would at least be forced into sorting out contracts for Travis, Tronstad, Brittain etc, and presumably also Eustace, which would likely have certain release clauses in place for if/when promises about finances are broken All of which would not need to wait until summer But the likelihood is that they will just accept the compensation and let him leave

confirmed that Derby have approached Rovers by Sky Sports News just now

Apparently he didn't play well vs Stockport last Sunday before being subbed off after an hour. But even if that is the case, unless he is ill/carrying an injury, it would seem harsh to drop him, considering he had scored and played well in the 2 games before that. He was subbed off at half time in the previous game vs Exeter (after a first half performance that included a goal and an assist) so maybe he is carrying something? That being said, I couldn't fault any of the Orient players performances yesterday,

Would iPlayer work? either with or without a VPN? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027znp If so then its free

Not sure he will do that in a hurry