I think the closest we got to a signing was Carlos Carvalhal, but he wanted to bring his back room staff with him and obviously Lowe and Benson are indispensable...

You can't pay the players in IOUs. We had to sell Kaminski to keep the lights on in the summer.

Could you imagine that lot against our current side? It'd be a cricket score.

I don't know - but getting turned inside out by a donkey like Delap, failing to engage an average player in Connolly and fluffing a clearance from a corner has nothing to do with wanting to pass the ball out from the back.

You realise that loans cost money, right? Both a loan fee and a contribution (if not all) to the player's wages? We had to loan Buckley out to loan in Moran ffs.

If JDT had the same backing they gave Mowbray we'd be playing PL football this season (albeit I'm sure we'd be coming straight back down as we'd need an entire new XI).

I got a framed shirt from the 94/95 season for Christmas - I don't even want to hang it at this point. That club is dead.

Steve Cooper with no money? That'd be amusing to watch.

His 'style of football' didn't contribute to any of the three goals we conceded today - they were all down to individual errors.

You can't sack him - the squad has had zero investment. e.g. His CF options are a free (Ennis), a bloke we bought for £200k (Telalovic) an Academy graduate (Leonard) and a chronic sicknote (Gallagher). His CB options are a loanee (Hill), two Academy graduates (Carter and S. Wharton) and a bloke we bought for circa £1.5m. The games and the injuries have caught up to us - we're bang out of form and this fixture list is relentless. We knew Playoffs weren't a thing when the transfer window slammed shut (again) with no CF coming in.

As I said - no way was this staying 11 v 11 with the ref handing out cards (sadly only to us) like confetti. We've clearly upset the EFL somehow 'cos we've had bent refs for months.

Donkey.

He's played the same position they play Travis when he plays in CM - they clearly don't trust him to receive the ball to feet facing his own goal.

Seriously - why is this ref so reluctant to book the Hull players for the same niggly fouls he's consistently reached for his pocket to for Rovers? It absolutely dictates games - it neutered Garrett and Tronstadt.

Delap should be off.

Markanday is shit. There's a player in Garrett, but he's not a ball playing CM, which is what this system requires.

No. JDT wasn't allowed to bring in his own coaching staff.

WHY HASN'T HE BOOKED DELAP?!?!?!

Again, this is why we're throwing £500k at a CB - we're such a soft touch defensively.

Hyam is having a nightmare, he needs to be taken off. We also need to take Garrett off as both he and Tronstadt are scared to make a tackle now.

This ref is an absolute clown.

So why wasn't their #4 booked for that foul on Telalovic?

I think he's a #10 - but so are Szmodics, Moran and Markanday.

He's a bit of a luxury player, but he clearly has quality on the ball.

That goal is why it's so frustrating watching us try to walk the ball into the net / score the perfect goal. Just shoot - the GKs at this level aren't good enough to react to deflections.