Can’t argue with the market - if the best offer he gets is from a Championship / League 1 yo-yo club, then that’s how he is rated in the game. Personally, I’m not surprised.

Hindsight-driven fantasy imo. The last time they were sellable at full value was January 2021. We were pushing towards the top 6, every club was cash-strapped as there were no fans in the grounds, but it was a huge oversight to not sell three of the first names on the team sheet to imaginary buyers because it was obvious they wouldn’t sign new contracts during the next 18 months? Sure.

Anyone else getting the impression that Dacky is currently the fat kid miles behind on the school cross-country run? I doubt the new gaffer has gone back 3-4 years in his tape-watching so probably isn’t currently thinking of building the team around our cheeky chappie.

The facts also include that fact that loan players leave at the end of the previous season and the next batch usually arrive at the back end of the window. So that’s two of the five I’m not worried about as it’s inevitable at this point in time. I’m not that worried about Rothwell going either.

Personally I think it’s more about getting the players to think harder and be more demanding of each other than a desire to take on board their opinions. And it sounds like it’s doing both.

Perhaps because you misinterpret posts a lot. I was pointing out the use of hindsight, not the delicate emotions of the BRFCS cry babies.

They also don’t get the benefit of hindsight that your analysis relies on. I don’t remember any clamour on here to do any of those deals at the times you mention. Getting £30 million for Samba and Jones, neither of who lived up anywhere close to those fees - equivalent to £130 million today I’d wager - somehow didn’t into fit your narrative.

While the result doesn’t matter, the game certainly does: this is their first real audition in front of JDT.

It’s interesting how things change. I’d been led to believe we had a squad so brimming talent that it was only the unique ineptitude of Mowbray that stopped us winning promotion at a canter. Now it appears that we were entirely dependent on Rothwell’s 3 goals, Nyambe stopping the occasional breakaway and a career Championship-level defender in avoiding certain relegation. Personally, I think the outcome will be somewhere in-between.

Either way, he’s currently unemployed and earning precisely nothing.

Even if they get back £8 million, that’s still £3.5 million per goal he cost them. Chump change in every sense.

I am also not convinced that the logical conclusion of avoiding this problem - selling Rothwell, Nyambe, Lenihan AND Armstrong last summer - would have been greeted on here with much acclaim at the the time.

But they had the opportunity to sell Rothwell in January and didn’t take it. Knowing that, I can’t see they’d have sanctioned selling all three last summer purely on the basis of contracts with still a year to run. And if we’d sold all three last summer, who knows, we might have been relegated. I think it highly likely they either wouldn’t have given any proceeds to Mowbray or he’d have wasted them.

I have three thoughts on the letting three players go for nothing. Firstly, isn’t the financial side more of a worry for the people who pump in £20 million/year than it is for us? Secondly, if we’d sold them this time last year, I think it more than likely the only beneficiaries would’ve been the people who would probably have pumped in only £14 million vs £20 million. Thirdly, I’d much rather have re-signed Kaminski and Travis and lost those three rather than vice versa.

Or….they can get more money elsewhere, just like Lucas Neil did.

The ones who exploited his poor awareness and never went near him in the first place.

No matter what we think of the three of them, personally I think there a good chance JDT wouldn’t have fancied any of them, and pretty much a certainty he’d never heard of any of them before signing. I bet he isn’t losing much sleep over it.

Rothwell wouldn’t have fitted into that at all.

I’ve thought for a while that the concept of season tickets at a club where there will always be seats available is past its sell-by date. Pre-Sky, night matches were an exciting rarity, usually FA Cup replays, League cup ties and the odd rearranged league game. The number of scheduled midweek games now plus Sky-enforced rearrangements effectively makes ST’s redundant as a cost-saving for anyone who lives a distance away, works shifts or has a full and enriching social life.

Not really, Rothwell took them all, which is where most of his assists came from.

I think it’s fairly obvious by now that Waggott has cash flow targets, not attendance targets, and those most likely haven’t been eased any because of the cost of living crisis. What gets measured gets done. The Williams price cut was driven by a prioritization of attendances over income in order to make us more attractive for televised games, which drove much more income.

First impressions count, even when pulling faces about steak bakes. After five years of Mowbray, there’s an entrenched culture in that dressing room that he’s not going to change with smiles and sharing his story. I’m expecting shock therapy and fairly soon.

If the new boss wants to get their full attention, he’d sell Dack during pre-season, then they’d all be clear that no-one is safe. I don’t think Dack will ever get back fit enough for this guy.

Something tells me he won’t take to being addressed as “Gaffer”.

Wow, what a first interview by the gaffer. First off, he looks a lot fitter than Dacky, so I think there’s going to be quite a few in the dressing room now shitting themselves. Lenihan I’d hope is trying to wriggle out of playing for that old duffer at ‘Boro and Nyambe’s agent suddenly is returning calls. I like the look of his #2 as well, he looks like he wouldn’t take any messing around.