14 hours ago, Upside Down said:

Exactly, the question was somewhat rhetorical.

This bollocks about having the tools already and no excuses is ridiculous.

Our squad is probably the weakest Rovers squad ever. That is 100% on the owners.

JDT said out loud what we all knew. For me he's a proper Rovers legend for doing that.

Some might say that's an exaggeration. Having contemplated for a while I think you're right.

The worst Rovers squad in living memory, take a bow Venkys you utter shitebags.

It's coming to something when we're pinning our hopes on a returning loanee who was a regular bench warmer in a bottom 3 side

On 16/02/2024 at 15:31, Mattyblue said:

The 👀 are out so defo true.

I mean that summer war chest really pushed us on.

Indeed.

And they're still not refusing to sign the cheques and there's a multi million pounds bid for Bucko literally around the corner.

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

Because we might have multiple injuries in that position. He's one injury away from being needed in the matchday squad.

It would be like asking why we would bother having 3 keepers. 

And if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle.

Christ.....

2 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Why would we need multiple central defenders on the bench?

Agreed.

So why loan another (shite) one in?

Blimey, this Villa loanee.....

16 hours ago, 47er said:

How the hell can "set piece specialist" be a well-paid and full-time job? World's gone mad!

Rovers like to spread them thinly. For instance Pongo Lowe doesn't just sort the bibs and cones out he frightens off the rats and unlocks the shithouses.

Lowe's continued employment at the club is somewhat iffy. I seem to remember a previous management team removed him but he was brought back in under mysterious circumstances.

Rumour is it was Shithouse Suhail who brought him back in as he quite likes him and gives him an 'insight' into the dressing room. Add to that the scruffy bastard has been stinking the place up for years during our 'managed decline' and you can see why fans are sceptical.

Does he get a gig at this level if we let him go? Not a chance.

Did the Fleck deal not go through after the McGuire one though? If so, how the hell did it get missed?

8 minutes ago, Polky said:

Simon Grayson has a decent reputation in the Indian league at the moment. He left Bengaluru on 9 December 2023.

I’m sure Venkys will consider him as JDT’s replacement.

With Dunn as his assistant.

I said this on here a couple of weeks ago and I was only half joking.

5 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

I can't see it. Waggott knows full well the reaction would be even more negative than it is already.

Waggott will do what he's told

26 minutes ago, Craigman said:

Fowler being linked according to Daily Express

 

Pauline or Arthur?

Funny how we only cock up the incoming deals that will cost us a few quid isn't it?

I've little time for the egg but it's bloody obvious he's not to blame here.

5 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Selling the ground isn’t allowed in FFP any more so if they did sell it, it would be very odd.

They wouldn't sell it to comply with FFP, they'd sell it to trouser the cash and set up a ground share with Mill Hill St Peters

3 minutes ago, ageoftherover said:

Would we prefer:

 

Disillusioned manager lobbing handgrenades at the owners/management who gets us relegated?

Or

New manager, tows the party line, buys into our current situation and keeps us up?

Exactly what I was thinking. It's a real paradox that JDT may hold the keys to this shit show falling apart but at the expense of points on the board and staying in the division.

10 minutes ago, tomphil said:

Phil Jones was how long ago ?   Wharton is now so that's a long time and a lot of money but of course the bonus has been its produced one or two good enough for a championship squad.  Also now though too many who aren't ready or good enough have been chucked in that's partly why we are struggling.

In my view they'd just downgrade it to produce players good enough for the lge 1 squad then sell the training centre and the first team/academy would be on one site.  The downgraded version of the pie in the sky scheme Waggot & co were cooking up anyway and more annual running costs would be saved.

They are then creating a model that would run on its own much reduced income/expense terms that would only need propping up with about 5 mill or so a year.

An absolutely terrifying prospect and maybe when Mowbray alluded to the models he regularly did the real one in mind wasn't Brentford at all it was Barnsley.

You missed out selling the ground. It's only a question of time before that, like most so called conspiracy theories, becomes a reality.

4 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I was going to take 20/1 a few week ago and didn't.

There were a load of clowns on FB celebrating the 'successful window' showing slips for a top 6 finish at 66/1 with loads of other amoebas congratulating them on a great value bet.

That's the level of intelligence we're dealing with.

50 minutes ago, Mike E said:

My cat’s just died. It’s been coming for a couple of weeks, but feel like it sums it all up at the moment.

Sorry to hear that Mike, horrible times losing a pet.

Just been reading a thread on FB you and 'anonymous member' have been contributing on laying the slap on the pro Venky clowns with reasoned posts that have dumbfounded the majority, the rest just turn to abuse as a coping mechanism.

Well done for that and it's heartening to read some on there actually do get it. Small steps and all that but I feel a shift in opinion is imminent.

3 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

word gets round in football circles,he won`t work with this lot,if jdt does the off it will be someone desperate,very cheap and has`nt been in the game for ages

Aye. It's the Simon Grayson/David Dunn dream team.

15 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Has Broughton given an appraisal of the transfer window or has that not happened either.

Surely even he wouldn't be shameless enough to try and pass that off as a success.

Dunno Simon, the FB crew would give him a ticker tape welcome

1 hour ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

I think we're trying to reconstruct some sort of hybrid Coventry City team. Hyam, McFadzean, Fleck all played for them. Next we will get Strachan as manager should JDT resign, and sign Cyrus Christie, Jordan Shipley and Tyler Walker.

Heard the egg made late calls to Keith Houchen's agent and tried to exhume Cyrille Regis all to no avail.

51 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

Fleck is a good player, but that's what, 5 out of 6 who could leave in the summer?

Absolutely zero long term strategy. 

Nah mate, it's the 'Brentford model'.

Apparently.

2 minutes ago, roverandout said:

He's probably one of the Facebook crew

They aren't Rovers fans those clowns, they are as much a part of the problem as the shithouses who own us.

9 minutes ago, tomphil said:

The 200 million isn't actually a real debt to anybody, well the majority of it anyway, it's just what these owners have spent and isn't down on the clubs books as borrowings as far as i'm aware.

If it costs these bastards 20 million a quid a year in running costs would selling the club not save them that amount every year? Seems a no brainer to me.