I always struggle with an article that starts by talking about Jack Walker and Kenny Dalglish. It in my opinion, alludes that as fans we expect to be at that level still, which we all know needs oil barons money these days. We simply want owners that care, have a plan and a desire to improve the club. I'm glad Herbie corrected Atkins on the lazy anology that we would be staring down the barrel without Venkys.

I find so much of what is going on there absolutely mental. Kompany basically bosses the giggling nervous owner (hedge fund manager) around and gets whatever he wants. I speak to mates who are Dingles and they say he has earned another year after last season. So they want to judge him whilst smashing the Championship again as they have the strongest squad?!? He gets given incredible amounts of cash for players by insisting they will ALL increase in value. It just does not happen like that in the Premier League, in struggling sides not many players excel. The owner has fallen hook, line and sinker for all of Kompanys big talk.

He would have done. Pears almost seemed to save it on the line then knock it over the line with his trailing leg just for good measure. We will just add it to the ever growing list of awful/weak as piss goals conceded.

You won't have many clubs that at 2-0 up after 20 mins you would take a point at that time. Should some guts in the second half which was pleasing.

Big Sam must have a short memory or be a bit skint to think of coming back. He just needs to flick through a few pages of his own book for a reminder ... Jerome Anderson and the list of players to sign. Venkys refusing him the chance to leave to the Middle East then sacking him a short while later. To name just two!

Agree with most of that, the last sentence if we are being fair was opposition managers realised we had no squad and couldn't really make any telling subs.

In true Rovers style with getting fees we probably got offered compo from Sweden 2 weeks ago for JDT to become their national manager. He leaves today with us paying him.

Either Andy Bayes or Elliott Jackson stated on twitter it was a standard practice if no midweek game. It certainly raised my eyebrows in view of current form/ defensive frailties!

I shouldn't be surprised, I shouldn't even have apathy but applause has to go to the ownership for tricking me into thinking we may just may have sorted something regarding the manager by 2150hrs on Thursday before a huge game on Saturday. I'm clearly stupid.

I'm possibly more alarmed that the players are upset at getting a few pelters from the stands than worrying about how horrific their form is or how they now can't seem to defend. I actually have no hope these players can turn this slide back with this sort of attitude ... oh and the manager is off for good measure.

Call me a cynic but didn't the club statement come out about 30 minutes after Sky Sports News reported issues on the deal. The statement wasn't for the fans, it was to kick the can down the road for the national eyes.

It's things like this that frustrates the hell out of me when people call out vocal fans who are anti the ownership. The evidence is there from the horses mouth, this carry on in a simple trade should be a red flag to anybody.

This mornings article just rubber stamps my long term belief that having meetings with Waggott, long well orchestrated briefings from Broughton are all pointless. They have no say, in the major running of the club. They spit ideas up the chain and the owners get around to answering the ideas when they can be arsed. Like when a player is in mid air about to sign for the club they fucking own!!!!! I will never ever be thankful to the owners, they pay the bills, it is the MINIMUM expectation for a company owner. We didn't ask them to take on the club, we weren't on life support and they saved us at the 11th hour at a winding up order hearing ... they are close to putting us there actually.

It's the dangerous territory of being so vocal about being a trading club. The players feel like contractors as does the manager and as fans we know that we don't have people in the hierarchy allowed or competent enough to deliver it. So it all becomes a never ending cycle of let downs.

I'd have hoped there was an Waggott, Broughton, Tomasson sit down last night / today to discuss how the hell we address this nose dive and drag ourselves back on track. You actually know that the three will just be ignoring each other, with Waggott and Broughton enjoying the gravy train for as long as they can. To follow a club that has no structure, no accountability, no long term plan is absolute torture. The owners have lost thousands of fans forever in the last decade, they are destined to lose more in the coming months.

I cannot think of any manager missing a pre game press conference without being ill. I'm pretty sure it's a football stipulation they have to do it. I've known them to be too pissed off to do a post game presser but a pre game, I can't see that happening too often.

I'm certainly not writing off any of the signings, I always give players a chance, probably too much of a chance. My angst over the window is we have sold a player for a club record fee. Think about that for a second, a club record fee doesn't pay bills it is meant to propel the club. Palace didn't bid for the first time yesterday, we had a chance at a good window and getting players in to work with the manager to start next season on the front foot. What we did was have a window of patching.

It's ended up a shrug of a transfer window. I hate the transfer window to be honest and the last minute nature of it, I think the money men at the club love the chaos and excuses it brings. We have added to a woefully under performing defence with numbers but how well they will bed in is anybodies guess. Midfield is weaker than when we started the window. Topped off by losing our best player. We've loaned in a striker for a few months, from what I can gather he will go back if the owners don't sanction the fee in the summer. Reasonable to assume his loan fee is funded by Ennis's exit fee. Suppose we've got a limp to the end of the season, with a summer of freebies and wondering if the manager is going to quit to look forward to!

Whilst I shouldn't feel sorry for the local reporter who brings next to no insider info. This lad clearly spends his day scrolling twitter for his info and clearly has no "in" at all.

Isn't he the son of the the rather rotund ex-dingle?

Best and fairest post on here for a long time!

Beyond Adam Wharton not leaving today, there are ZERO excuses to not have some squad improvements in by the end of day. The club has previously borrowed money from sources outwith of India and can do so in lieu of Wharton monies. ZERO EXCUSES!!!

At pretty much any other club outside of the Premier League the sale of your starlet, whilst being a kick in the nads, would bring a sense of optimism about what potentially exciting signings may arrive and the path you may follow. Here it brings a sense of dread of just how much we are going to be screwed over.

Gally has been superb.

Having watched that first half my only request in the second half is SHOOT. That keeper looks a liability and we know all about liability goalkeepers!