Wahlstedt needs removing from the firing line for his own good and that of his team mates. Hopefully, Pears will be back soon. He’s not great, but certainly less of a liability than Wahlstedt, on current form. If Pears is going to be out for a while longer, a loan keeper makes sense, or play Hilton, who couldn’t do any worse.

Buckley will be as much use as a chocolate teapot in a survival scrap, for us or Wednesday.

New EE advert with Kevin Bacon sitting in the Walkersteel having a good moan about another poor performance.

Berg, too.

Nothing personal, but for me Telalovic sums up our plight. We are pinning our hopes on a young player from the lower leagues in Germany. It’s desperate.

I know I keep repeating it (sorry) but he isn’t a manager and has been dealt a pretty pathetic hand of players. Every department of the team looks weak.

He clearly has no time for Waggott, (rightly so). I don’t see any other head coach doing any better. We really need an experienced, seasoned director of football to make this model work, under the circumstances. Either that or jettison the DOF and hire a decent manager, with good contacts. Neither of the above will transpire, so JDT has the tricky task of keeping our heads above water. The squad is weak, and adding a few more youngsters, either permanently or on loan, will not help, (but that is what will happen).

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Not statistically speaking. We are currently progressing downwards through the digestive system.

At least QPR lost , (and Rotherham only drew). This time next year, Rodders ……… we’ll be right in the sh*t.

Sunderland’s second v Preston - the wing play by Jack Clarke. We badly lack that kind of pace.

Rotherham yet to win away this season. What could possibly go wrong? 😉

For a minute I thought you meant the singer, rather than one of our more bizarre, pointless signings 😂

You could also imagine yourself as Chris Brown, if you wanted to wear it 😉

I think the flat track bullies may ride this afternoon, leading to the optimists / fantasists waxing lyrical about a play off push this evening 😉

Final reply, as we're going round in circles. Of course we want to develop our own young players, but other than freak intakes, (eg Man United in 1992), it's totally unrealistic to expect every academy player to make the grade, and probably a passport to League One. It has to be a realistic blend of academy players and players bought in. We have lost fourteen out of twenty five games this season, (half of them at home), and our record of recovering from losing positions is pathetic, as is our defensive record. If that doesn't constitute a soft touch, I don't know what does.

Having a Category 1 academy is great, but becoming obsessed with developing young players at the expense of ambition is not. For several years the narrative has been “jam tomorrow “ , but tomorrow never comes. We are a soft touch, as our home form clearly illustrates. A 20 year old full back on loan from Brentford and a young centre back from Crewe are unlikely to change that.

Yes, his FIRST interview. Clearly, the landscape changed last Summer, which JDT has alluded to several times in more recent interviews.

Thank you official club spokesperson. Wheeling and dealing involves the buying and selling of players, including astute free / low money transfers. We are on a puritanical youth quest, led by iffy DOF, gunner Broughton.

You really should be on the payroll at Rovers. More spin than a Shane Warne googly. No - one is saying that JDT doesn’t like working and developing young players. However, that isn’t the be all and end all, and it is blatantly obvious that JDT is not happy with the “change of project”, and the fact the club do not match his ambitions.

Correction - that is the market we are choosing to be in because of "the model". Send your players to the Ewood development scheme. Unlikely to be a great help to us short term, and then he goes back to the parent club. This is where a more savvy, orthodox set up, ie a canny manager, would wheel and deal in the market. How much did Luton spend last season, and yet they weren't obsessed with player development.

JDT is more ambitious, but is playing along with the "developing young players" narrative, because his only other option is to resign.

A 20 year old on loan. That sounds silly enough for us alright.

When his name came up last time around, a Norwegian journalist said he and Broughton barely spoke to each other.

I can’t see on the list being an improvement on what we have. They will be younger managers or coaches.