We will end up with a non - scoring striker on a permanent deal and an undercooked Liverpool kid on loan.

With our DOF and recruitment team, we will be in Poundstretcher with a blindfold on.

If we were a well run, properly organised, stable club, I think this season could be used as a platform for improvement next season and beyond. Unfortunately, we don’t tick any of the above boxes, and at best I think we will tread water next season. Will the head coach stay and will whoever is head coach receive adequate backing in the transfer market? The answer to at least one of those questions is likely to be, “no”.

Dolan is a trier, but only special players get me out of my seat, and he certainly isn’t in that category. Anyway, here’s to the mother and father of twists and turns a week today, (not holding my breath).

Why do people even think we will keep our end of the bargain next Monday? 8 points from a possible 30. Relegation form.

It would need a near miracle. We’re certainly not a lucky side, but too little too late.

The fact we are nothing like is the reason I just don’t buy it. Arsenal are a well run football club. How many years have we been hearing it? In a couple of years (or less) it will be someone else in Broughton’s position (or another randomly created position) and someone else in JDT’s, and we will still be brainwashed with all the project talk.

Sorry, I just don’t buy the “project” stuff. It’s an excuse for repeated failure.

Like Burnley, their work is done.

Do you have a completion year in mind ? 😉

By a team who know what the goalposts, crossbar and nets are there for.

Anyone got a deckchair for Luton’s keeper?

Painful when we’re at the business end of the pitch.

Strikers? What are these "strikers" you speak of? 😉

It probably won’t be, but it’s still in our own hands (klaxon) and if we play like we know we can (klaxon) there could be a twist and turn (klaxon) by 19:30 😉

All we are saying is give Bodo Glimt's former academy guy a chance 😉

Looking at it objectively, as @Shirley Crabtree Wrestler has said, where are the goals coming from? Our best hope is probably another nervy 1 - 0, where we get deeper and deeper in the last few minutes, (but, hopefully, without the sting in the tail).

Probably won’t still be in our own hands at 19:30 on Monday 😉

It’s back in our own hands 😂

…….so not in our own hands. I’m going to clutch at the straw that either Cov or Sunderland slip up, unexpectedly, today. If not, only the ultra optimists will still believe.

Good morning and welcome to today’s straw clutching. Unfortunately, the, ‘It’s still in our own hands”, klaxon isn’t available, at least until 17:00. However, we still have, “Twists and turns”,, “We’re still in the mix”, and, “If we play like we know we can”, in operation. Happy clutching everyone 😉

I would dearly love for Chaddy to have a “twist and turn” to post about on Monday evening.

They have just scored three in a single game, which is something we can only dream of. International straw clutching resumes at 15:00 tomorrow 😉

Sorry, I think you must have quoted the wrong post, because your reply does not relate in any shape or form to what I posted. We all want a couple of "twists and turns" involving Rovers, but have seen none to date since your original post a few weeks ago. Obviously, there are going to be twists and turns involving other teams, because not everyone can win every game.

Yes, but none involving us, (so far). We have been downwardly mobile without any of the aforementioned "twists and turns".