If it is an issue that only seems to actually affect Rovers transfers, then surely it isn't really an issue with the software, more the competence (or motivations) of the users?

I guess the official announcement that our head coach has left, due to the incompetence of the owners and their acolytes, is tomorrow's Embarrassing Rovers News Story, then... Just the 24 hours before the next crucial relegation match. Twats.

I agree with this. But I do want to add my thanks to J*B for attending and reporting back. What has been reported (and circulated), though, has only made me feel more angry and, despondent. I'm not sure the meeting really gained anything more than this kind of impact, did it?

As above, so our current situation is about chronic financial and owner mismanagement, appalling and embarrassing approach to transfers and basic club administration, no clear overall strategy, terrible ticket pricing, etc. Yet somehow that has been turned into it all being about the poor players being upset by the fans, who are at fault in all this. This is dreadful spin and these players, frankly, look like they have played their part in it, today. Especially having a whinge whilst their coach is left out of the meeting. Fuck them. This club is a corrupt cesspit. An empty (chicken egg) shell. I think I'm finished with it. I want to be, now. But I fear I'll be hanging on a bit in the vain hope somebody will save the club, somehow.

Hopefully a really bloody bad one

Just the one that had any real cost, eh?! I wonder what might connect those two things.

I felt similarly. It is actually a good, well-written and fairly brave piece, which clearly reads to me as having been reliably informed by Rovers' "recruitment team". Well done to LET on this occasion, and well done to?Broughton and Tomasson/team? for getting the truth out, despite the strain that I suspect everything is under.

I can definitely see an announcement in the next couple of days that JDT and rovers have "mutually agreed to part ways".

Absolutely. None of the named "candidates" would take a call from Venkys or their minions. I'm sure word gets around, particularly with any UK based managers, and only the very desperate would be interested in working for a bunch of lying scumbags like our owners. People who renege on agreements with managers, clubs, players and communities. Until Venkys go, it doesn't matter who is coaching the team.

What a total clusterfuck of a football club/business. Embarrassing.

If its literally only a few quid then they might be candidates. Much more and they aren't affordable. For those of them with any ambition, they'll steer well clear of this one.

None of them would come here for the terms Venkys would offer. I think JDT will go. But I suspect the replacement will be an internal promotion. Cheaper is better, right?

You are making it worse. But you've managed to inadvertently support the argument/fact that we have significantly weakened our central midfield options in this transfer window. Open your eyes.

Me too. I can't click the links or watch the videos. This one, of all the horrible developments under Venkys tenure, feels like a final twist of the knife for me. I was really looking forward to seeing Adam develop at our, and his, club. That's been taken from us, even if it were only realistically in the short term, due completely to the failings of our fucking awful owners.

Yes. It was always going to be this way. This is why the club is dead to me, now, until Venkys are somehow forced to leave us. I just can't see it ever happening.

I thought that's how everyone liked to run their bath.

Don't they also have a huge sell on % to pay? Point still stands, though

Those Ham and Mustard ones! Different class. Mention of those crisps the highlight of my transfer deadline day. Sad, really. But thanks!

Thry probably "don't want to comment on speculation or something already in the public domain". (Almost) as useless as Venkys. Part of the problem, the local media, not part of any solution.

I suggest a thread explicitly focused on rumours (which is all we often have to go on) probably isn't for you, then. Let's see if 11pm looks much better a scene than the one painted on here right now. I hugely doubt it. But feel free to label this post as more "shite".

Correct. Except not just tonight. This is ALL the time.

Absolutely. No-one at all should be surprised by this. They are abusing their baby and we really, really need social services to step in. Like some others have suggested, tomorrow might be a make or break day for me in terms of which football club I feel morally able to support and spend my limited money and time on. Really sad. Fuck off Venkys.

They could but it seems highly unlikely. Some cash in now appears to be important in the context of the postponed court hearing. I suspect that would rule Newcastle out as they have to sell.

Watching the build up. It might just be the BBC Wales patriotic love-in, but I haven't half got a terrible feeling about this match.

Worst/most pointless transfer rumours thread, ever. 😆😢