Not knocking the signings of Holtby and Johnson they are on paper 2 decent players. Better than what we had but I think those two for the price of one Reed is the thinking behind that one. Sometimes though you just have to bite the bullet and buy and pay a quality player every now and then. If we go nowhere these short term signings just turn into dead money again.

100% back them in not paying that kind of money. Moaning or no moaning we don't want to be going back down that road Although Bauer wanted 40/50 grand pwk apparently....

Lurking in the shadows....

Chris on the wing, Ronnie a rotating right back. Sound business.

Forest owe us a favour i'd say !

I think given the lack of action in general a few clubs are going in for the nearly model this Jan. Still it keeps the kids interested i suppose, all over Youtube there'll be blogs of how it might have panned out had they got some of the pie in the sky names. The good old suchabody was spotted at Stanley House / Dunkenhalgh / filling up the car at Craven Brow petrol station was far more fun.

The Norwegian connection brought him here it would've been interesting to see what Berg did with him. And the team as a whole had he actually been allowed to manage properly. Seems Ole's doing someone a favour before he gets potted.

This just says everything, just remember the list they 'nearly' did last Jan and the big name keepers they 'nearly' signed in summer. I wonder if nearly actually ever equates to picking up the phone more than once. Tune back in summer when we actually spend big on an investment nobody wants. Then next Jan when the new look at what you could've won list is published.

A thread on Samba and casino ads on the same page ?

'Get behind the fee FFS'

It would be a handy wedge for summer and ease FFP a bit just pray it wasn't sold out by Shaw or anybody else for a lot less.

But what about when Rovers were skint because these lot who apparently bankroll promotion bids turned the taps off. Somebody put it out that they were cashing in all their sell on clauses and add ons for one off smaller payments ??

We must be the only club who release lists of what we nearly did.

Where's the other claiming we have money and are relaxed about FFP ? Changed his tune again I suppose !

That isn't the case right now though is it. They would dismiss signing anybody out of hand if it was the case. That's happened before. We aren't talking millions so keep your scaremongering to yourself.

This ! Handily placed it is real opportunity to kick on. Any club or its owners that was really serious about trying to get into the top 6 would make some sort of effort. I'm convinced these lot are more than happy to sit in the middle of this division.

I remember watching Carew in that reserve game and thinking we've got a cracker here. Then his agent wanted too much I think. Expensive hatrick that was.

Well if it was the one i'm thinking of he was first to throw 'conspiracy' at me and a lot of better placed others in the past. The last person you'd expect to be coming out with that so he must've heard it from somewhere he considers spot on. Nixon at the time, who's well known to be close to certain camps. said Forest brought in their own agent to shift BB. Links could have come from that if there was a few involved. As for the other stuff it sounds worrying.

At the time i thought it was shown he did.

The club who's manager just happened to have the same agent at the time.

EVERY window is an opportunity, every Jan we seem to waste it. Well positioned to kick on but they don't seem to want to far too happy to leave it to chance. The ones you like but won't pay a bit more for now will just have another 2 options by the time they might be cheaper in summer. We could really steal a march but there's no real desire to do anything but tread water and just see what happens.

Thought Venus was in on the contract negs as well in his multiple role ? Don't tell me the 3 stooges or TM, MV and Waggot are the contract committee ? Hells bollocks..?

3 or 4 changes, some of them needless. Boro 2 Rovers 1 ( last time i predicted this we won 5-0 ) ?

Sorry it should say 1k plus which I'm sure is what they said. Obviously somewhat balanced by newbies and lapsed but still too big of a hit for a club like us If we'd only lost a few hundred to natural wastage which you expect then the gates would look a bit healthier around 12k.

Vs backed TM after relegation and they let those who had a stake in it all run riot with the parachute money after Prem relegation. Apart from that they've never ever bankrolled a promotion bid not looked/look like doing. More complete spin. Under write the losses their cack handed running of the club has created yes, fund quality signings and a top manager no. Without going over it I'd wager the net spend for fees alone in terms of incomings v outgoings is pretty close. They don't like spending their own coin on players. We've already been told the outlay for the 'investment' gambles was to be covered by the Dack sale. Can't have it both ways.