RevidgeBlue

I think this is the best post I've ever seen on here. So sad and so poignant. I hope you keep in touch on here from time to time and take care.

Anyone who doesnt see the need for a boycott or any other form of action should read Devon Rover's beautifully written post on the "Painful Acceptance" thread and take a moment to reflect.

"Little money" is relative. Armstrong and Szmodics turned out to be absolute bargains but still cost £3m and £1.9m respectively. Our ceiling for transfer fees recently seems to be generally around the £1m mark with the wages being even more of a problem so that would put even a top League 1 or League 2 striker out of our budget probably unless someone else is sold to cover it.

First of all, he is not the ONLY problem at the Club but he is a bloody big part of it, he's an atrocious manager/ head coach - and he is fully complicit in the situation we currently find ourselves in. The real test of how good or poor a manager he is imo came last season. Literally from the first minute he walked through the door, remaining in the play off picture no longer seemed to be an option. In the summer he was completely on board ("aligned") with Gestede and Pasha as he oversaw the destruction of the squad. After wheeling and dealing with eleven or twelve players both in and out we've been left with arguably the weakest squad any of us can remember and definitely the one with the least attacking potential. Hardly surprising when we went into the season with only two strikers that he was prepared to use. Frankly I don't believe a word he says either. He's been prepared to pretend players were close to signing new deals one minute then make out they'd changed their mind on a sixpence the next, sling unfounded accusations at other outgoing players or send them to Coventry in order to ease them out of the door, and been happy to sell a key player in the last few hours of the window without a replacement knowing the alternatives had a history of being extremely injury prone. Now he's (imo) pulling the wool over supporters' eyes by pretending players were coming in early and that we're after two strikers when (again imo) he knows there's no chance whatsoever of that happening. And it comes only a month or two after he told the owners they could repair the pitch instead of spending in January. The owners need to go, Pasha needs to go, Gestede needs to go. But by Christ this fella also needs to go. 4 home wins in 19 and 2 goals in (edited) 624 minutes of football.

We didnt really have three because VI obviously made his mind up on Gueye very early on and there was talk of him being sold in the last window.

It's not really "a budget" if no-one of the calibre we need will come for the wages we are offering. Dennis and Woodrow were presumably intended as short term fixes to try and keep us in and hopefully get us through the play offs. Is "a short term fix" what we need at the moment?

Waggott told someone I know during "the Rothwell window" that the owners had made a healthy transfer budget available in addition to the promotion bonuses which WERE actually publicised in the LT. So either Waggott or Mowbray were lying because if Waggott was correct there was no pressing need to offload Rothwell to raise funds. If Mowbray was discouraging them from spending at that point it would be at least be consistent with his behaviour of a couple of years previously when he freely admitted he had to get the owners to "calm down" following promotion from League 1. He wouldnt have the same problem these days.

The main similarity is that we have zero attacking threat no matter what combination we put out currently. Whoever would have thought that going into the season with just 2 strikers, one might get injured?

That's the risk you run when you play a weakened side.

Can't overemphasise how much I agree with this. He doesnt get anywhere near enough flak for what a poor manager he is.

Thought he was barely average at first but coming round to your point of view. Talk of making him permanent is barmy. If it does happen it proves that business at the Club takes place to line certain people's pockets rather than on the basis of ability or how they've actually performed.

It's all just complete BS isn't it? Seemingly a lot (not on here particularly) still seem to swallow it.

Sorry to hear about the cough.

Well, we'll see if he walks. I'd say not a chance. He'll still be here if (when) he takes us down.

Not a chance, he knows the script and is fully "aligned" All this stuff about wanting players in early and two strikers is just complete BS imo. He knows there's absolutely no chance of it actually happening but it's just a bit of fluff to calm the supporters down.

Cashin was ok. Thought TGH was terrible. Montgomery wasn't bad before he went off.

So our esteemed leader now has a 100% loss record in the Cups to add to his abysmal League record. Picked a side to get knocked out today and couldnt even get that completely right given we were out there 120 mins. Get out of our Club. Along with Pasha, Gestede and Venky's.

Toth got to the last one comfortably and dived underneath it. What a waste of an afternoon. What have we learned today? Most of the signings from summer are garbage and there's no talent of any note coming through the Academy. "Exciting times" indeed.

Well done Doherty

What a great pen from Mclaughlin. Stick him up front.

Toth sold himself that one. Absolute pea roller

Might not be far out.

Ohashi's the only one I thought might score. Edit: Well done Toth - nice height but good save.

No.

TF for that. The torture is over.