Judging by the fact JDT won't play or at least seems extremely loath to play many of the players Broughton sources, you'd think they never spoke to each other! Hard to believe the likes of Hirst Ennis Wahlstedt and Telalovic were his choices and you can certainly see why he wasn't keen on playing them!

I seem to be on my own in agreeing with you on your last paragraph, it's incomprehensible to me that with funds particularly tight we blew our summer budget on "Leo" and that with the need for a striker paramount for the last 12-24 months the best he could come up with has been Hirst, Ennis and Telalovic, funds limited or not. Then of course we had the transfer window debacle last January. As I've said more or less from the off - bullshitter extraordinaire. How's the plans to turn us into "a sustainable Premier League side" going Gregg?

Was wondering what would happen IF one of the requests to transfer funds was denied. Presumably, as you say, that would bring a rapid close to their ownership.

But why should the players bother? (Incredibly) by the CEO's own admission the manager is under no pressure whatsoever to produce results, therefore, from his point of view as long as we perform well enough in a large enough percentage of games to stay up its happy days. The lethargy permeates from the top of the Club down. If the fans have to sit through various no shows - tough kitty.

(Tin hat on) Did say at the time Nyambe would be the hardest of the outgoing players to replace. Not Roberto Carlos in the final third but ver let us down.

Morgan has some raw talent but he highlights the problem of relying too heavily on loan players. When the going gets tough they generally go into hiding. Not my problem guv.

and for raising prices during a pandemic......and for unsuccessfully trying to sell off part of the training facilities.....and for failing to tie down key players.

Spot on. Its the only conceivable explanation for two largely different sets of players under two different managers failing to secure a play off spot when it looked impossible not to for two seasons running. Then combine Waggott/Mowbray's negligence in not getting key players tied down with a subsequent reduction in funding and things look incredibly bleak.

Waggott has admitted quite clearly what it is. Stay up and sell one or two players at a profit. The first might be problematic the way we are going. I bet Waggott can't wait for JDT to leave then he can get another Mowbray in who like Waggott is only interested in feathering his own nest for a few years and who won't give him a hard time.

Pears isn't very good but this lad who we spaffed the summer budget on is absolutely abysmal. Far worse.

And rightly so.

£5m plus? I'll have a pint of what you've been drinking!

Well done to everyone involved in the organisation of today's game. Showed the Club you CAN get extra supporters in with a bit of effort.

What a strange post. Yes we don't need all those horrible nasty extra fans. Are you Steve Waggott?

What do you expect? Let's blow the summer budget (such as it was) on a keeper worse than the one we've got. Another Broughton masterstroke. Can't wait to see what he's got in store for January. Or hasn't based on previous form.

Whatever the exact target is I'm fairly sure this is a well trodden path. I'd be amazed if Waggott was suddenly prepared to reduce prices having raised them in the first place as that would actually require a bit of effort to get more bums on seats to meet said target.

How many times have we had that number over the last couple of seasons? It's a great effort especially at the time of year. It's almost as if the Club have deliberately introduced digital day immediately afterwards as an act of spite to undo any build up of good will caused by the Fans takeover

Ah but none of it is his fault, it's ours, we apparently have "staunch habits" ( he makes it sound like heroin addiction) that he finds awkward to overcome.

Another contributor on here (arbitro) has already said he's tried to do that and the Club wouldn't budge.

Convenient.

Hardly having a go, he commented that you didn't reply to him which is only unfair if you had actually replied but he claimed you hadn't.

What aspects of our marketing/ commercial operation do you feel have improved since this chap took over then?

He can't half write a CV though.,.....or someone else can on his behalf.

Sorry to keep digging out the Fans Forum but he's actually "a credit to the Club" according to Mike Graham (of Fans Forum Fame) (Rightly) Having the piss taken out of us by Darwen FC. That's about where we are right now as a Club.

When you highlighted this originally I posted at the time that it was possibly the most distressing thing I'd read about the Club during the current tenure. Imagine a young fan over the moon with excitement at the prospect of being a mascot only to have that dream cruelly snatched away from him or her because the Club can't provide a shirt even if his or her parents were prepared to buy one! Then we have this digital fixture bollux. It seems that not only do we not want fans in the ground we dont even want mascots either. Obviously all far too much trouble and hassle for those at the Club. I absolutely despair reading this thread. Looking at these pathetic and counterproductive attempts to save a few quid in staffing and printing costs my mind wandered over to the time when not that long ago according to the Fans Forum minutes Cheston and Waggott sat in front of them and with a perfectly straight face claimed they'd be willing and able to finance a brand new state of the art training Centre if they were successful in their plan to sell off part of the training facilities. Yet seemingly we can't even afford a few ink cartridges...............strange that.