RevidgeBlue

If it has been pulled by the owners (again?) you're right. Let's see if he walks then.

Yes but we didn't have high profile supposed deals collapsing at the last minute, failed appeals and players being asked to fly across the Atlantic for nothing.

STILL no -one attaches any blame to Broughton. All this sort of shite only started happening after he rocked up.

I said "Greg" or "Gregg" because I think it is weird in the extreme that certain posters (not you) refer to him in first name terms. I thought the inference was obvious. The spelling is completely irrelevant. People don't generally refer to Waggott as "Steve" or even JDT as "Jon" do they.The spelling is completely irrelevant. I have my view as to why that is the case but I know its an accusation that that people don't like being bandied around.

Right OK, I'm wondering if this is right now - just say you give GB the benefit of the doubt for the O Brien deal and he assumed he was ok to go ahead but the V's pulled it at the last minute. (Not what I reckon happened but let's go with it) What are the odds that if that happened 12 months ago GB would set up another deal and fly someone over from the US without authorisation? Pretty slim I'd have thought. What are the odds of the V's vetoing 2 deals after sanctioning them in the first place? Equally slim. Unless of course Adam is chugging back up the motorway in his mk1 Fiesta for a few more months oop in the frozen North before moving to the metropolis of the South? We can but hope on the last part.

Psychic jim. Psychic.

One of them might.

Apologies. I'm equallyconfused why you think that's important. I think it's rather more important that he would appear to be fucking useless. The only way in which we can salvage a bit of self respect from this is if someone better has suddenly become available AND we land him. Still leaves a sour taste though.

100%. But then again if you can stop a poor kid from being a mascot because they can't buy an up to date shirt because you've run out of stock, maybe not so surprising.

Hope so for the player's sake.

Holy fuck how can you treat people like that? What you got to say about this one "Greg"?

As much as I don't rate GB the deadline is 11p.m. tomorrow tbf.

Or even better, Wharton stays, the Court refuse the application for funding in March and they are forced to sell.

How very dare she! Any of our resident internet sleuths got a handle on Mcguire's actual whereabouts? It's a bit like Alan Partridge waiting for Roger Moore to turn up for an interview and tracking his location and of course he never showed.

Yup, come home Adam, it's not your responsibility to save the Club. You'll get a better move in summer, we'll get more money and in the meantime let the buggers sort their own financial problems out.

What was apparent from the transcript of the appeal hearing was that some Rovers staff must have been at Ewood and presumably GB and the player were at Brockhall and a lot of time was wasted sending documentation back and forward to each other when the obvious thing to do would have been to have everyone in one place and send any paperwork direct to the EFL in one hit.

People just aren't having it are they? Cracking on like it's a "normal" window. Or at least normal by our standards.

Don't get the hype with Hyam, good first half of last season then been really poor ever since for me.

Can you imagine the panic in the corridors of power at Ewood/Pune if Palace tried to do the same to us with Wharton? To quote Kevin Keegan "I'd luv it, absolutely luv it" if the deal fell through. But not if we were so desperate we accepted an even lower fee.

If true you can only get away with that so many times then Clubs will refuse to deal with you.

We'll put Alex on the case. He can update us in a few hours if he's safely tucked Mcguire's Mum up for the night.

Also Venky's were originally prepared to fund that black hole and all budgeting would have been done on that basis. It's one thing planning to gradually reduce our financial dependence on them over a period of time and another totally to see all funding removed in one hit.

Yep. Usual Nixon scenario "X set to move in shock deal!" "X's move still going to plan" "X's move off in sensational new twist!" Kerchiiing.

Won't happen but at this point if Wharton came to his senses and backed out of the Palace deal, we offloaded Gallagher and brought in Mcguire at zero net cost I'd consider that a right result compared to what the window could have ended up as. If we could also offload Wahlstedt and bring in a capable keeper it would almost be "If Carlsberg did transfer windows" territory. Let Venky's sort out the finances separately.

It's had vibes of the O Brien deal ever since it was announced given the logistical issues.