RevidgeBlue

Don't really get the "Leo" love in and the "Pears" hatred on here, they both seem distinctly sub par keepers. Why Broughton wanted to pee away what available cash we had this summer on a keeper who is no better than the other, seems fairly bizarre and it's pretty unfortunate he managed to find one of that ilk.

You mean apart from Hirst Ennis Telalovic Mola Morton the keeper and Uncle Tom Cobley and all?

We seem to be sleepwalking towards relegation without so muxh as a whimper and it is desperately sad. A situation years in the making initially set in motion by poor long term planning and recruitment from Waggott and Mowbray. I can't see any hope for us whatsoever unless we were to have a stellar January window and what's the likelihood of that with Greg the Egg in charge? For me we don't have any real quality anywhere on the pitch unless Adam Wharton is on song and of course despite the goals conceded the main problem imo is still the total absence of quality up front which has been highlighted time and again over the last 2 and a half years yet nothing was ever done. Our DOF brought in two strikers this summer and our manager doesn't trust either of them enough to start up front in preference to an attacking midfielder. Sort of highlights how much even more of a basket case the Club has become if it wasn't before

Absolutely. I keep hearing that none of this is JDT's fault as it is allegedly his remit to develop players and add value to them and it must just be me but I can't for the life of me see how we're developing or adding value to anyone by conceding 2-4 goals every game and getting thumped every week!

But we did have the money to spend £850k on a keeper the manager seemingly rates behind Pears.

Yep, he's not even an actual Director of Football in his previous incarnation, bet he can't believe his luck that we apparently missed out on our original target and he somehow ended up with this gig. We'll never get shut of him - same as Waggott.

What a great post, one of the best I've seen on here in a very long time. Erudite, well reasoned and bang on the money. We really need to turn up the heat on Waggott with quality contributions such as this. Whether or not the penny will finally drop with those above him, who knows, but imo the Club is in severe jeopardy until the joyous day when he finally makes a long overdue exit. God knows what we'll be left with if he is allowed to continue unchecked.

Relegation form second half of the season and an indifferent start this one at best.

Yep decent turn out on a foul night considering Swag will have pissed countless people off no Internet bookings etc I expect everything to be miraculously back up and running tomorrow.

Why do the so called secon d string consistently outperform the first choice X1 under JDT? If we could find the answer to that we might have a half decent season instead of struggling to stay out of the relegation places.

We wouldn't be able to do anything like that - we probably ran out of shirts in September.

Will this not be part of Waggott's masterplan to only open one stand? If people can't book online then demand for the game is even less likely to exceed the capacity of the JW and prevents him from looking like an even bigger **** than he already does.

We're not going to finish 12th conceding two or three goals every week - nowhere near.

He'd have to be missing a limb to be worse than Hedges.

Don't be put off. At least one other group approached the Club a couple of years ago offering all manner of advice and support. The world and his oyster were promised and as far as I can see, nothing whatsoever came of it other than a change in structure to Head Coach and DOF. To the best of my knowledge Waggott has now more or less cut off any communications with external fan groups bur that doesn't mean people should give up. It might be even more necessary and relevant than ever if the owners are now genuinely unable (or unwilling) to pump as much money into the Club.

Given the background of the Company that brought him into Coventry I do often wonder if Waggott is playing the long game and plans to somehow try and personally benefit from his systematic dismantling of the Club once he's reduced us to next to nothing.

Good to hear from you Abbey if only temporarily. I don't think closing the BBE is as bad as trying to underhanded flog off the training ground but otherwise couldn't agree more. "Goatee wearing ball sack" love it! That cheered me up no end.

Dont know about anyone being able to beat anyone at the moment - anyone can certainly beat US at the moment and the manager must take a portion of the responsibility for that.

My point was, he is an older head.

How would you define 27 year old Hyam then?

Promotion? Blimey Chaddy, we've NEVER looked further away since the owners took over, both on and off the pitch. I exempt JDT from most of the blame for that but perhaps he needs to be a shade more pragmatic with our playing style?

We look nailed on for relegation to me, no money (apparently) relatively toothless up front despite 3 today, shipping goals for fun, no bite in midfield and a keeper you can't really rely on. Not entirely his fault, but the hype surrounding JDT far outweighs his results on the pitch.

Shouldn't be at the Club in the first place but if he has to be pity his £300 k remuneration is not linked to bums on seats and a healthy finishing positon rather than him meeting a bare financial target. We might see some life out of him if it were.

I do wonder what will be left of the Club by the time this abhorrent individual disembarks the gravy train- if you didnt know better, everything he does seems designed to piss supporters off and drive them away - from major calamities like raising prices during a pandemic, unsuccessfully attempting to flog off the training ground, and closing the Blackburn End to more minor irritants like the Waggott matchday tax and trying to charge for entry to Blues. Have often thought that he'd be in paradise if instead of selling 10 k season tickets at £400 hypothetically he could sell 2k season tickets at 2 grand a pop and close nine tenths of the ground down. How he's allowed to get away with what he does with barely a murmur of dissent from anyone I've absolutely no idea and whilst their financial input in the past has been commendablr, it's impossible to defend the owners when they continue to employ chances like this. Andy Cole had it right.

Broughton has provided JDT with Ennis who seemingly isn't fit enough to play and this Semir who basically doesn't seem to have any experience at senior level.