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Im not certain either but if we have no control at all, why are Chelsea allegedly prepared to pay £750k?

He wasn't really. He calmly stated Brittain had received an offer he wanted to accept, (inferring that was the end of it in his eyes) and then then made unsubstantiated accusations about Travis in Public to help ease him out of the door.

Not sure why this has got 6 likes, is it only me who finds the fact we appear to view kids this age as an extra income stream fairly disgusting? If you're going to bring them in, at least develop them and then let's see them in the blue and white halves before we flog them on.

Don't think you're saying it early, most of us said it before he arrived.

I think you're crediting them too much with something approximating to a plan there. He was a warm body still available and brought into the building at the last minute after Hyam left. Hyam hasnt been replaced like for like.

It's been a desperately difficult watch, granted, but surely you have to give him one chance to show what he can or can't do in a tournament.

Anyone watching today? I've just remembered why I dont usually bother watching England outside of tournaments. Like watching paint dry. We'll win the game, we always do against this sort of opposition, but it's completely joyless stuff. Football by numbers. What on earth has Marcus Rashford done in the last few years to warrant selection.?

Posh 2-1 down now with just under 10 mins to go. As things stand they're bottom of League 1 with one point from seven games.

Three of them aren't/weren't fit and there's not a cat in hell's chance the option is ever taken taken up on Baradji imo. But yeah, sorry, you're right they've all been great.

Don't know if this is the right thread but stories on the LT and BBC 😯 website about a crackdown on parking on matchdays. Yet more efforts from the Club/ Council/ Local Police to make it as difficult and disheartening as possible to attend games. When I first started watching in the early 70's, the CarPark opposite the Red Brick Theatre and the site now occupied by travellers were available. And crowds then were maybe 50% of what they are even now. Now there's nowhere anywhere that isn't Club owned (and Im assuming a small fortune) and the Council seem to delight in making any usable space "Residents only" for no real reason. They're not private roads and they dont pay for the upkeep thereof so why should they have their cake and eat it? The Council are scumbags, go out of their way to make life difficult for us but the at the sniff of any success, they're the first ones in trying to get a photo opportunity.

They were never in partnership. Venky's granted Kentaro a contract to run the Club on their behalf in the early days although that formal arrangement was shelved fairly quickly after they got burnt is my understanding. There's no doubt though that the general modus operandi has enabled agents to have a beano at the Club's expense over the years and it seems to be getting worse again just recently. Dennis/Baradji/Forshaw x2 /Gueye potentially out on loan. Only one party benefitting out of those transactions, the agents.

Said this earlier in the window but if we let Gueye go, especially on loan, without a replacement it can only be construed as an actual of self sabotage and a deliberate attempt to relegate us. Can't believe people are in the main taking the potential news so calmly. The Club will be the first to say how unlucky we are if either of our two strikers get injured though. We might as well have left ourselves with 2 CB's, it would have been no less suicidal.

Is this Gestede you're referring to? Im starting to worry about you a bit Parson. As for JR - loved him as a player here but the role he's going to be filling appears to be completely surplus to requirements currently.

Could only happen at Rovers that we suddenly appoint a full time loans manager when we currently have barely anyone in or out on loan and the Head Coach himself has professed not to be a fan of the Loan System.

You're obsessed with this notion. Early days still, but it might possibly be the case that this is possibly one season too far for Batth. If it is who cares? the only thing that matters from our point of view is that he was excellent for us last year - a lot better than Hyam was - end of. Hyam has also struggled badly in the past alongside other partners, primarily Carter. I couldn't really give a shiney shite how either of them do for their new Clubs tbh, they're not our players any more.

Indeed not. "Just clip its' horns and wipe its' arse!"

I've thought for a while these proceedings were fairly irrelevant from our point of view and it only affected how much it was costing the owners to fund us. However with the last minute sale of Hyam and no replacement, Im wondering just how near the knuckle we actually are in terms of immediate cash flow etc. The Hyam move went through so quickly and unexpectedly that it seems to me as though we must have been touting him about to Clubs in the last 48 -72 hours of the window desperately trying to shift him, and got a bite from Wrexham.

Im sure you're deliberately missing the point just to be argumentative. There'd have been no issue whatsoever selling Hyam earlier in the window and replacing him with similar or better. To sell him in the last few hours of the window with no replacement whatsoever is suicidal.

Way back when, Lynsey Talbot used to be John Williams' PA. If it's her as has been suggested on here, she should know a lot better frankly. It does illustrate the sordid depths the Club has sunk to though, whether or not the comment was said partly in jest.

Oh come on. I dont like him or particularly rate him but you're surely not going to defend the decision to replace him in the last few hours of the window without any sort of replacement, let alone a comparable one. You've been watching football long enough to know better than that.

Don't blame you, however you profess to be mad keen on England and they've won fuck all since 1966!

That's aged well. Had the nerve to call Mercer a bullshitter as well.

Yes Im sure that was the thinking. Mark BRFC flagged it up earlier as the likely plan all along. I reckon Tronsrad would have been gone as well had Baradji not had a serious medical issue. How we do on the pitch this season does not seem to be a priority with the regime. Just as making the play offs did not seem to be important when VI came in even though we were comfortably in the top 6 when he arrived. It's all absolutely scandalous. I mean what's the point in any of it? We're only existing to pay Pasha/Gestede/VI a handsome wage for as long as possible.

Yes but apparently he's a midfielder/Full back. So no use as regards replacing Hyam assuming he has gone. Steve Bruce is quoted as saying he thinks the lads best position is full back.

There's always been a grace period if you can submit a deal sheet outlining the main points of the deal hasnt there? Rightly or wrongly.