It must be highly doubtful we ever put in a bid at all given the lack of corroboration from anywhere on the matter. Similarly it would have been picked up by various outlets if the player was over having or due to have a medical but it clearly never happened. That sounds very much like a figment of Pasha's imagination.

So as there've been no net incomings this window and quite to the contrary we've seemingly been running round trying to get a player on 2k p.w. off the pay roll looks like either: a) Waggott didn't request the January funding it was stated he was going to or b) He did ask, but whatever he asked for wasn't sufficient to bring in the targets we were after or c) He did ask but was refused either in full or in part.

The suggestion from Nixon (I know) is that they would only consider going once they'd returned us from whence we came I.e. The Premier League. Not easy to do when you're selling your best players and spending nothing on replacements.

Thanks. Means nothing to me really but from what you say, tends to confirm the eye test in that he's been crap. Mind you you don't really need complicated and obscure stats to confirm it when his only goal has been a penalty and I'm guessing his direct assist count is negligible.

What does that mean, is it decent or below what should be expected?

Cantwell certainly is, or at least has been thus far.

As always, we're pretty darned efficient and proactive in shipping people out. Bringing anyone in for a worthwhile fee on reasonable wages however...........

Think Elliott Jackson is doing a fine job of that on his own.

Sounds far too technical for me Lol. Can you do that from a phone?

The other thing is which has been mentioned periodically on here in passing but people haven't really made that much of a deal of (and Jackson either won't have realised or won't be brave enough to mention it) is that is is literally a one time only opportunity to pump some reasonable money into the squad due to the rolling FFP regulations. Once it's gone it's gone.

Both then.

The problem with that is, as unprofessional as the Committe might be, I can't see even them (and Broughton before them) being stupid enough to go through steps 1-10 WITHOUT bothering to ask for authorisation first.

1st part - going to have limited effect on them sat back in India. 2nd part - I'd take that for starters.

Most informative. Thanks.

I can't read most LT articles online due to the firewall but having just seen an article on FLW it appears Eustace said something like: "Of course we WANT to bring quality in but if we don't, the lads have been great this season andwe won't let anyone down". IF that's an accurate representation of what he said, it's not looking very promising. Time to ramp up the pressure on Waggott inside the ground. He didn't like it last time it happened.

OK- so lack of availability of squad places isn't an excuse then.

This was discussed a week or so ago but as you now seem to be latching onto it as a belated excuse, according to Mark BRFC you resubmit your 25 man squad at the end of the January window. I have no idea if that is correct or not but if it is then it's no excuse - you can sign who you want and leave out whoever you want.

Ah yes - the phantom "bid" reported by 1 Sky journalist which seemingly neither manager was aware of', which our local press couldn't get confirmation of after the event, which seemingly hasn't prompted either an acceptance or a rejection from the parent Club and following which the target was recalled to Coventry's side by the new manager and scored. Makes it look like we're doing something I suppose. We can't use any of the usual "the EFL are being pedantic with us/we forgot to press send/it was all Sylvester's fault" type excuses.

Exactly this. If the incumbent manager isn't supported for a third time when we're in a promising position, you have to question what the point of it all is. I thought the whole point was to win football matches and try and achieve as much success as possible. To me that applies to every competition we play in. Even on here there are posters who want to make eleven changes in the FA Cup and so on an so forth. Whereas on the LT site there are posters who are happy we're not going to get relegated this season and think we should stick the kids in for developmental purposes. Others don't want us spending money and someone posted today that they're happy being a middling Championship Club and didn't want to be like Burnley yo-yoing up and down and being an "embarrasment" to the Premier League. Whether these accounts are real or plants such comments must be music to Waggott's ears but not to most of us who haven't forgotten that whilst the game is now undoubtedly a business, at heart it is still essentially a sport and if you're not trying to be successful and win things you're left with nothing. Plus, it's not even good business to either not invest in the playing side or to look a gift horse in the mouth every time a £100m + carrot is dangled in front of us for winning the play offs.

Has no-one told these Clubs doing business now that all the decent players only ever move on the last day of the window?

He's not going to sit next to Steve in the Executive areas. Ever again. That'll show him.

I think the penny is starting to drop with Eustace - from sounding very bullish originally about being confident we'd get the extra "quality" in to help the squad etc he's now been reduced to saying in 2 separate interviews he hopes the current squad step up to the plate in the second half of the season and is now merely "hopeful" that we'll get the reinforcements we need. If things play out in the usual fashion for the rest of the window it'll be a particular kick in the teeth for supporters given we were told there was some money to spend and the fact the two signings so far were specifically paraded as cheap additions so as to leave more money available for the priority positions. Plus of course, it will be the third time in four seasons the same thing has happened.

That doesn't make it sound like there'll be another CM coming in. Much like him saying the other day that someone had to step up in the scoring stakes didn't make it sound certain that any more firepower would be arriving either.

It's Travis we've been missing. That's why our form has fallen off a cliff. You've missed the point I was trying to make anyway. I wouldn't have bought in a player (Forshaw) who isn't good enough as cover. No point. Just money down the pan.

By the same token Forshaw couldn't get in the side that was bottom of the table. At the time Forshaw was signed Tronstad wasn't injured so at that pont it looked like we needed cover for 2-3 weeks until Travis was fit. Not that much in it. Not denying we ideally needed DECENT cover after Baker went back but Forshaw was never that.