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A really depressing waste of an afternoon watching that rubbish. Just a massive lack of quality throughout the team. Henriksson is an absolute waste of space, he doesn't offer us a single thing. De Neve again is another competition winner. The young attacking players in Dlamini, Powell and Doherty are absolutely nowhere near the standard to be playing at this level, theyve no business being near it and probably wouldnt get close to a functional side in League 2. Not their fault, we badly need to bring in numerous attacking players, we did before this game, we still do and because of Venkys im pretty sure we wont before next weekend. Hull were awful too and didnt look like they could be arsed but our defenders did show up well. Cashin, O'Riordan and Atcheson all did their job, they all had a wobbly moment or two but overall they were all solid. Toth also commands his box and provides a much stronger presence in goal, has to stay in.

As if he was ever a target.

That team is grim.

Did he specifically say we wont spend more than £5k a week? Or is he just echoing the public knowledge that there is clear intent not to spend much on wages? Hence why we ended up letting experienced Championship players go and signed cheap crap from poor foriegn leagues.

Because we wont spend competitive wages, we will end up going down in the near future. Many key players already gone, Tronstad set to go in the summer, Cantwell will go, Toth will go. Cadamarteri is not very good and Wednesday fans dont seem arsed that he seems likely to go even considering their lack of players. Has really struggled to score any goals at this level and didnt do too well in League 1 on loan. As 4th or 5th choice as a prospect, maybe, but that would involve us signing a quality striker to regularly start and that wont happen here. Was Ismael trying to apply some pressure by saying get players in before Hull or did he genuinely believe it?

There was a sub and one or two other minor delays in extra time so I dont think it was part of a conspiracy to keep Palace in the competition.

Youan starting for Hibs as normal. I think that rumour was unfounded.

Games like that only further highlight why I find it totally bizarre that anyone either doesnt care about or actively wants us to exit the FA Cup. Wharton was just crap today, looked like he wanted to be anywhere else. Can make excuses for him but he was just not good enough.

18 months until Cantwell is out of contract, unless he has an unreported option to extend. So he may need selling next summer. Toth is also in the same boat. I will never believe when they say anything will change regarding contracts. Until it does.

The owners arent happy that a pitch they refused to fund the overhaul of is costing us?

I feel like managers always come across well at events like this. They always say the right things. They always suggest that contracts are on the table, until they start getting signed, nothing changes. We have key players like Toth and Cantwell with 18 months left, but there are also much easier deals to be done for some of the youngsters. None have been done. Same with transfers. Its just hot air until they happen.

Ismael specifically said that we wanted a left footed centre back, hence signing Cashin. I dont know why.

Ismael has said we want 2 strikers. We need 2 so that would be correct. No mention here of why the signings havent been made as suggested. Dont see why we suddenly dont need a right wing back. We badly need a left wing back.

I think we should have 1 spot with Toth being converted. Gueye never had a slot. Its hard to sign a reasonable striker for a cheap fee and cheap wages. But if we put too much focus on Championship experience in the most expensive position then we will only be able to get unwanted crap. Players like Lyndon Dykes, Frey at QPR, and even then their wages might be too much. We are short of Championship experience but up front its goals and pace we need more.

Did he make any claims about the potential timing and quantity of any signings? Was he asked why we havent signed the players we "expected to" before Hull?

A lot of question marks over his attitude and work rate.

Where is that from?

But "of course" we were prepared coming into the transfer window. With a plan to get most of our business done by the Hull game, whats happened?! I dont get why we need an experienced Championship striker. I feel like that will leave us with sub par plodders like Lyndon Dykes.

But surely if he had that attitude he would put out really weak teams. His record in the cups was absolutely woeful but I dont think it was because he didnt respect them.

It was strange under Mowbray. His selections didnt tend to suggest that he had no care for the cups, far from it but for some reason his record was shocking in them. I remember in the season that we finished 8th, we played Morecambe at home early in the season in the League cup, I dont think we had signed anyone by that point, another example of the owners letting us down, and we went pretty much full strength and still embarassingly lost. A couple of other examples of cup exits. We played Newcastle in the third round of the FA cup I think the season after promotion and went full strength and got unlucky with dodgy decisions. Then a couple of years later we played Wigan, again the team wasnt a weak one but the one change that cost us was the goalkeeper. Equally, Tomasson didnt necessarily play his strongest team by any means but we went on a good run.

I get that we do need to rotate our squad which is not fit for purpose. But I think if I was going that I would at least want to see a competitive side. That should be possible with rotation, it seemingly wont be here. If you was willing to disregard the cup to that degree, as if it doesnt matter, then I dont even see why you would bother going. Surely a more fitting mindset would be that you understand a few will be changed but you are still desperate to see us progress.

Big day today with all these signings coming in.

Alebiosu and Tavares.

Gueye is in the pictures of training on Rovers' twitter which were taken to "showcase" our new loanee. Seems any supposed move is not imminent.

It will have been an absolute non-entity of an event. Business people watching a sanitised set of questions.