roversfan99

If we went into the season with the current squad including another left back, and if Armstrong leaves, a replacement, where do you think we would finish? Under Mowbray of course.

I suspect that you have been conditioned into thinking that a total disregard towards towards supporters is ok. As long as the official twitter churns out endless pictures of our skeletal squad coming back for pre season, what is there to worry about. We have no idea what the situation is, even the journalist for the local newspaper is unsure even whether the submission of the accounts will remove the embargo or whether FFP is the reason. The club should come out and explain the exact situation.

The lack of clarity and transparency from the club regarding the embargo we are under is pitiful.

Do you have a link? Thought it looked like he would join QPR permanently.

Where is this from? 9 minutes of senior football ever is hardly one to get excited about to be fair.

A cryptic no nothing at his absolute best there!

I find the opinions from fans who have seen players playing week in week out to be useful, of course taken with a pinch of salt, its never going to be an exact science regarding how they would do here, there could be various reasons, for example West Brom fans didn't rate Adarabioyo but that was playing in the wrong position. I thought with Douglas that they liked him as a person as he barely played due to injury.

No point torturing yourself.

All rather underwhelming. The further embargo would be of no surprise really, continued incompetence. The Chapman signing makes little sense and maybe @Miller11 hits the nail on the head that it is out of necessity due to the embargo? Either way, he obviously has talent but he quite clearly isnt fancied by Mowbray so is there any point? Reach has always come across as a highlights player, capable of occasional brilliance but usually does little. Obvious talent in there but also a lazy signing for Mowbray who has a European scouting network specifically in Teeside. Safe to say that Sheffield Wednesday fans wouldnt recommend him: https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/300647-adam-reach-bristol-city/?tab=comments#comment-9800611

I suppose you are right in that it is neither here nor there. I also dont think that boycotts, protests or indeed anything we do make any difference whatsoever sadly. Him defending under performing mamagers or deluding himself into expecting proactive recruitment etc again as you say is irrelevant, and I cant argue with much of what you say in regards to the misery that Venkys have and will continue to inflict on us.

I do but I was speaking more generally, I dont think his overall statistics would make him one of our worst ever managers at all, specific runs of very poor form fall within that as do spurts or victories that all come together to equate to mediocrity and looking at last season, regression. I dont doubt that he should have been sacked long ago though.

100%. Plus we have no idea if Pickering will be good enough to be first choice, it makes sense to not get someone who we know isnt very good!

No doubt we will now be inundated with people saying how grateful we should be for what is essentially an accounting necessity rather than some great deed.

I suppose that being in an embargo and being literally unable to register players is somewhat of a decent excuse! Although I wouldn't fret, our signings will be late and predominantly shite as they have been for numerous summers. I thought you wanted us to sign a "back up left back" ie a squad player?

We have lost half of our squad to be fair.

Where is this from? We can't even register players at the moment so I suspect that West Brom may be a slightly more attractive prospect.

I want him out as much as you and have wanted him out for at least a year, but is this true?

You are correct, it is a great club. Excellent infrastructure including a stadium and a training ground left by Jack Walker, and history to be proud of. Sadly for over 10 years, it has been stained by those cunts in India and continues to be. Hence why a club like Barnsley is a brighter prospect at the moment than us. It makes your repeated acceptance of incompetence all the more curious though when you clearly know how great our club can be.

Dont hold your breath, we are under an embargo. Even if it has gone by the end of the week, do you really think that Venkys, Waggott and Mowbray between them are pro-active enough to have deals lined up?

I was being sarcastic. Give them a chance to supplement a senior squad and/or loan out.

Yes, because I am saying that we can not yet rely on players that have never kicked a ball for us, I must be saying that I would like the academy to be scrapped.

The Pike example is not as clear cut in that if Nyambe was to get injured, then Rankin Costello would play there. But assuming he wasnt, then yes, we would need a second option with senior experience. If Armstrong goes, would you be happy for McBride to take his place in the squad as back up to the remaining strikers?

By who? Bielsa is a footballing nut who watches every game but I doubt that Brereton is seriously on his recruitment radar.

How do you know? Seems far fetched to me, newspaper gossip. Because we havent the foggiest if they are anywhere near good enough. By all means give them a chance but only depend on them as part of the squad once they have proven their competence at this level. Dont refrain from signing players as a result. We shouldnt be signing crap players who dont make our team anyway, thats a given. The options arent between untested kids and rubbish squad players. Nothing is good about Venkys either. The academy was always producing, of course the standard required within the first team at our level is just much lower compared to when they joined.

Indeed, he isnt even worth half of his fee.