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Only Wharton and Garrett from the academy in the match day squad. Can’t remember the last time that number was so low, must be a long time since just one home grown player has started. I thought Buckley would’ve been in the squad today, and Gilsenan and Duru should’ve been.

I’m not advocating bringing all of them in, but I’d rather give our untested kids ago than other teams kids who aren’t up to it. Duru or Montgomery wouldn’t do any worse than Brittain has for the last few months (good game on Saturday being the glaring exception). Agree with you on Fleck. Gilsenan is way ahead of Markanday for me and I’d rather blood him than an out of form Brighton player too.

Appalling performance. Eustace has probably only had one full days training with them, but he’s got a very busy couple of days ahead. If I was him my first port of call would be the U23s. We’ve got absolutely no pace, power or athleticism in our squad so I’d be trying to see what we’ve got in the young lads. Duru, Batty, Montgomery, Gilsenan, Nsangou all worth a go on the bench over the likes of Ayari and Markanday. If Telalovic has come through our academy he’d have spent the last 4 or 5 years in the North West Counties.

We do. Pretty standard 15%.

Only managed to bring myself to watch a couple of minutes of it. Still too gutting to see him in another teams shirt just yet.

Unless he flew there and back, and had a meeting, between full time against QPR and Monday lunchtime, I’m saying it didn’t happen.

Either that, or Steve Waggott can defy the laws of space and time.

I can categorically state he didn’t. He didn’t go to India last week at all.

PCW is an absolute shadow of its former self. Dreadful these days.

Telalovic shares the same agent as JDT, wouldn’t be surprised if he tries his best to get him moved on at the first available opportunity.

Cheers!!

I think there are a lot of parallels between Rovers under JDT and Rovers under Roy Hodgson. Played some wonderful stuff at times, looked like we could really challenge then fell off badly, mixed continental recruitment, players didn’t buy in to the system after a while, captains causing chaos… Maybe a continental style doesn’t fit us as a club. Souness and Hughes thrived. Hoping Eustace is more in the mould of the latter.

Think it’s also worth mentioning that Sky, Talksport, The Mirror, Elliott Jackson, Andy Bayes, or Dave on Twitter can all announce that one manager is leaving and another is coming in as soon as they get wind of what is happening. The club can’t announce a manager has left until the contract is actually terminated, which is often accompanied by negotiations, payments, agreeing to and signing of many other documents, etc.

It has been provisionally agreed to bring it forward, but with the fallout from yesterdays meeting and the ongoing situation at the club we aren’t going to push it. Perhaps if things are a little calmer over the weekend we might bring it forward a day or two. It absolutely shouldn’t be the boards priority at this moment.

Are you talking about secrecy? If so then we were told to keep it to ourselves but there would be a lot of speculation and press noise coming out over the next day or so. It took 20 minutes. I don’t think the content of the Mail article was a surprise to anyone at the club. I’ve drawn my own conclusions from this, but I couldn’t state it as fact. Those conclusions were JDT is gone.

You’ve got mail!

A box of these and an anonymous letter were delivered prior to the joint Blackpool protest. This covers off everything in a factual and accessible manner up until that point.

On the flip side of that though, look at what people are saying in the replies here…

I’ve read a few times that JDT will not get sacked as we can’t afford to. I’d bet my bollocks that if he did an interview and said anything remotely critical of the owners he’d be out of work within an hour. Whenever they have been questioned publicly or privately it’s been the end result. Perhaps gagging him was the only way to stop this happening.

Every single noise coming out of the club had been “not yet”… until that court case didn’t happen.

I very much expect this is the case. Anyone with eyes and a functioning brain can see Wharton was absolutely integral to what he has tried to do since day one. I’m dismayed at fans who think our window was anything other than an absolute disaster, so I’d expect our manager to be seriously unimpressed.

Fleck didn’t cross over with Hyam and McFadzean. He was there at the same time as Waggott though. With the new age profile approach I’d be keeping an eye out for Peter Ndlovu.

I got into an argument with that one the other day. Absolute simpleton.

There’s a flight from Manchester to Orlando departing at 9:10 in the morning