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If he's half as good as the blonde bomber was he'll feckin do!

Think he might be heading for the University Of Bolton Stadium.

They aren't all done at Brockhall now especially when time is of the essence and transport links are key! Also keeps things under wraps away from Brockhall.

A decent striker added to that and I'll send Broughton a case of red.

I'll settle for a couple of bottles of nice red thank you.

Mere words for the gullible, naive and happy clappers.

A club bereft of ambition. It's absolutely hopeless. Said time and time again, we need hungry management fired with burning ambition and a can do attitude. All this 'journey' and 'project' nonsense is, IMO, an absolute crock of sh1te which the 'happy clappers' will naively swallow. IMO, JDT and Broughton have shown their true colours - they are not up to the job.. I think it's an absolute disgrace and an insult to the fans and their intelligence. Increasingly more and more will vote with their feet.

I beg to differ - I have no reason to doubt the source who works for the club. I am also told the local Liverpool rag also reported the discussions and Sam was on Moshiri's list of options - maybe if you trawl through the local rag you will find a story.

Aye, Rovers have also been in talks with several players and none of them signed! That's football!

Biggest cost for any football club is player related so why would you have an all encompassing strategic review and exclude that huge element of cost?!

So there were meetings with Venky's in December and that was the supposed outcome. At one stage, we were close to signing Porteous, Undav and Haikin - absolutely no way those deals would been sealed with a total £10k pw budget. If that was the case, Whalley Wines would make Broughton an offer he couldn't refuse as surely he would be capable of turning water into wine!!!

They were all encompassing strategic reviews - didn't know you were involved Chaddy, you should have introduced yourself!

Probably a tad more than you given I've done consultancy work at 3 football league clubs (2 in England and 1 in Scotland).

I think Broughton is struggling and clearly out of his depth. The ability of 'a fixer' to get the deal over the line is key - we don't want excuses just feckin results. Let's not forget, the window lasts 31 days and here we are scrambling about with 36 hours to go...........so much for planning! As the saying goes, fail to plan plan to fail. There are something like 130,000 professional footballers world wide yet our recruitment team seem unable to find at least 2 or 3 players who would improve our team. There is simply no excuse for our recruitment team - I think they are shambolic.

Think it would be a toss up between him and Sean Curry!" Think we paid Liverpool £10,000 (or they paid us - reverse premium!) and in all honesty, I've seen better at Pleasington!

Desperation sometimes drives innovation. Sadly for Rovers, desperation means a never ending race to the bottom of the barrel followed by endless scraping until only shreds of the barrel bottom remain.

Well I'm glad you think all is hunky dory.

Suggests he's lost the dressing room? Not difficult to think we lose at Brum (will JDT go with the team or will he be ensconced in Brockhall trying to close deals on last day of window !?!?!?) and Wigan, fired up by a new management team, do us on our own 'paddy field' next Saturday. Think the sh1t really is about to hit the fan.

So Rovers' replay at Brum on Tuesday (last day of window) which will truly feck Rovers' plans if they had any !!!

If correct, and personally I don't trust Waggott, what self respecting CEO would put up with that cr@p. You should have asked him why he hadn't therefore resigned!

Yes we DO STAND A FECKIN CHANCE. Other teams WITHOUT parachute payments have done in the recent past eg Brentford, Sheffield United. I've said on a number of occasions, IMO, we are SEVERELY UNDERMANAGED from top to bottom. As I've said before Chaddy, stop trying to defend the indefensible - wake up and finally smell the coffee.

Nail on head. If you've a limited budget then you wheel and deal. Broughton should have successfully managed upwards on this issue. If the Venky's said no then he should have fecked off as clearly wasting his time here.

Think the common denominator is we keep appointing outright dollopers.

Sadly, Chaddy, we only seem to land a target if there is no other club in for them! So by definition, we just mop up the 'waifs and strays'! As for Thomas, he might do a trick for us but if he does regain some form, we'll have lost him come season end. Almost pointless.

Unless there are any unexpected rabbits to be pulled out of the hat, think this window is going to be one of the most underwhelming in memory and we've had a few of those. A seeming inability to land even any of our modest targets eg Gelhardt, Porteous, Haikin etc is a damning indictment of the club's functionality.