The beer was worth it.

Johnny Foreigner? We in an NF meeting from the early 80s now or something?

If I am corret the sad part is that was all set up by the FA. Shows how much they care about the game, sad thung us we could be missing so much talent that is English or Sottish etc. These kids' paths are blocked by Johnny Foreigner and there fore mostly just fade to oblivion. They would be much better off initially at a club like ours or the ilk.

This is Venkies so it is quite simple. Which player(s) would fetch most?.

Sontjis window we could lose Baath, Dolan, Weiman, Trav, Tronstadt, Brittain. Just ket that sink in a minute. SIX first teamers all to be replaced with nobodys. Well on the way to 3rd division, middle of. So friggin tragic what has happened. Make a good documentary that the 135/15. Highlight the success if the lil town team even after Jack passed. Compare that with the Venkie's tenure, include all the olayer and contract mis-management, Kean the unfireable, agent shennanigans all of it. The world needs to know. Something is very wrong in Pune and I wonder if a couple if shovels worth of digging might just show illegalities. It just stinks and is so mindbiggling. Any other Championship team that was in similar positions in January wiuld have backed their manager to the hilt in an effort to get to the prem. Our lot? Well they did it in such a fashion that both our managers walk. Stinks.

So likely 3 signings and all seem to fall in the same category. It seems like they are signed as squad players and all of them have question marks regarding their career to date. They all are almost certainly on low wages too. De Neve has often played at left back, has seldom scored/assisted and surprised Belgian journalists with this move. Tavares has made very few senior starts beside a spell in the Porto B team and this right back couldnt even make the team that De Neve was in (Gestede really loves a player contracted to a relegated Belgian team) although seems to have had a really brief spell in Scotland where he impressed. I can sort of understand and see a pattern in these signings, aside from the financial one. All of a similar if not the same age, not at their peak and should bring some athleticism to a one paced squad. Permanent deals are ideal too. Hopefully something has been seen in them that we can develop and they can really push and provide actual competition before then taking over in the first 11. This right back obviously replaces (at a profit) JRC and a £750k move to Charlton might suit all parties. He has ability but has struggled for a while. There were numerous aims coming into this window. We have lacked quality in depth which has cost us repeatedly for years, lets hope these 3 are a start at rectifying that and they arent just cheap shite. We dont know either way at this stage. We also needed to tie down a core of strong Championship players, no progress there. We also needed to improve our best 11 especially getting far more goals into attacking positions. No progress there yet. Lots more to do, hopefully very soon.

We are signing players from teams which will have very little coverage which makes it much easier.

Wonder if this new RB will end up on the Right wing. He played Beck further forward at the first opportunity and it seems De Neve, who has also been a LB, is set to be deployed on the left wing.

Hahaha I've got a friend who's mates with him. Had a trial at Rovers if he is to be believed.

Horner left for 2 reasons. One, race performances and secondly, Max Vestrappen.

I hope it's right about Callum Brittain has/is set to sign new contract

Signed two lads from this naff Belgium team and neither are the centre midfield with 5 goals and 8 assists in 30 games

And almost 15 years on we're still in the same league under the same fucking owners being run as the same old circus... So excuse my pessimism.

Yes I would like to spend more money on some signings Point being Nicko has more national contacts and Jackson doesn't. If we are looking overseas Jackson won't have contacts out there. What do you want him to do?

tavares and alebiosu will be definate starters,though i`ve got an inkling that de neve will be so bad that he won`t be seen anywhere near the first team squad

Hope you’re right, haven’t seen many of these signs you refer to myself though

Think you are absolutely right. Alebiosu not good enough for a relegated Belgian Pro League side and loaned to St Mirren who I doubt would even survive in the Championship. Doubt we've paid more than £200k for the lad and would think we've signed 3 cheap, unproven and virtually unkown players for about £750k up front. These are not signings of the Tronstad, Sigurdsson ilk. Very much doubt any of Alebiosu, De Neve, Tavares good enough to hold down a place in our starting 11.

He’ll always be the daddy

Could be an educated guess though as all signs point to Brittain extending

Can guarantee only 1 of those things happens and it’s the one we all now know about

At least they're bringing in pace this time.

Sometimes it must feel like it’s only your unrelenting optimism that gets you through.

One year on…..suppose law of average says you will be right at some stage

Mads Jorgensen and Kennedy Bakirloglu must be retired by now.

this is gettting like the portugese lot they imported,apart from the fantastic nuno gomes they were all catastrophically bad