January Transfer window

[Old Codger]

4 minutes ago, Torgeir said:

Name your sauce

Definitely Guinness. GIn and Tonic at a push.

Champagne, moi? Non! 

Cheers!

I'll pop a tinnie as soon as there's any actual transfer business done - not news, not rumour, not 'he's in the building', not 'Rovers hope to..' Nope. Sauce only applies when business has been transacted. Source - the Old Codger.

[Blue&WhiteArmy]

If O’Brien is still the midfield target and if I was him, I’d be giving the club until Sunday night to get it all done, no chance would I be going into deadline day with a move in the hands of this useless bunch.. 

I’d be a huge fan of the signing though if it turned out to be him, he’d deserve a massive welcome too after the nightmare of two years ago..

[martonrover]

2 minutes ago, Blue&WhiteArmy said:

If O’Brien is still the midfield target and if I was him, I’d be giving the club until Sunday night to get it all done, no chance would I be going into deadline day with a move in the hands of this useless bunch.. 

I’d be a huge fan of the signing though if it turned out to be him, he’d deserve a massive welcome too after the nightmare of two years ago..

With the club focussed on an away match in London the following night, what could possibly go wrong?

[MarkBRFC]

1 minute ago, martonrover said:

With the club focussed on an away match in London the following night, what could possibly go wrong?

That's why we agreed to that date.

[Mattyblue]

Swag can have a quick journey back home after the game too.

[Fraserkirky]

O’brien and one of those fancy foreign strikers I’ll be happy.

[Lancaster Rover]

O'Brien is becoming our new Igor Tudor/Luca Toni. He's not coming, it's an easy name to chuck in given the history but very little chance he's coming

 

[Rover1984]

Nathan Jones saying Garrett off to Tranmere. Midfielder surely coming in. He hasn’t features I know but why leave yourself short

[Tom]

50 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Jackson so confident of Rovers doing next to no transfer business that he has gone off on a jolly until the QPR game next week

 

I mean we won’t miss anything but who on earth approves leave at what should be a critical time for his role? 

[Lancaster Rover]

3 minutes ago, Rover1984 said:

Nathan Jones saying Garrett off to Tranmere. Midfielder surely coming in. He hasn’t features I know but why leave yourself short

Garrett going to 4th from bottom in League 2 says a lot about where he's currently thought of being at standard wise

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, Tom said:

I mean we won’t miss anything but who on earth approves leave at what should be a critical time for his role? 

Yep. Good to see someone so dedicated to their craft.

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

3 minutes ago, Tom said:

I mean we won’t miss anything but who on earth approves leave at what should be a critical time for his role? 

They can just get a BOT to cover 'reporting' on zero players being signed, in fairness 

[Tugayisgod]

[Ricceh]

10 minutes ago, Tom said:

I mean we won’t miss anything but who on earth approves leave at what should be a critical time for his role? 

One of my financial controllers at work put in annual leave for the whole month of September, when the accounts deadline is. Apparently loads of idiots approve leave at bad times.

[Torgeir]

Highest placed team alphabetically sorted or are the lists turned on its head?

 

"Trust us this time, Lewis. Lightning doesn't strike twi.... eh, three times."

[JHRover]

I'm convinced they are just playing games with the O'Brien one. 

Even if our interest was genuine I'd be amazed if he would even entertain coming here unless Eustace can talk a very good game and persuade him to do it. The scars of 2023 will still be there, he will know what sort of amateur outfit he's dealing with. 

What should have happened of course is that if he was such a target that we are prepared to contribute heavily on wages he should have been in the building in the first week of January so he was able to play in midfield over the last 4-5 games and make a difference ahead of Forshaw. 

 

[Ricceh]

I'm convinced OBrien is just lazy journalism. He's not exactly been that exciting when I've seen him play in the last couple of years.

[islander200]

Wrexham reportedly spending £2 million on a striker 

Millwall make their fourth signing of the window in Cundle a good player at this level, reinvesting the Esse money 

But all is OK here and fans shouldn't be angry according to Chaddy 

[Eddie]

9 hours ago, Forever Blue said:

The problem with that is we’ve signed some right shite under the new DoF model, or whatever bastardised version of it we’re operating. 

Secondly, the principles GB spouted were soon thrown out of the window as soon as JE was brought in. We’ve also sacked half the people who were responsible for implementing those principles, including the head of recruitment. We don’t have ‘principles’.

You’re completely delusional if you think the tinpot operation down at Ewood is anything like Brentford’s. 

We have, but the majority of our good signings have all come from our DoF. 

Over the last 5 years, our signings from managers have almost exclusively been mediocre players from their former clubs. I can't remember the last time it felt like a manager was part of spotting a good talent? Hughes?

And I never claimed that we were like Brentford, but you only make improvements by aiming for something and putting structure in place. We desperately need structure. 

You're also completely delusional if you think that Eustace has shown an eye for spotting talent in the transfer market. It works both ways. 

[KentExile]

37 minutes ago, Rover1984 said:

Nathan Jones saying Garrett off to Tranmere. Midfielder surely coming in. He hasn’t features I know but why leave yourself short

Personally, I would be seeing if Chesterfield would want Garrett on loan, They had a good experience with Markanday on loan from us, and they have the constantly injured Fleck as a  midfield option, so he would surely get minutes there.  Accrington as another option have given Batty minutes when he has been fit

[Eddie]

5 hours ago, London blue said:

Expecting a manager to be at least competent at managing a team, devising game by game strategy, contract planning and negotiation, succession planning and other non football activities is unrealistic in the extreme nowadays.

Not even expecting them to be competent, just expecting them to have the time. 

[Neal]

What's crack with Gilsenan? 

[booth]

Just now, Neal said:

What's crack with Gilsenan? 

He'd be like a new signing if he could stay fit.

[KentExile]

1 minute ago, Neal said:

What's crack with Gilsenan? 

Nothing from the club that I can see but this (which may or may not be accurate) says he is out until late Feb

[rob_of_the_rovers]

3 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Nothing from the club that I can see but this (which may or may not be accurate) says he is out until late Feb

Has he ever been fit? Every time I hear about him he's injured