RevidgeBlue

Lol. I know you're disappointed with the result but when you're in a hole stop digging. It's exactly as roverandout said you're a really good poster most of the time but when it comes to referees you lose any and all perspective.

Correct. It's incredibly boring because you just know he's going to say we've been conned out of it by the referee every week. Not seen today, we might have been slightly hard done to, but it certainly wasn't the case last week. We should have had a penalty but you've got another 90 mins to score a goal. As someone else said earlier, good teams make their own luck and vice versa with poor teams.

Bugger - rubber dinghy men.

Tavares apparently.

Just tuned into Talksport 2. Concede a goal as soon as the subs come on, and sounds like De Neve got done for the goal.

You'd have thought it would be the other way round and we wouldn't want to select him until his situation is resolved.

He's always needed his seat on the Board to maintain whatever status he has/had at the FA. We'll literally be wheeling him out in a box.

Suspect we're not missing much with that one.

ACD is a bit lightweight but miles better than Hedges Id say.

We've been linked with him for years. Sheer coincidence JoeH is at Barrow?

Completely disagree but there you go.

Similar thoughts to RF 99. Is that actually possible?

Not being so "transparent" now huh? Throw a hand grenade in blaming Travis then block any further attempts at getting to the bottom of it or or of diffusing the situation.

Thought you were talking about Ismael for a minute then. Lol.

Sorry, him saying on the one hand on a podcast what he really thinks but then on the other putting out puff pieces for the LT all the time as if everything is perfectly normal isn't helpful, in fact it's exactly the opposite. I know his employers dont want to bite the hand that feeds them and he has to put food on the table etc etc but for the sake of the welfare of the Club it's gone way beyond that. The Club's very existence is in peril, at least at a meaningful level. Anyhow credit where it's due - Im very impressed that the LT have led with the partial blackout. It seems they don't mind putting out PR nonsense on behalf of the Club, but when access to that nonsense is removed or restricted they don't like it at all!

Yes - exactly this - if he insists on being "transparent" and in the process portraying Trav as the villain of the piece then we need to know exactly how much we're offering him and how much Derby are offering him. For example if we were only offering £8k p.w. and Derby were offering £16k p.w. all blame suddenly shifts away from Trav for wanting to leave doesn't it?

As others have pointed out presumably you wouldn't want him saying in response to a question about how he thought the young keeper and Montgomery did the other night: "I know they're young lads and all that but fucking hell that was an eye opener tonight. Im not sure either will make it after seeing that" or " X was late for training the other day, I fined him a week's wages and tore a right strip off him. He didn't like it I'll tell you!" More extreme examples obviously but do you think Vi's "transparency" will make the players feel more or less inclined to play for him? Or will they think "Im not playing for this fella, he might hang me to dry out in Public next like he did Trav".

Cheers chaddy. Even if Vi wasn't out of order saying Trav wants to leave (I think he was) surely he is by suggesting he's been offered "double" Who was it who cracked the joke "Attention everyone" " Operation Trav is a greedy bastard will start in 2 mins" Many a true word spoken in jest and all that.

Whatever. We needed someone ambitious like JDT or Eustace in charge when Mowbray was here.

No- one has less time for Waggott than me but do you not think this latest ripping up of everything and starting again from scratch by scouring obscure European Leagues is solely RG's "bright" idea?

I'm struggling to see beyond that and the fact that he must be fully on board tbh. It seems clear to me that the owners have now more or less completely lost interest and washed their hands of us. The only real interest for people like Pasha/Gestede and VI now unless they're completely thick is how long they can keep the runaway locomotive from careering off the tracks for and therefore themselves in lucrative employment.

Maybe not. However no-one is telling me he's not part of the reason we're in as much of a mess as we are. We all knew the owners would lose interest eventually, admittedly it took a lot longer than expected and a Court case, but Mowbray plodded along like the Club was his own private pension fund regardless. Ditto Waggott.

This. "Historic failures" my arse. Same owners, same COO. The only thing that you could possibly say is that it was solely because Waggott was refusing to extend any contracts which I could run with to an extent, but, even if that were the case then following his departure they COULD have rectified these "historic failures" instantly by sorting out the contracts of Dolan/Brittain/Travis/Tronstad/Hyam etc. They dont or didn't want to. End of story.

It would be another "exciting opportunity" no doubt.

Before they fell out for whatever reason Travis did have a good first season under JDT.