If his attitude is right, then he's got even more of a problem than we on here think because he isn't performing is he?

Well, they are if you don't invest in the right quality in the first place, you just end up paying their inflated wages for a period then lose them for nothing or a substantial loss.

I'm not sure, apart from his little burst at the start of the season I think Ohashi has looked really ineffective. Leonard gets into goalscoring positions the other 2 don't.

Exactly.

Do you think Leonard is any worse than Gueye or Ohashi? I don't personally. Hopefully there'll be someone a lot better than those 3 coming in but unless there's two coming in who are a lot better, I can't see the sense in letting Leonard go out on loan. It would only take an injury or two and we'd be completely stuck again. Plus I don't think we have to register him in the 25 man squad.

If he's scored 15 in 22, they probably want to test him themselves. Or they should do.

That's nonsense and I'm sure you know it. Running a successful professional football Club is not simply covering the bills. If the sole aim is indeed to get the Club to be largely self sufficient and "wash it's own face" as even Jack stated was his ultimate wish once upon a time, then anyone who's been watching the game for a long time such as you or I know full well that you have to recruit well and sell at a profit, rinse and repeat. The vast majority of the time this requires a reasonable amount of investment in the playing side because as a general rule of thumb quality doesn't come cheap. This lot seem to think that we can just churn out an Adam Wharton every year to pay the bills and if anyone else is sold you don't have to reinvest anything into new players. Again an experienced observer such as yourself will know that genius's like Duff and Adam Wharton probably only come round once every 20 years or so and even finding a big profit maker like Szmodics can't be relied upon on an annual basis. And if you don't speculate to accumulate with your players in general the well is likely to eventually dry up as seems about to happen soon. At the end of the day, if your recruitment is good, you will never lose out anyway - if you make a good signing you'll break even at worst and if it's really good as a whole you might actually achieve that dream of promotion.

No, 2024-5 Cantwell. Obviously.

Is it a contradiction in terms to say "his attitude is not in question" but then "if he just showed some fucking urgency and desire"? I agree with the second bit. I look at him now and think the fire has gone out of his belly. He just doesn't look like he's enjoying being out there these days.

I'd take 2021 Buckley over Cantwell every day of the week. Whether we ever see that version again though I very much doubt.

I do think he has the talent IF he were to get his head down ( which at age 25 I can't see happening now) He was really good in the first half of Mowbray's last season before everyone imploded.

Easy street.

You'd imagine that Buckley is even less of a Eustace type player than the other two but because the "budget" such as it is hasn't stretched to bringing in anyone better than Forshaw to replace Baker, Eustace has been reduced to bulling up "Bucko" in the media as a viable option.

It's about time Cantwell started earning his money. He's been worse than useless recently.

They sent over a large chunk of money relatively recently to pay off the Crossbaron loan didn't they?. Perhaps someone like Wilesden could confirm.

The Court case doesn't affect Rovers - they just seemingly don't want to fund us properly anymore - the legal proceedings would appear to have been a very convenient excuse over the last couple of years. Maybe initially they were prevented from sending funds over without obtaining the permission of the authorities but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer and the excuse is wearing extremely thin now. Even Waggott admits there's no impediment to them funding us.

100%. It'll be unforgivable if we drop out of contention before any main signings come in.

That side but Leonard up top.

The last time we did that they were trying to stay out of the way of the surveyors measuring up Brockhall .

But if he did......... It's us fans that are creating about a lack of (quality) transfer activity as I think is our prerogative. If we're not imploring the Club to spend masses more than they can realistically afford on quality players then we're not doing our job. And that's without even factoring in all the recent sales.

Why would it do that? They have big enough squads to cope.

Hypothetically, if the prize money for winning the FA Cup was significantly more than the Champions League the Big Clubs would be dumping all the meaningless European games like a shot and concentrating their efforts on winning the FA Cup.

He has also specifically said recently that there is some money to spend in January so I very much doubt he would have been daft enough to go into print with that unless he had been told that by Waggott or whoever. At the moment we're still waiting. Who knows, the Club may break the habit of the last few January windows and eventually exceed our expectations but if things fizzle out like normal then he would still be entitled to be annoyed IF he'd been told he would be backed. What happened under previous managers is largely irrelevant if he's been told that things will be different this January. Whether he believes it or not is another matter but a broken promise is a broken promise no matter how credible.

I wouldn't have minded a replay against Boro. Why should I? Don't suppose the the manager or players would be too keen but tough. Win the game at the first time of asking then.

That's a shocking post. You've never liked him from day one and now you're trying to stick the boot into him for something he hasn't even done! IF he is frustrated (and no-one apart from you would blame him) he isn't showing it and is conducting himself impeccably in a thoroughly professional manner. Unlike JDT in the latter stages. Don't think Eustace will ever throw in the towel.