Each to their own but chasing after a lost cause you've no chance of getting to make it look like you're doing something isn't putting in effort in my book.

Might seem harsh after a very good performance for 80 mins today but everything Conte said about Spurs yesterday applies to us albeit at a lower level. There's been a losing mentality at the Club, probably since Mark Hughes left. Losing the game today after leading twice and not even making it to extra time after leading with ten minutes to go. Three out of three chances of a trip to Wembley for an FA Cup semi final spurned with defeat in the quarters.. Not even one finish in the play off positions in eleven (?) seasons in the Championship. A shocking indictment. Can we start to put that habit of failure right by at least finishing in the play off positions this season? Let's hope so but I fully expect us to somehow contrive to miss out even if success looks likely come the business end.

No he isn't. Gallagher creates the impression of doing something. but at the end of the day he can't be arsed getting into the correct positions from which he is likely to score.

Ten minutes away, two goals up -absolutely gutted. Wanted the win today far more than any play off challenge, you'd imagine that chances to finish in the top six will be fairly commonplace whereas chances to reach Cup semi finals, finals win it will be very rare indeed. Odd substitutions - if it ain't broke, don't fix it, having made those subs we were always stuffed if we conceded the equaliser.

It has met your emotional needs on plenty of occasions this season then.

Think it's a bit harsh to blame Dolan. Hyam missed the ball for two of the goals.

Fuck off Gallagher, stunk the place out as usual then loses the ball for the 3rd. But hey, we allegedly win more points with him in the side than not so it's all OK. Normal service has been resumed. As we seem to be able to rise to the occasion in the Cups however I'll settle for an FA Cup win.

Really, based on what? He doesn't have a single redeeming quality in my eyes. To say he's decent at this level is probably as much of an exaggeration as saying he's the worst player ever to play for the Club.

Will give you Brown. Did say "one of". Vale is only young, Campbell was better imo, don't agree about Brereton and I wouldn't class Butterworth as an out and out striker.

It really isn't.

Pretty dreadful looking starting line up. How does Gallagher keep getting selected? Must be one of the worst players ever to pull on a Rovers shirt.

I wonder what odds you'd get on us not winning another game until the end of the season? Has to be a fair shout given our striking options and the incompetence of GB, the recruitment department and whoever messed up the two deals. Hard to imagine JDT is too enamoured with life at the moment.

As I say, don't know him from Adam, but, being "rude and arrogant" wouldn't disqualify him from filing paperwork correctly and on time. If he's "incompetent" that would be a different matter. But if he was, how has he survived 20 (?) years at the Club?

All a face saving exercise imo. Still considerably cheaper than signing any players.!

Or wasting money on a lost cause. We do have form for it with the Berg case and the aborted plans to flog off part of Brockhall. Then, even if any appeal was successful the deal may not be worth it if we're out of play off contention and/or the player doesn't wish to join us by then

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Genuine or trying to save a bit of face after an unexpectedly adverse reaction? I know which side I fall on.

As a minor point, seems to be a bit of an agenda building up without any foundation against the "Club Secretary" on here. I don't know him from Adam so I have absolutely no dog in that fight but someone I know that knows him says he is usually pedantic to a fault. Plus I would point out myself that issues of this particular nature haven't arisen previously. Onto GB, we really saw the benefit of the supposed upgrades to the recruitment department in the last window didn't we? It reminds me a bit of Waggott boasting we'd installed "viewing areas" and the latest tech down at Brockhall during a similarly poor window a couple of years or so ago when we failed to sign anyone of note. EDIT: Plus, you'd hope a competent recruitment department would know the transfer budget they need at this level and to have negotiated it with the owners well before the transfer window. Not go running cap in hand to the owners ers for more money at the last minute. We seemingly saw it all before the first season we were promoted when we drew a blank all summer then bought Brereton for £7m and failed with a £4m bid for Freeman in the last 48 hours of the window. You would have hoped we'd be a lot more professional now with a DOF - but maybe not.

Great post. Appears to be a former Academy Director promoted well beyond his station at this point.

Absolutely. Plus, and this is the most relevant point for me, GB only came out and did his sheepish interview after there was a massive backlash against the disgrace that was the official Club statement which completely lacked even the merest hint of contrition. Imo If Broughton was sincere, he'd have done that interview first and the official statement would never have seen the light of day.

It's arbitration, not the Court of Appeal.

Absolutely. Why would he want to come here after what we've done to him. Actually, in a perverse way, if we weren't going to get promoted anyway, I wouldn't be completely averse to that final embarrassment if it heaped further pressure on the inept Waggott and Broughton.

Only if the panel find in our favour.

You're being silly there, that's why I said "within reason". I'm struggling to understand why, even if what Nixon has claimed is correct, people don't think it's relevant what happens if we got promoted, signed him permanently, then got relegated again if the Club failed to address that. I'm thinking by now the appeal was probably rejected some time ago but the Club haven't dared/couldn't be arsed publicising the result. Just as they couldn't be bothered keeping everyone abreast of the situation for a couple of days after the window closed and any relevant info had to be drip fed by Sharpe aa opposed to being released by the Club.

That would indeed have been nice. Instead we ended up with Broughton.