Yep, reading between the lines they saw Roy as the safe pair of hands that could ride them through this patch of underinvestment until the Americans are out without making too much of a fuss. I think the injuries has caused Roy’s patience to wear thin of not replacing AWB and another striker. Put this together with Roy’s turgid style of play and clearly making a statement to not use certain unwanted players has caused Parish and Co to rethink Roy’s position and it seems Roy may be doing the same. Hence the stalled contract. There’s a massive overhaul of the squad needed shipping players out on chunky contracts and brining younge, cheaper players in. You can only speculate they could be re-thinking the situation.

and we keep offering 'them' new contracts!

When did he say that?

That was a few weeks ago. KWP off to Saints now

I am not sure who Dazza's source is but it is probably someone within the club. Roy also thought Walker Peters was going to join, so the intel was probably good in that we were making a genuine attempt to sign him. What has happened between times is either 1) SP has arsed around with the deal and tried to unsuccessfully (no surprise there) low ball Levy. Or 2) We weren't happy about the KWP deal (either the loan terms or the sign terms) and there is another (better) deal going on in the background that is felt more favourable long term.

I really hope that for once, it is the latter because if we get no defender in this window then I do fear the worst and the fans will undoubtedly show their angst.

Unfortunately, yes I did.