No.

Can't we just de-register Obst?

Yes, but we'd still need to pay him. By negotiating a release, we wouldn't need to pay him as much and he gets to play somewhere else

By de-registering him it forces his hand, he either accepts a pay off or sits in the stand. As long as he doesn't play his salary doesn't count on the cap, and if he's de-registered we can use his quota spot (not 100% on this part).

and people would just be lining up to sign for a club that treated a player like that.

It hasn't done Rovers any harm

Who'd want a player who digs his heels in like that? It works both ways.

It does, but the lad signed a 2 year contract. He might have to take a pay cut on his next one, he needs to be compensated fairly.

I heard we might sign someone soon !! Watch this space !

Pathetic !

Well if you are scraping the bottom of the barrel it won't. It's a different story with players other clubs might be interested in. Leave the scummy behaviour to Hudgell and acknowledge he's the expert in this field.

Feel a bit for Obst, gave his all throughout last season for us, and is decent cover, just a shame that there is better/ younger cover in front of him in the pecking order.

If we couldn't shift him I wouldn't be too upset tbh, at least you know what you're getting with Sammy.

Obst is in the driving seat here, and good luck to him. It's a short career and it's our mistake to have offered him a 2 year deal. Disappointing all round, but it's of our making, not his.

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If we'd only offered Obst 1 year, I doubt he'd have come, and without him I am sure we'd not have made the play offs. Now as much as we were never going to win them, that awayday at Cas when we secured it, and even the first half hour of the Leeds game I wouldn't swap for Obst to only get 1 year (if that all makes sense?)

I think I get what you mean, but I personally disagree. Finishing 8th meant nothing really IMO, as we were always going to lose at the first knockout hurdle, so for me the Obst signing was still fairly pointless and just a sign of our desperation. He was never worth a 2 year deal or a quota spot, and a meaningless 8th place wasn't worth the problem he's now causing our recruitment situation. I'd sooner we'd stayed away from him and finished in the bottom 4. ATEOTD the only thing we got for making the playoffs was a frankly embarrassing -kicking on TV, and we'd be in a better position now if we had.