Sam Gallagher on 40k a week? I upchucked my supper. If that list is correct maybe this one is too. Also from FB it's alleged to be Tony's entry for the FIFA 20 "All-Time World Eleven" competition.

“I’ve left him out for a few games, because he’s been poor with his distribution and was getting caught on the ball.” Meanwhile, Elliott Bennett has regular terrible performances, gives away penalties at will, but will never be dropped.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/quicktest/18019452.rovers-weigh-options-mowbray-explains-travis-absence/ “I’ve left him out for a few games, because he’s been poor with his distribution and was getting caught on the ball.” I dont necessarily think that as a standalone comment, that there is anything wrong with that, he may have a point. But he replaced him in central midfield with Elliott Bennett! Who cant pass wind. (Although if chaddy is to believe did a man marking job on Paul Gallagher that had Kante taking notes!)

Yes Alejandro. We support a fabulous football club with a long and illustrious history, an iconic and beautiful kit and a record of achievement unsurpassed by any town of similar size. Present difficulties should not be a reason to deter you or any other fans from celebrating and supporting the Rovers. We have a history of punching above our weight, overcoming obstacles and representing with honour a Northern town itself characterised by the honest endeavour of straightforward folk. Be proud.

Do you sit behind a pillar? Only pulling your leg ? In all seriousness, what are these issues with his attitude? The only time I hear this, is when people defend Mowbray for not having the bollocks to pick an attack-minded team or go for it late on. I personally feel that he is on the edge of losing his job and it will force his hand to do the obvious and try to win games - that might give Chapman a chance. I'll be honest, if I was a lightening quick winger who scores, sets up and has proven my fitness in the U23's but has to frequently watch a load of out-of-position below par players be given chance after chance in a team that struggles to win or create chances, my attitude would be far worse than Chapman's.

He's so not bothered, he wrote an article about not being bothered. Has anyone got a flotation device? I'm drowning in irony over here.....

Says more about his team mates if you ask me. No bugger moving ahead of him and you don’t want to be passing back to Del and Benno...... Now Nyambe has forced himself back in, he’s just gone and made an argument for his little Benno to go into the middle for a bit. You couldn’t make it up really. He just needs to feck off and we get a team where everyone earns their place in the team.....this kind of shit must play ell with the team spirit. If Benno took my place in any part of that team I’d be fuming behind the scenes. Not good Mowbray Out

It was the quote that "the only difference between Jack Vale and a first teamer like Joe Rothwell is experience" which seemed a bit of a stretch. I dont doubt that Mowbray is perhaps over cautious with our youngsters, but the one thing I do think we need to look at is our use of the loan system. Buckley is the perfect candidate, when he features he looks lost IMO, he needs a loan spell in League 1 or 2, get kicked out a bit, learn through mistakes when to pass the ball and when to hold on to it. Our recent history of loans spells has been pretty poor, Wharton is a good example, you look at Fisher who I dont think has played a League game, I get that it can be very difficult to loan a player to a club in terms of guaranteeing game time, and there being a balance between getting them game time at as high a level as possible and getting them regular games, but we need to get better loans for our youngsters. Callum Hudson-Odoi is as good a youngster as you will find, and a special talent, whether he underwhelmed in one game or not.

A normal club would forget about that, as Wigan ain’t fetching folk at £28 for a Sky game. ’Christmas Cracker’ or some other PR guff. £15 anywhere in the ground. Lot of exiled Lancastrians will be arriving back home, lot of people take Christmas Eve off, so a chance of a ‘decent’ crowd... so no chance.

How long as Mowbray been here ? Yet to compete at this level we appear to need 5 new first team players !

Let's actually see Chapman in the team first before writing him off. I can often spot a player and that lad is bloody decent and way overdue his chance. It genuinely pisses me off how he hasn't had a fair crack of the whip. He'll be fast-tracking his way to wanting out and demoralisation being the mug who is in the squad but never on the bench. He offers something that absolutely none of the others can and would compliment an out and out striker. On the flipside, the wasted and prolonged opportunities offered to the likes of Bell and an out of position Bennett, who will never, ever make it at this level or above, rile me even more.

>No Bennett >Rothwell and Chapman

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Doesn't mean he doesn't talk shit in the LET though.

Tosin for me. He brings something different to the team that we've not seen for a while and I now like him complaining to our defense - someone needed to shout at them. Sometimes he does play a risky square ball but that shows his confidence. Can't see him reaching City's first team and in all probability a good season with us will see him signing for a lower premier team. Be good if we could have him for keeps but we aren't at that level (yet?). Looks like a leader to me.

So not bothered he created an account here to tell us he aint bothered before then writing an article about how unbothered he is.

If he leaves Travis out to accommodate Bennett then he needs his bumps felt. More likely he’ll stick with him at right back with using Nyambe in the centre beside Adarabioyo, and Williams back out on the left with Downing covering. Mowbray has fallen into the exact same trap that Coyle did. Everyone make way for the bloke who trains the hardest. Shame how it’s (not) working out, I used to really like Bennett but he is becoming that player. Just as it was when Bowyer was here - another squad-that-could-have-been...

Dread to think if he hated him!

Fucking LOL ??

It is still predominantly academy grads that get singled out for criticism by the looks of it...

If we went 442 it becomes a problem to fit in the likes of Dack, Holtby and Rothwell. We'd have to play a CM combo of the likes of Travis and Johnson for stability and wide players who can get up and down. It would make us defensively very fragile to pack a midfield four with Dack, Holtby etc. Our best players are attacking central midfielders - hence why we end up with 451 or 4141 to fit them in with the requires support.

Some over egging how bad it is as well i think as it is far from a bad squad it's just bang on average overall, A few bright points, a few low points but most are bog standard. The key is getting the right blend, weeding of the real weaknesses, playing to the strengths and adding to it because all that can be done to this squad to get it capable of competing in the top 9. Mid table squad, mid table manager, middle of the road championship club costing minus c10 million overspend every season and a 7 miliion pound substitute at best when he's fit. That's what they've collectively created so far, problem is we aren't even midtable are we.......

Charlie Austin is a good example. If he gets you promotion and you think you need a better striker for the Prem you sell him on to another Championship club for more or less what you paid for him. If you don't get promoted you keep him for another go at promotion. That's a much more sensible purchase that chucking big bucks at some kid who may or may not make it 2 or 3 years in the future.

Beg the hierarchy to switch kick off times on behalf of his mates in blue.

I keep seeing you talk about this, but it doesn't matter what he did if he wasn't the one sent off. If another couple of players got themselves sent off by intervening, it's because of something THEY did. If he stayed on the pitch then he isn't responsible. You seem to have it in for Chapman and I can't figure out why. But in this scenario you should be blaming the two fools who got themselves sent off, whoever they were. Instead, for some reason you seem to think Harry is the only one who should keep his temper, even though what he did can't have been as bad.

I do think some people tend to over egg how good our squad is. I do think we have some good players, and as said before I think we're definitely hampered by some poor management, but you only have to look at the defensive options in this squad to know that even the mighty Alex Neil wouldn't have this side in the top 6. As for Saturday, maybe we have a spring in our step after finally scoring an injury time winner last weekend, be delighted if we come away with a 1-1. £40 though is crazy, last time I went to Leeds was on New Years day 2014, think we won 2-1, think the ticket was £36 and only went as it was a chance for a bit of a session with some lads who I hadn't seen for a while. I can't get my head around anyone paying £40 for a nothing second division match, but each to there own.

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Not a chance wed get a fee that high for him IMO.

Which year?

Comparing anyone to Damien Duff is lining them up to fail. Duff was special and would be playing for City if he were in the game now. The saddest thing is that we will NEVER have another Duff while Mowbray is here. He’d have been stifled from the start, dropped when playing well and slated for not being defensive enough.

Yes, this is what gets me. Bennett, Evans, Smallwood, Mulgrew Gally and Armstrong to name a few all have to go on monumentally bad runs of exceptional length before they are dropped - and some of them aren't even then. Others, like Johnston have been dropped, presumably for under performing and yet there's no peep of criticism saying why they were dropped (this goes also for Evans and Smallwood when eventually dropped.) It's pathetic behaviour. I coul be wrong but I am pretty sure that virtually all the players TM has singled out for criticism are under 24. Speaks volumes that this is the case.

Mowbray doesn't know his arse from his elbow. Mowbray out.

Hearing very good things about Cody’s promo on AEW this week, looking forward to seeing that. A mate of mine has managed to get me a comp ticket to the WWE tapings in Manchester tomorrow, so I’m going to have to do some catching up before then.

I do think we have some good players, but with some of our weaknesses and imbalances, most obviously our defence and goalkeeper mean that even a manager like Alex Neil would struggle to get us into the top 6 IMO.

Still got to be built on rock solid foundations though so that would mean tossing aside Mowbrays make do and mend keeper / defender philosphy for something a bit better. The players are out there though it just takes a bit of nous.

Where’s Del

Someone like Allardyce or Warnock could probably get our lot into the top six. It would mean playing percentages and set-pieces, much to the chagrin of purists everywhere, but it would get the job done.

Or as good as you'll find in the league. It is what is known as average for the league.

Another enjoyable read

Steve Kean and Jerome Anderson just about everything connected to the clowns.

Asks for swathes of the Stadium to be closed off... #EasyDayAtTheOffice

Just to update your Rovers knowledge, our first match was a 1-1 draw against Church (a part now of Hyndburn - Accrington) on the 11th December 1875. I presume it was quite friendly. Parsonblue will let us know! ?

Yeh, I more took an interest in the parts where he seemed to be musing over whether it should be used to sell players off, whilst suggesting they won't be ready to impact us at first team level for ages. It could just be my reading between the lines, but I worry he means we will bring them through, give them a few games then look to sell them on. Which would mean selling prospects too cheap most likely. Or he could be planning to sell the likes of Travis and Nyambe and replace with other kids coming through. Don't think that would be any better. There certainly doesn't seem to be room in the squad for all these prospects to break through simultaneously under TM's current approach. Someone, somewhere is going to be a casualty of all this. Probably a few.

I completely agree in the fact we need defenders asap. Just wondered why you said that Rhodes isn't coming back. I think if DG goes to Australia then Rhodes on loan until the end of the season would be a good signing. As much as I want Brereton to come good and eventually justify the price tag, I don't think he could do what Rhodes could in the final 5 months of the season. Rhodes was loved at Champions Norwich last season and scored some vital LATE goals, something nobody in our team seems able to do.

Rhodes aint coming back here. For me, it would be the wrong move.

Hope that Venkys have gone by the 150th anniversary. #FOV150

Also £20 at WBA, yet we will be charging them £28 when they come here. You can see people lapping it up over on social media about this myth with the Sheff Wed prices, "well its what they charge us so fair play". No it isn't.

Birmingham charged us £15 the other week so if Waggott really does base his prices on what the other club charges our fans e.g. Leeds then what will his excuse be against Birmingham? He just makes it up as he goes along. Some Rovers fans are still falling for it.

I'm not really sure the owners are backing anything. I just think they quite like Mowbray as a human being (as everyone seems to do who has had dealings with him) and as a result they are comfortable with him being in place. Twas the same with Kean and Bowyer for a good while. The managers that haven't lasted are the ones who haven't had that personal link to Mrs Desai - Berg, Appleton, Lambert and Coyle - but even then it seems they all departed for other reasons than the owners getting fed up - Berg and Appleton were caught up in the Singh/Shaw chaos, Lambert walked of his own accord and Coyle was removed only when Senior was brought in to troubleshoot. Personally I don't think the owners (Mrs Desai and husband) have any interest whatsoever in results or performances or what the fans want or whether we are delivering on a particular target. They review things bi-annually when Mowbray makes the effort to jump on a plane to talk to them and keep an eye on losses and the amount they need to inject. Far from having faith in Mowbray and persevering through a bad patch because they believe in what he is doing I just don't think they know or care about what is happening on a match by match basis.