Yet we spent £1m on a novice from City who isn’t even our player

Against a local rival, with 4,000+ making the effort to go, it is an unacceptable attitude to have, especially given the amount of money spent by Mowbray over the last 2 seasons.

Preston to win odds of evens at the bookies - as close to a license to print money as I’ve seen for a long time.

I see a lot of similarities between the way Rothwell is being treated as Josh King. King had flashes of brilliance and some poor games but never got the chance to start regularly. Despite that the fans could see King had it in him to be a good player. If Rothwell left us to another championship team and played every week I think he’d show his class.

Mentioned it on the other thread, but I think this new player analysis technology they have this season is causing Mowbray to overthink it. The players have probably had enough of not knowing what the hell they are meant to be doing game after game.

It was inevitable after 2 shocking transfer windows. He can’t blame the infrastructure as he’s had long enough to set up a scouting team. All this new technology they have brought in this season is leading to him overthinking every match. I’ve said before, I don’t think the players know what they’re doing with all the different systems. Injuries, players out of position, it has all the hallmarks of an end of tenure run. He must go.

No idea who will be in the team. Wouldn’t surprise me to see a random start for Buckley or Rothwell. Evans is a shoe in to start.

5-5-0 formation?

Midtable is dreamland at this minute with our defence and lack of goalscoring strikers. Big relegation battle ahead IMO.

It’s quite an achievement to go into a transfer window with a priority of sorting out the defence, to come out of it actually weaker than when we started. My prediction is that Mulgrew will be back in Jan. City lad will jump ship and we’ll have Williams back at LB. Farcical situation completely of Mowbray’s own making. The season is already a write off.

Probably going off to Dubai or Portugal again playing golf and drinking like last international break then.

I think they've lost themselves with the constant changing formation and being out of position. Holtby out wide?? It's like Souness signing Tugay and sticking him on the wing.

Agreed. We've got no identity, no consistent game plan , no character. The players aren't good enough to play different systems every week. Getting out of this league involves playing to your strengths and sticking to it. I genuinely believe there is potential with this squad, but they are being shuffled around and played out of position every week. There's no escaping the fact that we're 2 or 3 defenders short of a top side too.

In what position?

I’m glad Graham is back in the side. Gallagher/Armstrong are undroppable it seems. I wish we just picked a system and stuck with it. Even at home we’re tinkering with our system depending on the opposition. #tombola

Talk of fizzing crosses in, that is surely not how we're setting up to play - with no wingers and no strikers in the 6 yard box!

Where did Holtby play when he came on?

Typical Rovers. We get a sniff of the playoffs then bottle it. Hopefully Holtby when fully fit will give some mental toughness and start games. If venkys satalite dish is still picking up the games, they've probably realised mowbray has done it again with their cash on Gallagher. Needs dropping and players being picked on merit not size of fee.

Hopefully that will be the end of the Gallagher experiment. Get Graham back in.

Another header from a cross? How many times.

Get Holtby and Graham on HT

Looks like finally there are decent options off the bench in defence (Tosin), midfield (Holtby, Buckley) and attack (Graham, Samual) Pressure on Gallagher now to start scoring goals. Hope he gets one today.

I'm pleased we won but not sure I agree that paying £13m for Gallagher, Brereton and Armstrong to play on the right wing is working out particularly well.

Still came on out of position on the right wing though. God forbid we play a genuine right winger there.

I disagree that we should be changing formation every game to combat the opposition. The top teams don't do this. It's a slippery slope before you're changing the shape of the team to combat the threat of a decent left back from Oldham.