With Mowbray seemingly looking to move away from the style of fooball that would require a target man, I can't see it being a goer. I think he'd do a job though. Could probably get a good year or two out of Steven Fletcher as well.

The issue with that is if you're talking about a player of Dack's quality, if you keep hold of him he could be the difference in a promotion push. As we've seen for years with Rovers, if we get a reasonable offer for Dack (taking into account his contract situation), we can expect very little of that to be spent, on more than likely a player of lesser quality than him. Or even more likely, the money won't be spent at all and we'll 'replace' Dack with Holtby, Rothwell or Buckley and the money disappears into the ether. I'd rather have him around than cash in personally. As someone said above, lets put all our efforts into getting him to sign a new deal. If the release clause is too low, so be it. It will have kept him around long enough to see if we can sustain a genuine promotion push and will have guaranteed us a bit of money when he does leave.

Yeah, but bear in mind that's from a commentator who had us winning that match for the whole of the 2nd half. Watching a different game to us.

Apart from the odd tidy touch, what does Rankin-Costello offer? Probably more of a question for someone who has watched our u23 games, because I know he's had some good reviews at that level. I just don't see what we're getting with him. I appreciate he's being played out of position.

Providing his ACL injury doesn't take something from his game, imagine how good Dack is going to look alongside this lot next season.

He's had some decent touches in all fairness to him. Think he's looked pretty decent.

I'm not sure whether anyone has covered this in any other threads, but Downing as a centre midfielder just isn't working. Thought he was effective from the wing and left back in the first half of the season. His left foot was a real outlet down the left side. However it's no coincidence that his influence and form has dropped off since he's been moved to centre midfield. He's not dynamic enough for it to work and we seem to be squeezing him to the detriment to the team. If Mowbray plans to utilise him like this, I'd be happy for him not to get another contract. I thought that was unthinkable after the first half of the season.

Does he not have 2 league goals this season? In not that many starts as well. He scored a good few when he first signed in L1 but overall that season he was awful as well. A new contract for him shouldn't even be an option.

We're seeing nothing new from Samuel here. The odd goal here and there doesn't gloss over the fact he isn't good enough for us or this division.

That's actually where he plays though.. He'd have him at Left Back.

Is this and the Graham/Downing stuff coming from a fairly reliable source inside the club?

Nyambe is pants going forward every night.

I wouldn't have Samuel anywhere near the team. I think people forgot how poor he really is when he had the long injury lay off. He wasn't good enough in L1 and certainly hasn't improved since his injury. Should be the first out of the door this summer.

Yet Tony would have you believe that we play attractive, attacking football. We've literally just sat through 180 minutes of us lumping it forward to Armstrong or Holtby playing as a false 9. The mind boggles.

Get him gone. I can't keep watching these teams he puts out. You don't need to be involved in football as a profession to see what he's doing wrong.

I think the one thing we can all agree on is that Wharton has been mismanaged. We've done him a complete disservice sending him out on loan to L2 for 3 years. Although he's been playing 'mens football', he's been playing at that level for so long, that there will no doubt be reservations about him stepping back into a Championship team with promotion aspirations. Which begs the question, why have we let him play in L2 for so long. I thought he looked good in the first team during his handful of appearances and would be happy to see him given a runout.

Yeah, they've scrapped the Sky Red button for the rest of the season. Will have to watch via ifollow.

Haha yeah, I got what you meant. It's a shame but he's really gone backwards since we had him on loan. He's so much better in the air than he was, but he's lost a bit of everything else that made him look like a striker with promise.

I'm trying my best to stay positive, otherwise I'll spiral for the rest of the weekend. Would love to see Armstrong & Brereton play either side of Graham next game. Just can't see it happening though.

Thank you. Just given me a good laugh with the "tried but failed" leading up to Gallagher.

I said exactly the same thing. And that we were more likely to lose 2-0 than get a goal back, with how we were playing.

Thought Ben played reasonably well again today. Much more assured than Gallagher, who is really starting to test my patience.

Yes, but despite the win last week, there were obvious faults with the tactic. We were found out because of it today.

Working for me now. 10mins in.

That's actually a disgrace.