It's all a bit of a movable feast at the moment. Some weeks we look weak in some areas, in other weeks it changes. Only position I would say we are "strong" in is midfield. We could do with GK, LB, CB and ST in that priority order. I would have said RB a few weeks ago but I think we can survive with Nyambe and Bennett.

Dacks a very weird combo. An attacking midfielder who is actually more of a goal poacher. Not sure I've ever seen anyone like him really in the recent gane. Doesn't score from outside the box, doesn't assist that often. Probably more like a "second striker" a la Sheringham or Beardsley than an attacking mid as others have said. I always feel like he is way more effective if he is playing right up alongside the striker, not in amongst the midfielders.

I like them both to be honest. And Dack, and Holtby. We have a really good set of attacking mids.

I think our best card with Dack is scouts don't seem to fancy him as a Premier League player. Despite excellent performances he just doesn't seem to interest teams up there. Probably not viewed as athletic enough. If we are only trying to fend off clubs in this division we may be able to keep him.

It's an interesting thing football fan psychology. You definitely get saints who can do little wrong and sinners who can do little right. On this board Rothwell is a saint, while Armstrong and Bennett are sinners. The usual process is young players are viewed as saints, older players viewed as sinners, and players will be judged harsher and harsher as their career progresses and they play more games. While I do love watching Rothwell it seems odd that people consider him more effective than Armstrong who has consistently created chances and scored a few goals. I wonder if the roles were reversed, and Armstrong was newer to the club and mostly been on the bench while Rothwell played if Armstrong would be held in higher regard by this board?

He's got some quality but has 2 massive issues 1) he dithers on the ball in ludicrous areas of the pitch, 2) he slow over the ground which makes it hard to close people down.

I think Mowbray had figured out Mulgrew was a total defensive liability, but didn't want to create an "atmosphere" by side lining him unless he knew he was leaving. Then once Wigan showed an interest he rushed him out. One of the peculiarities of Mowbray is that he does seem to put a lot of stock in keeping certain players on side. But it's important not to stretch it too far - he has now dropped nearly all the old pros Smallwood, Graham, Mulgrew, Evans, Johnson. It's only really Bennett left who was interestingly dropped on Wednesday.

Id play the same team, but with the expectation of swapping Graham at half time / 60 mins. We need to integrate Gallagher into the way we play somehow.

With Gallagher I would tell him to stay more central and focus on linking up with Dack. I get the feeling he (Brereton does this too) prefers to run the channels too much, and seems almost like he doesn't want to get in the box....

I don't know, I'll reserve judgement till he's up against a quality player. Hes a fantastic offensive weapon from left back, but need to see how he copes defensively with aerial diagonal balls into space around him, and against a pacy direct winger who turns him inside out. My suspicion is, like Bennett, he will really struggle. Full back is a very very different role to midfield.

Before everyone gets too carried away I would say the lack of pressure from Brentford was a big factor in our success. It'll be a totally different kettle of fish against a physical quick moving side.

Funny game tonight. Great result. Pros Rothwell fabulous with and without the ball, and the system really suited him. Dack, Armstrong, Evans all played very well. We dominated the second ball, and our blocking and last ditch defending was great Some really good passing moves. All our players passed well. The centreback pair were fantastic in both their defending and their distribution Cons Still looked like we will concede any time anyone gets near our area Fullbacks clearly weak, we were just quite lucky they didn't target them Graham looked absolutely shattered after 40 mins I know he only got about 7 mins but Brereton still looks awful We carved out four absolutely golden chances but could only put one of them away. All in all really nice game to watch and really pleasing to win. But not really convincing it has to be said.

It's deliberately crap. Only one camera while ifollow is 4. Ifollow and Sky must have a deal on it.

Good half. Brentford have been atrocious, we've been decent. Still hardly counting my chickens. Our defence looks very shaky. For what it's worth I'd take Graham off - he looks totally spent. Lets wheel out Brereton and see if he has improved at all.

Graham is not going to last long from the look of him.

My fear is if wither of those come on then Dack will retreat into midfield. Seems to only like playing high with Graham.

We've got a really odd shape but it seems to be working well. Sort of a 442 with Dack right up alongside Graham. Rothwell defends as a left mid but when we have the ball he has a free role popping up everywhere while Downing plays on the overlap to give the width on the left. Reckon if Brentford target our left they could have some joy. But they seem pretty poor there.

The man who everyone loves to hate - Armstrong - created that goal. I understand why he frustrates people, but he makes so many goals for us.

I don't really agree with this. Tony had a clear plan in the summer with wide right striker formation, and bought players to fit into it. The issue is the tactics really havent worked out. Further evidenced today by how we struggled against the bottom side in the division.

With Rothwell, Holtby and even Buckley number 10 is probably the best stocked position at the club. Not that I want Dack to go, but if we got 15m+ and bought some decent defenders and strikers we could come out improved. Not that I'd trust Mowbray to achieve that.

Compared to 16/17 hes definitely improved us in one area - midfield - but we are undoubtably weaker in defence, and strikers (despite spending 12m) we're arguably significantly worse. At least in the last Coyle season we had Emnes on loan who was streets ahead of Gallagher and Brereton, and Graham was younger. Plus Lucas Jao made an impact, and we had Gallagher on loan then too. He's really made his mistakes in terms of poor transfers. All the decent ones have been attacking mids. Everyone else has been weak except Cunningham and he got injured. He's only got himself to blame for poor prioritisation. Also he tactically committed to wide striker system which just has not worked at all. We're scrambling to find an effective way to play. All hall marks of a manager on limited time.

Could end up with Bell in a back three. We tried it last season and actually won I think. Same game as Magloire made his debut.

Southgate has lost three key games where the sides were reasonably evenly matched - Netherlands in Nation League, Belgium at WC group stage, and Croatia in the semi. He's won three key games Spain and Croatia in Nations League, and colombia at WC. Sweden at WC is one you can write off as an expectation we would win. So it's an okay record, nothing more, nothing less. I would say he deserves a chance to improve on it. The players he has are not particularly great. Only Kane and Sterling are truly world class. GK, Midfield, Defence are considerably poorer than Hoddle, Venables, Eriksson, Capello had available. So all in all reasonable performance in my book. Need to see how things develop. On a side note the emerging key player in my book is Harry Winks. When we play him we look a much better footballing side. Hope he plays again tonight. He's not an exceptional footballer but he ties everything together extremely well. We need to nurture him.

Ben Brereton has to be one of the wierdest signings in all my time following Rovers. At least with Grabbi or Davies they had good records, or you could see with Formica or Rochina they were talented, or Chris Brown was cheap. Brereton has no record, no discernable quality and inordinately expensive. Totally and utterly mad. Will go down as maybe our worst transfer ever, and we've had a fair few turkeys.