To be fair he says he expects him to come in not that he wants him to.

In Goal: Keep Raya, sign someone who can seriously put his place under pressure. Release Leutwiler if its cost effective. Right Back: We need a backup for Nyambe Left Back: I'd keep Bell as 2nd choice left back. Get rid of Williams. If you believe that the best way to recruitment is to constantly replace the weakest member of your 1st 11 then a new left back would be top of the list in the summer. Centre Back: Loan out Wharton, Magloire. Maybe let Platt go but i'm not 100 % sure on that. We are going to get a really good look at Rodwell in the next month or so while Darragh 'Long Ball' Lenihan is out, he's got a long run of games to learn his new position, if he doesn't improve then maybe we let him go but i'd be looking to keep him at this stage. As for the first choice pair, I think we need a new first choice one but I couldn't tell you which one I would get rid of. Mulgrew currently gives us an extra dimension with his set pieces, I also think defensively some people under rate his abilities, maybe he's a tad too slow. Lenihan on the other hand has had a real patchy season, has looked really good in places and made some mistakes in others. Neither him nor Mulgrew are going to start 46 games for us next year either. The way we play at the moment then we'd be better off going to buy a solid CB who's dominant in the air.

I agree with pretty much all of this (maybe the bit on Reed is going a bit far) On the point of moving to the next level Tony has talked a really good game on it in the past of the top of my head we've had quotes along the line of - If the players don't step up to the level then we'll buy new players - there's money to spend - we want to evolve our style of play. But then he does the opposite. He's building expectation for a promotion push next season,

Played for the under 23's on Friday so should be back soon. You'd think another 90 mins for them and he should be in contention.

Had some time to digest last night and still don't feel any less frustrated. When i saw that starting 11 I immediately feared the worst and I was hoping to be proven wrong, sadly I wasn't. We lost a very winnable game with that decision. The positives... the actual shape of the side wasn't too bad, first half we had them sussed, they were trying to pass the ball out from the back with bang average players, we pressed well and caught them in possession in good areas, Evans created two good chances for Armstrong from this. We recycled the ball fairly well too first half. The two cb's looked very comfortable in possession. Brereton's performance eased my worries about him a little, looked better in central areas than when he was out wide. Rothwells impressed also when coming on getting a good assist. Mowbray rested arguably our best 3 players in Dack, Graham and Reed. Now i understand 3 games in a week is too much for Graham at this stage of his career and he needs to be managed thats fine. Dack and Reed have also shown signs of fatigue of late but all 3 at once was too big of a gamble from Tony, if your going to rotate you've got to stagger it. The midfield 3 was far too negative of a selection. Bennett just isn't a right back as much as he is better going forward than Nyambe, who really be in his bad books if he's still not getting a game. We wasted some good chances 1st half we really should've taken control of that game. Conway, why does he still get starts? picking him over Rothwell, just why? The only thing I can think is Mowbray doesn't trust him defensively but we played with 3 DM's last night, it was the perfect time to play him, could even have played him left of a midfield 3. Back to conway he's past it, he was on the down-slope for 18 months before we went down and wasn't good enough for us when we were chasing promotion in League 1. He's past it and doesn't offer anything going forward for us anymore stop throwing him pity games! Like Saturday I didn't think individually Smallwood was that bad but I still wouldn't be picking him any time soon. He does what he does fine but his limitations hold us back as a team, especially when we've got the diagonal to Danny Graham to bail us out when the passes aren't flowing in midfield. Travis didn't have a great game for me last night, he plays a higher percentage of forward passes which i like but too many went astray last night, he also looked jaded again i'd rest him Sunday and go with Reed -Evans as the Cm's. The centre backs didn't cover themselves in glory for the 1st goal despite it being a big mistake from Bell. Rodwell didn't get close enough to their striker for the winner. My opinion on him as a centre half changes a lot needs to learn the fundamentals of being a CB quickly. Bell is a really strange player, he's not good enough but I still think he's better than Williams. Overall i'm really losing faith that Tony has a plan, I don't see us challenging next season unless the management get ruthless bin the players we need to and get 4-6 good players in.

Bell is still better than Williams. That’s how bad our left back problem is.

If we don’t buy a left back in the summer someone needs there head checking

Honestly what on earth is Tony thinking?

Its frustrating, if he deems that Travis needs a break then fair enough, he's had two average games recently but then you can't just revert back to something that we know isn't good enough. Play Reed and Evans in there. In CM we've got Reed, Travis, Evans, Smallwood, Bennett, Davenport and then Buckley coming through the academy, we've got plenty of options there's no reason to play those two together again. Don't want to criticise the Manager before the fact but I just hope he doesn't revert back to that pairing.

Personally I never want to see that combination again barring an injury crisis. Its not that I particularly dislike either its just that I dislike the way we play our football when those two are together it always end with us going long ball. A combination of one and Reed or Travis who are a bit more likely to press up the field. Think it's no surprise that we won 4 on the bounce in January and particularly against Hull played some lovely football with Smallwood absent. The midfield that day was much more fluid and I don't think we can do that with Smallwood playing.

Rich Sharpe thinks we'll be seeing the return of the 'Smallwood-Evans axis' this evening.

I'd rotate Travis for this one, he looked a little sluggish on Saturday, makes it easier to do with Evans back. Without getting into a debate on Grahams fitness i'd be rotating him also. Raya Nyambe Rodwell Mulgrew Bell Bennett Reed Evans Rothwell Dack Armstrong Subs: Leutwiler, Williams, Travis, Smallwood, Conway, Brereton, Graham.

I’ve seen him play and he wasn’t considered good enough at Shrewsbury in League 1.

I thought Nyambe was more at fault, it was a good ball in and he lost his man. You think Raya should’ve come for it fair enough and he gave Brentford a goal last week. Still don’t think that means we should start with a keeper whose nowhere near as good as he is just to punish him, it’s about winning games and we’ll win more games with Raya. If Raya keeps making mistakes then we change in the summer not now when we have no replacement.

I don’t blame Raya for the goal yesterday. The ball is whipped in too low for him to commit early to coming out. It shouldn’t be getting past the near post. Nyambe got himself in a right mess, so worried about not losing his man that he wasn’t paying attention to the ball.

I just don’t see the point in dropping Raya. I don’t think that the goal Saturday was his fault. Leutwiler is not good enough. No point. i get that some fans don’t rate Raya but only solution is to by a new keeper in he summer.

I think from my lifetime the list should probably read in order: Tugay Colin Hendry Henning Berg Tim Sherwood David Dunn Then your getting into any of the Premier League winners (Ripley, Wilcox, Sutton, Flowers, Le Saux), Then maybe people like Duff or Jansen. Maybe even further beyond that Ryan Nelson, MGP.

One good Big Sam story I was told was before a home game he came into the dressing room and wrote 'win and you have the week off' on the tactics board, didn't say anything else. We win and the players got the whole next week off.

Neither can I but one can dream. I've got a funny feeling that Smallwood might start though. He's reverted to the old guard before after a bad result could happen again.

Sounds like we'll only be missing Lenihan of those that picked up knocks against Brentford. I'd go: Raya Nyambe Rodwell Mulgrew Bell Bennett Reed Travis Armstrong Dack Graham Subs: Leutwiler, Magloire, Smallwood, Evans, Rothwell, Brereton, Nuttall Would've been a straight swap with Nyambe for Bennett but Evans took a few knocks last week at Brentford so Bennett would have give us some fresher legs in midfield and allow Reed to play in his natural position. If Mulgrew isn;t deemed fit enough and with Lenihan out I would give Magloire a go rather than easy option of playing Williams,

That'll likely be because the gates will be locked and it'd cost an arm and a leg to rent the pitch out!

Lewis Wing is 23. Not that young

I think Tugay being the obvious admission and my personal favourite. Although I imagine that he could sell out another event for them next year when he does get inducted.

Lacina Traore on a free transfer?

Joe Nuttall the big winner of this window. He's going to get till the end of the season to stake his claim.