Smallwood off for Conway and move Benno into the centre. Our bench is league 2 standard tonight

F**k me there full backs are having a field day on both flanks. Smallwood also not good enough, makes Evans look like Zidane.

Less confident now I've seen the line-up.Big opportunity for Rothwell in the Dack role tonight, go get em lad.

This is the championship. There are no easy games, anybody can beat anybody. That's why it's such a good league to watch, Reading won't roll over tonight but I'm expecting us to hopefully have too much for them.

Dack is our main man undoubtedly but if there's a doubt on his fitness I'd start him on the bench tomorrow and only bring him on if necessary. I'd much rather him be fully fit for Brentford on Saturday who pose a much greater threat than Reading.

Very winnable game. They've had a bad start and will be desperate for a win but I think if we go at them we'll have too much for them. 2-0 Rovers.

McCarthy and Santa Cruz would be a lot more in today's market. McCarthy was a champions league winner with interest from other top flight clubs and had a good record in what is a pretty average Portuguese league too be fair but he'd still be 15 million maybe in today's market? Santa Cruz at the time was second string at Bayern Munich but he'd shown ability and in today's market he wouldn't be cheap either. The market is crazy these days, 8 million for Brereton is a hell of a lot for what he's done but that's what you have to pay for "potential" these days it seems.

Dominant. 1-0 wasn't a true reflection of the game. Fully deserved the win. Get in there!!!

I think they'll sell him for double/triple that in the future. Class little player.

Reading this makes it even worse that Carragher got his job back at Sky sports. You should be alongside Neville on MNF. Top work pal.

If I have to see one more person talking about trusting Mowbray I may just top myself. I have not seen one Rovers fan say they don't trust Mowbray, he's our most liked manager in years. I was going to say since Big Sam but I'd say he's more liked than Sam was when he was here at the time, so he's our most liked manager since Sparky!! Anyway, my point is every decision every transfer, everything a player or manager does is open to debate, question and scrutiny it's why we have a forum, potentially spending 6 million pounds on an unproven player is a risky buy. It's not a case of not trusting TM's judgment it's just a fact! I hope we sign him and I hope he turns out too be the next Shearer but until then instead of saying "trust Mowbray" let fans say their bit and give their opinion, it's why I come on here. I like seeing and reading what other people have too say... Unless all they have too say is "Trust Mowbray FFS!!"

The "on our way back" song will need modifying if we sign this kid. "We had no money so we signed some players on loan!" just wouldn't be true anymore. Maybe it would have to be "We're F'ing minted, so we spent 6 mill on an unknown!"

Be a big statement if we were to buy an unproven talent like Brereton for 7 million. The kid has a lot of potential and when 7 million buys you Patrick Bamford it would undoubtedly be a risk. The market these days means every buy is their too be scrutinised though and I'd be buzzing if we pulled it off. I'd also be in disbelief, I hope the chicken farmers aren't expecting another promotion this season and when it doesn't happen the money tap gets turned off again for another 4 years. If you're going to start chucking money at it again at least give TM 2/3 seasons to build a team good enough to go up..

Ipswich lost on penalties to Exeter and it took penalties for Forest Boro and Millwall to get past their lower league opposition.

When I saw the line up tonight I thought we'd win comfortably but maybe not 5-1 haha. Glad to hear Rothwell and travis performed, think starting one of them alongside Smallwood/evans should be the way forward. Both together would leave a lack of defensive cover, whereas starting both Smallwood and evans is TOO defensive. Need to get the balance right. On to Saturday we go..

Even in a holding role Adam doesn't have the legs for the championship anymore. He'd get run all over the shop. Presume he'll end up back in Scotland. Hope we bring a forward in before the weekend definitely, take some pressure off DG.

With how sharp Danny Ings looked when he came on yesterday after barely playing for 2 years it's made my doubts on Chapman decrease a hell of a lot. Bring him home Tony.

That's the change, was just going to say that.

Granted a lot of those games were in league one. But if we are going to overachieve this season we need to make Ewood a fortress, 2-1 Rovers today. Dack and Armstrong. You blues

Now we've not been able to get our preferred targets the likelihood of Chapman coming back is probably 90%. Loan that's made perm in Jan you'd think. Always seemed as though we could have brought Chapman back as soon as we wanted but instead pursued other avenues, that hasn't worked so welcome back Harry.. If he can fulfill the potential we know he's got we could be fielding 4 or 5 million bids for him in a couple of years. Desperately need a striker though, if Chris Martin isn't in the picture at Derby a loan with a view to a perm would be great, I don't think he'd cost much more than 4 million so IF we have the finance, it's a no brainer.

Also seen tweets saying 5 million isn't enough! Young lad with lots of potential. Not proven quality yet by any means so 5 million is a lot!

First thing I see on twitter is forest fans saying they'll take that and give us 4.5 million change. Good sign

We've apparently bid 5million for Ben Brereton from Notts forest...

You're probably the second most optimistic poster on here after Chaddy so it's clear that he's the only Rovers fan today "relaxed"

The thing that confuses me is all this talk throughout the summer of being patient and not wanting to over pay for players. Armstrong was a cheap fee but it gets to the day before deadline day and we bid 4 million for Freeman? If boro are interested then he'll go there instead but maybe we could have got this deal over the line earlier in the summer without any boro interest? Why wait so late? Do you see the point I'm trying to make?