Hasta

People said that last season. People will say it next season. You can't choose when is the ideal time to get promoted. This season is an opportunity wasted. Look at Cardiff tonight. Just moved into 6th spot on a good run and they were dross.

Well. Well. Danny Graham and Adam Armstrong > Brereton and Gallagher. Who'd have thought it? Graham has been criminally written off and underused this season.

Been very good second half. I wouldnt have made any subs here.

I think he's got a tattoo and some ripped jeans since he joined.

I thought Nyambe was on Murphy and it was the midfield / Samuel let the full back overlap. Great play by Murphy.

Brereton or gally would have been heading back out to the wing when that header hit the post for our goal.

Give over. If we pay £7million for an attacker and he scores 1 league goal in 2 seasons,whilst looking generally very poor, i dont think people are judging him harshly by beimg compared to Dack. It's difficult to think of many worse strikers for Rovers in 30 years who have started more than 10 league games for us. Chris Brown, but then Im struggling. The £12mill outlay is lookimg a massive failure by Mowbray which has hampered us this season and with FFP probably for seasons to come.

That 12million, the shambles in selling our keeper and ending up with Walton, and the inability to bring in a decent centre half in 6 transfer windows are the big failings. The latter was plugged by loaning Tosin, but the £12 mill will really be the defining factor. In an effort to try and make it not look like the disaster it is, the two players in question have been shoehorned into the side out wide, whilst superior players have been dropped. The first mistake was spending the money on duds, the second was constantly weakening the side to play them. We got told last summer to give Mowbray another year and next season will be better for Brereton. The same suspects will now give the same spiel once again.

True, but when i posted that he was fairly central. As he is apparently the quickest player in the team, he could have knocked it outside and run rather than turn inside and into a second defender. He's certainly a player who lacks in nouse.

Rothwell, just for once go outside your man instead of inside him every time.

It is. And Hughes / Souness etc would be letting the ref know he's made an almighty cock up which has cost us. I know people don't like managers moaning, but it's very rare Mowbray speaks up on things like that. It's an easy decision for the ref, but he's tried to be 'brave' and instead has just been shit.

As much as I expected us to cave in, that's a free kick all day long.

How do you know? From the 15 minutes he gets every fortnight when we are either in trouble or shutting up shop? He had a run in the side before Christmas (around the time of the win over Brentford) and it coincided with one of our good runs. It still looked like last years plan A, that Mowbray was desperate to move away from, was still our best style of play.

But the fact is the chances were not converted by a group of strikers that he has either brought or kept at the club at a significant cost. As much as I thought that Samuel might have more to his game (probably cos he is actually quite quick and mobile) he has always flattered to deceive. Gallagher we had already seen and knew what we were buying. To be fair he probably would have bagged a few more had he played up top, but he has been ruined by playing out wide. Brereton was a stupid amount of money for a nobody outside of Nottingham and that one Arsenal game. There's nothing in the lad that makes me think he will be a goalscorer. Mowbray was obviously unlucky with losing the goals that Dack provides, but we had the chance to address that in January and once again didn't act. Therefore the lack of goals in games which we created chances and had most of the possession isn't down to bad luck. Its down to bad recruitment. And that's been a problem all season. The keeper situation has swung a bit but ultimately has also been costly. It looked a disaster waiting to happen when we didn't replace Raya with anything other than a 3rd choice Prem keeper who Wigan fans were not sorry to see not return. He has had some decent spells but has been at fault (either by mistakes or by just not being good enough) for too many goals. I think we would have coped with the defence and midfield that we have been playing had we sorted the goalkeeper and striker situation out, but that is where we have failed.

In a parallel dimension in 1992:- "Sorry Alan. I know you're a good player and all, but the boys are really fond of David and, as we just got promoted, we want to keep the team morale intact"

Exactly. Someone said on the match day thread he is starting to look 'value' at £7 million. To look even close to being worth that amount he needs to perform like he did last week (which was very good) more often than not. To be 'value' then he needs to be performing and scoring. At the moment you can't even say he needs to show more consistency, because hasn't shown enough good form to even suggest he is inconsistent. However, as JoeH points out, you have to also judge each performance on its own merits and he was very good on Saturday. Hopefully he takes that on to the next game.

At least Boro have replaced their failing manager before they drop back into the relegation zone just like we d ..... Oh.

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I've not been paying much attention since March. Did we extend Tosin's loan until the end of the season?

At least if you are a family of 4 then you can watch the empty beach on 4 different devices.

Let the carnage commence......

They were asked to vote on either throwing money they don't have down a pit in order to finish the season, or to end it now. Its blindingly obvious what the majority would vote for. They were not asked to vote whether relegation or promotion was fair in this scenario (ending the season), which it isn't. The EFL took that decision out of their hands. Therefore Tranmere have been relegated unfairly by the EFL, not by a majority decision by the clubs.

That's the problem. The EFL have decided promotion and relegation should happen regardless. That should have been left to the clubs. The options to the clubs vote on should have been - Void the season with no promotion or relegation - Void the season and promote / relegate on a PPG basis. - Finish the season I imagine that would have been a better indicator of what the lower league clubs thought was fair, and wouldn't have been a landslide.