Jedinak is another CM? Rarely plays at the back. Hasn’t Richards retired now too.

Out and out CB - would have been much more preferable to this City kid for me.

Was hoping Buckley would in and around the 18 this season.

But we’ve been playing 4 at the back all pre season?

If we're after a winger on loan then I'd hope we go for Murphy at Newcastle this time unless he's now part of Bruce's plans.

Re: Tosin's arrival: Rich Sharpe@richsharpe89 after how long this has drawn out I'm giving up on timescales for signings. No guarantees it'll be today. Even Sharpe is fed-up! Guessing the fax machine in Pune has been turned off a fair bit of late.

Yep - at best. The new lad is now number 1 and it’s his shirt to lose. Big gamble and a very short term move unless we’ve somehow locked in a potential perm deal, but I doubt that very much or they’d already have communicated it.

Got to be a better bet than Benno there that’s for sure!

We simply have to bring in a decent centre half - outside of this Citeh lad (if he ever is to arrive) - or you're right. As an aside, that is a terrible quote by Mowbray. By all accounts the new lad is poor at commanding his area for a bloody start! I bet this is his answer to the defensive calamity that we were last season. 2016: "Wish we'd brought in a big lad at the back at Cov"....2019: "I know, I'll bring in a big GK to sort it at Rovers!"

Hart would have been a big upgrade on this lad. Again, putting aside the Burnley link, it's naive to think otherwise.

Not a chance they’d let him come here to be a bench warmer for someone else.

He also played RB (and even CDM) for them, never CB. Unless we play 3 at the back (God forbid) then I can see him being played RB now and again too. We need an out and out centre half to come in to make the spot his own alongside Lenihan.

Yep, no pi**ing about now, it's time to spend whatever budget we've got left on a decent CB. We're one injury to Lenihan away from being screwed and a ball hasn't even been kicked.

Sounds that way, but where was he on Sunday?

If at least one doesn't come in today then I think we can begin to get quite concerned. We can't seem to get anything over the line without climbing a mountain.

When are the two lads getting announced today then? A further delay surely wouldn’t be good news. Hoping Walton is a loan to buy otherwise it’s very short sighted by the club. Our scouting department really does leave a lot to be desired though let’s be honest. Be nice to see some fruits of its labour soon.

Is this Adarabioyo decent in the air? You would hope so at 6’5 but I’ve seen plenty of giants who are terrible aerially despite being huge! We need someone at the back who just loves heading.

Much better second half - Travis and Rothwell particularly made a huge difference and both must start every week.

He’s done some flapping today but to his credit the big Canadian has made some very decent saves.

The two new signings look like they need a bloody boot camp, not just a pre-season touch up! That’s my fear with signing all these oldies - we’ve got Johnson, Mulgrew, Downing and Graham out there, they all look gassed. It’s concerning.

We can forget about any dream talk of the play offs unless we make some real signings before the window shuts. This team screams bottom half - I even think it may flirt with relegation if it’s this lineup most weeks.

It was Lenihan. Tony needs to make some changes at HT - we look like a pub team. Can’t get near them.

This could be a hiding if we don’t wake up. Playing absolutely terribly.

‘Listen, defenders are coming. The ones here aren’t good enough and they know new defenders are coming.’

All over the show in midfield and at the back here. Now losing - shambolic at the back. Awful from Lenihan. Mowbray/V’s are taking the piss if we don’t bring in a couple of defenders.