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What is going on here?

I should have added "in theory" there, as yeah, plenty could change between now and the end of the season to make next season very difficult indeed. Dack potentially departing along with Mulgrew and Graham would be a major rebuilding job - arguably our three most important players all gone. It's possible Mulgrew and Graham will sign on for another season but even so, they're both old enough that we can't keep going into seasons relying on them. Mowbray will know this better than anyone so hopefully at the very least he'll be thinking ahead. Difficult to do with the current owners at the helm though.

Armstrong's purple patch of goalscoring when he first joined on loan skewered how his overall contribution was seen imo. He does have some ability but I'm not sure he's much more than a squad player/impact option off the bench. I think a lot of us were just relieved to have another body in attack, albeit one that had question marks over playing at this level. I have no idea about Brereton but if our game is largely centered around using Graham to hold the ball up was he the best option as a potential replacement? And if he wasn't seen as a Graham replacement why did we not get anybody in who can do that role competently, at least as back up? We're in trouble if Graham gets injured as things stand. We'd need to switch to a completely new way of attacking - which may not be a bad thing considering current efforts largely centre around Dack pulling something out of the bag - but it'd be a questionable gamble to take midway through a season.

Doubtful I'd think. We could realistically be going into next season needing to replace Dack, Graham and Mulgrew so we'd better hope the purse strings are still open.

We aren't going to make the playoffs imo. Not enough quality in the team at the moment. I think we'll finish around 9th-14th, which wouldn't be a bad thing as it'd give us a solid platform to go into next season.

Palmer had a lot of hype coming in, but that's not been justified at all yet. Not sure if it's because the system isn't suiting him or whether his attitude isn't right, but I'd certainly be looking to Rothwell (who's our player anyway, Palmer is not) to step in going forward.

Reed and Brereton really need to start, possibly Rothwell too. We're starting to look stagnant and a couple of changes are overdue.

Stunned that we escaped with a point, and a clean sheet. A good result despite a very poor first half performance. A lot better in the second half which was crucial.

Our poorest game so far by some margin. Some of these players need to wake up. Huge improvement needed in the second half, we're very lucky that it's still 0-0. Rockets up arses needed.

Tbf you haven't seen the contracts, so there's no way you can say if there's loopholes or not Last time we splashed out £8m it was at the behest of Shebby, was it not? Granted he's not here this time but who's to say they haven't had intel from one of their "advisers" telling them Brereton is the next big thing? The bid for him seemed to come out of nowhere on deadline day. As I said, my assumption is that he was Mowbray's target but it's hardly beyond the realms of possibility that he was identified by other sources.

As far as Venky's are concerned I'm ready for anything. I'm not going to say it's a done deal until the money is sent over. I expect it to be, but until it actually is it's still an if. I said I assumed it was Mowbray's call.

To be fair to Brereton he's got 14 years less experience than DG, so I wouldn't expect him to have that same ability as a hold up player. If he did I doubt he would have come here, he'd have been looking at a PL move. As I've said before, my issue is that if we do spend £6-7m on him on January that's the type of fee that you'd expect an instant impact from. Obviously Brereton is not at that point yet and I'm not sure we're in a position at this point in time to be spending such large amounts on potential. Still, I have to assume it's Mowbray's call so hopefully we will see the benefits in the near future.

We just don't defend very well. We haven't for a long time. Our best form of defence is attack and has been pretty much the entire time Mowbray has been here. Going into the last ten minutes with only a one goal lead is pretty much the worst position we can be in (other than losing) because you can almost guarantee we're going to sit back and inevitably concede. It's pretty amazing that we held on against Brentford. Hull are just rubbish so that one was less surprising.

Why? We conceded two terrible goals and only got back into it through McShane's lack of discipline. We didn't look like we'd score from open play if the match went until midnight. Frankly we were lucky to get away with a draw in the end.

A draw is still an OK result, but it's a real shame we can't hold onto leads. That's four points now we've already thrown away in the last few minutes. We deserved to win this one. I suppose we just dust ourselves down and move on. The performance was good enough to take positives from and Reed in particular looked very good. If we keep playing like this we'll be comfortably mid-table, but our inability to hold onto wins like this may cost us a lot more points as the season goes on, particularly as we struggle to score if Dack isn't in the team or on form.

Well deserved. Stay solid and this will be an impressive win for us.

We'll see at the final whistle. Villa haven't been causing us many problems so I can understand his thinking.

We usually just wait for Dack to do something. If that goal was given he would have been the one putting us ahead. I don't know if anybody else would have steered the header in like that.

Doing well so far. I just hope that wasn't our "good half".

Our goal was definitely onside. No way the linesman could have seen a clear offside from his position (mainly because there wasn't one). Still, we were let off the hook too so it's just a case of both teams having to put up with the usual poor officiating.

Ipswich on course to another resounding defeat. It's probably already dawned on the club that they've made a huge mistake. Not sure the fans have gotten over their unjust hatred of McCarthy yet to admit they hounded out one of only a handful of managers that could keep them competitive on a non existent budget.

Well, we already pretty much knew Samuel was done for the season. Gladwin was realistically never going to play a part anyway. I'm not sure we'll see either of them playing for us again, although Samuel may get another chance next season if he keeps working hard. Honestly though I'd hope by then we have better options to choose from.

Yeah, he's bringing it back in 2020.

Nah, Vince is sinking a ridiculous amount of his own money into this XFL nonsense. Can't see him being interested buying a (real) football team, let alone Bolton.