??? What problem? I will hazard a guess that what you consider a problem 98% of people don't.

It says they got lucky. That's about all it says really.

A bit of pride back? We've lost 1 in 5 man....

In fairness to the twitter geezer he's more on about how this board is a mob of foaming at the mouth abusers and not our fan base as a whole.

This is literally halfway through his third full season. That isn't a long period of time. His first full season = promotion, his second full season = consolidation and now he aims for the top 6. I will judge after 46 games but anywhere above 10th and he keeps his job for me, especially given our injuries right now. You use words like naturally but there is nothing natural about the clamour on this board, like it or not. It's not a conspiracy either. Look back through the transfers sanctioned by Venkys since their arrival and there is no money spent on defenders in comparison to other areas of the pitch. There is a topic on this board about it, very well researched I may add, but it was brushed under the carpet though as posters preferred 150+ pages of debate on Brereton and how much of a slag Mowbray is. Anyway my point was that Mowbray should get criticism in equal amounts to praise. He has been the manager during the time our playing squad has improved. His money hasn't been wasted as we now sit comfortably in the Championship. If he was to leave now we would be in a far better state than when he found us and that is the measure of a manager.

Every single piece of praise Mowbray gets on here is met with a reason to as why it isn't such an achievement. However, when the lack of defensive reinforcements is shown to be an issue since Venkys came and not just TM that is ignored and used as a stick to beat the man with. We can't have it both ways. Regardless of the budget or not Mowbray has been the manager here through the good and the bad and deserves the credit for the good as much as the criticism for the bad.

I've posted something similar before but this is the squad Mowbray inherited vs Burton: Steele Nyambe Mulgrew Lenihan Williams Conway Guthrie Lowe Feeney Emnes Graham Subs: Stokes, Joao, Gallagher, Mahoney, Tomlinson, Brown, Raya Our squad vs Fulham: Walton Nyambe Lenihan Tosin Bell Travis Johnson Gallagher JRC Downing Armstrong Subs: Williams, Graham, Samuel, Davenport, Brereton, Bennett It's a completely different squad and there has been massive improvements. We are missing Evans, Dack, Holtby, Rothwell and Cunningham from what was our strongest squad after the transfer window in summer. So I expect more of the same - improvement in quality and depth. For whatever reason there is 0 appetite for the Rovers financiers to sanction defensive recruitment. This isn't a TM issue. It has happened since they came. Unlike when TM came in this summer we are only due to lose Tosin and Walton, rather than half the squad we lost in 2017. That would mean that a GK and CB is on the wishlist. Whether Venkys sanction these signings is another thing. Providing we keep hold of Dack it would leave us a winger short of a terrific starting front 4. The whispers in Jan would leave us with a safe assumption this will be addressed. It is absolutely remarkable how this topic was started with the "utter mismanagement of our first team squad". That is such an overstatement it is untrue. Take a look at the revolution we have had in players. Mowbray has brought the squad age down, ensured we own the majority of our key players and has some top quality experience thrown in (Graham, Downing). Our squad is considerably better than when he took over, so how we are now considering it "mismanaged" is beyond me. As things stand if Mowbray left us tomorrow he will have transformed the club from that squad to what we have now. That is fantastic management. Yes he had a terrible signing in Brereton considering the fee but at 20 years old he still has a chance to find some form and, hopefully in the future, move on for a fee. Other than that Mowbray has improved us year on year and this looks no different.

Gallagher's work rate has never ever been in question, even by his staunchest critics. He works hard whenever he plays. What are you even basing his agility from? ? You've literally thrown that in there to beef up the criticism. How are you even able to judge that? Gallagher is a good dribbler of the ball and his first touch is more often than not where it should be. He's had a tough season out wide but I tell you something I'd much rather a Gallagher than back to the days of Liam Feeney knocking about there. Gallagher showed during his first stint here he can score. That player is still there and like any striker we are hoping he can find the purple patch soon. When Armstrong first came here he had a great start followed by long spells without a goal- he's scoring free flowing now and looks every bit the striker we knew was there. Gallagher has more about him than Brereton and will get us goals. I know you love your stats but the eye is better than Opta and your opinion on his work rate, first touch and agility is just weird - he certainly doesn't deserve criticism in those aspects. He's lacking goals and no doubt he knows it more than most. I hope we bring in a few wingers in the summer and he gets his chance up top where, as proven under Coyle, if you throw the ball in the box enough Gallagher will get goals.

No we are not.That's the narrative you are pushing. By all accounts we went after two wingers in January but the finances on the deal weren't right. Gallagher isn't a poor player either and coupled with your "joke footballer" comment on another thread it'd be nice if you weren't so disrespectful to the lad. We can all have opinions but he tries his hardest every time he walks on the pitch for Rovers and that's more than can be said for Brereton and, indeed, Chapman. He's had several scaving reports during his time in the U23s and quite often whenever there's whispers of a bad attitude they aren't wrong. Never once heard a whisper about Gallagher's professionalism. We are desperately light on the wing because Downing has had to move centrally, Rothwell out now and Armstrong proving more effective up top. January showed that Mowbray is trying to address the problem so we can assume in the summer we can see some wide attackers brought in, providing the finances are right.

We got anymore yoots? JRC getting injured is actually mind blowing. What is happening up top? Freakishly bad luck for the boy, he would have had a run if only out of necessity. Let's hope its a tweak and he's back the weekend. What about the likes of Butterworth, Buckley, Mols, Vale? How many of them are ready for first team action because we are running on volunteers right now....

Yes Alejandro! I clicked on this topic first this morning and I won’t be clicking on another all weekend. All you need to read. Let’s hope we get a win today! Come on you blues

January is always a frustrating window. Prices are sky high and teams are scrambling to cover themselves. It's all well and good naming random player names that may well have fit in but ultimately they didn't come. Most would cost too much, some are unknowns and the truth about it all is you don't know if any of them names would have worked at this club. It's a real easy argument to have to say "x could have improved us - what a terrible window!!". Out of all of them players the only one that would have got me out of my seat excited is Wells because he has proven goals at this level, but there's no way Burnley are going to send us him. It wasn't a waste. We've kept our squad and can build on it again in the summer. Our squad now is the strongest it has been since Bowyer's time, which is in part thanks to the work Mowbray and co have done. You will do well to remember that in your haste to throw shade his way. To end discussion, because I have 0 interest in going into a back and fourth with you about Gallagher as a winger ala every topic on this board, I'd have personally spent the Gallagher money elsewhere (on out and out wingers) but I am not a football manager, I don't know the market and I can't grumble given our current position.

Definitely not considering the players and budget he has at his disposal. He may sneak into the automatic spots simply because Leeds crumble time after time.

We are now short in the attacking areas because we have Holtby, Dack and Rothwell injured. Prior to them being injured you'd have them 3, Gallagher, Brereton, Graham, Armstrong, Bennett, JRC (now), Chapman and Downing. That's 11 players vying for 4 positions. Hardly short of numbers. Definitely not "desperately short". Players have contributed goals and assists from there. We have scored 43 goals which is comfortably in the league average so we are definitely not short of goals. I'm struggling to see how we have not been effective going forward. Dating back to the 0-0 vs Cardiff in August we've only not scored in 2 games. I'd say that's relatively effective... We are short of quality in them areas but there was no way we were going to get an attacking midfielder of any higher quality than we already have in Jan. Quite simply our injuries have been horrendous in this department but Mowbray can't be blamed for that, however much you and the hornets nest stir and try your very best to do so.

They've not lost their last few games though so on some decent enough form. This is a tough game but our home form is very good. I'm calling a score draw.

It doesn't fall on anyone. Rothwell is a short term injury and Holtby was injured after the fact. You'd be hard pressed to sign anyone worth signing to come and sit behind Holtby and Rothwell (when fit) for 6 months until Dack comes back.... You tried too hard with that post.

But above all else, Mowbray should listen to the fans because they know what they want.

Mulgrew............................................at left back?????????????? The man turns like milk. If you are too slow to play centre half you can't play full back. This isn't fucking sunday league where you put your weakest players at full back.

Che Adams is supposedly available on loan from Southampton. 100% worth a punt. James Chester going to Stoke. Would have been a good loan signing to provide cover for the remainder of the season. Cardiff signed Brad Smith yesterday on loan. He's a good little left back and gives us more than Bell. These are the type of transfers we should be seeing at Rovers. They are the type of loans that give your team an extra bit of firepower and see teams mount promotion pushes....or in Stoke's case survive Also if Sheff Wed sign Wickham then it just goes to show just what FFP means to owners who care to navigate the system.

I'd be very disappointed if we have to endure a season of Amari'i Bell. I was mildly excited about the prospect of a winger from Lech Poznan or Ronan Curtis but at the same time I don't want a repeat of Brereton. The deal has to be right. I can't say I know enough about Curtis to say whether or not £3m is enough, but in terms of value if we could have got Curtis and Maddison for £5.5m then they must not be fancied because why wouldn't you? Both of them stink of goals and assists, fill positions we need filling and cost the same as Gallagher. I don't think Mowbray's transfers are as bad as people think. Attacking wise we are improved under him but we should point out his defence when he started was Steele, Lenihan, Nyambe, Williams and Mulgrew. It wasn't good enough then and the defence still isn't good enough now. Our midfield and attack I believe to be amongst the top 10 in the league, top 6 with Dack firing on all cylinders, but our back line simply hasn't improved in depth or quality. If Nyambe and Lenihan get injured our season is effectively over baring a worldy season from the youth. More than likely Williams and Bennett to cover though and quite simply they aren't good enough. The reluctance to sign defenders is a Venkys problem however and not a Mowbray one.

Rovers must be a frustrating club to deal with. Most of our moves take weeks to get finalised...why do we need to get the QPR game out of the way? Is the club doctor doing the medical part of our match prep? Is Steve Waggot doing some coaching? Absolutely no reason to see a match out before making the signing. Get it done, get him down to watch and then have him in training today.

The UK invests a hell of a lot of money in foreign fossil fuel initiatives. Really, really hypocritical from us. in my opinion the plastic waste is a bigger concern to “climate change”. Climate change has happened throughout time, emissions will fall as we invest in renewable energies (this is happening, the social change is happening) but alternatives to plastic are limited and strangled by business because currently they’re making fortunes producing and packaging everything in cheap unrecycable products that will last thousands upon thousand of years.

I always heard that Friedel left due to his investments in the USA suffering and he needed some cash quickly. A signing on fee + an agreement from Randy Lerner to help fund some USA soccer centres meant he wanted to go to Villa. That doesn't detract from the fact Ince was a terrible manager.

Wow. I know they’re academy lads but how on earth is Nyambe and Travis propping that list up? Gallagher needs to earn his money. Johnson needs to fuck off. The rest is as expected really, except for Davenport and Chapman who are both stealing a living at this club right now. We will lose Travis soon to better wages if we don’t bring him in line with the rest. In my eyes Travis is one of the first names on the team sheet every week

So why isn't he in the team or even close? I don't think I have ever seen Mols even on the bench.