Does anyone really know the wage budget we’re working with? Mowbary goes on about agents thinking the players can get premier league contracts and that other clubs might offer this or that, but is the wage budget here worse off than other championship sides? Surely those with parachute payments have more cash to throw around, but are the likes of Rothwell and Lenihan really going to get offered that much more by another club? If they were so desirable then why didn’t we receive any bids for them over the summer as they approached the final year of their contracts. If a club is going to offer them 3 x what we offer them, then surely they rated them enough to float a million quid to get them tied down. You’d also think with Diaz’s newly found international stardom we could make an exception. Surely with him we’re selling more kits and attracting more fans in a part of the world few if any championship sides reach. it just seems to me with the wages that have come off the books, the sale from AA, and owners that have so far been happy to foot the bill, we have to be better positioned than most our peers.

He was clearly putting a lot into that one Rothwell shot from 25 yards out. As that was our only shot that I recall.

The comments are spot on. “had we only been given 3 more min of additional time, their frustration would have really surfaced.”

Yeah…I want Mowbary gone as much as anyone but not confident in who come through the door next.

Yes it speaks volumes that the best manager hired was the caretaker that was promoted when they sacked the clowns before him. It’s really a depressing list over the last 10 years if you look at it.

Right but he was already here. They were lucky he was as they can’t seem to find anyone capable on their own.

What’s most depressing to me is that Mowbary might be the best (least shite) manager hired by the Venkys since they took over.

Send Clarkson back. Without Travis or Buckley on, no one in the middle of the pitch is going to win a ball, put in a tackle or close down the opponent. 3 CB never going to work with this lot. Pickering and Naymbe are not good enough in attack for that formation to work. I’d argued it’s their weakest qualities and that formation needs to have dynamic winger with the ability to play balls in. Edun much better as a winger than a back. When he had to cover for Pickering the left side crumbled. Hard to criticize Diaz as he was starved of the ball. Tactically it seemed it was more about getting loans guarantees minutes than setting the side up for success

Got to shoehorn in the loaner players somehow.

Our tactic now is for our keeper to make the pass that unlocks it.

Without Travis or Buckley on there’s no one in the middle. Rothwell isn’t going to put in a tackle. Clarkson is u16 level and Johnson too out of shape. Poor performances all around.

It was the only outcome.

Any chance we create ends when he gets on the ball.

Where would we be without Ayala this year?

Midfield is non existent. Van Heck wifs on a header. These loanees are utter shite

How they didn’t get that in I don’t know. Should be down.

Cursed the lad you did.

Adomah is running wild. Need a change.

A lot of pressure down our left side now.

Just seen a stray ball fly across the screen. I can only assume that means Gally is warming up.

How is it Clarkson gets called up for England over Dolan?

Dolan and Rothwell on…Clarkson and Butterworth off. Need much more in attack.

Clarkson giving it away both when taking set kicks and in the run of play.

Just looked like a knock. Knee to knee, but couldn’t get lose.

Clarkson a total passenger in this.